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Phase I of Alpha Two testing will occur on weekends. Each weekend is scheduled to start on Fridays at 10 AM PT and end on Sundays at 10 PM PT. Find out more here.
Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
TL;DW - Ashes of Creation Q&A
Too long; didn't watch.
As many of you probably know already, the developers of Ashes of Creation made a Q&A a couple of weeks ago that were posted on YouTube. I know for a fact that it's not everyone that has the time or wants to watch a 25 minute long video, so @FreddySwordd and I came up with the idea to sum up the questions and answers that were featured in it. The answers will be simplified, and we do encourage you to go watch- or listen to it yourself if you do have time.
Here's the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGepb_OZLhQ
- All of the questions will be placed in order, so that if you watch the video yourself, you won't be confused as to when a certain question shows up.
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<strong>1. How does the game flow if there are no factions?</strong> <li>
In AoC we are really focusing on allowing the community to drive their own paths through players making guilds and that kind of stuff. AoC is also going to put in things that will help players create their identity and making their character grow. For example, the node system, people will be setting up in cities and that will be kind of a faction of its own. It is going to be way more nuanced than “red vs blue” though the shifts of the game, players will create new cities and you might join another city than your starting city and that creates a whole new faction for you to play and interact with.
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<strong>2. If the world is build up from the ground by the players, will there still be things to do in the world and poi (points of interest)?</strong> <li>
Absolutely, the world was inhabited before, but it has been left untouched hundreds of years. Things that happened on this planet before the players came are going to be parts of the poi system.
<em> “It is less of a fact that there is a black canvas, it is more of the fact that you have a lot of paint to work with in order to create your own picture.” -Steven. </em>
Players are not moving into emptiness. They’re moving into a world with a backlog of lore, storylines that you can uncover, exciting treasures and items you can find.
There are also going to points of interests in the world like dungeons, wizard towers and mines.
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<strong>3. What do guilds have access to?</strong> <li>
It has been common in a lot of mmo that guild activities have been focusing on large guilds, we want to bring content that focuses on small guilds, medium guilds and of course the large guilds. That is shown through the guild mechanism, like leveling up the guild to get certain abilities, sieging castles, and founding nodes and towns.
There is going to be a lot of focus on the “local gameplay” and “global gameplay”. Guilds will fight guilds; some guilds might recruit other guilds to help them fight.
It will also be possible for single players to participate in events that are just as influential and as fun as these large guilds participating in these world events.
Guilds will have levels and skills, the guilds participation in the world will help level the guild. Guilds will be able to have guild halls in nodes. There will be guild specific buildings and guild specific quests inside a node.
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<strong>4. What are players able to build in the world?</strong> <li>
For housing, there will be three primary focuses in that regard. First and foremost, housing that’s buildable by the players themselves, static housing within nodes, and instanced housing.
<em>Housing build by the player</em>
It will be possible to lay down your claim to a piece of land out in the world. On that land, you have space to build a home, grow a farm, build all kinds of different workstations and so much more.
<em>Static housing within a node</em>
There will be a finite number of houses per node. You can build a house in the early stages of the development of a node and reap benefits from it if that nodes progresses later into development. Houses will grow along with the node.
<em>Instanced housing</em>
Basically housing for politics within a node. Houses for government and other political housing.
</li>
<strong>5. How will the referral system work, and what are the thoughts behind it?</strong> <li>
Intrepid wants to reward players and say thank you for bringing others into their game, and that is done through the referral system. You invite a person to join the website, and if they sign up and use money on the game, you will recieve 15% of what they have used, wether that's via. the in game shop or through subscription. This is in order to make it easier to pay for subscription without bringing a free to play model into the game and to make sure that the p2w aspect will never enter it.
</li>
<strong>6. Why the name "Ashes of Creation"?</strong> <li>
The logo of Ashes of Creation is a phoenix. The phoenix is known for dying and resurrecting itself, and it is a major symbol for the entire theme of the game. When going into Ashes of Creation we will rebuild and repopulate, destroy and build from the ashes of our creation. Taking the node system as an exampl; you will be building a node up from scratch and it may get destroyed and rebuild in a new way.
