@gothix said in Neutral demons able to stay on Syndesia indefinitely?:
inb4 demons live as a perfect community, caring about each other, while beast men grief each other out with mob stealing, trade coning and being generally awful to one another.
that would be hilarious!
I understand it as Unity was charging developers to use their system. Improbable came along and took unity and created a backend, then started to charge developers for it.
Unity isn't make the extra revenue from Improbable, so they changed their ToS (odd it was a year after they personally visited) to remove Improbably.
@dragomok
there will be very limited item drops.
steam controller might be useful, although i'm not sure how movement will work without WASD.
starting race doesn't matter IF your karma is appropriate for the planet you want to be on.
@kralith
we'll continue to get this question as we get closer to launch because people can't use the search bar.
@meiki
that's quite interesting! and I'm sure you never want to use those characters in plain text passwordisencrypt'ê'dso they work so it's best to not use them.
only quest chains we know will exist are when your character gains enough positive/negative karma to become an angel/demon.
I do expect to have some type of on screen hints/guide to help a new player understand what happens and to get some basic gear for survival.
From time to time, Unity will update its Terms of Service (TOS)
unity blog source
So they didn't change the ToS a year ago when they visited Improbable, they waited till last week (or whenever they changed it).. how convenient of Unity..
i doubt demons will hire someone when they can force slavery on them (or they die or something worse than death).
Humans can have a ritual that summons a demon (could be random or there's a checkbox if you're open to being a 'human slave') then the humans cast a slavery ritual that forces the demon to be their slave. Again the slavery duration is limited because it wouldn't be fun being someone's 24/7 slave.
The slavery system could be a means to bypass the very limited duration on a different planet and your knowledge unlocks would still work.
i like the hiring mercenary system too so i'd like to see both!
Could Improbable make a twitch/youtube stream about it to push some type of social media campaign?
@crowdac
i was thinking more npc slave but player slave could happen too. there would have to be commands that force the player to action (maybe a little AI involved so said action happens).
if it were player slave then it'd have to be time limited. IE a player can only be a slave for a max of 1 hour (play time, not linear length of time). A new contract would have to be made.
another option is when the player logs off, AI takes over but the total duration can be longer than 1 hour.
why can't we have player slaves, although limited duration.
but we've discussed it before.
slaves could be useful for the solo player too.
I'm watching, and read the manga, The Rising of the Shield Hero. Where the Shield Hero can't equip a weapon! but he can have slaves which help the enslaved gain more stats and helps himself gain more. The whole idea of the hero weapons was pretty interesting. But I don't like the 'gear grows with you' thing unless it can be done right.
@crowdac
i used rent and taxes as the same thing. if you don't pay that tax then you're kick out is pretty much the same as if you don't pay that rent you're kicked out.
it might sound better if it's labeled as rent instead of taxes.
@crowdac
generally it would be both.
people pay rent for a place then pay their employees a wage.
@lovechildbell
what if you need knowledge to trade and setup a shop?
@lovechildbell
no. knowledge and pvp is the game. trading isn't playing it.
@shillver
i've never seen the about section being about the game but it's usually there for the people behind the company.
news is where the game information is unless there's a media section.
the game is in pre-alpha and mechanics can/will change (not to mention a huge NDA to access to the test).
leaderboards have nothing to do with how much you spend. the Foundation is how active you are on the forums (unless you just post in the daily post thread).
@althalus
why?
I've played asian games where players are stalls. and it's pretty laggy and needing to open each one is horrible player experience. I've played DAOC where there were searches you could do then pick it up. I've played with Exchanges where it was simple to place a stack of a resource for gold, the player could buy the stack or an individual item from said stack (which i hate). I've played games where there were markets in each area (eve online). I've played games with Auctions.
I like the AH/Exchange and npc stall with search better than the rest. Fractured already has the Carpenter so having an NPC at the house fits the game style.
@Kralith
I don't mean an AH specifically. Although auctions can work if you're trying to get the best price for an item. Many theme parks have no-trading on certain tiers of gear so it doesn't make sense for them.
I'm pretty sure someone will make a 3rd party website where a player can list their items, cost and region (semi area) and people will use it instead of any in game means. People love the "omg i want to interact with people" but you'll get plenty of people AFK or just ignore PMs for trades.
i've played Diablo where dropping items happened and it's too prone to scams. Unless DS wants scams then I doubt it'll be that way.
@lovechildbell
problem is do you want to play the game or do you want to sit around waiting for PMs to trade? A player to player trade only entises alt accounts specifically for trading.
@grofire
every game needs currency sinks. you can't keep all the currency in the game all the time. it causes inflation which is bad. Besides paying an NPC to sell your goods is the 'rp' way to do it. Even the Carpenter isn't free!
