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The team over at NetDevil working on Jumpgate Evolution have provided us with these three new, exclusive screenshots.

Check out all three here.

Nice level of detail... I'd love to see a few screen shots of the ui though :)

JP Evolution is looking good, I may check it out when it's released.

I agree, why do game companies always show the game without the UI?  It's the most improtant part of a game and it hardly ever shown.

Nice.   However, if those are all propulsion trails they need some particle effects or something so they don't appear that defined.  At first glance I thought they were some sort of laser weapons.  Granted still images can be deceiving in this regard.

Originally posted by m240gulf

JP Evolution is looking good, I may check it out when it's released.

 

I agree, why do game companies always show the game without the UI?  It's the most improtant part of a game and it hardly ever shown.

Probably because the UI is an ever changing thing, and they dont want to show us screenshots of something that will be changed later.  As the game closes in on release, I'm sure we will get some more juicy details and images.

Originally posted by Baio2k

Probably because the UI is an ever changing thing, and they dont want to show us screenshots of something that will be changed later.

Exactly right.  We've gone through three or four major UI iterations since last summer and are still refining it.  We do not consider it done and don't wish to show off something that is still in such as state of flux.  We completely agree that the UI is important, and we're making a serious effort to ensure that the UI is highly customizable, so that things people want are where they want them, and anything not wanted can be moved out of the way.

The ships are ugly looking.  Since it's all about the ships I would hope they have some cool designs.

Originally posted by IstvanND

 

Originally posted by Baio2k

Probably because the UI is an ever changing thing, and they dont want to show us screenshots of something that will be changed later.

Ding.  We have a winner!

 

Exactly right.  We've gone through three or four major UI iterations since last summer and are still refining it.  We do not consider it done and don't wish to show off something that is still in such as state of flux.  We completely agree that the UI is important, and we're making a serious effort to ensure that the UI is highly customizable, so that things people want are where they want them, and anything not wanted can be moved out of the way.

The level of UI customization sounds great, and I look forward to hearing more about the game in the coming months.

Im sad :( It looks like EVE some 4 years ago... But still hope better detailed meshes.

If the game is anything like Earth and Beyond, I will subscribe, if it's anything like EVE, I will avoid it.  There needs to be some innovation with space sims.  Even Galaxies has avatars.. the code isn't that hard...

EVE isn't innovative? I'm not going to respond to that because like it or not EVE is a very original game with tons of complexity.

EVE also WILL have avatars soon.

As for these screenshots, I am not impressed. They wen't what seems to be the cartoony direction like Wow and that's exactly why I could never get into Wow. I will give benefit that this is pre beta and I understand the process. I will give the game a fair shot when it's released.

Good luck to the devs.