Q1: How does the historic goal of allowing players to make the best items in the game match up with the new artifact system? Are there plans to allow players to create similar items and abilities to integrate the goal into artifacts?
Q2: Are there any long term plans to prevent hoarding of resources? The concern would be that the longer we have hoarding the more inflation will occur making it harder to balance the economy for new players, poor players, and rich players.
Q3: As a PVP incentive, can you consider making collected body parts have an in-game effect on the person you’re fighting. For example, if I’m fighting Atos and I have his hand in my inventory, could that give Atos a debuff to pickpocket me, and to his melee skills? Skull would debuff mage skills, Jawbone would make a person weaker, etc…Please consider.
I second Baron Drocis’ first question, early on one of the main draws of the game (For me) was the idea that the best items in the game came from crafters, the addition of artifacts as powerful as they are invalidates this idea.
macnlos
Remote Bank Device: how or can I set this up so people kindred to the house can use it but NOT move/take it. It needs permissions like a vendor.
macnlos
On what level are the rare loots dropping? Is it really only 5 Skull zones? Or is it some graduated scale based on difficulty.
macnlos
Please, please, please introduce some type of in game bulletin board (like in UO). Want to be able to share and update information with players and guild mates.
majoria70
and also another request for bulletin boards in game which give us an ability to announce our vendor and vendor location and request work orders for materials and services needed like gathering resources, request for crafting help like for a party need 20 tables and 40 Gothic chairs, need mercenary help to travel to Bloodbay, help wanted posters
Katrina Bekers
Same question as usual:
Q: What is the status of the translation/localization project? An appropriate platform has been found? Is the translation process being put on hold forever (aka are you pulling a TTON on us)? TIA
Yes, I’m unrelenting. That’s by design. I wouldn’t be here, otherwise.
Same here.
It seems Getlocalization’s SotA Project page has been freezed for a few months.
What happened to the project?
And I really want to know when 2 byte character languages support and Japanese localizing go live.
Duke Olahorand
Just wanted to ask the same question. Just quoting Darkstarr: “You have my promise that as we move into Q4 I will devote more resources to localization” … Well, I never assumed at that time, that this means localization itself is put on ice.
Roycestein Kaelstrom
Q1: Can we get a confirmation that brewery is coming this March?
Q2: Will the remote bank access device be available via COTO vendor?
Q3: Will we have a new POT template based on assets from Blood Bay?
Solazur
1.With the new themes we are seeing.. like the Asiatic theme, would it be possible for pot owners to select default row houses that matched the theme of their zone?
2. Can we get some cherry trees to buy or even to grow?
Q: Can you tell us in what scenarios ‘magic movers’ will be usable? voluntary moves between towns? evictions? POT wipes? Also, which release do you hope to have this to us by?
Q: There are still a lot of clones scenes, do you intend to unclone them all prior to commercial release? How much uncloning re-work will minor non-story scenes get?
Q: The new chat UI is a great improvement. Is this still actively being iterated on or is the current state where you expect it to stay (besides minor changes)
Q1: The new artifacts are a lot of fun, and will be fun “chase” items for many players. Can we get some numbers on how many were collected so far, and what the most and least common are?
Q2: The Shogun bundles look great! What is the next bundle theme you have planned?
Q3: The new conversation window is a great step away from MMO-style chat logs and toward a more natural player narrative. What are the next steps for enhancing this, and what other Single-Player Offline features can we expect soon to help extend this?
Lord Andernut
1) I saw Magic Movers referenced in Release 38 Patchnotes – how close is this to a reality?
This would be a great boon when changing templates or rearranging parts of a town (and moving of course!). It would be wonderful if a POT owner could move lots around and have things stay intact in the lot!
2) POT Roads (and other tools) – When? And will all paver types be supported?
I have over 200 Bone White Pavers in my POT as roads but ran out of placements at the 240 mark and would like to continue this theme. In the short term allowing a simple crafting recipe for pavers that makes them into 2/3/4/6 long lengths would be wonderful to conserve decoration count and expand towns.
QUESTION: The beginner experience for those new to SOTA is STILL not really up to standard. Is there going to be a lot more effort to make the experience from a new player perspective feel fun? (ie quests more interesting and not having them enter overwhelming zones too soon in the experience, not having to ‘grind’ to go through early quests.
EMPstrike
I think it’d be a cool idea if yall listed a few recent ideas and suggestions you have implimented as a result of both positive and negative community feedback as a bit of an incite into the link between us and y’all that influences development.
Q: Why don’t yallhave lesser potions available on merchants instead of regular potions?
EMPstrike
I mean recipes
Merv DeGriff
Q1: Will there be versions of ignite weapon for other elements and what is the intended function of ignite weapon? Just applying a DOT, adding damage per hit?
Q2: Dyes for leather armors and Paints/dyes for chain & Plate, is there an ETA for these items?
Q3: What is the airspeed .. no I just want to know when Yew will get an awesome uncloning job done o it too! (I’m biased, I live there!)
Rufus D`Asperdi
Question 1: Will there be a pass taken on the Instruments in game to make them sound more like they ought?
Bodhbh Dearg
Agreed, some of the instruments sound awful, and no way close to what they should sound like!
illusive_allusion
Also agree heartily!
* Bagpipes sound more like pipe organ (great for Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, but not so great for Celtic marching tunes at the front of the battle!
* The “improved” lute (remember the old one?) sounds exactly like a cheesy harpsicord (great for Bach’s Goldberg Variations or Well-Tempered Clavier but absolutely ridiculous for John Dowland).
scroda
+1
SmokerKGB
Question: Will recipe discovery be easier in the future? For example, I already know how to make an iron longsword, but I want to make a bronze longsword, why do I need to buy an additional recipe when all I need to do is use bronze ingots instead of iron…
Question: Will gathering get any boost potion for larger quantities of gathered resources? Similar to what combat is getting now…
Question: Will SPO players ever get any boost to exp gains, like the OPO group players do? After all we SPO players prefer SPO, but it seems it will take us forever to gain our skills…
amethyst25
I too would like the answer to this one (ill recipe discovery be easier in the future? For example, I already know how to make an iron longsword, but I want to make a bronze longsword, why do I need to buy an additional recipe when all I need to do is use bronze ingots instead of iron…)
Kalidorn
Q 1.Will the deed raffles go until room rentals become available or will they go right up to commercial release?
StarLord
Question: what are your plans for producer XP? Currently you only get decent XP from gathering which is mostly mining. Crafting gives you very little XP (E.g. mining ore for a dagger gives you ~ 2000 XP depending on nodes, refining ~ 40 XP, crafting ~ 60 XP). Crafting XP should be greatly increased.
Question: when (if ever) will you add new resources like coal or wax. I would still like to have them on vendors (e.g. pecan nuts) as a player market does not yet exist. In fact I would like to see ALL resources on merchants – these lazy native Brittanians are supposed to work too (prizes could be higher than on vendors, but at least there should be some kind of economy).
