Talad(Leader/Founder)
Eonwind(Rules)
Tuathanach(Rules)
Zunna (Rules/Settings)
Mordaan (Settings)
Venalan (Settings Lead)
Uadjet(GM Lead)
Emaline (GM Team)
Zweitholou (Art)
Uadjet says: Hello and welcome to the Developer's Q&A! This is an out-of-character meeting where you can hear about the development of the game and ask the Dev and GM teams any questions you might have. If you do have any questions, please line up at the lecterns in front of the stage.
Damola says: Haha, isn't that nice. Carpets, pillows and gorweal house pets. Cozy.
Uadjet says: I didn't give advance notice of the meeting in the Dev channel until 15 minutes ago, so the Devs might be a little late today. I normally give them an hour.
Uadjet says: An hour's notice, I mena.
Uadjet says: So, on the stage at the moment is... me! I'm the lead GM, and the one who runs the weekly events.
Zarre says: Yay!
Uadjet says: If you have any questions either directed at me or just ones you think I may be able to answer, please step up to the lecturns.
Uadjet says: If not, I'll give a brief rundown on what people have been working on.
Damola says: No Q at the moment
Fliks says: yup go ahead
Fliks says: still got my items from the party XD
Uadjet says: Okay, as usual Talad has been quite busy.
Uadjet says: He got the latest version of PSU out. 7.7, I think it is.
Damola says: Nice!
Fliks says: yup ive been waching the streems
Uadjet says: He did that, and a lot of bugfixing. The transform/rotate gizmo in PSU I mentioned last meeting is a bit glitchy, in that once you drop an item you can then slide or rotate whatever you next click on.
Uadjet says: There's a vid on discord of someone riding a table that they were sliding up into the air.
Uadjet says: Truly impressive.
Fliks says: you gotta keep that
Fliks says: you can have a flying carpet
Uadjet says: Well, I don't know about flying carpets (other than the GM kind) but it is nice to see how powerful the gizmo is. Players will be able to use that to decorate guildhalls or other places and get really nice results.
Uadjet says: We just need to make sure that players can't move Harnquist's anvil with it, as i was doing.
Fliks says: ah the carpet thing could become a frm of mount
Uadjet says: Actually, I think it may have been one of Harn's tables that was used in the vid.
Migg says: Woot? We can now pilfer Harn's tables?
Uadjet says: And ride them!
Uadjet says: But I suspect that will be fixed soon enough.
Uadjet says: Talad also did some work on the compendium. Mostly working out the layout and categories, rather than writing entries.
Uadjet says: Doing the compendium will be a huge project, but it's one where people can contribute a little bit without signing up for a huge task, so it can be a community effort.
Fliks says: dose anyone have a book i could write this into
Uadjet says: There you go, Fliks.
Fliks says: thanks
Uadjet says: He's also worked on quests, though they aren't really working yet in PSU, as well as fixing other reported bugs.
Uadjet says: In the last few days he's been working on spell effects.
Uadjet says: There have been a number of special effect packages available for free in the monthly giveaway, and some of those are useful for us.
Uadjet says: He's livestreaming about that right now, in fact.
Damola says: Nice.
Fliks says: ill have to wach tht later
Uadjet says: Let's see... What can I share that isn't a spoiler?
Fliks says: that*
Uadjet says: The art for the new intros that I've seen is very nice. Talad is looking into hiring someone to do that task. I think he wants that fully complete and in game for when the Unreal version goes live. Or maybe before, so it can be tested in teh Alpha.
Damola says: new intros?
Uadjet says: Yeah, for the new tutorial.
Damola says: Ah, I see.
Uadjet says: I don't want to say too much, but new characters won't be starting in Hydlaa.
Damola says: Cool.
Damola says: Will it still be able to go to the tutorial area and assist new players?
Fliks says: will we start in the characters in thir home toen like for me ill start in Oja and Kran will start in Gug
Uadjet says: I think you can. The maps are still under development, so I haven't been able to visit them.
Damola says: Nice.
Sudarew says: Are any new cities planned?
