RIP Next Island?

It may be in the cards that MA will have to take over the planet, but I don't see it as a negative, I see it is as a possitive. For one, MA won't let this planet die. They will put some sweat equity into it and then sell it off at a better price. Of course this is only my conjectures, but I believe it to true. It only makes sense for buisness and financially. There is one part of me that hopes that David could make this work.

I would still love to be able to buy this planet for myself, not to get rich but for the love of the game. Maybe I can loot it off of a papoo or something!! :)

 

Just noticed something else.. the smilies aren't working??

 

Yeah my interweb went down when I posted it so it didn't show up untill later. :)

 

Merow :,-(...

I sure hope something good come for NI soon

 

I dont know who the reliable source is , but there is planet partner content released for Next Island this VU...who has spoken to David Post lately here ?

You aware someone impersonated David Post on his his twitter account saying these rumors, but david post has said strictly on the record that Next Island is currently in Media Blackout and any so called official information unless from David Post or a Mindark administrator directly should be treated with a grain of salt. Some people are saying Mindark have taken control of Next Island, wheres the proof, cant quote reliable source unless it is post himself or a adminstrator from Mindark please dont sever NI's reputation and im very upset that EP has taken this stance in this manner.

 

NI got an update? I think I saw a small update for it..small enough I'm hoping that the new dropped items have not been removed. I was told that these items were in error and could be removed...so the question is..have they?

 

Can't follow the link to the EP article.

Have been too sad about NI to check this site, for some time.

I agree, would be wonderful if only David Post could bring his dream to fruition. It's such a lovely dream, and nobody else will share quite the same vision, will they?

Sad thing is that the NI team (having made some admittedly awful blunders) were beginning to come up with some really nice content, and starting to get the hang of the EU environment. Things were really looking up for a little while, and the doomsday merchants were getting ready to eat their hats. If a new team comes, will we have to wait, and put up with all kinds of horrors, whilsr they go through the same learning curve all over again?

jay :(

 

If anything I'm hoping David dropped the old developers in hopes to find better ones. He did let them go about the time they put in a lot of work to put out yet one more crystal and not really fix anything. But a lot of what they tried to do at the end was just killing David's idea of the planet and was VERY good that they were let go. I am still in hopes that David can get new developers or sale it soon so they can roll the planet back a few VUs before they made a mess of it -- keeping the items of course. As the planet stands now, ND side looks a lot better now where their side looks like the dark ages with the darkening of the graphics all around.

 

I have to agree with you Oz, and it would be nice to have the old Crystal Center back with the tropical feel to it, because that's what the planet is mostly about, a tropical paradise with the opportunity to time travel. The current Crystal Center just looks to mechanical to me - WAY too much metal, and not the true tropical ambience it had before.

Hopefully something good will come of this, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

 

I hope so as well!! :(

 

And to put a positive to this, it just makes since that David did let them go. I mean, if I were the owner and viewed what they did after yelling at them to 'DO SOME DAMN WORK!' I would have let the team go as well.

Picture David going live onto his planet. Getting stuck at almost all TPs, noticing that the planet seemed just a bit darker and the colors just didn't seem right to then find a new army camp that he couldn't get into the main building due to a AFK avatar. Then coming onto the forums to read that they were working hard to bring out in the next big VU of NI a new type of crystal AND banana! I would have killed the project right then and started over.

Yes, ok, I wanted the bananas...

And and yes, don't forget the lunch box homes..o yes, they themselves would have gotten them fired.o_O

 

Though the old place was good looking, it was a lot of running to get between teleporter and the "tents", and as there were two "tents" there was no natural gathering place. Advantage with the new place is that it's a relatively small sight, and though it's a lot of "metal" it's just the small campsite. Another good thing is that "all" of the NPCs are pretty close in a yard of their own. So besides probably the "metal" feeling it feels like a good working place.

