What do you, the members of this forum, want to know?

  List of potential interviewee's/victims... I mean... you know. 

    [Kane (of course), Domino, Dante, & Expo]


  So, please post your mind boggling questions, newest suggestions, and fan mail web page information for the staff of Evolution here. If you dare! 


  [Note the following]

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   ~~Suggestions are always welcome-- game related, Evolution future potential, or wiki related

  ~~Please post a name with a question/suggestions if it is relevant, also keep the questions/suggestions reasonably simple, if not short. I'm trying to interview them, not read them a novel.   

   ~~For those of us who think in terms of big-- even when it's to simply get a cup of coffee-- please note that I have recently created another Email. However, think of it like a golden ticket, not everyone is going to get one. Give me good feedback, and I'll be more inclined to hand out that Email. (Note: this is a safety measure to prevent trolls, from entering the girls bathroom at hog.. oh never mind) 

    ~~Lastly, remember this is for fun, to understand the game as staff see's it better, and to get to know the people behind the scenes who make Evolution possible for all the rest of us nerds.




    --Sturger, of Skara Brea--   (soon to be Mayor) 



 

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  So no one has anything they want me to ask Kane or any of the staff about?

 
   Weird... perhaps I should ask in Teamspeak?

Questions about the Archaeology System and Tombs.

This system is being rescripted and expanded.  There were several flaws in the original system that we need to fix.

With the recent changes to the Archaeology System...


It currently requires 10 normal items dug up when using the Archaeology Brush, we can gain both normal and Priceless Artifacts. 
Will the players be able to select which type they will dig up?
Will the NPC that buys the Priceless Artifacts be placed in game soon?
Where will the NPC be placed?


Tomb questions.
What is the status of the instance based Tomb system, Kane has spoken of it before?
Is there going to be changes to or additions to the Tomb specific loot from the Tomb Treasure Chests?
Will there be a set of Tomb Armour that is conperqble to some of the existing Armour, such as Kas, Magi, or Vecna?


Questions about the crafting skills.
I remember Kane talking about upcoming changes to the crafting system.
What is the status of the upcoming changes to the Crafting System.
What is the first Crafting Skill that Kane intends to update?
Will Runic Tools be added for the Carpentry Skill?
Will the old weapons and armour, that require special recipes and ingredients be updated to the new Crafting Skills?
Will the Blackstaff be added as a Craftable weapon? 
The blackstaff was added to crafting
Will it be a levelable weapon if it is added?

I don't want to comment on the details of crafting, we are working on it and have made some great changes.  We will announce when we decide on the final release and after testing

  Yay! I'm not alone in my head, like I thought.


  Thanks for this feed back it's great, Smilingdeath!

Questions about throwing weapons:
Recently I decided to put my massive Blacksmithing and Armour Lore to the test, 150.4 and 135.
I crafted some Soul Glaves just for fun.
I found that the abilities on them are not working correctly. Using a macro for primary and secondary attacks, they use the primary and secondary attacks for unarmed combat, which makes me think maybe they are using the wrestling skill to compute their damage.


Will throwing weapons be looked at in the near future?
Will items that have the throwing skill be added at some point?  Items similar to the +20 Swordsmanship hat for example.


Will items be added for the other less used combat skills, such as Mace Fighting and Fencing?


Will more custom armour sets be released in the future, instead of more battle worn type armour sets?

I think about UOE update and i feel that there is no big news from staff since long time. We don't see any futures update coming.

We add new content every Friday for over 6 years and clearly post the updates on the forum, facebook and dev logs on the wiki!  I also send out a monthly newsletter with calendar of updates and events

Over the past few month new content was :
-Contract system : it's seem to be useless right now, no more rewardersity, 2/3month already. Any action plans on that ?
We have added the base contract system and have been testing it in game, we will add thousands of contracts to do in the future.  We are just making sure this system works as intended before the full release


-Pirate champ : Only on event, which limit the interest of this champ (siren stage also is no sense and not fun at all, i don't play a game to wait 30s every time i hit)
This custom champ event was added for pirate month and was run every day for the quest and items, we now run this event a few times a week, watch for announcements.  The interest is in fact very high because of the valuable arty drop/pirate hats

-Vecna dungeon : postpone from october to november, we are almost in december and still no news from staff.  The reason we don't like to announce stuff in advance is we do have things come up that we must fix, like the gold exploit, server issue, and holiday events.  The new dungeons are still in the works, it just takes a ton of staff time to complete.  Most shards don't have any new dungeons...be patient, we always do announce details when the time is appropriate

Can we have an idea of where are the development and were you want to go ?
No, because things do change based on need, community engagement and budget.  We do announce what we have been up to, when the task is complete and we are ready to test/launch

It's been 6 month i'm back in the shard and communication about futures are not enough. we are like blind right now about what's going on the staff side, all seems to be very busy, but we have absolutely no idea for what. I'm supporting you every month and I start thinking to stop because I don't know if the server is well or not right now cause of the non communication staff is doing.
The server has been online for 6 years and is very stable and well-supported, we are not going anywhere!  We are the #1 custom shard and I wonder why you would even think the server is not "well"  In fact we are upgrading the server as we speak to better hardware and connection!

I'm sorry if my words looks hard, non native english, don't know how to write more smoothly in english

Gotta agree with Hatchi, a little more transparent developement path would be awesome. I know that some players are afraid to donate because they are afraid shard is going unactive / starting to be at its ending phase.

No one should be "afraid" to donate...the shard is doing better than ever with an average player count between 400-500 players daily.  We are continuing to develop new content each week, we hired more staff and are upgrading our server.  We are definitely not at our "ending phase", in fact I expect to see the shard break the online player record between now and the 6th year anniversary in January!

Thanks for reading
Jurppa

Thanks for the quick answer EVO ! You're right, you do already lot of things to keep us up to date, so maybe the only point to suggest is more visibility on dev logs. I know that Kane don't like to inform us and like be very evasive. We are a strong and warm community, you can talk with us more.

Ok but for the pirate champ, because you say that it's was for the event pirate, so why did you create an special leveling hat, where doublon are only accessible from this champ ? It's already very hard to get one hat so raising made it more than very very hard.

Know that if i write, it's really mean that I like very much the shard and the staff and I just want the best for tomorrow.

I don't quite understand the fears being expressed here about the server not doing well. In the two ish years I have played here the average online population has nearly doubled. The first cake I ever received from staff for the online player record being broken was I believe 311 and now that is a couple hundred below average.

Also, on the transparency of future developments I think that is it possible to get a taste for that in the weekly update logs where Kane puts notes about something he implemented followed by a comment about how that feature will be used in future projects. Around a year ago I think it was carpentry BODS that got added and for over a month before that there were little nuggets in the update notes leading up to that. Also I haven't been in teamspeak too much for a while but in the past talking to staff in there it was always pretty easy to get a feel for where they were wanting to take things. But I can understand them not wanting to make too many promises before ideas are fully vetted.

Hey!
In my case i dont have any problems with server, i prolly play more than i should. Just wanted to ask about stuff peeps talked to me about. I absolutely adore this shard players and its staff

 Well spoken Zoltan.

  Couldn't have said it any better.