Uadjet says: But... I'm saying too much, I think, but new characters won't be starting in big cities. It's an into to the game, so it'll be a semi-isolated area used specifically for that purpose.
Uadjet says: New cities are planned, of course, but they're working on fleshing out the exisitng ones first.
Uadjet says: Amdeneir, as most know, will be much larger in PSU.
Uadjet says: That art already exists, and I think just needs little fixes. Actually populating the rest of the city is another task entirely.
Dronk says: is there going to be a Yian city?
Uadjet says: After that... maybe Oja? It would be nice to see that plague end.
Migg says: yes indeed!
Migg says: but they will also need new NPCs
Anysu says: end that plague!
Damola says: Yeah! End it! Damola is much in favor of ending it.
Migg says: and the Saga of Defeating the Plague!
Uadjet says: I did suggest lettings players create NPCs, but Mordaan (I think it was him) very wisely suggested I hold my horses on that topic until the Devs were ready.
Anysu says: Ending the plague as an event be an idea.
Fliks says: with that idea we could even create our onw charactors
Damola says: More a series of events… and I think Uadjet kind of started on that some time ago already.
Uadjet says: Yeah, that will be an event for sure!
Anysu says: *nods at Damola at Uadjet*
Damola says: But now is paused… cause it needs to be close enough to release of Ojaveda formerly quarantined part
Dronk says: is there going to be a city for every tiyp of chatictors
Uadjet says: As for Ylians... Hydlaa is really a Ylian city. It was founded by Lemurs, but the architecture and much of the population are Ylian. The town on Delver is also Ylian.
Dronk says: ok
Uadjet says: After Oja is fleshed out, there is only one actual city left in the two "top" sectors that doesnt' exist yet: Sarpendil.
Damola says: Two top, so will we be able to travel to the second top sector by winch?
Anysu says: That be cool to travel
Uadjet says: By "top" I was referring to the two sectors that exist in PSU, and partially exist here in Legacy.
Dronk says: are more quest being addid?
Damola says: Haha, we might get a hullajump spell effect…
Uadjet says: I don't think they're going to introduce others levels any tiem soon. That's why each race is getting at least one city or town in these two sectors.
Damola nods
Damola says: Yeah, adding other levels would be a ton of work
Migg says: Hulajump is actually a commenter in the chat, Damola
Damola says: Well I refered to the hulahop kind efect
Fliks says: whats a Hulajump?
Dronk says: How long have you been working on it?
Uadjet says: The next level down is heavily forested, and the next sector over to the two that currently exist contains the Great Forest, so we don't need to go down to get that kind of area.
Migg says: And how many sectors are there in the Dome, Uadjet?
Uadjet says: Eight sectors.
Damola says: have mistaken the word hulajump for hula hop
Fliks says: whats the Hula hop?
Uadjet says: There are more quests waiting to go live, but I'm thinking of rewriting some. Or just assigning them to new NPCs in the new areas opening up.
Damola says: maybe I still go the word wrong… you will see when you watch the live stream
Migg says: For Hulajump see the stream
Migg says: For hula hoop, look Wikipedia
Damola says: Fliks, you know those rings your can turn around with your hip? That kind of thing
Damola says: I don't know the exact enlish word, but according to Migg its hula hoop,
Fliks says: ooooh those
Migg says: should be, not a native English speaker either
Damola says: cool, Uadjet.
Sudarew says: Will our characters be transferred items and skills and all?
Damola says: as far as I understood so far, yes.
Fliks says: i hope they are
Uadjet says: To the Unreal version of the game? Yes. To Skyrim? You'll have to mod that yourself.
Damola says: Database contents is transferred, but there need to be some conversion, cause the database layout is a bit different
Uadjet says: Now, that's precisely the kind of thing I shouldn't joke about, yet I cannot help myself.
Migg says: will there be dragonss?!?
Uadjet says: But yes, you will be yourself when you're converted over. Same items, same skills, etc.
Anysu says: Wont loose any already gained levels in anything?
