Elbe is late

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[Monkey sailor]

Its august and elbe isnt out yet. In june you said 2-3 weeks?  Do you know when will it be in shipyard?

[sadsid (†2016)]

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 

[Penguin]

Latest information from Moderator Bottman (only a few days ago): Elbe will come by the end of August.

[Captain Best]

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

[Bottman]

...but it's worth it...

[Captain Best]

...but it's worth it...

haha

[Ship Sim]

I can. That mean school is starting back in less that a third of a month.

[Captain Kool]

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

[Bottman]

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 

[Captain Kool]

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?

[NathanC]

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.

[firestar12]

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!

[sadsid (†2016)]

TO ME my money is not wasted when I spend it with V-step it gives me
 HOURS OF PLEASURE 
                                          Eric

[Traddles]

Months  and years, never mind hours

[maritiem]

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

[jumbo_nth]

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.