Not much but here's something to remind you about a plugin from the past called The New Republic. Originally concieved and designed by Kevin M Boots many years ago, The New Republic has been in the hands of many developers and laid dormant on many hard drives. I was handed control of the project last year by Kevin and, with the help of a small team, I began the long and painful task of working the bugs out of it. Then my real life fell apart. The most recent incarnation of the plug resided on the Hard Drive of Joeseph Burnette until approximately 1 month ago when we managed to regroup our Debugging team and set back out to kick some more bug-ass. In the past month, we've made significant progress but no release date is in sight yet. For now, however, just so you don't forget it exists, here's a crappy little web-page with some NR content:
(url="http://"http://home.san.rr.com/talcott/nrpreview/nrpreview.html")http://home.san.rr.c.../nrpreview.html(/url)

Enjoy.

-AJ

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"I live my life a quarter-mile at a time." - Dominic Toretto, The Fast And The Furious

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(This message has been edited by Soviet mikee (edited 03-10-2002).)

What was Kevin M. Boots's name on the old boards? I remember his name but cannot match a handle with it...

NR looks pretty awesome. Next time you have a few minutes (don't worry if you can't) is there any chance you can give us a few numbers? Say, how many systems, missions, and whatnot will be in the game?

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--ares
"The secret to having high self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met." -- Watterson's Hobbes

(This message has been edited by ares1 (edited 02-27-2002).)

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Originally posted by ares1:
What was Kevin M. Boots's name on the old boards? I remember his name but cannot match a handle with it...

When I was on the boards, he was calling himself 'Kevin M. Boots'.

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David Arthur
(url="http://"http://davidarthur.evula.net/")davidarthur.evula.net(/url): MissionComputer and the Talon plug-in for the original Escape Velocity
New MissionComputer 1.3.0 Features Escape Velocity Support

Heh. Time for a little vagueness...

Actually, I don't have the latest version, so I don't know the exact numbers; plus I have to let my computer crash before I can run Basilisk (it's a strange glitch somewhere, can't trust Windows too much), and I don't want to do that.

Let's just say it fills up all the ship and weapon slots (er, at least I hope all the weapons slots are filled...otherwise we'll have to add some fun ones).

And there's an appreciable number of systems tacked onto the old one, but not quite as much as, say, EVGE or F-25.

Lots of missions too. Haven't really focused on testing those, but what I've done has been quite fun.

New governments should be rather exciting. Some of them you really want to meet; others you never want to.

Yeah, that doesn't help, does it? Ah well, that's the best I can do at the moment.

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Mike Lee (Firebird)

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Originally posted by ares1:
**.. is there any chance you can give us a few numbers? Say, how many systems, missions, and whatnot will be in the game?

**

I don't have hard numbers at the moment and am too lazy to compile them now, but it's something like this:

New Repbulic uses all the ship resources, though some ships are carried over from EV.

Weapons/outfits are not completely maxed out, but there are enough goodies to do most anything you need to.

Systems - roughly double the number in EV

Governments - at least 5 completely new governments and a new sentient species.

Missions - still undetermined, but more than in EV. This is the least complete and most difficult part of the plug. Some of the missions are just fun, but there is plenty of serious work for a mercenary captain too - if you don't mind getting shot at.

Some new planet and station graphics, some new landing pictures to go with the new planets, changes in some of the old familiar places, probably some other stuff I can't remember right now.

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Joe Burnette
"I find that humans can be divided into only two meaningful categories: Decent Humans and Sonsofbitches; both types appear to be evenly distributed
among all shapes, colors, sizes, and nationalities." -- Keith Laumer

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Originally posted by Joe Burnette:
**
New Repbulic uses all the ship resources, though some ships are carried over from EV.

Weapons/outfits are not completely maxed out, but there are enough goodies to do most anything you need to.

Systems - roughly double the number in EV

Governments - at least 5 completely new governments and a new sentient species.

Missions - still undetermined, but more than in EV. This is the least complete and most difficult part of the plug. Some of the missions are just fun, but there is plenty of serious work for a mercenary captain too - if you don't mind getting shot at.

Some new planet and station graphics, some new landing pictures to go with the new planets, changes in some of the old familiar places, probably some other stuff I can't remember right now.

.

**

That's all I wanted to know. Thanks.

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--ares
"The secret to having high self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met." -- Watterson's Hobbes

Wow, some of those pics looked really cool. What exactly are you guys doing to finish the plug? Need help, I would be willing to help you out anyway I can.

