GoD flagging

[chrischaos]

Gates of Discord, most if not all flagging might be broken. I started with the sewers instances(which spawn, and you zone in fine) but the NPC hails and such seem to not work after killing designated tasks, looting, etc.

[sunbeam]

I don't think this will ever work, unless Osiris does a WHOLE lot of custom work (like has been done on some servers).

This expansion is only partially completed (way better than anything later though, except maybe Ykesha and partial LDoN).

PoP is about the latest major expansion you could say is "complete."

[Osiris]

GoD zones are kinda on the back burner at the current moment, but only out of logistics/time management. Only reason I say that is because I am focusing on so many other things(like getting PoP fully working - including Time), and there just isn't enough time in the day for me to get to the GoD zones.

Once I get the fire trial working in Time, I will start to put more focus on GoD zones. Actually, once I get the fire trial in Time working, I will remove the BETA from the server name.

I definitely want to get GoD to a workable state, its just not in the cards at the current time. That is why some GoD zones are open just so ppl can go there and kill stuff, I can do minor fixes in the open GoD zones that are available, but things like flagging is going to take some time for me to get to.

[atrayas]

The GoD flagging process took a team of 3 of us around 2 months to get working properly and even after released to our live server we found bugs here and there. It is def a project that will take an absurd amount of your time away and tbh if I could go back and do it again I would have used that time more wisely and only made txevu/tacvi require a flag via custom progression.

[sunbeam]

Jun 24, 2015 19:58:14 GMT -8 Osiris said:

Once I get the fire trial working in Time, I will start to put more focus on GoD zones. Actually, once I get the fire trial in Time working, I will remove the BETA from the server name.

Have you given any thought to wiping the server at "launch?"

I don't know if it would make anyone mad, but I have always thought of this as a "Beta."

My personal opinion is it would be best to wipe and start from ground zero if you are comfortable with the class balance.

But another personal recommendation, I would lock off any expansion past PoP.  Whenever you are ready I guess you can unlock GoD (when you have decided how you are going to do it).

But any later expansion I wouldn't include.  Well LDoN and Ykesha.  They seem to work tolerably well on most EMU's and the gear is not out of line with the other expansions.  Plus I liked LDoN's.  I always found them fun (well I wasn't grinding them 300 times to get Time equivalent gear).

But most of the people playing pet classes have camped focus items from OoW, GoD, even the Serpent Spine thing.  And I have personally walked around in expansions like Darkhollow and whatever the one you access from the Academy in new Freeport.  Most of these later expansions have totally borked faction, and most don't really seem to have loot tables.

No way you will ever have enough time to fix these things.  I guess if you had a wild hair you could come up with your own custom content using the zones and mobs, but no way you could implement them as expansions in any functional way.

My two cents.  But since a wipe could possibly make a lot of people mad, I'd like for everyone to put in their opinion.

[sunbeam]

Oh yeah, mages are kind of ok for focus items, and necros have so many strengths it affects them less.

But I think you are going to have to do something for Beastlords and focus items. The only one they can use is Summoner's Boon (on the Diamond Prism of Companionship and a few other things), until they get to time and can use the Minion of Eternity focus on whatever orb thing Bertoxxulus drops sometimes in Time.

They can't use any of the myriad mage focuses, the necro encyclopedia, or the Vex Thal gloves. I guess this assumes you take out Serpent's Spine, or getting the sandals from GoD.

Anyway I'd like to know what you and others think.

[squirtgunn]

I would agree you should wipe the server once it is taken out of beta. I also agree that you shouldn't allow anything beyond PoP upon general release.

[higbi]

I'd be a little perturbed by a wipe since I currently have quite a few characters, but given the ease of leveling it wouldn't be that big of a deal to me. As far as content is concern I agree with the above. Take your time with GoD and any other content that will need tinkering to work. Opening the server with a limitation of Time should provide folks with quite a bit to do depending on how quickly they want to get things done.

[Osiris]

I have thought about the doing a char wipe once he beta tag is removed but nothing has been officially decided (I wish I could get to a point where I can think about things like that). there are some things that can be done with beastlord pet foci (adding some things, possibly making other mobs that can drop a BL focus) - plus per user requests, I have been considering doing some type of focus for shaman/druid pets.

[atrayas]

Also LDon's will crash if requested by a player using a bot, just an fyi if you ever decide to open them up.