Talad (Leader/Founder)
Eonwind (Rules)
Zunna (Rules/Settings)
Mordaan (Settings)
Venalan (Settings Lead)
Uadjet (GM Lead)
Emaline (GM Team)
Talad Says: Hi
Talad Says: I think we can start
Karzela says: Hi Talad
Talad Says: Hello everyone, and welcome to the "Meet the developers" event. It's an OOC meeting, where you can ask questions about the game, give comments or ideas.
Talad Says: If you want to speak, you can walk to the stand in front of us. Please form a queue there in case there are other people. One question each, then you can queue again.
>Zunna greets Ligerall Somen.
>Zunna greets Menille Homieley.
>Zunna greets Linule Gheber.
Menille greets everyone
>Mordaan Dev greets Menille Homieley.
>Karzela Mazarh waves at Menille Homieley
Talad Says: anyone has questions/comments/ides?
Ligerall says: i can't get in the forum
Uadjet Says: No confirmation email?
Weruun says: That saves you a lot of pain, Ligerall
Ligerall says: no
Talad Says: I can activate you directly
Talad Says: can you send me your email priviately with /tell
>Zunna greets Gonger Xaraha.
>Gonger Xaraha greets everyone.
>Menille Homieley waves at Gonger Xaraha
Talad Says: I activated you now
>Karzela Mazarh waves at Gonger Xaraha
>Mordaan Dev greets Zif Henada.
Ligerall says: ok thank you
Talad Says: Hi zif
Zunna Says: 
Zif says: Hello ... I have a general question
>Damola Etedi winks at Karzela Mazarh playfully.
Zif says: What can you tell us about Drawing ?
>Damola Etedi bows to Maltrobian Boragar.
Zif says: I realize it is not implemented yet.
Zif says: I have been getting levels
Zif says: Not sure what to do with them
>Maltrobian Boragar winks at Damola Etedi playfully.
Migg says: Seems it is implemented now
Mordaan Says: It's kinda implemented.
Zif says: Great
Eonwindd Says: hi Zif
Mordaan Says: Not very properly, but I think higher levels allow you to use more lines...or some such.
Uadjet Says: If I remember correctly, skill in Drawing increases the number of elements you can add to a drawing. At least that's what was discussed in the Dev Q&A.
Zunna Says: It's like for the music kinda... the higher the level the more point you can add in the drawing
Menille smiles at Uadjet ''Thank you''
Migg says: If yiou run into the issue you will know what draw skill does
Mordaan Says: elements...that's it.
Migg says: Drawing XML tags
Eonwindd Says: like Zunna said, it's a skill which allow to create drawings with more elements than you could do without this skill
Migg says: Is music the same? Music skill improves speed when playing
Migg says: I didn't know it affected number of elements
Eonwindd Says: usually the limit is 200 line, points, with drawing you can push this limit up a bit
Zif says: I see , I should be making more detailed maps, then.
Gonger says: I am confused. How do you practice Drawing, then?
Mordaan Says: Unlike other skills, right now you don't gain practice by doing, but strictly via quest.
Gonger says: Ah...
Eonwindd Says: you can buy it
Zif says: That helps , thank you.
Migg says: there's a quest line where you buy levels, yes
Uadjet Says: There are trainers where you buy the levels via dialog choice. I only know of a couple, but they seem to have level ranges they can train. Like skill training used to be.
Migg says: I have found them up to 91
Migg says: don't know if there are more
>Uadjet greets Venalan.
>Mordaan Dev greets Venalan.
Venalan Says: hi all
>Zif Henada greets Venalan.
Eonwindd Says: more questions?
Eonwindd Says: if not we can give some updates
>Menille Homieley waves at Venalan
>Zunna greets Venalan.
Mordaan raises his palm over his eyes and looks around
Migg says: guessing not
Eonwindd Says: well we could start with rules
>Zunna greets Gag Harmond.
>Mordaan Dev greets Gag Harmond.
>Gag Harmond greets everyone.
Talad Says: did you try to kill the new boss?
Gag says: Hi. My client didn't want to start, and did not die either, for half an hour...
Eonwindd Says: right now we are reviewing the war hammering special attacks, 4 over 5 are complete, the last is half done ans after we will test it
Eonwindd Says: ^ looks like someone is having hard time with Blackroot, right now
Mordaan Says: Zunna Says: lol
>Menille Homieley waves at Gag Harmond
Zunna Says: well the academy is on a good way for release, i am writing the fifth quest "as we speak"
Eonwindd Says: I'm also reviewing the skill practice formulas
Weruun says: Skill practice formula for all skills?
Eonwindd Says: to check if and how they need improvements or changes;
Eonwindd Says: they affect the time required to gain a skill by practice
Eonwindd Says: and yes, for all skills
Eonwindd Says: this always was a much debated topic from time to time
Weruun says: Interesting. Good luck with that.
Eonwindd Says: we also revised them sometime ago cutting about 25% "grinding" time
Eonwindd Says: but it's worth a review from time to time, that's all for rules, for now.
Migg says: τηατσ αλλ ςαρ ηαμμερ ορ ιν γενεραλ?
Migg says: ops sorry
Mordaan Says: Venalan, you want to take settings, of should I?
Migg says: thats all war hammer or in general?
Mordaan Says: I didn't know chat could even do that.
Venalan Says: well we are looking into suplementing skill training with more level awarded via quests, where suitable. This will help to level a little bit while questing but will not replace training.
Talad Says: overall I'm really in favor of that
Venalan Says: we're testing the new quests for the new weapon accademy
Talad Says: taking it to the extreme, you could get experience only from quests and discoveries in game
Talad Says: gaining exp through repeated tasks is not a good game design in my opinion
Talad Says: even if its the simplest way
>Karzela Mazarh greets everyone.