Some things could be improved though. For instance I think there should be a "helipad", where you could spawn a helicopter or VTOL and not have to run halfways to beach. And the cities on Ancient Greece looks thourouly designed. And as for getting chewed on by boars at outpost, yeah it's annoying. There should be turrets covering the TP and "huts" (except, if there happen to be a spot like oldtime "Camp Phoenix" for sweaters - oldtime Camp Phoenix was pretty fun.) (One think I didn't like was that original timetravel crystal BPs were changed to one-click "new" timetravelcrystal BPs. I thought they were going to change into something cooler.)

As a contrast, I'm not that fond of the new servicecenters on Calypso either. They feel way to blocky, and having the teleporter indoors removes a bit of the convenience to aim for teleporter and land next to a building you have to run around to enter. If they wanted "stripped" outpost (without storage and auctioeer), then the old VU9 shopcontainers would have been more fitting. At least you knew right away when you arrived to a shopcontainer that, "uh uh, crap" (if you were a newbie without TP-chip lol). Accept at a few places, like Orthos, when there was a TP outside. And all the buildings that's just there to be "landfills" that you can't enter.

But at least the old place remains. Besides from thats it's been stripped from the "beginner NPCs" and the facilities in one of the tents, one tent remain and the TP is still there. (Kind of a pity though the TP was removed from TP-lists and had to be re-visited.)

And, well I'm partial here (having gotten a pair of googles) I think it was sad that the missions that were planned wasn't launched. Also that another mineral that would have been unique for NI wasn't launched. I think it really would be a waste of money and time if the new stuff was put in the garbage bin.

 

As a contrast, I'm not that fond of the new servicecenters on Calypso either. They feel way to blocky, and having the teleporter indoors removes a bit of the convenience to aim for teleporter and land next to a building you have to run around to enter. If they wanted "stripped" outpost (without storage and auctioeer), then the old VU9 shopcontainers would have been more fitting. At least you knew right away when you arrived to a shopcontainer that, "uh uh, crap" (if you were a newbie without TP-chip lol). Accept at a few places, like Orthos, when there was a TP outside. And all the buildings that's just there to be "landfills" that you can't enter.

Some things of these above I understand a bit, that a few outposts is crowded and more than say 5-10 people doesn't fit well into a shopcontainer. And the indoor TP, in a way it's cool but the developers didn't think through how (some) people arrive there. Maybe system could be recoded so that if you aimed at a TP, and you have enough skills to arrive within say 15m of it, the system will let you land in the TP as if you arrived from another TP. That would make the indoor-TPs and the TPs in Port Atlantis work.

TPs on NI have two small annoyances: First if you have "autoaim" active, sometimes you can't activate a TP you just spin around. And secondly, sometiems you arrive *under* the TP (squeezed in between ground and the TP floor).

 

Some things of these above I understand a bit, that a few outposts is crowded and more than say 5-10 people doesn't fit well into a shopcontainer. And the indoor TP, in a way it's cool but the developers didn't think through how (some) people arrive there. Maybe system could be recoded so that if you aimed at a TP, and you have enough skills to arrive within say 15m of it, the system will let you land in the TP as if you arrived from another TP. That would make the indoor-TPs and the TPs in Port Atlantis work.

TPs on NI have two small annoyances: First if you have "autoaim" active (I have to admit I hunt sharks that way they're hard for me to hit otherwise), sometimes you can't activate a TP you just spin around. And secondly, sometiems you arrive *under* the TP (squeezed in between ground and the TP floor).

 

Regardless about the reasons to kick all developers, it would have been nice with some direction here on this forum. Not the best getting information from someone from someone who had seen it on his (private) facebook page.

And if the mission ideas and such were bad I can't see the reason about posting information about it on the only place there is some lifesign, the twitter, as if nothing have happened at all.

 

I agree, we need more info from the man in charge.. and not from other sources. I thank those who have posted what they have found but I think David could do a small post to let us know what he is facing. :)

 

Well, if planned right they could have redone the old place a bit and moved items around. Not create a new army base with some sort of big pvp area in a very dark Rocktropia looking place. I like the Boar Field, just not the newbie area. Remember, this is the first look new users see of the planet to get a basic idea of the theme. Now, looking at the new area, is this the theme of NI?