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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.
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Can't please all of the people al of the time.
The devs are not forcing anyone to buy the Freehold cosmetics.
If you don't trust that they will work as you hope, don't purchase them.
A bit of an exaggeration, yes, but Margaret Krohn said:
If one were to read that with emphasis on "the Leyline Orrery can be placed on your house", then they might understand that as "The orrery is an addition to my house" in the same way that "The chair is an addition to my patio". House being a specific building, rather than your entire property. My point being that the language is extremely vague to the point that the only thing they can confirm is that it will have something to do with your house. Hence, the creation of this thread.
There are plenty of questions to ask even if we assume it replaces one of your buildings: How big is it? Can you stand on the orrery's arms? Do the arms of the orrery move? How fast do they move? Can you stand on them while they move?
No, I haven't seen The Dark Crystal but I don't need to watch some movie to imagine an orrery being used as a planetarium.
If anything's not extremely helpful, it would be calling me borderline insane and saying I don't know what I'm talking about. If you don't think I made much sense, tell me and I'll be happy to elaborate; I'm trying to have a conversation, not an argument.
The devs are not going to waste time answering that.
Steven hopes that followers who know that the monthly cosmetics are skins will share that answer when the encounter questions like that.
Just because you ask a question, doesn't mean that Steven will answer it.
Doesn't matter how many times you ask it.
We will learn about Nodes 3 when Steven is ready to share that info.
Same for details about Bard, Summoner and Rogue.
Same for the Cometic Building questions.
Probable better to push for these answers when we start seeing Alpha 2 info being shared.
No matter what happens, the internet will never run out of stupid people.
Reddit in particular is one place they like to gather.
It’s full of anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, and people who apparently think that the footage from IS developers is fake. Who cares?
But frankly I didn't even think about that when I bought the Adventurer Pack. I bought it because I want Ashes to be well polished and I wanted to be a part of the development process and help improve the game.
If I hadn't wanted to be a part of that process and help bug report, moderate, or do whatever it is that needs doing to make Ashes better, I wouldn't have purchased the pack.
It was never about the cosmetics to me, maybe I'm alone in that, but that's how I feel.
There will not be enough era on the map for every person to have their own plot. So this means it then revolves around a separate zone. Now they could of course make the area you click be the house you picked. Thing about that is that only you will be able to see it. This kind of takes away from the value of the skin as nobody else sees your grand locale.
The only way they could create a system that shows off the house is by using the neighborhood concept. You click a structure and then get ported to a neighborhood. This would allow players to actually see other houses. This is a great system and was used both in Everquest and Dark Ages of Camelot with success. This would also allow for potential quests and events to take place separate from the main game world.
Currently I would be hesitant to purchase a house skin. Its the only skin that might be for the player only and not for others to see. This greatly diminishes the value of a skin if a player cannot show it off.