Is Empires dead, dying, or just on hold...

I started playing this mod when it hit 2.0 and thought it was pretty neat. Then the patches at the end of the year made me think that there was going to be more and more updates.

But as of late I have not seen anything updated forever. I have heard rumor that 3.0 is being worked on, and that there will be planes and other goodies in it, but 2.xx is on hold.

I look on the server browser and with like 30 or so servers running out there, only 2 of them are populated... and it always seems to be the same clans/players on all the time.

So, is Empires 2.xx dead awaiting Empires 3.0 or whats going on. The main webpage could use an update.

-=R=-

 

yes it could use an update, yes empires is extremly unpopulated for what an awesome mod is (heck, even insurgency has more), empires 2.2 will be coming soon (soon as in a number of weeks, maybe a month or 2). Empires 3.0 won't be out for a while as its pretty heavy crap. Empires takes a little longer than mod mods because of the sheer complexity and volume of the work being put into it. So be patient, and encourage friends to play the mod more.

Personally I'd love to know why it's so unpopulated.

 

I said and still say now that they should put it on the VAVLe/Steam mod games list. Hek it would take all of 5 min and is free. Its on that list i got most of my mods from.

 

I totally agree with hillbilly. Every crapmod is on that list, but the most awesome one, Empires, not!

LordRoy: Moving a game from the ep1-engine to the obox-engine is hard and brings up many problems that werent there on the ep1-engine.

 

This says some good stuff about a mod:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Making_a_MOD

Every time you made a patch, new people come.
And I think it's the hard learning curve that scares people away from the mod. Like you've managed to build a tank, just to get killed..

EDIT: Yea, upload it on that list, maybe Valve would see the mod and give some backup? Could always be a chance (they did that for Minerva).

 

The mod is just going through a slow phase right now while people sort out their lives in the breathing space created by 2.0. Personally, I would expect 2.2 no sooner than 2 months time, and 3.0 may take a lot longer...but does that mean you should leave? No, of course not. Just keep playing when you feel like it and there'll be people around - at the least, JPL, BSID and CW will always be here

If you are so inclined, the mod could use any help you'd like to contribute...whether that be from mapping to story writing. I think there are also some technical things that people could possibly try their hands at like modelling or animating...of course you'd have to ask the dev's about that :p

 

I'd be surprised (a lot) if Empires 3.0 would be ever released.

 

You just can't think positively, can you :p

Did you fall in a cauldron of depressiveness when you were a child or something

 

And now he got the FAILPOWERZ

Take COVAR MOOTANT HAS HIS FAILRAYS ACTIVATED D: !!!

 

first off, i agree with beerdude. Second off, I also agree with lorddz. I really think the steep learning curve scares people off, and I keep wondering how that can be fixed. But the orange box version is in development right now. So never fear.

 

petemyster: your not a tester, so don't tell people when 2.2 is coming. You don't have any real clue since you haven't even tried it.

 

Empires would have to be redesigned from scratch to make it simpler for newbies. And no, I can't be optimistic about Empires 3.0.

 

That's why we love mootant. He's always a ray of sunshine!

 

But this time it's something more than my usual whining.

 

You mean Bla Bla Bla Escort Bla Bla Bla Arty?

 

Post-Modernism makes it impossible for any FPS+RTS hybrid to be popular in this generation.

 

Hmm? If anything the simplicty of consoles and their respective shooters makes the larger population unable to comprehend anything more complex than halo...

 

That's why Battlezone 2 died.

 

Even if it has to happen again every year, with 2.0 you guys showed it can be done. Hell, I didn't even hear of Empires the first few times around, but now i'm here...every year we pick up more, 2.0 was just a good deal more...

 

The mod is far from dying. Some people sort of phase out between long releases of certain content that they are impatient in waiting for ( I phased out after 1.07 because I couldn't handle the lag from then), but now it's much more user friendly and stuff. I think they've settled most of the lag, and balanced server side and client side, and now it's on to new content, and then working out those things, and then the next step.

ATM, IMO the new content will be simply the update to OB. From there, it will be a month or so of general playing and bug fixing until everything gets going full speed on aircraft. I can see aircraft coming by the end of summer at the latest ()