You're right, we can't take donations of any kind or it could lead to a cease and desist. We are still working on it and making some steady progress though. We are working on the attribute system now and then we will start implementing combat.
it would be interesting to see if some of those things can be changed.. Like death penalty, remove some fast travel. obviously there will be no Buying equipment or mounts so that is a big step. Make boats matter !!!
We are shooting to build an emu for Vanguard in its final state just because thats what we were able to packet collect. A lot of the fed ex quests will probably be missing though since we didn't have time to collect them all. We did get a lot of the major quests though, such as all the parts of Trengal Keep, the Celestine Ward/Thelaseen quests, the griffon mount, Greystone, APW key quest, the major diplo quest lines including Exemplar, etc... We talk a lot about the changes people want to Vanguard, some we can incorporate, some we will leave to anyone who wants to develop a custom ruleset server. I'm sure someone will throw together a FFA PvP server
Things like the death penalty can definitely be changed and it would be easy to disable any or all of the rifts. The continental boats would be harder since we don't have a collect of them spawning since they were removed from the game prior to our collection efforts. It would be possible to make player made boats travel in between continents though. Even if we can't change the client, there is a way to do almost anything we want in the game.
Thats actually quite interesting. Less running around delivering dickpics and bear asses and more dungeons and killing bosses for armor on a VG Emu. Sounds like a good change.We are shooting to build an emu for Vanguard in its final state just because thats what we were able to packet collect. A lot of the fed ex quests will probably be missing though since we didn't have time to collect them all. We did get a lot of the major quests though, such as all the parts of Trengal Keep, the Celestine Ward/Thelaseen quests, the griffon mount, Greystone, APW key quest, the major diplo quest lines including Exemplar, etc... We talk a lot about the changes people want to Vanguard, some we can incorporate, some we will leave to anyone who wants to develop a custom ruleset server. I'm sure someone will throw together a FFA PvP server.
The content team is going to get turned loose very soon on rebuilding the starter areas, and I think one person is going to try and rebuild Mekalia from scratch!
What exactly do you mean by "final state"?We are shooting to build an emu for Vanguard in its final state just because thats what we were able to packet collect. A lot of the fed ex quests will probably be missing though since we didn't have time to collect them all. We did get a lot of the major quests though, such as all the parts of Trengal Keep, the Celestine Ward/Thelaseen quests, the griffon mount, Greystone, APW key quest, the major diplo quest lines including Exemplar, etc... We talk a lot about the changes people want to Vanguard, some we can incorporate, some we will leave to anyone who wants to develop a custom ruleset server. I'm sure someone will throw together a FFA PvP server.
The content team is going to get turned loose very soon on rebuilding the starter areas, and I think one person is going to try and rebuild Mekalia from scratch!
You're right, "final state" is a bit confusing. We are trying to recreate the game largely as it was at sunset, because the items, quest dialogues, spawns, etc... were all collected from the last 6 months. That doesn't mean we won't be making changes to how the game plays. For instance, I am fairly certain we will be slowing the levelling experience down to be more in line with early VG. I know we will be reverting some of the abilities that got changed from their original implementation (Necro death touch, Rogue hostage negotiations). And the emu will release with a level cap of 50. Anything beyond that will come in an expansion of sorts.
Hah, yeah, thats another one we plan to revert. It'll definitely take some tuning though.
