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@jetah said in Getting Antsy!:

Anyone could write the bulk of the article where Prometheus can tweak it. It’d be much better than waiting till he has time to write it.

Writing is not everyone's cup of tea, and the fact we're an Italian company really doesn't help because you know, English Of course when I write a Feature Spotlight I start from already written docs - design docs, from our lovely lead designer! However, from there to an article there's still a lot of work to do.

Anyway, it's done, coming tomorrow!

@tulukaruk said in Getting Antsy!:

I think one of the problems was that from daily contact it suddenly changed to 2 weeks of silence. It's ok to be busy but let us know what's happening - it just looked like you suddenly disappeared until Specter let us know what's up.

I agree. I'll be back to the daily forum participation! :slight_smile:

@logain said in Any word when the Kickstarter is going to be launched?:

@prometheus said in Any word when the Kickstarter is going to be launched?:

@Mikey14117 eh, wish it was that easy. It's actually really, really hard, particularly for an MMO.

Are you entitled for (and did you try to get a spot in) the free benefits of the SpatialOS indie program (I don't recall the name right now)? Not actual funds as such, but at least helps to reduce the cost!

We'll be officially once we have our first Alpha build ready, but we're bearing no cost from SpatialOS right now anyway! What we really need are the "actual funds" eheh

@nelchael said in Community Call - Translation Help Needed!:

Just checking, were the translations okay? I forgot to mention earlier, but we assumed "shepers" is supposed to be shepherds. Let me know if we got that part wrong.

You got that right! Thanks to you and to your friend. Rewards added!

@Gothix thanks and rewards for you too, we could make use of that!

@muker I've noticed you've added some words / sentences in the translation that were not there originally. They're not bad, but they've made the texts too long. Could you make the translation more literal please?

@Baslak no worries, but please stay calm next time and don't go full nationalist - that's never a good thing.

@tulukaruk said in Races, Gods and buffs:

Can your alignment change?

It can, within the limits of your race.

@chrightt said in Races, Gods and buffs:

Just wondering, @Prometheus (if you don't mind telling us ahead of time) when is the spotlight coming out?

Late next week the earliest.

@tulukaruk said in Races, Gods and buffs:

I don't think there are any real atheists in a world that gods split into pieces

But... it wasn't the Gods who split it, actually!

One happy dev building his home in one of the player-made towns of Syndesia.
One new screenshot for every 5 people leaving a post here.

Post or wait for the second Kickstarter teaser video tomorrow.
Make your choice.

Revealed:

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@Vengu @lehuan5062 of course! There will be a ranking by total members, towns controlled, sieges and staged battles won, asteroids conquered - and more! I'm quite fond of metrics

@Jetah once we decided to postpone the campaign, we started preparing and recording new material, got new marketing campaigns running, and plenty more. There's really a lot going on behind the scenes which is not directly related to the Kickstarter page / video.

Anyway, the biggest reason we decided not to publish Tartaros is that we really don't have much to show there. We've made it clear since November that our focus for Alpha 1 is Syndesia, and we suffered some unexpected backlash when we released the Arboreus clip and some people were expecting more spells / equip variety / etc. Hence it's better to just have the Tartaros content in the KS video and that's it.

@Vengu as @chrightt pointed out, the Knowledge System already covers the role of an achievement system in a way. We might implement a few proper Steam Achievements if we end up distributing through Steam as well - but it's definitely not a priority right now.

Hi everyone! Following the success of the first thread, here we are asking you again some little translation help

The languages to translate to are the same as last time:

• Spanish
• (Brazilian) Portuguese
• French
• German
• Russian
• Polish

Below you can find the texts that we need to translate - it's only a couple!

• The long wait is over: Fractured has just gone live on Kickstarter - and it's already a Featured project! Join the revolution!
• Straight to Featured status. Over $100.000 collected. 100% funded in 10 days. The sandbox MMO revolution is gaining traction - join it now!
• The first open-world sandbox MMO-ARPG appealing equally to lovers of competitive and cooperative gameplay.

Translations are a bit tricky here - particularly how to translate "featured", which refers to Fractured having been picked as "project we love" by Kickstarter and being shown on the homepage (yes - this happened barely 3 hours after launch!). The idiomatic sentence "gaining traction" is also probably a little tricky. Be careful when you translate!

Note: the numbers in the second AD text are random of course.

Little reward for everyone who helps: 1,000 foundations points!

Thank you all a lot!

@esher said in How work a game developpement ?:

I would know what are the different role in a game developement, what they do, the specific stage,...

The questions in this thread are fairly broad so let's start with this.

