Node Progression; gradual or instant?

I was wondering about the node progression system. We already know that nodes progress by doing activities within their ZOI. Do we know whether this progression will be gradual or instant? If not what do you think?

For instance, with gradual, it'd look like new buildings are being build during progression towards the next stage, or maybe NPC's soon to be available would first appear as children. As for instant, when a node has gathered enough exp to progress, buildings would just pop in to existence and NPC's appear out of nowhere (Although the latter isn't necessarily unrealistic, depending how the narrative is handled).

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Volgaire

Well it would certainly look weird if I had an entire building popping out of nowhere all of a sudden because someone picked up a plant in the wild.

T Elf

autumnleaf wrote: »

Well it would certainly look weird if I had an entire building popping out of nowhere all of a sudden because someone picked up a plant in the wild.

Hahahhaha in Alpha 0 it pretty much did that.

Nagash

elf wrote: »

autumnleaf wrote: »

Well it would certainly look weird if I had an entire building popping out of nowhere all of a sudden because someone picked up a plant in the wild.

Hahahhaha in Alpha 0 it pretty much did that.

Seeing a level 1 node level up to level three after killing the boss was great ^^

Volgaire

Nagash wrote: »

elf wrote: »

autumnleaf wrote: »

Well it would certainly look weird if I had an entire building popping out of nowhere all of a sudden because someone picked up a plant in the wild.

Hahahhaha in Alpha 0 it pretty much did that.

Seeing a level 1 node level up to level three after killing the boss was great ^^

It hurts to talk about A0 so stop, the tears wont stop now.

Nagash

autumnleaf wrote: »

Nagash wrote: »

elf wrote: »

autumnleaf wrote: »

Well it would certainly look weird if I had an entire building popping out of nowhere all of a sudden because someone picked up a plant in the wild.

Hahahhaha in Alpha 0 it pretty much did that.

Seeing a level 1 node level up to level three after killing the boss was great ^^

It hurts to talk about A0 so stop, the tears wont stop now.

you have my sympathy

Jjampong

Pokosaurous wrote: »

I think right now it's pretty much instant, they said on the live stream it's causing 0 lag though. Hopefully they will have this be more gradual, I don't know how hard that could be but making it so workers come to the city to expand and stuff. I think it'll be really jarring and immersion breaking if the town you're in just *Poofs* into a city while you're inside it!

@Pokosaurous I couldn't agree more, although I guess it's good to know that the proces is atleast lag-free

autumnleaf wrote: »

Well it would certainly look weird if I had an entire building popping out of nowhere all of a sudden because someone picked up a plant in the wild.

@autumnleaf Hahaha, yes my thoughts exactly!

I wish I could have been there during A0

You all are making me jealous now.

[Deleted User]

I think a fog of doom descending for a 'day' when a zone levels or de-levels would fix things.
You can see and keep on doing stuff, but not much through the gloom,

Nagash

Burn the old world down and build a better one with bones ^^

Azryil

Nagash wrote: »

Burn the old world down and build a better one with bones ^^

Not everything needs to be covered in bones.

Nagash

arzosah wrote: »

Nagash wrote: »

Burn the old world down and build a better one with bones ^^

Not everything needs to be covered in bones.

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