So the only player feedback you consider is positive comments, and negative comments are ignored.

Or do you have a special metric to track discontent users... something like user base or growth or player retention maybe?

I approve of this patch, specially the nerfs, due to their inherent comedy value.

Archeage?

Says a flagship member of the ticket brigade...

You mean that's not how *your* development works. Or actually doesn't.

Plug in second keyboard, get wife/kid to play copilot.

You got horse ***, bull ***, cow ***, chicken ***, pig ***... all sort of variety and choices.

Warning. Overly overly basic simplifications ahead:

Terrain as its currently done is pretty easy (ok, for people who do this stuff ). For the interesting terrain you have to look at engines which do overhangs and caves as other than 3d meshes anchored to what usually is a pretty 2d heightmap... last time I checked none of the big name engines support anything interesting, and none of the mainstream tools do either (such as mudbox). Even TIN support tends to boil down to 2D. Escaping that 2D is what makes rendering ground hard. Normally terrain is easily tileable these days. Big tiles made of small tiles, with a very defined and limited dimension range. Things tend to move in your "tile" or its neighbors.

Space depends. Depends because it can be humongously big compared to terrain, or as "small". If you try to just use huge coordinates for stuff you quickly find out the way numbers are processed by the PCs just don't work due to, very roughly speaking, rounding. The bigger the number, the bigger the rounding it does. Or it can't go small enough to use the same coordinates for everything and still be able to model movement speeds. And tiling something humongous isn't as easy as tiling terrain in an optimal way.

Ground games and fps and stuff like that also tend to use a lot of shortcuts for calculating collisions, because since everything basically moves on a 2d plane its easy to do quick tests and then refine for things like jumps or elevation. On 3d both collision detection and specially handling on a proper physics engine tends to be nastier. You can use proxy objects like spheres to do some quick tests, yes, but the movement is not basically constricted to the plane so you have a bit more trouble since you have to integrate arbitrary physics based movement and collision handling.

No, it's not a mmo. Or it is. Kind of. See, the thing is you can play it single, or I believe that play only with people you want, or you can block people so that they don't enter the same dynamic instance you are in, and if everyone in your instance has them blocked in most cases they get moved to a different instance. What I call instances is an on the fly thing they create so that there's not millions of ships at the same place, which would be awesome but uplayable over internet due to the control mechanism. So you have a sort of bubble around you, and when you meet other people it puts you (or them) in a sort of an instance.

I've been following it quite a bit as it brings very fond memories of the original. They are taking mostly the right steps and not doing another X3: stillbirth, and making an entertaining game with a long run. There's pleeenty of vids of alpha (and I guess beta) so they aren't hiding anything under EULAs like X3. Most impressive is that they've been keeping up with the milestone dates, and they actually DO listen and change their minds based on logic and not whines while still keeping what they want to do.

You'll see me there.

What happened with July?

They should add a special sound effect to nora plants dying, something like aaaaiiieeeeeeeeeee...

Also add an 'insta respawn' button as a cash shop item. People hate to have to walk back to where they were.