The furniture looks excellent! I would totally love a little cabin like this for myself. Which raised a question in my mind, 'do Beastlings even need houses? If I'm a wolfling, tigerperson, or bearling, wouldn't I have a den? Would I want to sleep on a bed
And if I were Hart-kin, would I even have a den? My experience of wild ungulates is that they like to find a nice secluded bower or grotto-type place to relax.
Idea for a future Content Pill: The well-appointed den! 
@Alexian @LilCassiopeia
I'm in w Duath and have applied for the Guilded Meridian site. Just want y'all to know my current PC isn't as strong as the box I hope to have once this game drops - running a second window behind the game significantly slows my fps, and opening Guilded on my phone taxes our rickety wifi, so most of my comm will be ingame chat or out-of-game when I'm not playing.
Hope that's ok!
@FibS - thanks for clarification. It's true, I'm not experienced w/MMOs - the few I tried weren't much fun for me. DDO was a money-sink full of 12-yr-olds; another open-source game (forget the name) was grindsville. I didn't stick around to learn what was normal for this sort of game, so I appreciate the clue that what I was talking about and what y'all are talking about are two very different things.
Now that I know what y'all are talking about, I can adjust my take:
Creative dailies in large towns, given by NPCs and opening quest-lines to creative cosmetic rewards, seem like a fun option to me as long as they're creative and optional. Folks who hate them should not be penalized for not doing them.
YES! Christmas Kudos to @Specter, who keeps us jolly by busting up fights before anyone gets too bloody. 
Gothix laid it out pretty clearly. The main reason many of us are subscribers is that the devs for Fractured have given us a game that will allow everyone to play on equal footing whether they pay extra or not.
There are SO MANY freemium games to play, @spacema3 - if that's what you're seeking, I know you'll find a nice one.
Just want to say how much I appreciate the way @Prometheus & the devs actually check in and respond to this forum (unlike the CEO of Amazon 
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Cool to learn that my little toons, their home, and their foes are all going to be evolving and upgrading as time goes on! I'm with @Gothix, tho - I honestly like the game's aesthetic already. Onward and upward, sez me.
@Specter - I fully expect to be ganked all to f but it's for a good cause, right? Hoping the system will work as the devs envisioned
Happy New Year, m8s! 
@Mindframe - you might be like me, a person who prefers PvE and will be a happy resident of Arboreus-to-come.
But you are NOT like me, because I wouldn't wander into an open playtest of a specific feature that I don't personally like and write a bunch of totally unconstructive posts trashing what I got for free.
I do feel for the folks who wander in during this particular test and think it's a representative sample of the game. I don't feel one bit sorry for the ones who decide to trash it on the basis of such an uninformed experience.
Consider deleting the posts you should have known better than to make, and learning more about what this game actually is from the folks who have been here a while.
@Kralith said in January 2021 Open Weekend:
@Ostaff @Gothix When a Carebear is escalating
Ok then, it's me and Kralith taking y'all DOWN. Come and get it, @Nekrage! 
Devs would be foolish not to have some kind of system in place. Hackers, of course, are gonna hack... but I pray that the consequences for being caught exploiting/hacking/bot/cheating are immediate loss of game privileges, no matter how much $$ a player has invested.
This whole discussion is so important for me, since I haven't played much MMORPG and have never done much PvP in any game. I really appreciate the expertise of those in this thread w lots of experience, even when y'all don't agree!
My contribution to the discussion is a reminder that the CHA stat hasn't been developed yet bc the devs know the basic toons are mages and fighters, and CHA is going to be a more important stat for more complicated builds, and for races that don't exist yet, and for support toons like bards/tamers.
So before y'all lock in your ideas about what's crucial and what to dump, remember that the talent tree is far from finished, and new potentially awesome builds are going to be available in every test. I'm really looking forward to the CHA tree, as someone who has loved playing a bard in other games.
