Greetings Fellow Avatars!
Back in December, Starr Long (aka Darkstarr), posted a survey in the SotA Dev+ Forums about making all Add-On Store items and Pledge Rewards available to be earned or crafted in-game in Single Player Offline Mode. We believe this will greatly increase the quality and value of the basic game experience in single player offline mode.
There are currently 91% “Yes” votes out of the 580 responses from the Dev+ poll. Based on feedback in that thread, we feel it is important to poll our entire backer community. Please follow this link to the Public Forum Survey post and cast your vote.
Below is the full content of Starr’s public forum survey post:
POLL: All Content Available in Offline Mode?
Back in February 2015 I posted about some unique items related to Single Player Offline. Item #4 of that post stated the following:
- Content: There are a few items that we are not going to sell in game in Online mode including the Castle and Keep sized lots. However we do plan to make those available in Offline mode along with a handful of other items yet to be finalized.
After reading about how negatively many backers (and external folks as well) view our Pledge structure and Add On Store we thought a powerful gesture would be to make ALL content available in Offline mode including ALL add on store items and pledge rewards. Players would still have to earn enough gold to purchase them or gather enough resources to make them in game, unless they purchased them which in that case they would start the game with them just like they do now.
Our only concern is that backers who did pay for the content might feel upset that content they believed exclusive was available to any player (even if only in offline mode).
Last month I started a poll in Dev+ to get some initial reaction from the group with the “most to lose”. That poll is currently standing at over 90% positive, so at the request of several Dev+ backers we have decided to expand the poll to ALL our backers (here). Thank you in advance for participating.
Notes:
- Earned/Crafted: As mentioned above all these item will have to be crafted or purchased with gold. The bigger items like LotM house will only be affordable after many, many hours of play. You will NOT just get them all at the start, unless you purchased them. That is the purchase value in offline: you start with items everyone else has to earn.
- Offline Firewalled: Offline mode has ZERO connectivity to online modes. Nothing can move between the two modes.
- Online only items: Some items have functionality that is only useful in online mode (ex. Fyndoro’s Tablet, Noble Discourse Orb, etc.). In most cases these items will be reduced to non-functional decorations but in a few cases we will try to make an offline function.
- Hacking: In Offline mode hackers will create mods that unlock all the content anyway
I voted no, because my Only concern was that We all know that Cheaters/Hackers will try there hardest to once getting these items will try just as hard to gain access to the Online version, thus ruining the game play for those whom have paid to get these items.
Offline and online modes are not connected. Offline will be stored on your personal computer where the online versions Portalarium controlls.
I would be surprised if more than 2% of the sota population played the offline mode anyways, most likely people who have wonky isp.
In no time there will be crystal sword dupes mods and god mod mod hacks **offline mode**
Oh ya, I can figure someone with 100+ crystal swords whom kill everything that walks or crawls near them.