Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
The Written Word: Enabling player-driven roleplay and information-gathering
Ashes of Creation is in a prime position to introduce a journaling skill, and I believe it could only help foster community and roleplay.
Imagine, after the servers have opened, players take the steps to transform a small camp into a fledgling village. Paper would be needed to assign property to this lord or that governor. Now, I know this sounds Very Exciting™, but I'm not suggesting that players can specialize in making pulp to enable bureaucracy. However, it's a given that information will be written down by any civilization, and if it can be done implicitly by game mechanics, it could be introduced explicitly.
There's a lot that could be done with journaling. The most obvious function would be books - some would want to write autobiographies, others might jot down personal notes, and a person or two might decide to chase down a deposed king and his guild to tell the story of their downfall. But my own odd fantasy is writing periodicals - a monthly update for the guild on goals or accomplishments, without the aid of an outside website. Or a collaborative report between Guilds A and B on their exploration of the canyon to the south. Or, perhaps, a monster-hunting guild has recruited a writer/researcher to publish in-game reports on monsters, their habitats, and their weaknesses.
I, for one, would be happy to pay 25 schmeckles for a new book to fill out my shelves.
Imagine, after the servers have opened, players take the steps to transform a small camp into a fledgling village. Paper would be needed to assign property to this lord or that governor. Now, I know this sounds Very Exciting™, but I'm not suggesting that players can specialize in making pulp to enable bureaucracy. However, it's a given that information will be written down by any civilization, and if it can be done implicitly by game mechanics, it could be introduced explicitly.
There's a lot that could be done with journaling. The most obvious function would be books - some would want to write autobiographies, others might jot down personal notes, and a person or two might decide to chase down a deposed king and his guild to tell the story of their downfall. But my own odd fantasy is writing periodicals - a monthly update for the guild on goals or accomplishments, without the aid of an outside website. Or a collaborative report between Guilds A and B on their exploration of the canyon to the south. Or, perhaps, a monster-hunting guild has recruited a writer/researcher to publish in-game reports on monsters, their habitats, and their weaknesses.
I, for one, would be happy to pay 25 schmeckles for a new book to fill out my shelves.
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Sounds nice, especially the skill part :) But the link above covers about half of the idea ;)
Personally I always though MMO's need a proper "paper"-skill, like taking important nodes, making contracts etc. Right now the only thing that comes to mind is the "transcript" profession in WoW, but thats nothing like you mention.