Talad (Leader / Founder)
Eonwind (Rules)
Tuathanach (Rules)
Zunna (Rules / Settings)
Mordaan (Settings)
Venalan (Settings Lead)
Uadjet (GM Lead)
Emaline (GM Team)
Zweitholou (Art)
Gonger (PR)
Uadjet: This is where we discuss what's going on behind the scenes, and you get a chance to ask questions or make suggestions.
Uadjet: Hello and welcome to the Developer's Q&A!
Mohonin: Sir, i have a suggestion about music
Mohonin: Sir, i recently found this site -->
https://freemidi.org/ but not yet registered and downloaded a midi music file as i'm not so good with music and sounds and i'm afraid i may bugg up the system. So in this DEV Q&A just wanna say, those who are good with music, can try the midi files from the site mentioned and make interesting scores. And why i am telling to try it out is cuz once i have heard Talad Sir said in PSU version only midi sounds will work for music/the scores/the music paper... hope i cud explain it
so it will be awesome to check it out. Thanks!!
Uadjet: Yes, the music will need to be in the form of a midi file. We can covert the old files (xml) to midi, I think. Not in game, but there are online converters.
Anysu: So do want those old scores converted
Mohonin: no, just want to be able to play music
Anysu: I hope could have both.
Mohonin: How does it work? for eg. i have a midi file, i get 1 blank score from library and then try to edit it, will we get an option totake the midi from our computer to the score?
Mohonin: did anyone try this way to make music and did it work?
Uadjet: I haven't. I'm not gifted musically, but I'll try it out this week.
Mohonin: ya, then i'll take the risk and try it, Thanks
Uadjet: Okay, if you have any questions or suggestions, please line up at the lecterns. Meanwhile, I'll give a little update.
Uadjet: For the last few weeks Talad has mainly been working on Diaboli architecture.
Uadjet: There was some Diaboli art that's been in the back of a drawer somewhere for many years, and Talad has pulled it out to turn it into a Diaboli villiage.
Uadjet: There are multiple buildings with similar styles. If you haven't seen any of the streams, I really recommend taking a few mines to check them out.
Uadjet: they really have their own style.
Mohonin: ya i have seen a bit of the stream
Uadjet: Diaboli should be fun to write for.
Mohonin: what is this 'write for' that you just mentioned?
Uadjet: I was thinking about writing quests and to a lesser extent knowledge areas for Diaboli NPCs.
Mohonin: oh i see
Mohonin: That wud be great
Anysu: Where would their villages be located the Diaboli?
Uadjet: I think NW of Hydlaa, maybe N of Homestead.
Uadjet: But I'm guessing based on old maps.
Anysu nods
Uadjet: So there will be quite a bit of work going into making the village, and then there's adding in things like furniture, stables, randomly placed barrels, etc.
>Anysu nods at Uadjet.
Uadjet: Player input will be very welcome. Talad does ask for input during streams as well, so if you can spare the time to watch you can help Talad decide what things should look like.
Mohonin: Uadjet Sir, is it possible to take charge of a guild and do some guild management, with GM power?
Uadjet: It is possible to petition for leadership of a guild that you are in if the current leader has not been online for... the rule says two months. I thought it was longer.
Uadjet: It also helps to have support of the other currently active guild members.
Mohonin: oh ok Thanks!!
Uadjet: So file a petition, and if you can ask other guild members to do so as well saying that they support the change in leadership. Once I get those, I attempt to contact the current guild leader.
Gonger: Mohonin, did we not talk about that a couple of months ago?
Gonger: We, as in you and I.
Anysu: Be hard to do that if there were no other active guild members to ask.
Uadjet: I take that into account. Part of the GM Webconsole is a page for each guild containing last login information. If nobody else has been online recently, I take that into account.
Gonger: The small player base is still a problem.
Gonger: It is really hard to get PlaneShift promoted on MMORPG websites, because we do not really fit in anywhere.
Gonger: We are FFP (Fully Free to Play), and we are truely RP-oriented.
Gonger: A niche product.
>Anysu nods at Gonger.