Question: how do you plan to include casual (new) gamers? My family did stop playing because of the high grinding costs. There is no way to play just a little bit (and have fun). I think lots of new players get discouraged within the 1st hour. My family would play again if they could start at a higher level (maybe 30-40 and maybe accept a slower XP gain to compensate)
InLight
Question: Is there any possibility of leaving the windows on our homes open instead of having to re-open them everyone time we zone out or re-log?
Question: Any possibility of being able to collect more than 1 bucket of water at a time? i.e. have a window open so that we can type in the number of buckets – maybe up to a maximum of 10 or better.
Question: Can we have some kind of chat log that will allow us to leave messages for players that are offline?
Rhiannon
Thank you for question #1 InLight. Being OCD, I go nuts every time I come to my home and have to open the windows – AGAIN.
AvatarGG
Q: When will the ladder animations be implemented? (Instead of current “magic teleportation”)
eagell
Thank you thank you for the amazing good work of the whole Portalarium team.
Q1: Can we get a confirmation on Expert Crafting Stations to buy on store?
Q2: When is 6 Skull zones coming?
Q3: Will we c more different mobs in the future?
Datendrache
Q1: Is there an estimated time for adding Player Owned Town Tools such as moving the default banker and town crier?
Q2: Is there any plan to implement player-to-player mail, messages, or some other delivery system that requires a placed house lot and a public “add item” chest?
Q3: Will there be a way to gain Dev+ access by either earning it through frequent bug reports or purchasing without a bundle? Honestly, I’d love to help out more but I no longer need the bundles.
Bodhbh Dearg
We already have a player run mail system…. Don’t want to make us mail-runners and postmaster lose our jobs, do you?
infernal
q1: I want to know why you allow for a paladin style of play plate/healing school but you don’t allow for a death knight style of play plate/death school because the fizzle is so high, it was somewhat feasible before the 2 hand fizzle change.
q2: if you get around to doing another pass on death magic can you add abilities to drain the the life from are minion and heal are self.
dakit
Q1: Can we get a potion (or consumables) ability bar, maybe 3-5 slots, smaller then normal quickbar. There are a lot of consumables (now), but I do not and i’m sure many do not use them since they take a quickbar slot. More consumables being used is better for the economy (both used resources and potential sales/trades).
Q2: Any chance the instanced dungeons (pretty much any solo/party scene/encounter) can be synced to character level? This way they always stay relevant and never obsolete, other wise it’s just like other MMO’s where you out level the content, essentially making it useless (and waste of Dev resources), effectively removes content.
Q3: Condensed recipe log option, maybe a list of recipes (still by category/sub category) on the left page and the selected recipe on the right page.
Thanks
dakit
Q1 Update: or the ability to use potions out of a bag “during” combat. Wouldn’t be ideal like the consumable hot bar idea, but at least be able to use potions as needed.
Menchi
Q1: Now that we can make glass from gem fragments, can we get recipes for making Glass Jars and Flasks?
Q2: Will Leather Scrap ever become useful? (Currently 2 Hides = 2 leather, 1 Hide+12 Scrap = 1 leather.)
Q3: Will the Rend combos Sawblade Sweep and Hamstring get 3 stacks like Rend?
majoria70
Will you please reconsider your ‘no’ answer to making sleeping in beds, sleeping bags or perhaps llater ability to carry wood etc and make a camp (future thought give resting bonuses,example 4 hour resting bonus from logging off sleeping?
Please will you include discovery and exploration quests to encourage seeing the world and continued exploration of the world and also an achievement system in game, things that keep players coming back to the game, even fishing quests, and pvp quests perhaps give criminal points as an idea?
Elfenwahn
Q1: Will you make another re-work on the targeting? Currently my healer/wife has serious problems in keeping me alive as she is always healing and buffing herself/an elemental despite having me selected with F2 and being in range.
Rosemourne
Preface: I own a POT that offers free full sized homes to players who don’t have homes. I do this by making the players co-owner and they decorate the homes / make it their own. This works well, but has two big issues: When the home is unclaimed for any reason the items are sent to my bank, I have access to all of their items (I’m honest, but I can understand how this makes others uncomfortable).
Q1: With the upcoming system to rent out rooms, will we have the ability to rent out the entire home as a whole to a player for 0 gold?
Q2: When a player has their room rented, will items be sent to their bank if the lot is unclaimed / tax runs out?
Q3: Will players be able to decorate the rented rooms/homes as if they owned it?
illusive_allusion
Seconded. I am eager to hear answers to these!
Vulgaren
Q1: Stables are scattered all over the world. Will there be the ability to secure your mount at the stables, perhaps to an interactive hitching post? These hitching posts would allow the player to store their mount by hitching it where it would remain (visibly hitched to the post in the world) until the players return. These posts could also be sold or crafted to players and placed outside of a home to allow players to leave their mounts outside of their homes. One mount per post to ensure many are crafted and sold. An “ornate” version in the crown store would be a nice addition also.
Q2: Can we have small versions of potted plants either craftable or for purchase in the store? Potted plants small enough to place on shelves, banisters. railings etcetera. Banzai plants would be a great addition to go along with cities and towns with an asian theme!
Q3: Will harvestable trees be expanded to multiple tree types instead of the single harvestable type at the moment? Various tree species that look like each of the craftable wood species are already in place in the world. It would be nice to have to search for harvestable species of trees rather than just looking for the brown top of the one harvestable tree in game.
Winter Dragon
Question about Deep Ravenswood: I did like the old scene, but can understand the change, it is nice too. But why did you need to replace a popular scene and not just another way less popular one (and have a Deep Ravenswood and a Deeper Ravenswood).
Sir Grant
Q1: In Single Player offline mode, are there other companions currently available?
Q2: In Single Player offline mode, would you consider placing higher end resources on vendors? For example, even as a moderate level player, there is no way I can survive mining gems or silver in enough abundance to be worthwhile.
Q3: In Single Player offline mode, when will we be able to purchase in game deeds?
Thanks for your hard work!
Brass Knuckles
A couple easy ones questions/feature requests.
1. Droppable gold into piles coming before retail launch?
2. I would request loging out in your house you avoid the timer countdown to zone your character out. There should be some benifit to loggin out/in in your house.
3a. The global cool down toggle between combat and noncombat bars should be shortened. After killing a mob I have to w8 many seconds to toggle over imop the system takes to long to reconize im out of combat.
3b. Please add a additional mini bar (slot) toggable on/off for my potions. 10 slot bar no longer works in combat.
Brass Knuckles
Ok I cheated with 3b. But its impotant enough imop.
Gamician
Q1: When will we know that Focus changes (Usage and regeneration) are pretty well set. Need to know this since recent changes for me have meant spending most of my battle in Auto Attack. I also need to decide where to put Experience points and what level MOBS I will need to fall back to.
Q2: When will we know changes to Fizzle Chance will be set? Since I can no longer reliably cast many Fire or Air Spells due to use of Melee Armor. Will Water and Earth Spells also be changed to add higher Fizzle Rates. Again I need to know what skills to pick and which skills to now get rid of after having spent millions of EXP on them.
I am presently just building my Adventure Experience pool as best I can at a much slower pace, but have no idea what skills to put these in until these issues are decided. I do not want to waste any more Experience Points on things that will change in the near future.
