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6 months is not a long time in terms of MO development, let's be honest. Especially where large issues such as FAILED and nodelines etc are concerned. Those problems have been around a long time but finally Ive heard good things about FAILED so wanted to know Theia's opinion.
Thanks for the sensible quesiton Cyde.
Yes - FAILED is fixed. I've been looking at the boards this morning (internal) and we didn't have any reports of FAILED itself - so the new patch we got a while back from EPIC USA folded into our work seems to have at least partially resolved this.
However - I persoanlly saw a number of crashes last night - so we have more work to do. I am not sure that TC Pylon placement right next to a node line is a good idea - so I have raised a number of bugs on the tracker this monring as well as last night.
I flew over and recorded a battle with ~100 folk in it - it was an azmaing sight to behold. BUT I did see a number of people drop - so is it perfect? No! Are we focused like a lazer on it? Yes we are!!
Thanks!
GMTheia
That's very encouraging thankyou.
As for crashes they tend to pop up quite regularly but they always seemed to get fixed easily enough so I dont find it too worrying. I'll see you on saturday all being well
I've seen Henriks posts on mofo enough of times to judge that his english (it was him who wrote them, right?) is good enough as long as he slows down and uses a spellcheck, simple as. He is swedish and english for us is almost native, unless someone been slacking off :P
I can buy the "not enough time" excuse, but not the "not main language" excuse. Also, just fyi, red is probably the worst color you could have picked (along the blue) to try and mock slapshot for copying "yours", it is impossible to read.
We frequently re-write posts from the team - occasionally one slips through the net - but most of the time either I or SHC Martialis fully re-write what we get. Given that I get picked up here for spelling... you can't blame the guy for asking me to post!
GMTheia
Wow, I don't play MO, but what a thread this has become. Star Vault is quite a company, lol.
Fair enough, was just pointing out that the "not main language" excuse doesn't quite hold up.
It might be a good idea if you dropped the MO-official-forums-bow-before-me attitude because you're neither a moderator or a GM here, just another poster.
What button will you push, rewrite Henrik's broken english into your own broken english? That'll get the message across much easier certainly.
Also, english is not the native language of a very big percentage of the population. Some high-school proficiency is adequate for spamming poker sites, however people usually expect a CEO who is fluent in the language everyone understands.
Regardless of Henrik's special needs for night-classes, please don't blatantly aim to deceive people since it is known that the developers - Henrik included - took a vacation the week Open Beta was released, and again the week of Release.
As for the rest, you are here on a company-mission to advertise for your game. No problemo, but finances will speak for themselves soon enough.
All personal/company related things aside, I kinda wish TC was about when you were still here Syndic. Your ambition and political focus were something the game needs more of right now, I miss it.
I hope CIR are enjoying perpetuum.
PS: I was kinda amused by this though. http://www.crimson-imperium.net/comment.php?comment.news.56
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On topic: This isn't surprising. I'm excited to see the Q1 2012 financials. It'll be interesting to see what they do for money. {mod edit}
He who keeps his cool best wins.
You seem to be missing the point that ANY official of a company getting involved in mudslinging on a forum is highly irregular and highly unprofessional.
If you want to disseminate information about the game do exactly that, stick to providing actual information about the game and answer legitimate questions about subs numbers if you are allowed to do as such. If you are not allowed to pass on much real information (note a FRAPS as suggested in another thread as a source of sub number information is laughable) then one wonders why exactly you are here in the first place.
You say the "MO community" wants "hate posts" to be challenged. Well they should perhaps do that themselves, provide some actual tangible proof of their points over and above "omg I totally saw 50 people last night dude". Company reps going about gaming sites having a pop at perceived haters looks ludicrous, company reps going about gaming sites trying to counter "haters" by offering the same tired old, non backed up, highly subjective "arguments" that any gamer could offer is just tragic.
Or you know, just stick to making or playing the game and let the haters have a little whine on a forum.
Now take none of the above as an anti MO/SV or anti you attack. It would be great to have more "officials" post on forums IF they are going to stick to posting data and facts and/or updates about the game or answer legitimate questions with legitimate and verifiable answers. It is also great of course to have your own subjective opinions on the game and any others. But mixing the two, basically acting like and providing nothing more than a bog standard fanboi, arguing with haters and talking about FRAPS to counter financial reports whilst at the same time claiming to be officially representing the game is a bad idea on every level.
PS: Didn't you say Henrik contacted you about the thread? That would kind of mean the issue of his not being able to read it or respond to it is somewhat redundant as he clearly has been able to understand it and clearly has the time to worry about trite comments made on a gaming forum.
"Come and have a look at what you could have won."
unless hardware needs have changed.. anyone can run a MMO for about 500-1k usd a month.. and thats for ANY game if you have the right hardware...
planetwidemedia (formaly planetwidegames) ran 4 servers years ago for about 500 a month. or so. that was a staff only test server, the official server, a public test server and an out of date (older version) server...
so unless MO is using really weird systems that require 10k a week servers.. they shouldnt have any problems running 2 servers each month for 500-1k (assuming they arent using any like really insane software)
frankly i was interested in MO until i saw its beta/launch now all i see is bad press about it.. makes me wonder if its even worth being interested in it anymore. doesnt really sound like its a game @_@ given the bad press its recived over the period its been active.. rather sad cause on paper it sounded like a good game, now its like ERRR will it even be able to make a "gold" version that isnt venemously hated by the community or X-community.
these financal report threads are quite worrying though.. if what is being posted publicly is 100% truthful, i personally dont like to see games crash and burn but given the last few reports MO kinda seems like its heading that way
Didn't say he coulnd't read.. I said he felt unable to reply to the sorts of questions with the clarity needed... given the language barrier.
