Posts made by PeachMcD

@Logain said :

@Kralith said :

(...)Time for the community to do that(...)

Yes, and no. I'm not saying that they should hire additional people or that one of the developers should take the task, but that it should be handled through 'official' channels. Give people the option to apply for that with a small in-game reward, if you have 2-3 volunteers, make sure the job's getting done in time and post the transcription in the official news post. That way it is very little work for the studio and it's still easily visible for people who don't browse the forum.

As I understand it, the Content Creators get nice perks. There's a Partner Program thru Xsola, I believe, although I wasn't able to find the link I have run into before that puts content creators in touch with @Prometheus & the dev team. Someone who was down for doing edited transcriptions of live vids would probably qualify. Doncha think?

@Eurav said in:

There it is

Muchas gracias herman@

Hi!
Time zone issues made it impossible for me to be present for the livestreamed Q&A but I saw a 25 second tease clip of @Prometheus saying he was starting to record for posterity. Can someone please post the link to that here for me?

Multo grazie!

@Mirgannel12 said :

@PeachMcD see what i mean? big well known guilds always get the members

No ! You mean marketing and economies of scale are a THING? When did that happen?

But seriously, pal... I just grabbed two well-known names. Who are you repping for? my dm's are open.

I have so little experience w MMO play that I'm just watching this conversation with increasing trepidation & suspense.

Will all the worst fears of @Nekrage be confirmed once the alpha starts?

Will @Prometheus reveal more content tomorrow in the Q&A to mitigate the potential for nasty exploits?

Will the devs incorporate some of the suggestions made by experienced designers like @GamerSeuss?

I so value opinion/experience of others in this conversation, and hope to see you all tomorrow at the online Q&A. Whatever happens, I hope folks will give the devs a little bit of credit for intelligence - this game isn't launched or finished yet, and one test of the very new system may be all it takes to convince the devs that More changes need to happen.

My gut take was very much along the lines of @WaterMerchant (ie., time for a break until Arboreus is functional). Then I got to thinking....

All the toons and loot created in these tests is wiped at the end of the test. The test is to TEST new functional content, and the devs decide what order functional content gets added. Everything I learn now will help me avoid fatal mistakes when my toons are 'for realz'

@LilCassiopeia & I are both grateful & heartened that Arboreus will come soon! Meanwhile, all those hardcore gankers and PKs will probably need some help with city upkeep, right? Maybe even with crafting for their new trading systems?

Maybe I will enjoy this, maybe I won't, but I'm game to try it out. The point is to test the content, and I'll do my best to help with that. For purposes of this test it definitely looks like tucking myself under the wing of a strong PvP alliance would be smart. I haven't seen my Meridian peeps in a while, so....

Oran-Thul? Shadow Empire? pm if you want a loyal farmer/crafter/reagent gatherer

I haven't played a lot of games, and none that I've played has had chat bubbles. I'm inclined to agree with @GamerSeuss (who is very experienced in game creation) that in a larger party it would add to confusion. I'm already too easily confused!

More urgent, imo, in terms of QoL for chat, is the ability to mute/block trolls/spammers. Once that gets done we can talk about other improvements in the comm system, but that's gotta be first on the list. PLEASE FFS, @Specter can't always be there.

After that, I'd love to be able to use /commands to give my toon a little bit of interactive life:
sit, bow, wave, dance... wouldn't that be cool?

@GamerSeuss - yeah, I run a FB page myself but recently told the folks who follow it that it's not gonna be very active, for reasons my followers will ALL relate to. It's a juggernaut, to be sure.

A few years back I tried out a decentralized social network called Diaspora. I really dug the folks I met there, but I couldn't convince fam and friends who are more normal to join me, so eventually had to admit that if I wanted to stay in touch with my friends/fam all over the world, I'd need to suck it up and log on to fb a few times a week. <sigh>

Wow thanks! Gratz to all winners AND thanks to any & all who have contributed constructive, thoughtful posts!

@GamerSeuss - I try really hard to stay away from FB these days. Hate hate hate their biz model & want to avoid supporting it. But after reading responses, I totally understand why the in-game voice chat would be problematic. I guess Guilded and discord are how it's gonna roll for me.

@GamerSeuss - I feel you! The one thing I find discord really useful for is voice chat during group activities. It's really hard (for me) to battle mobs and use a text chat. Having a way for a groups to coordinate is really helpful. But it would be so nice to have that feature in-game, instead of needing a separate app. Is that even a thing? I don't play many games...

