Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Thou hast been invited to the Release 18 Postmortem!
Please join us Thursday, June 11th at 3:00 PM Central (20:00 GMT) for our next Hangout of the Avatar! Richard, Starr, and Chris will be chatting about Release 18 and looking ahead to Release 19. And, of course, FireLotus will be taking your questions and feedback live in the chat-room and also in advance right here in the comments section.*
We will be giving some really awesome prizes during the 90 minute extended Hangout, and all you have to do to qualify for one is to come hang out with us in the IRC chatroom during the broadcast. As always, the link to the hangout will be posted here directly before the hangout begins.
Are musical instruments likely to make it into R19, based on their current development status?
Follow-up: Will there be concertinas? (squeezeboxes)
As a follow up question, what instruments are being added? Fiddle, harp, horn, flute, cello, drum, etc?
Will we actually get dyes -and- clothes in R19?
Like, really really for real?
I have a few questions this time around
1. Will it be possible in a future release to decorate keep/LoTM castle outer walls as there is quite a lot of wasted space otherwise?
2. We have all these great hats from the hat quests but nowhere to display them in our homes, can we get a hat rack, maybe as the final release reward before launch?
3. Is it possible to get the option to key bind the combat roll so you can press the key plus a direction key to perform a roll in that direction?
Regards,
Kendric.
Will Meticulous Collection be fixed so that when you are interrupted, the collection stops and you gain what you have at that moment, rather than having to start over from scratch?
The eternal question – Will there be a Wipe for R19?
Question 2: Is there anything specific you would like us to test in R19?
after R19 you can expect a wipe, before would be a big surprise because R19 is mostly a polishing release
Hello, any chance you could limit the amount of houses one can own?
I can only find a row house atm, I feel that people buy up houses and own more then one but I could be wrong.
Could you look into this?
Questions:
Will books make R19?
What will be able to write on other than books?
Will books ever be craftable?
***Question*** Will there be any new types of light source to look forward to in game for next release (electric, magic, natural, high lumen, low lumen, fancy, modest, etc…)? Or anytime soon?
***Question*** What is the new plan for R19 considering so many R18 deliverables were pushed?
Q: I think Elyrin is talking about decoration lighting. But I’d be curious about whether there’ll be any more forms of light sources for adventuring, such as lanterns or Sun Magic enchanted swords.
The combat system has seen some improvement but it’s nowhere where it needs to be. What other combat improvements are planned and if they don’t work is it too late to switch to another system?
I would love to see a deep dive hangout on the new combat ideas including stealth
Sounds like a blast.
Greetings! I would like to ask about the availability of housing lots. My family is also joining Shroud of the Avatar — will they be able to place the houses included in their pledges? Could you speak a little about the availability of lots? Will there be more good places to place your house, such as in Owl’s Head? Thanks!
QUESTION: With the delayed deliverables, When can we expect Crafting Skills to come online?
Including Armor/Weapon Repair and Reclaiming/Melting items back to natural resources.
We will continue to Role Play Blind Snails on the Overland map in R19?
Dallas mentioned a developer API kit in the Sojourner Tales Kickstarter Telethon that would allow the community to develop in-game games like chess, checkers, etc. Is this still a possible feature?
+1
Pretty please with a cherry on top!
Q: Are there any plans to add crossbows to the game?
iolo’s Crossbow is a pledge reward
We already have the Iolo’s crossbow. However, bolts aren’t available.
Question: Will you be putting more Mandrake Root in the game? It is still seems to be on the endangered plants list.
P.S. We have searched *all* swamps, marshes, and wetlands.
Try Verdantis Shardfall. I found a few mandrake plants there.
the east perenial trail and the north celestial forest both have mandrake.. It looks like a 4 leaf lilly pad with a little stick like baby sticking up from it if its not harvested.
Question: When can we expect mapping to catch up?
Comment: Please allow us to make our journeys of exploration more easily repeatable with a full complement of ingame maps! We are missing so many, and several of the ones we currently have are oriented incorrectly, making navigation via them virtually worthless.
Not a Question, but more of a Thank you to Mad Hermit for his helpful videos of the grand tour quests
Got this one too, don’t think I would have able to without the video
Question: I play SPO and many times I enter a scene and all the trees are already felled and they don’t re-spawn, is this intentional?
Question: In SPO I see many, many player skeletons left behind everywhere, aren’t they supposed to decay at some point?
as long you are SP Online you could get added to a scene where someone was already active. I think 30 skeletons can be per scene and every new one will let vanish the old one. But I think there is a decay tmer on them but it is at least a day if not more. They have been at the maze quite a time
R18 was a good step forward toward an engaging combat and PVP action, with Vengeance and everything. Keeping in mind that balance is not for these times, do you think that the whole idea of long DoTs (whoever can stack more effects – lasting entire minutes – wins) to be hit with a nerf bat into oblivion and back? TIA
In the Release 18 patch notes, I saw mention of advanced housing permissions later, such as renting and locking.
