Ayyy, Ex 2 is offitial now.
I will edit the topic to "feedback"

pls feel free to post any comments and feedback.
i got a lot of feedback fromthe excelcia community, but im also curious what the wide world out there (TLR) thinks of it.

Fjord

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Excelcia Mod Leading Developer

It's a good mod, it's got quite a bit of features which will also be present in the mod the Phoenix Mod team is making.

You added on nicely to the freelancer universe without totally throwing it off balance with extreme ships, awesome job. I also like the fact that you didn't go overboard and created 2000 mediocre ships but instead added a few great ships.

Again, congratulations on creating a good mod, imho one of the best mods out there (together with Total War)

Kabouter, Story Author for the Phoenix Mod.
Visit www.phoenixmod.com

hehe, in fact we threw a lot of things overboard...
vanilla FL was very unbalanced - we recreated some parts of the game from scratch.
Take the diffclasses or the encounters for example.

I'm proud and happy that it is out now. the last few weeks got the modding team to work on 100%. very very good teamwork. it is hard to find so skilled and dedicated modders.

There is still a lot to do to actually "complete" the mod, but im very confident that with this team we can make it even better as it already is
It may be hard for players who are used to standard FL to get around in the beginning. It is more complex and more difficult. But that's how my idea of a "perfect RP-spacesim" looks like. And thats where we try to go.

I will let u guys know when we patch to new versions, so u can see where we are.
once we start the major storyline (will be integrated in the mod and feature some severe changes, a lot of new challenges, RP and fun) it will be a blast.

Fjord

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Excelcia Mod Leading Developer

A storyline too, even more in common with our mod

And yea, you always plan more features, but making some concessions isn't that bad if you still end up with an end product like this. Everyone plans more features than will end up in the final product because either they upset the game balance, are not possible at all or just don't get finished because of a lack of time.

And hey, if you really still want the feature in you didn't have the time to complete you can always add it through the patches you will release frequently.

And I definately agree on the complexity thing, I want our mod to have a story people have to really get into (which it will as it's well on the way to completion) I want more sim type features. Your mod has succeeded in making a large step towards what in my view is the perfect Space game, and I commend you on that .

Edited by - Kabbie on 6/2/2004 10:36:27 AM

Just to let you know, there was a patched version of Excelcia released over the weekend and you need a new password to connect to the server now.
You can get the new patched version from Excelcia.org. Just re-elect the 2.0 version and redownload it again (it has been updated with patches and a new server password)

*bump*
edited 1st post of this topic for 2.1 release info.
i wil make sure to get a news post on the frontpage when its out so you guys dont miss it.

took a lot longer than we expected. real life interfered way too often but now its as good as done.

Fjord

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Excelcia Mod Leading Developer

well, 2.1 is out
i mentioned the features i the 1st post of this topic.

its good to see a full server again.

i will soon put together a nice news item for TLR and send it to bp.

check the link in my sig, it will take u directly to our forums.
the link to the Excelcia 2.1mod is in the announcements forum.

hav fun with the new stuff,
Fjord

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Excelcia Mod Leading Developer