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Tecton
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After 18+ hours straight, I've gotta call it quits for the day. I thought I'd put a few notes up on things before I sleep for a few hours.
1) Wow - what a turnout! You guys came out in droves to play, and for that we're eternally grateful! I know things were not as smooth as anyone wanted (especially us), but such is the way with beta launches and almost 500 people on at once. As a MUD game in 2018, that's awesome to see.
2) As I just touched on, there were some definitely rough patches, and we'll continue to improve on those with every waking hour. I do apologise if getting stuck or another bug did leave a sour taste in your mouth. We hope that you'll stick with us in the coming days, months, years as Starmourn evolves and grows!
3) Things that we're prioritizing very highly at the moment:
Again, thank you for your patience and understanding as we iron these things out. And I'll see you in-game in a few hours!
1) Wow - what a turnout! You guys came out in droves to play, and for that we're eternally grateful! I know things were not as smooth as anyone wanted (especially us), but such is the way with beta launches and almost 500 people on at once. As a MUD game in 2018, that's awesome to see.
2) As I just touched on, there were some definitely rough patches, and we'll continue to improve on those with every waking hour. I do apologise if getting stuck or another bug did leave a sour taste in your mouth. We hope that you'll stick with us in the coming days, months, years as Starmourn evolves and grows!
3) Things that we're prioritizing very highly at the moment:
- Learning - one-at-a-time learning was supposed to only be for players, but somehow it didn't work like that and it's a bit of a bear to fix. Will spend a couple of hours tomorrow getting this fixed up so there's no waiting in line to learn things.
- Quests - A few quests, especially the slave quest on Gallen, just aren't ideal for the volume of people we had on, we'll be fixing these up to be less tedious.
- Intro sticking points - We've nabbed a bunch of these tonight, but I'm sure there's more that you guys will find, we'll be improving these
- Accessibility issues - We'll be adding some new accessibility options for our screenreader users to make things like completely gagging the prompt easier.
Again, thank you for your patience and understanding as we iron these things out. And I'll see you in-game in a few hours!
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"They are elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty."
— Oscar Wilde
"I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before."
— Margaret Atwood
Great implementation of a quest log/system. Dialogue trees are amazing. I thought it was a cool idea when announced a while back, but did not understand how much they would change the 'feel' of a mud.
My only criticism is quest speech during space flight. There is no way to actually read it. The first intro, which I did while sitting on the lounge with my laptop, once the ship started moving I had no idea what else to do and eventually just relinquished controls.
Second time round I was at my desk and with better controls of my scrollback (i.e. a mouse wheel and discrete page up/down keys) I got to shoot the cannon etc.
On a positive note, spaceflight is fun and really looks great - way better than ascii has any right to look, to be honest. So well done!
I haven't decided yet whether to capture the space mapview to a separate console, or (given the size of it) to leave it in the main window and just capture all other stuff elsewhere.
Overall though, very positive and refreshingly new in feel. Well done and thanks for the hard work! Now I just need to decide which character/class to stick with for the time being.