Acvault: What do you think Asheron's Call's strong and weak points are? As well as areas that could use some improvement, to be specific?
Lupus: Its greatest strength ties into its greatest weakness, in my opinion. We’ve got a huge amount of content for a very wide level spread, but it’s very hard to realize just how much is in there without having to rely on a spoiler site. That’s why I consider a quest tool or tracker to be important. I also think that the way we reward certain actions is sometimes inconsistent, and I’d like to see us reward questing more than we do while reward hunting less than we do.
This week the team is working on getting things prepared for the December event. This includes testing for any final issues as well as making sure that things are in line with where the team wanted them to be. The event is set to go live on Tuesday December 12th and is titled Cold Tracks.
Players who choose to participate in this limited opportunity will receive full access to the game for 14 consecutive days free of charge. After the end of this trial period, players will automatically be subscribed to Asheron's Call for a monthly rate of $12.95 unless they cancel before the expiration of the trial.
This week the team is working on things for the December event. They are working out all of the details of the quests, working on some balance stuff and overall just getting things ready for testing.
We would now like to take this opportunity to answer a couple questions from the forums over the last week.
Any chance that the Nuhmudira quest will be repeatable?
As of right now we have no plans to change how this quest works. If we do decide to change anything on this quest we will be sure to let everyone know.
Where is the non Subscriber section of the forums you promised a while back? The reason is that right now we are having some issues making the changes needed to our forum management system to allow it to recognize the difference between the two user groups. It is something we are still working on, but as of right now I do not have an ETA on when things will be ready.
Is there any chance we can get a mana check command?
As of right now this is not something in the plans, but I can bring it up to the team.
That’s about it for today. Everyone have a great week and see you all in Dereth!
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc
This week was not only patch week, but also Thanksgiving Holiday week. Happy Holidays to all, and be sure to check out our Patch Page for patch information.
Delve into the Black Spear's summoning chamber for the Rossu Morta to acquire information concerning the events there and to receive your Red Rune weapon.
The creation and maintenance of new and existing AC quest guides. These guides are expected to be comprehensive, easy to read, and accurate.
Inclusion of screenshots to accompany the guide.
A new guide is expected every two weeks at the latest.
Communicate openly with all members of the staff.
Requirements:
At least 3 hours a week to devote to this position.
An active and long-time AC player.
Knowledgeable about many of the game's quests.
HTML knowledge.
Plusses:
Previous written quest guides. (Please provide a link.)
Screenshot editing experience.
To apply for this position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] titled "Quest Author Position." Be sure to include your VNBoards name, your experience with Asheron's Call, HTML, and questing experience. Please check our Quests section for examples, if you are not already familiar with it.
The November event, Remembering the Past will be launching tomorrow November 21st. Please remember that all worlds will be down from 8am – 3pm EST.
This week the team is working on implementing some of the things for the December event. That means they get to see how they look in a game environment, and how they work. We then begin making the appropriate changes to these quests and items to bring them in line with what the initial vision for the particular item or quest is supposed to be.
Read the rest of the update here. Also in the update are the Thanksgiving Holiday Hours for Billing and Technical Support, so be sure to check that if you have questions.
This Week With Turbine: Issue 4[ Comment ] Print News | Mail News | Category: News - Turbine It was a quiet week on the Turbine front, probably due to the upcoming patch, and the Free Trial being finalized, along with dealing with the various issues that came up with the patch. However, some interesting and humorous things still managed to pop up on the forums.
New Quest Entries Print News | Mail News | Category: News Kid has submitted a movie to show you the steps of the Search for Lunnum quest. Nuhmudira has raised the Fiun from death, and now the poor thing awaits any party foolish enough to take her on.
Also, Immortalbob has submitted a guide for the Cow Tipping quest. Help Dwennon tip the "rebellious" cows of Dereth for...some interesting rewards.
November Patch Delayed to 11/21[ 5 Comments ] Print News | Mail News | Category: News - Turbine As many of you know already, we had decided to delay the November patch for a few days in order to make sure some issues we ran into were resolved. Well, as it stands today these issues have not yet been resolved. Rather than releasing the patch with some things we are not happy with, we have decided to delay the patch until November 21st. This was not an easy decision for us, but we would rather delay things by a few more days rather than release a patch with possible issues. If there are any other schedule changes we will be sure to let everyone know.
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc
As many of you know the Asheron’s Call free trial site was live over this past weekend. Unfortunately we had to bring the site live before originally planned and before all of the development support was ready. This allowed some players to possibly abuse trial accounts in an unintended manner.
The positive side of this is we have information for those people and we will be checking the system based on the information we have. Anyone found to have exploited the system by gathering either rank chains or excess housing may be subject to a ban across all of their accounts, both trial and existing accounts. This will mean any accounts associated with trial accounts caught abusing the system could be banned. If you are a player who used the trial in a legitimate manner, you will not need to worry about any type of repercussions with your account.
We had hoped it would not come down to this, but some players felt the need to once again try to gain advantages over other players. This trial is meant to re-energize AC and this kind of behavior only serves to hurt the game and the community.
When the Free Trial officially goes live there will be restrictions in place that will prevent this from being an issue. Until this system is in place we will be monitoring all account transactions related to the free trial for abuse.
The November event, Remembering the past is tentatively going live this Thursday, the 16th. All worlds will be down from 8am – 3pm EST and players will not be able to log in to the game. Make sure to check out the various fan sites for the tease images related to the November event, and check out the Remembering the Past event page.
That’s about it for this week. Have a great day and see you all in Dereth!
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc
November Letter to the Players is up![ Comment ] Print News | Mail News | Category: News - Turbine With the Festival season in full swing, this is normally a time of peace and tranquility in Dereth. This year however, appears to be different. Some questions still remain unanswered and there are people who want to know why. Can I out Drink Ulgrim? Why are the members of the Tanada Clan suddenly in Dereth after all this time? Where has Asheron been for the last year? What is the meaning of life? Ok so maybe that last one won't get answered, but other questions and more will begin to be answered with the November event, Remembering the Past!