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Some actual current numbers of New Republic resources - all subject to change as development progresses.

Dude
Max = 128
used = 106

Flet
Max = 128
used = 25

Govt
max = 128
used = 28

Junk
max = 128
used = 23

Nebu
max = 4
used = 3

Oops
max = 128
used = 52

Outf
Max = 128
used = 106 ( including Forklift )

Pers
max = 512
used = 222

Ship
Max = 64
used = 64 ( including Escape Pod )

Spob
Max = 1500
used = 231

Syst
Max = 1000
used = 212

Weap
Max = 64
used = 61 ( including Forklift)

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Joe Burnette
"I find that humans can be divided into only two meaningful categories: Decent Humans and Sonsofbitches; both types appear to be evenly distributed
among all shapes, colors, sizes, and nationalities." -- Keith Laumer

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Originally posted by rebel council:
**Wow, some of those pics looked really cool. What exactly are you guys doing to finish the plug? Need help, I would be willing to help you out anyway I can.

**

Okay. To complete the plug, we're simply beta testing what's already completed. Everything is complete. The problem is, we average about 6 new bugs every day.

For the time being, I'm not accepting any more beta applications. Those who are already doing testing are people who have been working with the plugin for the past year (At least) They know it inside and out and have a working knowlege of what to fix and how to fix it.

Anybody without that knowlege would problaby shoot themselves 10 minutes into the testing process and I don't want anybody's blood on my hands until next year

-AJ

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"I live my life a quarter-mile at a time." - Dominic Toretto, The Fast And The Furious

(This message has been edited by Low-Key (edited 03-04-2002).)

Ahhh.....when I first saw this, I thought it was referring to the "Star Wars 2: The New Republic" plug. I guess not.

Still, looks cool!

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Any vague idea on when the plug will be ready for release?

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--ares

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
-John Morley

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Originally posted by ares1:
**Any vague idea on when the plug will be ready for release?
**

Is "sometime in the 21st century" vague enough for you?

As AJ said, we are continually finding bugs, glitches, and inconsistencies that need to be corrected. We all are working around school, jobs, and other real-life demands so there is really no way to predict when the job will be finished. New Republic has been in development off and on for around 5 years now, a few more weeks or months won't matter much at this point.

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Joe Burnette
"I find that humans can be divided into only two meaningful categories: Decent Humans and Sonsofbitches; both types appear to be evenly distributed
among all shapes, colors, sizes, and nationalities." -- Keith Laumer

If I didn't know any better, I'd say it was older than EV itself...

-AJ

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"I live my life a quarter-mile at a time." - Dominic Toretto, The Fast And The Furious

Straight from the New Republic Bible, the NR Start date: August of 1996
Kevin out

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"You need to
remember something,
and repeat it often,
It's just a show,

August 96? Jesus... 6 years later and it is not dead yet. It must be awesome if peopel are willing to stand by it for so long.

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--ares

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
-John Morley

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Originally posted by ares1:
**August 96? Jesus... 6 years later and it is not dead yet. It must be awesome if peopel are willing to stand by it for so long.

**

Well, there was a period of time where nobody was standing by it, just walking over it and ignoring it.

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Mike Lee (Firebird)

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Originally posted by Firebird:
**Well, there was a period of time where nobody was standing by it, just walking over it and ignoring it.;)
**

Actually, several such periods

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Joe Burnette
"I find that humans can be divided into only two meaningful categories: Decent Humans and Sonsofbitches; both types appear to be evenly distributed
among all shapes, colors, sizes, and nationalities." -- Keith Laumer

Those of us working on it are all a little bit crazy (You have to be to work on a plugin that's been around since the beginning of time.) As for it's greatness, the EV community is the jury. The more I play it, the more I like it. And, the more I play it, the more I realize just how big the damn thing really is. It's also scary to be playing in the setting of the EV universe without seeing an original EV ship for a few dozen jumps.

The hardest part of debugging NR is most likely going to be making sure that all the VisBits are working properly. I've located one bug so far in that field and I'm hoping I don't come across another (And yes, VisBits are used all over in NR. The Universe Changes and grows as you complete various stages of the game.)

Kevin, Did you can the sequel to NR or is that still alive on your EV CD?

-AJ

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"I live my life a quarter-mile at a time." - Dominic Toretto, The Fast And The Furious

"Kevin smacks Low-Key upside the head."

What are you talking about AJ? What NR2.

With shifty eyes, Kevin runs away into the darkness..............with a CD in his hand.

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"You need to
remember something,
and repeat it often,
It's just a show,