Dev Chat Livestream 2.21.12 - Submit Questions!
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Topic: Dev Chat Livestream 2.21.12 - Submit Questions!
Posted By: GM Luna
Subject: Dev Chat Livestream 2.21.12 - Submit Questions!
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 15:52
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Hello all, In celebration of Illyriad's 2 year anniversary since launch in Alpha, we will be doing a live dev chat on Twitch.tv tomorrow, Tuesday, February 21 at 3 pm EST (20:00 Server Time/ 8 pm UTC). On the livestream we'll announce details of the next tournament (spoiler alert: it's going to have some awesome prizes!) and take questions from the community. If you have any questions that you'd like asked on air, just leave them below in a reply and we'll answer them. They can be about the tournament, the game or whatever you'd like to know. There will be a live chat during the event at our channel but you do have to have a Twitch.tv account to participate. If time allows, we'll also be happy to take questions from the chat room. Look forward to seeing you there. http://www.twitch.tv/luna_illyriad" rel="nofollow - Link to our Twitch.tv channel. Go here to watch! (Hint: Illy developers are sort of like Hobbits. We give away presents on our birthday, instead of the other way around.) GM Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk 
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Posted By: Henrii StormStar
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 15:57
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What is the timeline for Trade V2 being released? Thanks, Henrii |
Posted By: ellisande
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 16:03
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Is this going to be recorded for those of us who work/sleep/otherwise have to be taking part in our real lives at this time? I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to listen to it, even if it's after the fact. /me wonders if I need to get deathly sick at work about noon tomorrow? Happy birthday, Illyriad! |
Posted By: Gimli Son of Groin
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 16:07
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Do you think that an app on the Ipod/Ipad/Iphone could be released? Do you think you could fix the chat bar on the Ipod Touch so that I could chat like I did before the Login Update, Website Update and the other Updates on the 18th of February (The chat bar keeps disappearing and I don't know why)? Happy Birthday Illyriad!!  To all the GMs  You guys are all Stars!
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Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 16:09
Yes the video will be available to view after the live event is finished for those who can't make it. :) Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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ellisande wrote:Posted By: Darkwords
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 16:18
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Any info on trade V2 or Factions would be VERY interesting... Or any news on the possibility of another Illyriad world. but I would also like to know what colour (color for the poor of spelling or Americans out there) socks stormcrow is wearing.  |
Posted By: Rupe
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 16:19
| What about a podcast so those of us who are mobile can listen to it on the move |
Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 16:24
I can look into providing an audio file as well. :) Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: Rupe
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 16:27
I would love to have the radio broadcast that was on around Christmas as an audio file too 
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Posted By: Gimli Son of Groin
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 16:30
| Ah, thanks :P I was wondering the same thing... |
Posted By: KillerPoodle
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 16:40
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When can we get minimal sov on water (e.g. food to start). When will we be messing about in boats?
------------- "This is a bad idea and we shouldn't do it." - endorsement by HM "a little name-calling is a positive thing." - Rill |
Posted By: Faldrin
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 16:50
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Happy birthday Illy and thanks to the devs ! Any plans on lowering the range penalty(price) on the sovereignty claims? Where did battle magic go? ------------- 
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Posted By: Berde
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 16:59
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1) Are there still official Mysteries in the game that no one has yet mentioned (and maybe not found!) and codified on the various boards and wikis? 2) During the last TV interview it was mentioned that there would be ways to get Elementals in the future. Any more details on that? 3) Any possibility of making water squares Food-sov'able before tv2 comes out? We can just assume it's fishing, yeah? :)
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Posted By: dunnoob
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 18:25
Please offer it as downloadable video file (MP4, OGV, or similar). I've never managed to view the massively flash interview back in December. Ob on topic; I second the trade v2 question as far as the answer does not contain soon.
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Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 18:39
If you had trouble viewing the last video, it is available on YouTube. Hosting a large video file like that for download isn't really practical. Hopefully this works for you though. Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: PurpleRain
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 18:49
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Whilst Illyriad is playable on mobile devices, is there any plan to create and release a mobile version or a app that would make playing though a mobile easier? |
Posted By: Tordenkaffen
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 19:53
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Hello. First of all: Thank you for your hard work Devs. My questions are as follows: - When do we get the Mana Projector, the Mansion of Misfortune and the Military Academy? - Discoveries; Is there any chance you could give us some indication of how many active discoveries there currently are in the different categories? - How far away is pathfinding, factions, naval activities and trade v2 in rough guesstimates? - There has been mention of a redesign of the alliance forums, making them "editable" by alliance members (enabling forum maintenance), and possibly additional features. Any guesstimate to when this is possible? - Chat Channels, Will we have more? Whenabouts can you fit it into your schedule and how do you think it would make sense dividing them up? (Trade, Diplomacy, general, help etc.)? Thanks! |
Posted By: Hugie
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 21:14
| Are we expecting any changes to Magic? Apocrypha opens up a fifth school of magic. I've tried spinning a magic wand around (nearly had the cat's eye out) and wearing my pointed hat (daughter drew a big "D" on the front) but I can't find the extra magic school. And yet it's clearly needed for making war |
Posted By: geofrey
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2012 at 22:32
| If you had unlimited development resources/time, what super awesome dream feature would you implement in the game? |
Posted By: invictusa
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 00:19
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First of all, thank you to all the Dev's for your continued work on making Illy the place to be. I'm a long time browser gamer that has finally found his soulmate in Illy. 1) Can we have a projection of when/where future "meet the dev's" will be? 2) Will Gromsch be looking for any more content advisers anytime soon? If so . . . ;) 3) How did you, the dev's meet each other? 4) I would like to see an ingame utility for creating customized quests. Alliance leaders can already make up quests for their members with no more than a little imagination. But a utility making the idea more concrete would be fun. ------------- ...and miles to go before I sleep. |
Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 00:49
This question is probably better posed in the petition queue. Thanks! Luna
------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: Jane DarkMagic
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 01:10
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Are there any changes you guys are considering that haven't been announced to the public yet? Am really curious if will see any curveballs in the coming year! Jane DarkMagic
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Posted By: LordBliss
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 01:12
| boxers or briefs? |
Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 01:45
| I've heard that you've been adding new staff members at Illy. Can you describe some of the recent additions and possible future additions to the Illy staff? How will this affect development timelines? |
Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 01:46
| What is your favorite terrain type or map feature and why? |
Posted By: HATHALDIR
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 02:04
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Will the GM's be looking at how Seige Mechanics work? Maybe a stronger emphasis on Sally Forth? ------------- There's worse blokes than me!! |
Posted By: geofrey
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 03:12
| What is the #1 function the devs think needs to be improved or revisited in Illyriad. |
Posted By: Silent/Steadfast
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 03:44
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Will there be more options for diplomatic unit configuration? (Armies, commanders, etc) ------------- "Semantics are no protection from a 50 Megaton Thermonuclear Stormcrow."-Yggdrassil (June 21, 2011 6:48 PM) "SCROLL ya donut!" Urgorr The Old (September 1, 2011 4:08 PM) |
Posted By: WightNolf
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 04:35
First off, congrats on the two year milestone, and cheers for many more to come  So I was wondering... When factions come live what are we going to be able to do with them? What would our interactions with them be limited to? And vise versa.
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Posted By: Roland Gunner
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 05:24
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Q1. Are many of the manual "click heavy" mechanics intentionally part of the Illy experience, or just the way things are currently implemented? For instance, could we one day see an automated harvesting system? Set 50 harvesters to automatically harvest the closest free resource spots. Would a mechanic like that be in the spirit of Illy? Q2. If you take a very long term approach for a new town, the order you choose to do your research in isn't very important. Rarely will you have more than one good research option available, and when you do you can finish both in a few days. In other words, currently you will research everything the only minor decision is in what order. Is this "as planned", 9 months is long enough, or will we eventually have to make decisions on which direction a towns research will take, much like you have already started doing with additional buildings? Or the short question. What time scale should new players think of when starting Illy, Days, Weeks, Months or Years? Grats and Thanks R. |
Posted By: Gilthoniel
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 11:56
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When will the development of the oceans, rivers etc be completed in relation to a) soveriegnty and; b) pathfinding ? Arrrr?
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Posted By: Bard
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 12:13
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Will the idea of nations and/or territories be implemented? If so, are the devs hoping for more "war - like" activity? Will it be possible to remain neutral in a war, and to have neutrality function as a way yo avoid conflicts? Will there be tolls on waterways and/or road ways, and if so, how will they be able to be enforced by players claiming to own the right of passage through a particular road or waterway? Congratulations on two years, wish I had been playing since the start!
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Posted By: Nesse
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 12:18
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Three questions: 1) Can you disclose any news or new rumours on the missing two schools of magic? 2) What will be the most important way to improve your standing with factions? (Guesses: trade, faction quests, being friends with their friends and killing their enemies) 3) How unique will trade resources be? I.e. will it pay off to buy items from a faction in one end of the map to sell to players in the other corner of the map or will there be something similar enough available there too? Good job on an awesome game! /Nesse
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Posted By: Mandarins31
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 12:50
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Is Crafting still on the dev list, and would you have clearer ideas on how it would work? (how to get items for crafting. what use and effects would have crafted items: would it be rare items or would it be weapons upgrades to enchance a whole army..) |
Posted By: King Arthur
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 13:07
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will there be a specific unique unit to each race that is special? i mean we all have the same units but only different names and different stats, they are basically the same. or is there something i don't know about? for elf maybe a marksman a bit like a heavy warrior trueshot for Humans a heavy duty pikemen or long pike for dwarves a heavy duty warrior like a berserker for orc a heavy duty horse like a cathrapact on steroids well something like those. that is unique to that race. we all have spear unit,infantry,ranged etc. the only difference is their names and stats.
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Posted By: ellisande
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 13:34
Two and a half  questions -- add-ons to questions posed by others. When/if crafting becomes a part of Illy, will there be more buildings to go along with that? AND, is there any plan to allow us to build more buildings in our cities? That is to expand the number of available plots if more buildings are added? Speaking of dev staff.... Are there going to be any additional staff resources working on the petition queue? I've heard a number of people mention how long it takes to have their petitions acknowledged, let alone the time to actually get a resolution. We know the staff if small and we all want new sparkly goodness in Illy, but we also would like our problems addressed quickly. That said, Illy has the most involved dev group of any game I've played. I really appreciate the interaction, information, and the attention you all pay to your player base! It's a big part of what makes Illy the great game it is. Thank you! |
Posted By: Manannan
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 14:25
Happy Birthday Illy!!!  It would be nice if some further clues to the unsolved mysteries could be dropped, maybe in some seemingly innocent stories in the Herald if not in the interview. You could hide them in between completely innocent stories there just to keep us assumed like 'Spider ambushes developer during tea and biscuits.' Is there anything game wise the developers have implemented they wish they hadn't and why, and what tasty morsels can we be expecting 'soon' to be released. Are there still plans to bring out level 3 quests (military) or have these been scrapped? Are there any plans for another user interface in the near future or is UI2 here to stay for a while? Will Elgea be the only continent still for the foreseeable future? Also how did Elgea get its name? I have a bet with someone that discussions were happening about it and someone looked down at their phone and just said the model name randomly and it stuck... I'm glad if thats the case the person didn't have a Nokia!  If a tree falls in the woods and there is nobody there to hear it does it make any noise? There's probably other more serious questions I've forgotten as typing, but c'est la vie! Thanks for all the hard work over the last couple of years guys and girls... Here's to the next the next two years! ------------- Doesn't look good... doesn't look bad either! "Manananananananananan, so long Sir, and thanks for all the fish." ~ St.Jude |
Posted By: Mandarins31
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 14:34
Ah for that, the ..."answer" ... has been given by StormCrow on the page down here: http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/welcome-to-elgea-new-server_topic2820.html" rel="nofollow - http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/welcome-to-elgea-new-server_topic2820.html |
Posted By: Vanerin
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 14:40
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Happy birthday Illyriad! And thank you devs for making such an awesome game!! Keep up the excellent work. I would love to hear what motivated you to make this game. I would also enjoy hearing about your hopes and dreams for illy. If Illyriad was exactly what you wanted it to be, how would that look? I am also curious about the effects of trade v2 on care-a-vans. If you could give some insight there, that would be awesome!