Trevour
Q1 : Archers and Mages are deadly. Shield skills, resistances, parry and other defensive skills do not seem to be functioning well. What skills or set of skills will help melee characters compete?
Q2 : Duration on buffs do not scale well. GM parry is 35 seconds; fortify defenses last 30 seconds and many others are sub 60 seconds. Shouldn’t buffs scale to last at least a minute? Two or three minutes would be much more rewarding.
Q3 : What types of attacks does avoidance actually avoid? Many attacks seem to ignore the avoidance %.
Webberan
Q: Is adding Epic Chainmail armor planned? If so, what is the eta?
Sir Grant
+1
Juzzie
Q: whats the word on POT teleportation stones or what ever you said you would consider a few months ago. It would be nice to have one that allowed people to port from one area in the pot to another for lots of reasons.
Q: why cant you target a stealth blurred person and attack them, shooting or swinging in the blurred area should hit them?
Q: will there be fishing uniques like in uo, paintings containers sos stuff etc. ?
Dartan Obscuro
Q: Solania looks amazing with the asian theme but Ardoris seems crowded and cluttered. Are there plans for more improvements there? More specifically, Ardoris’s dock area looks sad compared to the magnificent docks of Central Britany.
Sara Dreygon
1.) Does the Blade Speed innate skill affect either glyph deal speed or glyph cooldown or just how fast you can swing the sword with auto attack on?
2.) For diversity, any chance of altering the stats of white iron and constantan from being a set amount of stat increase to being a %-based like bronze and meteoric? Nobody seems to wear this because the apparent bonus don’t scale as you level (15 health is nice at low levels but tiny at high levels).
3.) Pole arms and bludgeons still seem drastically underwhelming when compared to blades… for diversity, can the balance of these three schools be revisted?
Phil Scott
Q1: Do you have an ETA on outside of game access to stats? Right now keeping track of what
we have for sale and what was sold is not possible. It would also be nice to be able to
build a app/website to track what is for sale and what has been sold (so we can know if
our pricing is in line with others selling the same kind of things)
Q2: Do you have an ETA on the scripting in game (I believe that Lua as the language was
mentioned in one of the hangouts/telethons)? Also do you know yet what version of Lua
would be used? This would make it possible to tie work done in Q1 above to in game
interface (so for example I could set up a web site with a JSON interface to get
the location (level and XYZ) of the vendor selling an item and maybe feed that as
a POI to the compass (I can dream, can’t I ).
Q3: At this time it appears that the inventory of a NPC vendor is the same for all vendors
of a type. Is this going to change (so rare items might be found on only a few vendors)
and if so do you have an ETA?
Phil Scott
Short version of the questions:
Q1: What is the ETA on the external API?
Q2: What is the ETA on the game scripting API?
Q3: Will the inventory on NPC vendors be the same for the same type of vendor in all towns?
ON Q3 I was looking at the recipes when I was looking at all the vendors, I now see that there is
a little difference in the inventory but only a little bit, allow me to amend my question to:
Q3: Will the inventory on NPC vendors have more difference in the future?
Trina
Questions:
1.) Will there be some emotes around eating and making Corpion Claws, Novia’s premier buffalo wing replacement?
2.) When will we be getting an attack spell(s) in the Moon tree like Atos said back in September? Perhaps a low level one that takes no reagents and a higher level much stronger one akin to chain lighting in terms to tier and power?
3.) Are there any plans to let us move around the chandeliers that come stock with our homes? That is to say, where they are place on the ceiling stand, can we move them around on the ceiling if we want to have them hanging and shedding light somewhere else?
Corp Por
1. Are there more artifacts coming in R39?
2. With KRUL unfortunately not going PvP and going PvE, I know The Fall is supposed to be PvP. We need more incentives for PvP. Blood Bay is new but already scarce for being attended, shard falls are not well attended either. What is the plan to drive the people who want to PvP or the people who don’t to attempt risk PvP with some new incentives?
3. Can we please get higher level areas for my group of (100+ adv levels) to group up and play together for something fun, challenging, rewarding? Hopefully with decent experience, rare or artifact like loot. Think the harrower and champion spawns in UO.
4. Warding armor needs a tweak; just saying.
Mad Hatter
Many times, I am very busy within the game and unfortunately miss when someone send me a “Whisper”, would it be difficult to associate a tone/ring when receiving these? I do have a tab just for “Whispers” but by the time I look it sometimes I miss the person sending to me.
Adventuring is something I enjoy doing a lot. I enjoy seeing what the World Builders created and wanted to know if we could introduce resource nodes in areas outside of hunting zones. Being able to collect and gather inside NPC/POT towns (away from the central arena) is an example.
Due East in the Lands of Elysium is the only mine of that is enriched with Gold, currently Gold Ore/Ingots don’t have use in Blacksmithing Armor (as an example). Could we get Gold Sheets to create Plated Armor/Weapons/Shields/Etc.…?
Damian Killingsworth
My Burning Hangout Questions:
1. Will we ever be able to see our hands/arms/weapons in first person view?
2. What is the plan for guild alliances, and could we get a rudimentary guild alliance chat system until it is developed?
3. Are there any awards (titles, medals, items, merchant discounts for example) planned for those avatars who participate in defeating siege cabalists?
MrBlight
Q 1 – What are the changes from the old initial promises, to what you plan into implement now, in regards to Guild Wars, Keep building/Castle building, siege equipment and the like? ( Regarding the 2 Mil kickstarter promise ) – Any elaboration on Guild wars would be appreciated as well.
Q 2- What are the current plans regarding Virtue in PVP, and will it create a faction vs faction based system? Or are you relying on player generated content? ( Example – If im *bad* will i see other bad guys differently then just red pvp? Will I see *good* guys as a different color? Will Good Vs Bad have any mechanics in play to actually support to make the virtues pit against each other in PvP zones?
Q 3 – Are you planning on adding treasure maps with a skill required to say, read the maps? With treasure randomly generated with a mob spawn associated to said level? ( essentially bringing back treasure hunting somewhat simular to UO ?)
Q 4 – Are there plans to add more node types, and essentially a wider variety of gear? And in doing so will Survey skill actually be relevent in harvesting these nodes? (see forums elaborated on multiple ore types for further explanation)
Womby
Q1: To help with player created quests can we please have a special container that allows a player to remove only a single item? (Or alternatively add that as an option to all container permissions.)
Q2: We can already buy ghost animal pets – can we please buy ghost humans?
Q3: Can you please create an outlaw designation that forces the outlaw to accept all duel requests? People could become outlaws if they habitually steal from non-enemy NPCs, for example. There should be some way of identifying an outlaw.
Duke Avery
1. Could you please add a display mode that only shows the combat bar and nothing else? I like to adventure with all overlays invisible, and it would be really great if there was a display mode that was “combat bar only”.
2. Are there any game mechanics specific to PVP yet to be implemented and made public and if yes, can you tell us about them?
Mugly Wumple
QUESTION: Is thieving too easy? Should stealing be difficult when there are many people in the vicinity? Could a group of people create a “Thief Safe” zone merely by gathering?