Sudarew says: As it stands currently the Ylians don't seem that different from your typical fantasy human. I looked at the wiki, and there is some stuff that makes them stand out. The language in particular. How long do you think it will take for the Ylians to be fully fleshed out?
Uadjet says: Nope. They have talked about standardizing skill and attributes to use the same maximums, but characters will be converted if they do make that change.
Damola hopes that stats and skills beyond maximum will be transferred, so GM event rewards on stats are skills are still available also in this case
Uadjet says: Ylians may be getting an art update, actually. Again, nothing is finalized but since there's no Dev here to tell me to shut up I can give little teases like that.
Damola says: haha.
Damola says: Just remember when you transcribe to forum post
Fliks says: XD
Damola nibbles on nut bread
Aleinuin waves at Damola
Uadjet says: There were a number of questions. Let me scroll back and see which I missed.
Damola says: Can also ask people to line up and repeat questions not yet answered
Uadjet says: Oh, the Ylian language.
Uadjet says: The language projects were (I think) always player-driven.
Uadjet says: So if you want to develop the language a bit, feel free to do so! It would be nice to see other languages get as much love as the Klyros language.
Migg says: Is the wiki alive?
Sudarew says: I just am hoping the Ylians don't become too generic. I think they need some things that make them unique. That's all I have to say on the topic.
Uadjet says: It is, and I should take the opportunity to tell people how much information is on there!
Fliks says: ive though of an Enkiduki languige
Fliks says: baced of another
Uadjet says: There's the UE Roadmap, which shows the progres on the conversion to Unreal. It's broken down into tasks that need to be done, and the word "DONE" is showing up more nad more as the weeks go by!
Uadjet says: There is also a page on combat styles, and the planned special maneuvers you can get for mastering them.
Uadjet says: And the page on Delving is amazing. Just had to point that out.
Anysu says: There is an enki language. In wiki
Fliks says: oh
Uadjet says: Ylians should have a distinct look in PSU, I think. The debate is ongoing, but... I'm saying too much.
Uadjet says: Of course my attempts to get players to read the lore must be getting tiresome at this point.
Anysu says: Used it to erite Anysu and Migg's children's book, Fliks
Damola says: hehe
Anysu says: *write*
Uadjet says: I hope you didn't mind the small history lesson at yesterday's event.
Fliks says: i enjoyed it
Damola says: Uadjet, I enjoy events where you let us dig deeper into the lore. I do not always manage to take time to read lots in books in libraries at the moment
Migg says: Mind? Thought it was the best part of it!
Damola says: No, was nice, I even reread it today.
Anysu smiles
Sudarew says: Not at all. I read what happened at that settlement on the wiki prior to the event and was happy to see it was at least acknowledged.
Migg says: Seems natural that you will learn the lore from books or other characters
Fliks sips some milk
>Migg Ellorean raises an arm and points towards Sudarew Rereley.
Damola eats some of her soup
Uadjet says: The ruined city of Ylon Dynari is one possible place for player housing, if that ever gets added. Other than guildhouses I mean.
Fliks says: yes yes yes ive been wanting to have a house is UE for ages now
Migg says: building on an excavation site? Preposterous!
Sudarew says: Seeing as it was sacked, would there also be gravesites or memorials put in place there?
Damola would like to see Delving implemented, would be an impressive city from the reading in the wiki
Uadjet says: Quite possibly, but all of this is hypothetical. No dev has commented on that. It's just the only place I could think of for players to build houses, as if we didn't limit it to certain locations...
Uadjet says: Well, as i said recently about large tents, it would be the Kowloon Walled City all over again.
Fliks says: ah but there could be a limit on now close you could be to another player tent
Fliks says: how*
Migg says: Kowloon Walled City?
Sudarew says: How would someone add to the lore or the wiki? What does someone need to do to sign up for that? Thank you for answering these questions of ours, by the way. I appreciate that this community has active GMs and is not neglected.
Uadjet says: Delving will be amazing, but they may want to finish these two sectors before building the next one over. That sector includes three cities, actually. Quintherion (Dermorian), Devling (Stonehammer), and Listarindel (Diaboli/Ynnwn).
