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In Allods Online when bards were introduced as a new class, they were OP as hell.

They just activated a passively played song (some songs would heal, some would disrupt incoming CC, some would do aoe damage, some would increased party move speed, etc.) and depending on build they were able to activate more songs, or they would have less songs, but would do better single target DPS, or CC or heal.

People that built bards with maxed out songs, were able to just leave bards AFK on mobs spawn spots, and bards would just play songs passively, aoe damage song, healing song, etc. and mobs would slowly die, while bards HP remained full. Easy AFK grinding, people left their bards online and left to work, lol. Came back home, bags were full.

I hope bards in Fractured do not end up like that, because that was just silly.

Generally the more risk in game, the emotions will run higher. Anticipation, fear, adrenaline. For me this makes game a lot more fun to play.

But I know that some people love safety so they do not feel all this emotions, but rather wish to play calmly.

This is why we have several planets with different rules.

Of course, some things need to remain equal on all planets, as to not give advantage to one race, because this race can still travel to another planet and attack other race.

For example giving strong PvE boost on Arboreus (increased stats vs monsters, centralized bank, better housing etc.) would not be OK, even if this is PvE planet, because beast-kins would then advance faster then humans and demons, and in times when they would travel to Syndesia or Tartaros and do PvP, they would have unfair advantage due to accumulated strength they received due to these boosts.

This is why devs do not have an easy job to balance different planet play styles, with some rules that have to remain the same for all planets.

Owl-kin could be cool down the line.

But I agree with @Roccandil , just dark screen will not help, because today GPUs and monitors have good way of altering brightness levels by hardware, so this is not something that cheat engines can detect. It is a simple modification of brightness and gamma on players hardware.

So in addition to having a dark screen, I would agree that having other players characters not rendering unless you can actually see them would be very nice, so altering your monitors brightness would still not help you in PvP, and in PvE as well if mobs follow same rendering principles.

Torch, PER, and innate racial night vision could be some of the factors that affect on how other characters and mobs render around you and at what distance.

Rendering distance:

• not rendering at all
• close
• medium
• distant

Character transparency:

• invisible
• very transparent (barely visible)
• half transparent (averagely visible)
• not transparent (fully rendered)

Combination of rendering distance, and character transparency, based on various factors (torches, PER, innate night vision, tech, etc.) would be pretty cool. Of course, it would require some extra development work.

But think about it:

• using torch and having no night vision = characters render only at distance that torch lights up (perhaps there are stronger and weaker torches)

• using torch and having night vision, low PER = characters in torch light radius render fully, characters outside of torch radius are half transparent

• using torch, having night vision AND high PER = characters outside of torch light radius render with almost no transparency (better visible)

• having night vision, high PER, but no torch = characters inside closer radius, aren't rendered fully, but are rendered same as outside of torch radius, partly transparent, depending on PER

• high PER, no torch, no night vision = characters in close radius are rendered half transparent, characters at longer distances are barely visible (strong transparency, only some blurry edges are periodically visible, then vanish)

• low PER, no night vision, no torch = you don't see characters rendered even at close range (just feel that dagger stabbing you from behind)

Include other factors like tech, perhaps characters being tired, thirsty, hungry, etc. and you can get huge amount of combinations. I would personally love to see something like that.

Again I acknowledge, as awesome as it would sound, it would be a lots of development work.

I'd suggest that if town bank is lost (for any reason), the building itself "vanishes" but a bunch of chests (with appropriate loot rights) wait on the ground for owners to come and pick up their stuff (and take them wherever they want afterwards, it's their own problem). Chests are guarded by several NPCs for a few days (let's say a week) after which chests remain unguarded. Loot rights still remain but now there is a danger of "stuff" being stolen (with thieves getting marked appropriately of course).

If during next week (so total 14 days after bank was lost) still something remains there, it vanishes completely.

I mean, if players come to this game and expect a WoW style banking, they are playing the wrong game.

@tulukaruk said in [Poll] Tails... because you asked for it! :

and that demon is still better dead! you cannot even call me racist as I'm a demon myself

Someone who hates his own race would technically still be a racist.

Also what happens if you turn to lich? Does your mount get scared from you and run away?

Do your mounts still recognize you after any race transformation? What about pets?

Transformation = you loose all pets and mounts?

(I guess you could perhaps keep the pets because you still stink the same, so they recognize you.)
(Like ewww, ok this is surely my master.)

