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@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

Yeah, that's why I had said earlier in the post that I would just wait for an answer from them, to try and stop all of this. But people still felt the need to weigh in, tell me all the things I was doing wrong, tell me I was a crappy person in direct messages and tell me I won't get answers. All in all, you and like 2 other people, including specter have been the only nice or helpful people here. So I'll state it for all of the other people that like to weigh in with their caustic crap, you have been heard and put on ignore, please don't post anymore negative things.

You really need to reflect on how misled you are, everyone in this thread has only tried to help you

@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

So in the news release just now, it said under enchanting that the materials will have a component called intensity. Is this like the quality of the material? For instance, common quality, uncommon quality and rare?

Also, if they are the quality of the materials, are the quality of the materials going to be very obvious? An example being stone: common=sandstone, uncommon=granite and rare=marble. Or will the qualities be something not readily visible and detectable only by special skills?

(OP) This is in no way directed at the developers

@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

And that is what I was asking the game designers. If the intensity means the quality. The example I gave for stone should have be sufficient explanation, but apparently not.

(1st reply) You claimed to be asking the "game designers", yet at no point in the thread have you actually phrased your question/s or OP to be at them.
people have even given you suggestions to help get their attention.

@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

Do the game designers not answer questions here?

(2nd reply) Not directed at the developers but a general question anyone can answer about them.

@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

@Specter tyvm

(3rd reply) Doing this yourself would save everyone, especially the devs a lot of time

@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

@Farlander Good to know. Specter said he'd get them to answer if they can, so I wait for that.

(4th reply) He actually said "I'll see if I can get an answer" not that he'd get them to answer.
so even IF specter gets an answer, he might be the one posting it.

@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

Ummm...it's been a week now....can I please get an answer?

(5th reply) You have been given many answers.
if your wanting a developers answer, you need to be patient & just accept them when you get them.

@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

@deusex2 said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

My guess is, it's gonna be similar to how crafting was back in SWG. Your crafting materials will have effectiveness percentage and crafted item's effectiveness would depend on material's quality, in addition to crafter's skill.

Yeah, I have made lots of guesses as well, but the reason I asked for an answer from the Developers was because I wasn't satisfied with my guess, or anyone else. So I await an answer from them.

(6th reply) You asked for for an answer from the developers? When?

@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

@deusex2 said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

Well, you could've specified you were only interested in devs answer.

O.O I have...on three different responses/posts in this thread....

(7th reply) The only times you even mention them is when you make a claim to have already done so
(oh and that 1 question asking if they even reply to people)

@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

@Xzait said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

even then, the devs are pretty busy, you shouldnt only rely on responses from them. sure, they might be more insightfull/accurate/definate... but if they are too busy answering everyones random questions, they wont have time to develop the game. we are a community for a reason...

And I've never bothered them before....not that it's any of your business. This is my first question for them in the months since I have started following the game...I think 1 question every couple months is happily rare enough to allow them "time to develop the game"...

(8th reply) Everyone here has only tried to help you
pushing them away, snapping at them or just being down right nasty is only going to cause you problems with the very people who would always offer you a hand.

@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

@islesofurth said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

It is a bit much to EXPECT a reply from them.

if you really want an answer from one of them tho & wont be satisfied otherwise.
Why haven't you just gone onto discord like everyone else?
You can send them a PM that way.
I mean it certainly beats bickering over nothing here

Frankly because I greatly dislike discord, hardly ever use it, didn't even know that they were on there to answer things and didn't think I'd get attacked by pissants for asking the Devs a question here on the forums.

(9th reply) That is no excuse to start abusing people too

@Dariusacmar said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

@Kralith said in Enchanting crafting materials?:

I can understand your point, but also think about if everyone think if he just ask once in a couple of months, we will have thousands of questions all around. I don‘t think we ever should expect that the Devs will answer every question and if they could do it, we can‘t expect they answer fast.
They have to develope a game, they have to do much business stuff to get the future of the game saved. Short, they are busy as hell.
Specter still cared for getting an answer, he said it several times. We just need to be patient, till the Dev team has time to answer our questions.

As for Discord, i like to use it, it is a great tool for myself to stay in contact with many many people. But i also can understand if someone don‘t like it. Don‘t worry, the Devs are there not much more active than they are on forum. I think the forum is the right place to ask them anything about the game.

