Fallen Age Info Digest #12: May 27, 2001 - June 2, 2001
The following list of statements are the highlights of issues discussed on
the forums over at 'The
Official Site' over the past week by Savant, Drysart and E. No posts
were made by Willow (QA).
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Savant: In response to "Will we have to wait for someone to actually kill
an innocent player before we can freely attack the PK", Yes, someone has to
actually kill an innocent before he turns orange. If someone is able to
defend himself (as in your example of the innocent that kills the PK) he
does not get the mark or turn orange. The system tracks who attacked first
and gives ample time for self-defense.
Patch
Savant: Yes, [the patch is delayed for] 3 weeks from now -- but
hopefully it will not have any effect on the other props, as they are
already under development and separate of this patch.
Savant: They [the Koreans] are simply a single patch ahead of us
in order to ensure we give you a more stable build.
Savant: In response to "ARE WE TESTERS??? or are we market research?,
why must patches be tested by beta testers in korea before we are alowed
to test them???", You are indeed testers. Korea gets the patch before we
do in order to ensure a more stable build for you guys.
Character Management
Savant: In response to "When is the delete character button being
implemented", With the big patch.
Combat
Savant: The combat system is indeed being looked at and rebalanced.
Class Balance
Savant: "Balance" is an ongoing process, which is why you didn't, and won't,
see it listed in a timeline. Balance needs to be done even well after going
live. It's safe to assume there will be balance tweaks in each patch.
Choppy Video
Savant: We are still working on this, and will have a patch for it as
soon as we fix it.
E: I do know that they are working on the choppy issue. If you haven't
already, check and see if you can find an updated driver. That may help
in the meantime.
Other things to try:
Defragmenting your hard drive
Running
scan disk
Adding more memory
Try a different video card
Try
a different monitor
Try disabling things like antivirus, etc.
It could be quite some time before they find the cause of and fix the
issues with video. - Personally, I think its related to mostly older
AMD chips (<=K63), older ATI and nVidia chipsets. - Not to mention
that every interface panel in adventure mode is using translucency
affects.
Skills
Savant: The skills and spells come with the level of content added.
(ie when we add levels 100-300, the appropriate skills and spells for
those levels for all classes will be added).
Wanted Features
Savant: In response to "What happened to our known "Wanted" features list?",
I'll have Drysart add that tomorrow. It slipped my mind. [It looks like
it's slipped his mind again heh.. - somebody shoot him an email to remind him]
Chat System
Savant: The chat system will indeed be revamped, but I can't offer you a
timeline on it yet.
Items
Savant: In response to "What are mystery cards for", The mystery cards will
be used for a quest/treasure event type deal -- but for now, you can sell them
to Noel if you like, since that is not in yet.
Savant: Platinum prices have been changed.
Level 100-199 Content
E: Some monsters will cast spells, have ranged attacks and will be as
tough & tougher than the toughest monsters currently in game.
Commands
E: In response to "Will you guys be removing /where? As it is now a
bounty hunter can rush a pk naked with nothing to lose", The guys will be
discussing this issue.