@MythosSeeker - sorry to hear you're not interested! But you've already bought the thing - and as far as I know returning it isn't an option.
Consider giving your account key/pledge status to someone as a gift if you're not interested anymore.

Whatever restrictions are in place for specific guilds (planet, race, alignment), citizenship isn't linked to guild, so a toon can be a citizen on any planet. Players get at least 3 toons.

Also, I've already seen guilds cooperating, and players w'in guilds claiming nearby cities to take advantage of resource distribution.

I think it's going to be very interesting watching things shake out, and then do it again and again, as the Fractured universe grows.

Good question @RetroPacman! The Fractured universe is planned to be YUUUUGE. The map we're playing in for the alpha is one continent of several on one of 3 planets. There are also asteroidal events being discussed.

There may well be 'easter eggs' for the true completist. But wherever there's an easter egg, there's probably gonna also be a video someone has made to tell the content-creator's loyal subscribers how to find & exploit it. Amiright, @Nekrage?

G'day, @Gropes and welcome!

Hi @Pali ! The game is currently in development - there is new content being rolled out continually, and several alpha tests each year to test what's been worked on. We just finished a couple of weekend playtests to help balance the PvP system, and there's another alpha planned for the end of February that will probably go on for around a month.

Each test is self-contained. It all gets wiped, and we start over fresh for the next test. The Eternal Pack offers elite access to a developer's forum, among other perks, but it doesn't give access to the game itself outside of the regular tests.

For more info on testing etc, here's the link to the FAQ https://fracturedmmo.com/faq/

@Blectorn checking the Fractured site, I found a leaderboard for Foundation Points (User & and Guild), but no top 100 for the cities/players in game.

HUZZAH!! And gratz to all!

@Mirgannel12 said

there will however, always be people that just started playing the game, and, particularly for this game, where guilds/parties/cities are so important, these people will need something to go on as to how to find those, and not everyone wants to just ask a question of the entire world, some people like to know things without having to ask, so perhaps a guild register or something in the starting cities, that the tutorial directs you to when you finish it? or something like the militias? i dont actually know how those work, do you need to go to the starter cities to join them? or can you join anywhere?

I agree that the tutorial needs to be more instructive. Right now, it tells you to do things w.o telling you HOW, and doesn't even reward you for figuring it out.

I feel VERY sorry for the players who jump in without checking out the forum or the wiki first. That really is flying totally blind. As someone who plays a lot of games, it's not something I'd consider doing, tbh. It's esp important to get a clue or two before you jump into a game where dying = losing all your equipment and loot.

That said, getting some clues about how to connect to guilds/citizenship/militias/parties into the tutorial seems obviously necessary and compassionate. Hope that will happen SOON, but with things evolving as quickly as they do in the development of a game, I understand why the tutorial is limited to basic mechanics that won't change (much?)

Meanwhile, experienced players who are online have been fielding questions in the chat as best we can, and Specter is awesome if you run into a glitch and need help. I only wish new players would take 5 minutes to read the FAQ so the chat isn't clogged with repeated explanations of basic stuff. A grrrrl gets tired of telling people how to make a campfire.

@Mirgannel12 said

Hi!
Your post makes a couple of really important points about early progression - leaving the starter town w/o decent gear can be fatal, but getting decent gear without a smelter or an enchanting table is hard to do. Whether those are planned for the starter cities in the finished game is not known (at least by me) at this point.

The tutorial is so very basic right now! I'm hoping that by launch, there will be some re-working that gives a newbie a little more direction & some small rewards for completing quests/challenges. Those rewards might include an enchanted weapon or item of gear, to enable them to more easily get to the city of their chosen guild and make themselves a really good set.

But my point is, you have to find them, which means you need to use the global messaging system and ask people(see my post on the value of information)

Finding a guild in-game is not how I would recommend going about it, tbh. The forum Recruitment thread is better, and the discord server's guild recruitment thread probably the best for up-to-date info about active guilds.

Perhaps the starter cities could have a message board (do they already? i've never looked) where guild masters can leave directions for prospective members, and governors could leave directions for their cities.

I certainly hope that this is a planned feature! Problem is that right now, there's a lone, volunteer moderator for all the chats, and no way to mute/ignore trolls and d-bags. Until that situation changes (which I hope, please please @Prometheus, will be soon) adding another place for d-bags to make jerques of themselves probably isn't a good idea.