Chris' Release 9 Ramblings!

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  1. Akrondar

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    Chris, where are you!

    Wee miss our monthly wall of text :p
     
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    Chris was at Pax Prime in Seattle!

    He's flying back to Austin today, so the wall of text will come later this week.
     
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    Thank you for your message, Lum :)
     
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    Thanks Lum! And speaking of wall of text, when do you think the conversation system (UI, dialog, quest mechanics) will become another focal point for one of the releases? I don't think it's been mentioned in the release notes since R6/R7 when we had more dialog responses, chat tabs, npc behaviors, etc.

    Have you implemented SmackTalk (PC <--> NPC and NPC <--> NPC knowledge transfer) yet? :)
     
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    Thanks Lum, we will be patient ;).

    Oh, and i second Smack about focus on conversation :)
     
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    We have not yet implemented SmackTalk. I'm very leery about unguided PC<->NPC knowledge transfer for obvious reasons!

    R10's focus for the story team (Richard, Gina and myself) will be set on making Ardoris more alive, adding virtue quests and more NPCs to talk to and refining the dialogue that currently exists, and fixing the Confirmatory so that the Oracle actually answers her phone calls. So mainly content-driven, not feature-driven this release.

    NPC behaviors are being driven by a separate team (the AI programming team) and continues to be worked on.

    The scheduling of high-level feature development is driven by the production and management team (aka Richard/Starr/Chris) so out of my paygrade :)
     
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    1-900-Oracle?
     
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    Miss Cleo
     
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    555 - oracle
     
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    Indeed, I'll be very interested in what NPC Freddy Mercury will have to say in Ardoris ;)

    Locating Fred is something of a quest in itself... because he is there :D
    My own NPC in Ardoris, "Issan" (which means the heart and strength of Thailand) I did manage to locate... "right in the center of the city" :)!
    ~Time Lord~:rolleyes:
     
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