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@OlivePit said in Roadmap To Fall Alpha 2021:

Interesting shift with alignment, but I am concerned that by restricting 'lawful' cities -but no benefit- in comparison to 'lawless' cities the vast majority of the cities will just default to 'lawless' as they have nothing to loose

They have a ton to lose, Olive You can be attacked in your own city while crafting, banking, building, or just chilling... and no one will use your marketplace. We think almost no one will go lawless really.

@OlivePit said in Roadmap To Fall Alpha 2021:

I feel this substitution removes the excellent system of hunting for enchanting reagents all over for a much more boring, and isolate, money grind.

I think you've misunderstood the post The old enchanting system has just been renamed to imbuing, with the only difference being that you need to imbue a gem first, then socket it into an item, instead of adding properties to items directly The new system to increase the power level of equipment is a replacement of the old quality system.

@Hathos said in Roadmap To Fall Alpha 2021:

If neutral is better than evil in almost every way, what is the incentive to be evil? The one thing we can do over neutral is kill good players, but as mentioned, they drop the least amount of gear and will probably be the least encountered in the world. I feel that you have to have pros and cons for each, making them evil as possible. The way I see it, neutral and good have mostly pros where evil is now mostly cons.

Hi Hathos We actually don't want to make the alignments "balanced" on Syndesia. Neutral is more rewarding than Good, because it's more dangerous, and we want most of the population be one of the two. Evil is the very hard path you take if you want to be a PK, which allows you to kill random merchants trading around the world for instance, or players gathering resources. You can make a huge profit there, but the punishment is indeed equally huge, because we want as few players as possible to take that route.

@grofire said in Roadmap To Fall Alpha 2021:

and i think its very good you guys added the changes, but i do not think its enough, its still feel like you will not make changes in your gear frequently, nor that you would not want to work hard for getting something that will help your gear.

We'll see, it should be quite different now. Come back in the next test and let us know how it feels!

@Logain said in Roadmap To Fall Alpha 2021:

Interesting update, thank you, I'm looking forward to participating in the test.
Do you think that the 'interaction limitation between evil characters and cities' is really going to be a hindrance? The only 'annoying' part I could see in that is not accessing the tavern, the rest is easily mitigated through smurf accounts.

As for adding neutral to the mix, it seems like this is basically altering the 'beginner protection timer' to people being able to determine when they want to engage in 'complete gameplay'. Is there still going to be a 'beginner protection timer' and what happens if you choose to go neutral before it ran out?

Can 'evil players' not simply 'camp the vicinity of busy city hubs' instead of PoIs to get players who're returning from the 'random events'?

It's actually mitigated by creating alts, you don't need separate accounts. The purpose of the change is not to exclude Evil players from crafting etc, but to prevent them from easily banking the loot they've just stolen and such

The Young status is still around and you can't change alignment if you're in it, you need to renounce it to go Neutral.

Evil players can camp city hubs, sure, but there are a ton of cities in the world, they are easy to guard, and so on. We may even expand the protection area a little to make it hard to just "camp" exits.

@Meziljin said in Roadmap To Fall Alpha 2021:

I see no mention about cities and how they worked into spring alpha...

I don't think all accepted and are agree about the resources management (free access to all).

I hope there will be a tweak about this point

There will be, but we're not sure we'll have time to implement it before the next test

@Vialli said in Roadmap To Fall Alpha 2021:

I don’t think this will stop the big issues with PVP. In the Spring Alpha all the Points of Interest were “camped” by large groups of evil players killing everyone.

Hi Vialli, perhaps you've missed the second half of the post where we're describing world events Not only there are going to be way more POI, but you're going to find the same monsters in the whole region around each POI thanks to world events. It's harder since you have to move around more (less risk, less reward), but you can stay away from PK campers now

Also, with killing Good players being less rewarding and big incentives to PvP as Neutrals instead, we hope the number of Evil players is going to be substantially lower... But clearly we have to see what happens in practice.

Hello everyone!

We know you've been waiting for this post for a while, and we're happy we've finally found the time to deliver it to you.

Dynamight Studios has grown considerably in the last couple months, and a good chunk of the work for the next test has been completed already. As it is likely to start in the second half of September, we've decided to officially name the next test Fall Alpha 2021, lest we end up in the same situation of the Winter/Spring Alpha 2021

We'll soon be able to open up on the business news we've been hinting to for a while. For now, however, let's stick to the roadmap!

