Join us for the 1st Strategy Monday livestream!

As the new Community Manager, one of the first projects I wanted to kick off is a repeating livestream to show off Illy and to become a helpful link for newbies and vets. What is a livestream? Think of it as a live TV show, but with video games and commentary. If you would like to see many examples, head over to www.twitch.tv and check some out! Our channel will be hosted at: http://www.twitch.tv/luna_illyriad

...if you want to join the chatroom during the stream, you need to sign up for a basic Twitch account.

1) Interviews: I would like to interview players, experts, newbies and (possibly) devs, to discuss the finer points of Illyriad.

2) Tips/Tricks: It's easy to stream the game and to give advice that is taken from the community.

3) Promotion: Twitch is a massive community and that means people might pop in to view a stream of Illy, think it looks cool and go to the site to play! (New players!)

4) Q&As: A questions-and-answer session would be great, and we'll likely stick to the topic of game mechanics or playstyles.

For right now, I plan to host the first one on Monday on the 14th of April at 2:00 PM EDT, 6:00 PM GMT. That gives us a nice, neutral time as a courtesy to our international audience. If we need to tweak the times/day we can do that. I would like to repeat the livestream once per month, but as with all things in game development I will not commit to a schedule until I have a few under my belt.

If you would like to be part of the stream or know someone who would, IGM me or send me a note at community@illyriad.co.uk and let me know. I already have a few candidates to contact, but I am always open to more! Players who want to participate will need a Skype account, a decent microphone and possibly a webcam (we might use cams later on.)

Because this is the first stream, we will keep it light and the topic will be "Newbie Tips."

If you have any questions, let me know! See you then!

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the streams will be recorded and viewable on the Twitch page as well as on our YouTube page.

GM Rikoo

The quantity you que up  for resource production (spears, beer, bows, etc.) is rarely the quantity you actually produce.  Most times you will produce a greater number of items then you initially queued up.  I have recorded extremes of 75%( in rare instances) to as much as 312% of the queue produced.  

I had an google spreadsheet with the various documentation - experiments conducted queuing sets of 10K of each product(5 times), 1000 of each product(10 sets), 100 of each product (10 sets). 10 of each product (100 sets) and 1 of each product (1000 sets) and recording the results.  Even with a queue of 1, you would get a skewed result equal to roughly 130% production of queue. 

It might serve us better if you save many of these questions for a Dev Q&A session. I have none planned at the moment because I am not planning much farther down the line than this first stream. 

If you want to group a batch of questions and email them to me, cool. We might look at doing one massive AMA-style livestream further down the line. You do not need to post all of your questions here and now, in other words. It's appreciated, but I just don't want you to spend so much time and effort when it will be better served in a post about a Dev stream. 

GM Rikoo