News Powerplay launches today - server downtime warning

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Hi everyone,

We're excited to announce that Powerplay is launching for all commanders today.

The galaxy servers will be going down from approximately 15.30PM BST for up to 6 hours.

Thanks to everyone who played in the beta.
If you haven't seen it already, here's the launch trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWPhk5Gclbo

Change log on the way,

Ed

By the Time I get home from w(ö)rk I will have powderplay (CMDR opens baggy of powder and plays)
 
Great! Just when I was starting to earn a worthwhile amount of caps ;) the trailer for powerplay has got me dead excited though! When can I read more about Powerplay and the individual powers so I know who to join up with?
 
Just got kicked off while in a dogfight... this better be worth it!!!!

Just kidding.. I can't wait for the new patch.. I've been checking the forum updates nearly every waking hour for this!!!

This is going to be a potential 6 hours of anxious expectation :cool:

edit: Oh yeah!!! Great work FD.. thanks in advance for all the hard work the dev's and beta testers have done on this. Woohoo!!!
 
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Congrats FD, thanks to all the devs who have worked so hard on all parts of Powerpoint, and to the project managers who took our suggestions and criticisms into consideration.

Friendship drives engaged!
 
Generally they probably classify all the issues into categories like s
- Showstopper, cannot go live with this bug because it will completely mess up everyone's accounts etc.
- Serious - could go live with this but it will cause a lot of reports to come in.
- Minor - bug that will only affect some players or can be worked around easily.

Or something along those lines.... they probably then decide to go live based on lack of showstopper and very few serious left.

We call that Severity vs Priority in IT... normally Priorities are feature implementations.. and in which order things get fixed. Severity is exactly what the word means, how hard is this going to hit our product if it hits.

Nothing wrong with releasing, if there is a minor bug (as mayor bugs are already fixed in beta) it can be patched via Stealth patching.


Now since we are going life with Powerplay, may I ask when can we expect 1.4 ? And what features will we see in there (wink) (shakes head)
 
Quite a surprise! Great to see it released! Congratulations and thanks for the great work, FD! :)

If I am not mistaken, those where Power-specific decals that we could see in the Patreus part of the video, right?

Also, the portraits really, really give the Powers and their leaders personality! I am so happy to finally see some faces in this vast galaxy! Well done to the artists! :)

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