Hi everyone!
Our Kickstarter campaign is now well over 90% funded, and we expect it will reach its 100k goal soon - perhaps within the day!
Let's celebrate this astonishing progress with a DOUBLE Q&A LIVESTREAM!
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Leave your questions in the dedicated threads (not here!) and see you soon - live!
Hi everyone!
Got a few questions about housing and player-run towns in Fractured? Interested in having me replying to them, live? You're in luck - the 5th Fractured live Q&A is coming!
I'm going to be live on YouTube on Tuesday, July 24th, from 10pm CEST (4pm EDT / 1pm PDT). Over the course of an hour or so, I'll be your fully dedicated answering robot!
So, wait no more: start posting all your questions here! Don't feel limited, ask me whatever comes to your mind related to housing and towns in Fractured! A helpful spotlight to read before asking questions:
Feature Spotlight #7 - Towns, Governors & Politics
THREAD RULES
To tune in, just click on this YouTube link a few minutes before the time announced above - we can chat a little before the Q&A session begins!
Thank you all and... see you soon!
– Jacopo
Hi everyone!
Got a few questions about races, planets and asteroids in Fractured? Interested in having me replying to them, live? You're in luck - the 4th Fractured live Q&A is coming!
I'm going to be live on YouTube on Monday, July 23rd, from 10pm CEST (4pm EDT / 1pm PDT). Over the course of an hour or so, I'll be your fully dedicated answering robot!
So, wait no more: start posting all your questions here! Don't feel limited, ask me whatever comes to your mind related to races, planets and asteroids in Fractured! Some helpful spotlights to read before asking questions:
Feature Spotlight #1 - Three Races, Three Gameplays
Feature Spotlight #2 - Universe, Planets & Travels
Feature Spotlight #5 - Character Creation, Attributes & Resting
Feature Spotlight #6 - PvP, Alignment & Crime
THREAD RULES
To tune in, just click on this YouTube link a few minutes before the time announced above - we can chat a little before the Q&A session begins!
Thank you all and... see you soon!
– Jacopo
@Canterbury @Esoba the MMO news portals have given us some good coverage, mmorpg.com and massively in particular. More generalist videogame portals haven't. Of course it's also our fault, we don't have a PR agency nor a dedicated PR person, I take care of that and I'm definitely not the best at it. We should have promoted better, but it's no use to cry over spilled milk, also considering that we're going to make it! 
Hi @drawrin! You can redeem them when you want. They're not hard to make, but it can take a little while, particularly with the mule and the wagon because they require several steps - new players will likely use handcarts, not wagons, because they're much easier to make, but also slower to operate
@Dybuk @thudaron the current plan is one house per character. It could become one house per planet per account if needed (so 3 max per account)
Guilds can control multiple cities, but unless they're large guilds (100+ players), it's not a great idea. Much better to focus on a single one. And no, a player can be the governor of one town only. Trust me that's already a lot!
@logain said in Feature Spotlight #7 - Towns, Governors & Politics:
Did I get that right, a guild leader who's Governor on the Beast planet can not be removed from power (no siege and no vote)?
If he declared his town as a guild town, yeah, as much as he cannot be removed from the role of guild master of the guild.
A guild town belongs to a guild. If you join it as a citizen, it's typically because you're part of the guild already, or anyway accept to submit yourself to the rule of the guild. That's true on Syndesia and Tartaros as well (sure, a war could happen there, but you're still accepting the rule of a guild if you move to a guild town).
If you quit the guild or no longer approve its rule, you can simply get your stuff, leave the town and move somewhere else (live by yourself, move to a free town, join another guild and its town). What's so bad about that?
@gamble said in Feature Spotlight #7 - Towns, Governors & Politics:
Other players can enter, but will they be able to do anything? Loot contents of storage? Take furniture/items? Steal your prize-winning pig?
They can't destroy or steal your stuff, nope.
@blah64 said in Feature Spotlight #7 - Towns, Governors & Politics:
Democracy & Elections usually don't exist in MMOs for a reason.
Hopefully it works out for the best here.
We need to dare to breath new life into the genre. Very few have tried to do something different when in comes to political systems in MMOs, and there's no reason why democracy won't work if the system is well designed and takes into account all "loopholes"
(on a side note, you can rule your town as a guild town and avoid the "democratic" side of the system)
@suruq said in Feature Spotlight #7 - Towns, Governors & Politics:
Does the Governors can discuss With is population or make announcement to all the population with a kind of announcement pannel ?
Is There a referendum system to ask something to the population ?
They can post announcements that include polls, with I guess work pretty much like a referendum
Hi everyone!
Our Kickstarter campaign is now over 85% funded, and the most awaited spotlight has arrived.
Will you be a lone wolf living in an isolated dwelling, an engaged citizen of a town, or a powerful ruler of an empire?
In the Elysium System, any path is open to you. Discover today the future of your social life in Fractured - The Dynamic MMO!
Click here to read the Spotlight
As always, let us know what you think of this update and let's keep the support for our Kickstarter campaign going strong.
The final push is coming! We can make it happen!
This forum section has been created to give Fractured players a place to promote their future town or team up with other people to fund one - disregarding whether that's connected to a guild or not.
A few rules apply here in addition to the standard Fractured Forum Rules, as listed below:
Threads and posts that break the rules outlined above will be removed. Posts in a recruitment thread might also be removed following a request from OP.
Damn I missed this thread. I'll be at Gamescom, and available to meet up with the Fractured community if I'm not in some business meeting
@assassino said in How will you be able to enter Labyrinths?:
Yeah, have no enter with no gear... Does that confirm fist fighting?
