how long?

Johnny Blaze · Post by **Johnny Blaze** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:56 pm

This question might have already been answered, but im lazy and dont want to hunt thru 10 pages of posts so....

What kind of a timeframe are we looking at before the majority of the kinks are worked out? like non-beta?

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:00 pm

"Soon".

Honestly it's a complicated Algorithm that takes DevFreeTime and MeanTimeToFixBugs as arguments... Throw in some randomization for particularly easy and hard bugs and it spits out your answer! It always returns "soon" though...

Uber_Hoser · Post by **Uber_Hoser** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:02 am

Or put it this way, if everyone donated, say 20$ or more, that is like um ....
(20*3000 players {estimate} carry the 4..)

a lot of cash..

so then the dev(s) could quit their day jobs and be full time NS developers, instead of part time ones

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:18 am

For a few months atleast.

sheriffbugs · Post by **sheriffbugs** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 3:18 am

Weeks... Not months.

Devs -- I will be waiting for you to finish. Whenever that is. Thanks!!!

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 6:35 am

I think months is slightly more realistic...

LadyCheron · Post by **LadyCheron** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:16 am

Remember that the closed beta phase took nearly a year. Given what I know of the code changes being made and the epic areas still to be built, tested and installed - I would not be surprised if the beta phase takes us through the end of the year.

Remember - Lokey has said that EVERY SCRIPT that Bioware had standard has been modified or replaced. Every spell has had to be modified. Every summons. Every monster. Over 2400 treasure drop items - all of them custom. NPCs. And so forth. And doing this in their spare time - an hour or so here and there after work, a few hours on the weekends.

We're still running on the build that was uploaded at the beginning of June, when the Server 3 areas had to be put onto server 1. We're going to be in Beta for a while, folks.

Throst54 · Post by **Throst54** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:13 pm

dont be suprised if it's over a year.

seriously.

sheriffbugs · Post by **sheriffbugs** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:37 pm

Bob wrote:I think months is slightly more realistic...

I think we are talking about different things. When I said weeks, I was referring to how long the Devs could be "Full Time Devs" if they had the $$$ Uber_Hoser was talking about.

NOT. How long it would take to do anything with the Mod.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 2:16 am

We'd stuff them in packing containers with electrical hook-ups & "waste" buckets and feed them nothing but left-over pizza and Tab. That way, I'm sure we could get at few months of work out of them at least!