</li>
<strong>7. Are there any plans for raids and dungeons?</strong> <li>
Definentally. There will be a lot of different types of dungeons, catering to both smaller and larger groups of people, but dungeons will be open world for the most part. Some dungeons will also be unlockable via. the node system, meaning that some servers may unlock dungeons that other servers haven't or will never unlock. This also means that the loot within the dungeons may vary from server to server, depending on how you have progresssed in the world.
</li>
<strong>8. Have Oceanic servers been in discussion?</strong> <li>
Yes they have. Depending on the demand in certain regions of the world, servers in that specific place will be taken under consideration. Intrepid will be very aware of latency issues .
</ul>
As many of you probably know already, the developers of Ashes of Creation made a Q&A a couple of weeks ago that were posted on YouTube. I know for a fact that it's not everyone that has the time or wants to watch a 25 minute long video, so @FreddySwordd and I came up with the idea to sum up the questions and answers that were featured in it. The answers will be simplified, and we do encourage you to go watch- or listen to it yourself if you do have time.
Here's the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGepb_OZLhQ
- All of the questions will be placed in order, so that if you watch the video yourself, you won't be confused as to when a certain question shows up.
<ul>
</li>
<strong>1. How does the game flow if there are no factions?</strong> <li>
In AoC we are really focusing on allowing the community to drive their own paths through players making guilds and that kind of stuff. AoC is also going to put in things that will help players create their identity and making their character grow. For example, the node system, people will be setting up in cities and that will be kind of a faction of its own. It is going to be way more nuanced than “red vs blue” though the shifts of the game, players will create new cities and you might join another city than your starting city and that creates a whole new faction for you to play and interact with.
</li>
<strong>2. If the world is build up from the ground by the players, will there still be things to do in the world and poi (points of interest)?</strong> <li>
Absolutely, the world was inhabited before, but it has been left untouched hundreds of years. Things that happened on this planet before the players came are going to be parts of the poi system.
<em> “It is less of a fact that there is a black canvas, it is more of the fact that you have a lot of paint to work with in order to create your own picture.” -Steven. </em>
Players are not moving into emptiness. They’re moving into a world with a backlog of lore, storylines that you can uncover, exciting treasures and items you can find.
There are also going to points of interests in the world like dungeons, wizard towers and mines.
</li>
<strong>3. What do guilds have access to?</strong> <li>
It has been common in a lot of mmo that guild activities have been focusing on large guilds, we want to bring content that focuses on small guilds, medium guilds and of course the large guilds. That is shown through the guild mechanism, like leveling up the guild to get certain abilities, sieging castles, and founding nodes and towns.
There is going to be a lot of focus on the “local gameplay” and “global gameplay”. Guilds will fight guilds; some guilds might recruit other guilds to help them fight.
It will also be possible for single players to participate in events that are just as influential and as fun as these large guilds participating in these world events.
Guilds will have levels and skills, the guilds participation in the world will help level the guild. Guilds will be able to have guild halls in nodes. There will be guild specific buildings and guild specific quests inside a node.
</li>
<strong>4. What are players able to build in the world?</strong> <li>
For housing, there will be three primary focuses in that regard. First and foremost, housing that’s buildable by the players themselves, static housing within nodes, and instanced housing.
<em>Housing build by the player</em>
It will be possible to lay down your claim to a piece of land out in the world. On that land, you have space to build a home, grow a farm, build all kinds of different workstations and so much more.
<em>Static housing within a node</em>
There will be a finite number of houses per node. You can build a house in the early stages of the development of a node and reap benefits from it if that nodes progresses later into development. Houses will grow along with the node.
<em>Instanced housing</em>
Basically housing for politics within a node. Houses for government and other political housing.
