A good beginning I bet. I really love how handy wiki's can be for collaborative work on documents and various types of projects. While I will not hold my breath (Don't have the proper perk for that... yet!) for more information, I shall wait with great anticipation.

Yes wiki's are great for design as well as just about anything else you can think of. While there are simple wikis you can download and use on your PC, my favorite is MediaWiki the one Wikipedia uses.

In case anyone is interested, this page shows you how to set up your own MediaWiki on your PC.

http://lifehacker.com/software/wikipedia/geek-to-live--set-up-your-personal-wikipedia-163707.php

An essential link on it is dead, but you can use the Internet Archive to view it.

And, if any of you still don't know it, for a wiki about the Fallout universe, see The Vault:

http://fallout.wikia.com/

It covers Project V13 as well:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Portal:Project_V13 The Vault - Fallout Wiki * Fallout Online * Fallout IRC Channel * Fallout: New Vegas

Oooohh, cryptic numbers! These stats are meaningless though without other important modifying statistics such as:

Quarts of Chinese takeout consumed.
Average daily caffeine intake in milligrams by development staff
Time spent giggling, chortling, and going "squee!" over new ideas.

660 pages of nougaty fallouty goodness! Erm excuse me "project v13y" goodness.

No NukeElves or Rad Dwarves though? blast! What about gamma gnomes? Are you guys sure it's legal to make an RPG not based on Tolkien mythos?

Best of luck on the project, looking forward to more info!

WTB 'fly on the wall'

What about Ninja Turtles? ...

(Not the kiddie version but the RPG\Original Comic Book Series).

Don't worry about giving things away we don't mind at all.

It really looks like you guys are hard at work there, I admire your perseverance, Ive been waiting for battlechess online for a while now and I didn't know you were planning so much content for it.

Seriously though, thanks for the update :3

I'd like to share my appreciation for the info as well.

I'm really looking forward to learning more, and it seems you take an active role in this online community which is stellar.

Thanks
-Cym

Yay, good to hear it. I was worried for awhile since they have little over a year to develop it, and last I heard they didn't have much. I told myself they must have design stuff and things going on in secret. I guess I'm a genius.

This is the most pre-production time I've ever had for a project. It's nice. We've had time to think through a lot of issues, come up with some stellar concept art and really get a grasp on the project as a whole. When we transition from pre-production to production, it will mean we can spend most of time actually working instead of scrambling to fix holes in the design.



Thanks!



I was a proud owner of a first edition #1. Sold mine when the first live-action movie came out... couldn't bear to read it it anymore.



You can. It's only $30m. ^_^

pax,
-Chris

This might be a dumb hope because I'm quite uninformed, but I hope it won't require a monthly payment or premium account thingy... will it

Not up to me, I'm afraid. If I had my way, it'd be free, but these services require a lot of money to maintain (equipment, bandwidth/IT, developer's salaries).

There are pretty much two ways most MMOs are making money:

1. Subscription (usually monthly, with discounts for longer durations)
2. Micro-payments

Advertising is a 3rd option, but it's really hard to generate enough revenue from just pure advertising.

Subscriptions are still very common, but you are seeing more and more micro-payment games.

Micro-payments usually mean that that game is free but not all content is available to free players. Usually, items, abilities or game events cost a small amount of money. The overall effect is that players pay as much as they want to get what they want out of the game. Want to play a little, you can play for free or spend just a few bucks every now and then. Hard-core players spend more (usually even more than what a monthly subscription would cost).

It hasn't been decided, but I would expect that V13 would be similar to the rest of the market.

So that means V13 is probably going to be subscription based?

I'm not a developer or anything, but micro-payments and microtransactions wouldn't really work for this kind of thing. If it was a browser based game micro-payments and stuff would work. Please don't do things like pay $20 and get your own Vertibird! It's a real mean move, and normally unnecessary.

Totally unrelated, but since we have a Fallout developer here, were the Vertibirds pre-war tech or made by the Enclave? Half-and-half? I always thought they were made after the bombs dropped, but in Fallout 3 in a Museum they're prototypes, thought to be ready in 2088 or something. Was there any facts about them in the original games I missed?