Image Designer Archive
Thread: IDs and Jump to Lightspeed
KivanMontres wrote:Logicaly that would be doubtfull. Expect a big patch the day SE is launched. Logically the assets for the new species either already are in game or will be added to the game. While you may not be able to create a character that is of the 2 new species, you will have to at the least have their mesh's and data for the game to display the people.
The only alternatives in game design would be that you ither cannot see any player of one of the expansion species, The non SE client loads a Base Human skin in place of the new species, or the base NPC skin for thae SE species is loaded(logically it will be a speicies that has a NPC counterpart so a Base of that species exists somewhere on the non SE client)
Hopefully we will in deed be able to ID these new spiecies without JTL though.
Message Edited by KivanMontres on 05-21-2004 01:25 AM
One concept that may be employed here is similiar to the one used by PlanetSide before its expansion came out... Pre-patching the art content to clients over a month period so that the "Launch Day" patch isn't too cumbersome [both on the client and on the patch servers].