Utopia Blog - June 17th

[Lydias]

Please use this thread to comment on this week's Utopia Blog

[DHaran]

Ok, first:

Thanks for the enthusiastic and boisterous response last week. :-)

I'm so glad someone around here has a sense of humor, lol.

We’re not thinking about minimum number of users to survive. We’re thinking about growing growing growing. We wouldn’t choose to work on a dead-end project. Put all ideas of a user-countdown to self-destruction out of your head. This game is here to stay.

This looks good on paper now, just continue to back it up. Which leads to:

We will be advertising as soon as we believe the game is ready for it.

I also believe this is the right move, but my only concern is how fast the player base is declining. I will be honest, there are MANY people sticking around just to see how it goes with the new coding. If the new code fails badly, another 20-30% of the players would likely leave :/ No pressure though, keep up the good work, lol.

The invite system looks like a DRASTIC improvement than the crapshoot trading we have now, so thanks for putting the time in to revamp that.

[Luth]

did you notice it only says Utopia blog and not Utopia Classic Blog? nice :)

>>> We expect to start the closed alpha next week, we’ll know better then. <<<

is this on gen, or some sort of private testing grounds?

[tzar]

yay, no more classic!

edits:

Put all ideas of a user-countdown to self-destruction out of your head. This game is here to stay.

This makes me like you. A lot.

Luth, sounds like private testing grounds for alpha based on what they said, over at the utopia-game.com site (which is a hole atm :p)

[Fate1316]

They might want to reconsider the domain. Utopia-game will prolly be banned by most school/workplaces.

[MorbidAngel]

I agree with what fate1216 said.

[Lydias]

I think that is actually a point and I have flagged it.

[Ezzerland]

Much better blog.

Good work :)

Just to take a crack at the domain

why not something like
www.UtopianBattlefields.com

[Syele]

Removal of the word Classic is very appreciated. Still, as Fate mentioned, Game will be banned many places.

What will be the process for getting to help with alpha/beta testing?

[Fate1316]

I agree with what fate1216 said.

I hate you.......... :(

[MorbidAngel]

utopianbattlefields is too long imo

[VT2]

Things sound promising, but I'm not going to get my hopes up until I see the finished product.

[MorbidAngel]

I hate you.......... :(

I know I know.. :)

[Luth]

if it's going into a "private" alpha testing next week, when can we expect it to be put up on gen? a week beyond that? a month? a year from next tuesday?

[MorbidAngel]

What is considered as private? I think i sent some mail for signing up but kill me if I remember if I did it or i am imagining :D