GMTheia
So I'll still try to answer the sensible questions but as I'm estabalishing a presence on some of the other boards perhaps you're right - I should tone it down a little, I am sorry. It is really tough to not get passionate about something you strongly beleive in and in total fairness to you that's probably your perspective too - even if we are poles apart in our views.
Also not sure why you keep changin the colour of your fonts to match mine.... Slapshot? Seems a little petty.
I guess the true test of whether SV and MO survives will only come in the fullness of time - and whilst I might have a bit more info than you guys - it seems that for some of you at least - nothing I say will change your mind or help you even go as far as to take a fresh look.
Of course reality will take care of the final argument, so let's see which version plays out.
Thanks to the guys that came back to MO from these post - I do really appreciate that feedback and it has made me feel like this is and has been a worth-while endeavour.
I'll post some Vids up of the big battle that i saw last night. And of course try to answer any sensible quesitons.
Thanks again - and apologies if I have overstepped.
GMTheia
Think I'll also start a 'Sensible Questions for Theia thread' - where we talk about the gameitself - there are plenty of 'other' types of threads to cover off what some of you want to talk about.
I'll do that now.
GMTheia
Why do you keep changing your font colour to mine.... ?
I am trying to tell you that the game has real traction.
I am trying to tell you that things are changing and we are trying to address mistakes made in the past (DVD etc).
Henrik and I spoke again about Vet Rewards and we're starting to flesh that out in an interesting way.
Coding on TC is almost over - the rest of the team have already swung guns towards AI (those that haven't already been working on it for months).
Population is up (to anyone with in-game eyes).
Enough said.
Seems we're both the tenacious type. However I'm realtively fresh and am in this for the long-run and the end game too; let's see how the next few months un-fold...
GMTheia
Why do you keep changin the color of your font to mine.....?
GMTheia
ETA on vid?
Saying Henrik does not come here to discuss things because of a language barrier is a straight out lie. I have been in HoCs and IRC many times when he comes in and freely talks with people. Around the time of the EPIC patch being delayed day to day hour to hour he was in IRC for hours bantering with people with no problem at all. He may not spell correctly because of the barrier but to say he can not put together a post and puch send because he can't speak english is laughable.
I remember some people trolling him in IRC and him understanding them completly and trolling them back without any hesitation at all.
Theia I know you love your job and want to carry the SV/MO flag but it seems in some of these threads your are making excuses that just are not true.
As the saying goes, "Desperate times, call for desperate measures."
This is why GM Theia is here. All logical signs point to the fact that SV has almost no money left in the bank, and their costs running too high to maintain the game for a reasonable amount of time. So enter the "viral marketing" which at this point, is basically kind of a sad attempt by SV to get the game going.
GM Theia, if you wanted the "good press" and to show that MO is really moving in the right direction, you should have told Henrik not to be a lying, cheating, thieving criminal that he is and not have auto-subbed people, in addition to the countless other things that have caused people ACTUAL financial hardships just to keep the game afloat. All the good name you could have garnered for yourself is gone, and please keep this in mind with dealing with "Troll posters." We didn't get angry at SV until they pulled that type of behavior, there is a direct causal relationship between the two and not to acknowledge it merely shows that SV didn't care then, and they don't care now. And shortly, nobody will care about SV either, if the financials are accurate. Well of course, barring the idea that "daddy" won't throw down a bunch of cash again. Sorry, had to throw that in. It's rare for a business to even begin without real investors and real talent/ideas, so the family connection of subsidizing a loser of a business is in a capitalistic society generally speaking, a rarity.
Agree with the language barrier excuse being a weak one judging by what i've seen henrik write on the mo forums. I can totally understand why he wouldn't want to join these forums to be harassed though...
And about mixing his father in with the rest of the bashing, tbh I don't see how that could be a negative thing ever? You're all here because you think mo has great potential, just like me. I think you can all agree that things have gotten better from open beta, however slowly, at least I think so. So, if his father has infinitely deep pockets and can spit money into mo however long is needed, wouldn't that only be a good thing? Means there's a big chance we'll get the game we want in the end, no?
Same goes for population. Of course the population isn't large, we all know the game hasn't been ready. But you know just as well as me that, looking at the competition, when mo really get's on track, the population WILL come
MO will never get on track. It's been well over a year and since I know none of the programmers is trained as an actual OO programmer, there's no way to fix how broken MO is. It's just layering more crap on top of the crap that doesn't work in order to make the product more "feature rich" but never actually work well.
And the language barrier is crap, because in the run-up to SELL MO, Henrik never stopped talking in IRC, forums, MSN, or anything else. Now all of a sudden his English isn't that great to talk about the product he wants to sell us? LOL
You've been (are?) a programming projects team leader or something like that am I right? Could be mixing you up with someone else, but if I'm not:
What would you say the biggest problems with the code are, what are the ingame results of them, and what would you do to fix them? Hope you understand what i'm getting at, like nodelines: effects ingame, why code-wise they are crap/caused by this and this in the code, and how it could be fixed.
I'm not being sarcastic btw, since I'm studying programming it would be interesting to hear
A great point, here.
He who keeps his cool best wins.