@Prometheus - really appreciate all the ways devs are giving forum denizens perks for participation and staying tuned in! I feel like I'll have a lot of advantages over players who join after the official launch, not to mention the input we're all allowed to have!
#KUDOS!
again 
I esp like the idea of a 'laws checklist' that simplifies setting up a town's constitution and enables players to avoid reinventing the wheel - but that checklist would need to be pretty exhaustive AND open to input from player community.
Hi @Specter 
I've been in touch with the Meridian Hand, @Alexian, and they're gonna create a vacant space in Meridian city for my new abode. I've asked them to let you know the coords either here or in Discord. My current buggy house to demolish is at 850W/-2494N
Thanks for all your help!
@Alexian I've signed up to help with Duath, and look forward to visiting Zenith!
This was a real problem for us in Meridian - the upkeep being tied to the weekly turnover meant that people who bought their homes on the weekend had only a couple of days to raise the rent. We lost a LOT of residents, and went into the red in terms of our city level, because folks couldn't pony up quick enough to keep their property.
When a city doesn't pony up on time, they go into the red and have a week to make good. When a player is late with the rent, their house disappears. This, my friends, goes against all my principles. Just nasty af. 
Please fix this for the next test, ok?
Hey @Alexian! @Kralith and some others are looking to work cooperatively w us, if you wanna talk about that w them... The vids I've seen suggest that cooperation may be in our best interest, but I have no idea what that might look like or with whom it would be most beneficial.
@Znirf posted:
Right now the only thing that we can say is that it will be in mid-November. As soon as we know something we will publish an announcement in the forum!
Thanks for the ballpark anyway - I wanna remind the Italian dev team ( @Prometheus et al) that in the US, the Thanksgiving holiday this year will be November 28th - so that whole weekend will see a big %age of US customers traveling & spending time w/family.
It's not a holiday for most of the world, but for the US it's a major weekend off; whether or not people go eat at gramma's, they often plan parties or trips that would make long gaming sessions problematic. There's also a growing Black Friday Shopping Frenzy on the day after Thanksgiving - people camp out overnight to get 'hot deals' at major retailers. It's ridiculous but it's a thing.
Scheduling any testing to conflict w those 'traditional' American activities will skew your results/demographics. Just a heads-up FYI cuz I don't expect European folks to know about our tribal habits 
I keep hoping I'll find that they've fixed this whenever I see a patch, but so far no joy. So glad @Razvan lets me crash at his place in town!
Thanks Meridian! 
I hope they'll fix this in time for the FREE KEY PEOPLE from G.Round who will flood in tomorrow.... and no doubt be dismayed to find they can't furnish the homes they've spent all day building. That's a really bad look for them if they want to sell this game, innit @Specter? 
I get it - we all have our preferred ways to get and share info, and Reddit(tm) is yours. But given that how most folks want to actually spend their time (once things are up and running) is playing the game, it just cuts into gaming time to multiply platforms and ask people to keep up with all of them.
I'm currently playing a mobile game called Rise of Kingdoms(tm). There's a discord(tm) server for the game that I find useful for answering questions, and some alliances I've been in have created alliance servers & used their voice channels to coordinate war activities. That can be helpful. But my last alliance also had a very active Facebook(tm) page & chat channel - those of us who want to get away from fb were disadvantaged severely. I ended up finding another alliance. Some alliances also have a Reddit(tm) page/forum/thingee. 
As some of my friends might say, "Ain't nobody got time for all that!"
@Yitra made a good suggestion: if Reddit(tm) is your jam, @Orich, nobody's stopping you setting something up for like-minded Fractured-folk. I doubt you'll see me there, but lots of things have happened in this world that I'd never have predicted...
I'm not going to comment on the feasibility/desirability of the OP - y'all are doing a great job discussing that and the various strategies are fascinating.
