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Duh - that's when we wait for The Next Patch that will 100% Fix All The Things. I heard their next stretch goal is already going to be a new race - Fuzzy Trolls.

If these aren't there in at least some easter egg fashion, I'll have to withdraw my $0 in donations I've made.

Very against locked encounters here as well. I'd much rather see all contributors get exp than lock it. But more than that, I think it should be up to the in-game community to decide social norms and how to play. Give people room to be jerks, and let them develop reputations because of it. I...

Vanguard's crafting has been my favorite crafting system so far. Got a bit too grindy to progress up, though. But the process of making an item itself was great. The ability to make custom gear was well done, and felt really expansive, plus the ability to determine what level of quality you...

Shit, what else are we supposed to yammer about then? Argue more back and forth about how Dregs/FFA could completely fall apart since we have zero info on it?

Excellent answers, thanks! Glad to see you guys are indeed keeping an eye on network performance. I also don't think you'll hurt much from taking a break on the video updates. The last two have shown a lot of polish over the previous ones, where you can at least leave it without a bad last...

Lets spitball then about what kind of stretch goals they might have. New race? New archetype? Flying mounts?

Cool, here's some questions! -What type of cadence are you going to go for with the video updates? One every 2-3 months? -Any luck on VC? -How are things looking on the networking side? I believe Brad showed off it running as a real client/server setup a long time ago - have you tried any...

I hope their culling is smarter than FF's was. Having the main boss everyone was attacking constantly stop rendering, instead of, ya know, the random 200 players around you, was really annoying. Other than that, I'd say the bigger problem is handling network traffic with so many people in one...

Ooooh, gotcha. I read that as "two teams [of volunteers] working at the same time". My derps. Howdy! Maybe you'll make it past 10 posts before we run you off ;-). Can we pelt you with real, valid questions? Aka, not "Brad stealing money/drugs" questions.

..second team? I didn't know there was more than just one team.

Also, ever since you said this, I've had this mental image:

Well, again, I don't see it working without instances. Else Guild B just trolls your Uber God Kill attempt by all logging into the zone. Hot damn that'd be amazing. I'd never play it, I'm too old to put with that shit, but it'd be some great forum drama!

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But it's so comfy there :3 The progress videos have definitely shown improvements. We still rag on them, but I think we all agree that the last 3-4 videos each showed notable improvement between them. That said, difficulty in registering with a forum isn't a good sign ;-)

I dunno, the latest Pantheon round-table was talking about color coding gear (although later comments say that's probably a no-go) and locked group-size encounters (which I'm not sure how you do without instances).

I glanced at the official forums, and there's tons of threads there. Has noone asked for some more concrete examples/ideas of what exactly a Dregs campaign would look like? Or have they, and ArtCraft just hasn't responded? I saw they had Euro servers, including localization most likely, by...

Did I miss something? I haven't seen him here in the trenches. Just rumors that he registered then Soygen saying "don't see it". Either way, he won't last long. We ran off Brad, then Nitrix, then Kyndread. We consume our own. Edit: Basically "Joppa registered" is the same as "Pantheon got...

That really surprised me too. Only planning for Dregs for the KS money is a bummer. I assume they felt the other types needed a lot more coding work to be done, and they didn't want to increase the base funding limit. I would (like all of us, I suppose) like some more info from them at least...

I understand where you're coming from, and don't disagree, but the reality is they have to move forward on all things at the same time. Making pretty graphics, while getting basic server structure working, while getting game design implemented and tested, etc. And as they've said - a lot of...

Well, you have to have a developer before you worry about source control. That said, yeah, Dropbox for source, trololololol. Github (if you're keeping it OS) and Bitbucket (if you're keeping it closed) are much better free solutions. Dropbox could work okay for non-code releated assets (art...

As did every game on the planet that ignored graphics (and UX in general). There's a reason we all aren't playing Wurm Online right now.

I suspect it's really more about them just needing another art person. Those are the two immediate tasks they want done. And while female centaurs might not be as much, pretty particles will go a long way to making the game attractive and helping sales (as dumb as it is). Particle effects are...

Who thinks we're more likely to be playing Pantheon in some terrible broken state before we're able to play EQ:N in some terrible broken state?

Unreal is only free until you make $3,000, then it's 5% of your revenue. Unity prices are a little harder to understand, but you can use it free too, until you make like $100k or something. Again - could have Unity3D wrong, I spent all of 2 minutes trying to read all the rules. I know I've...

Oh, I didn't listen to that shit, I just quickly read the summary. Here's what I'm reacting to: The color one was admittedly iffy from them, but I'm just going to go ahead and take it at its worst possible value. I'm pretty torn on item quality in general. I liked the simplicity of EQ's "your X...

Epic purps and locked encounter sizes, boo.

Yeah, that goes back to as I was saying earlier - they need to have a lot of anti-zerg design in the game, or something to make sure mega-guilds are only up against other mega-guilds, etc. If your small guild decides to go into the Dregs, and it's your 20 person guild, other small guilds...

Hence that little feature of this game, ya know, the campaigns. You might have heard about it.

Embargo rules sound fun. Work hard to win, then have to work more to even be able to leave with anything. I wonder what they'll do on GvG campaigns, to stop something like a PRX mega guild from just clustering all around the area denying anyone else via simple zerg tactics. Maybe GvG...

Good point, that's what this board is known for - fairness. There's a quote somewhere on these boards from an ex-VG dev (I'm pretty sure, but I could always be wrong) who explicitly targeted the Unreal Engine as the wrong choice for Vanguard. Nothing against the Unreal engine, just that...

Yeah, going with an Unreal engine worked great for Vanguard!

Save money by not translating to French, also keeps French people out of the game. Seems like a win/win to me.

Fucking Uncle Bob and his tanks

He probably took a screenshot of his post, printed it off, and mailed it to his mom.

Which is exactly why they'll be non-committal on everything until at least the KS is over In reality too, though - in software, nothing here is set in stone, and it's all open for change. We like to talk about what they will/won't do, but the point is, they don't know, and they won't know...

Yeah, that was my point. There's other ways to get the rivalry stuff people are wanting without nameplates, that are well known and proven. The "spotting your enemy in the crowd" thing, though, I don't know how to do in a MMO. Unless they also take a nod from something like TF2 and they get...

Just to play devil's advocate (because I don't really care either way) - but TF2 doesn't have nameplates. I think the arguments in the "anti-nameplate" crowd include how much it clutters the screen (see: any AA screenshot), and meanwhile there other ways to let you build rivalries and seek...

EQNever amirite

So a large part of the point of this design is to get that "new MMO" rush often. Campaign opens, people rush, start claiming places on the map, start murdering. How long can they last so it still feels like that "new virtual world to explore", so it still is exciting, but not so short that it...