Another videocast

[Bushranger]

Any hints on what this mystery race will look like, Raesanos?

Not just yet.

Does the new race look like this?



If not, why not?

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

What the fuck is that?

[Krath]

What the fuck is that?

QFT

[Shiroi Tsuki]

Why, precisely, did staff as a whole decide that elves, dwarves, giants, and half-elves could not be simply changed a little and remain a staple? Certainly those names are not DS related - they are, in fact, standard-fare fantasy. Why did the staff decide on a bunch of odd-sounding names instead? Have you folks considered that part of the serious appeal about Armageddon 1.0 was the flip-on-the-ear of stock fantasy races, and the lack of odd-sounding and unknown racial names?

I think this is in fact a really good question.  Once upon a time when I was looking for a new MUD home yet again (before I wound up here obviously) I logged into a MUD.  And it immediately came up with a bunch of odd exceedingly race names.  I couldn't even figure out which were supposed to be human.  And then their website was extremely hard to navigate to find out where these races were (*cough* something very similar to how we have to do General Information -> Races when there are at least twenty other options on the screen also *cough*) So I threw up my hands, said 'fuck a bunch of this shit', and never even got to the point where I was trying the game.  It became crossed off my list.  Maybe it was a sweet game, I'll never know.

I think it's great to want to have people research the docs, but not everyone looking for a new place to play is going to want to research -that- much just to toss in a generic character to see if the syntax and environment of the MUD is going to work for them.  When you're looking for a new MUD, or at least when I am, I do not want to invest three days of research into any given place before even trying it just to figure out what the races are.

So this is something that's vaguely worried me about 2.Arm, too.

[Shiroi Tsuki]

Oh.  And we totally need more product placement.   

[Dalmeth]

I've got a question for the next videocast : Can we agree that the properties of mounts in the game as it currently stands are pretty screwed up?

[Qzzrbl]

Will there be any thought put in to advertisement for the game?

Or will we always rely on players and mudconnecters to give us newb boots?

[Shiroi Tsuki]

It never hurts to tell us stories.  I'm one of those people that listened with rapt attention to Sanvean's stories about her Whiran, and then wished I got to hear more staff stories about when they were young code abusers 

[Archbaron]

Would the alpha release be invite-only?