Post by Ruin on Jan 1, 2015 2:34:14 GMT -5
Happy new year everyone! i have to say i am quite pleased and surprised at our retention rate these past few months considering we are fighting world of warcraft and Bioware for the focus of players along with a crapton of stuff that came out in a 2 month span either way we kept our numbers to 14 active players which is more than most games.
Lore
as most have noticed i changed the sidebar regarding lore. there are a few redlinks still but most of the beastiary section is done the npcs can now be searched by race, alignment continent and classes. this makes it a little easier to find that one npc you just don't remember the name but remember the race or maybe the class or where they are from.
Upcoming things
Necromancy
i'll be looking into it to see how i can make it more fun but i will be adding some restrictions.
Campaign quests
The armory of general augustus: the upcoming general campaign information can be found here aldium.wikidot.com/forum/t-1072412/the-armory-of-general-augustus i decided to go with something simple yet fun. since we just got done fighting a civil war i don't really want to throw some chaos or end of the world type stuff at you guys. this campaign is a little more layed back as its just find treasure area go find treasure beat up badguys loot things. then towards the end you may or may not find the armory.
The tower of the ancients: This is mostly for 20+ players. there is always some crazy scheme going on behind the scenes that normal players don't see at legendary and epic proportions. higher level players may get to find out the secrets behind mount moldova and maybe even fight ancients, magitech dragons oh my.
Reading!
I noticed players have been reading the site more, and reading announcements more. i also noticed because of this there is way less confusion than before good job on focusing on the little things guys.
Faction guide
i know alot of people have been asking for faction stuff what i have done so far is here aldium.wikidot.com/faction-guide (may already be updated but posting either way). its not fully finished so don't assume anything on that link is permanent, however it does give a idea what i am trying to do, which is set up a structure for factions with 95% freeform but also have some form of uniformity and minor restrictions so things stay nice and tidy. i don't want to put a choke chain on this concept so i'll do what i can to not restrict it as much.
Species conception charts
yeah i went there i know its horribly outdated so i will work on it if you have questions regarding what makes what with what and if what can have babies with what just ask me for now.
Expanding the search database
this will be a pain in the ass, but i will slowly work on it to where people can search for 1 simple thing and a single link will be given to them for example. if you look up "dark vision" or "low light vision" you will notice that the spells will appear as normal, but also there are individual links explaining them too this is something that won't be done overnight but whenever is finished players will be able to search for anything and it will appear thus making the site smaller than what it is.
Typos and blue linking.
those nasty little things that i love to breed like roaches, we are doing a good job at getting rid of them if you see any just put them on the mistakes section of the forums.(same goes for erratas i mean it happens but we can get rid of them one by one)
Blue linking basically means you see a word, its blue you click on it takes you to a page explaining what that is. i will be working on this a bit more and trying to blue link more things.
Lore
as most have noticed i changed the sidebar regarding lore. there are a few redlinks still but most of the beastiary section is done the npcs can now be searched by race, alignment continent and classes. this makes it a little easier to find that one npc you just don't remember the name but remember the race or maybe the class or where they are from.
Upcoming things
Necromancy
i'll be looking into it to see how i can make it more fun but i will be adding some restrictions.
Campaign quests
The armory of general augustus: the upcoming general campaign information can be found here aldium.wikidot.com/forum/t-1072412/the-armory-of-general-augustus i decided to go with something simple yet fun. since we just got done fighting a civil war i don't really want to throw some chaos or end of the world type stuff at you guys. this campaign is a little more layed back as its just find treasure area go find treasure beat up badguys loot things. then towards the end you may or may not find the armory.
The tower of the ancients: This is mostly for 20+ players. there is always some crazy scheme going on behind the scenes that normal players don't see at legendary and epic proportions. higher level players may get to find out the secrets behind mount moldova and maybe even fight ancients, magitech dragons oh my.
Reading!
I noticed players have been reading the site more, and reading announcements more. i also noticed because of this there is way less confusion than before good job on focusing on the little things guys.
Faction guide
i know alot of people have been asking for faction stuff what i have done so far is here aldium.wikidot.com/faction-guide (may already be updated but posting either way). its not fully finished so don't assume anything on that link is permanent, however it does give a idea what i am trying to do, which is set up a structure for factions with 95% freeform but also have some form of uniformity and minor restrictions so things stay nice and tidy. i don't want to put a choke chain on this concept so i'll do what i can to not restrict it as much.
Species conception charts
yeah i went there i know its horribly outdated so i will work on it if you have questions regarding what makes what with what and if what can have babies with what just ask me for now.
Expanding the search database
this will be a pain in the ass, but i will slowly work on it to where people can search for 1 simple thing and a single link will be given to them for example. if you look up "dark vision" or "low light vision" you will notice that the spells will appear as normal, but also there are individual links explaining them too this is something that won't be done overnight but whenever is finished players will be able to search for anything and it will appear thus making the site smaller than what it is.
Typos and blue linking.
those nasty little things that i love to breed like roaches, we are doing a good job at getting rid of them if you see any just put them on the mistakes section of the forums.(same goes for erratas i mean it happens but we can get rid of them one by one)
Blue linking basically means you see a word, its blue you click on it takes you to a page explaining what that is. i will be working on this a bit more and trying to blue link more things.