New Expansion!!! Light of the Spire

[x4000]

Ah, whoops.  I hadn't renamed that to Expansion 4 yet.

[Thumpy]

is that expansion more or less spontaneous idea? it comes as quite a surprise, i thought you guys were putting all efforts in alden ridge after 4.0 is released.

not that i'm complaining, but it certainly doesn't help my AI war addiction i think i played for 8 hours today.

[orzelek]

I would also welcome 3&4th expansion even if they are in "close" succession. Recent options with low ship caps got me playing much more actually. I'm hoping to get my first game to an actual end... 

[x4000]

is that expansion more or less spontaneous idea? it comes as quite a surprise, i thought you guys were putting all efforts in alden ridge after 4.0 is released.

It wasn't spontaneous, but in talking with a certain outside party they suggested it.  We'd been thinking along those lines, anyway.  There's always so much stuff that we want to do with AI War that we haven't had a chance to do yet, even after two expansions and 4 major versions of the base game.  Given that we're in high gear already for AI War, the easiest way to cap out the year was determined to be another expansion to AI War.  We know there's a market there, we're "in the zone" for it, we can do it faster than any other completely-new product at this stage, and it was a good way to "hedge" in a key time of the year and make sure we had another product out that could help us survive long enough to do Alden Ridge.

[Lancefighter]

So....... any details on the expansion yet yet? :p

[x4000]

Not yet, no.  We're getting through all this 4.0 stuff first, then we'll be more able to talk about the NEXT expansion, heh.

[keith.lamothe]

is that expansion more or less spontaneous idea? it comes as quite a surprise, i thought you guys were putting all efforts in alden ridge after 4.0 is released.

As Chris mentioned this has been bouncing around for a while, actually; it was a bit quiet but something like a month ago we even not-so-subtly sounded out the forum audience on how they would feel about another expansion coming out fairly soon.  Response was highly favorable

We've got tons of ideas to keep y'all... interested, yea, that's the word.  Really.

[Lancefighter]

aw well, I cant wait 

[Sizzle]

is that expansion more or less spontaneous idea? it comes as quite a surprise, i thought you guys were putting all efforts in alden ridge after 4.0 is released.

As Chris mentioned this has been bouncing around for a while, actually; it was a bit quiet but something like a month ago we even not-so-subtly sounded out the forum audience on how they would feel about another expansion coming out fairly soon.  Response was highly favorable

We've got tons of ideas to keep y'all... interested, yea, that's the word.  Really.

Keep us all...  [insert term]

Dying
Tormented
Paranoid

 

[superking]

hell yeah 

most of the AI forces are reportedly in another galaxy fighting some new threat; is that where the spire come in? or are the spire just generally cruising into the players arsenal with an array of awesome advanced fleet ships?

[Mánagarmr]

I'm getting scary "Reaper" type chills here...

[quickstix]

Makes me think of FreeSpace. First you think the Orion class is big; then the Lucifer turns up. Then in FS2, you think the Lucifer is big; then the Colossus turns up.

Every time a new ship turns up someone is going, 'Actually, this is what our REAL force looks like'.

[Mánagarmr]

"There's always a bigger fish." comes to mind...

[KillerFrogs]

but you guys are forgetting one of the best parts of these expansions...MOAR MUSIC  (although bigger are quite nice)

[mlaskus]

What I really crave for lately though is some kind of non-suicidal, non-static ally that actually develops alongside you while you expand your territory. Something like Hybrids but on your side.

Quite funny, actually, just last night I was talking to Chris about an idea very much along those lines, for the November mini-expansion   I don't want to talk too much about it yet as plans are very much up in the air, etc.

Hah! I knew I remembered reading something about this expansion earlier!
So is it going to be about a new player friendly minor faction?