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I have several friends that I would enjoy having them join me on Achaea, but they have a hard time getting into a text game. I feel that if they knew the history/lore/culture in it, they would have an easier time coming to play it. Do you have any thoughts on releasing anything of the like? TRPG's? Novels? Board Games?
2. Any plans on Achaea 2, Electric Boogaloo?
3. Besides UW and Annwyn, are there any plans to have players be able to travel to other planes or planets, like the Raja homeworld? Besides it just being another hunting area, I would love to see a place that has a much bigger story behind it, similar to Istarion and Meropis
4. When are we going to be able to explore the city of Seleucar, or what remains of it?
5. Modern Sapience v Ancient Seleucar. MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Yea, that one!
Yea, that one!
2) No plans for splitting off into a different game/sequel, no. Achaea will still continue to evolve, expand, and enhance every day though!
3/4) Indeed, but you'll have to wait and see
5) Sounds paradoxical!
- Limb Counter - Fracture Relapsing -
"Honestly, I just love that it counts limbs." - Mizik Corten
I have a burning question: if a god Human Serpent wanted to, let's say--take over a continent or an island (That's a nice Zanzibaar you have there). When could that get pushed through?
Also, speaking of really good ideas (Really, really good ideas..) there are a lot of ideas given to the Garden. Cascades, mountains of ideas. Ideas packed so high, it's quite possible that successfully scaling them would result in a a certificate from Guinness World Records. I've submitted two - one quite recently, and the other sometime in early September of 2014.
Truth be told, I don't expect my ideas to be given much more than a gigglesnort - a man can dream, but even Divine patience is limited. How do you guys go through Ideas? Is it allocated to one person to sift through the sea of turds for potential non-turd items? Do you all just sit down together once a week and bring them up, one at a time? Do things come up where one or more Divine think an idea is the best thing since sliced bread when it's a horrible idea, or vice-versa? I mean, SHOW ME YOUR WORLD, HERE.
Thanks in advance.
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
what are your thoughts re: steampunk or clockwork technologies in Achaea? please feel free to type a couple of sentences or more
what do you consider achaea's most emblematic content? like for star wars it's the lightsaber.
thoughts re: spiderman approved to appear in the marvel cinematic universe
plans for new tradeskills?
new races when
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
That's one thing you'll definitely see more of in 2015 too! We've put aside one day a week to take a break from our relentless project schedule and just fix bugs or implement ideas - so expect to continue to see those bugfix/idea ANNOUNCE posts! Naturally, fixing bugs is a far faster task than implementing most ideas, so while we may knock out 200 bugfixes in a day, you may only see 20 - 30 ideas.
While not exactly the same, if you think about how the tradeskills are handled, it's currently similar! The finer details, while coded, are not finalised, so you'll have to wait until closer to release for more concrete information.
1) Not a foodstagrammer!
2) To be honest, not something we're looking at expanding further than clockwork isle at this time. I'm more of a fan of low-tech swords and sorcery than the more technology-focussed aspects that come with steampunk.
3) Hrrm, probably the dragon, which, while cliche in fantasy circles, is a very big part of Achaea (probably more-so than most other games).
4) Jury is still out, depends on how much influence Sony has on the creative process. In theory, I'm excited by the prospect!
5) A little further down the road, definitely.
6) ^^^
1) Designs aren't finalised yet, so most likely after.
2) Makarios writes the decisions for most of them, and handles the general approvals. If there's something that has a big impact, we usually discuss them, so I'd say I have the final word!
3) Fixed amount per point of int. There's a scale involved, so if you have less than 16 int, you get fractionally more per point than if you have more than 16, but it continues to have an effect until 19 int.
4) No plans at this very second to show personalised costs, but it's something we could potentially do in the future.
5) I think they'll always be limited to skills you have access too, would rather that you go and talk to/fight another player rather than just looking at their ability files.
6) Not sure there, more Sarapis' domain, but I think they were originally going to be able to be built from talisman pieces.
No straight credit sale for a little while, no.
1) Yes, the leadership will be involved as much as possible.
2) As quickly as possible! Leadership can continue brainstorming and putting down thoughts/ideas for things now, there's no need to wait until eleusis is finished before even starting to ponder!
2) Realistically, probably a new island would be the first thing on that list.
3) When we have time, yep. Coming up with a unique and compelling riddle takes hours of work!
4) Don't think it's really needed with the tools at their disposal.
5) They're given out on rare occasions.
6) I could see the top-ranked explorer being added as an honours line item, much like the #1 xp rank etc. As for the tome, there's no discussion between the games on pricing of artefacts. They're based upon what we deem them to be worth.
What's the average wait time for them?
Can somebody that's already done the normal dragon ceremony be rolled back to non-dragon and submit a custom dragon ceremony? (I FORGOT THEY EXISTED
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
PK gets a lot of attention (understandably so), but other than the huge theft nerf, there's been nothing to incentivise or improve either area. Non-PK activities are fine otherwise, since RP is something you just do, but there really needs to be some mechanical backing to theft and espionage and outside of a couple of serpent abilities (that are nullified by simple things like parties and messages) there's just nothing there at the moment in Achaea.
Theft is another one that's great in theory. It has the potential to be a really awesome tool for advancing conflict, but as we all know, and the reason that it was changed, was that in the -vast- majority of cases it was a platform for griefing/extortion (just steal stuff to see if they'll buy it back for some credits). We definitely have some provisions for theft-based RP that we try to use, such as having the ability to mark an item as a quest/important item, so if it's pickpocketed from a player/denizen, it takes precedence over the regular items that you would normally grab.
Summing up, yeah, they're great in theory, but we haven't found a good way to make them work well in reality!
After it's dug, you'll then need to figure out a way to make water flow uphill.. oh man, I just got a mental image of casting off from the Mhaldor harbour: