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English forum => Development corner => Topic started by: Monkey sailor on August 14, 2008, 12:34:35

Title: Elbe is late
Post by: Monkey sailor on August 14, 2008, 12:34:35
Its august and elbe isnt out yet. In june you said 2-3 weeks?  :o Do you know when will it be in shipyard?
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: sadsid († 2016) on August 14, 2008, 12:47:47
Unfortunatly the moderators do not have a crystal ball there members like us
they have to wait till v-step announce it on the forum like they allways do  ;)
Patience patience oh dear  ;D
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: Penguin on August 14, 2008, 13:31:02
Latest information from Moderator Bottman (only a few days ago): Elbe will come by the end of August.
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: Captain Best on August 14, 2008, 15:32:07
Latest information from Moderator Bottman (only a few days ago): Elbe will come by the end of August.
I  cant wait until Elbe has realese :D
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: Bottman on August 14, 2008, 16:16:51
...but it's worth it... ::)
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: Captain Best on August 14, 2008, 18:33:10
...but it's worth it... ::)
haha ;D
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: Ship Sim on August 15, 2008, 06:24:53
I can. :( That mean school is starting back in less that a third of a month. :(
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: Captain Kool on August 15, 2008, 07:18:28
So this ship yard.. it's not REALLY releasing new vessels, only ones that have already been made and sold in another pack... it shouldn't take 1 month for them to upload a ship, they don't have to make it as they already made it!


Why are is VSTEP cheap?... it's why I don't buy 2008 :P
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: Bottman on August 15, 2008, 07:25:18
Hi Captain Kool, you are right, the last and the upcoming vessels are not really newbuilds. But it's not so easy to make new ship's with all details, dynamics, damage model etc. in such a short time. Therefor I hope, they are using the time to make pretty new ones whlie they are gonna sell the wellknown. Further I guess, that they are testing the success of single add-ons in general, before the launch of new and more expensive (according to the development costs) ships. Hopefully  ;)
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: Captain Kool on August 15, 2008, 07:32:37
Hi Captain Kool, you are right, the last and the upcoming vessels are not really newbuilds. But it's not so easy to make new ship's with all details, dynamics, damage model etc. in such a short time. Therefor I hope, they are using the time to make pretty new ones whlie they are gonna sell the wellknown. Further I guess, that they are testing the success of single add-ons in general, before the launch of new and more expensive (according to the development costs) ships. Hopefully  ;)

Sounds pretty reasonable explanation to me mate.. should wait and see :] Would love to see new environments in more parts of the world!! So 09 is expected to be release in January?
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: NathanC on August 15, 2008, 09:38:08
So 09 is expected to be release in January?

They say the 1st quarter of SS2009, but i think it's likely to be longer than that.
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: firestar12 on August 15, 2008, 14:53:37
I don't want Vstep to come out with Ship Simulator 2009 so soonly. I just got New horizons and i want a chance to use my game for a while instead of wasting $90 that it cost me for both of them. Plus the Shipyard's Furie!
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: sadsid († 2016) on August 15, 2008, 14:59:00
TO ME my money is not wasted when I spend it with V-step it gives me
 HOURS OF PLEASURE  ;D
                                          Eric
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: Traddles on August 15, 2008, 15:15:18
Months  and years, never mind hours ;D ;)
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: maritiem on September 07, 2008, 16:54:25
i think that this is the reason why the elbe is so late.they are making a new ship!
look at this topic and enjoy the pictures!

http://www.shipsim.com/ShipSimForum/index.php/topic,10235.msg120103.html#new


maritiem
Title: Re: Elbe is late
Post by: jumbo_nth on September 07, 2008, 22:25:18
Maritiem;
Doubt this is the reason as the Jumbo game was finished (more or less) before the summer period and also before the shipyard was announced. So Vstep could have announced the Shipyard later in order to have more ships available, I think the main reason is the holiday season.

I do know now that a lot of time is needed to convert ships to the VStep system. Altough we had our ship in autocad and 3dmax already it was still necessary to do a 'redesign' in order to make it sail smoothly. Building a completly new ship from scratch is a tremendous effort.
Also lot of different people are needed for the various aspects like wire-model, textures, ships behaviour etc.