Evochron Mercenary released!

[Sunderer]

Evochron Mercenary has been turned loose, get it here.

[IronHound]

Already downloading, plus I got my discount. Hope to see you all online!

[Pinback]

Download it just not looked at it yet.Need to get paypal sorted out.

[cultist]

looks good so far :Dhope the feelsgood will last more than 30 minutes this time

[sscadmin]

Someone please do feel free to write up a nice review on Mercenary. I will get around to it when I get the game but playing in a unnamed closed beta of a certain space MMO That has currently got my attention.

[IronHound]

Ill see if I can't put something up in the next few days.Basically tho? "Nicer graphics, more of the same." Even the new role system was lost on me. (If you choose merc its the same as if starting in Legends.)I'll give a more detailed look in time however.*EDIT* After trying some MP, and talking on the forums, Ive found that 99% of the improvements are very subtle. For instance, your ship handles much differently this time around. Which makes combat a little different. Also, your main weapons are alot more useful then in EL. Before, everything was missle spam. Now, you have to work your enemies shields with your lasers, then switch to cannon to eliminate them completly. (... or you could missle spam. ) So there are some new tactical things to consider.Its something that you guys will have to try for yourselves. Its really hard to describe. Definately a step above legends, although I guess that depends on what issues you had with legends?

[Rith]

Will the price drop to $25 or is it going to stay at $30? I know it's selfish to ask, because the game was developed entirely(or at least mostly) by one person, but I'm kinda short $10.

[IronHound]

If you bought Evochron Legends you get a 5 dollar discount until the 20th.*EDIT*Hmm. Can't say I'll be sticking with Evochron, but the other posts made a point. After half-an-hour it gets ludicrously boring, even after mastering combat, and making millions of credits, I'm bored to tears. Unlike say... Oolite which is still rediculously fun.I dunno what the deal is. Its hard to explain.Still encourage everyone to try the demo, and see if its for them.

[yamo]

i am intterested in the common universe human interaction aspect. I am a miner...mebbe trader...i want to see if spamming a star system with trade stations impacts the universe...or at least the local area. some minor human conflict so far. People getting on each others nerves, grieffing, etc....hell is other people, non?

[Pyros]

Seems to be an interesting game, but currently the website seems to be mostly down. I can access some parts of it, but homepage and download one gets me an error page... :?I«ll wait for starwraith to fix this before buying the game.

[Shingen]

I bought Evochron: Alliance in 2005, and to me, the game hasn't changed that much at all. Alliance was pretty fun for awhile, but it got old really fast.

[sscadmin]

Pyros wrote:
I«ll wait for starwraith to fix this before buying the game.
The demo that is available for download is the latest version so if you like that you know you have played the most recent version of Mercenary.

[Pyros]

Darkone wrote:


Pyros wrote:
I«ll wait for starwraith to fix this before buying the game.
The demo that is available for download is the latest version so if you like that you know you have played the most recent version of Mercenary.
Well, that is the problem - I cannot download the demo. Following the link above, I get the following message:
Quote:
Unable to access this server to you at this time.If you believe this is in error, contact the server administrator via e-mail and include all of the text below in the message body of the e-mail. Monday 14th of February 2011 05:13:11 AM / 195.245.185.38 / Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.84 Safari/534.13
And this with with different browsers, systems, ISPs...Interestingly, I can access other parts of the site.

[sscadmin]

Get it here Pyroshttp://www.starwraith.com/evochronlegends/downloads.htm

[Pyros]

Darkone wrote:
Get it here Pyroshttp://www.starwraith.com/evochronlegends/downloads.htm
Thanks mate, but that is for Legends . I also can open the http://www.starwraith.com/evochronmercenary/downloads.htm, but as soon as hit the download button... back to error page. And no outside mirror on this one

[sscadmin]

Ops just saw that. Using the http://www.starwraith.com/evochronmercenary/downloads.htm and clicking 'Download the Game' downloads the game for me and I did a test download and it completed in about 2mins for me. Do you have some sort of plugin for your browser messing something up?

[Pyros]

I'm as puzzled as I can get then. Tried in my work PC with two different browsers (IE and chrome). Tried at home (completely different ISP) with 2 different PCs (Chrome, firefox) - and one of them is a "server" (actually a clean laptop with TS server running). Even tried with an anonymizer service. Always the same result. I could understand if the server was doing a system wide IP pooling ban (e.g. refusing all requests from Europe, for example). But I have no problem with parts of the website. The only explanation I'm thinking off is that somehow both ISP share some routing table that is being refused or broken... not that it makes much sense.

[sscadmin]

Here ya go Pyros a present from SSC: http://www.spacesimcentral.com/downloads.php?view=detail&df_id=379I uploaded the latest version to the download area for ya... enjoy.

[Pyros]

Darkone wrote:
Here ya go Pyros a present from SSC: http://www.spacesimcentral.com/downloads.php?view=detail&df_id=379I uploaded the latest version to the download area for ya... enjoy.
/hug also, good news - well, sort of - I got the answer from Shawn to the issue I was having - it seems there are partial site blocking to certain areas of the world due to previous piracy issues.