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As some of you may not know, because it wasn't posted here, Avatar Creations (the developing corporation) is shutting its doors.
The one thing they will do before its all over is provide the server as a standalone application for players to run themselves.
Thus we announce:
https://community.sequer.nl/2017/09/24/announcing-the-open-perpetuum-project/
Please reference the main site's devblog for details on the discontinuation of development in an official capacity.
The official server will remain on, but with no clear timeline.
This is our solution to provide a persistent game universe, that we can (better) balance and create content for, in an open-source capacity, to ensure a long and growing life to a game we all know has the potential to be a great sandbox mmo.
Join our Discord and Forums!
The one thing they will do before its all over is provide the server as a standalone application for players to run themselves.
Thus we announce:
https://community.sequer.nl/2017/09/24/announcing-the-open-perpetuum-project/
Please reference the main site's devblog for details on the discontinuation of development in an official capacity.
The official server will remain on, but with no clear timeline.
This is our solution to provide a persistent game universe, that we can (better) balance and create content for, in an open-source capacity, to ensure a long and growing life to a game we all know has the potential to be a great sandbox mmo.
Join our Discord and Forums!
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The server has just been released and they are busy at work with an ambitious program to balance, revise and add new content.
This will take some time, but for those of us who have realized this game had so much potential and contained some of the best PVP we had experienced (a lot of us are ex-eve players) it will be worth it.
Unfortunately, they kept putting all of their eggs into the balancing act basket and never added much more interesting content to the game like new robots and new weapons and new structures.
That and they allowed a few players to get wayyyy too close to the development team, and those players essentially "special favored" their way into a dead game. In fact, the behind the scenes scandals ended up being more interesting than the game itself after a while.
These issues I know are also those that the OPP Dev team are very aware of.
In this way players will start from scratch, the beginning bots will be the syndicate bots (with some tweaks).
The world map and teleport system is being redesigned to limit the issues of the past . It will start small, but will grow.
The PVE content aspect of the game will be getting a lot of focus to begin with - including the addition of special dungeon islands with appropriate levels of difficulty and also loot. I will speak more about that at another time.
Right now they are discovering how the and what is changeable, it is early days in development.
Well I am glad to say that OPP development is underway. I'll give a big thank you to the Dev's at AC, and to Dev Gargaj today for further patching the server.
We have some talented OPP Dev's who are finding out how things work and we are now in a stage of beginning the development agenda with content, balance, economy and server teams all at work. What we ask for is for people to give us time to develop and know that we will release a public server when we feel the game and server is reasonably playable.
If you have not done so, come join us and contribute your comments and idea or just join the discord.
https://community.sequer.nl/2017/09/24/ … m-project/
Please find it here:
https://community.sequer.nl/2017/12/12/the-server-has-arrived/
The new blog is up and with the Official Server ceasing in Jan, the OPP group has proposed to accelerate their time-frame and release an Alpha Server in Late Jan. This will allow those that want to play to do so and also to test and give feedback on bugs and issues as well. More can be found herehttps://community.sequer.nl/2018/01/01/openperpetuum-server-open-pre-alpha/
https://community.sequer.nl/2017/09/24/announcing-the-open-perpetuum-project/
Still, A highly successful mech based MMOROG wold have been awesome.
It's really too bad.
As I said, I love the concept, and would love to see this game get a new lease on life. But I'm already playing a game currently. If something changes, or if there is a player run server that manages to hold a viable population, I'll definitely check it out.
https://community.sequer.nl/2018/01/18/test-event-announcement/
https://community.sequer.nl/2018/02/25/the-road-ahead/
We are going live Saturday April 14th, 2018, 20:00 UTC.
What you need to know:
If you don’t have a client – it can purchased from Steam
There is no charge for playing on the OPP Server
All character data will be wiped from the pre-alpha server.
The (pre-alpha) Live server will likely go down in advance of this time in order to prepare and verify the integrity of the live server (by 4/12).
The Live server will have the same IP, be publicly listed, and have open registration (but will now require email verification following our registration system changes on 4/8).
There will be no further wipes or resets.
If you have played and loved Perpetuum in the past, the Open Perpetuum team invite you to come along - you may find some aspects very familiar and others not.
We look forward to seeing you in game.
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Thank you all for a wonderful launch weekend! So many new and old faces.
We hit 100 players online! (~120 peak, will confirm after weekend is over), and stayed at 50 concurrent players in low-times.
A excellent showing by all, corps are already spinning up, new players are learning the game, and old players are discovering all the new features.
Stay tuned for more developments, news, events, and announcements! Thank you again for all of your support, as a player, patron, community member, and advocate for a brighter future for Perpetuum!
Instructions for anyone new:
https://community.sequer.nl/2018/04/14/how-to-connect/
And registration:
https://community.sequer.nl/2018/04/06/how-to-register/
Checkout the road map ahead https://community.sequer.nl/2018/02/25/the-road-ahead/
The Open Perpetuum Project is going strong with a new patch and further development.
Check it out – https://community.sequer.nl/2018/06/09/month-2-perpetual-progress/
One magnificent corporation (OTHERS) has taken on the much needed role of curtailing the outrageous power projection of the infamous PHM corporation. Check this out in the humorous ‘Chronicles of OTHERS’
https://community.sequer.nl/meta/d/75-the-chronicles-of-others/3