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[Silfurdreki]

At first I thought: "Dungeons and villages, player mechanics, server stuff and user interface? That's all?". Then I scrolled down.

It's a very nice road map indeed, and it seems to my very limited knowledge of game development, that most core things are in place. The limited progress under "server stuff" is slightly unsettling, though, but then again I have no idea how hard or easy that kind of stuff is.

Can you customize your own ship? That is certainly something I'd want to do... make my own ship that is.

I mean I know it probably won't do anything other then possibly be my crafting station.

I think there will be ship customization. I've seen an image of a ship with different kinds of furniture in it posted by one of the devs on their forums. Can't find it right now though. I don't know how extensive said customization will be, but I think it'll be there to some degree, at least.

[Darkmere]

It's a very nice road map indeed, and it seems to my very limited knowledge of game development, that most core things are in place. The limited progress under "server stuff" is slightly unsettling, though, but then again I have no idea how hard or easy that kind of stuff is.

That's typically not something you can just do at any time. One copy of the game needs to be mostly complete before you can even know how to make it interface with another copy of itself. Otherwise you're just re-doing parts of the networking code every time you add or tweak a feature in any gameplay area (with the exception of the UI, I suppose).

[Silfurdreki]

Sounds reasonable enough.

I think I posted that a bit early, though, since I had not read the networking protocol bit under core mechanics yet. I was under the impression that they had worked very little on basic network interfacing, but it seems that's mostly finished. My bad.

[Sirus]

Are you referring to the "SPAAAAACE" section?

[jocan2003]

Interesting take on the roadmap, i like it!

[Diablous]

So hey, roadmap's out. You can see, y'know. Progress bars and pretty pictures and stuff. Some interesting junk in the thing already, and I've only gandered at a couple of 'em. Just to make sure you notice, you can click on the little thumbnail things in a lot of the individual report thingies. Opens up a bigger picture.

Nice. Great way to gauge how development is progressing. Looking at all of these features is making me all giddy. I don't think I've anticipated any game more than this.

[n9103]

Preorder Go!
Base game starts at 15$
-Soundtrack and Beta included with any purchase
-25% Discount on 4-packs.

[Sirus]

Preorder Go!
25% Discount on 4-packs. Base game starts at 15$ (Beta included with any purchase)

Holy crap. It's like their own little Kickstarter, and this one I may just have to shell out for.

[Devling]

Will the Beta run on linux? Or only the final game? Does anybody know about this?

[n9103]

Looks like initial distro will go through Humble Bumble, as they're the d/l provider for the Soundtrack.

[Levi]

What the?!?  I bought tier one with my google account and it said my order has been sent to humble bundle?

Edit:  Ah I see.

[Frumple]

Ah. Frumple... no longer has the cash for four pack. Bleh.

But... just self. Yeess...

Actually, uh. Anyone want to pool for a four? Three at fifteen (perhaps with the forth going to a giveaway?) or four at ten (I'd cover the last five... been holding a bit aside for this )?

[Sirus]

I wouldn't mind pooling, depending on how such a thing works.

[freeformschooler]

I also wouldn't mind pooling. Calculations: $60 for four games, 25% off means it's $45. $45/4 = ELEVEN DOLLARS AND TWENTY FIVE CENTS for each person!

[Frumple]

I wouldn't mind pooling, depending on how such a thing works.

That'd be the thing I'm not 100% sure of, heh. I'd guess everyone'd send their bit to someone's paypal, that person'd do the order, and then the keys or whatnot get distributed out. Unless someone knows of a more elegant method? Having never actually done something like that, I'm not exactly sure about standard procedure.

Giveaway fodder or reduced price are both tempting things, though. I'd be willing to figure out how to finagle it for either of those, yeah. Won't be able to get it tonight, but one way or another I currently intend to make an order within 48 hours or so. Sometime before monday.

E: In other news, they're up to 2k backers and $54k in funds already. Not too shabby.