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Caspian ☁Today at 12:15 AM
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
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"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
But, you believe THEY know, just won't tell anyone. Sounds like something Gandalf would say about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25q9_q3ILow
PS: Your Strawman, made up quote is kind of... silly.
Here I will give you a better analogy:
My plane is delayed. Airline says for 30 minutes.
30 Minutes passes and they say it's now delayed an hour.
An hour passes and they say it's now 2 hours.
When 2 hours comes they stop giving new ETAs.
I tweat out that my flight is indefinitely delayed
They respond saying: It's not indefinitely delayed. We are just not giving an ETA until the maintenance is 100% complete.
Thanks.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
I think the maps are interesting. Do not know if they are a positive or negative yet. As discussed by OldGuy in anotehr thread... do we NEED such detail? We shall see. What we do know is that this has consumed a huge chunk of development resources for weeks and months. Is it worth it? I suspect we will only find out when people actually get into the game.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
"Huawei has reportedly decided to cancel the planned announcement of a new Windows laptop at the CES Asia 2019 trade show this week. The move seems to be the result of the company's ongoing legal troubles with the United States.
The news is not entirely surprising, as Huawei's PC business has been far less capable in adapting to US aggression compared to the smartphone wing. The company is already cancelling production orders and has started halting development on new products."
What has been said, and what is 100% true.. is that the RELEASE OF DS&S HAS BEEN INDEFINITELY DELAYED.
It is delayed- see the post announcing the delay
The delay has an indefinite duration- see the same post which said they will not give an ETA until it’s done.
Please do not respond back with another irrelevant strawman post. You won’t get a response.
Back to the OP... seems like Caspien is inferring now that they have to go work on the settlements etc...
I think Caspien will find that building by algorithms is going to have some strange results and a lot of dull ones. But as I said, once players get in... we will see!
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
But at at this point nothing can be done to change the delays that have happened. At this point it’s really just a matter of if all the time and resources were worth the investment. Probably won’t know until people get in game.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
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Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
They've been making corrections manually or even regenerating map portions after adjusting the algos.
As to whether they are dull or not I can only use No Mans Sky as a recent reference.
At first the procedural generation seems pretty cool and varied, but after you play a bit there's these odd feeling of sameness, which is weird because every MMORPG ever made reuses art and npc assets shamelessly.
Yet for some reason it seems far more so, I'd almost say it's because the computer is too consistent in its placement, I seem to pick up on the uniformity, conformity, or something I just can't quit put my finger on.
Whatever it is, in single player games going back to one of the earliest Elder Scolls titles, Daggerfall I think which had procedurally generated dungeons I've felt the mechanic to be a bit off putting.
Now both games I mentioned only generate the world on a temporary basis which also disturbs me but this will be permanent so perhaps it will be more palatable.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
I mean... when in the entire history of the game have I ever said anything even remotely like that? I have said they are incompetent at project management (not even debatable), I have said they are wasting precious resources on pie in the sky ideas (Elyria Mud, Vox Elyria, etc...), But I have never inferred they were not working on the game.
Next time you are confused, just ask me. I’ll be happy to tell you what I mean so you don’t have to go off on irrelevant tangents again.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
Where I think it will hurt them is exactly the reason they went with this method. The size of the world. They saw a big world, limited resources and are trying to quickly populate it. I get that.
I see a huge world with the large likelihood of massive blandness. If they want to say that you can walk for a half hour and still be in the same county... well.. great... but if that 30 minute walk is through an endless series of featureless fields I think that will be boring as all hell.
To avoid that will take a massive amount of human intervention, which is self-defeating.
But as said earlier, we likely won’t know until people are allowed into the game. Right now we are literally just looking at the skeletons of maps for worlds that obviously do not exist yet as a game.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
Why should i care or be interested in that at all?
Game systems
game mechanics
combat system/mechanics
cool foes/mobs/npc's/enemies with cool abilities/effects
Perhaps some new ideas for magic that we haven't seen before,you know something that has us look astonished !!.
Perhaps some cool pet systems/mounts/travel systems ,secret ideas that we discover and again have us thinking...hmm cool.
This map gif is like 0.0000001% on the "it matters"scale.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
It's obvious you just looked at the GIFs, didn't read ANYTHING on the link and then complained that you don't know what you're looking at. I don't even know why you bother making comments.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
For the whole DSS. I think they are putting way too much time into the whole thing. While they are probably going to show way too much detail. Takes away from exploring an unknown land. Also knowing there will be people that are going to download and store the whole thing aswell, gotta meta the whole system a bit more.
I went from super hyped about it coming, to now concerned they are taking this long to push it out the door. On the positive side, it's nice for anyone that has a bad time slot, they can now just delegate someone else to pick for them. I suppose that may suck for anyone that purchased IP to push their time slot up.
Remains to be seen if they will prove to be as fanatically loyal as the "Cult of Robert" has been.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon