Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
We are in the Alpha Two Phase II testing which will take place 5+ days each week.
Alpha Two testing is scheduled to happen daily until January 13, 2025 at 10PM PT. We will have periods of downtime for hotfixes and daily restarts happening at 2 AM PT for NA realms, and 2 CET for EU realms.
Starting next week, Alpha Two realms are scheduled to be online for 5+ days a week from Thursdays at 10 AM PT to Mondays at 10 PM PT. Alpha Two realms are planned to be down on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and for daily restarts. Alpha Two realms will also be brought down as updates and fixes are ready.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
We are in the Alpha Two Phase II testing which will take place 5+ days each week.
Alpha Two testing is scheduled to happen daily until January 13, 2025 at 10PM PT. We will have periods of downtime for hotfixes and daily restarts happening at 2 AM PT for NA realms, and 2 CET for EU realms.
Starting next week, Alpha Two realms are scheduled to be online for 5+ days a week from Thursdays at 10 AM PT to Mondays at 10 PM PT. Alpha Two realms are planned to be down on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and for daily restarts. Alpha Two realms will also be brought down as updates and fixes are ready.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
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On one hand I really want players to know what the probabilites and values of certain encounters and areas are, so there's more concrete incentive to fight over the great ones, rather than having everyone just avoid conflict and choosing the path of least resistance all the time, simply because they don't even know what they're missing out on, and they never have a chance to find out.
On the other hand, if there are a few places that are 30-100% more efficient to farm at than others, and then no one ever goes anywhere else because the objective numbers make people's hyper-efficency kick in, and everyone refuses for less than the best - then too much game design effort will be wasted, most of the world will feel empty, and
So I guess it depends. If objective control over areas distinguishes between zones with fairly close reward schemes, I'd appreciate transparent information, so people play competitively.
If there are obvious stark differences between areas, I think obscured information would be perfect, because players won't be discouraged from still making the most of other zones, when they can't win undisturbed access to the most highly contested areas.