Is Age of Ascent on a infinite set of delays?

IAMAGEEKYEY 2016-03-02 19:47:10 UTC #1

I don't understand this. Do you DEVs just keep adding more plans to the game before release?

I've been here awhile, and I keep seeing it delayed over and over and over again.

As much as finished games are good, I worry ya'll are over doing it.

PsychoRomeo 2016-03-02 20:20:38 UTC #2

What?

Are you expecting a finished indie game in a year?

Spp 2016-03-02 21:54:13 UTC #3

http://hanselminutes.com/509/inside-age-of-ascent-with-ben-adams

near the end of this its said they should go live 24/7 either this or next month.

Zebedee 2016-03-02 22:55:46 UTC #4

Where are you getting "a year" from. Even this forum has entries back to March 2014 and the project started well before that.

GM_thundercat 2016-03-03 00:05:10 UTC #5

What we are building is all very new and with that there is a lot of discovery through testing and refinement required.

Also we are dependent on other technologies which are also very new and experience the same pains of discovery and refinement that we have, which cause direct knock on effects to us. Some of these technologies have also been delayed for these reasons, for example: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/02/01/an-update-on-asp-net-core-and-net-core/

We are even improving the underlying frameworks we are built on to meet our high performance needs http://www.ageofascent.com/asp-net-core-exeeds-1-15-million-requests-12-6-gbps/

While we have been suffering from some delays; our technology stack will be better, faster, richer, more adaptable and extendable - so they game will be greater because of them.

Whip 2016-04-05 01:40:20 UTC #6

I can't remember the last time that I waited for a game... that did not end up getting delayed many times. The last game I waited for was delayed 3x over the course of 3 years (and it is still not released). Not to belittle your wait (yes, waiting sucks), but this is par for the course, for good games.

I'm the opposite, I wonder if it will be enough to compete. A portable MMO is great and while I think of this game as a sort of "2nd gen" (or perhaps 3rd gen) in terms of quality in a browser MMO, the fact remains that MMO players are very... very... picky.

Hopefully there will be some incentive for players to hype on the game, like earning Prestige in Illyriad. Because it is one thing to have an amazing game that can support 1000's of connections for a single battle, but it is another to fill those slots. It often boils down to good old fashioned advertising.

PsychoRomeo 2016-04-05 02:37:24 UTC #7

More hype != better. Managing visibility is important. Too much too early is not helpful, just like not enough too late isn't either.

Spp 2016-04-15 12:21:39 UTC #8

Unfortunatly it seems that the website has been updated before the update it said the following: Launching early 2016. It has now been updated to state: Launching in 2016

just in case some of you had not realized.

HeadClot 2016-04-17 06:42:10 UTC #9

I tweeted to @GM_stormcrow about the release of AoA.

They are aiming to have a public 24/7 by August.

Here is the conversation - Hope James does not mind me posting it.

GM_stormcrow 2016-04-17 17:24:12 UTC #10

No, not at all.

I'll be sharing some previews and explanations of new (including non-space-combat) systems in the Lounge over the coming weeks. Exciting times!

Best,

GM_stormcrow 2016-04-17 17:27:14 UTC #11

In the meantime, if you watch this carefully and freeze-frame at various points... there's quite a lot of interesting detail hidden in this video made by a couple of weeks ago by Microsoft

http://forum.ageofascent.com/t/video-microsoft-cloud-allows-age-of-ascent-to-handle-50-000-players-in-same-battle/407

HeadClot 2016-04-25 00:05:15 UTC #12

Looks like you guys have Multi device support working with AoA in that trailer.
That said will there be Multi Function Display (MFD) and Joystick support?

Allot of my friends have joysticks, MFDs, and Sim Pits.

If you support MFDs with at WYSIWYG style of Designer much like Helios.

http://www.gadrocsworkshop.com/helios

https://github.com/Gadroc/helios

GM_stormcrow 2016-04-27 17:58:05 UTC #13

Another great mention from the awesome Jeffrey Snover, summarizing how what we're doing is a bit "out-of-the-ordinary":

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/windowsserver/Nano-Server#time=17m00s

There's a lot more video and articles here:

http://web.ageofascent.com/press/

We'll certainly be having multi-device support for build-your-own cockpit and multi-crew ships; and we'll definitely have customisable Joystick & Gamepad support through the HTML5 GamePad API built-in.

Entirely configurable displays (from us) won't be there initially, though there'll be many preset customisation options to deal with everything from different input configurations through to specific types of colourblindness.

However, because the whole front-end client-side UI is built in HTML5, I'm absolutely sure that the more technically-minded players will build extensions to the default systems we provide, systems that overlay/replace the UI and controls that we (rightly or wrongly) think that the majority of players want.

And they're entirely welcome to. Of course, the best of those extensions will probably get assimilated into our default/preset borg.

You have to think of the front-end UI of AoA as something totally and utterly configurable....

Because it runs in the browser anyone can customise or change it to their specific purposes. And I'm sure someone's going to want to put in an artificial horizon based on the celestial plane, or a G-force meter, or... whatever. And they can, because the whole UI is open to the world.

Best,