Yeah, that's why I had said earlier in the post that I would just wait for an answer from them, to try and stop all of this. But people still felt the need to weigh in, tell me all the things I was doing wrong, tell me I was a crappy person in direct messages and tell me I won't get answers. All in all, you and like 2 other people, including specter have been the only nice or helpful people here. So I'll state it for all of the other people that like to weigh in with their caustic crap, you have been heard and put on ignore, please don't post anymore negative things.

(10th reply) Only you were posting negative things
Just because people don't say the things you want to hear, does not mean they are against you.

You are here for the same reason as everyone else.
THE GAME
Even if you don't like what someone else said, never take it out of other people.
It can & always does come back to bite you.

In a post by @Prometheus about it being the last week for pledges.
he linked this: https://fracturedmmo.com/last-week-for-pledge-packs/

Despite this being about "pledges" i'm sure most people would still see it that buying a "founders pack" is still pledging to support a game in development regardless of how you word it.

Current pledge packs will be phased out and three founder packs will be added. The cost of access will be the same as current non-sale prices (€25 for Beta 2, €50 for Beta 1, €90 for Alpha 2), but the new packs will be less value-oriented (less Gold, VIP time, etc)

Original pledges should never change (this is just fair for those who supported the cause)
If you decrease the value of your current pledges over time, you should give ample warning (you did that)
If you increase the value of your current pledges over time, you should provide the difference to previous supporters to honor their support (you havn't done this)

It might seem trivial, the difference in gold is never really that much after all. But it is things like this that will ultimately shape your company and what you will be remembered for.

@Znirf said in Where is the news of the next test phase...:

@islesofurth but I was on vacation and the others were focusing on the porting.

Stop making excuses, when the studio is simply bad at keeping people up to date on events that people have already payed for.

If you are going to go on holiday, then you need to make sure such events are covered by another staff member or you complete it before hand.
You should also have provided a statement saying you were going on leave so backers knew not to expect updates.

This is downright unprofessional and dynamite is certainly not deserving of its fanatics when you act like this
Get your shit together and start acting like a proper company

@Xzait said in Buildable items for plots:

@Gothix i reckon an archery target could work. if someone (like myself) is a hardcore archer fan, they will design their base to fit it in :3

OMG! i would love one of those side to side moving practice dummies.
I don't care who i have to kill for them to take my gold, I want one!

@Xzoviac said in Where is the news of the next test phase...:

self entitled much?

Your attitude stinks ur not his boss.

Calm down take a deep breath

The manger will be with you shortly sharon

Iv complained too and made lengthy posts about it and actually agree with you.

But there is ways and means of asking for things being on the attack calling him unprofessional so on is not the way.

Suggestions

In future have some posts lined up every few weeks with mini bits of content, or competitions whatever to keep the forum from feeling your lack of presence during holidays

Or just make a little I'm off on holiday post cya guys soon

Keep up the good work with the game guys

Thanks for the laugh, no i'm not his boss. I'm his customer & I'm far more deadly.

Seriously tho
I get what your saying and sure maybe i was over the top, but that was also the point.

If you ask nicely for something that someone does not have but they promised you, then they will most likely ignore you, say they don't have it, or possibly provide you with news of when they will have it.
If however they do not provide news of something they promised you, and you have been asking nicely. Then you need to stop asking nicely.
The person or party who promised to provide you something is only going to give that information/promised thing to you when it's finished/worth doing.

Now @Znirf is now aware that he needs to communicate more & not just rely on discord.
It certainly isnt hard or time consuming to leave a 10-20 word message saying something like "hey guys, still working on port. Were almost done, but Alpha2 will be delayed, stay tuned)
Could have also added the fact he was going on holiday so we would know when to expect another update, or organise someone else to do it instead.
But the fact that nothing happened is why i said it was unprofessional, because that is a basic thing anyone with basic training would know.

But anyway, now they know.

@Znirf @Prometheus

I was speaking with @Spectre in game earlier today about changing/Resetting Attributes as i thought such a thing would be possible in a horizontal progressive game.
He mentioned that there was talk of maybe adding in something like limited resets...

Currently the game feels very much designed for a traditional level up system where you can add attribute points to your character to great impact.
I say this because the way most abilities are designed relies to heavily on what attributes you currently have.
Without being able to freely change your attributes (even at a cost) Players are forced to only be able to use what works with the attributes they are given & not freely choose how to play the game themselves.

