Development Roadmap

[Tomki]

I am loving your idea.

We are pretty much certain we want an invisible curse a witch can place on a player that makes slotting break 3X more often than the tool tip suggests to them

Goddamned John, I think I have that already! You propably ninja patched it..

[JohnCarver]

Is there some way hermits can acquire a stall or a way to sell their goods? It doesn't matter if those stalls are not in ideal position as you can always make rarer goods or drop prices. For example a lesser market area farther down to beach with lots of stalls.

Yes I probably should have been more clear. We also hope to have an area of less desirable, cheaper stalls that the average joe can use if he doesn't want to be a part of a town or open himself to the confrontation to the other ones.

May I ask for you to clarify what is happening on July 4th? Will the in-game timers be changing on this date? (I also heard rumors of an in-game event happening around Boston)

July 4th we will be dropping a Patch that we feel is very considerable in size and should give you all an idea of where we are heading. The primary focus of this patch will be implement what we consider is a fix to the timer situation. The In-game event is scheduled for later in July as we aim to have in-game events as something to look forward to in between major patches.

Looking forward for the changes, and i really hope that my skepticism is put to shame

As do I.

It's sad that "witches" are supposed to come in the end, but as I didn't see anything- I can't know if it's better or worse.
Anyway- good to see your ideas

We too are not going to be happy if we must table such a fundamental mechanic to Salem until the end. As such, we are hoping to introduce small tidbits to begin advancing towards witchcraft and dabbling in it prior to the major patch addressing it. No promises on this though as the system itself is quite complicated and may not work when implemented in phases.

[RonPaulFTW]

You missed the part on the roadmap where you reveal your true colors - e.g. you are the tribe

I'm looking forward to the updates!

[Wumpe]

Is there some way hermits can acquire a stall or a way to sell their goods? It doesn't matter if those stalls are not in ideal position as you can always make rarer goods or drop prices. For example a lesser market area farther down to beach with lots of stalls.

Yes I probably should have been more clear. We also hope to have an area of less desirable, cheaper stalls that the average joe can use if he doesn't want to be a part of a town or open himself to the confrontation to the other ones.

why not make a single market where every town has a few slots that are determinated according to the amount of authority towns have.

[JohnCarver]

why not make a single market where every town has a few slots that are determinated according to the amount of authority towns have.

This is a good idea, however, still does not address those not in towns. We like the idea of Hermits rising to the top of the economical system and one day owning a stall.

[alprice]

Oh I think that is good news to a few hermits I know out there. I can't wait till July 4th it's a holiday and I am off work woot woot!

[Scilly_guy]

I don't really have any questions or anything at the minute but I just wanted to say thanks for keeping us informed and looking forward to Salem Independence Day.

[TotalyMeow]

Removed some off topic drivel about LeeLee and the Tribe. Please do not derail announcements, especially not in the first few pages when John is still answering questions about an upcoming change to the game.

~TotalyMeow

[joshnpk]

JC your the best!

I'm very excited to see where you are going to take this game. however I'm confused about this:

That is the one thing we are not talking too much about until we get closer to it. You are free to speculate though, and I will correct where horribly wrong. The general feel of it is that you can buy tickets to an expedition from Providence, at which point you can send a 5/5/5/5 to accomplish a specific goal or task. At said point, players will be able to experience their expedition servers back on Providence until the next one begins.

Now maybe I'm thick and my heads not working (which is very possible) but to me this sounds like some sort of LFR instanced **** from WOW. Are you saying that you can buy a ticket to a certain event thing like "go explore the abandoned town hidden in a secrete valley". And then when it starts you'll be teleported to an area that's not connected to the main server which will be were you experience the expedition? Also you said you can send a 5/5/5/5 to accomplish a goal or task. By this do you mean you could accomplish the expedition even if your humors were only 5/5/5/5 or that you wouldn't wanna send your main and instead would send a new 5/5/5/5? Cause if so wouldn't that be against you not wanting to encourage people making alt's?

Either way I would like to say that I'm very happy with the amount of community interaction you have done since taking over and I do in general really like the direction you seem to be taking the game.

[Bearcub]

JC your the best!

I'm very excited to see where you are going to take this game. however I'm confused about this:

That is the one thing we are not talking too much about until we get closer to it. You are free to speculate though, and I will correct where horribly wrong. The general feel of it is that you can buy tickets to an expedition from Providence, at which point you can send a 5/5/5/5 to accomplish a specific goal or task. At said point, players will be able to experience their expedition servers back on Providence until the next one begins.

Now maybe I'm thick and my heads not working (which is very possible) but to me this sounds like some sort of LFR instanced **** from WOW. Are you saying that you can buy a ticket to a certain event thing like "go explore the abandoned town hidden in a secrete valley". And then when it starts you'll be teleported to an area that's not connected to the main server which will be were you experience the expedition? Also you said you can send a 5/5/5/5 to accomplish a goal or task. By this do you mean you could accomplish the expedition even if your humors were only 5/5/5/5 or that you wouldn't wanna send your main and instead would send a new 5/5/5/5? Cause if so wouldn't that be against you not wanting to encourage people making alt's?

Either way I would like to say that I'm very happy with the amount of community interaction you have done since taking over and I do in general really like the direction you seem to be taking the game.

I don't believe its's possible to remove alts. So I agree in that point that such thing would rather stimulate to alts than do something against it. For me- I see such kind of expeditions attractive for those who already built everything, caught everything up and don't want to make a war but rather be bored of perfection and intend to leave. But I think, John meant sending the brand new version of you. (It'd be interested also in such a perspective if such an expedition will have some restrictions like not allowing to build a town but still letting you to kill anyone).