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: Hello, and welcome to the Developer's Q&A!
Koraza: Hi
Resildren: 14 players on line
Resildren starts to count the bodies in the room
Uadjet: This is the place to hear about what's happening behind the scenes, and ask whatever questions you have.
Uadjet: If you have a question, please step up to the lecterns in front of the stage.
Uadjet: If not, I'll give people a little rundown on what's going on. Sound fair?
Uadjet: Hello, and welcome to the Developer's Q&A!
Uadjet: This is the place to hear about what's happening behind the scenes, and ask whatever questions you have.
Uadjet: If you have a question, please step up to the lecterns in front of the stage.
Uadjet: If not, I'll give people a little rundown on what's going on. Sound fair?
Resildren: Might i suggest a call out on global see if any on line might want to join in?(22:11:22) [chat]
Uadjet: The Developer Q&A has started at the Courthouse in East Hydlaa! If you'd like to hear about the development of the game or ask a question, now is the time! Let me know if you need a teleport!
Uadjet: Good idea, Resildren.
Uadjet: I guess not everyone reads the Help tab.
Gonger: Information for newer players - you can tell a character is really old if they have a single name, like Trensol.
Damola: Gonger, thanks for posting all the Dev Q&A protocols on the forum for later reference.
Gonger: My pleasure. I am still lagging behind with the event summaries, but these are harder to do, and I was just struggling with and overcoming the Nasty Flu monster.
Uadjet: Okay, so you may have noticed that some of the bodies of water that you couldn't fish in are now full of fish.
Anysu: All have fish now!
Uadjet: I checked Gug Lake and Delver, which I believe weren't working before.
Gova: Delver lake and the stream now have fish, and I found a new pond between Amdeneir and BD that has fish, but I was out of bait.
Gova: Blue Shan, Snowlilly, and Saffron make the best baits, but I've only found the Blue Shan.
Koraza: Found a bait book in the Gug tavern so may be fishing soon (tm)
Gonger: Some low quality bait should be found pretty much everywhere, no?
Trensol: the lake outside of gurg had fish at first but no longer i think
Uadjet: Talad has talked about expanding the harvesting spots to more locations.
Resildren: so what would be considered the low level baits? i can see that there easier them some to find?
Gova: It's the order in the bait-making book, and the colour of the bait tells you the quality. Mostly. Purple Orchid has the colour of top tier bait, but is only +30%, not +40%
Gova: I only know where the blue shan flowers are and, well... Knowing might be half the battle, but the other half is ulbernauts.
Resildren: ok so most of the baits are critter based, so not an issue for plant locations
Gova: You can buy carp in the Plaza, and while it isn't great bait it will still do.
Uadjet: Talad has also improved the magic portals so that there can be more than one active at a time.
Uadjet: He's also changed things so that dungeons are generated by a seed value that is maintained after a server restart, so the dungeons won't need to be recreated each time the game crashes.
Damola: Oh regarding that dungeon behind the portal when exiting Hydlaa through former tutorial area:
Damola: It went into the dungeon but then did not figure out any way to proceed further into the dungeon. Hitting a solid concrete without finding any mechanism to operate.
Damola: I do not ask for any spoilers though, in case there *is* a way to proceed further.
Damola: As we have been there during an event it was possible to proceed further into the dungeon.
Gonger: Resildren, that was just a thought of mine: Would it not be an idea to be able to simply FIND low level bait?
Resildren: I went thru it a few weeks back and managed
Damola: Okay, then maybe I have to look more carefully. Thanks
Uadjet: I haven't seen it, as it was rendomly generated. It could be that there's a secret passage, or that the randomizer generated a map with no exits from the first room. I'll have to check.
Damola: Thanks.
Damola: Great to hear about all the news.
Damola: Actually: I really appreciate 0.7.46 and 0.7.47! Things are coming together very nicely.
Damola: And I am so happy about the locomotion fixes.
Damola: Thanks Talad!
Anysu: I have a dungeon question
Uadjet: Anysu?
Anysu: I have not done many of them. But what happens if server crashes while you are in one? DO you fall? Do you end up outside. Or if dungeons randomize after a crash would you end up in another one?
Koraza whispers, "so much to worry about"
Resildren: could be a way to teleport?
Uadjet: Up until now, you fell endlessly. I think.
Uadjet: Once a new dungeon was created, you landed in the starting room.
Uadjet: Now that dungeons are restored, I think you'll just end up in the start room.
Uadjet: If that fix is live. I think it is, but I'd have to check.
Anysu: so end up in a start room and not falling?
Damola: Not resting Damola in the guild house for now. For that endless fall bug reason.
Anysu: okay
Anysu: thanks
Damola: Gonger I pondered and replied to your PR strategy forum post.
Uadjet: I just checked, and the quest that gives the fishing baits book is active.
