New Jumpgate Evolution forums now live

lol

A) spell it right if you're going to insult someone
B) in a world where Duke Nukem Forever is coming out, anything is possible

Can't say I blame ya for that comment. The first eleventy million times I heard it, I just thought "troll", but damned if I'm not starting to believe it myself.

I used to lurk the forums daily, always trying to find that new tidbit of info or pretty screenshot, but alas, you can't string me along indefinitely.

I've stopped lurking long ago, and have essentially scratched it off my watch list, but I will say, you can bet that the day when (if) this game is finally released, I'll be first in line to pick up a copy.

I want a space sim MMO:

1. where you sit in the cockpit of most ships.
2. Where co-op ships exist (larger ships that utilize gunners and such)
3. Where capitol ships need serious co-op to operate (think guys in the engine room, navigators, gunners, captain, etc...)
4. Where guilds/players own starbases and can set their own laws, build defenses, etc... (basically player towns really)
5. Sandbox gameplay - but also clear goals within the game.

This post is probably closer to the truth than anyone from Netdevil will likely ever admit.

Well seeing as how the new Jumpgate Evolution is nothing like its prior two versions and has exactly nothing except setting / story in common with the first JG. I can't really see how a clean slate could be anything but a good thing.

This new JGE is nothing like what was talked about with the past JGE. The one where missions where dynamic and NPCs could be seen running cargo between stations and a player or another NPC could attack them at any time and a mission would be generated to defend the cargo runner or help destroy him. The JGE that had an amazing crafting / economy model. Thats all long gone with this new version of JGE.

The new JGE is a arcade space shooter that has virtually no crafting and nothing outside of running PVE missions and/or instanced space pvp combat. Most PVP will take place inside of an arena type instance area where your objects are clear cut. Rather its kill all of the enemy team, defend an objective, capture an objective its all going to be alot of the same old same old we seen in our current fantasy RPG MMOs.

It's sad that the original JGE goal / vision was scrapped because there engine / lack of resources could not handle it. But I guess atleast we have Black Prophecy to fall back on. Seems like its going to be the closest thing to a realtime space combat Eve that we will get for some time.