ATS Apres-ATHOC (Nov 9, 2000)
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Regeta700 Can we build a house like a triangle or a zigzag shape? Also if we make a tall building and its standing on 2 poles if we knock the poles down will the building fall over? If so how will it do so? Just disappear or it will be turned sideways and messed up? Will it crush other houses if it falls on them?
WF_Joss Regeta-has obey laws of physics
Regeta700 yes but how will it fall? i mean will it crush the others house if it lands on it

Synon|FoA Hey Lockeworth had to leave and he wanted someone to ask how long a salvod was
Synon|FoA Assuming its a unit of time, of course =)
Phinehas Yeah, how long is a salvod?'
WF_Serafina Curran = cycle of seasons
WF_Serafina Salvod = the period between Torpor Storms
Phinehas cycle of seasons = cycle of all 3 moons?
Synon|FoA ahhh... ok! Thanks much Serafina =)
WF_Serafina an Aub is the the cycle of the Sun and the Moons
Phinehas How many Aubs in a Curran? And how many Currans in a Salvod?
WF_Serafina The time units may be slightly altered, but as of now, they go like this.... An Aub is similar to a day. A Curran is similar to about 100 days. A Salvod is approximately 17 years.

Phinehas Serafina, will there be in buildings that are mobile?
FreeBootR|RG Can Eshalr build mobile homes? hehe
WF_Mythfit If you build you building on top of a big enough creature, if that were possible, then it might be mobile, (knew I could get some creatures in there)
Phinehas Hi Mythfit...the one movie I downloaded had a creature that looked plenty big enough...don't know how you'd make it stand still, though.
Phinehas If the Viliscent can do retractable legs...maybe we can have walking doublewides.
Phinehas Hehe...a Winebago

Regeta700 I mean if it obeys the laws of physics and i build it strong and the others house is weak i can just tip it on their house crush it clean up and have free land? =)
Regeta700 thinks of smushing others houses with tall buildings by tipping them over =)
Regeta700 that would be an easy way of getting rid of bad neighbors =D
WF_Joss yeah but more trouble than it's worth
WF_Mythfit Regeta700 if you could do that, and I'm not saying you can, then it would take a huge amount of resources to build a big enough building to destroy your neighbors
Regeta700 if we cant do that if it falls over for no support where will it go?
Regeta700 how long would limits for height of a house, saying i had unlimited resources manpower etc. It cannot be infinite....can it?
WF_Serafina Regeta700... at some point it would probably tip over

EshlarBuilder|SB Can a WF person please explain how Eshlar can work with smaller things at greater skill levels?
WF_Mythfit Eshlarbuilder, as your skill increases then the building blocks you have access to get smaller, think of it as starting with those big Duplo blocks and working your way up to legos
EshlarBuilder|SB how will we get furniture and will we be able to decorate the building ie: desks, chairs?
WF_Serafina EshlarBuilder|SB... you will be able to build furniture
WF_Serafina and buy it
EshlarBuilder|SB cool
DavidQuick rugs also?
EshlarBuilder|SB can we han tapestries and such on walls?
WF_Serafina EshlarBuilder|SB... tapestries are something that would really up the requirements for texture memory... so, we can't promise it

Regeta700 Do you guys have any plans on making a skills for a "detective kind of "class"?
Phinehas How about a forensics skill
Regeta700 That would be cool finding a corpse and looking for who did it =)
Phinehas Useful for finding out exactly what happened at the scene of a crime
WF_Serafina Phinehas... there are forensics skills, but the Cavolon don't want you to know about them

Korok i hope that wasn't a hint in Labs
Korok the secret ones
WF_Serafina I don't make hints.
WF_Serafina The only thing I will guarantee is this: UNARRA WILL RULE THE WORLD
Phinehas Hehe...what do you guys have against DETAILS?

WF_Mythfit Imagine a mass quest, an army is gathering and the call goes out to all heroes to escort the royal train to safety, and thanks the the server archatecture, everyone who wants to play can play, since you might know about it days in advance
WF_Joss yes... everything you ever wanted in a game is there... if it doesn't appear so, it's just a conspiracy of the cavolons

Regeta700 Hey serafina are you going to look at the posts at stratics? =)
WF_Serafina actually... my every other day reading... ATS, COA, and ATVN
WF_Serafina Atriarch Stratics (ATS) Crossroads of Atriana (COA) ATriarch Vault (ATVN)

WF_Serafina sheesh people, we haven't even finished Atriarch and you already are planning out our expansions
WF_Joss wonders where everyone gets their information
Seethe_Oxide|Skagen|SB aye Serafina, the underwater expansion! =)
Regeta700 and the underground
Regeta700 and discovering islands =D GO LOKAI!

