Thread: Simucon News

Originally Posted by Androidpk

How many people actually hunt the confluence?

Only noobs and idiots don't.

State of Elanthia

2016 News:
Phase 1 Chronomage updates completed - gold rings, travel times.
Phase 2 Chronomage update coming out this year - Items, spells, transportation methods to get you across the game.

Released a bunch of hunting grounds, frozen bramble, red forest, SoS.
Server stability & Wiki updates. (Less crashes, more wiki extensions.)

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Updates coming: Playershops!
Close to testing, worked on by Retser, no ETA, at least a 30 day notice when ready for launch.
Fixing rent, evictions. "Rent broke" so that portion had to be shut off.

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Reorganization - Changed to 3 teams.

Event team - Paid events, etc.

Subscription team - Prime, Premium, Platinum + Communities
* CHE's/MHO's will be part of the subscriptions team.
* At least 1 more GM in the communities.

Dev - Devs working on background things, combat, etc.

Gurus are changing - No town "gurus" - There will be a group of people working on all towns. So that towns without a lot of attention will get more attention.
Races will be worked on collectively - Similarly to how towns will work now.

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Q4 Auction - In december - Free to all subscribed players - Must have paid subscription to attend. - Premium tent with specific/special? items.

Teased itens:
Gem eater runestaff
Pendant with "combat effects" based on moon phases
New Arkati cloaks
Mist armor rings - w/ new updates
Loin cloth w/ +9 Charisma
Brand new stuff, new concepts, and some stuff we're used to
"A lot of cool stuff"

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Duskruin -
New bloodrunes
A new layer for the something system. (guessing something = pendant, couldn't hear)
Add/remove/interchange - Change appearance - Fits with the artwork - Can look like a minotaur
New features - Can "unredeem" redeemed bloodscrip.
Will talk more about the scrip shops on the forums
Added UAC equipment, Full plate, reopening skyfire.

Wyrom - We will have high end gear for sale again! At Duskruin
Wyrom - This time, starting the opening weekend.
Wyrom - It's something in discussion, the high end gear in the base game. It's something I support.

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REIM: Coming in September
Will have a shop system down the road.

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Q1: Aydan - Do you not do anything during 11am-11pm.
A1: They can try to address storyline times.

Q2: Bristenn - When are warriors going to be able to 3x train CM.
A2: No plans, but they can possibly discuss.

Q3: Tservin - Are there any other class revisions being worked on.
A3: Working on finishing wizard spells. Some rogue stuff "not just for rogues" in the works. No bard dev. known.

Q4: More details about wizard spells.
A4: Talk to Pat

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PAT says:
550 - Time Stop -- It will allow a wizard to remove 20 seconds of RT, and it can be used while in RT. (Can it be used while stunned/bound/etc?)
* EL:E will allow additional uses.
* EL:A increases the amount of RT that is removed.
* EL:F will cause a fire e-wave to activate.
* EL:W will add roundtime to the fire e-wave.


950 - Core tap - It will allow a wizard to specify 6 spells that will be instantly cast to all targets in the room.
* 2 minute cooldown
* EL:E allows more uses during cooldown/reduces cooldown.
* EL:F will boost AS/CS.
* EL:A will channel the spells for free?
* EL:W will offset mana cost.
** When you cast the spells there may be an additional mana cost/pro-rated cost. (This part was unclear.)


520 - Mage armor -
* Base - SWCP
* At 100 MJE spell ranks = Heavy crit padding.
You can also specify an element to take on that aspect
* Earth - Up to +50% crit padding
* Air - Better encumbrance
* Fire - Channel in lesser stance
* Lightning - Stuns everything else in the room if/when stunned
* Water - Spell protection, every 30 seconds negates a dispel.
520 stacks with everything, existing armor, other abilities (GoS).


These spells will be up on the test instance (estimated) next week.

925 updates out very soon. Within a month.

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New updates to allow players to customize a number of spells for every profession.
* Spirit Servant
* Mana Bread
* Tangleweed
* Call Storm
* Floating Disk.
** New services for future events.

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No other planned updates for Rangers.
635 is not being removed.

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Fusion shaman will be at EG.
No immediate changes happening with fusion.
Orb pricing will not change from last year.
Fusion gear will most likely be 1 slot.

EG heart upgrades?
Yes, the ether phase 2 upgrades will happen this year
If you already got an ether, you'll get it.

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Wyrom - GM Kynlee and Zoelle have been working on wedding upgrades, so I'll check in and see if we can announce anything there.

