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No. If two people screwed up, you wiped. A good tank+a good healer could save a bad enchanter. And a good team could survive any bad pull (god, I know we survived hairy pulls when "one inc" became "uh, some more inc"). Sure, you had situations in which your group wiped, but you really, really...

As far as I can tell, those are basically Heroic-mode dungeons. i.e. dungeons recycled for max level, with a sprucing of Explorable-mode GW2 type dungeon stuff (i.e. the dungeon assumes the consequences of the quest line you were supposed to follow on your first visit). Their answer on the...

SimCity: Infiltration!

I'm a bit miffed at the Accessory system. Right now (thanks to the repeat bugs), you juggle between Assessor's Bands when grabbing Elemental ores, Rings of Bounty when you finally find that Sapphire or Ruby vein, Mastercraft Bracers to make your picks, and now Glowing Charm of Gusts when...

Basically, it's yet another BC-era type on-rail quest-based MMO peppered with people with a silver symbol offering you quests to let you level, gear up, with a relatively good looking style, the apparent addition of Rift-Style events (called Dark Anchors, but that's exactly the same: the sky...

Left Nevrax before we ever got in crunch time, thank god.

Apparently, they're taking an extra-long weekend for Valentine's day to compensate for the alpha launch dev woes ("Hi honey, I'm home early! Let's party, given that you won't see me again for the next three months of crunch time")

Think of the number of subs that are going to be reactivated just for March 1st!

I think we're facing the finance equivalent of the Magic Patch that will fix the beta three weeks from release.

No, I'm not free. Because forming a group require that there are enough people willing to tackle the dungeon with me, which, if your game has incentives working against that very playstyle, isn't going to happen very often, unless you explode the population massively (using the LFG system...

Plus the rubies. As said elsewhere, if you can find a Tradesman Sifter (anyone got one of those around?), Sapphires are not that big a problem. The only mandatory use of the Indigo pick is to dig Mithril to make a Mihtril one. For current content, the Cobalt Pick digs anything, so making a...

One: It was an endless carrot. Except for maybe a couple persons here and there, you couldn't "finish" the AA. Which made it a frustrating goal; you could imagine yourself downing "one day" the baddass bosses of EQ, but unlike levels, youknewyou'd never finish the AAs. Two: AA came out of XP...

Interesting that you consider LFR being "solo". I wouldn't absolutely disagree, but you evade my question: Do you think a game that is called a Massively Multiplayer Game should be mainly played solo? Not that you can make one playable solo (although in my opinion, it's basically calling...

So, the next biomes are snowy (Everfrost) and swamp (feerrott). The Crystal Caverns is of course the underground stuff. But... alchemy?

Oh, forgot to mention, I'm (of course), Ukerric the Trailblazer. Not that I play that much, but I do.

Uh? You just said it. The game WILL force you to group. At the end game. So, is that going to work, or is that not going to work. It's one or the other. What we're arguing, and have been for a number of years, in a number of threads, is whether or not mainly-solo play has aPLACEin MMOs...

Castles are dime a dozen. If you want to be notable, you need something different (and original, which is real hard).

Closed beta in (probably late) march. The biggest expected differences between alpha and closed beta should be: - Liquids, notably lakes and seas (no more square islands ending in emptiness), but also ice and snow, tar, lava - Harvesting plants using sickles on proper plants (instead of...

Except, you know, for the incentive thing? Did you miss the part where doing quests shower you with XP and loot, and not doing quests... does not. If the game tells you, clearly and unambiguously: QUEST OR BUST, then you quest. And if you quest, a-la-WoW then you solo. If you want a game...

Make a sphere somewhere. Use the select tool to cut a 1 voxel-high slice from the middle. Paste at your cylinder base, then up 1 voxel, paste, up 1 voxel, paste. For long cylinders, when you've pasted 4-5 voxels, select the cylinder base, copy, paste up. As I said, the problem with non-regular...

Yup. Basically, I've been level 80 for sometime, but I don't think I've been to level 80 areas. Or 70. There's just no need to; go to level 20 area, level 30 area, finish some level 15 zone event... it all gives you xp and appropriate loot. Every zone in the game IS useful. Can't beat that freedom.

It's not that you're lazy/unwilling, it's that the game, as set up, is made to discourage you from doing that. Any on-rail-breadcrumbed quest system basically makes it very hard to group. Basically, all the content of the game is split in two: a large portion where all you get is pitiful mob...

Tweeted by Georgeson, and I admit it is awesome to fit that in a single claim: Coldnytes Claim - Imgur I don't think it's going to be in-game, although it would be an extraordinary addition. Thing is, in two-three months, we're going to be beyond this, as they add NPCs and mobs with...

Yea. The cut-n-paste 1-voxel sphere trick is nice and dandy, but it would change things a lot to have a cylinder shape in the "paintbrush" section. Can't really be done. The way the voxel stuff work is that you've got a small voxel block, which can be "partially shaved" across various planes...

I think the pick creation is done in two steps. Step one is to figure the "scale" of the pick: use the basic stats for that pick type, and multiply them by a random value. Say 1.32. If it's below 1.20, it's green, 1.20 to 1.50 it's blue, above it's legendary (I'm pulling number out of my ass)...

I've seen a couple people from Westeroscraft posting on the alpha forums, so watch out when beta comes and you get multiple adjacent claims.

Ouch. That's a World-Destroyer class pick.

It's supposed to be a tier 4 (just like Marble was supposed to be tier 2), but they messed up stone placements and tiers. In theory, you should have Marble forge = tier 2 marble + tier 2 iron + tier 3 tungsten; Amaranthine forge = tier 3 Amaranthine + tier 3 tungsten + tier 4 cobalt; Alabaster...

Mithril is tier 5, so it's supposed to be a rare in tier 4 areas and common in tier 5. And since we don't have undergrounds in tier 3 islands and no tier 4 islands...

Client/Server communication issues, I bet. The client thought it was deleted, the server did not (and that's why you didn't get the stone back).

All voxels are solid, the only thing materials change is the texture used. From limitations comes creativity.

All gems are apparently either stand-alone nodes, or nodes that are located at the end of a metal vein. So, you can have either Topaz on its own, or if you find a Silver vein on surface without Iron next to it, it will have Topaz at its end. (some rarer gems are only found at the end of a...

You can disable the voxel smoothing in the UI and you get the individual blocks instead of a fake incline surface.

Full mats, templates, and 2 days headstart = when the plebe logs in, he's surrounded by awesome stuff and goes "whoa". Don't underestimated the initial impression factor that non-founders would get from this.

500K keys? There's no real NDA going anymore.

That's what they announced (from memory). It might change, but yea, did notice that.

We're probably going to get tier 4 & 5 islands in alpha, but if I understand right, what beta should give us is tier 1-3 islands, with something like 100-300m deep being tier 2-4, and 300m and down being tier 3-5. Basically, beyond tier 3, we're going to need to dig to underground caves and...

You are mixingVoxelswithOctrees. EQNL might be using octrees to store voxels, but both games are voxel-based. (and yes, if they're using octrees, any flowing dynamic is a performance killer)

Dunno about gold-only trees, but yes, a lot of trees that I can't cut with my Founder pickaxe, I can with my Fast Copper Axe.

I do remember our forays during beta to get some glowstone. For those who've never done it, try to picture: you're in a huge, dimly lit, cavern. The bottom is filled with lava that will kill you and destroy every possession you have. There are deposits of unique, non-available-anywhere glowing...