R2 - 2nd Conference result

[901941]

I have a few questions.

1. How will players be able to travel to these lands, through portals, or special tickets provided by the gamemasters?
2. On the Ten Ton Hammer site Byron Mudry gives a nice review of the ring. He also mentions that R2 will be release next month, I was wondering if it is true what date does nevrax have scheduled for the release?
3. How will the scenarios, events, and worlds designed by the players influence the game storyline.
4. Will there be Kami and Karavan presence in the new lands for R2?

[grimjim]

Ok dam it J, now i'm all excited over R2 again!

.. what if we were able to load previous scenarios (a current town) and edit them? ..oo that would make new-world building much easier

and the billion and a half mobs and tribes thatll stand in the way of 'this is where you are now.. this is where you gotta end up' travels! it'll be just like re-digging tunnels to the different lands!

I would hope that lands can be updated between times (Xav?)

So that, say for example.

1. We have a 'Samsara Camp' outland, which starts out blank but we pay the fee and have it up and hosted as a perma-site.
2. A mission is run 'Set up camp' in which the guild (plus friends) ingratiate themselves with a local tribe in order to get some tents stitched together.
3. The outland is updated with a few tents to reflect our mission success and re-uploaded.

[jamela]

Thankyou for offering to answer our questions, Xavier,

What are the available triggers for events, or is this entirely open and customisable?

I presume that seasons will follow exactly the changes on mainland Atys. Is the weather under any control of the Ring Riter? Can weather changes be called by events, and can events be triggered by weather conditions?

Will we have available the full range of forageable materials, and be able to position nodes as we like? I'm not thinking of allowing materials or experience to come and go from the Ring, merely thinking of fufilling event criteria with meaningful Atys materials.

Can an event call for a change to the static objects in a scenario, like the buildings? If so will that mean that the players in the scenario will have to reload the scenario, meaning that they see the teleportation screen?

Can an event call for changes to extant mobs - e.g. change an npc's armour on the fly when he's given a new suit?

How many entities can be active at once?

Do the creatures available for use depend upon the region type - e.g. frippos only in forest maps, no white bodocs in the desert?

Can packers and mounts come and go from the Ring?

Inquisitively,
Jamela

[grimjim]

Fantastic Idea Jyudas, but how, if these Campaings ans the resulting lands get an official "Go" from Nevrax and are made public, do you keep out those you flee before?
How do the neutrals keep out those who come to conquer?
By War?
By Borderposts?
I think that bears consideration too.

CU
Acridiel

No need to keep them out any more than Kami/Karavan are kept out of each other's lands.

I don't know if you'll be able to set NPCs to be antagonistic to one faction or another (or both) if they're over a certain amount of fame, but that might be one possibility as well (aggressively neutral guards).

[grimjim]

*pounces on Xavier*
3. Will we be able to connect the newly made Outlands to for example the empty Gates in the Guildhomes? That would be a treat!

Or to each other.
NWN had a sort of 'gates' thing where servers and scenarios could be strung together from each other.

The ring portal/device/whatever will take us to individual scenarios, is it the same for outlands or are they reached conventionally and could they be strung together somehow?

[grimjim]

I have a few questions.
[*]Will there be Kami and Karavan presence in the new lands for R2?
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Can I use the karavan marines as villains especially

[acridiel]

Can I use the karavan marines as villains especially

And can I use them as Heroes?

[aardnebb]

R2 lookin _Soooo goood_, but I have questions:

Will persistant storage space be a possible option as part of a scenario?

Will foraging be possible at all in scenarios (approved or otherwise)?

How can you define access to a scenario? IE can you limit to a guild, list of people, by fame (tribe/faction/civ) etc?

Will you be able to give someone else "GM" access to an Outland you are paying for? (IE I lack the creative gene, my guildmate is a professional games maker, can I sponser him to create an Outland for us without the sin of account sharing?)

Is there DP in Ring Scenarios?

[jamela]

What will be the subscription rate or one-off-charge for me to buy the Ring expansion pack with the Fyros hairdresser?

*signing new credit card*

[jamela]

Acridiel, you didn't let Xavier go, did you? tsk tsk tsk