Sure! Nothing much has changed in our plans or direction from the discussions and meetings earlier this year. Our goals are still to develop a new skill based ability system for barbarians that is more open ended and choice driven. I am finished with a big crafting release that should be hitting the Test server before the Con, and another big release that should hit soon therafter. Those aren't exactly barbaric in nature... But my plan is to focus on and complete the barbarian rewrite immediately therafter.

When Simucon makes landfall I'll have plenty of information to share, and hopefully a few surprises for everyone.

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- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

>>Did I read this write

You read it, not wrote it. But seriously, since you didn't quote I'm going to assume you're talking about the Stone Carving announcement a couple months ago, it's just one part of the mech lore split but it'll be the ground work for the rest of the systems.

>Sure! Nothing much has changed in our plans or direction from the discussions and meetings earlier this year. Our goals are still to develop a new skill based ability system for barbarians that is more open ended and choice driven. *I am finished with a big crafting release that should be hitting the Test server before the Con*, and another big release that should hit soon therafter. Those aren't exactly barbaric in nature... But my plan is to focus on and complete the barbarian rewrite immediately therafter.

This was from the GM Kudos post that was before mine:
https://www.play.net/forums/messages.asp?forum=20&category=20&topic=2&message=3632

(Asterisks were my addition to add emphasis on the part I had initially called to question).

Thus my question still stands: the big crafting release, (AKA the lore split, AKA the new armor, weapons, enchanting, and general making that will replace Mechanical Lore) is done coding, and gone into testing(slight modification: or will be going into testing by Con)?


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Victory Over Lyras, on the 397th year and 156 days since the Victory of Lanival the Redeemer.

The detail is, at least as far as I am reading it, paraphrased as: "Sorry barbarians, I am developing other awesome things you'll be able to use with other guilds, but until I am done with these things Barbarian development is at a standstill."

I may be wrong with my paraphrase, that's what I am reading.
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Victory Over Lyras, on the 397th year and 156 days since the Victory of Lanival the Redeemer.

This isn't a knock on our current GM, but judging off how the previous GMs handled things, it's kinda easy to see where that post came from. We've heard we're going to get rewrites for a while and nada.

>>Understood but posts like that aren't a good way to go about getting them done. GMs work on projects that they want to work on and I know personally I wouldn't want to work on a project that people are QQing about before it's even started.<<

Yeah I agree, but it's also hard for the players to not get jaded as well and the GMs doing this need to understand that also.

>>Yeah I agree, but it's also hard for the players to not get jaded as well and the GMs doing this need to understand that also.

He needs to at least be given a chance though. When asked about rewrites before I believe he said that he had some other stuff he had to work on first. Now he's saying he's almost done (like within a month and a half if it's supposed to be shortly after the con) and will start focusing on the re-writes after that. I just don't understand how Shadow got "standstill" out of that.

At first I was just going to leave this alone, but since people think I am being a jerk...

My post suggested, through words such as: awesome things you'll be able to use with other guilds...

That I for one like these developments, and think they'll be helpful to not just Barbarians but other guilds.

Notice the word: awesome.

I am not trying to be snarky, or combative, or trolly, I simply want to point out that the attention of my post was that I think this development that GM Kudos is or will be a fine addition to the game.

I am also stating that realistically a GM can only develop so many things at a time, and sorry. It currently is not a barbarian only thing.

I at this point want to say sorry for any confusion my posts brought with it, because it seemed to make people believe I was hugely disappointed in development for the Guild.

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Victory Over Lyras, on the 397th year and 156 days since the Victory of Lanival the Redeemer.

I understand the reason to be jaded. We've heard a lot over the past. But at the same time we have to give people a chance. I like the ideas of Kodius and am willing to wait. He and no one else is obligated to do anything.

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>or dual load and reduced load time for slings. come on.

>dance sling

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>describe boar
It's a boar. It doesn't like you.