What I want to inject into the conversation is my desire for a way to learn about mobs w/o killing them. I don't have a problem w killing a deer for meat, or even for a head to make a helmet out of - but killing a whole bunch of ANYTHING strictly for 'information' and leaving the piles of corpses unlooted bc I already have plenty of meat or hide feels horrible & wasteful.
If mob drops get tied to knowledge and only killing gets me knowledge, this may not be my game after all... 
But I'm hopeful that this will be addressed by @Prometheus & the mighty devs in future iterations bc thinking up a world like Arboreus seems to intuitively mean they grok folks like me.
Suggestions for (believable) ways to learn about things w/o killing mass quantities:
@Specter and the mods can move this to another thread if it seems like a completely separate conversation. 
@Specter said in Kinda wish Reddit was used more than these forums.:
Fractured already has a subreddit. (alternative link for those who hate the new layout). It seems most people stick to the official forum though, probably due to the Foundation.
well there you go then, @Orich ! Once again, Devs FTW
@Kralith said:
That was again a phantastic Q&A.
Had much fun to listen
Thank you much @Prometheus and @Oxfurd !
Ditto this!! 
First time for me hanging out on a Twitch gamer channel, and I liked it! @Oxfurd is an excellent host, I got lots of my unspoken questions answered, and Kralith et al made me feel VERY welcome. Looking forward to the next one
My nephew is an IT Engineering prof at Gonzaga. He really appreciated something he could do at home while they're all on forced leave. he's got plenty of geeky buddies too. Thanks again for this link!!
@Prometheus - If I win the weekly I wanna donate my points to the OP
@Kralith said:
- 3 Planets, 3 Playstyles
- Knowledgesystem and horizontal Progression
- Towns & Politics
- Grown-up Community
- The Passion of @Prometheus, @Uriel and @Sunti
This is so close to mine that I can't think what I'd take out to add 'NO P2W', but w/o that piece I probably wouldn't have bought in. So you get my top 6, not necessarily in this order
great to know there's a few different places to leverage our combined computing power! Here's another - some folks' set ups might work better with one or the other...
https://foldingathome.org/
Solidarity amidst the chaos will bring us out the other end!
Thanks, @Nekrage, for being yet another example of the excellent community forming within this game! Your generous offer will make one of us SO HAPPY!!
I bought in at Artisan level - best I can afford - but I've won a couple of keys so been able to see how much fun Fractured is already. Would definitely be happy to win this Adept Founder pack 
As we head into 2022, I wanted to drop in and say HAPPY NEW YEAR to y'all 
I might not be able to play the game as it's been developed, but I've really enjoyed the companionship and intelligence of this forum over the past year. Staying sane isn't always easy during times like ours, so those of you who are out there being cool for each other deserve a little pat on the back.
Keep it up, y'all! Here's hoping your New Year will be filled with joy, peace, and good health.
Solidarity from Tacoma! 
This gamergrrrrl turning 61 years old today doesn't have much use for stone tools, but does agree that credential-waving can be counterproductive if the goal is to invite someone into a new way of understanding. There's a line btw pedagogy and pedantry that's easy to cross, so it's important to be aware of it, right?
That said, refusing to acknowledge the value of another person's way of understanding - and being dismissive about it, to boot - isn't a sign of wisdom either. Dismissiveness is, imo, unattractive at any age but esp. in those who are old enough to know better.
Like any art form, game creation has folks who are natural talents & also those who spend years studying the history & technique involved in their medium, in order to make a living at it. I am just an end user, having fun in my own ways, but I find learning about the theory to be fascinating right up until the point that my eyes glaze over 
my profile turned out like this:
Backstory for characters is fundamental, whether in writing or in theater/rpg enactments. Right now, our little toons have a 'virgin birth' 
There's a minimum backstory supplied in the character creation phase, which should, logically, be completely discarded and re-created if someone did a lot of modifications to their ability profile. But taking a little time to consider how my toon ended up where she is, doing what she's doing, is something I'll do when the toon is going to last.