Gonger: Well, I still have an arrow or two in my quiver
Mohonin: Gonger Sir, some where i have mentioned a site named hotrpg.com, have you visited that site and saw what it offers?
Gonger: I did, and I was not exactly impressed.
Mohonin: oh ok
Gonger: Is that the name? It no longer seems to exist...
Mohonin: and i got another site where they want to host the wiki, i'll give you the site name just check it out
Uadjet: There's a twitch channel with that name.
Uadjet: No content, though.
Gonger: But, yes, such links are always welcome. Damola for example pointed me to an interesting German site for free games, and I dropped some information there.
Uadjet: Ahh, that's nice to hear.
Mohonin: check out
https://drakorpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Drakorpedia_WikiMohonin: this has the info of another game but as i cud not go to its home page so i gave you this link
Uadjet: I think that new players will stick around longer once the can't-move-after-character-creation bug is fixed. Talad did write a fix, it's just not live, apparently.
Gonger nods at Uadjet.
Gonger: I know it takes some work to create a release, but a killer bug like this IMHO is enough to justify a release.
Anysu: Thing is our player base is small. Someone joins to rp, yet find few online to rp with?
Gonger: True! Which is a circular problem...
Anysu sighs
Gonger: I wonder whether I should open discussion about mailing ancient players again...
Uadjet: That could help, though discussing it here would only help if Talad were present. Maybe in Discord?
Mohonin: about mailing old players, i have heard in another game that EU has a law for such spamming of about 10 Euros
Uadjet: We're still missing the players that don't have a discord account, but Talad is very good at responding there.
Anysu: There may even be ancient players on discord, but just lurking, not participating.
>Anysu nods at Uadjet.
Gonger: Informing people about a game they used to play is not really spamming. Also remember that we would send a maximum of two mails.
Gonger: Aye, there are lots of lurkers on Discord. I have no idea WHAT they are lurking for. I once asked the question, and nobody answered.
Mohonin: ya i understand that, but what if the cyber police don't understand it
Gonger: Which cyber police?
Mohonin: i don't know in other countries, but in our country theres a dept. for cyber crime in police station
Mohonin: and if the recipient of the mail make complain to police then there wud be a great problem
Gonger: I find it hard to believe that many people would be upset to be reminded of a game they used to play.
Gonger: More upset than about real spam they receive.
Uadjet: Yeah. People send out millions of emails wi4th suspicious or outright malignant intent. We're harmless.
Mohonin: ya it looks like innocent act, but who knows if a problem crops up
Gonger: The Evil Spammers from PlaneShift who not even ask for money. Big problem.
Anysu: Some of those e-mails of oldies may not be even used anymore. Some returning players have mentioned that on discord.
Uadjet: Yes, that happens a lot.
Anysu: So no ancient players may even see such a message.
Gonger: Well, we would not reach all ancient players, of course.
Gonger: I seem to remember the number of 300,000 accounts.
Gonger: If we reach only half of them, and if of those 10% have a look, that would be 15,000 visits from ancient players.
Gonger: Just playing with numbers a bit
Anysu: Live chat in discord voice with Talad might garner interest like a dev meet but in voice.
Mohonin: number sounds good, but actually doing it may have the problem i mentioned
Uadjet: I think it would help.
Gonger: Mohonin, it would not be spamming, since THEY registered with US in the first place.
Gonger: We did not hunt for those email adresses.
Mohonin: thats what the other game says but then he started to face the prioblem. this problem we can't actually say spamming but something like forced email
Gonger: Give me some links about this case you are thinking of. I will check this.
Gonger: You can give them to me on Discord, for example.
Uadjet: Okay, so we're past the hour - by a good margin - and I see nobody at the lecterns, so I think we can bring this meeting to a close.
Mohonin: the game name and url is
https://usa.tycoononline.com/ you can enter the game and ask around for this problem
Anysu: Thanks for the updates Uadjet and Gonger.
Mohonin: Thank you, Uadjet Sir and Gonger Sir
Gonger: I'm not giving them my mail adress. They might spam me....
Uadjet: Have fun playing, and I'll see you at the next Q&A in two weeks!
