Kyp

There was PvP in arena form in the live game. Also, you might be suprised if you had the original live documents because they discussed combat between players as well as several different weapon types on each ship, but I digress a bit. Anyway, the point is PvP is a sore point for a lot of people, and you probably won't be seeing it in an open style format, if anything it would be certain sectors so that people know if they go there, they're fair game for PvP. We can't update the engine or how it displays without writing a new client (not happening for free, sorry), but we can place some new assets such as mob ships and the like but we haven't done so yet because we're busy getting the base functionality ready.

Had this, and all of this is there, some of the navs appeared over the course of time too. We're starting at the same place they did for launch at last plans, so with that in mind you might not see every nav that you personally remember. There are plenty of hidden navs that are in the sector now, including the HEAL ship and Xai Xai station for example. They weren't intended to be visible on the map and are not visible on the map. If you remember where they were, they're there now.

Not all of us, or we lost hard drives. The more raw data the better, we can use it to perhaps discover more than we have

Most of that isn't there because (and pay attention) we don't have the ability to do that yet. I can create the story but I can't make mobile AI (mobs) that can talk to players yet, we're still working on it. Spacegrrl, I know you were a big fan of "live" but I have little to work from with Aganju, and I know from the words of the developer who gave us documentation that what WAS in live was an amalgamation of several other sectors. It's NOT going to be quite what you remember, but the npcs won't be so "Jenquai" either once it's properly done. I'd love to make it perfectly live but I can't get a paycheck from sitting here working on the game 24/7 and I have bills to pay. I will do what I can for it, but it's going to take time, and if there is any documentation outside of memories, forward it my way. I had as stated, 20 some odd screenshots to work from and got it to what it is now along with the previous Terran Lead. I wasn't entirely ready to open it when it opened but there was a real push to open a neighboring sector that needed to make use of it so I agreed.

Well, it's that or wipes, which do you want? I'd personally go with that in your position rather than just talking about how it won't work.

Edited the poll so it was less loaded for them.

Bolded that to draw attention to something.

I'm open for haggling on a lot of things, but not that. I'll add it with the correct mission (Capture Roland Holmes, Terran lv 30 promotion bonus) when we have the ability to pull of a scripted encounter since that is necessary to make mobs appear and talk to you and only be able to be killed by you or your group.

eh we can enforce it to install the necessities prior to compile time, even with the dark side!

I'll take a glance through it.

*wields the Nerf Bat of Divine Might +2* hmm, oh.. nevermind.

You have lots of screenshots and documents? I had about 20 screenshots to go on for Aganju It will be changed some from live but only for story reasons, I won't delve into that now, you'll have to play to see BUT if you've got a fair amount of reliable documentation then we might look at some changes to it. What you must keep in mind is that in "live" they took about 6 sectors that were in the documentation, crammed them together and called it Aganju because they were trying to release after Westwood fell apart with the EA purchase.

Given what I talked about the other night on the game server, we are talking about opening the developer server to people who register to come test for us in focus tests. We shall need 50-100 people depending on the change in most cases, and it'll be a lil more like work than play BUT if we get enough people we should be able to avoid any need for wiping the play server for a long time to come. I just wanted to put this here as well so that those who might not have been on are aware of it.

e-mail it to here and I'll review it to see if it can help us. Thanks!

Well, you could always use the redistributable for .net 2.0 or greater and that's a much smaller size than the whole framework which is used for programming in .net languages. The below is quoted from an MSMVP: "The .NET Framework has two main components: the common language runtime (CLR) and the .NET Framework class library. The common language runtime is the foundation of the .NET Framework. .NET Framework 3.5 uses CLR version 2.0 and so does .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.0, while .NET framework 4.0 uses v4.0. .NET Framework 3.5 includes .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 and 3.0 SP1 as prerequisite. Please read the following blog to understand the relationship between .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. See: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/06/net-framework-35.html Secondly, we need to know more about the OS itself. Windows Vista (all editions) includes the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 as OS components. Windows 7 (all editions) includes the .NET Framework 3.5 with SP1 as an OS component. This means you have the .NET Framework 2.0 as OS component if you have installed Windows Vista and Windows 7." To run the launcher you must have the redistributable: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en IF you're XP or older. Now, with that in mind, all the newer versions of windows Vista and after come with 2.0 as a core component of any level of install. This means that you DONT need to download ANYTHING to play, the C++ redistributable might be an exception.. I'll have to double check that but I've never had to download it. However, I program on my own so I already had it in most likelihood. We can set the prerequisites on compile, and set what needs to be done to have the installer handle it. It's just a low priority kind of thing and we never think of it because we're too busy working on other stuff. I'll look at recompiling the Launcher with the pre-reqs so that it prompts you if you don't have them. =) Kyp

Yeah I did, lol.

At last count I'm aware of we only add two registry entries with the install. 1 to register the client and 1 if you're on a 64 bit machine to avoid the silly message about registering your game account with EA.com (since they no longer support the game).

Should be able to just click in the field and it'll highlight like an address in your internet browser. I will check now to make sure.. I'll edit this if not. The above is correct, just click in the field, it'll highlight. Push backspace, then play and voila.

Also, Avani, on what basis (actual proof, and not memory) were the things you listed Working As Designed? More specifically, since the team is designing it based on partial data (if any data), how is someone other than the designer qualified to claim something is working as designed?

I seem to recall that camping the Market channel was where I spent a good portion of time above level 140 during the live game.

Thank you for your help with the project. You'll be welcome to return anytime, should you change your mind / have more free time. Good luck with the business venture, starting a new one can be hard, but very rewarding if you are fortunate.

Tell me it's not just IE8, IE has serious problems with a lot of websites from v8 and up. Turning on Compatibility view for all websites in the tools menu fixes a lot of problems. I'm not sure why IE8 but I know it's been a pain at work for this kinda stuff.

We couldn't tell you, or no one would level Technically, there are enough navs at the experience they are giving to take you to 50 now, but many of them are hidden and not easy to find unless you know EXACTLY where they are. However, we'll look at adjusting this where we can as balancing comes along. I know it's a hassle to do this stuff again, but look at it from another perspective, at least you have jobs this time around and not just trade runs and navs.

This error means that the list value in the drop down box/text field for the server isn't right. The drop down that lets you choose multi or single player, etc. Some values in that were changed around when we stopped using multiplayer and a new installer hasn't been released since then that starts with the files a little more up to date. In the case that you get this message when you start the launcher, select continue, then Launcher > Reset Updates; Launcher > Check for Updates Launcher is where the File menu option would be on most programs. What DragonLady said is the best way to resolve this, also if you're on Vista or Seven you must run the launcher in Administrator mode. While most people assume that the default account is the admin, it is not. It is set as a primary group of Home User. You can change this in professional or above, but in the home and home premium versions of 7 for example, you need to always right click and run as admin, unless you've disabled UAC.