Question: Will we be able to let people place their vendors at our houses as well, if we choose to?
Regarding the quests and story, The Witcher 3 shows how great a story can be presented in a game and how multilayered and interesting quests can be. I this something you will consider or even take inspiration from for SotA?
Q: When is the next “Story Town” with housing expected and which will it be?
Q: Staves and enchantments and graphics. We have all these really cool melee weapons but what abut staves with enchantment gems that glow on the top… red gems for fire…blue for electric etc. When can we expeCT some Mage love?
Q: Are there any plans to remove the ability to change your suit of armor with a deck swap in the middle of combat?
With the creation of Gust Ball now making its way in to the game. How will “The Ball” be made available to Players / Teams. And from our viewers on NBNN will “The Ball” be Dyeable ?
Laz NBNN
Question: Will we be able to craft (some) dyes?
Follow-up: If we can craft dyes, will the possible colours or tints be influenced by which celestial bodies are orbiting overhead at that moment?
Will it be possible to disable the pvp player owned town leader board? I mean as the town owner, remove the feature so no one has it in the scene. You cannot surprise some one if they know you are in the area. In Role play how would you explain this?
Could you tell us more about localization? Which language is first or will it be several parallel? How should it work at all? We got once a hint from Lum about a tool you want to use, but how much will the community be involved? Is there anything we could already work out on community side to get workload off your shoulders like gathering people and organizing them with proof readers?
Very interested in this answer, too, for obvious reasons…
In an effort to save Port money on producing and shipping physical rewards, would it be possible to opt for store credit instead?
Question/Statement
I really don’t like the cursor when in combat or PvP.
I can hardly see it especially when I get hit with a flash of lightning, then I would lose my target and can’t see my cursor.
Is there any plans to make the cursor more visible or a different color during these times?
Question: Rapid prototyping can be a god-send in game development. Have any other versions or slightly varied versions of the current combat system been tested out while trying to figure out what’s fun and what sticks?
Example: Using Slugs as zero-cost, low-damage attacks while removing Auto-Attack entirely.
Follow-Up: Is there a reason why the team feels that Auto-Attack is necessary so people like me can stop asking about it?
Your pal,
Crazy Phil
Will we have a new gift when we hit the 7 million mark, or are we done with crowdfunding-based in-game rewards?
No question, just wanted to say I have enjoyed R16 through 18, and say keep up the good work. Thanks.
Questions:
Soooo.. can we still expect an asset bounty list “soon”? What you tell content creators about how the list is coming along?
@Chris: How’s non-magical stealth coming along?
Anything you’re able to comment on?
Would it be possible to give Groups Leaders the option to request Duels against other Group Leaders?
Currently only 1 vs 1 possible.
Will i be able to declare who can write in my book?
For example a Family Book – i declare only my kinship members can write in this book.
Belongs to above Post: Guest Book also as example – all can write in it.
Question : For the appearence of the avatar , will it be possible to hide the helmet ?
Thanks for this game and your good work.
I’m not trying to answer for them, but I think this may have been asked before. They said something about being able to size up your opponent by seeing the gear they were wearing. Maybe…
This just in from a forum thread.
Paxlair and Vengeance. They are the same template, and just two different biomes (so counting for a single template in your POT template list), or two different templates altogether?
The answer may or may not upset a part of the userbase – namely the most generous one.
Question: Will there be a (hidden) “quotes” section in the game, full of funny and/or deep and/or meaningful developer quotes, portraying all of the (in)sanity involved in developing SotA?
I’ve been watching PvP combat this release and te one theme that is prevalent is: use a shield, use a flaming weapon, and use magic, I know that you are testing combat with a scrum.
1) Is there anyone in that scrum that isn’t using shield, flaming weapon, and magic? Or is testing just about how to make magic a viable pvp build and not care about the rest?
2) What combat changes are being made for R19?
Question 2 parts: Is there an estimate for when we can see gardening start to come in game, and is it possible to give row lots some growing space; such as window flower boxes, rooftops or any other ideas.
As a follow up question of interest: if growing spaces are implemented, will winterized cold frame boxes be part of the classification of growing spaces?
Question: Can we please get more variety of dances?
Question: Please I’m very interested in the type of fishing system we might have. Is there anything you can share regarding ideas on how fishing will work in Shrouds?
Will we see accessory items for our characters like Pipes and glasses?
Question: I’m interested in future character behaviors/animations. Is it possible to expect our characters to have and show more reactions to the environment, like being posioned, cursed, or ill and perhaps comments they make refecting the condition?
As I understand Fishing is perhaps the most important topic on the list today, will Fishing be available in all scenes where water would allow fish to thrive? And a followup, will alternative methods of fishing (ice fishing, nets, alchemical – explosion potions) be available from the start of when fishing is officially announced in a Release.