Adam Crow
Q1. How will housing work in Blood Bay?
Q2. Will there be more adventure zones added in the future that will contain player housing?
Q3. Will there ever be catapults or other types of weapons that you can place on lots to defend your property?
Koldar
1. How has your decision to make most recipes no longer discoverable effected the variety and quantity of goods being crafted?
2. You have made items and scenes that are exclusive to PVP players. Will be be making items and scenes that are exclusive to non-PVP players (i.e you can’t be PVP-flagged to enter scene X; you can’t be in a PVP-flagged town to place item X)?
3. Can you confirm if the Blue Floor Torches (https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/request-the-blue-standing-torches.69917/page-2#post-741973) will return to the game?
Teralitha Tokomi
What is a rough estimate of % of game completion
Barugon
With the recent focus regeneration… um… adjustment, we now spend a lot more time in non-combat mode to recover focus. So, my questions relate to making that experience better.
1. Currently, if we’re attacked while not in combat mode then we are forced into combat mode but without a weapon drawn. Can you please make it so that when we are forced into combat mode, we also draw a weapon?
2. When we switch from combat mode to non-combat mode, there is a delay if we recently performed some combat related action. Once it actually switches to non-combat mode then we must wait for our focus/health to regenerate and then, when we switch back to combat mode, we must wait for skills to “cool down”. Can you please shorten the cool-down when entering combat mode?
Thanks.
Scoffer
Q1. Was the focus change in this release intentional and what was the reasoning behind it? Was it simply to justify food/potion usage?
Lace
Q: There was mention of alliance chat about 2 or 3 months ago. This was crossed out as delayed. Any ETA?
Q1: What are your thoughts on combat skill ranging from levels 1-to-30(ish) being practically useless? Why can’t “level 1” start at a more significant potency to make unlocking skills more satisfactory?
Q2: When can we start Pickpocketing NPCs? Taking items off the shelves isn’t satisfying. Can we assassinate NPCs? Seems like towns don’t offer enough game-play to make it worth sticking around.
Q3: Any thoughts on making the various Arenas (like the one in Ardoris and OwlsHead) more accessible by making their presence more obvious to the general public? Adding some sort of Colosseum-type structure in the world map and making the town crier announce when people are battling. Allowing people to participate in PvP without risking their inventory or item’s durability?
1. Player-owned vendors have very constraining limits on the number of items that can be listed. I think everyone would like to list 1000s of items not just ~100 or so that are available now. This applied to both “Buy” and “Sell” listings.
2. Commodities are generally well represented in the purchase order listing on player-owned vendors. However, I would like to place orders on food items, rare items (pledge items, drops, etc), and new items as they become available in the add-on store.
3. When shopping on a vendor, it would be great to be able to filter by crafting system (black smithing, carpentry, etc), so that we only see items related to a specific crafting tree.
4. It would be great, if the owner of a vendor, could introduce messages that our vendors could say like the NPC vendors. It would help us to communicate the purpose of the vendor and advertise it’s offerings in an unobtrusive way. If we had three messages that could show up in miscellaneous messaging like NPC vendors, that could help potential customers and vendors quite a bit.
Ancev
1. Any thoughts on a vertical utility bar for food, potions, pets and scrolls? I have an idea for a customizable utility bar, say 4-6 slots. Perhaps it could be located under the skill monitoring section by default.
2. I’d like to have the option of a ‘pause and request’ behavior for public vendors, player vendors and bankers. Double click the banker and it brings you to the same banker interface except it pauses the inventory load, and brings you to a splash screen that says ‘click on a tab to view your inventory’ – this might be more efficient. You’d be able to claim rewards without having to deal with the initial ‘all items’ load. This would also help in PvP because you could get to the initial vendor interface without being lagged out.
3. Could we get an option to turn off the item description windows that pop up when you’re managing your inventory? Perhaps a way to toggle it on and off similar to toggling deco mode. For example – if I’m just moving a bunch of junk items (shoddy longbows, rusty swords, etc) into a salvage chest I don’t need to see how those weapons compare to my current equipment.
Randbo
I really want to see this happen. Make it a toggle so that you dont get the popup unless you want to see it.
Randbo
Better yet, make it so that the comparison window only pops up when you right mouse click on it.
That would solve alot of problems without opening a new can of interface worms.
Vallo Frostbane
The world lacks conflict and guilds hardly interact with each other through ingame means besides dance parties. Guild Wars are an unused feature currently…
With Alliances coming soon…
Will there be more sandbox content for guild politics like mentioned in the Kickstarter goal? e.g.: castles and territory to own and govern conquered by ingame means.
Will there be more conflict in Virtue vs Anti Virtue battles, and consequences for your alignment throughout Novia?
Will PVP and PVE stay intertwined sandbox style with consent (ala SWG for example) or do you plan to separate them from each other at some point?
Randbo
1. Can we get 3 bind locations instead of just one? Would be nice to be able to go places without running all over the place.
Garfunkel Humperdinck
1. What are your plans to make PVP more inviting and fun for new or casual players?
2. Being that the story requires easy travel and regional economies must restrict travel, how will we have both?
3. Would you please consider adding interactivity to the over-world map to add interest for those traveling on foot? (Perhaps using survey skill to discover scenes or loot)
1. Right now on the Steam store page in the “Development Roadmap” the beta is listed as being feature and content complete in Q1 2017 and the launch is listed as happening in “mid 2017”. Richard Garriott in his recent polygon interview said “mid 2017” for launch as well. Is this accurate and if not then what is the current best estimate timeline expected for being feature and content complete?
2. Related to the first question. I realize polish and tweaking will be ongoing but is there any new game mechanics or systems that will be getting put in place that are not currently in game in one form or another? With the game 80% complete and in the ‘last 20% polish and finishing stage’, is there any chance of any core systems still being changed or major new mechanics being added or is it all a matter of just tweaking and polish from this point on?
3. Can you please clarify your position on what you consider to be the different stages of development. There are a ton of references still to the game being “pre-Alpha”, while also apparently coming up to beta and launch very soon here, so could you please talk a little bit about what you consider to be pre-alpha, alpha, close beta, open beta etc. and what stage you feel the game is actually at right now?
Duke Gréagóir
When will the COTOs be issued for the last testing period ( a week and a half ago)?
Why are we not able to downgrade our Player Owned Towns to a smaller size? Being able to do so will help us town owners afford necessary lots to build our town in an absence of other players and their lots. Please reconsider!
illusive_allusion
Q1: Is there an official date scheduled for completion/commercial release and what is that date?
Q2: Prior to commercial release will in-game instruments (particularly lute and bagpipe timbres) receive a polish pass?
Q3: How soon will multi-player music playback (sync), which has seemed broken in various ways for several releases, receive some time and attention?
Q4: (Bonus round!) What is the velocity of an unladen spar– . . . oh never mind, someone already asked that.
Balec Fares deCani
How can one tell if the item they looted or are purchasing contains an eternal pattern that can be salvaged or if a disposable pattern was used on it that would yield nothing when salvaged?
Q: Will we ever be able to craft our own orrery?