Damola says: Nice.
Fliks says: cool
Damola says: And you already told that the outside of city area in Unreal is much larger anyway.
Uadjet says: We'll have to get Talad to open up the wiki for new accounts again. There was an issue with spam at one point, I think.
Damola says: So it appears to me that we will be stepping into a much bigger world with PS Unreal
Uadjet says: Oh, yeah. There are vast areas with no cities in sight.
Aleinuin says: Will all 8 levels of Yliakum be there
Fliks says: like BDR1 and 2
Fliks says: maimly 2
Migg says: Just the dome, part of it
Uadjet says: All 8 levels?!?! Currently it includes a quarter (or a little more) of the top level.
Uadjet says: So other levels are a plan for the distant future.
Anysu says: As Damola mentioned that be quite the task to have all levels.
Sudarew says: How big is Yliakum in comparison to say, Earth? The planet Yliakum is located on must be massive to hold such a huge stlagtite, but how big is Yliakum exactly?
Uadjet says: Oh! When you asked about being in the new tutorial area to help new players, there is definitely a place not too far down the tutorial process that experienced players can visit.
Aleinuin says: okay i thought there could be another level or two added so we could use the Winch
Fliks says: whats is the dome
Damola says: Six hours for Life Infusion spell, but Talad learned a lot during making that spell effect.
Migg says: Well, just being able to see something when looking down would be huge already
Migg says: the Dome is the top level of Yliakum
Migg says: where we are now
Fliks says: um ok
Damola says: Fliks, read the page about our world on planeshift.it
Uadjet says: As for size... 550 square kilometers for this level?
Uadjet says: Zwei posed that in Discord ages ago.
Aleinuin says: and the Crystal at the top
Uadjet says: It's the area of a circle with a diameter of 50 km minus the area of a circle with a diameter of 45 dm.
Uadjet says: Err, "km"
Sudarew says: So, not Earth-sized then.
Migg says: so a circular level 2.5KM wide
Uadjet says: Oh, I goofed. It's a 5 km wide shelf, currently.
Uadjet says: I don't think it'll be widened to 10 km, but that was considered.
Damola says: Next spell effect Talad works on is missile shower. He got a nice one from an effects package, tweaking it now
Migg says: so that's a radius, not diameter?
Migg says: or is the inner diameter 40KM?
Damola says: Hmmm, we are overtime already. I think I go sleep.
Uadjet says: The idea is the Dome is 50 km across, and the ledge is km wide on average.
Uadjet says: The inner diameter would be 40 dm.
Uadjet says: km.
Uadjet says: So it's quite a large area.
Uadjet says: The levels get smaller as they go down, with each being 10 km or so smaller in total diameter.
Migg says: I get 1414 km^2 for that area, unless I got something wrong
Anysu says: Not even trying... bad with math.
Uadjet says: And players would manage to fill it all, if they could build houses anywhere!
Aleinuin says: So each new level could be a whole expansion to the game?
Migg says: assuming the last is 10KM diameter, the top should be 80KM, otherwise it doesn't ad up
Uadjet says: Pretty much, Aleinuin.
Damola says: Time for me.
Damola says: See you all.
Anysu says: bye DamolA
Anysu says: *Damola *
Aleinuin says: Goodbye Damola
Migg says: Time for me too, thanks for the updates Uadjet, and for the lore refreshers!
Migg says: bye all!
Uadjet says: Yeah, that's true. Must be 5 km smaller in diameter.
Anysu says: bye Migg
Uadjet says: But yeah, we're past the hour and currently nerding out over precise numbers, so I think we can bring the meeting to a close.
Uadjet says: Thank you all for coming!
Zarre says: Thank you Uadjet!
Gonger says: Thank you for all this information
Aleinuin says: Thanks ill look for the transcript
Anysu says: Thank you Uadjet
Aleinuin thanks Uadjet
Uadjet says: Have fun playing the game, and we'll see you again in three weeks!
