Crowfall - ACE Q&A for May: Building Worlds

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hello people of the internet hello I'm

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Thomas Blair I'm J Todd Coleman and this

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is the make you a 20-18

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man we've been doing these a yeah and

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this is where we take all the questions

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that you guys ask on our a nice

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development partners forum and we answer

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all the crowfall related questions the

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other ones we don't we just kind of we

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just kind of ignore yeah all right well

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let's look at the question write

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questions for the month we got some good

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ones this month right yeah actually we

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do so the very first one we're leading

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off with crafters mark yes maker's marks

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all right correct they're on every

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crafted item and they disappeared for

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about a year and a half yeah that just

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dad was a bug right it was a bug and

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with the amount of bugs that we have and

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the ones that we chew through sometimes

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they just slipped through the crack and

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one of our engineers just took the time

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to fix this one it's interesting that

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the question came up and the bug finally

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rose back up to the top at the same time

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it's like hey we just fixed that so you

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guys will see those in the new five six

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that's on test right now pretty cool

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wind conditions the tug of war wind

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condition for the campaign's world's is

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generally seen as stale can you

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reconfigure the wind conditions yeah

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well I'd is certainly stale I think the

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bigger problem though is it's actually

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very simplistic right like the first

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iteration that we did on it just to get

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it up was a simple snap shot at any

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given moment who owns what there's no

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time component to it at all so really

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there's no reason to bother to hold any

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of the keeps or forts because why does

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it doesn't matter and even when we put

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that in for it's and keeps didn't have

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crafting state there was it was none and

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and since the idea of it all that

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matters is the snapshot at the end of

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the game right well we didn't have a

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firm end of the game so it really kind

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of I'm glad the functionality was there

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it was great because it meant that we

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were able to get it up and running and

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test it but we absolutely need to go

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back and do another pass to make that

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more engaging and more interesting it's

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just we just hadn't gotten to it yet so

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we're actually about to get back to that

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correct so we're gonna jump into the

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next question which is related which is

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in five seven ish we will be seeing the

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world's turn into from one map into zone

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yeah we're gonna see world clusters for

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the first time so world clusters

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basically is a way for us to group a

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bunch of different campaign servers

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effectively under one umbrella so the

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first part of that is basically data

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transfers like just allowing a character

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with his equipment to walk from one to

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the other without having to use the

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spirit bank as a way of lobbying route

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information which is a huge pain that

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was never the intent which is where

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we're at yeah so so this first version

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now we will have rune gates come up and

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the rune gate will open it allow me to

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go from world a to world B that'll be

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pretty cool I'll be able to see Mel

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don't transfer and that the time to do

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that should be a few seconds it's not

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like gonna be a massive you know and

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that that we actually do have in already

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because the Spirit Bank used to take two

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minutes to transfer items to have the

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full check in check out and now it's

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under two seconds to move an item in and

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out so that same underlying technical

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another world and we'll be able to glue

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a bunch of these together with rune

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gates they're still though are a whole

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bunch of dangling kind of tentacle

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things that touch other systems that

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aren't going to be functional at first

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and we'll have to bring on one after the

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next cluster map that's another one

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right like now we have a bunch of worlds

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that are interconnected I need to be

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able to map those and I need to have fog

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of war that's separate for each of them

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there's just a whole bunch of little

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odds and ends then until they all work

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the whole thing is gonna be a little

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clunky but the nice thing is this we

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have one character basically and you're

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not logging in the logging out and

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logging into and do want to creating a

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new one it should be seamless now that's

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said it will still be that way with the

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eks right we're not bringing the EK is

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over into this new cluttering system yet

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we'll get there but that didn't seem as

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important as getting the campaign's up

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so we're gonna do the campaign's first

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yeah look forward to it okay character

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progression are there plans to add a

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layer of character progression where

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improved class powers are unlocked

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through leveling training or advancement

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basically fireball to longer range