Q: How about those planet names? How about a hint? Inquiring minds still want to know!
Q: Any chance of being able to craft green cheese? (preferably moon shaped )
Thexedor Markhamm
Will any other developers be participating in the Developer Crafted-Item Auction for the Iron Maiden Chemo Relief Fund? I’m looking at you Atos and Berek.
Arc
Q: When are we getting new ranks within guild Members?
Q: In the future, can we make our own ranks inside guilds and the permissions we want? That would make things easy
Q: Besides Bard skills, What new skilltree can we have in the future? (i know you cant promise anything but throw us a bone here =) )
Q1: How does the historic goal of allowing players to make the best items in the game match up with the new artifact system? Are there plans to allow players to create similar items and abilities to integrate the goal into artifacts?
Q2: Are there any long term plans to prevent hoarding of resources? The concern would be that the longer we have hoarding the more inflation will occur making it harder to balance the economy for new players, poor players, and rich players.
Q3: As a PVP incentive, can you consider making collected body parts have an in-game effect on the person you’re fighting. For example, if I’m fighting Atos and I have his hand in my inventory, could that give Atos a debuff to pickpocket me, and to his melee skills? Skull would debuff mage skills, Jawbone would make a person weaker, etc…Please consider.
I second Baron Drocis’ first question, early on one of the main draws of the game (For me) was the idea that the best items in the game came from crafters, the addition of artifacts as powerful as they are invalidates this idea.
Remote Bank Device: how or can I set this up so people kindred to the house can use it but NOT move/take it. It needs permissions like a vendor.
On what level are the rare loots dropping? Is it really only 5 Skull zones? Or is it some graduated scale based on difficulty.
Please, please, please introduce some type of in game bulletin board (like in UO). Want to be able to share and update information with players and guild mates.
and also another request for bulletin boards in game which give us an ability to announce our vendor and vendor location and request work orders for materials and services needed like gathering resources, request for crafting help like for a party need 20 tables and 40 Gothic chairs, need mercenary help to travel to Bloodbay, help wanted posters
Same question as usual:
Q: What is the status of the translation/localization project? An appropriate platform has been found? Is the translation process being put on hold forever (aka are you pulling a TTON on us)? TIA
Yes, I’m unrelenting. That’s by design. I wouldn’t be here, otherwise.
Same here.
It seems Getlocalization’s SotA Project page has been freezed for a few months.
What happened to the project?
And I really want to know when 2 byte character languages support and Japanese localizing go live.
Just wanted to ask the same question. Just quoting Darkstarr: “You have my promise that as we move into Q4 I will devote more resources to localization” … Well, I never assumed at that time, that this means localization itself is put on ice.
Q1: Can we get a confirmation that brewery is coming this March?
Q2: Will the remote bank access device be available via COTO vendor?
Q3: Will we have a new POT template based on assets from Blood Bay?
1.With the new themes we are seeing.. like the Asiatic theme, would it be possible for pot owners to select default row houses that matched the theme of their zone?
2. Can we get some cherry trees to buy or even to grow?
Seconded on both of these items
Q: Can you tell us in what scenarios ‘magic movers’ will be usable? voluntary moves between towns? evictions? POT wipes? Also, which release do you hope to have this to us by?
Q: There are still a lot of clones scenes, do you intend to unclone them all prior to commercial release? How much uncloning re-work will minor non-story scenes get?
Q: The new chat UI is a great improvement. Is this still actively being iterated on or is the current state where you expect it to stay (besides minor changes)
Q1: The new artifacts are a lot of fun, and will be fun “chase” items for many players. Can we get some numbers on how many were collected so far, and what the most and least common are?
Q2: The Shogun bundles look great! What is the next bundle theme you have planned?
Q3: The new conversation window is a great step away from MMO-style chat logs and toward a more natural player narrative. What are the next steps for enhancing this, and what other Single-Player Offline features can we expect soon to help extend this?
1) I saw Magic Movers referenced in Release 38 Patchnotes – how close is this to a reality?
This would be a great boon when changing templates or rearranging parts of a town (and moving of course!). It would be wonderful if a POT owner could move lots around and have things stay intact in the lot!
2) POT Roads (and other tools) – When? And will all paver types be supported?
I have over 200 Bone White Pavers in my POT as roads but ran out of placements at the 240 mark and would like to continue this theme. In the short term allowing a simple crafting recipe for pavers that makes them into 2/3/4/6 long lengths would be wonderful to conserve decoration count and expand towns.
I second both of these.
QUESTION: The beginner experience for those new to SOTA is STILL not really up to standard. Is there going to be a lot more effort to make the experience from a new player perspective feel fun? (ie quests more interesting and not having them enter overwhelming zones too soon in the experience, not having to ‘grind’ to go through early quests.
I think it’d be a cool idea if yall listed a few recent ideas and suggestions you have implimented as a result of both positive and negative community feedback as a bit of an incite into the link between us and y’all that influences development.
Q: Why don’t yallhave lesser potions available on merchants instead of regular potions?
I mean recipes
Q1: Will there be versions of ignite weapon for other elements and what is the intended function of ignite weapon? Just applying a DOT, adding damage per hit?
Q2: Dyes for leather armors and Paints/dyes for chain & Plate, is there an ETA for these items?
Q3: What is the airspeed .. no I just want to know when Yew will get an awesome uncloning job done o it too! (I’m biased, I live there!)
Question 1: Will there be a pass taken on the Instruments in game to make them sound more like they ought?
Agreed, some of the instruments sound awful, and no way close to what they should sound like!
Also agree heartily!
* Bagpipes sound more like pipe organ (great for Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, but not so great for Celtic marching tunes at the front of the battle!
* The “improved” lute (remember the old one?) sounds exactly like a cheesy harpsicord (great for Bach’s Goldberg Variations or Well-Tempered Clavier but absolutely ridiculous for John Dowland).
+1
Question: Will recipe discovery be easier in the future? For example, I already know how to make an iron longsword, but I want to make a bronze longsword, why do I need to buy an additional recipe when all I need to do is use bronze ingots instead of iron…
Question: Will gathering get any boost potion for larger quantities of gathered resources? Similar to what combat is getting now…
Question: Will SPO players ever get any boost to exp gains, like the OPO group players do? After all we SPO players prefer SPO, but it seems it will take us forever to gain our skills…
I too would like the answer to this one (ill recipe discovery be easier in the future? For example, I already know how to make an iron longsword, but I want to make a bronze longsword, why do I need to buy an additional recipe when all I need to do is use bronze ingots instead of iron…)
Q 1.Will the deed raffles go until room rentals become available or will they go right up to commercial release?
Question: what are your plans for producer XP? Currently you only get decent XP from gathering which is mostly mining. Crafting gives you very little XP (E.g. mining ore for a dagger gives you ~ 2000 XP depending on nodes, refining ~ 40 XP, crafting ~ 60 XP). Crafting XP should be greatly increased.
Question: when (if ever) will you add new resources like coal or wax. I would still like to have them on vendors (e.g. pecan nuts) as a player market does not yet exist. In fact I would like to see ALL resources on merchants – these lazy native Brittanians are supposed to work too (prizes could be higher than on vendors, but at least there should be some kind of economy).
Question: how do you plan to include casual (new) gamers? My family did stop playing because of the high grinding costs. There is no way to play just a little bit (and have fun). I think lots of new players get discouraged within the 1st hour. My family would play again if they could start at a higher level (maybe 30-40 and maybe accept a slower XP gain to compensate)
Question: Is there any possibility of leaving the windows on our homes open instead of having to re-open them everyone time we zone out or re-log?
Question: Any possibility of being able to collect more than 1 bucket of water at a time? i.e. have a window open so that we can type in the number of buckets – maybe up to a maximum of 10 or better.
Question: Can we have some kind of chat log that will allow us to leave messages for players that are offline?
Thank you for question #1 InLight. Being OCD, I go nuts every time I come to my home and have to open the windows – AGAIN.
Q: When will the ladder animations be implemented? (Instead of current “magic teleportation”)
Thank you thank you for the amazing good work of the whole Portalarium team.
Q1: Can we get a confirmation on Expert Crafting Stations to buy on store?
Q2: When is 6 Skull zones coming?
Q3: Will we c more different mobs in the future?
Q1: Is there an estimated time for adding Player Owned Town Tools such as moving the default banker and town crier?
Q2: Is there any plan to implement player-to-player mail, messages, or some other delivery system that requires a placed house lot and a public “add item” chest?
Q3: Will there be a way to gain Dev+ access by either earning it through frequent bug reports or purchasing without a bundle? Honestly, I’d love to help out more but I no longer need the bundles.
We already have a player run mail system…. Don’t want to make us mail-runners and postmaster lose our jobs, do you?
q1: I want to know why you allow for a paladin style of play plate/healing school but you don’t allow for a death knight style of play plate/death school because the fizzle is so high, it was somewhat feasible before the 2 hand fizzle change.
q2: if you get around to doing another pass on death magic can you add abilities to drain the the life from are minion and heal are self.
Q1: Can we get a potion (or consumables) ability bar, maybe 3-5 slots, smaller then normal quickbar. There are a lot of consumables (now), but I do not and i’m sure many do not use them since they take a quickbar slot. More consumables being used is better for the economy (both used resources and potential sales/trades).
Q2: Any chance the instanced dungeons (pretty much any solo/party scene/encounter) can be synced to character level? This way they always stay relevant and never obsolete, other wise it’s just like other MMO’s where you out level the content, essentially making it useless (and waste of Dev resources), effectively removes content.
Q3: Condensed recipe log option, maybe a list of recipes (still by category/sub category) on the left page and the selected recipe on the right page.
Thanks
Q1 Update: or the ability to use potions out of a bag “during” combat. Wouldn’t be ideal like the consumable hot bar idea, but at least be able to use potions as needed.
Q1: Now that we can make glass from gem fragments, can we get recipes for making Glass Jars and Flasks?
Q2: Will Leather Scrap ever become useful? (Currently 2 Hides = 2 leather, 1 Hide+12 Scrap = 1 leather.)
Q3: Will the Rend combos Sawblade Sweep and Hamstring get 3 stacks like Rend?
Will you please reconsider your ‘no’ answer to making sleeping in beds, sleeping bags or perhaps llater ability to carry wood etc and make a camp (future thought
give resting bonuses,example 4 hour resting bonus from logging off sleeping?
Please will you include discovery and exploration quests to encourage seeing the world and continued exploration of the world and also an achievement system in game, things that keep players coming back to the game, even fishing quests, and pvp quests perhaps give criminal points as an idea?
Q1: Will you make another re-work on the targeting? Currently my healer/wife has serious problems in keeping me alive as she is always healing and buffing herself/an elemental despite having me selected with F2 and being in range.
Preface: I own a POT that offers free full sized homes to players who don’t have homes. I do this by making the players co-owner and they decorate the homes / make it their own. This works well, but has two big issues: When the home is unclaimed for any reason the items are sent to my bank, I have access to all of their items (I’m honest, but I can understand how this makes others uncomfortable).
Q1: With the upcoming system to rent out rooms, will we have the ability to rent out the entire home as a whole to a player for 0 gold?
Q2: When a player has their room rented, will items be sent to their bank if the lot is unclaimed / tax runs out?
Q3: Will players be able to decorate the rented rooms/homes as if they owned it?
Seconded.
I am eager to hear answers to these!
Q1: Stables are scattered all over the world. Will there be the ability to secure your mount at the stables, perhaps to an interactive hitching post? These hitching posts would allow the player to store their mount by hitching it where it would remain (visibly hitched to the post in the world) until the players return. These posts could also be sold or crafted to players and placed outside of a home to allow players to leave their mounts outside of their homes. One mount per post to ensure many are crafted and sold. An “ornate” version in the crown store would be a nice addition also.
Q2: Can we have small versions of potted plants either craftable or for purchase in the store? Potted plants small enough to place on shelves, banisters. railings etcetera. Banzai plants would be a great addition to go along with cities and towns with an asian theme!
Q3: Will harvestable trees be expanded to multiple tree types instead of the single harvestable type at the moment? Various tree species that look like each of the craftable wood species are already in place in the world. It would be nice to have to search for harvestable species of trees rather than just looking for the brown top of the one harvestable tree in game.
Question about Deep Ravenswood: I did like the old scene, but can understand the change, it is nice too. But why did you need to replace a popular scene and not just another way less popular one (and have a Deep Ravenswood and a Deeper Ravenswood).
Q1: In Single Player offline mode, are there other companions currently available?
Q2: In Single Player offline mode, would you consider placing higher end resources on vendors? For example, even as a moderate level player, there is no way I can survive mining gems or silver in enough abundance to be worthwhile.
Q3: In Single Player offline mode, when will we be able to purchase in game deeds?
Thanks for your hard work!
A couple easy ones questions/feature requests.
1. Droppable gold into piles coming before retail launch?
2. I would request loging out in your house you avoid the timer countdown to zone your character out. There should be some benifit to loggin out/in in your house.
3a. The global cool down toggle between combat and noncombat bars should be shortened. After killing a mob I have to w8 many seconds to toggle over imop the system takes to long to reconize im out of combat.
3b. Please add a additional mini bar (slot) toggable on/off for my potions. 10 slot bar no longer works in combat.
Ok I cheated with 3b. But its impotant enough imop.
Q1: When will we know that Focus changes (Usage and regeneration) are pretty well set. Need to know this since recent changes for me have meant spending most of my battle in Auto Attack. I also need to decide where to put Experience points and what level MOBS I will need to fall back to.
Q2: When will we know changes to Fizzle Chance will be set? Since I can no longer reliably cast many Fire or Air Spells due to use of Melee Armor. Will Water and Earth Spells also be changed to add higher Fizzle Rates. Again I need to know what skills to pick and which skills to now get rid of after having spent millions of EXP on them.
I am presently just building my Adventure Experience pool as best I can at a much slower pace, but have no idea what skills to put these in until these issues are decided. I do not want to waste any more Experience Points on things that will change in the near future.
