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Atriarch News - Development Update
Posted by Dana Massey on May 04, 2005 | 0 comments in our forums
The official Atriarch website carries a development update on the long-in-production sci-fi MMORPG. It is an interesting read and good of the team to keep us up to date on their progress.
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New & Enhanced Salvage Skill: We already implemented the ability for Players to harvest resources. We also already implemented the ability for Players to have Skills. What we have not done until now is make harvesting require a Player Skill. We have now melded those features to create the latest Basic Player Skill: Salvage. Salvage as a Player-Defined Specialty Skill: What is great about Salvage as a Basic Skill is that it can be made into a Player-Defined Specialty Skill directed at any potential Resource. What that means is that after a player has acquired the Basic Salvage Skill, a player can specialize it by directing their skill toward a particular resource. That is done through the player's actual actions in-game, not by choosing it on a drop-down list, nor by applying points.
For example, if a player wants to specialize in Kicen Plant Salvaging, then a player would direct their efforts and activities around the Kicen Plant. Salvaging from a Dubo Plant may improve the Salvage Basic Skill, but would not necessarily increase the Kicen Plant Salvage Specialty.
Right now, Kicen and Dubo Plants are the only resources that can be Salvaged. You can't do much with them yet, but they are salvagable which is necessary before we implement utilization. We will keep it to a couple plants for initial testing. It makes it easier to work out the kinks with a few plants rather than many. New Character Selection In Development: As most you know, we have our Worst-First Testing planned for July. We figured it was a good time to get the Login and Character Selection looking better. Some of you may have seen some unauthorized screenshots floating around that show a not-so-purty initial entry into the world of Atriana. The poor Cavolon's tentacles were cut off. The Lokai's hands were missing. I won't even start with the Tyrusin and Eshlar. Anyway, we are fixing all this. For testing, we should have the first part of our new login and character selection process working. We'll post screenshots when ready. To the dismay of some Tyrusin, the Lokai and Cavolon will have all limbs in tact :-) New Website Under Works: A quick update on Atriarch's new website. It is still under works. We are really excited and looking forward to launching that soon. However, we have no specific date yet for "soon". We figured the timing would be best if we wait until after E3 and closer to testing so that all the momentum builds up together. This is going to be one hell of a Rebirthing Ceremony! |
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