Jumpgate Evolution

Hello!

What Faction will you play?

Personally I will choose quantar,  since I like mining and trading. However, probably all the factions are changed since JGC, so I might have to choose another faction that has better mining equipment from the beginning. Well, those who live will see!

SolarStrings

Octavian. Blow stuff up good.

Too early  and not enough information to tell. Another post asked about August 2008 release. No way that's gonna happen with the current dearth of info they have released. (That and the beta hasn't even started.)

Originally posted by solarstrings

Hello!

What Faction will you play?

SolarStrings

Probably Octavian.. I just cant let myself be apart of religious idiots quants and greedy soulless sols..

But if they introduce Hyperial, I will choose that.. and maybe even an outcast faction.. pirates etc.. 

Solrain

Because i love Han-Solo , smugling , rebelling action

Note they have different themed 3 sub fractions

1 Greedy Corporate

2 Mafia

3 Rebels/Smuglers

Originally posted by Scottgun

Too early  and not enough information to tell. Another post asked about August 2008 release. No way that's gonna happen with the current dearth of info they have released. (That and the beta hasn't even started.)

You would be surprised.  The developers have said betas (open betas) are only good for marketing, so having a long beta just because doesn't make sense.  They're using Agile/SCRUM, it produces results, but not the way you'd expect to see them.  Instead of doing big chunks of the game over a long period, they have a bunch of developers working on little pieces separately with alot of testing, then after their development cycle is over, they regroup, assign new tasks and get back to work.  IIRC they're on a 2 week sprint cycle with 40-50 developers/artist working on the project.   The game is in development/alpha, if you read the interviews, you'll get alot of insight into how the game is progressing, there have actually been alot of interviews about the game, just not pretty screenshots/videos.  They probably don't have time to show us stuff, but its really irrelevant isn't it?  The game isn't in pre-order, the marketing blitz hasn't started, and they're working from the ground up, so some of the pretty stuff like the UI and ship models may not have been started yet.  The most visible elements in the game are just polish and they're probably the last thing to be completed.  The interface  and models you see are really irrelevant to the bulk of the development cycle.  The indications are a release in Q4, which means beta is 'soon'.  But that doesn't mean everyone is going to get in beta, unless they do a short 2-3 week pre-release open stress test.

Originally posted by Newt

Originally posted by Scottgun

Too early  and not enough information to tell. Another post asked about August 2008 release. No way that's gonna happen with the current dearth of info they have released. (That and the beta hasn't even started.)

 

You would be surprised.  The developers have said betas (open betas) are only good for marketing, so having a long beta just because doesn't make sense.  They're using Agile/SCRUM, it produces results, but not the way you'd expect to see them.  Instead of doing big chunks of the game over a long period, they have a bunch of developers working on little pieces separately with alot of testing, then after their development cycle is over, they regroup, assign new tasks and get back to work.  IIRC they're on a 2 week sprint cycle with 40-50 developers/artist working on the project.   The game is in development/alpha, if you read the interviews, you'll get alot of insight into how the game is progressing, there have actually been alot of interviews about the game, just not pretty screenshots/videos.  They probably don't have time to show us stuff, but its really irrelevant isn't it?  The game isn't in pre-order, the marketing blitz hasn't started, and they're working from the ground up, so some of the pretty stuff like the UI and ship models may not have been started yet.  The most visible elements in the game are just polish and they're probably the last thing to be completed.  The interface  and models you see are really irrelevant to the bulk of the development cycle.  The indications are a release in Q4, which means beta is 'soon'.  But that doesn't mean everyone is going to get in beta, unless they do a short 2-3 week pre-release open stress test.

Quite informed

Thanks

i just hope that they dont relase to soon, after all that is the most common failure for most mmorpg.

however i have read somewhere that they are very aware of this nd will not release before they have it complete.    i cant whait though.

Probably Solrain, as I like playing an industrialist and it would fit best in that faction. 

But if other factions have nicer ships, I might be persuaded to join the Octavians or Quantar...

Octavian.

The lesser of 3 Evils 

Plus they got a Fighter called "Phoenix"