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I want too see these things happen on Vendetta Online

Aug 03, 2005 roguelazer link
1. Go tell your friends. Word-of-mouth is the best advertising
2. Press F9.
3. That would require the loading process to be multi-threaded (specifically, it would necessitate the inclusion of a rendering thread and a background loading thread). Entirely apart from the added development time, this would also slow down loading significantly. On second thought, that could be good... If loading were slowed down to a minimum 20 seconds, say, that would eliminate the annoyance of people with faster connections loading faster. Hmm. Food for thought.

PS: U is not a word. Nor is OMFG or PPL. And what are Itari? A new Atari lookalike?
Aug 03, 2005 Beolach link
1. Heh. Yeah, that's actually the biggest drawback to VO, in my opinion. But the devs have reasonable reasons (I'm not repetitiously redundant, not I) for not wanting to start much marketing yet. They want to get some more "content" - the Hive, more missions, etc. - first. Eventually, I do think VO will have a much larger playerbase than it does now.

2. There are a few 3rd person views, you can cycle through them with the F9 key. I don't see how 2nd person views (the view from whatever I'm targetting) would be very useful for much. It's a pain to control a ship from a 2nd person view.

3. This has been suggested a couple times. IIRC the game client would need a fair amount of work to be able to do this really well. Anyway, I'm not personally all that big on eye-candy for the sake of eye-candy (go Nethack!).
Aug 03, 2005 KixKizzle link
Eat him up rogue. Eat him up!
Aug 04, 2005 Phaserlight link
1. Yeah, word of mouth is the only advertising going on right now... that's going to change (hopefully) once we have the dynamic hive and some more missions, maybe a couple player owned cap ships.

2. Already done

3. Personally, I'd rather have faster loading times than any cutscene animation... but perhaps there could be some different background art every time... maybe even some user-submitted screenshots.

P.S. you don't need to use caps, acronyms, l33t sp33k or multiple exclamations to get people's attention on these forums. We can hear you just fine.