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whatever it's the question is are we

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gonna unlock things based on what active

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advanced

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instead of having everything gated by

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passive I actually like this idea so

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we've been talking about this a lot

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lately is I feel like you know the

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active now that it's in it's kind of

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cool I think we should lean a little bit

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more heavily on active and that means

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that while we might not necessarily take

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things away from passive by adding more

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things to active as a percentage of

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where you players get their overall

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power it'll mean we'll lean more heavily

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on active I still I don't want it to

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ever get anywhere near kind of the

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traditional Wow EverQuest die Kumud

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model where it's all based on active and

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by active what that actually means it's

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time investment primarily I don't want

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us to go there but a little bit leaning

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a little bit more into the active I

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think would make the game more engaged

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okay next question

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dungeons Oh dungeons we've now seen

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these incredible castles and bell towers

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with expandable archways and cathedrals

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what we haven't seen are the dungeons

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the moats the underground his drug

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features yep Todd loves all these things

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right on the table I actually I actually

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I mean I'm an old-school D&D player so

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of course I love dungeons dungeons

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create some particular challenges for us

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in our current architecture specifically

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unity terrain like being able to cut

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holes in the terrain is incredibly

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painful I do think that some of the

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things we're going to be doing between

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now and launch will open up that

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possibility but I don't expect us to

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make a use of that before launch after

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launch I think we're gonna come back and

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we'll go do more dungeons in the

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meantime what you're gonna see is us

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doing adventuring areas that have

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dungeon that dungeon feeling like the

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spider canyons was particularly for us I

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mean the canyons I mean we definitely

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need to get to the ground yeah and then

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the Crypt shows us kind of going above

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with you the rocks on top so we can do

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stuff like that

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that will give us kind of the idea and

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the impression of caves and mazes and

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labyrinths and things like that but

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actually being able to dig into the

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ground and making it really feel like

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the Underdark we we don't have that

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coming that'll be something that we'll

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be adding later we're done I guess so

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alright next question will there be

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guild support in 5.6 no not in 5.6 we do

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need to get that in but again it doesn't

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take priority over zoning

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and it doesn't take priority over

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getting our clusters working I mean

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there's just other stuff that's more

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important yeah

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to architectural II I want to get that

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stuff in because we have a bunch of

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decisions that we would that we have an

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idea what we want to do but I really

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want to feel and see how this works and

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see if see if our assumptions are

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correct before we solidify that and that

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means those things need to get yeah

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things like kills are important it's

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just there's other things that are more

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and more risky frankly and will change

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the gameplay even more like I keep

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saying mounts and the the zones are

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gonna be our nice two really big pieces

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that change the entire Lance yeah make

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it cool people move around quicker and

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the world just got a whole lot bigger

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and now there's ways to teleport between

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the worlds yeah so again in five six no

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but in the future yes okay next question

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cool amazing progress while the game is

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coming along nicely real life has kept

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me busy for a while and I just returned

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to see how things are going the

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improvements right this one no I did

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really the improvements and additions

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are very impressive thank you it's great

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to see everything coming together huge

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kudos to the team was there a question

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or you just want to know I just want to

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mean it cuz we appreciate when people

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yeah that especially a lot of our so I

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know we have kind of a hard core set I

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love you guys who come and check out the

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news like every week or twice a week or

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whatever we also we forget that we have

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a fair number of people who at some

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point in the last couple years back to

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us and they just kind of went away it's

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not like they were upset it's just that

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it said hey I'm backing your project

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come back with a great game and they

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check in like once every six months or

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once every three months and they're like

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hey yeah wow you guys have seen a lot of

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progress I'll see you again another

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three months or six months so yeah so we

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love you guys too thank you for coming

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by and and when you do and you see stuff

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you like it is very nice don't let the

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team know yeah so it's always energizing

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to get feedback that's not about what's

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currently broke because if you focus on

