while the core team is 10, they can sub contract positions which wont count on the "10 employee" numbers. they could have 35 programming sub contractors and 10 art sub contractors yet still be considered "10 employees".
and they did buy some easy models from the store so that saved them from needing to create that.
i like fractured. as you play you'll get use to the land and will navigate it better. we just test it so are limited in the familiarity of it.
that reply was from late 2018. things can change. the developers have been quiet on spotlights! pills have stopped. without medication and spotlights, we die.
odds are they have an art director, at the studio, and they coordinate with sub contractors who make the actual art. that would be the best use of the funds. there are plenty of 3rd world countries where you can pay so much less for art, meshes, 3d models, etc than doing it in house.
@Gothix said in Extra races on Syndesia:
@Jetah said in Extra races on Syndesia:
frequent invasions will happen between humans and demons with few invasions between demons and beast.
Evil humans will want to invade beasts as well. Dont underestimate human evil.
they'll be on Tartaros anyways and i put them under the demon banner \o/
@Pluto said in Foundation:
@Jetah said in Foundation:
@Pluto said in Foundation:
Eh, I personally think efforts should be spent on other endeavors. Thinking otherwise just seems pretty selfish/I need to be special imho.
Looks like they are already thinking of other tiers though.
it cost an hour of time for 1 person to create a few ideas. then another 1/2 to 1 hour to decide if they're added in and where. then 2-5 hours to get some good concept art approved. i'd say at best 7-8 man hours for 5-20 rewards. now the art can be sub contracted (which happens regularly) so the loss is much lower than what i have provided.
and they can release tiers as they're finished or major content patches so they aren't all given at once.
And then you consider the hours and hours spent to implement the rewards. Even a simple cloak takes a long time to implement. Pets? Yikes.
And all of those hours are spent into some arbitrary exclusivity? What a waste of time.
do you think the art team is programming? because odds are they aren't. the art team is probably creating plenty of concept art that could be added to the Foundation as rewards or to the shop (most likely the shop). that same art team is probably doing the modeling, texturing too so adding a few simple recolors of pets or mounts will be pretty easy. IE changing the fire cat pet to a frost pet by changing the color to blue and white. they could add some flair text to explain why it looks like it's on fire even though it's 'cold' like saying "there is much debate as to how this feline is capable to being cold yet look like it's hot. maybe it's beyond the technology of this fractured world to understand how the creature is capable of doing such a feat".
@Farlander said in Extra races on Syndesia:
There will be a karma penalty for those with good karma I thought in the demon lands. The neutral lands have no penalties for either karma right? I assume the evil karma players will be killing each other in demon lands but I suspect just like Felucia few will venture there. Good based characters won't go there to pvp because of the penalties but will be looking for players in the neutral lands where no penalties exist for either side. I probably need to read up more on the lands lol.
frequent invasions will happen between humans and demons with few invasions between demons and beast.
@Pluto said in Foundation:
Eh, I personally think efforts should be spent on other endeavors. Thinking otherwise just seems pretty selfish/I need to be special imho.
Looks like they are already thinking of other tiers though.
it cost an hour of time for 1 person to create a few ideas. then another 1/2 to 1 hour to decide if they're added in and where. then 2-5 hours to get some good concept art approved. i'd say at best 7-8 man hours for 5-20 rewards. now the art can be sub contracted (which happens regularly) so the loss is much lower than what i have provided.
and they can release tiers as they're finished or major content patches so they aren't all given at once.
@DevilsDog said in February 2020 Playtest Survey:
@DevilsDog too add thanks for fixing the issue for win7, i am still not ready to upgade to 10.
i upgraded to 10 because it was better at games. i'm not really sure why anyone would hold back getting it.
And they'll miss all of the emails. it's common knowledge that late adopters can get the items faster and cheaper.
I dont see the foundation as a means of keeping cosmetics exclusive. if they want to adjust the reward levels then that's fine but even then they're free content.
i've read of some of the original people didn't have the daily comment to get points. the news was nothing and there was much to get points. i joined in jan '18 and could quickly get to level 30-ish. i worried that i'd never get all the rewards and stayed on the forums every waking moment i could find. it didnt take me long to get all the rewards. so if someone new showing up can get to level 50-80 then great for them.
i'm here and no on reddit or discord because of the Foundation, so on that part it's doing a great job!
@Farlander said in Extra races on Syndesia:
There is no white on white pvp as you put it because I thought because the good aligned world is no pvp period except during town raids. I guess if you goto the evil planet you could in essence attack anyone you want. I guess my question would be can beastmen and demons change alignment? I haven't read up much on the angel path.
yes. so can humans.
@Kralith said in Foundation:
i mean.. they can add stuff after it's released. they can use the rewards as a way to keep people here, otherwise people may get the reward they want then stop visiting.
@Althalus
it's a reward for being active on the forums. i dont see any reason to deny certain people who came late any rewards so long as they put in the effort pre-release.
I'd much rather the foundation levels stop so that others can catch up.
in the top 10, i'm fine with others catching up and i dont expect anything 'exclusive' from other foundation members.
@Razvan said in Extra races on Syndesia:
Have you ever played a game with flagging / karma system? As a human you start with 0 karma. Going from 0 karma to -1000 karma (or whatever) is a transition period. I feel that what we are arguing about is a very basic, old and widely implemented system.
@Gothix It's more about the hostility level, which is somehow linked to alignment. In most games you can easily recognize if a player is hostile or not by the color of their name (I can make a more detailed post about this if you need).
i played UO. that aside. the transition period is the wiggle room within each alignment group. those groups be three; good, neutral, and bad. as an example if good karma is +1000 to +200, then there's a transition spot of about 500 to 200 where the person is obviously trying to be not-good. the +199 could be neutral grouped along with 0 and -199. that would give 400 pts of wiggle room to stay within or the person could hard push toward one or the other.
this isn't a 3 point karma system where you're good (+1), neutral (0), or bad (-1) without any wiggle room.
technically having VIP that opens more knowledge slots is paying to not play the game.
so a neutral human becoming bad will be automatically banished? or during an invasion a bad demon wanting to be good will insta kill you? there are transition periods where you wont know which alignment the player is going for.
even a flagged demon (negative karma) may want to become a positive karma character so they'll be red until they hit that neutral point.
there isn't a clear pattern on how karma looks. when you walk a street you dont know who's good or who's bad. it should be that same way in game, it wont but it should.
a demon could approach you, a human, and you'd have to guess if they'll attack or help. it shouldn't be a 'omg that's a demon they're all bad, kill them'. after all how would someone recognize a human between the 3 karma groups?
best game feature was when you couldn't pay.. to not play the game.
@Razvan said in Extra races on Syndesia:
@Jetah
Since gameplay-wise they are exactly the same... yes.PS: And I said racial restrictions should apply to easily identify their base racial bonuses and eventual hostility level. For example, big animal = bear, medium animal = wolf, small animal = deer, humanoid looking thing such as elf = human, big and mean evil looking thing = hellfire demon etc). I also said that it's not uncommon for games which allow reskins to give people the option to turn them off.
oh that's the silhouette. but that doesn't work here because karma can change for everyone. we'll have poisitive demons, either humans, and negative beastkin. so the silhouette wont matter.
if you're going there with the reskin then everything is just a reskin human.
it'd have to be 6 years game time to be 6 months our time if you want a bi-annual access.
games are now doing seasonal content which is granted once a year for the duration. they could do something like that too.
