Giving this game a bump for attention. Someone pointed out Beast to me, and while I've never played, after reading a good portion of it, I'm pretty dead set on trying it out.
People seem pretty darn friendly too, so that's plus as well.
I need to figure out how to make a damned character. I totally want to play one of those really lucky people.
CG wasn't horrible, it was pretty straight forward, I think, beyond the point that I either misread a thing or two and having old habits when it comes to CG.
My only lasting problem is figuring out Lairs with Beast. It's just so abstract that I find myself having a slight problem with trying to wrap my head around it.
@RDC Beast is definitely not for thee faint of heart. But damn is it a great book!
Hello there! I am very much intrigued by the game, as I'm a huge sucker for the supernatural not bring a complete secret from humanity and all that, but I was wondering ; When would you say the active times are? I'm GMT based and don't have a great deal of free time, a day or two a week, so I wouldn't want to join up if I'd be the only one around, sort of thing. Are there many folks on pre-1am GMT?
@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:
We'd like to announce that (after I forgot the Coder said we should and I just didn't for awhile) NOLA is moving from OPEN ALPHA to OPEN BETA.
What's the change between alpha and beta? Do you guys wipe sheets or do they carry over? Are there new features available?
@Arkandel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:
Are there new features available?
In computer terms, a beta means a feature freeze; no new features, just fixing and tweaking the existing ones. It's meant to focus on bug-fixing.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Weird, for the companies I've been at , Beta implied that some segment of the general public would be brought in for usability and user experience studies.
Then again, we have people handing in final version after we've pushed live, soooooo ...
@Thenomain said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:
@Arkandel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:
Are there new features available?
In computer terms, a beta means a feature freeze; no new features, just fixing and tweaking the existing ones. It's meant to focus on bug-fixing.
In theory an alpha is when something is functional enough to mostly use but not feature-complete, a beta is when things are feature-complete and frozen to put into testing, where the focus is on bugfixes. Then you have release.
That's a great theory; it hasn't been the case for a lot of the software industry for years.
At some point "beta" came to mean "people outside the company are using it". Look at how often MMOs have "closed betas" well before they're done. Look at how long Gmail stayed in "beta". Etc.
Generally nowadays it seems as though "beta" means "it's not done but you can use it" and "alpha" means "it's not done and it might also explode at any moment".
a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)
Okay, Humpty Dumpty, you just defeat my dictionary learning with your real-world shenanigans.
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Needz moar warwulves
Every wiki link leads to a server configuration error. Just thought I would throw that out there!
Nifty, Allen is still there.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
Giving this game a bump for attention. Someone pointed out Beast to me, and while I've never played, after reading a good portion of it, I'm pretty dead set on trying it out.
People seem pretty darn friendly too, so that's plus as well.
