intrepid_fox

Hello everyone, I'm really excited to learn about this project. Renegade is and probably remain the game i've played the most although I haven't been playing it for 5-6 years now. Please allow me to talk about my history with the game before asking my questions. I first bought a pirate copy of Renegade in Turkey where I lived at that time (the game wasn't released there as did most titles back in those days). I was really surprised to find that the cd-key was actually working, people who bought the game probably didn't even bother to try a go at multiplayer. I played with a 56k dial-up connection and a pirate serial for at least 5 months. Then the cd-key got banned and I found another from forums (it is actually a miracle to find two working serials in this way) that got me another couple of months. Then one day I saw Renegade in a box in a book store. I think it was one of the first computer game titles to have been officially released and distributed in Turkey. So I grabbed 2 copies and posted the serial to another forum (I'm not proud of using pirated copies but I thought someone would probably play and like the game with that serial and probably buy a copy if it got banned like I did). So the game always had a magical side for me. And as Wizard put it well, the excitement in Renegade's gameplay has never been equalled in any of the online fps games. I downloaded Renegade-X a couple of months ago and even played 3-4 games with max. 5 people in it but afterwards I couldn't find any other players playing it (I'm in France now). This is probably due to the fact that it has been around a while now. Including IRC is a great idea but why not make a calendar-like event organization tool where you can plan games, invite people, etc. This way people can follow the schedule even when others are not online. You can even put a game history where people can see how many players have played last saturday for example. This should encourage people to play more. I know most of the team's energy is probably spent on BD and the upcoming title but keeping the community and having regular games should also be an objective. Or am I exaggerating? Also is there an estimated release date for BD or even for the full release? [Not sure this is the right place in the forum to post this btw]