Move Over POT Delays - Here Come Cache Box Delays!

Agreed. I think what this is doing is signalling the extreme shortness that is going to be the SP game. They aren't going to have a lot of content in it, and trying to find ways to retain players...with, this, of all things.

It is hard to fucking tell what is going on. When you say, all the skills in the game yet, where is the list of skills that will be put in as agreed on by devs for Episode one??? WHERE!?

Everything is too fluid, they don't explain anything to the community or let us know what is happening. The only information I ever had about what is going in and when is when someone asks for something on a dev chat and devs say "not until episode 2"

There was a list going around somewhere someone was trying to make about everything that was being pushed out of Episode 1. But it would be a lot fucking easier if we had a list of shit that WAS going into Episode 1.

Housing.

As far as skills, a fundamental game mechanic for SPO, FPO and MMO, here are the three hurdles that should be jumped almost a year before launch, not months before:

1. Skills Defined: Get them defined. What are they? What do they do? Even among the skills in game they are copy/paste bullshit from another tree. Richard himself admitted that much a few months back.

2. Skills Implemented: Get them working. Are they doing what they're supposed to do? Do they need to be redefined? Can there be more to them, or should some skills not be in the game? Maybe skills should be passive instead of active or vice versa.

3. Skills Balanced: Get them balanced. This is the hard part, and we've seen this release to release in the past. One release you can't beat warriors; the next, warriors can't kill shit. Of course having more of the game polished and balanced helps, particularly with PvM, but there's also things like arrows and regs to determine strength of spells and archery. Then again, how can your alpha testers accurately test and balance the game when none of the fucking stats are explained or defined, assholes??

This is going to be so much fun to watch explode into cinder and blow away like ash into obscurity.

That pissed me off, too. Where was it that Starr "defined" what beta and alpha were to them? I openly condemned them and their supporters for their talk about "pre-alpha", and I remember seeing something along the lines that Starr says they're in pre-alpha until they are "feature complete".

Again, I'm not a dev, but I have a brain, two eyes and can fucking read: feature complete is beta. Alpha is when the game is not feature complete. Pre-alpha is pre-"not feature complete" - also known as fucking post-it notes and a dry erase board.

It's all bullshit lol.

Bullshit it is!!

I read someone's comment on that not too long ago, how they said pre-alpha was on a black board or white board or some shit and I LOLd, maybe was you! Can't find it, the search is so shiiiiit over on the forum.

Probably not me, but I know I've said something similar, probably ad nauseum. lol

Since you put that in quotes, here is my "pre-alpha" version of you two at the end of the story.

Probably was. If it's under TantX on the forums, it was me (at least until Jun 23rd).

It kind of feels like you are right! Someone else just commented here, after months/years of complaints and revision they are finally getting to changing combat. But it is looking more and more like, from rumour, that it is just yet another half measure to appease people complaining.

I say rumour, because the community doesn't know and the information has not been released into Dev+ - the information sits with a handful of people directly testing with Devs. These people were selected from unknown criteria, but it would have started with cash. This isn't crowd sourcing, it is favouritism.