Read the roadmap

Enjoy Fractured!

@Harleyyelrah said in Siege Bugs:

Ah I see!

By the way, is it intended that only the leader of a group of settlers can declare a siege? I understand the need for having settlers to become new citizens in case of the attackers' conquest, but the way this system is currently set up means that a current governor will never be able to declare a siege, since they cannot make a settlers' group due to already being a governor. Would it be possible to change the system so that a governor can declare siege from the town hall after a settlers' group has also been formed at the town hall? It seems weird that currently only a vice-governor would be able to make a settlers' group and then declare siege from the town hall.

(Of course the situation is different with guilds declaring siege on hamlets, but my question was specifically about the town hall siege declarations)

It's intended. Settler groups are only linked to players, not to cities. Making them so would take a while, just to remove a slightly "weird" feeling that doesn't really have an impact on gameplay

@Harleyyelrah said in Siege Bugs:

The siege tent and banners are visible, but it is the siege tent map icon that seems to be bugged. My character declared the siege and placed the tent, but nothing shows on the world map for me, meanwhile when Nekrage opens his map then the siege tent icon shows on the location. The siege tent icon on the MINI-MAP shows for me, but not on the world map.

That's because you are not an attacker - you're the initiator and the future governor in case of victory, but not a combatant You need to sign up at the siege tent like everyone else.

We're going to make the world map icons visible to everyone by the way, it doesn't make much sense on the minimap they're already that way but on the world map they're just for combatants

@Logain said in City Sieges Live & All-Backers Event:

Either citizens can't see that, or I'm too stupid to find it.
Does that mean it's a 12 hours window depending on your choice, or what's considered prime time for each?

Citizens can't see that, it's for govs and vice govs only, although it would make sense to show it on the Overview page too. Each prime time is a 3h window, the attacker chooses the exact starting time within that window.

@OlivePit said in City Sieges Live & All-Backers Event:

So unless I am very wrong -which is possible- I encourage @Prometheus to make it so Vice-Governors can initiate sieges for the rest of this test.

As a matter of fact, only vice-govs can initiate a siege eheh. This is because the person who initiated must be the leader of the group of settlers, and in case of victory he/she will become the governor of the new city.. so the "initiator" can't be the governor of the attacking city which would become governor-less

@Logain said in City Sieges Live & All-Backers Event:

Does anybody have a list or can you see sieged cities marked on the map?
Like, if you're a normal-non-Governor player, what's the best/easiest way to participate in defense/attack testing of a city?

We're going to introduce a "mailbox" system in the summer alpha that will take care of this and much more

Thanks a lot for the report!

1. Definitely a bug, an admin will fix your banners.
2. Bug, seems that temporary change wasn't committed.
3. Another bug, Officers of the attacking guild should be able to accept as well.
4. The siege tent and banners should be visible to all attackers and defenders. Are you sure they're visible only to the guild leader, who by the way wasn't the person who declared the siege?
5. Not a bug, countdowns are always displayed using UTC time... but there's a piece of text missing on top in the screenshot eheh.
6. Nice catch, we'll rename everything to Trebuchet.
7. It should give out a warning if you try to pack it when loaded, will fix, sorry for that!

@Tajger said in City Sieges Live & All-Backers Event:

So it looks like people from out of town won't care much about the siege. The citizens will be the most involved. And it will be possible to launch city conquest attacks every 4 days in that case?

Indeed, citizens are the ones truly involved in city warfare. City conquests can be launched at any time provided the conditions listed in the blog post hold true... unless you meant attacking the same city - in that case yes, once every 4 days for conquests.

@Logain said in City Sieges Live & All-Backers Event:

Can everybody sign up as defender/attacker or are there restrictions?
Can leaders on either side remove people from the list?
How long is the 'prime time' window and can it be edited?

Everyone can apply (unless already listed as combatant in the same siege or a different one), but they have to be accepted by the leader of the attack / the govs of the defending city... and they can be removed, yes

The prime time is either US or EU and is fixed. Govs can change it from the Town Hall menu - the option has been there since the start of the test

Hi everyone!

It's been really hard, but we finally made it: city sieges are live, and all players with a founder pack can come test them out, disregarding its tier. Yes, today marks the start of a new All-Backers event!

