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lilFrigate (Marys Soldier)
Vice Admiral
Joined: August 30, 2002
Posts: 92
From: Police Station
|  Posted: 2006-01-27 18:47
hey guys I am looking to rejoin, but I'd like to have some incentive before I do.
I read last time I was here about a new race the Mir or something being introduced to the M.V I think it was going to be AI controlled, is this still happening or going to happen?
further, what are plans for the new updates coming to DS, in terms of expanding gameplay.
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Doran
Chief Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 29, 2003
Posts: 4032
From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2006-01-27 19:07
still not happening (yet, time will tell)
theres the development log on what we've gotten recently, and theres a news post linking you to a dev meeting log with tael with some interesting stuffs for .484
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Fatal Command (CO)
Chief Marshal
Fatal Squadron
Joined: November 27, 2002
Posts: 1159
From: Back in Texas and noticing some ppl are like canoes.....they need to be paddled.
| Posted: 2006-01-28 05:29
dont hold your breath tho...
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_x$witchBladex_ [1.480 Fanboy]
Grand Admiral
Joined: February 26, 2003
Posts: 849
From: Upstate New York
| Posted: 2006-01-28 10:10
Eh, game is very different. Shiplayouts are completly changed along with weapon archs. Don't get too discouraged, takes about a week to get used to, at least it did for me. Tehres more, but I'll let you figure that out yourself.
Welcome Back.
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c0ld
Midshipman
Joined: June 24, 2003
Posts: 342
From: UK
| Posted: 2006-01-28 10:59
What's new? Well;
-DS has been ported to GNU and is now running on a multi-zeon server, which only needs rebooting once a month.
-Following from that, DS is now available to buy on Xbox360 and soon PS3. Each platform shares the same MV.
-'Medusa' has been released in limited open-source format. Amateur developers are flocking to the engine; plans for DS:Assualt and DS:Ground Force are well under way. Both teams hope to link the games into the current MV in some way.
-All the bugs in the current version have been fixed.
-Network code has been updated and super-streamlined, Lag is but a distant memory now.
-Bombing has been returned to 1.480 style, Faustus worked round the clock to make the code so efficient that is creates hardly any server strain.
-DS now has a fully functional economy, with a marketplace where players can buy and sell anything from components to fully built ships. Companies that specialize in building ships make a tidy profit from those that use them to complete a host of missions, included a player run bounty system. EVEs' economy looks truely primative by comparison.
-DS is now finely balanced. AI's were created to battletest and evaluate designs over 100's of randomised simulated battles. Winning a fight is truely down to player skill now.
-Jumpgates, wormholes and shipyards work so well, that nobody can remembers how they managed to play the game without them.
-The forums are so well moderated now, that talk of politics and religion, for that matter any 'decent' subject, is allowed again. Posts are carefully edited to avoid any flame war, posting rules are stuck to the top of each forum, players can take their problems to a private forum where only moderaters and admins can reply, feedback on forum policy is welcomed and acted upon, the names of banned users are displayed in a list, and the reasons for their ban displayed. The admins and mods are now truely unbiased and fair and everything they do is transparent for all to see.
-Faustus has drawn up a complete design document for DS2 and taken it to venture capitalists all over America. He was very succesful and has got enough funding to quit his day job, hire some help and even rent offices for Palestar. Work on bringing Medusa up to bleeding edge is continuing at rapid pace, helped along by the many amateur devs working with the engine to make their own games.
In other news;
-Lasting World Peace was declared at the UN headquarters in NY today, GW bush is quoted as saying "I never imaginated it would happen in my lifetime" (roughly 40 years for his species)
-Scientists, keen to build upon the work done genetically engineering human ears onto mice, have said that; soon pigs will fly.
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BackSlash
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Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2006-01-28 11:04
p.s.
- DarkSpace is now powered by Chuck Norris on a tread mill. The no.1 super computer in the world!
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Doran
Chief Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 29, 2003
Posts: 4032
From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2006-01-28 11:15
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What's new? Well;
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nice pipe dream there
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Fattierob
Vice Admiral
Joined: April 25, 2003
Posts: 4059
| Posted: 2006-01-28 13:48
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On 2006-01-28 10:59, c0ldfury wrote:
What's new? Well;
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Coldfure wins an internet for that post.
somebody save that for all time.
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Borgie
Chief Marshal
Pitch Black
Joined: August 15, 2005
Posts: 2256
From: close by
| Posted: 2006-01-28 13:52
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On 2006-01-28 11:04, BackSlash *Jack* wrote:
p.s.
- DarkSpace is now powered by Chuck Norris on a tread mill. The no.1 super computer in the world!
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and here i thought it was powered by 2 hamsters
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DOM700 [-IMO-]
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Joined: July 26, 2001
Posts: 3175
From: Eckental, Germany, Sol-System
| Posted: 2006-01-29 03:56
move this to suggestions 
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