Executive Producer of Jumpgate Evolution gives information on game's status

This game is twitch-based combat with either 1st person view from cockpit or 3rd person view behind the ship. Newtonian physics I also believe (confirm anyone?).

You actually get to fly and 'fight' your space craft unlike the point and click dice rolling crap that is Eve.

And unlike that Abortion Freelancer - you will need a Joystick.

I've got halfa right now.....might see if I can get Wing Commander running on my Win7 x64 box and X-52.....

Real Newtonian physics and Real Space combat - whats not to love?

What was wrong with freelancer?

And you will not need a joystick, infact, if you look at a lot of the vids, you'll see that he was a mouse. You can used either. I think at oone point I saw someone use a mouse and the throttle side of a saitek x-45 .

Taikodomo looks good as well

But JGE will be pretty damned good as well...eventually ;)

I lke the look of BP more, but I was looking forward to the open world of JGE. It's still not clear how much open world interaction there will be with BP. But they are in beta. Maybe they will have a lot to say at E3.

Actually BP lets you jump from anywhere, but there is a one minute countdown. I don't know what they are doing about the jump in. I'll have to hit the forum and bring that up.

I'll even credit you.

This i think is a perfect solution to the whole bottle neck issue. There would have to be a cool down time after, and a spin up time before, you jump. Also give players the ability to scan for ships in their nearby area so people cannot just go out, hide, and feel safe.

I can't see how you read that. They pulled back to fix what they thought was broken. The game wasn't meeting standards and they took the smart road and stopped the release to fix it, not just rip out parts and release it unfinished AND bad. What kind of sense does that even begin to make?

... because it's what the article said. They wanted to add depth to the basic space combat game, they couldn't make it work, so they started cutting content. I don't see anywhere that he mentions ADDING anything... just the cuts.

Well I just reread the entire forum post and I still walk away with the impression that they had stuff in there that ddn't work. Only a select few ppl know what those things are and I doubt you or anybody reading this is one of them. The only thing we know they took out is the battlespace that from all accounts no one was really a fan of. So before I start worrying about how much less is in the game I'm goign to actually see what is in the game.

If they want to "completely overhaul JGE’s game systems, while also refocusing specifically on the game play experience" that's fine by me. I guess, if I read only words and don't put any thought behind them then yes they are going to "throw away what didn’t work." But I don't know if that make the game less when they are also going to "only keep and improve" what did work.

Guess it's all how you choose to read it. You're welcome to be less excited than you have been for the past year of not knowing anything about the status.