...and sure, we are aware many of you got tired and decided to quit and wait for the Summer Alpha. That's why we've made sieges resource-free to test (almost costless!) and got rid of city maintenance and requirements almost entirely until the end of the test.

What took us so long? Why releasing them now instead of a dedicated test? How long is the Spring Alpha going to last? All the answers are here!

Read the full announcement

Happy sieging!

@Harleyyelrah said in Intended or Bug? Crafting tables inside Workshop Building:

Not sure if this is intended or a bug. Crafting tables built inside the "Workshop" building do NOT get the bonus to quality applied from the city research tree.

Are you talking about the bonus from the 3 researches (+15, +15, +20) or the "shop" bonus (+50)? If you're talking about the former, it's a bug as it should apply to stations in the whole region. If you're talking about the latter, it's for specialized shops only, not for the workshop, which is just a place for "citizen" stations in the early days of a city

Hi @ThatSteveGuy, Luck has no impact on loot, so this is a case of... actual luck eheh

Thank you and enjoy!

@skesoul @SquareRooter @Rognard please PM me on Discord, ID is Jacopo / Prometheus#6525, thank you!

@Mudz I've just PM'd you on Discord, please have a look!

@Alexian great feedback! A proper answer would take me a day to write eheh, I'll try to limit it to the most important points

• Lack of city specialization: it's going to be largely reworked in the next test. We're indeed going to allow ("force") cities to unlock all the basic buildings first, then the tree is going to split into a few branches, each featuring several nodes, to have real specialization.
• Lack of trading: we're going to give more control to cities on resource extraction, make differences on food production between territories much wider (like they used to be), and make food consumed on rank up (instead of just stored). Trading will be back!
• Immediate residential disintegration: it only takes a couple hours to farm the 1000 units of gold needed for weekly maintenance, it's fair that if you don't even play for a couple hours for 1 week you lose the claim. Sadly we had a devastating bug the first days where when you claimed a plot of land it would tick weekly from the moment the claim was created (the launch of the Spring Alpha - March 31), instead of 7 days after being claimed. This meant that, for instance, if someone claimed the plot on April 5, the maintenance was due on April 7 instead of April 12. This is what has caused the loss of so many claims
• Harbors: I know you really don't like them, but I'm afraid they're going to stay They've been a very effective money sink and they're an absolute need for players who don't have the time to spend on long gaming sessions. It's true they've been too cheap though - the fee should have grown more steeply with inventory weight / cart load. The fact ingots and planks are bugged and weight 1kg instead of 10kg and 5kg respectively surely hasn't helped...

Have a look at the roadmap to the summer alpha when it's out, we're going to explain everything more in detail

@GamerSeuss said in Missing Dried Meat:

Somehow, the 5 bags of dried meat had been deleted somehow from the game,

So you are saying 5 bags of meat disappeared from the wagon's inventory, correct? Are you sure you are the only person with access to the wagon?

Hi @morrovday, could you PM me on Discord? Thanks!

@Psymantis said in Spring Alpha Major Release #2:

one free respec, while the following are going to be paid options

Paid with in-game currency or is this the heralding of non-cosmetic microtransactions?

It's going to be microtransaction and it's one we've always openly stated it would eventually exist

Hi all!

The second major release of the Spring Alpha has arrived, featuring:

• The much awaited respec of character attributes and city researches;
• The Siege Workshop - prepare your catapults for the upcoming city sieges!
• New functionalities for the world map: view territory and view nations;
• Massive client performance improvements on asset loading: it should be now 2x or even 3x faster!
• Some changes to bounty hunting and a few bug fixes.

Read the full announcement

Get your catapults ready, Governors... City warfare is coming!

@Kralith said in City Management Feedback Thread:

Storage of the Packing station you can open, you even can click the sacks and the carrying animation starts, but you actually don't take the sack out. This station don't makes sense to get open to everyone. It would just confuse people, that they can craft sacks there, but can't get the sacks out.

Storage at Woodcutting Station is accessible. You can use the wood in it for crafting, you can take out the wood from the station storage, BUT you can't place it back to the station as non citizen (didn't tried this with residental status). The hand symbol for placing something in a storage not even appears. This way is the Station not really usable for everyone, when they can't place wood logs by themself.

Alright then the Packaging Station and the Woodcutting Station are the only 2 bugged ones (for the former the bug is client-side only it seems), since they're both meant to be citizens-only. We'll fix it in the next patch, thank you!