Resildren: good to know thanks
Gonger: Thank you, Damola.
Damola inspects Uadjet "I just checked. And the GM that gives the nice Saturday evening events is active."
Damola chuckles.
Gonger: I will check out the website you mention there.
Damola: It is older than 20 years. Many of the links to other former Linux gaming sites are not active anymore.
Uadjet: Heh, Talad commented on how long that quest was. That was one of my SHORTEST quests.
Anysu: Is that fish quest repeatable?
Uadjet: We have two repeatable fishing quests that grant skill points, but I seem to recall the player needing to supply fairly high quantities of fish.
Uadjet: That's back when we got up to 10 fish per cast.
Uadjet: The quest for the book is not repeatable.
Trensol: maybe incorporate net casting?
Uadjet: Net casting would be fun, but I assume a lot of work.
Anysu: Nets? Pole? Nah use the claws is what I say.
>Anysu grins impishly.
Uadjet: Would characters without claws need to get some of those hand claws to fish that way?
Anysu: There is like a claw weapon item
Thosor: What do the gobbles fish with?
Anysu: Yeah that is what I was thinking Uadjet
Uadjet: More recently, Talad has done some work on Drawings.
Anysu: Drawing, I am curious about that.
Uadjet: He was able to load drawings from legacy into Unreal.
Thosor: Any progress in moving music sheets from legacy?
Uadjet: So being able to make your own art again isn't far away.
Uadjet: I don't think music sheets can be directly loaded. The new music system for Unreal needs midi files, if I'm remembering correctly.
Anysu: I haven't checked, but it wuld be nice to se Migg and me Anysu's in game childrens' books work that we made.
Thosor: I have Migg's music, but yes it doesn't work.
Uadjet: And just today Talad was working on uploading images into the game.
Uadjet: And got it to work.
Anysu: nice
Uadjet: So the visual arts should get a little boom in the near future.
Thosor: Images as in?
Uadjet: Not in, but he figured out how to do it.
Resildren: png files from he's showed
Resildren: from client to server, but he's calling that step 1
Uadjet: Filtering out genitalia is step 2, I assume.
Uadjet: I'm just very worried that I'm the solution to that step.
Anysu nods about filtering
Uadjet: That can be automated to some extent, of course.
Resildren: a thirty day auto respawn to the void shold do it
Uadjet: But it gets us one step closer to being able to hang paintings of your characters in your guildhalls.
Uadjet: Or anyone who tries it gets their stats and body dev skill set to zero.
Uadjet: Do you have a question?
Resildren: i do about fishing
Resildren: is the leveling system the same for the fishing mini game? as example will buffs still effect the probability of a catch?
Uadjet: I think they will, but Talad did mention at one point that having a skill over 200 put someone out of the skill range the game could handle, and might be treated as having a skill of 0. Hopefully that isn't the case.
Thosor: So that is why I get so many "training is not in thee skill range" or the like from trainers
Gova: I'm at 201 fishing, and I'm not having a problem catching fish. I have one get away despite doing everything right now and then, but I think that's part of the game.
Uadjet: Trensol?
Trensol: any chance to introduce ai for npc knowledge?
Trensol: took me about a decade to find couchgrass
Trensol: limited of course
Uadjet: I don't know about NPCs pointing you to things, but the Harvesting skill does have the Prospect Plants ability. Maybe that could be used to find plants in the area.
Uadjet: As I mentioned, Talad is intending to add more locations for each plant. He has the game world divided into biomes, and I think he'll use that to some extent.
Uadjet: The description of the ability says it helps determine properties and value, but does not mention location.
Uadjet: I was just proposing a hypothetical use for the skill that would be nice to have.
Anysu: need more plant location.
Koraza: I agree with you, Anysu
Anysu: A skill for finding them, helpful.
Trensol: thats a lot of space to search
Resildren: I'm sure its going to get better soon..ish
Koraza: ...and find again
>Anysu nods at Koraza.
Uadjet: It's a thought, at least. It might be good to discuss in Discord, so that Talad can participate.
Anysu: Now that we have plant bait making for fishing be quite helpful.
Uadjet: It's the kind of thing that I think should be something players can find and share with other people. Notes on a map that can be shared, for example. Talad likes that idea, though he has said before that the map should not act as a GPS.
Uadjet: And to do a notes on the map idea, we'd really need to be able to zoom in on the map quite a bit, and that's detail that would have to be added.
Uadjet: I thinking aloud. Stream of conciousness.
Resildren: but a good point
Uadjet: Oh, we're well past the hour!
Uadjet: I don't see anyone at the lecterns, so let's call it a night.
Gonger: Don't forget to leave the room before quitting.
Uadjet: I'll see you again in two weeks at the next Q&A. Until then, have fun playing and maybe check out an event or two!
