When do you expect to go live?

Hopefully very soon. I think it’s reasonable to expect a release within the next 3 months, possibly sooner.

Are you looking at any options for publishing?

We are currently in talks with publishers and we are weighing our options carefully. Several well-known publishers have expressed their interest in Jumpgate and we are awaiting their decisions.

You can read all about the interview here.

Beta v.6.0046 - February 15, 2001
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-changed quantity sort icon in market
-fixed bad station/building descriptions in 2d Text mode
-flashfires still discoing people as if they were speed hacking, now more forgiving than before
-rebuilt Jumpgate to handle many more locations of space and many more users in total
-faction mission does not display certain items (displays a blank instead of a name) oct mission
-in game, "Octvius Optimus" changed to "Octavius Optimus"
-if MODx are mapped to the joystick, the MODx will no longer be used while docked
-fixed music at neutral stations (KH, EE, LL, GBS)
- /time will display remaining account time
-fixed mining lasers firing through asteroids
-thunder missile hardpoints in interface now match hardpoints in space
-fixed whispers to two-letter pilots so that you do not have to reenter the pilot name each time
-nearest target mode is fixed
-fixed color of AI kill confirmation messages
-reorganized chat colors: F1-faction: (same), F2-squad: aqua, F3-sector: orange (same), F4-whisper: white (same), F5-channels: pale green. System Broadcasts are now in purple.

This is definately a bug. Sorry guys, we thought it was fixed last patch - turns out it wasn´t. Next patch we´ll take another whack at it. - We´re feeling good about this one... nothing can *possibly* go wrong! :)

(insert impending doom/foreshadowing music here)

Good news guys. This should now be fixed for the next release so it should be a moot point. Basically do what you will to the client but if the server thinks you are cheating you will be kicked from the game for a period of time (longer once we know that this is only kicking cheaters...) If we know you have altered the client for any reason other than helping us test you will be banned. Basically it comes down to this. If someone is cheating and we know and we do not have an email from them telling us how and what they did they will be gone. If they have told us what they did they are being a very helpful beta tester. Its that simple. If you want to know if someone is cheating there is one question to ask: Have they told the developers what they are doing?

You can read the rest of the forum thread here, with Scorch's contributions appearing about 80% into the thread.