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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2016 13:20:59 GMT -5
Do whatever you think will allow you to focus on development the most. You could always periodically allow access to everyone (ie once a month) to get the benefit of direction feedback, generating chatter, maintaining interest, and incentivizing work with a specific goal each cycle without clogging up the gears by trying to take on everyone.
Successful software development is all about short iterations, gaining critical feedback after each step, and working with the expectation that said feedback will probably want things to be done differently.
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Post by tektolnes on Mar 13, 2016 15:56:40 GMT -5
Why have Shadow/Lightning/Void elementalists? That was a wierd arm quark. The original Dark Sun only had Earth, Fire, Air, Water - where Air got the lightning bolts (but no invis).
Do Athas, fuck Zalanthas.
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Post by vintrius on Mar 14, 2016 1:23:48 GMT -5
Why have Shadow/Lightning/Void elementalists? That was a wierd arm quark. The original Dark Sun only had Earth, Fire, Air, Water - where Air got the lightning bolts (but no invis). Do Athas, fuck Zalanthas. Most discussion is taking place on our forums. Those were some original thoughts and are not cannon, nor are going to be part of AthasMUD. As for the closed Beta, it's more or less that we won't be advertising it. We'll make a post on our forums for active participants and will then give whoever is interested access to our CBT boards on the forum. There they can discuss/go over bugs, etc. We will provide game details and the likes. If someone wants to join, they can - they just have to ask. Once the CBT is concluded, we will go over all of the posts under the CBT boards and address any issues/bugs before we have our open beta. I believe we will advertise the open beta. |
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Post by drunkendwarf on Mar 16, 2016 10:00:34 GMT -5
I agree. Get the game open to at least some players, bare bones, and let them help you decide the direction. It's far better to have people playing the game and add cool stuff along the way than to make everyone wait for all the cool stuff to be added before they can play. BEcause...what if they didn't want certain cool stuffs? Or wanted it differently? Or don't use it at all? Etc, etc.
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Post by delerak on Mar 16, 2016 13:01:35 GMT -5
At the end of the day the coders motivation or implementing things will trump what players want. Unless you decide to pay him a full wage for his work.
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Post by grumble on Mar 17, 2016 13:12:06 GMT -5
You may find more staffers from among your player base. Right now your mud seems to be a rather hot topic on these boards, and right now many players are disgruntled with Arm and would love an alternative, some far less vocal than others, so you might not be able to see them right now. If you let that heat burn off, you may miss a valuable opportunity depending mostly on timing, which taking the opportunity could give you the momentum to make a highly successful game. But Del's right, what works for you and your coders is more important, in the end.
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Post by vintrius on Mar 18, 2016 11:37:44 GMT -5
We plan on having our closed beta very soon which will of course lead to the open beta. There's just a few major systems to finish up such as coding in some starting races and classes as well as going through combat. Our builders have started working in building the inner portion of Tyr which is where CBT will be confined to.
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Post by vintrius on Mar 29, 2016 17:48:41 GMT -5
Things are rolling along smoothly and at full steam. We're going to be ready to open for the first closed beta test before you know it. From: bit.ly/1MzJcLy |
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Post by m on Mar 30, 2016 4:41:16 GMT -5
Vintrius beat me to the update. So yeah, things are coming along pretty well. I'm pretty happy with the progress we're making. We've brought some extra builders to help with things and things are picking up as a result. I expect there'll be spits and bursts but there always is with this sort of thing. I'll be happy to have more than +4 rooms for our next weekly update to include. Other things that are happening: - Blurbs on our classes have now been added to our website.
- We've unveiled our plans and vision for the magic classes. Essentially we won't be telling people "no you can't do this thing that Dark Sun canon says you should be able to" and will be working hard to make sure the code reflects that. With that said, we'll be making certain things suitably difficult as Dark Sun canon tells us we should.
- Staff side we have a clear vision of the cosmology of Dark Sun. Drawing heavily from the Original Boxed Set and early supplements, we are also including elements from the Revised Boxed Set and even the 4th edition cosmology. However each element of our planes has been examined and certain things, which served no conceivable purpose or wasn't differentiated enough from other elements were considered harshly before deciding whether or not to include them. The upside is, our thinking has been clearly laid out as has our source material. In the event AthasMUD continues on for many years there should be no question as to why we included the things we have.
- We're ironing out how our stealth skills will potentially work.We have looked at how they're used in Armageddon and strongly considered whether or not these are the best ways to have those uses be coded and how we could better enable those types of uses. Everyone is welcome to register and share their thoughts in our forums.
- We've started posting up our racial documentation on our website. Currently we have dwarves (who should be quite familiar to everyone) and elves (which are surprisingly different to those from Armageddon). As always, we're soliciting feedback for these as well on our forums.
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Post by Procrastination on Mar 30, 2016 6:19:55 GMT -5
Moranus, huh? Well, at least if you're an asshat reminiscent of some past staffers of other games, they won't have to search long for a good nickname for you. That note aside, my excitement grows. I've had a lot of reservations about this project, and it's good to see it's going somewhere. Maybe I'll ask around a few people I know involved to hear about how it's been thusfar in development.
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Post by m on Mar 30, 2016 6:35:12 GMT -5
Well, at least if you're an asshat reminiscent of some past staffers of other games, they won't have to search long for a good nickname for you. Took me a week to realise the inevitable nickname that my handle invited. I was waiting to see how long until someone else mentioned it. Maybe I'll ask around a few people I know involved to hear about how it's been thusfar in development. We're always open to feedback  |
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Post by vintrius on Mar 30, 2016 7:47:50 GMT -5
Well, at least if you're an asshat reminiscent of some past staffers of other games, they won't have to search long for a good nickname for you. Took me a week to realise the inevitable nickname that my handle invited. I was waiting to see how long until someone else mentioned it. Maybe I'll ask around a few people I know involved to hear about how it's been thusfar in development. We're always open to feedback To be fair, I saw it when you first said you wanted your name to be Moranus, but I didn't say anything. Freedom of choice, heh. MORE ANUS. |
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Post by m on Mar 30, 2016 17:34:48 GMT -5
Yeah, well. I suck at names. Don't be worried though, I am giving our builders the freedom to change any name I come up with (although not necessarily those that are from Dark Sun canon).
In breaking news: Muls in AthasMUD will be allowed to grow hair on the top of their head. Minds were blown. All this and more can be found out on our forums (where it was pointed out to me. Seriously. WTF muls?)
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Post by vintrius on Apr 5, 2016 7:02:56 GMT -5
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Post by grumble on Apr 5, 2016 15:29:10 GMT -5
I need to get my ass in gear... and find this goddamn bug. Today may have to be a lazy day, however. I'm really excited about this and can't wait to see the finished product. So stoked, still, to see this happening. Everyone who can should try to help with the closed beta. Even if you just app and don't get in, it encourages the head DMs and gives them a gauge of enthusiasm (plus, if they can put up with me, well, that says a lot). You have to ask yourself, do I want this to be a thing? If so, fucking help make it happen, show your support.
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