</li>
<strong>5. How will the referral system work, and what are the thoughts behind it?</strong> <li>
Intrepid wants to reward players and say thank you for bringing others into their game, and that is done through the referral system. You invite a person to join the website, and if they sign up and use money on the game, you will recieve 15% of what they have used, wether that's via. the in game shop or through subscription. This is in order to make it easier to pay for subscription without bringing a free to play model into the game and to make sure that the p2w aspect will never enter it.
</li>
<strong>6. Why the name "Ashes of Creation"?</strong> <li>
The logo of Ashes of Creation is a phoenix. The phoenix is known for dying and resurrecting itself, and it is a major symbol for the entire theme of the game. When going into Ashes of Creation we will rebuild and repopulate, destroy and build from the ashes of our creation. Taking the node system as an exampl; you will be building a node up from scratch and it may get destroyed and rebuild in a new way.
</li>
<strong>7. Are there any plans for raids and dungeons?</strong> <li>
Definentally. There will be a lot of different types of dungeons, catering to both smaller and larger groups of people, but dungeons will be open world for the most part. Some dungeons will also be unlockable via. the node system, meaning that some servers may unlock dungeons that other servers haven't or will never unlock. This also means that the loot within the dungeons may vary from server to server, depending on how you have progresssed in the world.
</li>
<strong>8. Have Oceanic servers been in discussion?</strong> <li>
Yes they have. Depending on the demand in certain regions of the world, servers in that specific place will be taken under consideration. Intrepid will be very aware of latency issues .
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Thanks dear :3
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Are you refering to anything, perhaps? xD
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Yeah, I don't know how to do it though. I've never been great with html
He might have wanted to tell you to bold up questions to make them more visible
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Yeah, I don’t know how to do it though. I’ve never been great with html
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Just mark up what you want bold and press the "b", <strong>like this</strong> ;) Looks like this in your code:
<code><strong>like this</strong></code>
Glad to see the Discord community working together <3
If anyone thinks the video was too long and didn't watch, they missed out on how cool the guys on Intrepid are, just saying :D
If anyone thinks the video was too long and didn’t watch, they missed out on how cool the guys on Intrepid are, just saying <img alt="?" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f600.svg" />
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Np, and yes they did indeed. The only issue was the constant camera switching :D
Buenas tardes amigos!!!
Nuestro compañero @Branegames ha realizado una transcripción y un resumen espléndido del vídeo Q&A de arriba en los foros oficiales (enlace). Como bien nos indica no todo el mundo tiene 25 minutos para ver el vídeo ( o leer subtítulos en español en el caso no saber inglés). Así que se tomó la molestia de hacer una transcripción y resumir las preguntas y respuestas del vídeo. El orden de las preguntas es exactamente el mismo, así que perfecto. Empezamos con la traducción chicos.
1 ¿Cómo será el juego si no hay facciones?
En AoC realmente nos estamos enfocando en que la comunidad siga su propio camino a través de los jugadores creando gremios y ese tipo de cosas. En AoC también se van a poner cosas que ayudarán a los jugadores a crear su identidad y hacer crecer su carácter. Por ejemplo, el sistema de nodos, la gente va a establecer en las ciudades y que va a ser una especie de una facción de su propio. Va a ser mucho más matizado que “Rojo contra azul”, aunque los turnos del juego, los jugadores podrán crear nuevas ciudades y que podría unirse a otra ciudad que no sea su ciudad de partida y que crea una facción completamente nuevo para jugar e interactuar con .
2 Si el mundo es levantado desde cero por los jugadores, ¿habrá todavía cosas que hacer en el mundo y POI (puntos de interés)?
Por supuesto, el mundo estaba habitado antes, pero se ha dejado intacto cientos de años. Cosas que sucedieron en este planeta antes de que llegaran los jugadores van a ser las partes del sistema de puntos de interés.
“Lo de menos es el hecho que hay un lienzo negro, que es más bien el hecho de que tiene una gran cantidad de pintura a trabajar con el fin de crear su propia imagen.” -Steven.
Los jugadores no se mueven en el vacío. Se están moviendo en un mundo con una historia y tradición, historias que se puede descubrir, tesoros y objetos interesantes se pueden encontrar.
