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.
Turbine Weekly Update 12/12/06[ 2 Comments ] Print News | Mail News | Category: News - Turbine Hello and welcome to the "late because I am sick" edition of the Weekly Update for the week of December 11, 2006! Based on some recent feedback, I am going to try a slightly different format for this particular update.
So this week I want to give you all some insight as to what we have been discussing over the last few weeks in various meetings we have had. This will be done of course, without going into too much detail. We don’t want to give away everything in one little post, now do we?
So, one thing that has been coming up a lot in our discussions recently has been an Elder Game System. Everyone here is in total agreement this is some type of Elder game needs to be done as soon as we can.
Authentication coming down today, 12/11, from 10:30 to 2 PM
Sorry for the short notice folks, but authentication is coming down (or already is down) for maintenance today, from 10:30 AM to 2 PM Eastern. This will not affect people already in game.
The darkness of the place seemed to creep from every crack and crevice. Each footstep echoed in on itself countless times as it bounced around the damp and hollow space they now trekked through. A sense of quiet permeated everything, only their footsteps, their breathing, and the intermittent sounds of water droplets delicately hitting the cold floors were heard. Stalagmites and stalactites lined the ceiling and floors, forming a thick forest of stone they had to navigate their way through. What light could be seen had a blue tinge to it, though anything beyond a few feet was naught but blackness.
Navigation Guide for the Directionally Impaired![ 4 Comments ] Print News | Mail News | Category: News It is Dereth's own version of Tom Tom! Avoid getting lost, find shorter routes to your favorite towns, reduce the amount of time you ask for directions (even men!), or just find new interesting places to go visit! All by simply using our handy, comprehensive, all-in-one guide to getting around Dereth.
New Quest Guide Print News | Mail News | Category: News Immortalbob has submitted a guide for the Shou-jen (Ninja) Armor. Hunt down the Tanada clan for a suit of armor with some rather graceful bonuses. Careful of the shadows, you never know what's lurking there!
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.