Been confirmed a while ago
@holyhong said in Kickstarter Update - Stretch Goals Revealed:
If I remember correctly, they stated that stretch goals won't implement core mechanics to the game, but aren't fishing and (especially) animal taiming/animal training core features which change gameplay for a lot of people? For example, for someone who plans to create a business with (tamed) animals/pets.
The fact a feature can have a significant impact on gameplay doesn't make it a core feature - otherwise literally anything cool would be a core feature, right?
A core feature is something necessary for the game to work, and/or something that truly "defines" the game. Survival elements, resource gathering and transportation, crafting, building, player-run towns, governors, town wars, guilds, the knowledge system, environmental effects, the three races and planets, these are core features. Fishing and Animal Taming are content
@grofire we're getting a lot since we've published the goals actually!
@grofire said in Kickstarter Update - Stretch Goals Revealed:
will the labyrinth be PVE only ?
Yes, a hardcore pve/survival challenge.
@FrequencyZero @Target @Holyhong @Smurfinator if the Kickstarter campaign ends successfully, the funding for pledge-based goals (new features) will continue on our website after
Hi everyone!
As our Kickstarter campaign is now about 80% funded, the time has come to reveal our stretch goals!
As always, let us know what you think of this update and let’s keep the support for our Kickstarter campaign going strong!
7 days to go, we can make it happen!
Please note: if the Kickstarter campaign ends successfully, the funding for pledge-based goals (new features) will continue on our website after!
Yes, we'll implement 2FA, it's already planned!
@jetah said in Going Worldwide - Regional Servers & Localization:
I don't them wasting the funding to host multiple servers while in Alpha - Beta.
It makes no difference to have one or more servers with SpatialOS. It's all usage-based. Also, we'll be in the Games Innovation Program once we're funded, so we won't have to pay server expenses for a while anyway
@vortech said in Going Worldwide - Regional Servers & Localization:
here are some resources from David Salz the CTO of SBI
Interesting, thanks. I gave them a look. If you check out the "Berlin QUO Vadis" one, you'll see it says what I told you in my previous post: they're now hosting the whole game in a single datacenter (where the server is, you can figure out just by searching it on their forums: US East).
The whole server architecture of Albion I knew already overall. It's robust and they've optimized it exceptionally well, but it's essentially the simplest kind possible:
The SpatialOS backend architecture is more sophisticated: I could be in front of you in the game, and both of us could be controlled by different server processes. This is, in a nutshell, why we can afford to have an open world and why in the same 1km x 1km area of this open world there could be 2 or 2000 players.
Notwithstanding all this goodness, latency is still latency. If you're in the US and you're in front of a player from China, it takes 300ms for your actions to reach him. There's literally no way out of that besides making optical fiber cables where signal travels at the nominal speed of light, but that's something not available to humanity as of today
@logain said in Going Worldwide - Regional Servers & Localization:
Is there any chance that you could elaborate a bit on the metrics you're going to use for this decision? (For example, are you going to look at total amount of player, at concurrent players, at peak times/low times, at the distribution of Beast/Human/Demon,...)
A mix of all. Concurrent players during the day are of course one of the most important factors.
Hi @HuaMiaoMiao, your account was an old one with whitespaces in it. I've fixed it. You might have to logout and log back in, then it will work
@vortech said in Going Worldwide - Regional Servers & Localization:
I can't imagine your network middleware doesn't have the functionality to utilize a distributed edge model to reduce latency? Albion did it with Unity and Photon, I'm surprised SpatialOS cannot.
A distributed model can be useful and it's something we can implement in the future for parts of gameplay that don't require direct interaction with other players - otherwise it doesn't work.
Albion used to host the game in two datacenters, one in the EU and one in the US. I don't remember how it used to work exactly, I think it would pass control of a region of the world to the EU server if the majority of players in the region were from EU, and the other way round. A weird solution which was the source of many issues - they dropped it long ago.
Since 2016 the whole game is hosted in a single datacenter - located in Washington DC (US East - obvious choice), if I'm not wrong. If you connect from the EU, you get a 100ms ping if you're lucky, no way around that. Which is fine for Albion, because they did a very good optimization job (they have good engineers!) and because the gameplay (combat) allows it. The combat of Fractured is not the combat of Albion. I understand it might look similar at a glance - but really it's not.
@basileus said in Going Worldwide - Regional Servers & Localization:
RIP the idea of a single shard. EVE Online does it perfectly and it stops people from 'hiding' away on empty servers. Dividing the small player base of an indie game from the start is just going to lead to a lot of dead servers (not to mention the costs of running multiple servers at once). After all, what's the point of fighting over territory when if you lose, you could just switch servers? I would rather have 220 ping to one server where everyone plays than 10 ping to an empty one.
I'm sure you understand the difference between EVE gameplay (combat in particular) and that of an Action RPG. You can't just say "it works there, it must work here". I wish thing were so easy myself, trust me.
@basileus said in Going Worldwide - Regional Servers & Localization:
You don't plan a game to be big from the start, you always plan for it to be small, and grow it from there
This statement could be very shortsighted and be the cause of several issues in some cases, but let's not get into the topic eheh. It's a good statement regarding userbase - and that is why we explicitly specified we're going to start with a single US East server until the NA/SA/EU userbase is large enough to sustain two servers. Maybe you missed that part of the update!
@logain said in Going Worldwide - Regional Servers & Localization:
Does playing another server use a 'character slot' (global amount), or are 'character slots' per server?
Global, like skins, premium currency, etc. Would be terrible to ask you to buy premium multiple times on different servers!
I've edited the post making the bit regarding Alpha more obvious and adding some more info.