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what's broken and what's in the pipeline

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you just kind of keep tunnel vision when

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people come back and see how much

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progress we made it's always nice for

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the team to hear yeah I okay next

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question

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open the gates there are several

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benefits to being an early adopter early

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access has been one of them

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can we open the floodgates and get more

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people to stress that's the game so we

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actually are pretty quick to

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open up the gates now part of the

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challenge is we've got 24/7 testing

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going and so that does it if we had a

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limited time window on the test that

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would actually cause more people to want

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to get in right right because that

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scarcity would be like whoo I want to

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check and see this thing out I can only

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do it this weekend or whatever we

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decided not to do that because we wanted

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to have we wanted to start getting

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closer and closer to the idea of running

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an actual live game service so that's

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why we went ahead and put up a live

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server and we have a test server that

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comes up and goes down we're trying to

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test those muscles out kind of flex

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those muscles a little bit so that will

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be more prepared for launch so that is a

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downside as it means if we might have a

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couple thousand people get into check

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out a new build and the first week it

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goes live that's not a bad number but if

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you spread that very thinly over the you

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know the entire week that means at any

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given time you don't have these big

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Peaks so so yeah it is what it is I

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don't think that there's I wouldn't

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change the decision I think it's the

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right answer for us as a company but it

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does mean that things are more spread

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and what we do see is when new stuff

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comes online we get a bump in activity

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and then people fall off as they exhaust

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that content or they get also systems so

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as more and more systems and content go

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online you'll see more people playing

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for longer we're still looking at it as

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a test test in a lot of ways we're just

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we're not to the point yet where I

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expect it to actually be a playable game

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that's the unfortunate truth but you can

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see we constantly are making progress

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people are working really hard to get

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you guys a game I promise we're doing

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into the best way that we know how so

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just be patient hang with us that's

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coming it is coming it is coming okay

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next question

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how will imports and exports work with

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moon gates well we're calling the moon

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we call them rune gates we toyed with

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the idea of moon gates kind of as as a

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wink to Altima but we ended up going

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with ring gates right I part of that

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it's just because I kept calling them

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rune gates internally I kept forgetting

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that we were doing that so eventually

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rune gates we're gonna stun run he did

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one get one out so the bulk of this

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question is how do imports and exports

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handle going in and out of campaigns how

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are you guys gonna track that does that

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include discipline yes so there's two

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different gate types right so you've got

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rune gates which our guard are within a

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cluster

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I can move from this world to this world

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to this world to this world right and

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those are there's no import-export

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requirement there so that can be very

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easy I mean I just hit from one and go

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to the next the other one are the world

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portals and we might want to call them

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portals as opposed to gates or something

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just to make it different and that's

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moving from this cluster way over here

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to this cluster and for that one we need

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to put a little bit more work into how

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to make the import/export process

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cleaner we do want to lock it to a

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particular location or set of locations

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in the game you can't do it from

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everywhere for now at least we'll

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continue using Spirit Bank because it's

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already up and functional eventually we

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will look at ways to make that a little

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cleaner maybe marking or tagging items

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with effectively a passport stamp hey

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this helmet has been marked for this

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world so it can move in and out without

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me having to do what he says we think of

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it like I have to go through customs

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right exactly so that's a possibility

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I'm kind of open on that I really want

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to get the rune gates up and running

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first then we get the portals to allow

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you to go from one cluster to another

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cluster and then we'll take a look at it

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once we can see that field say okay how

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can we clean this up and make it a

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little bit more seamless alright next

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question

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your NV CAI budget and world building

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why are you spending your AI budget on

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so many useless rank 1 and rank 2 mobs

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we only have like 3 mobs done first of

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all right so that's what I mean it's

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like we've got a pig and as our fighter

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and a zombie we look at we have more

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coming in 5 stacks actually um so so

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it's not a giant about more but it's you

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know we get a couple of different like

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that and we're just gonna keep adding to