Roles depend on the type of game being made, but the most common roles are:

• Project manager
• Producer
• 3D artist (could be specialized in environment, characters, hard surface, organic modelling, etc)
• 2D artist (could be specialized in concept art, illustrations, etc)
• Animator
• VFX artist
• Developer (could be front-end, back-end, full-stack, etc)
• Game designer (there are so many roles here too, from the guy with the "big ideas" to writers, level designers, game balancing specialists, etc)

These are the main figures required in a team, but a game studio often employs several others (who might work cross-team or just for a single team):

• Social media manager
• Community manager
• Marketing manager
• System administrator
• ...and plenty more!

@esher said in How work a game developpement ?:

I would work as a 3D graphist, but, what happen for me after the release ? Am I in standby as all characters and maps are done ?

If you're in a team and you're forced to a "standby", the one who's managing the team (or the responsible for the product, if it's a SCRUM team) is doing it VERY wrong

@esher said in How work a game developpement ?:

Or will I work immediately on something else ?

That depends on the type of game - but could be generalized to other products really. If the development of the game continues after release (as it happens for what we're doing - an MMO), you'll likely keep working on it. If not, you might be assigned to another team.

@esher said in How work a game developpement ?:

When you start to create your game, do you already think to the continuation of the game (updates, new story,...) Or you will think it after the release ?

On average, those are topics to start thinking about once the release approaches or after :slight_smile:

Thanks everyone for your support!

@solaris said in Haven't pledged? Want to upgrade, but not sure yet? Tell us why!:

I pledged early Immortal. Waiting to see more details about housing before I consider upping my pledge.

I guess more than simple housing you mean player-run towns, right?

@grofire said in Haven't pledged? Want to upgrade, but not sure yet? Tell us why!:

@prometheus I pledge already but people that I talked to, says that the game look generic from the videos, so they just want to wait, maybe show the difference? Maybe more PVP and skills? Something splashy, that will give the WOW effect.

Our focus for Alpha 1 is not on combat, so that's not possible. We would have had to develop too much purely promotional content rather than the actual game...

@holyhong said in Haven't pledged? Want to upgrade, but not sure yet? Tell us why!:

So to convince people: a Roadmap of the development might definetly help in my opinion.
If possible, I would apply one in the campaign details on Kickstarter.

I agree that's really important and it's actually planned - we'll release a solid roadmap for Alpha 1,2,3.

@target said in Haven't pledged? Want to upgrade, but not sure yet? Tell us why!:

I'd like to see your plans for the crafting and gear system. For how integral crafting seems to be, we've barely heard anything.

Coming too!

@vollmond said in Haven't pledged? Want to upgrade, but not sure yet? Tell us why!:

My reason: lack of info about towns and siege/conquer, and craft / town interaction.
I'm EB Knight, but i ''can'' upgrade to Governor with enough info.

@dulu said in Haven't pledged? Want to upgrade, but not sure yet? Tell us why!:

#1 - The handling of the Black Bull/Finland situation, and an obvious cheater/admitted hacker not being dealt with swiftly. It's not even him or his guild per se, but the fact that someone can admit to hacking, and cheating a system, and not instantly be dealt with is unforgiveable. These games don't survive when people are allowed to hack. Banning him and his guild should have been your immediate instinct,

Banning a whole guild for the actions of one makes no sense whatsoever. And the reason we're taking it slow is because we're really busy with the campaign and The Foundation is not the game. If it was an in-game rule violation or exploit we'd hit swift and hard. Now the "dishonest player" (I wouldn't call it "cheater") is not damaging anyone besides his own chances to be selected for the pre-alpha.

UPDATE: resolved.

@vengu said in A few questions about the primal form mechanic.:

1: When a beastman switches to their primal form, they gain access to unique abilities. Can these abilities be customized in any way or are they set in stone?
2: How do these primal form abilities work with attributes? Do they scale with certain attributes or does it not matter? Also, how do they work with resources like mana?

As of today, they're fixed - what's not set it stone is them being fixed forever Besides that, they're no different from "normal" abilities: some scale with attributes, some don't, some require stamina, some mana, some nothing at all

@lohen said in A few questions about the primal form mechanic.:

do they lose the other abilities as well or can they synthesize these primal form buffs with other abilities like mining or crafting?

Mining and crafting are not technically "abilities", they're professions - within them you have different abilities (say, crafting the item X or extracting the material Y). Most of those won't be available when in primal form: the Beastman turns into a real 4-legged beast, and that's something that is meant to be used in combat mostly.

Sorry for the slow feedback guys and thank you all!

1,000 points to @muker, @SonnyPK, @Kralith, @Esher, @grofire, @thudaron - and a 500 bonus to @Sharo, @Kapier and @DuendeBrek

We can close this thread now!