También están los puntos de interés en el mundo como mazmorras, torres mágicas y minas.
3 ¿A qué tienen acceso los gremios?
Ha sido común en muchos MMO que las actividades de los gremios se han centrado en grandes gremios, queremos llevar el contenido que se centra en pequeños clanes, gremios medianos y por supuesto las grandes alianzas. Que se muestra a través del mecanismo de alianza, como subir de nivel el gremio para obtener ciertas habilidades, asediar castillos, y la fundación de nodos y pueblos.
Va a haber un montón de enfoque en el modo de “juego local” y “juego global”. Gremios lucharán con gremios; algunos gremios pueden reclutar a otros gremios para ayudarles a luchar.
También será posible que los jugadores individuales participen en eventos que son tan influyentes y tan divertidos como los grandes gremios que participan en estos acontecimientos mundiales.
Los Gremios tendrán niveles y habilidades, la participación de los gremios en el mundo ayudará a subir al gremio. Podrán tener salas de clanes en los nodos. Habrán edificios específicos de gremio y misiones de gremios específicas dentro de un nodo.
4 ¿Qué jugadores serán capaces de construir en el mundo?
Para la vivienda, habrá tres enfoques principales en ese sentido. Primero y ante todo, la vivienda será edificable por los propios jugadores, será estática dentro de los nodos y la instanciada.
La construcción de viviendas por el jugador
Será posible establecer su reclamo a un pedazo de tierra en el mundo. En esa tierra, que tiene espacio para construir una casa, crear una granja, construir todo tipo de diferentes estaciones de trabajo y mucho más.
Vivienda estática dentro de un nodo
Habrá un número finito de casas por nodo. Se puede construir una casa en las primeras etapas del desarrollo de un nodo y obtener beneficios de ella si es que los nodos más tarde progresan en el desarrollo. Las casas crecerán junto con el nodo.
Vivienda instanciada
Básicamente serán viviendas para la política dentro de un nodo. Casas para goberna y otras políticas
5 ¿Cómo funciona el sistema de “referral” y cuáles son los pensamientos detrás de ella?
Intrepid quiere recompensar a los jugadores y darles las gracias por traer a otros a su juego y que se realiza a través del sistema de referencia. Usted invita a una persona a unirse a la página web y si se inscriben y gastan dinero en el juego, usted recibirá el 15% de lo que han gastado través de la tienda de juego o para la suscripción. Esto es con el fin de que sea más fácil para pagar por la suscripción sin traer un modelo libre para jugar en el juego y asegurarse de que el aspecto P2W no entrará en él.
6 ¿Por qué el nombre de “Ashes of Creation”?
El logotipo de Ashes of Creation es un fénix. El Fénix es conocido por morir y resucitar además de ser un símbolo importante para todo el tema del juego. Al entrar en Ashes of Creation vamos a reconstruir y repoblar, destruir y construir a partir de las cenizas de nuestra creación. Tomando el sistema de nodos como un ejemplo será la construcción de un nodo a partir de cero, se puede conseguir destruirlo y reconstruir de nuevo.
7 ¿Hay planes para incursiones y mazmorras?
Evidentemente. Habrá una gran cantidad de diferentes tipos de mazmorras, que atienden a los dos grupos más pequeños y más grandes de personas, pero mazmorras habrán en un mundo abierto en su mayor parte. Algunas mazmorras también será desbloqueables a través del sistema de nodos, lo que significa que algunos servidores pueden desbloquear mazmorras que otros servidores no tienen o nunca se desbloquearán. Esto también significa que el botín dentro de los calabozos puede variar de un servidor a otro, dependiendo de cómo haya progresado en el mundo.
8 ¿Habéis pensado en servidores oceánicos?
Sí. Dependiendo de la demanda en ciertas regiones del mundo, los servidores en ese lugar específico serán tomados en consideración. Intrepid será muy consciente de los problemas de latencia.
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Thanks a lot for the translation, I'm sure lots of people will find it useful! :)
Appreciate the effort of you both.