We know what's goin on in the kitchen, but we don't know what's cookin

http://hackwars.net/node/744 <-- stuff tresh did for drac on bugs
http://hackwars.net/node/741 <-- stuff they are doing

I also share your anxiety kalibr, im bugging ttj and drac for a ETA nearly everyday.

I can answer some things as to what's cookin'. While Drac and ttj have been manning the front lines, others have been behind the scenes cooking up some new stuff for the game. Two major things:

1 - Top Secret Story Arc. We've outlined a rough plot for what we're calling HackWars: Act One, aka Vaporization to Reformation. The plot involves 10 major game events, with lots of steps in between each event to keep you busy. The first player to reach each of these game events will go down in HackWars history, as it will actually advance the story arc for all other players. ETA coming soon, but drac and ttj have done some great work speeding up the quest creation process, and I'll update this post when I have an estimate for when Stage 1 will be up and playable.

2 - More stuff to buy. Once I get the PayPal stuff worked out (ETA beginning of next week), we'll be introducing tiered memberships and game packs where you can pick up items like FWs, Scripts, Hardware, etc...while these options aren't for everybody, for a couple of bucks you can get some more firepower. We'll also be introducing a system called Fix-a-bug, where donors who contribute beyond a certain amount will have the bug of their choice moved to the top of the priority list.

At the end of the month we're going to start pushing emails out to the roughly 6K old players we've had so far, a few hundred at a time, so expect some activity similar to last Christmas' goon rush, if you were around for that. We hope to have things running smoothly before the holiday season (i.e., pound the server with a few hundred players for a few months before that happens), as lots of people will have lots of free time to spend playing HackWars. Your financial contributions help us move towards that goal, and your curiosity as to what's going on keeps us motivated.

keep hackin'
mc

Looking forward to all the fun new developments.

I understand how annoying it can be that there's rarely a set ETA on updates but, we'd also like for the players to understand that, this isn't a "huge commercial game" that the devs just rake in the cash to keep going. Even Johnny_Heart and Mecha_Cephalon develop this game on their "spare time" (i.e. they have day jobs, families, education, etc) as well as pay for the server fees out of their own pockets. If the devs did make a lot of money, then updates would be much better planned and have more of the developers' focus to maintain deadlines and such.

Thanks for the patience and support everyone! Hope most of you can just keep the faith in the developers! :D

...I'm still sending them money ^_^

The point of the thread wasn't an eta on updates though, it was more of a 'what exactly a the updates for' type of question, but I understand what you mean

I have been playing for a long time and would hate it if Johnny and Mecha couldn't keep the game up. They gain nothing from this. And they use all their spare time to improve it. The good thing is that they've got lots of supporting players and will at some time gain something from Hack Wars. If you guys keep it up, keep improving and make some good stuff for people to buy on store. You guys could make good money. First with that money you could stop spending from your pockets and start paying from Hack Wars. Then maybe start upgrading. Like better server, internet, bandwidth, ect. Then starting taking all the left over money and put it in your pockets.

Keep up the good work Hack Wars developers :D