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  1. Lebowski

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    Hello fellow nerds

    I've been gone for the past few months. I want to make sure my $45 investment is paying off. So, what's been going on in the avatar world (in 10 sentences or less)? Geaux!
     
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    Where you around when they announced the PvP system? That caused a lot of PvPers to leave. Then they've pushed back the project a bit after people tried to sue over the overland map. Then they did touch up art for the last release. So basically you're caught up now.
     
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    I'm not sure the PvP crowd actually left, because the same posters who claimed to be up in arms are still posting on a regular basis. FWIW, I think the PvP system is a great compromise and really well designed. PvP is incentivized to encourage people to participate. Yet it doesn't encourage or allow griefing of new players so we don't drive them away. The only people who said they were leaving were those who said they refuse to play a game unless they can attack those new players without consent and then steal everything from them. And honestly, the game and community is probably better off if that is the case.

    One (or maybe two) people engaged in unwarranted hyperbole and said they might sue over the overland map. That was unfortunate.

    In other, non-drama news, the game is likely delayed until Spring so they can make it better (I'm personally also hoping the delay means we shift to the Unity 5 engine as well). The 3D overland map is coming back and will be better than ever. They're doing a major graphics overhaul. We're getting a 64-bit client. There is a partnership with Plantronics. The game will be shown at E3. New pledge rewards and tiers are being announced in two days.

    I think there is a lot to be excited about.

    When the announcement happens in two days with the new pledge tiers and rewards, I'll be doing another pass to update my FAQ.
     
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    Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
     
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    Laughs.. That's true enough.
     
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    So, what was the specific reason for wanting to file suit? and how does PVP work?

    Honestly, I'm an old-school UO player, so I do enjoy killing at will or "non-consensual killing"...

    Pledge rewards...the whole pledge class thing is overwith right? I assume your talking about people donating 20 bucks to get a fishing hat or something.
     
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    In less than 10 sentences (but only just):

    Some people love stuff that's being developed, some people hate stuff that's being developed.

    PvP arguments are almost everywhere you look.

    Character creation and the look of the Avatars is expected to improve greatly, but probably not for a while.

    The overland map is being re-worked.

    New pledge rewards are to be announced on June 6.

    Card combat is not yet ready to test.

    The game will probably not be ready to release this year.

    What we've seen of the game systems so far (IMO) is fun.

    The cake is a lie.

    :)
     
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    All of this and sheep are still breaking immersion in Owl's Head. Chickens too
     
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    PvP works by flagging for it, either by getting [Blessed] by the oracle or doing it in a guild. Entering a PvP Only Hex also counts as flagging for it. Thats all.
     
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    There is still an announcement to come today I'm sure as promised
     
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    What is card combat?
     
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    PvP Current Thinking

    And there's no link for the class action thingy that some guy brought up. Actually nobody ever mentioned a class action suit specifically, but whatever was posted must have scared the pants off of them because they switched gears and are now spending time trying to create the 3D map. The 2D map seemed to please a lot of people, but hey whatever. hahahahah
     
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    Lawyers...very undude
     
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    Card combat is a bit of a misnomer. You won't see cards and it won't be anything like Pokemon, Magic, Hearthstone or any of those card games.

    I think a better term would be dynamic ability combat.

    You have a bunch of abilities you've trained as a character. Instead of having 4 hotbars of 12 abilities each filling your screen like WoW (48 buttons for abilities!) where you never watch the fight and the entire game is watching hotbars, you have one combat hotbar. The abilities on that hotbar fill somewhat dynamically from a "deck" that you assembled earlier.

    Let's say you get 30 slots of abilities in your "deck" and you put 3 fireballs in there. So there is a 1 in 10 chance fireball will come up randomly when a slot opens in combat. As you use abilities, you free up slots for another to dynamically get pulled from the deck.

    You can't macro combat. You can rebuild decks for different strategies later. But combat is still watching your opponent and reacting by selecting the best available ability at that moment. It makes combat more dynamic.
     
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    It's where we throw razor-edged cards at each other until someone dies from an excess of papercuts.

    :)

    Sorry, wasn't sure what else to call it! But I see someone else already linked you to the relevant post anyway. I have no idea yet how it's really going to work, but I'm interested to find out! According to this thread, we might get the chance to see it in August.
     
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    Naked people jumping in the Firelotus tavern. That was too much short maybe...

    Well: Naked people jumping in the Firelotus tavern with new lighting system.
     
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    ^ This. Sort of like Gambit from the X-Men!
     
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