Coming Soon to Renaissance - Future Patch Q&A

Ooooh! Exciting!

It is the way things used to be, but with a sprinkling of custom/new content to keep things fresh. I think many of us here came from a static server where things did not change.

Some of the custom content isn't my favorite, some of it grew on me over time, and some I have been excited to see happen.

For the most part, any new content that is added usually doesn't hinder you or force you to do it. I think the staff here is pretty careful about that. You can play just like you used to and not even know some of this stuff is going on.

The ability to repair bows was very much needed. Thank you!

All of this seems really exciting.. I think this new carpentry addition presents the perfect style of difficulty for BODs. Much like I have discussed in another forum. This should alllow for high end small drop %s to be higher, but maintain difficulty and player interaction due to being spread across three skills.

Because of all three skills being tied to one bod timer, guild work or me and jupiter's black market will gain a boost by this.

Awesome idea!

As a newb myself I like all the changes I see. I'll undoutedly find something to moan about, but until then, this will give me loads to do with my pure rogue which is great news! And and I still have a tamer to raise on this shard so the thought that it may involve some refreshing new changes is nice!

This is a very Trammel change, imo. Everything else looks great.

You can turn it off if you think yourself veteran enough. Then again, with your stance on macro mining perhaps you'll want to leave it on.

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my concern is that no one will read the new text. it has the same form and begins with the same words.


perhaps if the colors of gates were slightly different depending upon where they led it would be easier to identify them. also when you click a gate it could say "through the moongate you see the interior walls of a private house" or similar. this is how moongates worked when they were phasic.

i don't like the gumps, personally. they require me to use razor to pass through them while dragging things on cursor and are otherwise just another needless click. if we just educated players via the young program i think we could do away with these gumps while instead using a more intuitive system like coloring and click-to-read text.

Blame Panda House. We went town fishing for 2 days and even got jailed twice for not breaking any rules.

Since the bods are all 'carpentry' does this mean that I can take a completed orange bod of any type to turn in to any of the three NPCs?


ex. I fill a 20 table bod and give it to the bowyer for a small bowyer bod.

OR

Does a 20 table bod only convert in to a carpentry skill bod at the carpenters until it turns in to a large mix bod?

Blaise thinks it has something to do with me or being a veteran or blah blah blah.. It's not just simply turning it off for myself, I'm not going to take a gate without being tricked into it in some way.

I know it has to do with town fishing and it's completely era accurate to bait people from banks into taking a gate, whether to a house or to an unknown area where the PK is waiting.

The point is, people should be getting the standard message. Baiting people from a bank to an awaiting gank is the equivalent to marking over a PK's rune and gating reds into town. You're fooling players into taking a gate they shouldn't be taking.

The fact you guys got jailed for this blows my mind. This has Trammel written all over it.

Also, I missed it the first time I skimmed through: The changes to spawn boss AI, although probably deserved, I believe breaks the system more. You're going from lots of interest in doing spawns to just about none. I don't know who is crazy enough to do an Oaks or Semidar spawn for just 6 plat. The change would be fine if you adjusted the amount of plat each boss dropped based on their difficulty and the difficulty of the spawn. An Oaks is not rewarding at all spending 1.5+ hours (depending on manpower) for 6 plat.

I want to argue this point with you. TT members were the first ones doing spawns and the first ones running three accounts at them. As much as it has benefited me to do so, I think it would be a welcome change for only one account to be able to receive platinum per boss. Without some change like this, everyone feels obligated to run 3 accounts to hit the boss in order to get the same payout as everyone else. (Why go for 6 plat when you can get 18, afterall?)

There's a bunch of reasons this is silly to me, but the one that really matters most is it's a workaround of the staff's intention to reward 6 plat for the boss(not 18). It's also harder to run three clients and you're more susceptible to pking, stealing, or just dying. It will be a welcome change when I don't feel like I need to line up all three of my accounts to bomb the boss. I can focus more on playing the game than planning ebolts from three characters. And there are people that consider something like a champ spawn to be the end game content for them, and they want to enjoy it, and I watch them now feel obligated to find alts to bring down and receive the same reward as everyone else.

That said I do feel like 6 plat is not much for a couple hours work. Although I typically feel the same way about things that are likely to reward 1 plat, like the boss mobs in dungeons. Perhaps I've just grown too accustomed to receiving big payouts. But I do think if the spawn is likely to reward me 6-10 plat overall vs 18-22 then I may also be less inclined to do them.

But ideally, to me, the staff might meet us halfway. Increasing the plat gained by the single character, maybe also the plat gained at the 3rd/4th tier of the spawn, but also making it impossible to receive plat from the boss on three characters.