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Drachnyen
Cadet
Joined: February 15, 2008
Posts: 3
|  Posted: 2008-02-15 17:05
Hi, i used to play this game several years ago, back then there were hundreds of people online, on every server and it was a blast to jump into the admiral server and see huge battles kick of and be a part of the action.
After a while i decided to give the MV a go and ended up joining PB, we ran around as a small group taking plants and holding off much larger fleets than ourselves and it was mega fun even if i was in a smaller ship at the time.
For reasons unknown i left the game and now i come back and horrified to see soo few online.
So my question is, whats the game like now?
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Little Pet Slinki
Admiral
Joined: April 16, 2006
Posts: 836
From: United Kingdom, South West.
| Posted: 2008-02-15 18:11
On Life Support.
484 is due out in 2 Weeks™ and beta is constantly being updates with new content, Darkspace is experiencing a drop in subscription rates after this patch was found to be errornous in many aspects, but both staff and community has hung on to keep this game going, awaiting the new patch that should fix it all.
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GothThug {C?}
Fleet Admiral
Joined: June 29, 2005
Posts: 2932
| Posted: 2008-02-15 18:11
Games kind of...slow at the moment -.-
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fearlessjay™
Cadet
Joined: July 13, 2007
Posts: 93
From: california
| Posted: 2008-02-15 18:40
yeah like goth the games kinda slow and it maight be some of the players here that piss off ppl so much that they leave
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Demorian
Fleet Admiral
Galactic Navy
Joined: October 06, 2001
Posts: 3406
From: Charlotte, North Carolina
| Posted: 2008-02-15 20:01
Oh God, I can't say it.
-Dem
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Sayin Crowe
1st Rear Admiral
Raven Warriors
Joined: June 06, 2005
Posts: 75
From: Clinton, MO
| Posted: 2008-02-15 21:46
No real need. What needed to be said was already said, apparently. 
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Lux (Polaris)
Fleet Admiral
Raven Warriors
Joined: April 20, 2004
Posts: 835
From: Asgard
| Posted: 2008-02-15 23:02
Dem's always there...waiting....watching.
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GothThug {C?}
Fleet Admiral
Joined: June 29, 2005
Posts: 2932
| Posted: 2008-02-16 00:49
lol
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Mr tinkles anti wibblinator
Cadet
Joined: October 13, 2002
Posts: 435
| Posted: 2008-02-16 02:31
dem is always watching aye... then where was he when I went off the lobby hrmm... I think yall GTN are bluffing and I call your bluff..
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Drachnyen
Cadet
Joined: February 15, 2008
Posts: 3
| Posted: 2008-02-17 07:02
i see, a real shame really as i was looking to play the game again and to see the servers at such a low population is depressing.
Is it even possible for a new account to start from fresh?
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Little Pet Slinki
Admiral
Joined: April 16, 2006
Posts: 836
From: United Kingdom, South West.
| Posted: 2008-02-17 12:34
Quite possible, and happening on a daily basis.
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Drachnyen
Cadet
Joined: February 15, 2008
Posts: 3
| Posted: 2008-02-18 07:54
well I resubbed yesterday and jumped on the newbiw server to cap some planets yet I don't seem to have recieved any prestige, my account is listed as active. Any ideas?
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Russian Roulette with Muskets
Grand Admiral
Joined: September 04, 2002
Posts: 393
| Posted: 2008-02-19 23:07
Its in the "should have been rolled back the instant the patch was discovered to be a load of crap" stage.
Well.... we waited 10 years for the duke so why not for the jesus patch too...
Suprisingly, no other game so far tried to redo darkspaces earlier success so DS was kind of lucky to have people look back on it, hoping it will get ouf of that swamp of fail and suck in due time (before we die of old age).
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DjArcas
1st Lieutenant
Joined: March 08, 2008
Posts: 4
| Posted: 2008-03-12 06:49
That's actually a point I wanted to raise; I haven't played the game in nigh-on 5 years (maybe 4, maybe 6, not sure).
So I grabbed a copy of the client, patched it, paid my sub, and logged on.
It's not changed. In 5 years. The graphics are the same. The sounds are the same. There's no new ships, planets, technology, weapons or features.
To be fair, I might be missing something here - I never made it to Admiral before, and I'm a long way off that now.
But my question is - exactly where has everyone's $9.99 quid a month been going? It doesn't appear to have gone on game development, and the servers don't really need enormous amounts of bandwith (online : 35 as I speak)
What did I miss? Why has this brilliant game apparently stagnated for 5 years?
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Fattierob
Vice Admiral
Joined: April 25, 2003
Posts: 4059
| Posted: 2008-03-12 07:20
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On 2008-03-12 06:49, DjArcas wrote:
What did I miss? Why has this brilliant game apparently stagnated for 5 years?
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Because the people that work on it are volunteer. Except Faustus, who has another job coding for a different company.
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