Q1 : Archers and Mages are deadly. Shield skills, resistances, parry and other defensive skills do not seem to be functioning well. What skills or set of skills will help melee characters compete?
Q2 : Duration on buffs do not scale well. GM parry is 35 seconds; fortify defenses last 30 seconds and many others are sub 60 seconds. Shouldn’t buffs scale to last at least a minute? Two or three minutes would be much more rewarding.
Q3 : What types of attacks does avoidance actually avoid? Many attacks seem to ignore the avoidance %.
Q: Is adding Epic Chainmail armor planned? If so, what is the eta?
+1
Q: whats the word on POT teleportation stones or what ever you said you would consider a few months ago. It would be nice to have one that allowed people to port from one area in the pot to another for lots of reasons.
Q: why cant you target a stealth blurred person and attack them, shooting or swinging in the blurred area should hit them?
Q: will there be fishing uniques like in uo, paintings containers sos stuff etc. ?
Q: Solania looks amazing with the asian theme but Ardoris seems crowded and cluttered. Are there plans for more improvements there? More specifically, Ardoris’s dock area looks sad compared to the magnificent docks of Central Britany.
1.) Does the Blade Speed innate skill affect either glyph deal speed or glyph cooldown or just how fast you can swing the sword with auto attack on?
2.) For diversity, any chance of altering the stats of white iron and constantan from being a set amount of stat increase to being a %-based like bronze and meteoric? Nobody seems to wear this because the apparent bonus don’t scale as you level (15 health is nice at low levels but tiny at high levels).
3.) Pole arms and bludgeons still seem drastically underwhelming when compared to blades… for diversity, can the balance of these three schools be revisted?
Q1: Do you have an ETA on outside of game access to stats? Right now keeping track of what
we have for sale and what was sold is not possible. It would also be nice to be able to
build a app/website to track what is for sale and what has been sold (so we can know if
our pricing is in line with others selling the same kind of things)
Q2: Do you have an ETA on the scripting in game (I believe that Lua as the language was
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mentioned in one of the hangouts/telethons)? Also do you know yet what version of Lua
would be used? This would make it possible to tie work done in Q1 above to in game
interface (so for example I could set up a web site with a JSON interface to get
the location (level and XYZ) of the vendor selling an item and maybe feed that as
a POI to the compass (I can dream, can’t I
Q3: At this time it appears that the inventory of a NPC vendor is the same for all vendors
of a type. Is this going to change (so rare items might be found on only a few vendors)
and if so do you have an ETA?
Short version of the questions:
Q1: What is the ETA on the external API?
Q2: What is the ETA on the game scripting API?
Q3: Will the inventory on NPC vendors be the same for the same type of vendor in all towns?
I want to know this, as well.
ON Q3 I was looking at the recipes when I was looking at all the vendors, I now see that there is
a little difference in the inventory but only a little bit, allow me to amend my question to:
Q3: Will the inventory on NPC vendors have more difference in the future?
Questions:
1.) Will there be some emotes around eating and making Corpion Claws, Novia’s premier buffalo wing replacement?
2.) When will we be getting an attack spell(s) in the Moon tree like Atos said back in September? Perhaps a low level one that takes no reagents and a higher level much stronger one akin to chain lighting in terms to tier and power?
3.) Are there any plans to let us move around the chandeliers that come stock with our homes? That is to say, where they are place on the ceiling stand, can we move them around on the ceiling if we want to have them hanging and shedding light somewhere else?
1. Are there more artifacts coming in R39?
2. With KRUL unfortunately not going PvP and going PvE, I know The Fall is supposed to be PvP. We need more incentives for PvP. Blood Bay is new but already scarce for being attended, shard falls are not well attended either. What is the plan to drive the people who want to PvP or the people who don’t to attempt risk PvP with some new incentives?
3. Can we please get higher level areas for my group of (100+ adv levels) to group up and play together for something fun, challenging, rewarding? Hopefully with decent experience, rare or artifact like loot. Think the harrower and champion spawns in UO.
4. Warding armor needs a tweak; just saying.
Many times, I am very busy within the game and unfortunately miss when someone send me a “Whisper”, would it be difficult to associate a tone/ring when receiving these? I do have a tab just for “Whispers” but by the time I look it sometimes I miss the person sending to me.
Adventuring is something I enjoy doing a lot. I enjoy seeing what the World Builders created and wanted to know if we could introduce resource nodes in areas outside of hunting zones. Being able to collect and gather inside NPC/POT towns (away from the central arena) is an example.
Due East in the Lands of Elysium is the only mine of that is enriched with Gold, currently Gold Ore/Ingots don’t have use in Blacksmithing Armor (as an example). Could we get Gold Sheets to create Plated Armor/Weapons/Shields/Etc.…?
My Burning Hangout Questions:
1. Will we ever be able to see our hands/arms/weapons in first person view?
2. What is the plan for guild alliances, and could we get a rudimentary guild alliance chat system until it is developed?
3. Are there any awards (titles, medals, items, merchant discounts for example) planned for those avatars who participate in defeating siege cabalists?
Q 1 – What are the changes from the old initial promises, to what you plan into implement now, in regards to Guild Wars, Keep building/Castle building, siege equipment and the like? ( Regarding the 2 Mil kickstarter promise ) – Any elaboration on Guild wars would be appreciated as well.
Q 2- What are the current plans regarding Virtue in PVP, and will it create a faction vs faction based system? Or are you relying on player generated content? ( Example – If im *bad* will i see other bad guys differently then just red pvp? Will I see *good* guys as a different color? Will Good Vs Bad have any mechanics in play to actually support to make the virtues pit against each other in PvP zones?
Q 3 – Are you planning on adding treasure maps with a skill required to say, read the maps? With treasure randomly generated with a mob spawn associated to said level? ( essentially bringing back treasure hunting somewhat simular to UO ?)
Q 4 – Are there plans to add more node types, and essentially a wider variety of gear? And in doing so will Survey skill actually be relevent in harvesting these nodes? (see forums elaborated on multiple ore types for further explanation)
Q1: To help with player created quests can we please have a special container that allows a player to remove only a single item? (Or alternatively add that as an option to all container permissions.)
Q2: We can already buy ghost animal pets – can we please buy ghost humans?
Q3: Can you please create an outlaw designation that forces the outlaw to accept all duel requests? People could become outlaws if they habitually steal from non-enemy NPCs, for example. There should be some way of identifying an outlaw.
1. Could you please add a display mode that only shows the combat bar and nothing else? I like to adventure with all overlays invisible, and it would be really great if there was a display mode that was “combat bar only”.
2. Are there any game mechanics specific to PVP yet to be implemented and made public and if yes, can you tell us about them?
QUESTION: Is thieving too easy? Should stealing be difficult when there are many people in the vicinity? Could a group of people create a “Thief Safe” zone merely by gathering?
Q1. How will housing work in Blood Bay?
Q2. Will there be more adventure zones added in the future that will contain player housing?
Q3. Will there ever be catapults or other types of weapons that you can place on lots to defend your property?
1. How has your decision to make most recipes no longer discoverable effected the variety and quantity of goods being crafted?
