dear devs,

another thing which troubles somehow, is, when the npc walks away before i can finish the quest. that happened a few minutes ago by Lori Tryllyn. and i had it by Jefreca aswell. it would be nice if they dont do it in the new client aswell.

greetings fayrene

yep, it would be nice indeed. Quick tip: if they are trying to walk away while talking to them (not very polite), speak with them again and they should stop. At least you can work around their unpoliteness.

sadly no

Uadjet: could you please strikeout the skill-boosting quests that have already been implemented in the first post. Thanks.

I haven't done the assembly instructions, but I've done the x ingots makes y lines. About 650 lines of steel and the same of plat steel. They need a thorough checking, but it's a start! As for books, I've been thinking spears and quarterstaves in one book, and polearms in a second. Plat steel items would be two more books with the same division, and the race-specific items would have their own book. Honestly I'd love for each race-specific spear to have its own diagram type book, but that's just too many books to add.

Excellent.
About books I would prefer to strip down the number as much as possible, possibly to 2 books (normal stuff, plate steel stuff), if possible (aka the number of items is not too big and it is not too hard to read/use). Reason is when it comes down to make fixes/maintenance in the database I find it easier to perform the task and another reason is I perceived players prefer to change the mind slot (book) as less as possible. Third reason is we need a quest for each book and for me each quest have to be unique and I don't like simple copy & paste quests (so the creative effort and challenge to put in quest writing is a bit more). Aside these consideration is more a matter of "philosophy" than real technical problems.

I can't think of any NPCs who use staves, but I'm sure it'll come to me. I assumed this would all fall under Blades Making, and there's already a skill that trains that, and the combat skill could be raised with the same quest that trains the other skills. Just need to add a branch for staff, spear, and polearms.

this because we hardly have polearms in game. Once they are available this may change, with settings permission, and we can assign some NPC to be a polearm trainer or crafter, etc.

The Academy thing... sounds fun actually. I'll take a look at the moves in that school.

actually you can get some inspiration from the Academy already released, and we have already a full set of quest for a second academy (unreleased, yet), written by Zunna. If you are interested I can let you read them.
We also have a couple of inspiration, draft for 2 more academies: archery and axes, but we haven't had anyone starting the quest writing yet. Fun thing is most of special moves (archery, hammer) are ready rules side, bu we won't release them untile the whole package (which includes their own academy quest) are ready to deliver.

We still miss an idea, draft for polearms completely, so, if you have an inspiration, let us know. 

Quote from: Zerxzz on December 29, 2019, 09:22:01 pm

The skill boosting quests make level up too easy, in part because they reward an entire level.

Just as an FYI it does not grant an entire level. It takes you to the next level. so if your bar is halfway to 155 it will only take to you the start of level 156, not to 156 and a half. Also, a lot of these quests require you to gather items, travel have knowledge or information of certain things not to mention the fact that they have all a timer so you can't just sit there and repeat it and get 10 levels right away. The quests scale as well depending on your current level.  I think this was the compromise for several players who felt they were spending way to much time and energy grinding skills that it was cutting into roleplay time. As well as with the current engine we have the possibilities are very limited. The server can't even tell if you are wearing skill-boosting jewelry and will not award you a point if your boost takes you over the max skill level. As with most things we are excitedly awaiting the Unreal Engine upgrade to be able to really start focusing and fine-tuning issues such as this one.

I just wanted to add a few technical notes to this discussion:

• Awarding practice points: we have the technical means to award skill practice instead of a full level. The first implementation of the skill-boosting quest (never released) did that. However we felt awarding a whole skill point once in a given amount of time (8h IIRC) was just about the right compromise. We reasoned that a player wanting to grind their skill he may gain more skill points/day by questing & grinding as usual. We knew we would hardly cover everyone needs ad expectations (as always) but we felt it was the best tradeoff we could offer.
• Skills not awarded by possessing a skill bonus: skill bonus etc. are not an Unreal specific implementation and such things can be debugged right now and there could be a solution. I'm quite confident this bug can be fixed right away but I need to investigate better to be sure.

When this topic was first raised two-handed weapons were not fully supported (so you could wield two of them despite they were 2-handed). So, back then it was not advisable to change the claymore stats.

Now the 2-handed flag is fully implemented and only one two-handed weapon can be wielded at time, it could be a good time to revise their damage.

The change is not difficult to do, we only need to change one vale in the database. It's just a matter to get it right, which means going after all the weapons damage output to be sure they are quite right and avoid messing up the balance again.

Greetings! 

A few month have passed since the last update, but PSUnreal project hasn't stopped at all and there have been many steps forward!

Here is a short list of what has been sucessfully been ported so far:

• Character Creation - Quick Paths & character selection
• Quest system
• Chat system
• the user interface (to visualize stats, inventory, etc.
• NPCs and their AI
• Crafting system (combinations and transformations)
• Equipment & Inventory

These are huge steps forward, meaning the first PSUnreal version to be released will include basically all the features of the current version (so there will be quite a few regressions or none).
So far what is still left to do before the new version can be released is:

• Character Creation - Custom
• Combat System
• Spell System
• Guild & Alliance manager
• Natural resources and hunting areas
• Storage & Banking

I plan to post updates on the roadmap on a regular base, so stay tuned!