Just a note about what's going on with AVWW.

[x4000]

My pleasure, Ulrox! And thanks!

[Misery]

Well, this is an unexpected development.  I was wondering where the weekly update was.

Cant imagine what this new thing could be.   Perhaps a hint or two might be in order? 

[x4000]

As hugely tempted as I am to hint around about it, I have a good reason for not being able to for another couple of weeks.  All in good time!

[Madmanimalian]

I must say that I'm really bloody happy to hear about these upcoming plans for AVWW

I'm curious to know if this new update will coincide with the art revamp in November, or if it'll be happening beforehand or after it.

[Aklyon]

As hugely tempted as I am to hint around about it, I have a good reason for not being able to for another couple of weeks.  All in good time!

If I wasn't so distracted by the imminent Path of Exile minion fixing patch, I'd be slightly annoyed there.

Though it could mean that you're working on stuff that isn't really interesting yet too.

[LaughingThesaurus]

At a guess, it's going to be a complete overhaul of at least one game system.

Regardless, I'm not too disappointed in the lack of hint. Remember the tech support thread I had with all the errors that made no sense? I'm pretty sure that was my hardware, and that my computer's basically fried as far as gaming's concerned. I had my dad clean it out, though it apparently wasn't very dusty, and it hasn't crashed yet. Buuut... if you did like, have it available for release right now, well, I certainly would be fairly neutral to it. =/
But 2 weeks? New computer by then, probably.

[x4000]

I'm curious to know if this new update will coincide with the art revamp in November, or if it'll be happening beforehand or after it.

Some of it will come before, some of it will coincide with, and some of it will definitely be coming after.  It's a lot of stuff.

At a guess, it's going to be a complete overhaul of at least one game system.

That's a very safe bet.

[Aklyon]

So, going by that safe bet, this is something like the fifth time theres been a revamp of one of AVWW's systems since beta was available?

[x4000]

So, going by that safe bet, this is something like the fifth time theres been a revamp of one of AVWW's systems since beta was available?

No idea, but that estimate seems low to me.

[Coppermantis]

Well, the things I can think of that have been revamped are Health, Mana, Missions, Citybuilding, NPCs, Consciousnesses Shards, Levels, the terrain generation itself and Crafting. Probably more too.

And that isn't counting the times any of the above has been redone more than once.

[Aklyon]

Profession books were revamped back into the game at one point as well.

[LaughingThesaurus]

Pre-beta when I looked at older pictures of AVWW, the entire perspective of the game changed. Granted that was in alpha, I think, so that kind of change is doable. It's still rather drastic as alterations go.

[icepick37]

Well keep doing your thang, Guys. Takes me a while to re-acclimate with every big update, but I just keep falling in love with the game over and over.

[Panopticon]

The revisions to systems that AVWW has gone through is par for the course for Arcen. If you've been playing AI War for any amount of time this sort of thing should be no surprise at all. I totally welcome these kinds of announcements from Arcen because it means the game in question will receive an update that other companies would reserve for a sequel.

[x4000]

In terms of this update, I should note that it's pretty huge and so it may be more than a few weeks before we can even share anything on it, as it's turning out.  September may be really quiet around here on the AVWW front, but we'll hit with a bang with the first version of the new stuff either in late September (if things go better than I expect) or in early October.  We've been processing the feedback from here and elsewhere, and we're combining that with all we've learned in the last year and a half and working on turning that into something that you should really enjoy.