@kureha said in Beast races:

Are there female versions of the beast races?

Hi kureha - there will be female versions, but we haven't started working on them yet :slight_smile:

Hi everyone!

In order to get our Kickstarter campaign to a successful end, we need to increase its visibility - that's quite clear at this point.

To do so, we'd like to reach out to YouTubers and other content creators focused on MMOs (or who could be interested in covering a game like Fractured anyway). We know of some, but there's probably a ton more we never heard about that you instead know.

So, here's the help request.

• If you know any YouTuber (blogger, journalist...) that you consider a good fit to cover Fractured, please leave a message here with a link to his/her channel / blog / space.
• If you know of any other place where Fractured could be promoted, such as gaming communities, large clans, guilds, and organizations, please let us know by linking to them too.

Please don't post links to very small channels, communities, etc, which would be of very little use. For instance, a YouTube channel should have at least 2,000 subscribers I'd say, unless it's a total perfect fit for us (like one specialized in sandbox MMOs)

As always with Community Calls, your help will be rewarded with some good old Foundation Points!

Thank you all guys! Let's reach that €100.000 goal together!

@Meangroundhog seasons will be a thing, yes, and they'll impact agriculture on top of other areas of gameplay (such as travelling). In general, the whole weather / climate system is very important in Fractured - in the case of agriculture, it means some plants will only grow in specific planets, specific regions, and times of the year.

We'll have a feature spotlight dedicated to farming in the future, so stay tuned! :slight_smile:

Hi everyone!

Got a few questions about crafting and the building in Fractured? Interested in having me replying to them, live? You're in luck - the 3rd Fractured live Q&A is coming!

I'm going to be live on YouTube on Monday, July 16th, from 10pm CEST (4pm EDT / 1pm PDT). Over the course of an hour or so, I'll be your fully dedicated answering robot!

So, wait no more: start posting all your questions here! Don't feel limited, ask me whatever comes to your mind related to crafting and building in Fractured - the best preamble to the much awaited spotlights on player-made towns!

THREAD RULES

• Don't make more than one post
• It's fine if your questions are complex, but please post questions, not essays!
• ...and no more than 2 or 3, please
• Also, split them clearly if you got more than one.
• This is a dedicated question thread. Don't start discussing with your fellow community members!

To tune in, just click on this YouTube link a few minutes before the time announced above - we can chat a little before the Q&A session begins!

Thank you all and... see you soon!

– Jacopo

@benseine said in Farming (crops):

Wondering if you can also plant trees to grow that will take long time to mature

@chrightt said in Farming (crops):

Are you guys going to make this the same as crops irl? If 4 hours is 1 day in game, then does that mean crops that take 2 months to grow will take 10 days irl time to grow (or is time the only variable that will be tweaked)?

We'll definitely have plants in players' farms that take a while to mature (up to several days), but obviously we're going to take some liberties with times - we're not building a farming simulator here

Hi everyone!

Got a few questions about housing and player-run towns in Fractured? Interested in having me replying to them, live? You're in luck - the 5th Fractured live Q&A is coming!

I'm going to be live on YouTube on Tuesday, July 24th, from 10pm CEST (4pm EDT / 1pm PDT). Over the course of an hour or so, I'll be your fully dedicated answering robot!

So, wait no more: start posting all your questions here! Don't feel limited, ask me whatever comes to your mind related to housing and towns in Fractured! A helpful spotlight to read before asking questions:

Feature Spotlight #7 - Towns, Governors & Politics

THREAD RULES

• Don't make more than one post
• It's fine if your questions are complex, but please post questions, not essays!
• ...and no more than 2 or 3, please
• Also, split them clearly if you got more than one.
• This is a dedicated question thread. Don't start discussing with your fellow community members!

To tune in, just click on this YouTube link a few minutes before the time announced above - we can chat a little before the Q&A session begins!

Thank you all and... see you soon!

– Jacopo

@jetah said in People Behind Dynamight Studios:

Could we get some information of the people behind the game, as I don't see a people behind the game in the FAQ or elsewhere on the site? Eventually you'll be posting a request for funds/funding via Kickstarter, and while the game and concept seems great, I want to know of the people.

@Jetah we have a huge website update in store - once we roll it out, there will be more info about us too. Anyway, we're a young team - some us were involved in the development of the indie MMORPG Linkrealms, others in games of very different genres.

No, there's no "industry legend" among us - that's why we're going to fill this expected "trust gap" by showing you actual MMO gameplay before Kickstarter rather than only concept art, screenshots, short clip of characters walking in a nice environment, and the like