Seethe_Oxide|Skagen|SB Serafina since you seem to like Unarrans this is my question to you... will we be able to tame most creatures?
WF_Serafina Seethe_Oxide|Skagen|SB... you'll have to wait for the profile
WF_Mythfit sure you can tame many of them, but lots of them will just try to eat you

Zanflango|FoA is the player building process completed?
Zanflango|FoA let me clerify that. process used to make player made houses? is that ... part of the game done?
WF_Serafina Zanflango|FoA... nothing is completed until we take down the servers and Atriarch no longer exists.
WF_Serafina Zanflango|FoA... Atriarch is in perpetual development and enhancement
WF_Joss here here
Zanflango|FoA coudl someone give me a breif description of how player made buildings are creaded in game?
WF_Serafina Zanflango|FoA... you can build a couple different ways... hire someone with the skills or build yourself or get someone to design a building for you.
WF_Mythfit Buildings are created brick by brick from you avalible supplies
Korok depending on how hard it is to destory buildings/ground
WF_Serafina You will have buiding blocks that you can piece together
Regeta700 i want to move a mountain over a bad neighbor if i ever have one =)
Zanflango|FoA so you literaly build stone by stone? any design utility in the game?
WF_Serafina Regeta700... you are going to find that hard to do.
Regeta700 take a mountain and move it surrounding an enemy =D
Regeta700 we can dig shovel by shovel
WF_Mythfit Regeta700, remind me not to live anywhere near you
Zanflango|FoA buildings are literaly put together stone by stone, is there any blueprint or deigning tool in game?
FreeBootR|RG A build editor?

Herok Anne MacAffrey wrote a series called the Crystal Singers where specialists could cut "expensive" forms of crystal for sale. They were a special profession because they required absolute pitch, and that same gift made them very susceptible to the resonance of the crystal (think migraine times 1000!). Will there be any "variation" in terms of the types of stone/rock the Nokk can focus on? (And thus any RP "disadvantages" with those profession/rock choices) In other words, can someone work with
Herok Crystal over Granite? In other words, will there be specializations within the School specialization :)
WF_Serafina Herok... yes, of course

Seethe_Oxide|Skagen|SB Im assuming Eshlars of different Architectural schools will be able to come together for one structure.. or do they disagree with the other styles and maybe shun them?
WF_Serafina Seethe_Oxide|Skagen|SB... no, they will cooperate

Herok Do the Eshlar work on a different number-base system since they have an extra thumb?
WF_Serafina Herok... they still have five digits

Xanvis Is the asexual reproduction exclusive? Or are they capable of sexual reproduction?
WF_Serafina Xanvis... asexual reproduction only
WF_Serafina too many problems we would have with sexual reproduction
WF_Serafina legal problems that is
Xanvis Really? How do you explain such advanced species with only asexual reproduction?
Xanvis Well, i'm not talking about in the game
Xanvis I'm talking about in the basic world... if these were human it would be no question
Xanvis There is no legal battle saying sexual reproduction isn't possible
Xanvis I'm just speaking on Roleplaying terms, not game mechanics
Xanvis i.e. saying that X and Y are married, no the two actually having in-game children
Korok hmmm some frogs in africa can in a all female populus, can turn into males and/or inseminate themselves
WF_Serafina Xanvis... you assume that intelligent species require someone else to procreate... in fact, I think in the future that will not be the case
Xanvis It would do much for the roleplaying community if we were told they are capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction
WF_Serafina Xanvis... we never said there wasn't any mutation or genetic manipulation.. you are making assumptions
Xanvis Not meaning to make assumptions, of course
Xanvis Unless, of course, you aren't going by typical DNA
WF_Serafina I should probably note to everyone.. we are not modelling DNA
WF_Serafina nor cells
WF_Serafina nor the chemical processes that occur at a microscopic level
Phinehas What about modelling RM&NS?

