AfterWorld Survival Forum

Now some of us that has played in alpha remember LoD (Labyrinth of Death) but for those that didn't play alpha let me describe what LoD was. When a newcomer became citizen they translucated into a noobot. at which point a global message went out telling all the players that a newcomer became citizen. They then had to go into LoD to get to Sar. Upon entering LoD another message went out telling everyone so and so enter LoD and countdown had stated.  You had 30 minutes to get to  one of the pads at the end of the labyrinth full of mobs and twist and turns or you exploded. Now you could travel this as a noobot but what usually happened is the new citizen had been set up to meet another player in LoD that was called a courier. They would pick up the noobot and try to deliver the noobot to the pad and if suceeded they would global and get a scout check.

Naturally LoD was PvP and when the global went out that a noobot was about;  Couriers raced to LoD. Battles ensued teams where made. There was adrenaline, excitement, death, team work feeling of accomplishment. and at the end of the run  people said congrats even hunted together after they had just tried killing each other. Now not all the time there was some bad blood between some players. But LoD gave players the added excitement that was lacking in the rest of the game.

I think this should be brought back in Survival. It sure couldn't hurt it. Survival needs some excitement in a very bad way.  I don't recall seeing anything about LoD from the devs in survival but I could be wrong. Just saying would be nice to have some fun like this again.

My pugio is getting rusty from lack of use 

Since I am talking about the future of AW I guess this would be the place to post this question.

We all know that game was started with the Torque game engine. Then devs decided to go and upgrade if you will to Torque 3D (which was almost in a state of not being in existence anymore). Sometime in the future the game will have to be updated to a better game engine especially if they are wanting to be a mainstream game attracting millions of people.  As I don't think Torque will honestly be able to hang on.

My question is if the devs have thought about changing game engines to UDK or Unity or some other engine and if so would it be better to make that move lets say in the near future than later after you get to the point where you think the game is ready for the whole world? Or just ride the Torque engine until it cant be ridden no more?

I think it is a very honest question to ask as the future of indie game engines are jumping by leaps and bounds compared to the Torque engine. So it would only be feesable to be thinking of the move and the impact it would have on the development of the game as we seen going from Alpha to Survival. with such moves naturally comes the learning curve of a new engine, coding problems, transfering of data, bugs and of course the main  one COST of using a different game engine.

Thoughts?

Went to teleport from Surgut to New Uruquay and game froze up.