UIv3 & Medal Designer Walkthrough Video
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Topic: UIv3 & Medal Designer Walkthrough Video
Posted By: GM Luna
Subject: UIv3 & Medal Designer Walkthrough Video
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 19:15
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Video from today's walkthrough and dev chat is now available on youtube. GM Cerberus and I discuss the new UI, show how to use the medal designer and take questions from players. Enjoy! GM Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk 
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Posted By: PirateKing
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 21:53
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Questions raised from this video: Can we please get more frequent Herald updates? (Bi-weekly would be amazing--rather than bi-monthly) Why is the Heart beating on your UI preview? (I just looked and it isn't in our UI) Other Comments: Times 14:44 = "and a skull for pirate alliances--which is awesome!" 37:20 = "piratey things" Hopefully someone else out there starts up a good pirate alliance. ------------- http://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/external/alliance.asp?AllianceID=401" rel="nofollow - ~SouthSeasPirates~ |
Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 22:08
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More frequent herald updates would be ideal. We hope to be able to provide them more often, yes. The heart is always beating on the test server. Sorry for the confusion. ;) Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: N. Chadgod
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 22:52
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Wish I could expand the picture or link to the Youtube page and allow me to do it there.
edit: searched myself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8GWVMmhXGk" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8GWVMmhXGk
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Posted By: Cerex Flikex
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 07:19
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Thanks for the post, the video was very helpful. The cost of prestige for these medals is a bit bothersome for me, but I can understand how you want them to be special. ------------- http://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/a/p/149824" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: invictusa
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 07:44
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I love in the first 10 seconds, "... welcome to illyriad dev chat?" reminds me of... "... I'm Ron Burgundy?" lol EDIT: Great chat I would have loved to ask GM Cerb some questions. Perhaps let us know more than a single day in advance when something as momentous as this will be happening? I would love to have asked him if he had any considerations of creating multiple possibilities for avatars. Such an elf female clothing option for the more demure player that could be clothed in a fully covering dress (dont forget the ankles.) Or an elf female that had red hair or different cheek bone heights. I think the 8 current avatars are 8 masterpieces, but customization like this, I believe can help immerse players into their role as a unique character in the game. ------------- ...and miles to go before I sleep. |
Posted By: Jabbels
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 09:19
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@Invictusa - Stay classy San Diego! I love the new interface. Hopefully people enjoy the change more than from the first version too the second :) ------------- 
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Posted By: White Beard
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 11:36
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So the nickel and diming for items begins with the medals. The nicest things about this game was that nothing had a cost sure looks like this has or is changing fast.
While these chats are nice they do not replace the chats we used to have with the devs Thunder Cat and Storm Crow.
The uniqueness of Illy is disappearing
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Posted By: Torn Sky
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 18:23
I don't see how your coming to that conclusion. Prestige has been around for years, all they've added is just another option to spend it on, and medals don't give any more advantages over a f2p account. It is another way for the devs to make money but I'm sure the servers arnt free and they're not forcing you to pay. As usual I'm glad to see the devs are still actively working on illy and can't wait to see what coming in the future. |
White Beard wrote:Posted By: dunnoob
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 19:47
 Weird idea, the new Herald could sell recruitment ads, one day on page one for 100P, or similar... |
Posted By: White Beard
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 00:04
How did I come to that conclusion? there is now an item that can only be bought with prestige. You name any other item that is in game that can be obtained like this pls
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Posted By: Quackers
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 00:24
No other item but Luna did say there will be ways to get medals for free. Medals that cannot be made on the game. Well they are thinking of it but still that to me is a plus side. Also think of it this way; all it takes is 50 people giving up 2 days worth of free prestige and your alliance can have a medal. If you play smart and have loyal members, you can be swimming in prestige. Have an alliance run tournament where everyone donates 5 prestige (weeks worth for most people) and the winner gets 10% of the prestige and the rest goes to a medal. So many different creative ways to get the prestige you need for your alliance to create medals. Please stop looking at this as one person spending £4.99 and look at the alliance working together to gain your objective. |
Posted By: SunStorm
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 00:55
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Agreed Quackers. And keep in mind that players can receive up to 365 FREE prestige per year (that is if they are crazy enough to be on every day and click immediately after the 24hour delay expires. more realistically, 300 Free a year). But if one medal costs 300 and they are spending their prestige on in game advancements, most likely players would donate about 30 prestige a year.
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Posted By: Quackers
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 01:16
Yes your post made me fully understand how ridiculously priced these are. I understand about the hard work, the time, the little server space, and money wanted to do other things.. but this just seems out there. Either looks like they are being greedy, needing money to feed their business/goals, or just don't fully understand economics. (The people that spend real money on a a fake virtual medal really does not understand economics.) |
Posted By: invictusa
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 01:17
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After watching the video a second time I am even more sure that GM Luna said medals will be purchased using "Alliance Prestige." As if this wil be a new function for prestige (donating to the alliance pool of prestige.) Something I still didn't catch though: When you purchase the design of a medal, is it available to give to everyone and anyone in your alliance, or do you purchase a single medal to give to a single player? ------------- ...and miles to go before I sleep. |
Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 01:19
Once the medal is designed and purchased it can be given to anyone/everyone in your alliance. So you could design something for one person or something that could be given to everyone. Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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Posted By: Quackers
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 01:21
What I got was you made a medal, purchased it, then it cost 50 prestige to give it out to a player (or yourself). You can then give out that medal as many times as you want for an additional 50 prestige for each player. -Luna faster and smarter then a duck. :( |
Posted By: White Beard
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 08:22
| In the video @ 21:10 it very clearly states that each time the medal is awarded to a player it costs 50 prestige, the design cost is a one time fee , but the award is not. This was said by GM Luna and needs to be explained as it is opposite of what was posted above. |
Posted By: scaramouche
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 09:10
| erm...i have no video, only you guys talking? |
Posted By: Cerridwyn
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2012 at 02:00
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Not related to medals, but I notice the time for me to get my daily gift has shifted by about 4 hours. I know I wasn't doing it that late last night, I was sawing logs.
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Posted By: Ashtar
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2012 at 02:30
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To the DEVS: I would like to thank you for the new interface. For those of us who have some sort of ocular impairment or issue, the new interface is great! For Instance, I am shade blind. Yes I can see color but if the shades are really close to one another i cannot see a difference. The new interface has enough color variation and definition to make my game play much more enjoyable. Plus the red action buttons really help. All in all, so far a really nice update to Illy! Thanks to the Devs and all their hard work. Ashtar ------------- Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. - Buddha |
Posted By: SunStorm
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2012 at 02:34
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anyone purchased medals yet?
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Posted By: invictusa
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2012 at 09:02
... ... ------------- ...and miles to go before I sleep. |