Syphaer - Wyrom - About, probably a year ago, there was some effort announced to prevent the janitor from cleaning up items that people had lost, specifically in areas with disarming. Any update on that?
I've been gone a while, so maybe it happened.
Wyrom - With SoS released, it's something that was brought back up in the priority list. Disarm item attrition, that is.
Wyrom - Item attrition, in general, is just a relic that doesn't support a lot of the game's goals anymore.
Kithus - So making disarm work like shield sunder?
Wyrom - Not exactly, Keith. But something different.

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LyliaR - Grr, sorry, connection issues. Did I miss a response about 3x lore training for wizards? I have a friend who wants to know.
Also, it's Crux.
Wyrom - There aren't any plans to update training points at this time anywhere. So nothing yet.

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Fleurs - Will the test server have updated profiles or the same ones from May.
Wyrom - I'll check to see if we can do a fresh sync.

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Kithus - Wait back up I'm with Ordim, mining and smelting updates?
Wyrom - Mining and Smelting is all tied to Forging, so it's being worked on, but it's a bigger project, and sort of gets sidelined a lot.

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Fleurs - Will there be further reduction in RT across the board, such as with fletching and other artisan skills
Wyrom - I don't think there are plans to touch fletching any time soon.

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NonConGuy - In regards to the playershops upgrades -- Will there be any changes to ownership? Possibly limiting it to 1 shop per account?
GSRetser - We're still discussing playershops and future state. In current state my main goal is to get Pshops base systems working.

GSRetser - As the shops are in prime, about 289 of them are deemed "abandoned".
GSRetser - Of which, we're going to be announcing how they will be handled for current state updates.
RozyGnome - How do you calculate who's abandoned their shop, anyways?
GSRetser - The owner hasn't visited the shop within 6 months.

GSRetser - Current state progress will be handled in phases.
GSRetser - Phase 1 is getting the information out there so that people can potentially save their abandoned shops prior to the changes being implemented.
GSRetser - We're going to have some people who are partners of a shop and the owner is gone. We'll be giving people around a 30 day window, is the current plan, to come in and refresh their shops.
GSRetser - Yes, rent will be returning.
GSRetser - Current sate, there is no plan to change anything about the functionality of shops.
It is just to remove all the bugs and errors.

Wyrom - The one thing that happens with projects like pshops is we all try to pack in a huge update, and it gets stuck. So we're trying to push out more bite-sized pieces. Retser has a LOT of plans and ideas, but this would hold up pshops again. So the goal is to get the bugs fixed, release it and...
Get more QoL updates.

GSRetser - My business style is agile projects. That means phased approaches to larger projects.

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NonConGuy - Do you know how many items in total there will be for the Q4 auction?
Wyrom - Over 100
Wyrom - Pure silver auction. No raffles. No tokens.

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Wyrom - SoS bounties should be something available soon.

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14:25 - Roblar - oh yea, can Sanctum get easy death messaging update to exclusive?
14:25 - LyliaR - It was great to see some of the Landing's prolific storylines travel to Icemule and Solhaven recently. With the restructuring of town gurus, I'm guessing that's something we can look forward to seeing more often?
14:25 - Wyrom - Yeah, death messaging, I can get that
Yes, Lylia.

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Roblar - oh yea -um private property add-ons for sale?
Wyrom - Private Property addons are still happening. We ran into some issues with the store. But it's coming, I swear.

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Originally Posted by SashaFierce

GSRetser - As the shops are in prime, about 289 of them are deemed "abandoned".

I suspected the number would be high but 289?! I'm glad they're getting fixed finally, having to drop 10s of millions to own one was insanity. I hope this brings back the days when there was so much variety on sale.

Originally Posted by Winter

I suspected the number would be high but 289?! I'm glad they're getting fixed finally, having to drop 10s of millions to own one was insanity. I hope this brings back the days when there was so much variety on sale.

I so often pawn items that someone could really want, because it's such a bother to sell items. Really good stuff sits in my locker, untill it fills up, and I end up selling a large quantity. I would love to have a shop i can drop off those items and get to someone who would appreciate it. But yea, I'm not dropping 30 million to get a shop.

Anyone have a clue how many shops there are? wonder what percentage that is

If anyone is looking to flip one of those private roleplay experiences, let me know.

Originally Posted by Fallen

If anyone is looking to flip one of those private roleplay experiences, let me know.

Hoodtralfeck would probably flip the Argent Mirror experience if it was allowed.

Not sure I could make that work, but I'd certainly be up for discussing it.

Originally Posted by Ardwen

Anyone have a clue how many shops there are? wonder what percentage that is

Assuming each room holds 5 shops (there are a few landing rooms that only have 4 for some reason)

Wehnimer's Landing 200
Teras Isle 25
Four Winds Isle 75
Solhaven 75
Ta'Illistim 100
Ta'Vaalor 115
Icemule Trace 100
River's Rest 25
Zul Logoth 30

Total 745