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Posted By: Manannan
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 15:20
Knew I'd seen it somewhere in the past. Still like my version better! lol ------------- Doesn't look good... doesn't look bad either! "Manananananananananan, so long Sir, and thanks for all the fish." ~ St.Jude |
Posted By: Romram
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 16:15
| Will you promise not to sell Illy to Facebook anytime soon? |
Posted By: Gimli Son of Groin
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 17:07
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Oh, was my question answered? What time is the questions time so that I can see myself? ------------- “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien “I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien |
Posted By: geofrey
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 19:29
| How often does your target user log in to play the game? once a day?, twice?, stay logged in forever, once a week? |
Posted By: Tanis
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 19:45
| My main concern is when are the factions going live????? |
Posted By: invictusa
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 19:46
or even worse . . . gameforge ------------- ...and miles to go before I sleep. |
Posted By: Capricorne
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 19:49
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Will we be able to trade units? And what about magical units? Will we have the option to trade mana? Directly or after transformation as for research with books? Are tou thinking about seting an Illy timeline? I mean we some historical date but what time is it now? This is a feature I really want to see. Great job everyone :)
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Posted By: Gragnog
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 19:57
| Is there any movement towards being able to terraform the land around our cities? Like changing the resource plots in the city and surrounding countryside? |
Posted By: geofrey
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 20:09
| Is something wrong with the q&a, i keep getting errors. |
Posted By: geofrey
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 20:26
| Sadly I could not get in to witness the interview. I hope a transcript will be provided. |
Posted By: hiccup123
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 20:31
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What can you tell us about the way resources will be physically weighted for trade through caravans? With relation to this, what can you say about pathfinding? Will the weights of resources affect the pathfinding? Say, if a caravan is lugging siege blocks will it carry the over the mountain, even if it's faster going over with wood? Thanks, and happy birthday to Illyriad.  Cheers, Hiccup123
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Posted By: hiccup123
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 20:33
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Addition to my pathfinding question - will there be boats? Bridges? perhaps a way to tunnel through mountains? And ANOTHER unrelated question: What about crafting? When will these "hundreds" of new resources we heard about in December come into play? Hiccup123
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Posted By: Anjire
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 20:41
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If there is time: Are diplomats working to the extent you initially envisioned? Specifically, the ability to wield 20K plus thieves... |
Posted By: Anjire
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 21:09
| Any chance of having the questions not asked in the interview answered on this forum? |
Posted By: geofrey
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 21:44
| Can someone post some notes on the highlights? |
Posted By: Berde
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 21:50
| Check Phalcon's profile in-game. |
Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 22:07
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I'm going to edit the video to hopefully clean up some of the technical and audio issues and then post the video for anyone to watch who wasn't able to view live. I'll post that as soon as I can. Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: Janosch
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 23:24
That was my question. Happy birthday Illy!!! Janosch |
Posted By: Janosch
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 23:29
| Ups. I am way too late. Thanks for the Prestige! |
Posted By: Jane DarkMagic
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 23:38
| Thanks Luna! Was at work during it. |
Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 16:03
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Video and audio versions of the dev chat are now posted here. http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/topic3211_post39421.html#39421" rel="nofollow - http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/topic3211_post39421.html#39421
Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: Annibal FW
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2012 at 23:56
| i wanted to thank the devs for taking the time to explain their future ideas and including us in on it. it makes us players feel part of the ongoing process as well. apologies for the delay - forum acct probs. it only makes us more fanatical about illy - and lets us love it more. thank you for this |