General Discussion

Recently, MMORPG.com's own Carolyn Koh had the opportunity to sit down and speak with the team from NetDevil about their work on the upcoming MMORPG Jumpgate Evolution.

Jumpgate Evolution is not a massive update to Jumpgate. It is a completely different game. “Basically, this is a response to focus testing and user feedback,” said Scott Brown, President of Netdevil. “We can’t have Netdevil just do another game. It has to be a great game.”

Once Jumpgate Evolution launches, it will run side by side with Jumpgate until which time, Jumpgate ceases to be viable, if ever. “We still have a lot of players that love the game and we’ll continue supporting it,” said Scott, “Jumpgate Evolution will essentially be like Asherons Call 2 and EverQuest 2. Set in a similar, yet different world. A world of the future.”

At the Connect event in the UK, Netdevil partnered with their UK publisher Codemasters to bring the game to players there. They were able to have the public play test a vertical slice of the game on 50 PCs. “They played the new user experience, and it was the first proof of concept that the new user experience in Jumpgate Evolution works.” Netdevil has treated Jumpgate Evolution as a “Live” project from the get go, with internal testing and developers playing the game. The story takes part in a later time and different part of space, but current players of Jumpgate will absolutely find it familiar.

Read it all here.

Please don't associate this game with AC2, Turbine took everything good from AC1 and threw it out the window, hence the disaster of AC2.  Let's hope Netdevil is not doing the same with Jumpgate Evolution.

If everything pans out as planned, JGE will be the best MMO to come out in last 10 years.

Bye bye AOC WAR WOW and other fantasy EQ clones. And welcome back , sandbox , twitch based combat and open space !

This sounds excellent. Good news item and very full of information

Just as long as they stay away from what SWG: Jump to Lightspeed did...

and make every enemy NPC fighter craft take like a hundred hits to kill.... That pissed me off more then anything that a Tie Fighter would take a dozen or so hits to bring down.. it's a TIE FIGHTER..

gah...

It's hard to have fun, fast paced twitch space combat if you have to sit there and grind down the HP of a common fighter.

Even though your lvl is based on your skill I still wish that they wouldent put the level system in or atleast let you hide your lvl. Thats one of the things I enjoyed about EVE pvp id that you dont know what your going up against besides the ship you see. I feel like allowing your level to be shown some what discourages pvp because If a player see's that your 20+ lvl's higher then them for example then they will probably just run instead of fighting.

Well, personally I'm hoping we'll see another Auto Assault- one that doesn't die. I never played Jumpgate, but I wanted to... JGE could be my chance. Otherwise, I'll go back to EVE when i want space ships. Eiother way, i'm glad to have some real meat rather than just screenies.

Hmm maybe this will be the next game for flight junkies.  I always wished they put out another Star Wars flight sim, but maybe this will have to do.  Is there a monthly fee?

  Sounds great, Im so looking forward to a little Joystick action

   I,ve got all the flight sim gear just waiting,Now if we can just tow in derilects and strip'em for

parts.      And exhaustable fuel would be nice  to.