Talad Says: so setting is going in the direction to provide more progression through game content like quests
Karzela says: wb Venalan
Venalan Says: if we can get more repeatable quests out to cover more skills it will be possible to max only via quests
Venalan Says: but it will be slower than with training
Venalan Says: but taken together will make it a little more variable
Venalan Says: we hope
Venalan Says: Venalan Says: we also have a few more books, I'd like to get help from players to get us to the 150 mark
Venalan Says: we are less than 10 away from that now
Zunna Says: that's nice!
Mordaan Says: And in a lot of these cases, like crafting, cooking, etc., you kinda do both. You get a skill level by completing the quest, but you also have to make stuff in the quest and get practice that way.
Mordaan Says: for the repeatable quests, that is.
Venalan Says: beyond that its just fixing little things as players/gms let us know
Venalan Says: if anyone is interested in making anything quest/book for us please let us know.
Eonwindd Says: also getting skills by questing will make getting them more in character, imo
Venalan Says: I've also tried to get back into posting on FB to make our page look active
Karzela says: I noticed a lul there until this week. ^ ^
Gonger says: I like the way you said that... make the page look more active.
Mordaan Says: Venalan Says: even if I just say 'look the market again' its better than nothing
Zunna Says: we will make it more regular for some time, its getting more organised and thanks to you guys too
Zunna Says: and Mordaan
Karzela claps
Mordaan Says: Talad: any updates on UE stuff?
Mordaan chases away crickets
Talad Says: Ive been working on UE
Talad Says: mainly testing how to make more generic the controls of the characters
Talad Says: in UE you can design some game mechanics visually
Talad Says: by drawing lines and connectors
Talad Says: which is very cool
Talad Says: like a flowchart
Maltrobian says: I tried to play with it, but was so confused
Talad Says: I'm setting up the foundations for the characters to use a common flowchart
Talad Says: those are called "blueprints" in UE
Mordaan Says: it's a steep learning curve
Talad Says: I did some tests and it works well
Mordaan Says: but there's lots of instructional videos out there
Talad Says: but I was travelling most of the week, so not much progress
Talad Says: let' see next week progress
Karzela nods and smiles
>Maltrobian Boragar nods at Talad Dev.
Eonwindd Says: do you have any more questions?
Maltrobian says: Not right now.
>Emaline just joined PlaneShift
Elader says: me no
Ligerall says: where is the chat file?
Uadjet Says: You mean the character logs?
Ligerall says: yes
>Migg Ellorean waves at Emaline
Mordaan Says: depends on your OS
>Zunna greets Emaline.
Ligerall says: dell
Gag says: Hmmmm... cinnamon, orange...
Gonger says: Dell means Windows, I guess...
Ligerall says: yes
Maltrobian says: Not always Gonger
Uadjet Says: It's username/appdata/roaming/planeshift/logs
Ligerall says: ok thanks
Maltrobian says: I could put Linux on a Dell if I wanted
Eonwindd Says: I guess C:/User/username/...
Zif smiles and sips on the mulled wine
Gag says: Shortcut: %APPDATA%\PlaneSHift\logs
Ligerall says: thank you
Gag says: You can enter this as it is in your "Run..." dialog (Windows+R)
Karzela looks over at Uadjet with a bright smile on her face and mouths, "thank you"
Gonger says: That
Gonger says: That's why I was guessing, Maltrobian
Uadjet grins.
Karzela points to Emaline before whispering, "Promoted one..."
Zunna Says: No more questions guys?
>Damola Etedi waves at Emaline
Maltrobian says: I would think not
>Karzela Mazarh claps for Emaline.
Emaline snuck in at the last minute.
Eonwindd Says: well, we're close to meeting end, if there are no more questions we can wrap up
>Mulled Wine does not fit in that slot.
>Gag Harmond snaps to attention and salutes.
Elader drinks wine
Gag waves goodbye.
>Gag Harmond waves.
Gonger says: Thank you all.
>Zunna greets everyone.
>Eonwindd Dev greets everyone.
Migg says: ooh
Gonger says: Also for the wine!
>Karzela Mazarh waves at Gag Harmond
Migg says: someone stole Uadjet's staff?
Gag says: Skal!
Uadjet Says: Cant' hold my wine and the staff at the same time.
>You drink the Terevan Wine Goblet and you feel happier.
Zunna Says: eheheheh
Menille says: Many thanks for the meeting.
Mordaan Says: Maybe someone can go help Relef now.
Uadjet guzzles his wine.
Migg says: Ah
Emaline Says: It's like drinking and driving Uadjet. No drinking and casting.
Emaline Says: It's a safty feature.
Uadjet Says: Drinking and teleporting. Very scary.
Mordaan Says: See you.
Migg is sorry for holding Emaline accountable
Mordaan waves
Emaline Says: wait what?
Emaline Says: I'm accountable for what?
Migg says: lol nothing
Karzela laughsw
>Zunna waves.
>Menille Homieley greets Emaline.
Karzela says: lol
Emaline Says: oh I see it now...
Migg says: thought you stole Uadjet's staff is all
Emaline Says: No, not this time.
Maltrobian says: You don't touvh rocks stick
Migg says: Thanks all!
Menille says: Bye everyone!
Elader says: Yes thanks all.
Migg says: And thanks for the wine! Very festive too!
Migg says: bye all!
Weruun says: Bye everyone!
Maltrobian says: Thanks! Bye everyone!
Karzela waves, "Thanks to all volunteers for PS... and the wine was delicious. Thanks for that too."
Talad Says: bye
>Eonwindd Dev greets everyone.
Ligerall says: thank you for the meeting
Eonwindd Says: thank you and goodbye
