Dislike the new logo, but the UI looks much better.

I do believe I may log back in on launch day to check things out. Glad to see things are improving.

Very impressive looking UI there dsmart. I hope things continue to go as planned and will be looking to login my first character come May 1st. Not really waiting for anything in particular other than the re-launch, want to give the game a fair chance, ya know! :P But yeah, looks good. And just so I'm not mixed up here, the UI itself is customizable in-game right, e.g moving and resizing bars? If not are you guys using LUA? I'm a big customizer and did some personal mods for my guild when we played WoW back in the day and would love to get back into it. Thanks alot though for the time your spending answering questions. If anything, it shows your not just letting this game go by the wayside while you collect a paycheck, cough cough. Cheers man!

Liking the new UI, will certainly be checking out the game when it relaunches. A pet peeve of myn is the ugly font used in the game, will you be looking at that? Seems like a very small niggle indeed, but some of the fonts used (such as character portrait ones) just look sloppy. EDIT : Seems like the team has changed some of the fonts, hard to tell for sure from a few screenshots but it's looking alot smarter :)

I don't approve of some of your interweb posts against people in the gaming community in the past DSmart, but that said I am extremely happy to see you coming here and really discussing the game and talking to the community. This is something lost in many developers at the moment, it's genuinely interesting to read about and really gives a feeling of the community shaping the experience. Keep it up, it's appreciated!

Originally posted by mackdawg19

Very impressive looking UI there dsmart. I hope things continue to go as planned and will be looking to login my first character come May 1st. Not really waiting for anything in particular other than the re-launch, want to give the game a fair chance, ya know! :P But yeah, looks good. And just so I'm not mixed up here, the UI itself is customizable in-game right, e.g moving and resizing bars? If not are you guys using LUA? I'm a big customizer and did some personal mods for my guild when we played WoW back in the day and would love to get back into it. Thanks alot though for the time your spending answering questions. If anything, it shows your not just letting this game go by the wayside while you collect a paycheck, cough cough. Cheers man!

There is an API for customizing and modding the game UI but because it was released under the "use at your own risk" type premise, I instructed the team to yank it. The last thing we need right now is for someone to mod it, mess things up - since its not even documented yet - pass it along and then we have a whole tribe of people being pissed at us for yet another foolish mistake.

In the future when things settle down, I will consider assigning resources to updating it to the latest game build, fully testing it, doing docs for it and OFFICIALLY supporting it.

But yeah, apart from that, you can move the UI elements around now.

Originally posted by dsmart

Originally posted by dsmart

Originally posted by Alivada

But I was like WTF? Why do I need to kill things to mine?

ROTFLMAO!!!

Well, I can clearly see the problem there. Anyway, I've added it to my list of things to discuss with the team. We'll see how it goes; hopefully we can find a way around that as long as it is within the premise of the game and doesn't break anything.

Quite frankly, you shouldn't have to go killing things in order to mine. Design flaw there. Am on it.

 

OK, good news!! This was already revised for the upcoming release. So now  you can mine and get crafting skill-ups all the way up to the next tier.

Hey Derek....

I was one of the original pre-paid buyers of the game, so...does that mean that, provided I don't put in for a refund (I don't intend to) that I'll be able to just re-download the client and start playing again?  I'm assuming there was a character wipe though, right, and we can just start over?

But I won't have to RE-purchase the game again, right?

yeah looks better than the old one.

Originally posted by girlgeek

Originally posted by dsmart

Originally posted by dsmart

Originally posted by Alivada

But I was like WTF? Why do I need to kill things to mine?

ROTFLMAO!!!

Well, I can clearly see the problem there. Anyway, I've added it to my list of things to discuss with the team. We'll see how it goes; hopefully we can find a way around that as long as it is within the premise of the game and doesn't break anything.

Quite frankly, you shouldn't have to go killing things in order to mine. Design flaw there. Am on it.

 

OK, good news!! This was already revised for the upcoming release. So now  you can mine and get crafting skill-ups all the way up to the next tier.

 

Hey Derek....

 

I was one of the original pre-paid buyers of the game, so...does that mean that, provided I don't put in for a refund (I don't intend to) that I'll be able to just re-download the client and start playing again?  I'm assuming there was a character wipe though, right, and we can just start over?

 

But I won't have to RE-purchase the game again, right?

 

You'll be able to play just by redownloading the game client and cranking it up.  If you have problems, I'm sure a helpful CS person at QOL will be happy to help and these can be found on the forums most anytime of day.

There has been no character wipe since "Soft" Launch Dec. 1, 2009.

Just Me,

Tim

Originally posted by girlgeek

Originally posted by dsmart

Originally posted by dsmart

Originally posted by Alivada

But I was like WTF? Why do I need to kill things to mine?

ROTFLMAO!!!

Well, I can clearly see the problem there. Anyway, I've added it to my list of things to discuss with the team. We'll see how it goes; hopefully we can find a way around that as long as it is within the premise of the game and doesn't break anything.

Quite frankly, you shouldn't have to go killing things in order to mine. Design flaw there. Am on it.

 

OK, good news!! This was already revised for the upcoming release. So now  you can mine and get crafting skill-ups all the way up to the next tier.

 

Hey Derek....

 

I was one of the original pre-paid buyers of the game, so...does that mean that, provided I don't put in for a refund (I don't intend to) that I'll be able to just re-download the client and start playing again?  I'm assuming there was a character wipe though, right, and we can just start over?

 

But I won't have to RE-purchase the game again, right?

 

Thats right. As long as you have your MyAlganon login info, you can just fire up the game - wait for what seems like an eternity while it downloads ALL the updates to bring the client current - then just go play.

There are no character wipes. In fact, your character is tied to you, not the game. So even if you were in the trial, then purchase the game, you can use the same characters, roll new ones etc.

As to the refunds, the current plan is to process them automatically. There is no opt in/out.