Utopia classic blog (April 22nd)

[Lydias]

Check out the new classic Blog Here, for news of the game's progress and projected timescales!

[Fate1316]

First

Edit:

We expect to complete the core game logic today, meaning that all the original Delphi game code will now be ported and rewritten. The remaining tasks are:

* To add auxiliary site features such as the kingdom forum, rankings and so on. These features are pretty conventional, and we hope to fly though them with the help of some third party components.
* Testing, testing, testing. Although there’s a bunch of aspects to the site that are readily testable, a lot of the game code is going to be tricky to verify. The problem is that it’s hard to empirically measure the exact behavior of all the mathematical legacy code, because of the number of permutations of the many inputs into those calculations.

So, when will it end? We’ve re-assessed our progress here, and are tracking about 2/3 weeks behind schedule, with a lot of testing still required and a handful of features left to implement.

It doesn't seem like anything has been done the past 2 weeks at all......

[alan12]

lol...june wtf !!!

[elizakr]

third

June??? Geez, it's from one extreme to the other... Seems like still plenty of time. I think everyone better start planning next wars etc..

[MorbidAngel]

nooooooooooooooooooooooo. PLZ DON'T FFS!!!

/me goes to VM till June

[Shagrath]

u must be freaking kidding me with june

[DHaran]

Do you guys realize how exhausting this game is? June is a long way away....

[Messerschmitt]

gief 3 new move codes straight away, bugger for people waiting for next age when its eons away! *_*

[wbm]

June is way too long for this age to continue. Add some delays on that (there's almost always delays in releases) and we won't get a new age till July..

I would definately end this age in ~1 week, start a new one with the old code and let that one run till the new code is done.

I think alot of ppl will lose interest if the age continues that long, I've started to lose interest already.

[Bishop]

end it on schedule pls

[Luc]

Definitely end it now and start a new one with the old code to run it until the new code is ready

[Palem]

Well...if they tell us June, they prolly won't be behind schedule...but I agree, June is way too long.

That being said, thank you for actually giving an explanation behind the 'Stay with Kd' button issue.

[VT2]

They will be behind schedule.
3d realms said 'end of 1998.' We're still waiting for them to release Duke nukem Forever.

OMAC still doesn't understand their playerbase one bit.

[Catwalk]

If getting it done sooner than June isn't realistic, so be it. I agree with the notion of ending it now and running another age on the old code, this is disappointing. If you stick with June, there should be significant game changes as well at that time. And it would be a good idea to start a discussion about that now.

[Mansoor]

end this age within a week. Start a short WoL warring age with +500% exploration cost and no dicing.

cause if you don't I am loosing half my kd atm cause you already put the keep me with this kingdom sign and many in my kd started to have end of age fun and now you want to prolong it 1½ months? you are really killing the game, or maybe this is what you want?

You better do something or you will loose shitloads of players as everyone is bored!