Arelith

malcolm_mountainslayer wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:31 pm Uninhabited*


Fixtures will eventually still appear, houses or not. This is one of the beauties of Skal.

But makes sense, the city is not even finished yet.

Irongron wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:08 pm

malcolm_mountainslayer wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:31 pm Uninhabited*


Fixtures will eventually still appear, houses or not. This is one of the beauties of Skal.

But makes sense, the city is not even finished yet.

Much as I started the city over two years ago, it was at that time speculative as I wanted to see just what would be possible with HAKs.

Following the release of nwsync that became a reality, but it is still slow-growing. Haks added to the server require checking first for compile errors, and very often fixing. I find myself waiting for a lot of our selected mods to pass these hurdles and go live.

There was also the case of all the other updates and obligations keeping me from the project, most notably the work on Tyrants of the Moonsea.

Even with everything happening immediately, making something like an entire new city to Arelith standards can easily be the work of a year. With Andunor and the new Underdark I had help, but even then it was a few months of full time toil.

All my recent updates, expanding the wilderness of the isle, has largely been done to accommodate the new city state, which required a larger isle overall, and thankfully with most of the area shells already made this round of updates should take us right up to the gates, and include the NPCs and accompanying lore to frame the RP as the interior is finally constructed. - it's definitely an exciting time.

In regard to labour - this time round there are not so many area developers I can call on. Given the time this all takes I believe Bat Country and Action Replay are better utilised on the Underdark, which would otherwise be at risk of falling seriously behind, while Anatida is going to locked into Hak rollout and customization options for quite some time.


I will likely try to speed things up by looking for experienced volunteers to help decorate and write for some of the interior shells, but here the crucial word is 'experienced' I'm afraid. Normally I'm very happy to help people learn the toolset, but review and management already takes up far more time than I would like, and for something the size of Guldorand's Fortress City I'll need to establish more of a production line mentality if we are to make significant progress throughout the first quarter.

Oh, and thanks for pointing out the typo - it's fixed now!

Exordius wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:38 pm Better not, we need more settlements not less. The player base is more then big enough as it is now and its only going to get bigger the next few years.