I've been playing about a week and having a total blast. I keep stumbling into nifty things in game (got the hydrospanner mission last night, as I've decided to work my Itani faction) and am delighted to be part of a game that the dev team and player base both seem enthralled with.

I am curious about certain "features to come", including but not limited to:

1. The new economy (I understand it's on Test now?)
2. Controllable capital ships (Manning a turret is FUN!)
3. Hive infestating outside of Sedina...they don't do this yet, do they?
4. The crafting system...what will it look like and how far off is it?

I'm wondering if any of the devs or the veteran players in the know might give some of us newbs the status of any of these items. I've poked around the forums, but some of the info is pretty hard to track down.

Thanks!

1 + 4 are closely linked and Incarnate has a good post about 'em somewhere... Ah, here:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/11406

2. Coming as soon as the interface is ready. a1k0n has a good post on it somewhere... Ahh, here:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/11636#138664

3. They're currently re-writing the Hive. I think it might have something to do with the plan to replace their relational database with something akin to dbus (if you're a linux person, you know what I mean), so that the system doesn't have to deal with as many transactions and can support a universe-wide Hive without exploding. That's my theory at least.

Thanks Rogue!

And I am a Linux person...matter of fact, it's what I do for a living (support Linux in a major pharmaceutical company, mostly for research projects and high performance clustering)

Yeah, that crafting thread's a good read.

State of Crafting: a long long LONG way away.

Just how I like it.