3/6 Q&A Livestream Recap

Today's livestream is hosted by:

Lead Producer Victoria “FireCait” Voss

Associate Producer Amanda “Amary” Fry

Marketing Manager Michael “Krazzyr” Lee

SoA Update

• SoA still coming out next week
• EU getting SoA first
• EU getting it same day as NA
• EU coming down 11 AM GMT (4 AM PDT (remember daylight savings sunday) on Mar 10
• Estimated back up on 3 PM GMT
• NA coming down 11 AM PDT on Mar 10
• Target Up time 3 PM PDT
• Will not come back online early even if they finish early because of the land grab
• The 2 unbuilt house limit will be in place (excludes fellowship plazas)
• If they need to open late they will post on the forums
• Only zone opening is Diamond shores with this update.
• PTS coming down on the 8th

Marketplace Update

• The marketplace for EU and NA is one system. 
• Both will be coming down 4 AM PDT on Mar 10
• Store back online when NA servers come online
• No Pegasus with this update
• Will be in loyalty store when it does get released
• Loyalty Store Update as well
• Regular and Lucky points added
• Lucky Sunpoints 100 loyalty tokens
• Lucky Moon/Starpoints 50 loyalty tokens
• Updating Starter Packs
• Making them more than starter packs
• Making them large value packs
• Looking to see if people like them when they come out
• Has 3 months of patron
• Experia Plants
• Permanently available summonable mailbox
• Like anypost owl that isn't delete on use
• 10 Minute cooldown
• Old starter pack will go away
• Thinking about updating them more frequent to keep them fresh
• ~ $300 worth of stuff in them
• Weekly or Monthly sales on marketplace
• Want to do it
• Technical challenges
• No timeline, but is a work in progress
• Loyalty Store will be getting more high and low cost items
• Valentine's Costumes
• Soon TM

Mounts / Vehicles

• Crimson Lightning Mount
• Will be an update to Earthen Roar
• Future content, not on Tuesday
• Missing Dolphin Skill
• XL is open to adding it back
• Won't be in this build
• Will not replace the dolphin with the dropped one
• Mirage Donkey fix is on PTS
• Timber Coupe
• After 55
• Before 1.7A
• Submarine?
• After 1.7A
• Likely before 1.7B

Crafting / Economy

• Archeum
• Continuing talks with XL on it
• Working out new ideas
• No changes with SoA
• Will take more data after SoA update
• Experia Plants are craftable
• Fishing Contests before 1.7
• Appraisal certs changing to scale from 1-3 max per sale
• Based on property size, not price
• No ETA
• Linking All AH's not technically possible right now
• They would like to do this so the economies across servers would be more consistent

General

• Character Transfers
• Isn't integrated with Trion's system
• Very clunky
• Working with XL to unclunkify it
• Not anytime soon
• Name Changes
• Want to do it
• Want to limit it
• So you can't scam and change your name
• Exploration Rewards
• Were removed because of exploits and hacks
• Should see a return with achievements in 1.7
• Better guild support
• Discussed heavily with XL in their last meeting
• XL wants to update this
• No proposal right now
• Portal sorting has been requested
• Advertising for the game
• They advertise a fair amount
• Have new ads coming out for SoA
• The reason money doesn't drop directly is putting them in bags puts a labor restriction on them that helps fight botting
• Being killed in your house is not likely to be fixed
• Paying taxes in advance is in a future update.
• Possibly 1.7, need to double check the date
• Race change not planned
• Being able to port to a house you don't own anymore is a bug
• XL is aware of it
• It's a low priority bug
• Valentine's Day Contest
• Results got delayed by PAX preperation
• Should be seeing results soon
• Turning off character creation on the weekends only on the higher population servers
• Friday morning to Monday morning
• Going to try this for a while to see if it will funnel more players into lower pop servers
• Will monitor, this is just one idea they are trying out
• List of servers will be on the forums, updated weekly
• Starts next Friday, Mar 13

Future Updates

• 1.7A 
• Boat custimization
• 1.7B
• Leviathan
• New zones in 1.7A and 1.7B
• Trying to get the siege update sooner than the patch it was released with in KR

Arenas

• No new updates
• Matchmaking is still in design phase for XL
• Puts a hold on new arenas until after matchmaking
• Arena Rankings before 1.7

3/6 Livestream VOD