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Newsletter is out.
We're pushing it in two halves this time, so only the first half has been queued so far. I'll push the second half of the list this weekend (long, dumb explanation.. has to do with costs of Return Path and limits on emails per month).
But, for now you can also read it online. There is not much new for those who have been paying attention to the newsposts, just a re-capping of the last couple of weeks of announcements, but there is one new thing..:
The ability to name your capships!
This feature will hopefully launch tomorrow if all goes well (no promises, there's a lot of development going on for these features). Capship names will mainly be visible within the capship itself for now, we need to do more involved HUD work to expose names there in a consistent way, and right now the focus is just getting the "name" concept into the game and written to the database.. we can more easily play around with how to display the information once the fundamental concept is in place on the server.
Everything else I've mentioned is also in process (persistent mines, persistent capships, etc), I'll probably do a bit of a newspost update to talk about it and post the link to the newsletter and so on.
But, for now you can also read it online. There is not much new for those who have been paying attention to the newsposts, just a re-capping of the last couple of weeks of announcements, but there is one new thing..:
The ability to name your capships!
This feature will hopefully launch tomorrow if all goes well (no promises, there's a lot of development going on for these features). Capship names will mainly be visible within the capship itself for now, we need to do more involved HUD work to expose names there in a consistent way, and right now the focus is just getting the "name" concept into the game and written to the database.. we can more easily play around with how to display the information once the fundamental concept is in place on the server.
Everything else I've mentioned is also in process (persistent mines, persistent capships, etc), I'll probably do a bit of a newspost update to talk about it and post the link to the newsletter and so on.
Sweet! No more dirty "Entering SoAndSo" jokes about docking on capships. :)
Awww! No more dirty "Entering SoAndSo" jokes about docking on capships. :(
woohooo!
Haha, well said Faille.
Actually, this means you'll be able to name your tridents fun things like "Annie's Nethers"!
Rin nailed it (so to speak). I foresee the need to ban a number of adjectives from capship names, including without limitation: tight, loose, sloppy, your mom's, and itchy.
Sadly they long since changed it to "Entering SoAndSo's Ship". Geeze, did any tween-age kids dock on a player capship while their easily-offended mom was watching or what?
The ability to name your capships!
At long last! Hmmm, I wonder what "The Compass Rose" will name their ship?
The ability to name your capships!
At long last! Hmmm, I wonder what "The Compass Rose" will name their ship?