The Grab Bag
Posted by Sanya on Friday, but I was out of town, so here is your Grab Bag!
Here 'tis:
Q: The Herald keep data updates kinda slowly. Any chance of speeding up the refresh rate?
A: At this time, not without crashing the web server. Believe it or not, there seems to be a DAOC internet radio station that does keep news updates every twelve to twenty minutes. Go here to check it out.
Q: One guild took two keeps the other day, did you reintroduce that bug?
A: No. The Herald occasionally lags behind reality, but keeps are still one per guild (no matter what server you’re playing on – sorry, Mordred players, you’ll have to form alliances to dominate the world).
Q: I am an armorcrafter who wouldn’t mind having his skill displayed on the Herald. How do I display my numbers?
A: You need to type /webdisplay trades while you’re in the game. Any questions you might have, there’s a FAQ on the display page itself.
Q: Do you have any comments on damage changes in 1.51?
A: No, and everyone I could ask has left the building. I will try and get more information next week.
Q: Keep guards in the frontiers and the battleground keep guards behave differently. Is this a bug?
A: No. The battleground guards are more like ordinary mobs – they have fewer hit points, and they have no real “patrol route” that they feel like they must follow. In other words, if the guard is beating on you, it will follow you until one of you dies. You need to be out of range for a bit before he’ll give up on you.
Q: What kind of support do you offer for player-run events?
A: We basically lurk in the area, so in the event of appeals that report some kind of harassment or disruption, we can be on the spot. We also monitor chat channels if that becomes necessary, but generally we try to stay out of things unless asked for assistance.
If you’re planning something big and elaborate, toss me a head’s up notice, and I will make sure the team is aware of it. The server leads are very much on top of things for their communities, though, so I expect anything I forward will be already known.
Q: (Insert question here about 1.51A)
A: Guys, just about everything in 1.51A was straight from player requests. Some of you seem to feel that fun things like the cards and dice should not have been included. I just wanted you to know that a) most of our roleplayers had been requesting small tavern games for months, and b) the cards and dice took almost no time at all – one of our main programmers was putting in the /random command (by popular demand), and the cards and dice aspects took fifteen minutes of extrapolating the code he used for /random.
The next round of “strike team” fixes include the tweaking of a number of spell lines, including all the healing spells.
Q: Mordred launch is... when again?
A: We're doing well =) Phase three will begin in a week or two.
Our fan gathering planner wanted me to mention that more details are coming together. We’ll be having a number of panel discussions, with plenty of scheduled time to answer your questions. One of the presentations will be the debut of Shrouded Isles details. I am informed that I’m doing a presentation as well. This fills me with horror, but I have three weeks to get over my stage fright…
There will be a costume contest in the evening portion of the gathering, a Weakest (Chainmail) Link trivia contest, food, fun, and over 180 prizes to give away. There are still spaces available, with discount tickets for children. Sign up, and get your chance to PK me in person =)
Be safe, be well, and have a good weekend.
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