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:

• You are only allowed to open a thread for your town or for yourself if you are looking for one.
• This section is just for town planning, not for politics and competition.
• Adding to the previous point and more generally speaking, don't post replies to recruitment threads unless you want to receive more information on the town.
• If you have a guild, we invite you to actually create the guild in The Foundation and add the link to its page to your recruitment thread. You don't have to do it, but it makes things much easier!

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!

Click here to unveil them

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:

• Game world divided in clear-cut regions with no interaction possible between two players in different regions
• Each region controlled by one thread (/ one server process)

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