Pledged EB Immortal. See you at Alpha 1!

@kralith said in Pledged in kickstarter but didn't get any e-mail by now, how to proceed?:

I got the Kickstarter survey 2 hours ago.
So i guess, everyone got it now.

Me too. Everyone should make sure they respond to it, otherwise the devs can't link your pledge to your account here.

After reading Gender of Heroes, I wonder what people think about cross-gender playing, i.e. playing as a character of the opposite gender (for this purpose I'm talking about your "main character", since I assume that people who use all their character slots will probably have characters of both genders).
Do you sometimes cross-play?
Also, do you often assume that the real people behind the keyboard are the same gender as the characters you see in the game?

Will be there on Alpha 1!
Would anyone be interested in forming an Alpha 1 guild?

@cinnao said in Demon Alignment?:

You could: 1. Become an angel 2. Go to a neutral or evil town 3. Somehow sneak into a good aligned town and behave well.

I'm not sure 3 is an option. The devs said that the planet itself will reject you.

@kralith I actually wonder what in an MMO can give you away as a cross-player. In certain non-English games / servers it's easier because of subtle differences in how men and women speak, requiring cross-players to be really careful when chatting, however as far as English goes it's more difficult.
Can you think of an example for a behavior that allows you to "unhide" such players?

@gibbx said in what do you like to see next from the developers?:

Hopefully return from (the well deserved) vacation soon and have a spot light ready to drop immediately to get the buzz going in the community again. Traffic on the forums has slowed to a crawl as there is not much new to talk about.

+1 on that. Usually I'd go away for a few hours and the counter of unread messages would reach 99+. Right now you can log-off over a day and get only ~30 - most of which are the usual "daily posts".

@vegtam said in What you think about vaping?:

I don't get why people judge and complain about everything.

It harms you in any way? No? Then let people do whatever they want to, being dumb or not.

@vegtam said in What you think about vaping?:

I don't get why people judge and complain about everything.

It harms you in any way? No? Then let people do whatever they want to, being dumb or not.

The full effects of second-hand vaping are still unknown. Vaping has not been around long enough to study long-term effects, however I really doubt that it doesn't harm you in any way. If may (and probably) harms less but there's a huge difference between less and not at all.

@Specter said in Alpha 1 Launch Announced:

@Gurthngwaw Don't worry about it, the download only takes about 5 minutes and the pre-alpha rush didn't cause any high traffic issues.

How big is the download anyway?

@Baslak Is there a download link somewhere?

Wonder how long can one cross-play without doing something obvious that gives him/her away as a cross-player.

@evolgrinz said in daily maintenance:

Or they can do like GW2 and have several servers create a mega server. And do maintenance on 1 of the sub servers at a time. With the result that the game will never go offline for server maintenance and the ability to support multiple versions of the game. Meaning that when the game is updated, players don't get kicked out of the game but have several hours to finish what they were doing before forced out of the game.

I think that was their intention. They were very clear that Fractured is going to be a single universe. The use of regional servers is purely to reduce ping times and lags.
This is also a big plus because if one server is down for maintenance you simply switch to another and maybe except for a little lag you continue as if nothing happens. Obviously there may be some cases in which the entire service has to be brought down (maybe a huge update) but I doubt that will happen often.

@cinnao said in Demon Alignment?:

You could: 1. Become an angel 2. Go to a neutral or evil town 3. Somehow sneak into a good aligned town and behave well.

I'm not sure 3 is an option. The devs said that the planet itself will reject you.

@vegtam said in What you think about vaping?:

I don't get why people judge and complain about everything.

It harms you in any way? No? Then let people do whatever they want to, being dumb or not.

@vegtam said in What you think about vaping?:

I don't get why people judge and complain about everything.

It harms you in any way? No? Then let people do whatever they want to, being dumb or not.

The full effects of second-hand vaping are still unknown. Vaping has not been around long enough to study long-term effects, however I really doubt that it doesn't harm you in any way. If may (and probably) harms less but there's a huge difference between less and not at all.

@jairone said in What you think about vaping?:

Stinks. Wastes money on something I don't really care about. Some people think it looks cool, but the effect is really less than awe inspiring.

The chemicals involved in most offerings are also NOT on the level of caffeine. It is Nicotine which is roughly comparable including in terms of addiction. Vapor offerings have far more than just caffeine or nicotine on average (although it might be possible to just use liquid forms of those). Still nothing all that exciting, though.

Caffeine is not nearly as addictive as nicotine, believe me. If you're a caffeine addict like me and you don't get your dose you get tired, maybe exhausted but you don't feel like you're going insane. It makes you go out for a smoke when it's pouring rain or blazing hot, it makes you desperately look for a convenience store at 4AM just to spend 10$ that you spend every single day without even realizing that if you had saved them in your piggy-box instead you could have been on an airplane right now on a way to a long vacation or could have pledged legend on Fractured KS. Still let me tell you something - if you decide to quit you go through ~3 weeks of hell but then it's gone, at least as far as nicotine is concerned. Well, what are 3 weeks compared to decades?
Anyway the real problem is that as addictive as it is, nicotine is not the only or even the most addictive thing in cigarettes - the most addictive thing is the habit - you may not have any trace of nicotine left in you but next time you find yourself extremely bored or pissed off you suddenly don't know what to do with yourself.
As far as vaping is concerned - virtually everyone agrees on two things: (1) it's really bad for you but (2) smoking is way worse. It's only "recommended" for people who would not have been able to give up on cigarettes at all if it weren't for that. I do want to mention that since the habit is way more addictive than nicotine, I think that vapes with zero nicotine will be more effective in keeping people off regular cigarettes than patches.
Still there's always the risk that vaping may attract teenagers who wouldn't smoke otherwise and obviously the fact that smoking is worse does not mean that vaping is not bad so we can't allow people to vape in non-smoking areas (unless we just do what they do in Japan and cut the smoking area in half and turn one half into vaping-only area).

I don't think it's wise to start thinking about expansions before the core is released (or even alpha).
Final release of Fractured is only expected late 2019 or early 2020 to any expansions are way into the future and therefore at this point meaningless.

@kralith I actually wonder what in an MMO can give you away as a cross-player. In certain non-English games / servers it's easier because of subtle differences in how men and women speak, requiring cross-players to be really careful when chatting, however as far as English goes it's more difficult.
Can you think of an example for a behavior that allows you to "unhide" such players?

@modulo Then how are you able to post here?