Woo. Things are going pretty well. Still, no promises on the release timeframe.. but we're trying to make it happen this week.

Cool, thanks for keeping us posted. Quick question, has the old NPC-trader-reply-to-hail code been put back in yet? I know it's not a real big deal, but it was something I missed when DELIVERATOR came out.

I'm not sure actually. I know our debugging commands to get info from them still work, but I haven't tried hailing one recently.

Anyway, we can add that back in, sometime after we get them working properly.

Woohoo! Sounds good. :)

Two new items for the Back-Of-The-Box:

* Crazy Bot Activity!
* Wacky Gameplay Excitement!

You heard it here first, VO has everything!

Looking forward to it, as always.

Any chance of letting us enter the test server to try and break stuff up?

I'm running to Guinness this instant. Or should I go to "Rigleys Believe It or Not"? You devs not only MADE a deadline, you surpassed it. Do you realize your AHEAD of scedule?!? Hallelujah!
/me dances around for joy
/me can't wait to see this stuff!
/me can't stop ranting
/me pats Incarnate on the back
/me pats a1kon on the back
/me pats momerath42 on the back
/me pats raybondo on the back
/me...
/me...
/me is running out of things to say, :c

-Calder

[Edit] Hey Ray, thank ICBM for being included. I'm not alpha or beta, but you know Calder. I've been around almost since release. I guess that's not good enough.

/me goes off to sulk over his gammaness

Awesome. Thanks for the updates. That helps a lot. It'd be super-duper nice if we could just get SOME kind of update every few days. I think it actually brings more people to the game just seeing recent updates on the news page. When I consider downloading and playing a game, I look at the news page to see if theres constant cool stuff regarding the game. thanks again!

All right! I don't wanna get my hopes up too high, but it sure sounds like we're in for some cool updates in the near future.

yay there's a light at the end of the tunnel! :D

Macguy: " Yay an Update" !!!

Great guys, it seems that I'm back right on time :)

my computer still blocks the news page :(

Cool.

And isn't raybondo the 4th?

If the devs were the four horsemen of the apocalypse... who would be who?

Death, Pestilence, Famine, War.

I can see it now:

Michael: I don't WANNA be pestilence!
John: Hey - new guy, guess what, you're pestilence!
Michael pouts.
Andy: If I'm war, do I get to shoot John & Michael 'cause I'm Serco?
Ray: I'm hungry. Why do I have to be Famine?

how can anyone forget about raybondo???
must be a n00b...

/me falls off chair...2 news updates in 3 days...

yay devs!

How is ray doing with the UI stuff?

Well. I got to see a picture of the new interface last night when he came home.

Send it here!

Also, might I note that in Latos H-2 on the test server, there are about 10 convoys not moving at all. I'm blowing them up with wild abandon.

[edit]Wait, they just turned on and all started moving at the same time, and shooting me. Intersting[/edit]

Here's some convoy thoughts:

Convoys:
Aside from when all the bots in the universe randomly stop moving (a1k0n restarting DELIVERATOR?), pathfinding seems to be working well. Seeing 10 convoys dock at once is cool. However, convoy ships don't fire or flee at all. If I start shooting at j random moth, it just goes along its way with no change, no evasive maneuvers, no mines, no swarmers.

Escorts:
Escorts are working considerably less well. If I shoot a member of a convoy, the escorts will not attack me. They will only attack if I shoot them themselves (if I shoot an escort, he attacks; if I destroy a moth 10m from the escort, nothing). Also, it's highly cool that rocket-carrying bots can understand limits. However, when a convoy escort runs out of ammo, he just flies around chasing you. They don't seem to understand that they have no ammo, and they have no apparent way to reload. It seems to me that if station bots can be programmed to dock if they're low on health, then escorts could be programmed to dock if they're low on ammo. Of course, even cooler would be some kind of resupply ship that could go with the convoys and resupply ammo in-flight...

Missions:
I can't find any. Who stole 'em?

Sarahanne, I believe you didnt finish your phrase about the new Interface you saw. TELL US ALL! I want to know!
:)

M. Duncan

It was blue and had tabs along the top and right side.