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it over time building up the catalog so

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5 6 is the first time actually we've had

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a world come up where a designer did not

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place all the harvestable dioramas by

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hand correct so whenever you see a clump

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of anything like either a monster camp

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or a or like a harvestable node

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motherlode node with the little nodes

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around those are dioramas so we create

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those and we kind of slot them in all

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over the world randomly we didn't before

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we put them in a designer had to

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actually go in and say I want you know

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an apple tree over here and I want gold

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deposit over here or whatever now that's

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actually done with an algorithm so we

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can hit a button and it'll completely

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populate out you know a couple thousand

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dioramas on the world which is really

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really cool that's all new though

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so so that's the first step the next

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step will be parcels in the world so we

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will not be arranging where the

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mountains go and stuff like that we're

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working on that now and the dungeons

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like how does this Canyon why into where

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does it go so we're doing that as well

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well we also see like the worlds this is

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a boria for example I keep bringing this

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example if it's a forest world yeah we

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haven't done that we've done other

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biomes yet so we've done basically our

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first one we are now working on our

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second biome which is desert I can go

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ahead and give you that but you're gonna

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go to a world you're gonna go from a

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rune gain into a desert biome and it'll

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look totally different and I look like a

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desert and you'll jump into this one and

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it'll be a giant forest era for right

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now we're kind of building the maps

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where everything we have we're just

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cramming into the map yeah exactly we're

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just shaking everything in there yeah

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we're gonna start seeing separations

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ranked specific ranks of specific worlds

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so it's gonna start to feel well and so

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the algorithm at that first also was

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kind of randomly scattering monsters so

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literally last week for the first time

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the rank of the parcel was set up so

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that the closer you get to the sin of

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the world the higher the rank right and

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that rank affects monster difficulty it

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also affects the level of harvestable

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'he's like so that now the closer you

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get out to the edges which is where the

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beach heads are you start with lower

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rank stuff and you work your way in both

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in terms of quality of stuff and in

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terms of difficulty the monsters so

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that's all new like that's just coming

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online now so part of this question I

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know was about why did you put this over

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here why'd you put that over there and I

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for the first for the previous maps I

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have no idea to be honest why we did but

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it also we knew that eventually we would

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be replacing that handcrafted designer

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thing with a procedure and we're just

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getting to that now so which will be

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cool it'll mean the maps will never feel

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the same right so that would actually be

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something would be very helpful as you

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guys are playing definitely give us

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feedback on how you feel the procedural

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generation algorithm is working because

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it's relatively easy for us to make an

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adjustment right right we had some

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feedback last week that I thought was

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really good about the range of monsters

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that were in the canyons so in spider

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Canyon at the entrance the monsters

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would start at like Rank 2 or 3 and then

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by the boss room they would get up to 9

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and they said that's just too wide of a

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range right if the canyon is in the

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middle of the map all the surrounding

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monsters are already ranked for why do I

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then come in the

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the dungeon and there at Rank 2 that's

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actually a really valid point so you

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adjusted the algorithm or at least we're

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trying to adjust the algorithm and we'll

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you know we'll go through it over time

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it'll just get better and better better

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so that's the whole goal yeah so there

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you go that is the answer to your

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question is because it wasn't done yet

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that's why and we've got a new stuff

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coming online I've come online which is

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really cool ok so what do we got here uh

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I thought we're probably we've got time

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probably for one more yeah that list

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what will trigger season changes so

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right now the triggering event is just

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the passage of time like we're literally

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and we're doing the seasons and

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day/night stuff right now right now it's

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just season aplenty

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I just put the first one in and I'll see

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these in the season every season to

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season to play enough that's that's fine

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but the eventually I would love to have

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triggering mechanics where it could be

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based on other things like players need

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to collect something or players need to

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do something and that will you know they

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take a certain number of keeps or they

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kill a certain number mom so where they

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sacrifice certain things are the gods

