What an exciting ride it has been. The team feels very blessed seeing the server blossom right before our eyes. I hope everyone is enjoying the server as much as we are. We had a staff meeting this past Saturday, July 28th, and we wanted to take a few moments to make sure we update our player base. While we do not have any sort of time frame of the server launching - Hopefully this update can shed some light on whats going on under the hood and what you can expect to see in the coming weeks and months.
Recent Staff Decisions
- Players will now be granted 100% of the RPs earned by you and your group if you die during the heat of the battle.
- Gray con enemies will not grant any reward and will not count toward a players "solo" kill count for title purposes.
- Tinderboxes will remain usable in RvR zones even after launch.
- We have implemented a system that will allow players to transfer gold between their own characters.
- Frontier kill spam is now broadcasted over all RvR zones.
- Heal RPs will still be implemented in game but will be a very low amount. More details on this will be unveiled in the near future.
- We will be adding a small re-use timer to /lfg. We want to make sure /lfg will be used for its proper purpose. Players can use other game wide channels to talk to each other.
World Builder Update
- We have begun adding spells and scripting to mobs. You should slowly start seeing our mobs becoming a little smarter and more difficult to kill.
- We will begin looking at tweaking our Feather System to encourage more BG Style raiding versus joining a full group to just farm Feathers. We didn't build the system to have players go kill the dragon one time to get credit and then farm Feathers in DF to just buy the item from the merchant.
- All Epic Quests will soon be released. It will only be the Level 50 step of the quest chain. You will not have to go thru all of them from level 5.
- Shrouded Isles neck quests will be released soon as well.
- We have begun implementing more quests to help players on their journey to level 50.
- All quests will be ready to test when they are added to our wiki.
- Dragons should be working now.
- Crafting still needs some polishing and we have several people dedicated to just that task itself.
Developer Update
- The devs main priorities at this time are completing the housing zone and completing our Keep and Relic System. We wish we could announce more information on this front but we are not quite there yet. While we wait for housing release we are looking at adding a trade channel in Discord.
Closing Remarks
- We want to remind everyone to continue adding bugs to our bug tracker so our team can address issues accordingly. Remember, the quicker we get things fixed the quicker we can look into launching the server. Our Bug Tracker can be found here: http://redmine.playphoenix.online/
- Please take a few seconds of your time to follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/Phoenix_Shard and facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhoenixFreeshard/
Thank you and see you in game!
Recent Staff Decisions
- Players will now be granted 100% of the RPs earned by you and your group if you die during the heat of the battle.
- Gray con enemies will not grant any reward and will not count toward a players "solo" kill count for title purposes.
- Tinderboxes will remain usable in RvR zones even after launch.
- We have implemented a system that will allow players to transfer gold between their own characters.
- Frontier kill spam is now broadcasted over all RvR zones.
- Heal RPs will still be implemented in game but will be a very low amount. More details on this will be unveiled in the near future.
- We will be adding a small re-use timer to /lfg. We want to make sure /lfg will be used for its proper purpose. Players can use other game wide channels to talk to each other.
World Builder Update
- We have begun adding spells and scripting to mobs. You should slowly start seeing our mobs becoming a little smarter and more difficult to kill.
- We will begin looking at tweaking our Feather System to encourage more BG Style raiding versus joining a full group to just farm Feathers. We didn't build the system to have players go kill the dragon one time to get credit and then farm Feathers in DF to just buy the item from the merchant.
- All Epic Quests will soon be released. It will only be the Level 50 step of the quest chain. You will not have to go thru all of them from level 5.
- Shrouded Isles neck quests will be released soon as well.
- We have begun implementing more quests to help players on their journey to level 50.
- All quests will be ready to test when they are added to our wiki.
- Dragons should be working now.
- Crafting still needs some polishing and we have several people dedicated to just that task itself.
Developer Update
- The devs main priorities at this time are completing the housing zone and completing our Keep and Relic System. We wish we could announce more information on this front but we are not quite there yet. While we wait for housing release we are looking at adding a trade channel in Discord.
Closing Remarks
- We want to remind everyone to continue adding bugs to our bug tracker so our team can address issues accordingly. Remember, the quicker we get things fixed the quicker we can look into launching the server. Our Bug Tracker can be found here: http://redmine.playphoenix.online/
- Please take a few seconds of your time to follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/Phoenix_Shard and facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhoenixFreeshard/
Thank you and see you in game!