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|  | Posted By: Sanya Thomas | 2003-04-11 19:36:26 |  |
| |  |  My brain is hanging upside down, I need something to slow me down:
Q: Hot rumor – when you adjusted the salvage rates on ROG items, you also adjusted the drop rates of said items… downwards. True or false?
A: False, so far as I know. If there is a specific area or monster that has a lower drop rate in your opinion, please feel free to let me know. Remember, as with all bugs, we can’t do much without specific details. The more you tell me, the more equipped I am to help you.
Q: How are you planning to do housing, scattered throughout the landscape or in a separate zone?
A: This design point changed from information I’d passed to you before – we will now have housing in a separate zone, so that more people will be able to have their own space.
Q: How will I (or my guild/alliance) be able to buy a house? With gold, or with bounty points, or both?
A: Gold. There will be upkeep fees, as well. More detail, I cannot give. There will be a whole feature on the Herald about all the various options and prices. The range of options is, well, astounding. There are options available for individuals as well as for groups, by the way.
Q: Is the lifetap considered a DD spell?
A: Yes.
Q: When can I, as an alchemist, put a “glowie” effect on weapons?
A: I sometimes get déjà vu when I read questions, but there was a whole flurry of these this week. The answer, from the crafting devs:
“In the initial designs for Alchemy was the ability for Alchemists to add particle effects to weapons. This was publically listed as one of said abilities.
We had to pull that concept (and was documented in patch notes and on the Herald, I believe) as the way that particle effects are set up right now, it was not feasible to do.”
Basically, “glowies” are currently not a “plug and play” option, but something specifically built onto each particular weapon.
Q: Is there any way to raise faction with the monsters connected to the Lords of the [Un?]Dead (in the Summoner Hall) or the Awakened (Summoner Hall and the frontier dungeons)? If not, then why are they connected to factions at all? A similar question can be directed at all of the monsters in DF other than the Picullus Imps.
A: Not all of our factions have counter-factions. Many of them only lower. The lead world dev also had this to add: “In the case of the RvR dungeons, the intention was - the more you go to these dungeons, the more they hate you. Factions that only lower do have some uses. Tracking factions on the character gives us a point of reference for quests, for example.”
Q: Just a question about the Savage style, Kelgor's Might. I know its effect is a PBAoE Haste Debuff. I was just curious on whether the effect was centered on you, or the mob you are attacking, and what the radius of the PBAoE is. Thanks!
A: It's actually AoE, not PBAoE. It's centered on the target, radius 350. (By the way, the average sized human model is 80 units tall, if that helps to give you a frame of reference.)
Q: Do CON buffs work on pets?
A: Yes, Con buffs and debuffs affect melee absorption on pets. (On all monsters, really.)
Q: Will the Volatile Celeric Arcanium Weapon Tincture stack with the savage's self haste?
A: No, they won't stack.
Q: As most DAoC Users use the Camelot Herald for all their DAoC Information, and main reference point no matter what version of DAoC they play whether it be the USA, European, Australian etc., could you not expand your guild data base to show the versions server too?
A: Just a reminder – I love hearing from everyone around the world, but the Herald statistics are only for the US servers. The reason for this is simple – we do not have access to the servers in the other countries. So, there is literally no physical way for us to build stats pages for our friends playing on other servers.
Mythic-the-developer makes the game for everyone, but Mythic-the-game provider only handles the US servers. And it is Mythic-the-game provider that does the Herald. That’s why each one of our partner companies writes and runs their own version of the Herald.
Q: I would just like to ask if it is possible for people playing the European version of DAoC to post feedback regarding questions that you post?
A: You can write me a feedback form, no matter where in the world you play. I also am happy to read links to ANY message board that you care to send me, so if there’s a feedback thread you’d really like me to see, send it on! I don’t have any special character sets installed on my computer, and I regretfully only speak English, so please make allowances for my ignorance if you speak something else as your primary language.
Q: I thought the new [Herald statistics update] system was supposed to be better on updating the guild boards and player info? It’s not working entirely as I expected. I’m from Pellinor, by the way.
A: From the Herald programming gorilla: “With the latest patch, we've changed the Herald realm/guild pages so that they are updated by the game itself. There are still some bugs with the new system that we're working on fixing; we hope to have a completely working system in place by the next patch. In the mean time, all servers should now be updating normally (Pellinor was down for a week) and all stat displays and crafter displays (with the exception of the “I Remain Standing...” list, which still has some issues) should be working normally.
Herald typing chimp, here: Because the server now updates the stats directly, as opposed to the old system using an intermediate set of machines, we have to wait until we patch to make changes to the program. Some things we can fix with a “read file,” and other things we can’t. We’re still ironing out the kinks of the new system, and I’m sorry for the annoyance factor.
Q: I keep noticing that my shaman will have a high “I remain standing” score and not get on the List for it Is that due to her not haveing massive RPs compared to the others?
A: Well, as I said above, some things are still a little screwy with the Herald display. But I have a feeling what you’re talking about isn’t bug related. In order to appear on the overall server page, you need to have a minimum of 30,000 realm points. You need at least 10,000 to appear on your server’s class page.
Okay, gang! Quick note before I bail out and log in – I’ve had a number of inquiries about whether or not we’re “doing anything” about this class or that class. Basically, anything Producer Man didn’t specifically mention in his letter to you, people are asking about. Guys, he mentioned only things we will ***definitely*** get to in the next patch. There are several other hot topics I know for a fact that we are discussing, but he didn’t mention them in case we have to push the tangible results of those conversations off until the patch after next. Just because he didn’t say it, doesn’t mean it’s off our radar. It’s not possible for us to look at all thirty nine classes each and every patch, but we try to do what we can.
By the way, it’s easier for me to pass on clear, concise feedback letters with bulleted points than it is for me to convince a dev working a sixty hour week to read a ten paragraph essay. Unless, of course, I wrote to you requesting the essay! Just FYI.
I had such fun reading the WHY GET MARRIED email, that I think we should do it again. This week’s theme (and email header) is WHY CRAFT. If you love crafting, tell me why.
Have a swell weekend, everybody!
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