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and that could trigger going from season

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aplenty to season of bounty of season of

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reaping to season of something which I

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haven't named a big focus of our game is

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the idea that time matters right the

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game of the game is not frozen in

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carbonite like it's a constant flowing

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changing and you do different things in

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different seas different things at

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different seasons and the game is not

501
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the game that I log in today is not the

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same game I logged into a week ago or a

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month ago that's like the key thing it

504
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really is different about our game as

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the world really is dynamic like

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everything about them everyone just

507
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thought that was a marketing pool no

508
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actually the way really trying to make

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up you know a lot of people say that

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dynamic and that means you know I make

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little changes here and will change is

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there no we are completely dynamic like

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the world changes the parcel changes

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every world is unique we have seasons we

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have day/night like all of that stuff

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and that's just starting to come online

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now so I think it's going to be really

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really cool we haven't you haven't felt

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it yet in the same way that we built all

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these worlds out of parcels but we

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didn't use the parcels for the purpose

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they were intended I I was telling saw

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Gordon recently it did it feels like we

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went all the trouble of making and

525
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designing Legos but then we've been

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gluing those Legos together and saying

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here's a toy play with it right

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so the actual

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real benefit of doing all this work it

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hasn't surfaced yet they haven't

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actually you guys haven't seen yet the

532
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payoff for that but you're just starting

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to now so that's super exciting so this

534
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is just another one of those right I'm

535
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just exciting for us to get the whole

536
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round set order yeah the concept of us

537
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you stockpile food in the spring yeah

538
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cuz we always said that that's what

539
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you're going to buy it but nobody

540
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believed us like oh whatever I'll just

541
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go get some apples and I still want to

542
00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:12,490
have torches that I can use to come and

543
00:18:12,490 --> 00:18:13,929
torch your crops I think that would be

544
00:18:13,929 --> 00:18:15,280
really cool because that becomes now a

545
00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,860
valid way to you know did part of the

546
00:18:17,860 --> 00:18:19,600
strategy game it's it's a thing you

547
00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,040
bothered to actually grow these crops

548
00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,559
that come and take the food out of them

549
00:18:23,559 --> 00:18:25,390
I burned them down and now I screwed you

550
00:18:25,390 --> 00:18:27,400
so I want that kind of stuff that that's

551
00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:28,780
that's where the game starts to get

552
00:18:28,780 --> 00:18:30,549
really dynamic when I say dynamic that's

553
00:18:30,549 --> 00:18:32,530
the kind of stuff that I mean is it's

554
00:18:32,530 --> 00:18:34,960
more of a open world simulator as

555
00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,049
opposed to a theme park and so anyway so

556
00:18:38,049 --> 00:18:39,640
you guys are gonna start to see that I

557
00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:40,929
think it's gonna be really cool yeah

558
00:18:40,929 --> 00:18:42,490
it's gonna be great all right thanks

559
00:18:42,490 --> 00:18:43,750
everybody for coming out for our May

560
00:18:43,750 --> 00:18:46,900
2018 QA and we will in the meantime till

561
00:18:46,900 --> 00:18:48,400
next time we will see you guys in the

562
00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:49,780
game we'll see you on the forums and

563
00:18:49,780 --> 00:18:51,910
again I just want to throw out the cost

564
00:18:51,910 --> 00:18:54,040
customary thank you you guys are awesome

565
00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:55,450
we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you

566
00:18:55,450 --> 00:18:57,429
oh yeah thank you for making this whole

567
00:18:57,429 --> 00:18:58,990
project possible and giving us the

568
00:18:58,990 --> 00:19:00,850
feedback to help us make a lot of

569
00:19:00,850 --> 00:19:02,500
changes so all right we'll see you on

570
00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:05,320
five six and the snap test yep and then

571
00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:06,460
we'll see you again next month

572
00:19:06,460 --> 00:00:00,000
bye guys