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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Wish I could share more, but we are still hard at work every day on DW2 getting it ready for testing. Good things come to those who wait. [8D]

https://youtu.be/dfe8tCcHnKY

What does Zarathustra have to do with Boskaran expansionism? [&:]

Edit:
Oh, nevermind, the missing link is clearly ancient Iranien aliens. Obviously this is a hint that DW2 will feature Giorgio Tsoukalos!

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I like the idea of planet building. Research the first rocket and so forth....GP
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I also loved the pre-warp start in MOO2 but anything more involved than that would land us in Cracktorio and we all know how that goes....and goes...and goes....

Wow, I can't believe how many years it's been watching this thread. Cue Tom Petty:The waiting is the hardest part...

Hey Data, great to see you're still here (suffering with the rest of us [:D]). You've been a great DW resource. Much appreciated.

Glad to help and don't call it suffering. Like Erik said, good things come to those who can hold it [:D]

Haha, yeah, it's really not that bad. I'm no stranger to long waits. I've waited years for all sorts of games, in some cases decades (Warhammer, Battletech). The JTCS from Matrix Games was one of my favourites and East Front 2 has been a long time coming. Then there's the remaster of the Bard's Tale Trilogy which is about 30 years overdue.

That said, none of those games can scratch my space 4x itch. Despite all it's flaws, DW is the pinnacle of the genre and I can't blame anyone for getting a little ancy.

As long as the wait isn't like the MOO 3 fiasco. Talk about a grown man crying. In fairness Quicksilver never had the passion of the original developer Simtex. Glad Erik is continuing with DW2.

I have been wishing the next part since I began to play at 2015, and I had hope than the game would come out this year, but now my bet is late 2019 or 2020.

So I checkout this post from time to time, but I watched "Heroic Age" this summer and I couldn't imagine how cool and how much I want the next game

PS: The battle OST from the anime is awesome for playing DW:U

Another year and another check of the forum.

I do worry the lack of news will hinder in the long run, building a little anticipation with a few snippets of info wouldn't hurt. [&o]

FWIW, at least he's still posting?

I have to admit, I despise the pay-to-get-into-beta thing that's become usual in the MMO market, but I have to say I'd do it here - I'm happy to pre-buy the game at full retail to help with testing.

I'm going to also guess I'm not the only one.

Considering how much I loved the original, sure I'd buy DW2 based on that (blind) and offer alpha/beta feedback.

add my name to the above DW2 "blind-buyers" list.

Dunno if I could go blind on buying it. DW didn't start out as the game we know today and it took many years of updates and expansions to get there. Not saying dw2 will be bad in the end but in the beginning it might have some teething issues since it is a very small production of a very large game. I have faith the dev(s) will get it right though. [8D]

I couldn't wait for MOO3 either and I wish I would've waited on that.

Let's not go there, MOO3 was one of a kind...fortunately.

Hi everyone,

The game is coming together, but there is always a lot more to do. We are still working daily on development, art, design and data together with our artists and supertesters and the trials and tribulations of life occasionally knock us for a loop, but forward progress this year has been truly excellent. I have learned not to give estimates, but I am happy with the team we have and the progress we are making. We have been staying close to the latest milestone schedule we set for ourselves earlier this year and I expect wider testing will begin in the coming months. When we have more complete art in the game and we've made it through the first wave of testing, I expect we'll have a lot more to share with you all.

Regards,

- Erik

Encouraging news. Thanks, Erik! [8D]

Waiting patiently. [8D]

I'm encouraged, I think. [:'(]

Thanks Erik! Even that little snippet of info is appreciated! [8D]

Erik Rutins,
Thanks for update. I hope DW2 will be easily adaptable for the current sets of mods without too much work for the modders. I sure would love to see an "all" button as in "Retrofit All" for things like resource stations that aren't part of a fleet. Hopefully it would be capable of stopping when it runs a player out of money. Also would like to see AI actually do retrofitting far better than currently, that would help make them a more challenging. I remember Worm Holes were a lot of fun in an old space game, enter in one part of the galaxy and end up coming out into some far away sector, if the ship comes back out of an unstable one.