2. You have made items and scenes that are exclusive to PVP players. Will be be making items and scenes that are exclusive to non-PVP players (i.e you can’t be PVP-flagged to enter scene X; you can’t be in a PVP-flagged town to place item X)?
3. Can you confirm if the Blue Floor Torches (https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/request-the-blue-standing-torches.69917/page-2#post-741973) will return to the game?
What is a rough estimate of % of game completion
With the recent focus regeneration… um… adjustment, we now spend a lot more time in non-combat mode to recover focus. So, my questions relate to making that experience better.
1. Currently, if we’re attacked while not in combat mode then we are forced into combat mode but without a weapon drawn. Can you please make it so that when we are forced into combat mode, we also draw a weapon?
2. When we switch from combat mode to non-combat mode, there is a delay if we recently performed some combat related action. Once it actually switches to non-combat mode then we must wait for our focus/health to regenerate and then, when we switch back to combat mode, we must wait for skills to “cool down”. Can you please shorten the cool-down when entering combat mode?
Thanks.
Q1. Was the focus change in this release intentional and what was the reasoning behind it? Was it simply to justify food/potion usage?
Q: There was mention of alliance chat about 2 or 3 months ago. This was crossed out as delayed. Any ETA?
Q1: What are your thoughts on combat skill ranging from levels 1-to-30(ish) being practically useless? Why can’t “level 1” start at a more significant potency to make unlocking skills more satisfactory?
Q2: When can we start Pickpocketing NPCs? Taking items off the shelves isn’t satisfying. Can we assassinate NPCs? Seems like towns don’t offer enough game-play to make it worth sticking around.
Q3: Any thoughts on making the various Arenas (like the one in Ardoris and OwlsHead) more accessible by making their presence more obvious to the general public? Adding some sort of Colosseum-type structure in the world map and making the town crier announce when people are battling. Allowing people to participate in PvP without risking their inventory or item’s durability?
1. Player-owned vendors have very constraining limits on the number of items that can be listed. I think everyone would like to list 1000s of items not just ~100 or so that are available now. This applied to both “Buy” and “Sell” listings.
2. Commodities are generally well represented in the purchase order listing on player-owned vendors. However, I would like to place orders on food items, rare items (pledge items, drops, etc), and new items as they become available in the add-on store.
3. When shopping on a vendor, it would be great to be able to filter by crafting system (black smithing, carpentry, etc), so that we only see items related to a specific crafting tree.
4. It would be great, if the owner of a vendor, could introduce messages that our vendors could say like the NPC vendors. It would help us to communicate the purpose of the vendor and advertise it’s offerings in an unobtrusive way. If we had three messages that could show up in miscellaneous messaging like NPC vendors, that could help potential customers and vendors quite a bit.
1. Any thoughts on a vertical utility bar for food, potions, pets and scrolls? I have an idea for a customizable utility bar, say 4-6 slots. Perhaps it could be located under the skill monitoring section by default.
2. I’d like to have the option of a ‘pause and request’ behavior for public vendors, player vendors and bankers. Double click the banker and it brings you to the same banker interface except it pauses the inventory load, and brings you to a splash screen that says ‘click on a tab to view your inventory’ – this might be more efficient. You’d be able to claim rewards without having to deal with the initial ‘all items’ load. This would also help in PvP because you could get to the initial vendor interface without being lagged out.
3. Could we get an option to turn off the item description windows that pop up when you’re managing your inventory? Perhaps a way to toggle it on and off similar to toggling deco mode. For example – if I’m just moving a bunch of junk items (shoddy longbows, rusty swords, etc) into a salvage chest I don’t need to see how those weapons compare to my current equipment.
I really want to see this happen. Make it a toggle so that you dont get the popup unless you want to see it.
Better yet, make it so that the comparison window only pops up when you right mouse click on it.
That would solve alot of problems without opening a new can of interface worms.
The world lacks conflict and guilds hardly interact with each other through ingame means besides dance parties. Guild Wars are an unused feature currently…
With Alliances coming soon…
Will there be more sandbox content for guild politics like mentioned in the Kickstarter goal? e.g.: castles and territory to own and govern conquered by ingame means.
Will there be more conflict in Virtue vs Anti Virtue battles, and consequences for your alignment throughout Novia?
Will PVP and PVE stay intertwined sandbox style with consent (ala SWG for example) or do you plan to separate them from each other at some point?
1. Can we get 3 bind locations instead of just one? Would be nice to be able to go places without running all over the place.
1. What are your plans to make PVP more inviting and fun for new or casual players?
2. Being that the story requires easy travel and regional economies must restrict travel, how will we have both?
3. Would you please consider adding interactivity to the over-world map to add interest for those traveling on foot? (Perhaps using survey skill to discover scenes or loot)
1. Right now on the Steam store page in the “Development Roadmap” the beta is listed as being feature and content complete in Q1 2017 and the launch is listed as happening in “mid 2017”. Richard Garriott in his recent polygon interview said “mid 2017” for launch as well. Is this accurate and if not then what is the current best estimate timeline expected for being feature and content complete?
2. Related to the first question. I realize polish and tweaking will be ongoing but is there any new game mechanics or systems that will be getting put in place that are not currently in game in one form or another? With the game 80% complete and in the ‘last 20% polish and finishing stage’, is there any chance of any core systems still being changed or major new mechanics being added or is it all a matter of just tweaking and polish from this point on?
3. Can you please clarify your position on what you consider to be the different stages of development. There are a ton of references still to the game being “pre-Alpha”, while also apparently coming up to beta and launch very soon here, so could you please talk a little bit about what you consider to be pre-alpha, alpha, close beta, open beta etc. and what stage you feel the game is actually at right now?
When will the COTOs be issued for the last testing period ( a week and a half ago)?
Why are we not able to downgrade our Player Owned Towns to a smaller size? Being able to do so will help us town owners afford necessary lots to build our town in an absence of other players and their lots. Please reconsider!
Q1: Is there an official date scheduled for completion/commercial release and what is that date?
Q2: Prior to commercial release will in-game instruments (particularly lute and bagpipe timbres) receive a polish pass?
Q3: How soon will multi-player music playback (sync), which has seemed broken in various ways for several releases, receive some time and attention?
Q4: (Bonus round!) What is the velocity of an unladen spar– . . . oh never mind, someone already asked that.
How can one tell if the item they looted or are purchasing contains an eternal pattern that can be salvaged or if a disposable pattern was used on it that would yield nothing when salvaged?
Q: Will we ever be able to craft our own orrery?
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Q: How about those planet names? How about a hint? Inquiring minds still want to know!
Q: Any chance of being able to craft green cheese? (preferably moon shaped
Will any other developers be participating in the Developer Crafted-Item Auction for the Iron Maiden Chemo Relief Fund? I’m looking at you Atos and Berek.
Q: When are we getting new ranks within guild Members?
Q: In the future, can we make our own ranks inside guilds and the permissions we want? That would make things easy
Q: Besides Bard skills, What new skilltree can we have in the future? (i know you cant promise anything but throw us a bone here =) )