[Paul]

Paul:
Sorry to everyone for my lack of presence lately but I've been busy with life stuff and any free time I have had I wanted to use for development. However... good news! The next 2 months are more or less booked solid for NeoRift. Other than fixes for client work, I'm not taking on any new external projects to pay the bills. That means its easier for me to make a schedule that covers the coming weeks.

Here's the plan:

This week:
- Rename ships
- Move items to/from ships
- Redo formation screen
- Military (train, upkeeep and form army)

March 15 to March 19:
- Military attack (from both planets and ships)
- Market segregation

March 22 to March 26:
- Research
- Player experience with locked features

March 29 to April 2:
- Ship upgrades
- Ship retreat
- Military balancing (restrict max loss)
- Add new ship formations

In this time I've also given myself at least one day a week for bug fixing. There's a few more things I've omitted for now but hopefully shortly after these tasks are done we can start some serious large(r) scale testing. Really looking forward to it!

Outside of that, you may notice on the main shadowroot page there is a live stream box. I'm hoping to have weekly Q/A sessions using this where people can talk live with me and Adam giving us feedback and asking questions. Look forward to more about that later (as well as a new video clip).
[ Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:21 am ]

[blindkreaper]

blindkreaper:
Welcome back...

maybe you can try and stop Adam's dominance on Stella Maris haha
[ Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:27 am ]

[Adam]

Adam:
Sorry blinderkreaper, it is too late for that now. Stella Maris belongs to me and any more talk of an uprising and I will have to send the boys round.
[ Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:14 am ]

[azurereaver]

azurereaver:
Sweet! Do you expect to do any game resets in that timeframe? Adding military functionality will probably upset the balance of the universe a good deal.
[ Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:20 pm ]

[Paul]

Paul:
I expect a few resets, but as testing moves along I'll probably start people off with more money or more resources to speed things up. Hopefully it won't be too bad.
[ Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:16 pm ]

[azurereaver]

azurereaver:
So it looks like you shuffled things around a little, since I think market segregation is being able to select individuals on the market?

Not sure if you consider the formation screen redone or not yet.

Which would leave the military and military attack tasks coming up next. I imagine that'll be a bear to balance properly. I'm looking forward to using my stockpile of weapons to finally get a foothold on stella. Or a reset and starting out in the local band at all.
[ Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:45 pm ]