O2E, publishers of Scifi MMORTS Mankind, have revealed some longish term plans for Mankind 1.9, covering the gloss of the new client to the merging of the inner and outer universes. Initial work will include stabilising of the latest client with regards to bugs and such with the pretty stuff being upgraded on a rolling program, some ai improvments to reduce grind and a method for players to claim areas, with resulting bonuses. A major step will be the upgrading of the inner (1.8) universe to full 1.9 code. with the team giving their view thusly "this will probably not happen before three to 5 month as we want to be sure 1.9 is really working fine and stable".