Crossfire 1.8 -- Coming Soon.

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    Since everyone's really high about the upcoming new version of <b>Crossfire 1.8: Inner Core</b>, here are the changes (updated 18.3.09). Cheers ;)
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    <h1>New in Crossfire 1.8</h1>

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    • <b>Inner Core</b> system and black hole



    • 8 new factions (GMG Expedition, Ancients, Warrior, Savage, Sentinel, Dom'Setek, Dom'Nepesh, Dom'Razak) related to the <b>Inner Core</b> story
    • highly extended storyline based on many quests
    • custom NPCs including ones which represent the Crossfire dev team
    • Destructable Bases and Solars



    • New splash screen



    • New menu screens



    • SuperFlame Missiles
    • New engine trails



    • Battle dust
    • 40+ new cockpits


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    • 600+ realistic and very detailed infocards for Systems and Bases
    • 2nd licence slot activated
    • 39 new high detail suns



    • 10 new intro scripts[/size]


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    • New Crossfire intro movie
    • Alternative FL Intro included
    • FL Story prequel movie included
    • Starlancer: Sol War trailer included
    • 2 new interfaces (Blue, Green and Red + Orange and Dark Blue)
    • New clan logo billboards



    • <b>ENB bloom shader included</b>
    • Dynamic lights



    • Rebuilt Earth's atmosphere



    • Organic Station decks


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    • Optional particle colours



    • Fluid Space Concept
    • Screen capture option
    • FLMM activation procedure improved
    • Installation instructions included into FLMM
    • <b>CrossFire Guide</b>
    • New jump tunnel effects



    • Optional Vanilla Starspheres
    • Optional effects choices
    • 4 Movie options
    • Dynamic Economy added to SinglePlayer mode[/size]

    <h2>Detail improvements</h2>

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    • Much more detailed planets and asteroids
    • Higher rendered detail
    • Higher detail on vanilla planet rings
    • Highly improved Vanilla effects
    • New high detail explosion effects
    • New high detail transparent nebulae with real dust effects
    • Heavy detail improvements on both Vanilla and CrossFire content
    • Max sound channels increased to 32 (for 3d sound)
    • Detail improvements on Sol system
    • Simulated bump mapping
    • Motion blur[/size]


    <h2>Minor additions</h2>

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    • Flame atmosphere burn effect
    • DomKavash ass kicked and gone from Sol
    • New FLConfigDatabase
    • New ZLib
    • Hit sparks effect
    • New mouse cursors
    • 40 new Starspheres
    • Seltos Roid miners added
    • More than 100 coalition depots and wrecks added to Altair
    • New Navigation Maps
    • New Alien Organisms
    • New planet rings
    • CrossFire logo in Manhattan
    • New explosion for DomKavash ships
    • New weapon models for Phoenix Projection Cannon, Dom'Kavash Annihilator and Coalition Gattling
    • Redundant ship hardpoints to all CrossFire ships
    • Defying Gravity theme
    • 25% inertia to all Nebulas
    • Minor interference in Nebulae
    • New damage effects
    • Flak explosions
    • 20 new weapon models
    • 5 new missile models
    • SWAT-Portal Recticle Mod
    • Music in prison stations
    • 548 solar objects added to the rumor database
    • GMG research facility and Hypergate
    • Power and Communication satellites
    • New Dimensional Rift effect



    • Full market information about Stations and Planets (just like on Vanilla bases)[/size]


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    • Thousands of rumors about CrossFire content added to the bases of Sirius and Altair
    • Damaged Station cores
    • MP Welcome message
    • New clan logos
    • Atsugi Naval Shipyards added
    • Juneau Shipyard made dockable
    • Sounds added to the clan logos (giving a warning)
    • BG clan logo at the NY gate
    • 6 new engines with new visual effects added to Ships and Battleships
    • New Freelancer DataStorm warning
    • 61 detailed BMG infocards
    • Dom'Kavash Energy Relay Station
    • New planetary docking rings
    • 37 new custom planet models
    • 2 Ancient Stations
    • Ancient drone
    • Ancient Energy Cannon added and lootable on Ancient drones
    • Ancient cruise disruptor (NPC only)
    • VHF fighter encounters added to various sirius factions
    • Stationary Ion Cannons
    • 221 anomalies
    • Light flicker in X-3043
    • New CrossFire icon
    • Rusty Coalition Warpgate



    • Bremen holoprojector
    • Ulysses holoprojector
    • FLListServer support
    • Freeport7 turned into a warzone
    • Freeport7 station debris
    • 132 mineable fields
    • 5 Tradelane Construction sites added[/size]


    <b>And more than 55,000 other changes, including bugs fixes, code improvements, spelling corrections, balancing and additions!</b>
    See the full list HERE!

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    Hope the release is sooner now ^^ by Christmas it would be great.... as most of us have more time... no work, no classes, etc :D An we can feel it together.... also test if the new server can hold many players at once :D

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    Don't discuss with idiots. They only drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience there.


    This is ten percent luck,
    Twenty percent skill,
    Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
    Five percent pleasure,
    Fifty percent pain,
    And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

    So 1.8 is stopped and won't be released ?

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    Originally posted by hipogriff
    So 1.8 is stopped and won't be released ?

    Nah, I doubt that, ... so much work and then to be throwed on the wind ... I suppouse it will be stopped until the bullsh*t is over(if it isn't over already)^^

    x says: hi
    x says: I doubt we'll get CF 1.8 by the end of this year
    x says: perhaps 2010 Christmas
    x says: I recently installed [another famous freelancer mod]
    x says: It's great


    Thats the kind of messages I get recently in response to whats going on right now. For a good while I have been shutting up about all this but I think some/one need/s a reality check here.


    First of all lets determine what makes an online game attractive over a long run:
    -constant development
    -frequent updates and changes
    -incentives
    -a stable and confident developers team/person
    -something to be proud of to invite friends without the thought in your back that they probably wont have much fun on the long run
    -advertising


    Now what happens when this online game lacks all the above mentioned:
    -people eventually get bored doing everyday the same for years
    -people have nothing new to look forward to on a frequent basis keeping them tied to the game
    -people might ask themself if the game is dead already
    -people lose confidence in the management of the game
    -ultimately.. people start to pick fights in the community cause of sheer boredom


    In order to counter these consequences one has to address the causes rather than amplifying them. By punishing the community because of natural consequences caused by lack of something to keep the player's mind occupied on the server nothing is achieved. To the contrary it causes people to write messages like the one I pasted at the beginning.


    A recent example: The 2 biggest forces on the server right now are PX and the cops. Guess which groups got themselfs into a fight.. PX and the cops. Are you surprised?


    Trust always works both ways. The community trusts in the game management to provide them with a universe featuring long term excitement. The game management trusts in the abilities of his staff and in the community to be all hyped and excited about playing a game where the amount of achievements to be gained raises every week or month.


    An example would be an event with a 1 week duration determining who killed the most NPCs of [faction X] wrapped up into a nice RP story (invasion or something) in order to continue with the CF story on a frequent basis. RP is supposed to be as exciting as a book but when you read through it and spend years of writing your own bits and parts into and after it you direly crave for the next issue. So why not go on telling the story on a frequent basis? Just one of plenty ideas on how to make life on CF interesting again.


    Just imagine how the server would look like if new features+story of 1.8 had been implemented to 1.7 on a ~2week basis. Sort of like episodes.. The server would be filled to the rim with people waiting for the next episode while having the opportunity to add their own RP storys to the 2weekly-based story continuance.


    Usually I would put stuff like that into a PM but in the end it would have gotten deleted without reading as announced.