Dream log

Raid bosses should be a first layer — the raid brain. I think that is the same mechanism used in the castle siege, but to get there we should perfect raids. — drizzlx

Polearm training is definitely a behavior we will need to bake in. Even in catacombs, starting in D grade, people do trains for XP. Archer parties. Mage parties. Melee parties. But I do want to start considering advanced mechanics like AoE trains. Even mage parties can do AoE if a tank leashes and pulls. — drizzlx

When they have the ability to do raid bosses, they're going to get very wealthy, because they can sell these full-drop items. — drizzlx

We need a new state — not idle, but it depends on the class. If everyone's just auto-following, it looks like everyone's a bot. In a real party it depends on distance. For example, if you're in a small catacomb room, the DPS may not need to move — they may already be within opening strike distance, like bow range, skill range, but they're not moving because they don't want to take aggro. — drizzlx

I feel like the party brain should be issuing a target, right? And it is up to the individual sim: how do I get there? The DPS are usually going to wait until the tank has the target aggressive towards them, so that DPS doesn't take aggro. This is a very important thing to get right. — drizzlx

Likewise, if you are in a party and request a join on a sim-only party, it will merge the parties if there is enough space — no questions asked, just an 'aight cool, let's group.' — drizzlx

I would want to make sure sims that are in a player's party will teleport if a player teleports at the Ziggurat gatekeeper inside the catacomb — that's the only way to get inside, and it's gated by registration. — drizzlx

I want eventually that system to exist, so a player can have their own clan and sims can be in the clan — they could invite, and the sims basically trigger the mechanism through persistence. — drizzlx

You may have an academy, which is special — a clan can create an academy. They can have characters level 1 to 40 in there, and then after that, at the level 40 class change, they graduate the academy and give the clan perks like levels. So a big clan that had an academy could structure it that way, then a main clan that houses everyone in a higher tier. — drizzlx

That's really what it is for a player: if a clan has a good clan hall, depending on what your level is you might want Aden or Dion so you get clan hall buffs. But with our buffers, really there's no need — but you get nice clan hall teleports to local hunting grounds. — drizzlx

If we get through all defects, we can even plan to work on the stuff like clan tags — to help the world feel more alive. — drizzlx

There's a strategy to dawn and dusk. Dusk is taken when there's no castles in the world, and then after there's castles, dawn wins forever. It needs to look like it's really happening. Players are not going to want to try to swing the competition — they're just going to expect that it operates how it should. — drizzlx

When we add PvP, capture that parties could be given a temper. Some are quick to react — you flag their DPS, he's just gonna Deadly Blow you in the face, aggression high. Others are more reserved — they pause, say something in chat, but if they get hit again, maybe they're forced into PvP. It's a band — different people of different aggression levels. — drizzlx

Imagine you were botting with two of your friends, and you said: set up your polygon there and grind that, I'll set up my polygon here, we'll overlap on the edges a little bit. So the three of you were in this area grinding these fields, but you're not really stealing each other's mobs. That's kind of conceptually how it works in Lineage. — drizzlx

We should disable the cursed weapons by default for now, until we implement them. I agree at disabling it, and then filing cursed weapons as a bigger ticket to review, because it is going to touch into PvP — because once you have the sword, right now, no one would contest you. — drizzlx

I'll be so deep in this a few months from now that you'll be buying xXReaperXx his own upgraded dagger, because he's a clan member that persists and progresses with you. — drizzlx

I don't like a hardcoded number. I want to get into changing that so that the economy lives. It, like, pulses. It breathes. At night there's more shops than there are during the day. — drizzlx

When they have their own clans and the simulated clan is depositing money into the warehouse, that's an idle money-making mechanic. — drizzlx

In the future we'll give you the ability to export your character if you want to take it on local. That's the beauty of this. — drizzlx

League of Legends does this actually. Imagine a camera that — let's say you have a party of nine players and you have camera logic that is switching cameras, kind of cinematically switching between the party members. And I could see people using that, like: hey, do you want to see what the sims are doing? — drizzlx