In my opinion if your going to put a hard limit on attribute resets then you are killing your game.
You created a great kill points resource with the knowledge system, use it for other things too.
Give players 1 free Attribute reset, then make them pay 5,000 points each reset.
This way players will think twice before using it, but it is cheap enough that you might want to change attributes before a big fight or raid, etc.

If you do not create the proper systems for people to use, your game is going to kill itself...
The only way limited resets would work is if attributes were worth nothing, hence you got nothing to reset...

If the wolf was eaten by the spider this makes a little bit of sense, but since the monsters never fight each other...

@Znirf said in Communication between the worlds:

Probably we won't implement any global chat; it would be too chaotic and scarcely manageable. Instead, there will be the classical city, guild and group chats, and of course, you will be able to send private messages to the person in your friend list.

So instead of creating multiple channels & adding a little flavour text to mitigate any chaos (the sensible option)
You are inviting everyone to come to spam city (Runescape)

The possibility to have different race languages is quite impossible to develop in Fractured where cooperation, the karma system and guilds have a core role. For example, a new player won't be able to understand other guild companions unless they share the same race (It will force the creation of single-race guilds). So, language learning would represent a limit and a must to do for the majority of the in-game activities, and we don't want that.

So what your saying is that My guild consists of Demons, Beasts & Humans. They live on separate planets doing their own things but are all part of my guild.
How they became part of my guild when both demons and beasts have the opposite affiliation is a huge mystery.
But for them to join my guild they would first need to have left their world, or i left mine.
So if you implemented a language system that everyone has been talking about that uses the lore system to unlock & was the initial steps takes when travelling to another world. This would make complete sense for everything related to travelling to other worlds.
Also a new member would be able to understand everyone in the guild as all guild members would have had to unlock the required language in order to join a guild.

Lets try again.

I upgraded my "Original pledge" with a "Founders pack" giving me Legend with A2 access and 8,000Gold.

If you look at the "Founder Packs" you will find they have been updated. (most likely because Master to Legend just didn't seem worth it) So i should have 10,000Gold

@Specter At no point did i say the old packs were "downgraded". Nothing changed for those who purchased an older "Founders Pack" is the entire point of this post.

If this is how Dynamite studios really wants to move forward then i will say right now. I will not support Dynamite studios any more.
obviously i will still play the game, however i will not post bugs nor will i write reviews or guides & i certainly wont be buying cosmetics.

The recipe for Strong poison Paste only requires 1 x Unguent
however it uses all the unguent currently available in players inventory regardless of being 1, 2 or 3.

@Xzoviac
In this spotlight they mention how towns and everything is intended to develop from a single hamlet up to a metropolis as more people build their homes
https://fracturedmmo.com/feature-spotlight-7-towns-governors-politics/

@Prometheus said in People who buy a founders pack today get more than yesterday:

It was meant to be done last week but preparation for Gamescom messed our plans up - we'll do it this week for sure though!

@Prometheus Thank you for the clarification.

In future please at least give a small mention about such things (like when you mention the new shop)

it would certainly avoid a lot of misguided anger, in particular as there is very little trust for games companies these days.

I beleive the instability comes from the admins spawning in items & teleporting players etc.

I say this because just after @spectre came online to help someone who was stuck in their house
The server became really unstable
My spells wouldnt cast instantly
Sometimes when they did cast they would not register a cooldown, so i couldnt cast it properly until the cooldown was up (but i would still do the casting animation)
NPC's would not hit me right away even tho i was in melee range

These things only seem to happen after an admin has been online
Not saying its bad they do these things, but until a fix is found perhaps they could limit or find alternative methods of helping.

I'm just playing catch-up here

@Farlander said in Communication between the worlds:

A language barrier is a degree of difficulty at the beginning of the game. Casual players will leave if they can't interact with their friends.

The only degree of difficulty would be going from one planet to another.
If this was even implemented it would have to follow the rules the devs have already set in place.

As long as there are chat bars and chat programs languages are moot because how many times do you type in spatial chat at that point? So other languages will only affect meeting people you don't know. Other than having achievements or knowledge point gains I can see it being ignored alot of the time.

If this is true, then you shouldn't have a problem with it, right?

Friends definitely matter...at least for me. I played SWTOR for 2 years with friends. When they all left I was the last holdout. That's because I absolutely loved the game. I stuck it out another year or so going solo. I eventually left because I just had no fun playing alone.

Aye friends are important & @Gothix did try to point out that you would either already be playing with your friends on the same planet or you would need to find a way to travel to another planet to talk to them.

So this language system for each race would only add gameplay & lore for those who want to enjoy it.
It would not take away gameplay or add difficulty to those who do not want it.

Again, only if its implemented by the devs

@Hashmalash said in People who buy a founders pack today get more than yesterday:

exactly, they act like CD Project Red. they are open and trustworthy much apprieciate this this kind of game dev studios are very rare these days.

Agreed

@Pwnstar said in Min/Max'ing and crafting/fighting:

Think of it this way. 18 versus 17 is a difference of 5%.

Not always no.
Your assuming that 0 stats = nothing (almost all games work with some base value)
Also each additional stat may have a falloff effect, meaning each stat is not equally as effective as the last.

@Specter said in People who buy a founders pack today get more than yesterday:

Prometheus feels he shouldn't have to rely on the Foundation to have an active community. (We know many forum members disagree with this assessment, hence why the Foundation is still here).

IF he wants to get rid of the foundation, he is going to need to get rid of the bonus for posting daily first.
There are far too many people who take advantage of this in the wrong way.

I'm sure the original intention was to get people to be active on the forums, but it has created the wrong kind of activity.

If they want people to be active on the forums, then the should be encouraging people to ask more questions & providing more answers.
People are always extremely interested about the development, even if the reply only comes in a few words or a picture.

Personally, i don't care about the rewards as much as i care about ensuring a game is worth my time.

@Znirf said in Where is the news of the next test phase...:

These are not excuses, it's the reality of a small startup as we are.

maybe you should lookup the definition of what an excuse is & educate yourself, being as young as your are you clearly need it.

@Gibbx said in Where is the news of the next test phase...:

@islesofurth wow dude relax. Few projects in the history of mankind have stay on scheduled. Info is coming. This game is going to good. You need to exercise a little patience there friend.

No I don't expect them to remain on schedule.
I do however expect them to keep us up to date on such matters when they have a staff member who's job it is to deal with the community.
Even if he was on holiday it is still his job to ensure that we are kept in the loop.
@Spectre does a far better job at dealing with the community than @Znirf does and he is only an un-payed moderator, not a payed member of Dynamite Studios

@Althalus said in Where is the news of the next test phase...:

@islesofurth the company doesn't owe you anything other than a finished game... they don't owe you to give you status update on when they are taking a vacation... Dynamite has been doing a phenomenal job of keeping us updated compared to some other companies... since you don't even know the difference between mid October and early October (which we are still in btw) obviously we should not expect you to behave any better but cut the rudeness mkay?

Perhaps they only "owe" you a finished game, however they "owe" me & many others more than that.
Like many others they "owe" me access alpha 2.
Sure they don't need to provide news of when it is going to happen, they could just launch and force users to check constantly if they wanted to play.
And then most of the people would miss the test phase, the game wouldn't get the needed QA for launch, Launch would be horrid & everyone would boycott the game giving the game & company a bad name.

@PeachMcD said in Where is the news of the next test phase...:

@islesofurth - now THERE'S the sense of aggrieved entitlement I'm familiar with from so many game forums! "I paid MONEY! now JUMP, you lackeys, or I shall stamp my foot once again!"

So many places that kind of attitude is normal, I guess I can't blame you for thinking it would work here too.
So glad to see you are wrong. @Znirf's reply is so lovely and polite, and you probably won't appreciate that at all. Hope you'll find someplace else to be. You're obviously not going to enjoy this community at all.
bu-bye!

I kind of feel sorry for you @PeachMcD
For you to say that, you have a many years before you realise the importance of what i did. That is why you see it so often on other sites, not because "i paid money, now jump" but because of the laws we live by & the professionalism expected of companies.
If a company does not keep its clients happy by whatever means, then it is only natural that those clients let their grievances be known, either via media or to the company itself.

Many people think it is funny to harass the person who is in fact helping the company by letting them know they are upset with them.
Would you prefer i took my grievances to social media sites instead?

There are some old posts on discord from Znirf about being able to take your tames on invasions & events.
Seems they are still considering what to do regarding breeding, so maybe that is why they haven't posted any official information.

The interesting part will be when people decide to specialise in a single resistant type at one time.