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!
Uadjet: You've all been here before, so you know what's going on.
Uadjet: Today I set up some chests, if you'd like to test your lockpicking skills against my ability to lock items.
Uadjet: So you should be able to lock and unlock those crates.
Uadjet: And if you find out what skill that last one uses, let me know. I only know the value for the lockpicking skill.
>Rykia waves at Gova
Thosor: unlocked...
Thosor: failed to unlock this one, but got ranked up in Backstab?
Rykia: haha....interesting result
Uadjet: Oh, now THAT is interesting!
Rykia: Backstab with box level 200 too
Thosor: failed at 200, no backstab info.
Resildren: the first one picked
Uadjet: Okay, let's give a quick update.
Gonger: Yes, I ranked up in Backstab, too.
Thosor: failed at 150, no backstab info.
Uadjet: My mistake: I dangled something shiny in front of people.
Resildren: lock 20 and 50 both show pregression as lockpicking
Thosor: unlocked 100
Thosor: 2 more to rank up
Gonger: Except for the Backstab thing, the lockpicking works as expected for me.
Uadjet: You all are, I think, familiar with the new jewelry/adornment options for Enkidukai and Kran?
Rykia nods
Anysu: yup
Thosor: locked 50, ranked up
Uadjet: Good. Talad did some work on Klyros as well.
Thosor: unlocked 50 again
Uadjet: They aren't in yet, but they take the form of tiaras, as piercings might be really bad on amphibians.
Anysu: lol got the rank up in backstabbing. Rest were ranking in lockpicking.
Thosor: 20 ok
Thosor: failed to open 150 again, but got 8 backstab points
Uadjet: I have thoughts on making other things unlock using different skills. I'll test on one of my GM-Yet-Not-GM accounts to see which skill is which. I could ask Talad, but doing it the hard way makes me feel like I earned it.
Thosor: ignore last post, was on wooden crate, not 150
Resildren: this last crate is the only one that showed me any progress on back stabing
Uadjet: Eventually, all races will get these little visual upgrades, so look forward to the extra customization!
Uadjet: Yeah, the last crate is the only one not set to skill 22, which is lockpicking.
Damola would love something sensible than the current mage robes for female Nolthrir
Thosor: still unable to unlock 150 after latest rankup
Damola: Also for all races it would be nice to have some different clothes than just armor and mage robes. Some kind of casual clothing.
Rykia has the same dream for fenkis
Anysu: yes to different clothes
Thosor: I have 102 in lockpicking skill
Resildren: bunny slippers would be nice?
Uadjet chuckles.
Uadjet: Additional clothing options would be nice, I'lll admit.
Uadjet: I think recoloring the existing clothing would be easier, but Talad's been having fun upgrading meshes and making new weapons, so who knows?
Uadjet adds groffel slipps to the to-do list.
Damola: I am looking forward to all the chat related fixes he made recently!
Anysu nods at Damola
Uadjet: He's done a lot of bugfixing, and here's where you can find a list of tasks that are potentially fixed. If you see something on there list that is marked as ready to test, maybe give it a look and see if it works for you:
http://hydlaaplaza.com/PlaneShift/flyspray/index.php?do=tasklist&project=2&pagenum=1&order=status&sort=descUadjet: You may also know that he's considering ways to make the Dryken Plane a bit easier to handle for new players.
Gonger: That is the best news of all.
Gonger: I would like to repeat my call for PR team support
Gonger: The Q&A proceedings in the forums are now up-to-date, btw.
Damola: Thanks Gonger for that!
Uadjet: One idea that I though was promising was the addition of extra NPCs into the Plane.
Uadjet: Yes, thanks Gonger!
Uadjet: I'm sure I just messed up a setting somewhere, but I have no idea how I turned off logs.
Uadjet: I've had a few thoughts on it.
Uadjet: Ideally, I'd like to set up an NPC for each race that might come through. A fellow refugee that came from the same world. Someone who came through before, but is resting.
Uadjet: That person could share information about the plane, and mention meeting others of other species.
Thosor: I have to turn on logging each time logging in.
Uadjet: Talad said he could create NPCs that only appear to one client, but they wouldn't have all NPC functions.
Damola: For me logging works okay unless there is a server crash, then I have to restart the client to make logging work again.
Uadjet: It's not a fully formed idea, but it would, I think, help tie the player to their homeworld a bit, and reinforce the idea that they're just passing through the Plane.
Thosor: I can't find the "click" when chat is updated in the bugtracker. It was good in legacy if you were on another window, and the chat updated.
Uadjet: Then there would be a constant NPC later on, that is either trapped in the Plane or has chosen to remain. Likely a Kran or Lemur. Someone who can give more info on Yliakum.
Damola: I did not fully understand Talad's comment on my last concern that the Dryken Plane would not account for characters born in Yliakum, but if I understood it correctly it is in lore that Kran or Lemur are asked by the Gods to go to the Dryken Plane and help other people come to Yliakum.
Damola: One could find a way to make this in lore for characters of the other races who were born in Yliakum.
Uadjet: Yeah, I was puzzled by Kran and Lemur going through the Plane as well.
Uadjet: But both Talad and Laanx told their followers to prepare for the new races, so maybe there is a way to enter the Plane from this side.
Damola: It was one of the main concern I had for in lore consistency how to explain people being born in Yliakum go through Dryken Plane, but that could be an explanation.