@gofrit said in Fractured Content Pills - Week 43, 2018:

@jairone
The fact is if you attack someone with a torch, you could assume he drop his torch to take shield and weapon, so no more light.... you could have the first blood but not the kill since you will be also in the dark...
But if you have a night vision skill is an another story

Perhaps you could wield a sword in one hand, and a torch in other. But no shield then, so your defenses would be worse (no blocking and no shield skills). Perhaps you could dodge a lot if you invest in DEX.

Or you could drop a torch on the ground and it would still burn, and a static area would be lit up.

@MeninoDeOuro grats mate.

But it's a long way to the top, don't hit pause button now. Go, go, more shiny rewards await!

Bad @Althalus , bad.

Drank one too many beers, and with temporarily impaired eyesight thought to himself "Who are these Dynaspam Studios"... clicked the report button, and tomorrow... conveniently forgot all about it.

@Kralith you could always cast a fireball at overpowered Rul0r, and let him light up an area around you.

@meninodeouro said in pre alfa date ?:

@Specter
because the pre-alpha content can not be divulged by the players who will participate?

For the remaining foundation point rewards.

Pre-alpha access is just one of rewards, but there are many rewards to be obtained while leveling towards level 200 (or perhaps more if more rewards get added). And people will likely be able to continue leveling up until the game releases.

@boogis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lich

"Unlike zombies, which are often depicted as mindless, a lich retains independent thought and is usually at least as intelligent as it was prior to its transformation."

Lich is intelligent, and retains same mind from before transformation, so it can be good or evil, depending on choice.

Also, liches are human who seek eternal life (most of us would like that, this is not bad in itself), and go through transformation of body to achieve that. After you are transformed, you can do whatever you want. You can go and hurt others if you are evil, but you don't have to, you are an intelligent being with a choice.

So lich does not have to be evil. Even if, for arguments sake, we would assume that statistically most liches would be evil, this does not necessitate for all of them to be.

It would be like playing a movie about Russians, and someone sees a Russian dude in movie NOT drinking vodka, and he says oh this movie is wrong, because surely all Russians drink vodka.

@boogis lich is not human anymore.

Same like angel is not a demon anymore after conversion, and abomination is not a beast kin anymore.

Once you chose to convert to lich, you say goodbye to a human culture, and say hello to lich culture. I guess it would be similar to becoming a vampire, once human, but not human anymore. You become a completely new race.

Humans will certainly not consider you one of their own anymore.

You shouldn't etiquette persons based on race they belong too.

There can be bad demons, and good demons too, demons that were born as demons, but behave well and do not grief others. But they are still demons.

There can also be bad angels, who go around and harass other people, con them in trades, behave in insulting way etc.

The same way as lich, you can chose if you will behave good or bad. You are a new race, but you can still behave per your choice.

Angel is not a demon.

He might have been demon once, but isn't anymore. It's a completely new race once you get there, new skin and everything.

So you can have good demon and bad demon, and also good angel and bad angel.

An example of good demon - a demon (evil alignment and all) who doesn't hurt anyone that didn't deserve it, is fair to players around him, and generally behaves well, isn't a troll, etc.

And example of bad angel - an angel (good alignment and all) but goes around and trolls people, cons them in trades, annoys them with bad speech in the world (general PvE and social griefing) that Angels can still do, even without an actual PvP action.

@galdran said in Fractured newsletter:

Thats not what i'm saying. I have been signed up here for months, and I have received ZERO newsletters.

I get the KS posts, and I read the news on the site, but I have been here for months and have not received a single newsletter. Not just talking about this current month.

I'd look into your mail provider configuration, your spam folder (duh), but also your filter configuration if you have one. Some of your mail might get blocked.

You'd best add DS mail to your white list just to be sure.

I myself made a filter specially for Fractured mail, it marks it always as (not a spam), and it forwards it to a special folder that i made for Fractured.

Well, all important announcements always come through e-mail. So we will for sure get e-mails.

Forum and Discord may have a small announcement that e-mails have been sent.

It's a "10 star" coffee.

10 stars for each cup.

Thank you Jacopo for setting aside the time for some updates for us, information hungry bunch here.

I'm also looking forward to all the pills I can swallow, whenever you will have the time to pass some over.

One other curiosity, can we have beer with these pills?

@kralith said in Fractured Content Pills - Week 43, 2018:

Hmm, i guess there can be some nice bussiness models for torches.
„Buy best torches at whole Syndesia, just original made by the great and one and only @Gothix“

Oh yeah we will definitely need some torches.

I'm also getting curious now.. perhaps some night vision sight for shadow demons that are biologically "made" to hunt better in the dark.