@eso said in Feature Spotlight #7 - Towns, Governors & Politics:

Excellent overview, and I'm kind of digging the idea of elections. Although, I hope y'all iterate on the length between. Just a couple weeks IRL is really short. Maybe every quarter or so.

Agreed. I'll get sick of those elections every few weeks, every 3 months sounds better. I like the idea of these towns and the political system.

If the time between elections gets extended there needs to be a way for the citizens to place a vote of no confidence in the governor.

For those that purchase the Governor pledge pack, loose prestige and the town turns into a Hamlet, what happens to their purchase? Do they automatically become Governor again when the Hamlet turns back into a Town, or have they lost the privilege?

Hello.

I would like to purchase two kickstarter packages, one for myself and one for my son. I can't figure out how to purchase two packages.

I know it's possible to purchase a package and upgrade it, but can I purchase two of the same packages?

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers!

Yeah, that's what I thought I may have to do. Was trying to avoid an extra email address that I probably won't use again.

I'm excited about this game.

While the following doesn't relate to game mechanics, it does relate to Dynamight Studios as a company. I've seen a problem repeated time and again when a start-up is successful and becomes a larger.

When a company is a start-up the people leading the company are also managing it. And as managers they need to make decisions that affect the company direction - they make many decisions every day, the decisions are small (relatively speaking) and don't really have that dire consequences (again, relatively). What's needed during this start-up phase is drive, vision, passion, excitement and technical capability - all traits of a good leader. This is where Dynamight is now and all of us who have pledged have believed, and are trusting Dynamight to produce.

But a leader can't produce a good product. All those above traits are not traits of a good manager. Managers need to be careful, precise, risk adverse, studious. Unfortunately these traits don't get people interested in a product.

Take a look at two very successful start-ups - SpaceX and Tesla. Elon Musk is a brilliant leader, but he is a crap manager. In SpaceX he passed the management to Gwen Shotwell. Here you have a fantastic leader, a fantastic manager and a company that is doing brilliantly. With Tesla, Elon has maintained a hold over the management - because of ego, I think - and the company is in the press for all the wrong reasons.

Where's this discourse going? I hope Dynamight and Fractured are wildly successful and if that happens the company will grow and will need to evolve. I hope when that happens that the start-up team are able to truely look at themselves and, if needed, say, "I'm a leader, not a manager, and there's no shame in that." And ensure that the right people are in the right positions.

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@benseine I thought about it but decided against it. The forums are not publicly accessable and therefore my claim can't be verified.

Gidday all.

This is an exciting game, and the more I read about it and the more video I see the more excited I get.

Where I work, there are something like 52,000 people, spread in a number of countries. Luckily for us at work we have our own dedicated MMO forums. Yup!! MMO forums! At work that has nothing to do with computers, or IT!

Anyway, I've posted some Fractured news in my work forums as there's a very dedicated MMO fanbase and none of them had heard of the game. And when I thought about it I hadn't seen it in any of the gaming websites I regularly check.

So where is it advertised? What are the plans going forward to get more exposure?

Yeah, that's what I thought I may have to do. Was trying to avoid an extra email address that I probably won't use again.

I'm excited about this game.

Hello.

I would like to purchase two kickstarter packages, one for myself and one for my son. I can't figure out how to purchase two packages.

I know it's possible to purchase a package and upgrade it, but can I purchase two of the same packages?

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers!

@eso said in Feature Spotlight #7 - Towns, Governors & Politics:

Excellent overview, and I'm kind of digging the idea of elections. Although, I hope y'all iterate on the length between. Just a couple weeks IRL is really short. Maybe every quarter or so.

Agreed. I'll get sick of those elections every few weeks, every 3 months sounds better. I like the idea of these towns and the political system.

If the time between elections gets extended there needs to be a way for the citizens to place a vote of no confidence in the governor.

For those that purchase the Governor pledge pack, loose prestige and the town turns into a Hamlet, what happens to their purchase? Do they automatically become Governor again when the Hamlet turns back into a Town, or have they lost the privilege?

@prometheus Great, great idea. Here in Aus there may not be enough players to fill a server - I hope there will be! - but I'll sacrifice some latency for community and lively servers. That said, World of Warcraft west coast US server from here bounces between 20ms and 150ms latency.
I've never played an online game that relies on low latency. How will the above latency affect game play?