Herok Can the digits be independantly operated, either for "socials" or practical reasons?
Phinehas Whoa Herok...that would take some pretty nifty interface
Herok I know Phinehas, but since I don't know the interace, I figured i'd ask :)

Herok Given that the species know of each other, why do all of them still think of the others as so "alien" to their own culture?
Herok Aren't there other ways of increasing cultural/political stress (through story) rather than plain intolerance?
WF_Serafina Herok... we didn't say they were intolerant
Herok Most species have little tolerance for others
Herok according to the pcign writeups

Zanflango|FoA WF_ how exactly are buildings planed? is there an in game blueprint utility of some sort? how are npc's set to build for you?
Zanflango|FoA can someone from wf give me a detailed description of the in game construcion process?
WF_Mythfit Zan, you get blocks, you assemble the block into your building, beyond that I don't know

Phinehas Will archaeology be in the game? Will you be able to dig up ancient, buried civilizations?
WF_Joss Phinehas- actually my gf proposed a quite detailed archaeology system... so if there is one, give her credit
Phinehas Now THAT is a non-answer if I ever saw one :)
WF_Mythfit must be somthing in the water
WF_Joss better than what you had, right? :)
Phinehas It is more information anyway...even if it doesn't address the question :)
WF_Mythfit Don't know Phin, you'll just have to go out and start digging
WF_Joss lol
Phinehas I will do that very thing Mythfit :)
Phinehas I'll look for short, stubby obelisks

Regeta700 Is there any possibility that you guys will lower the character slot to only 1 character (plz say the minimum will be 3) =)
WF_Serafina Regeta700... yes, there is a possibility
Phinehas sings Halelujah
WF_Serafina Regeta700.. but doubtful
Regeta700 is there more of a possiblity you will make it 5 (one for each race)
Phinehas abruptly ends his chorus
WF_Serafina I guessing that if we choose to go on the low end of character slots, then it will be a minimum of two
WF_Mythfit Remeber the Torpor storm causes hybernation and mutatation
WF_Serafina but then we could go the other direction and do a lot.. this is still something we will determine

Zanflango|FoA which wf person is in charge of in game construction?!
WF_Mythfit Arc is the Arc-hitect
WF_Serafina Zanflango|FoA... Arc is someone we made up. We figured people would take us more serious if we pretended to have a brilliant genius on our team *grin*
WF_Serafina hehe.... I'm just kidding
Zanflango|FoA has anyone in this room from WF actualy played with the in game construcion stuff?
WF_Mythfit yes
WF_Mythfit like I said you take blocks from a menu and place them on the ground in the direction you want, but I don't know how the interface has progressed since then

Regeta700 im so glad this game doesnt have levels
KrycekX i hope they dont use the system of points and levels to represent ur skill
Regeta700 cause with levels everything becomes level based
WF_Serafina we are not level based... only the cities are

Seethe_Oxide|Skagen|SB Serafina will there be skills made available to possibly further the career of an assasin? do note i will be Unarran... or should i wait for the profile on that?
Ragnarok|ykz WF, are there any skills directly associated with asassination/
WF_Serafina Ragnarok|ykz.. no

KrycekX serafina, will it show u points to represent ur skill?
WF_Serafina KrycekX... there will be some way that you can determine your skill, however, we are doing our best to make it qualitative instead of quantitiative
WF_Serafina Regeta700... well, there are going to be some quantitative measures you can see... health will be one of them
WF_Serafina Regeta700.. playing an alien from another world that doesn't exist on a flat computer screen while making your fingers hit various keys and moving something called a "mouse" is not exactly "realistic" either
MNightWind question about building.. is there going to be anything that's glass-like, clear blocks, so to speak?
WF_Serafina MNightWind... we currently have that feature, but we are having some problems with various graphics cards. So, we'll have to wait and see if it survives
WF_Serafina MNightWind.. but remember that means we may have to take it out
MNightWind ya, understandable, never hurts to hope though :)

KrycekX can someone tell me how u can control ur character offline?
WF_Serafina KrycekX.. it will be easy enough for beginners to use
KrycekX ok, thx

Seethe_Oxide|Skagen|SB Thinking on terms of one faction wanting another faction's leader murdered... logically ppl will want others dead to further their cause. I would suggest only very well trained soldiers willing to part with the code to choose that path, life of an assassin should be very difficult to prevent everyone from doing it and random PKs
WF_Mythfit besides, in Atriarch your PK character can't hide by logging out, I'll just hire a loki to track you down and then I'll be coming for you with my characters big brother
WF_Mythfit Don't know if there are tracking skills per say, but I bet a Loki would make the best PI

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