Anyone mind catching an old veteran up?

[ThePrivateer]

Hello! ThePrivateer returns from his interstellar voyage into the far reaches of the galaxy (read, he found some time off) and has found that his home world is much different!

I downloaded 1.08b eagerly waiting to see what has changed since I last played (1.04) and wow! A lot has gone on while I was away!

I was hoping that somebody might be able to catch me up a bit!

Is it true that George is looking to move Trans to a paid model? And what is with now needing an account to play the game? The mod exchange database does not work, but will that replace Xelerus?

Thanks guys in advance for help, and here's to a fresh journey into the Galactic Core!

[Song]

In order:

Trans is till free-to-play, I think it's going to stay that way...at least for now
You don't need to register an account to play, but you do need one to log an "official" high-score.
And I think the Mod Exchange compliments Xelerus and maybe eventually takes over some/all of mod hosting

[Star Weaver]

I actually wasn't paying much attention between 1.04 and 1.08b myself, and wandered off for a few months in the middle too.

George is considering paid expansions beyond the 'base' chapter 1-2-3 content. Like if he implements Sol and other systems as an addition to chapter 1, that might be a paid addon. I think that's the example he used. I think he's thinking of small prices for that stuff. But he's stated that he wants 'core' content to be free.

He might be allowing modders to do paid content stuff too, not sure.

The mod exchange is a future project related to those ideas. I've been told that he wants to keep working with xelerus as well, though if he offers hosting for free and non-overseen mods on his own service I don't know why people would.

You don't have to be registered or logged in to play, that's just for the online high score stuff presently.

[RPC]

WB ThePrivateer!
Hi, There's lots of new things going on, so linkspam:
Mods:
My Permadeath Challenge:
DySys
http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=929
WE4 (5 is coming out soon)
http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=612
Network (I think you were on when it was released though)
NoPowers
http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=1008
Weapons Labs (aka crafting weapons :3 )
http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=1092
PSD5:
http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=1118
Scriptwise:
structs:
http://www.neurohack.com/transcendence/ ... =15&t=4612
on the paid model and TypCreate:
http://www.neurohack.com/transcendence/ ... =15&t=4889
We also had 2 IRC days while you were gone, logs here: (and George comes by randomly to IRC, last time was on typCreate, although IIRC you didn't like IRC for some reason)
http://www.neurohack.com/transcendence/ ... f=2&t=4752

Community:
we had our first succession game!
#2 is here:
http://www.neurohack.com/transcendence/ ... f=2&t=5043
Also, George is working on Anacreon 3.
http://neurohack.com/kronosaur/TheFutureofAnacreon.html
He posted on the Kronosaur blog as seen here:
http://neurohack.com/kronosaur/Adventur ... cende.html
http://neurohack.com/kronosaur/TheFutur ... dence.html

I think that's it for now, get right to Hells Trinity again

[ThePrivateer]

Thanks guys!

BTW, for now, I won't be doing any modding, sadly -- no time, unfortunately.

Looking forward to getting back into the game tho' - it's been too long!

[Cygnus.X1]

Hahahahaa... ouch The last version I played was 0.99c, so looks like I get to play 1.01, then 1.08f(?). Anyway, got it all downloaded. This was the closest 'on-topic' match to my predicament, an old veteran reminded of a favorite game comes back to play again... It's Star Weaver's fault, reminded me and all.

But at least I can brag I've been inactive longer than ThePrivateer... right?