Uadjet: Maybe a task that needs to be done to get full rights, or required by the churches.
Uadjet: There is a thread for this on the forum, so discussion can continue there.
Uadjet: Today, Talad was working on... Well, it's a lot of interconnected things. Daily quests, and tribes, and resources.
Uadjet: Currently tribes (like gobbles) gather resources and use them to increase their numbers and build structures.
Damola: How many live stream did he do meanwhile?
Damola: 1290
Uadjet: Talad was talking about having dailies to donate resources to the cities or the bronze doors.
Damola: Whoa.
Damola: 1289 is mega bugfixing.
Damola: 1290 is world economy
Damola: and before that three more were about bug fixing.
Uadjet: There are possible effects if people do or don't: City walls could show damage, or monsters could start attacking the city. If resources are high, there could be additional fortifications built. Also, the idea he seemed to really like is that if the BD is fully stocked, new areas of the Stone Labyrinths could be unblocked.
Damola: And a serious look at the dryken plane.
Uadjet: So players will have the chance to contribute to locations with resources. The personal rewards for doing so are not yet defined, but I'm sure there will be something. Heck, it could even grant titles, which I'm sure players would love.
Uadjet: That's just me speculating, though.
Anysu: oohhh titles. Like that.
Gonger: First get current things working, maybe. Like Achievements - there is a ton of Achievements I should have, but I don't have them...
Anysu nods at Gonger
Gonger: Like "Own x glyphs", "Talk to x merchants", etc
Uadjet: Faction, enchanted armor,and so forth?
Damola: "Took 100 ale baths."
Gova: I think I got the talk to and glyph achievements. The talk to ones seemed like they were calculated incorrectly, but for the glyphs one I just bought some basic glyphs from Levrus.
Gonger: Bathing Master achievement.
Resildren: that would be Gonger?
Thosor: master in fishing
Resildren: * bathing in beer
Uadjet: And just now Talad is talking on Discord, about giving monsters their own 'lair' appropriate for the species, and have new spawns appear there, rather than just dropping out of the sky.
Damola: Nice.
Uadjet: Questions?
Anysu: Questions Thing is what if having been here long time you already talked x number of merchants in legacy? Does psu reset to 0 when one returns to game.
Resildren: good question
Anysu: I achieved alot in legacy.. but do not get that achievenment here
Thosor: same
Resildren: dito
Gonger: That's what I meant, Anysu... some things about Achievements are broken.
Uadjet: Yeah, not all achievments got ported correctly.
Gova: Familiar and Mount ones are broken unless, I think, you get them in Unreal.
Gova: Factions achievements are only awarded if you complete a quest to get faction points in Unreal.
Damola: Damola is Blue Way master but that is not reflected in achievements. Crystal Way master is reflected. She is even Way Master in that way.
Gova: Equipping magic items doesn't seem to grant those achievements, other than the one for a single item.
Anysu nods.
Resildren: winch acces is borked as well achivments wise, i have it but not noted
Damola: Also Damola certainly collected more than 40 glyphs, so yeah something seems odd with some of the achievements.
Gova: I don't know about Way Mastery. I think only High Mastery gets the achievement.
Anysu: Why I wondered how we get some of those things here
Damola: Owning a familiar, owning a mount and having visited the winch is also not reflected in achievements.
Resildren: on magic its shows marked as a red way master in mine which is correct
Damola: Gova, yeah, but as Damola is Blue Way master she should have that achievement, but does not.
Damola: Crystal Way master is shown.
>Anysu nods.
Resildren: i thought only one master staus is allowed at a time?
Anysu: Anyway that were my questions.
Uadjet: High Mastery, yes. Only one. That's about quest completion, I think, not skill.
Damola: Hmmm, that may play a role, Resildren. Ah?
Gonger: Well, in short, achievements need some attention...
Damola: okay? cause I was able to complete quests for mastery in blue way still.
Damola: Yeah, Gonger, true.
Resildren: yes i have multiple master statuses but i show as the one i chose
Damola: Okay, so that is cleared.
Anysu: yes, to what Gonger said,
Damola: But that 40 glyphs obtained and others are still wrong.
Uadjet: Yeah, they're still wrong.
Anysu nods at Damola
Gova: I think the glyph one is one that I only got after buying glyphs and then logging out and back in.
Resildren: umm mine shows the over forty checked?
Uadjet: Not the lower ones?
Uadjet: I think a one time script is needed to check these things and away the achievements.
Resildren: all the glyph counts are checked
Gova: I had a list somewhere of the repeatable quests that granted faction points.
Damola: Resildren, none are checked here.
Resildren: strange
Damola: According to achievements Damola did not even obtain 5 glyphs.
Damola: That is also why she does not hand out any glyphs to people
Gova: Try buying a few glyphs from Levrus and see if that helps.
Damola: Will do? but still achievements are somehow bugged.
Damola: Anyway? any other questions or topics?
Uadjet: There's no doubt about that.
Uadjet: If there's nothing else...
Resildren: i have multiples i can can offer you some see if that helps?
Anysu: So yeah all for fix of achievments
Damola: I do not care all that much and can buy from Levrus.
Resildren: well the offer stands if you want to see f that helps
Anysu: Thanks for update
Uadjet: Okay, then let's bring the meeting to a close.
Uadjet: Thank you all for coming, and I'll see you at the next meeting in two weeks!
