EQ Never

Very cool livestream. They need to be showing more non-scripted in-game footage if they're taking money.

I still don't think it's representative of how EQNL itself will actually play, as he was obviously god-moding it, and it sounds like they want even EQNL to be more of a world. I want to know how those mechanics will play out more.

For example - how are resources used when you just drag out a big square? Then do you get some back if you delete part of it inside? How do you harvest voxels? Does it cost more resources to enlarge something? Does it cost other resources if you paint it?

Things like that.

Fawe_sl said:

They mentioned the alpha forum is up now for Trailblazers, anyone know how to get there? All I got was a purchase confirmation email and I just assumed the forums weren't up yet until I watched the Livestream and they said they were up now.

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Same position here. There's a link to the alpha forum on the eqnlandmark website but if you click it it just brings up the page telling you to preorder a pack.. I guess it's probably not actually accessible yet.

Hmm, I'm able to see them

Convo_sl said:

Creed- I'm not late to the party. I was there in the beginning and FTP has gradually got worse IMO...it's expanded and will continue to do so. I'm not good at just accepting things..

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That's ok, everyone makes their own choices. You're coming across a bit like Utnayan here trying to make everyone realize the truth and the evil of in this case EQN.

Well, I just think it's a case of beating the dead horse, like Ut unfortunately has a tendency to do.

I think everyone understands both sides, and can agree to see each other's viewpoints, and just differ on how to react on it. That's fine. We should move on though, because like some of those Ut chats, it just becomes cyclical and achieves nothing. Just a restating of opinions and positions over and over.

The alpha forums are accessible but if you're having problems reaching them, try logging out and logging back in. That seemed to do the trick for me and several others.

Fawe_sl said:

I've logged in/out numerous times, is the alpha forum located with the rest of the forums here:403 Forbidden

or is it somewhere else? Seems like the website and forums have individual logins so would help which page I need to be on.

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You're trying EQ Next forums not the Landmark forums.

https://forums.station.sony.com/eqnlandmark/index.php

Laerazi_sl said:

Hmm, I'm able to see them

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Bullshit! You paid to alpha-play the game and now can't even see the forums!? This game is done! OVER! It is doomed to fail if THIS is how they treat PAYING customers!

It's pretty clear MOST of what they talk about is not implemented. The way they talk to each other in that stream, they nod at each other as if they weren't even aware certain ideas were in the plans, much less actually implemented. They're actually up there selling ideas.

It's weird to me that they made the big announcement for this so early when it's clearly so far off. Back in the summer they told us open Landmark BETA this fall, and hey it's fall and they're CHARGING for alpha lol. I'm predicting beta won't actually open until spring at the earliest, possibly even summer, and EQN won't be ready for beta for at least 2.5 years.

For now I'll play Project Spark beta for free, which is clearly miles ahead of EQL in the development stage and looks to have so many more degrees of freedom than EQL ever will. Landmark's graphics do look to be better, and they are definitely aiming more towards the MMO market, so hopefully they actually deliver on these ideas. Will keep an eye on it but I won't expect much out of it until spring at the earliest.

I watched the livestream last night, what I'm wondering is just how much materials (and time involved to collect said mats) were used in his building of that tower. Obviously, being a dev he's got unlimited resources, but I'm curious if that little tower he did in ~20 min would in reality take 2+ hours of gathering (or buying/trading from the cash shop/other players). They did say stone could be easily found and gathered, and that tools can be upgraded within a tier to speed up gathering, but are we talking a few all night gathering sessions to build a castle? Not to mention the unknown plot size and cost of getting another plot if you need more space.

I assume that the lowest size of voxel will cost you 1 quantity of material, and your total cost will be the total number of voxels by volume. It may seem grindy at first to collect large amounts of materials but I'm sure by the end of alpha/beta people will be pushing the maximum quantity caps if they exist.

Landmark gameplay videoof the tools from the recent livestream.

Voxel placement/resizing, material swap, templating, cut and pasting, slope line tools, land healing, resource trading.