coulden't get the map files off the old hard drive, same with the island backups, so the island pretty much needs a reset due to not having any map to play on. plus the model list is lost, so models ned to be reassigned, as do the buildings, and the item names are all botched up.
am going to try a different type of extraction to get the island off the old drive before actually reseting it.
so the island wont be back up until later today
zoric 8 reset
mm, well.. will have to have a think about that..
Ultimately, none of the big long-term worlds like zoric, zion and gyruss would be in the starting system - ya'll be expected to play through a few of the simpler,quicker places to get to the worlds that are more in-depth - more of that incremental difficulty level idea that will hopefully make the game more accessible to new players.
Maybe havin zoric in the next system will be an incentive for ppl to start sortin out their gal characters some more - tho we'll need to make sure all the credits stuff is workin well enuf for that to happen. If not that then i'll swap it in for Zion i guess.
Opinions welcome (particularly from those who've thought about the longer-term implications of all this, rather than just wanting their current favourite islands nearby immediately :] )
Ultimately, none of the big long-term worlds like zoric, zion and gyruss would be in the starting system - ya'll be expected to play through a few of the simpler,quicker places to get to the worlds that are more in-depth - more of that incremental difficulty level idea that will hopefully make the game more accessible to new players.
Maybe havin zoric in the next system will be an incentive for ppl to start sortin out their gal characters some more - tho we'll need to make sure all the credits stuff is workin well enuf for that to happen. If not that then i'll swap it in for Zion i guess.
Opinions welcome (particularly from those who've thought about the longer-term implications of all this, rather than just wanting their current favourite islands nearby immediately :] )
if we could get phong up and get biplane all sorted as well and have continued plans to add in similar bits from others in the near future, then yeh.
my only concern would be good to at least have some additional credits worlds around just in case yer stuck offline at some point -- the "hit by a bus" scenario type thing.
other than that yeh, simplest, most basic worlds in cirrus sounds fine.
my only concern would be good to at least have some additional credits worlds around just in case yer stuck offline at some point -- the "hit by a bus" scenario type thing.
other than that yeh, simplest, most basic worlds in cirrus sounds fine.
I think you should be able to get infimp in 3 days- 1week. It'd be cool if there was one planet for each important skill in A-tractor. You could have one planet where you trade stuff back and forth to get money, One where you invest money in a building and immediatly sell it (or those two can be the same). maybe one where you race a computer until you win, and a couple things like that.
I think 3-days to a week is enough time for someone to learn the game, however I hope the players right now can do it faster, couse I want to get into zoric at the start lol.
I think 3-days to a week is enough time for someone to learn the game, however I hope the players right now can do it faster, couse I want to get into zoric at the start lol.