Question: Will root/movement impeding weapons be available in Ep 1? Ranged examples: thrown nets, bolos, lassos. Melee: man-catchers
Question: Is the respawn point for a POTs a selectable request or is permanently assigned to the primary entrance of the scene? Are there multiple respawn points?
Question: @Lum the Fabulously Mad: Is any intelligent creature encountered in Novia a likely source for quest information? (This answer seems to be trending ‘yes’.)
Question: POT build schedule was last stated as early purchases/largest sized to be first in the pipeline, and given the slight process alignment (for equally important reasons -showcase pvp city zone- ) .. when do you see foresee a return to the originally stated scheduling? (DLMBs applying all around of course)
Question: I found a dead satyr mage in Brightbone Pass. Any chance satyrs or fauns will join elves as playable races?
Questions:
1.) Do the Devs know how many Pledge rewards they now expect to sign, and as I suspect it’s in the thousands, have you made a start on them yet?
2.) It’s good to see the Devs crediting the players who named individual streets for our cities; have you used any other player ideas, and do you plan too?
3.) Fishing, yaaargh! (FireLotus MUST attempt a “yaaargh!” when asking this!) When, mateys?
4.) Only the total lots sold are guaranteed to be claimable at launch, but certain pledge rewards require a specific type of deed, namely waterfront ones; are there any plans to ensure all of these types of homes can also be placed, if so required?
5.) And to follow on from that, will there be in game purchasable homes, especially ships, which can use these lots; or is it Pledge reward only?
6.) What targets from the original Kickstarter do you feel you’ve successfully implemented, and which have been redesigned since?
7.) Currently, anyone who plays can be both a combat and crafting class; is there any plan to enforce specialisation further down the line?
8.) Cows; (FireLotus MUST attempt a “Moooo” when asking this), when will we see some agricultural content?
(1) What approximate dates are hoped for transition to alpha, beta, and final releases?
(2) When is the Kickstarter re-cap scheduled?
(3) When is dev Q&A coming back?
(4) When will we see Chris’ multi-page mega post on combat?
(5) Are you happy with combat?
(6) When can I upload my CoA image?
Question: is there some issue with my prior questions from last night?
Will the control points and other choke points in the game be open pvp zones and force you into the zone instead of being able to walk over them on the overworld map?
Will we see an option for changing instances within a scene that does not affect the /zone timer? Crashing and relogging into a different instance can be frustrating – especially when you are at an event.
Other instance based games have this ability and one that comes to mind is DDO.
Question: In R19 we will we be able to move our status bar to a position of our own liking. (the one in the top left corner of the screen.)
*Will we
Question: This one is for Starr. Can we get a Cannibal town?
Perhaps an encampment more than town (unless you want to go evil twist that an underlying secret of a town appearing to be full of normal people is actually full of Cannibals) Patterned after the WENDOL of Norse lore…..”Eaters of the Dead” Bear people and Witch Doctors.
Could be source of special recipes found on rare spawn Witch Doctors or decorative methods to preserve the human skull and/or body parts found on rare spawn Gatherers.
These evil ones could perhaps appear only during certain cycles of the moon/sun/planets as that is when they are empowered and can leave the safety of their underworlds.
Mountainous=Bear Worshipers
Swamp = Gator Worshipers
Plains = Snake Worshipers
Forrest = Wolf Worshipers
Jungle = BigCat Worshipers
Snow = Travelling Caravan of Lost Stranded Souls (ie Donner Party)
Or you could go the way of a Travelling Carnival of Bizzaro stuff…..including the people who run it.
At night they become Cannibalistic on last night before they move on.
Previous nights you can do various quests for “interesting” and “odd” rewards that make you think something weird is going on here.
Carnival appears in different areas of Map every month.
*watches Starr double hand rub face and head*
while beside him…..
*Sees Richard smile and expand waking dream thoughts on topic*
I love it!!
Question: Will there be limits to certain decoration items in one plot? e.g. only one fountain per lot to make housing look less ridicoulus…?
Question: With the introduction of the astronomical system, will players be able to obtain a wearable “watch” version of the moondial that one can set an alarm on when waiting for a specific event to occur?
Question: Will we be able to see depleted ore nodes in the future?
Questions: The astronomical system and date look great, and add a lot of personality to the skies of New Britannia. Will the planets each have its own orbit/rotation eventually? Will the skymap/stars rotate and have a higher resolution (so the spyglass will be useful to look at them)?
Also, I noticed that there might be an error in the displayed date: it seems to be one day behind what I would calculate it to be (assuming the cataclysm occurred at midnight, Jan 1, year 0, for convenience sake).
I know everyone love to kill and fight but when are they going to put something in for us poor Decorators.
It has been awhile since we have had much new to play with.
Twas a good YAARRGH, I be approvin’
Has any of the details of fishing been “fleshed” out we can hear about?
When will winged pets be in the game?