I play Rise of Kingdoms on my cellphone, and there's a quick 3d party integrity verification that pops up at random intervals. Players have 10 minutes to do a simple anti-bot task (so if you're in the middle of a fight or complicated spell it will wait while you finish). Each time you complete the task you get a (very) small reward of resources.
Not going to plug that particular 3d party, just want to say that game integrity can rely on inobtrusive anti-hack/bot/cheat programs that don't require ccard info or any personal player info. I'm guessing that our devs will have no trouble finding one.
I'm also guessing that the hackers will consider it a personal challenge to work around whatever the devs put in, but that the horizontal progression system & buy-to-play system (instead of P2W) will be less attractive to those sorts. They like a game with lots of frangible rewards they can sell for personal gain.
@Ostaff said in Tame monsters and make them accompany you:
<---- I shall be leading an army of cats! BEWARE!
One holiday gift from my hubbywoozle was a tshirt of this...
@Jetah said in Foundation chests:
I'd like to see the Foundation become a seasonal thing but maybe a year length instead of a usual 3 months. DS could cap the level at 500 or something and let people just stay at cap if they reach it before it resets.
I'd love to have a reason to visit the forums and engage after the game is live. It would attempt to curb toxicity too because if you're banned on the forums then you can't obtain the Foundation exclusives!
I'd be ok with 1 new cosmetic item a year. They can put a full armor set (as an example) over 500 levels. IE Boots, Pants, Chest, Gloves, Shoulders and Helm at every 100 levels. Mounts, pets, titles, skins can be recolored but be exclusive to the Foundation.
I wanna second this. I can also see a way around the objection @Gothix rightly raises to proliferating meaningless titles.
I'm looking through the lens of the Game of Thrones - Ascent alliance vs alliance cycles, which each had a distinctive name, icon, and set of rewards/titles that players competed to earn. By the time the game ended <deep mourning still going on> I had racked up a selection of titles from which to choose - and I was proud of each of them... e.g. Golden Viper, Royal Executioner, Frozen Hammer, Eagle's Bounty . 
There were other titles that players earned by longevity (Elder, for those who had been playing for over 5 years, was esp respected) or in-game prowess. Maybe players who earned x# of Foundation titles in a row by dint of solid, constructive forum participation would reap the coveted Master of Contributions title!
I'm having such a gas! THANKS to devs and to the people who blazed trail and made helpful guides like this one for reagents... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13771_4U2ndR7yOPvCg091V8mN7fs4m7-n08-DI1ykyM/edit#gid=0
Thanks for slipping me in the back door. My favorite part so far is exploring. But what would be really helpful is a way to 'bookmark' places on the map w notes. It's probably there already and I just haven't got a clue about how to do it. 
I haven't been able to make daily posts - I don't log in just to post something on the daily thread for points (nothing against that... it's just not my game). I'm making an effort to check in regularly to read new posts and make substantive, thoughtful responses. I'm really thankful that the devs have built a way to reward every level kind of engagement.
welp, I can open access to my storage and my crafting equipment, but not my bed or my fireplace. Dang. I'd cull this post except I want to ask the devs, "Perche no?"
In real life, anyone wandering in off the street could sleep in my bed or warm themselves at my fireplace. I grok that there's no lock on the door... still, it seems like a strange default.
Different folks' brains mostly work differently than mine, so this is just my 2 cents.
I'm with @Gothix et al who see mats coming from most mob kills but not top-tier weapons.
What would make sense to me is if fighting npcs like goblins & shamans dropped their weapons once defeated, but those weapons would either be low-level or base weapons (upgradable but not much better than what anyone could make themselves).
A high-level npc boss on Beastworld might drop something more desirable... there might even be a quest involved in attaining such a drop... but if the boss is that strong, it would take a team to bring them down. Then the Mighty Staff of Whatzisbucket would be a prize worth dueling for.... on another planet.... 
Can I get a Hallelujah for a volunteer admin with both a sense of humor and a reasonable set of boundaries?
If not, can we get a clone of this guy?
Actually, let's have both.