Greetings Avatars,





The beauty of being an online game is that we can continue to expand the game well beyond the confines of the launch of our first episode. That means we get to dream big! Here is a first draft of everything we would like to add to the game post launch of Episode 1. Some of these will get included in regular monthly updates (yes we plan to do those forever) while some will be part of future episodes. These are presented in no particular order and some are better explained than others.





This was formerly known as the “2 Year Plan” (as made famous by my tongue in cheek vocal rendition in the last telethon) but as we continued to add features to it we quickly realized that there was more to this than might fit in just 2 years so we have renamed it to simply “Post Episode 1 Plan”. This also of course includes the plans for further episodes.





Please note that none of these are committed features and none of these have final designs of any kind. This is just a very early draft that is the result of some quick brainstorms and ideas we accumulated when we are not crazy busy trying to finish Episode 1.





Enjoy!



Episodes 2 - 5:

New Land Masses with new adventure areas and new towns per episode

New 40+ hour storyline per episode

New opportunities to settle Player Owned Towns and Player Owned Lots in the new land masses

Navigable Ships: Boats that can move around in water of multiple sizes. This includes boats previously marked as either decorations (ex. Longboat) or homes (ex Pirate Galleon)

Ship to Ship Combat: Be able to shoot cannons and catapults and other ranged weapons between ships

Sea Monsters: Creatures that can be fought at sea either while swimming, from shore, or while on ships.

Ocean Scenes: fully oceanic scenes including random encounters while taking boats between destinations.

Elven Playable Race: At character creation players can choose elves as a race. Elves will have slightly

Different stats than humans and different customization options

Flexible Lot Placement: Allows you to put your house wherever you want on your lot, not just the default location.

Player Owned Dungeons: Connects to bottom floor of basement or perhaps a placeable Dungeon entrance in a POT. Imagine a much larger basement specifically tailored to be an adventure space vs. a living space.

Placeable Spawners: imagine harvesting spider eggs and then being able to place them in corners for unwary visitors

Placeable Traps: imagine crafting an exploding chest!

Wildlife Scaling in Town Scenes: As population in town rises the amount of wildlife decreases.

Integrate Discord into Game:

Voice chat channels for Party, Guild, Town

Option to use discord in game

True First Person: with visible hands/weapons

Limited VR Support: Not a full VR conversion, just support for stereo rendering to enhance first person mode

Console / Controller Support: Expand beyond computers to consoles including full support for playing with a controller. Because we are using the Unity engine and we are scene based this is not as challenging as it might be otherwise. The biggest issue is reconfiguring the interface to work with a controller. Plans would be to expand to at least XBox One and PS4.

Map Improvements:

Notes on Maps: Ability to annotate maps

Fog of War: Hide where you haven’t been

Character Customization: More facial features, tattoos, scars, face types, body types

Animal husbandry: An expansion of Agriculture to raise animals including chickens, pigs, cows, and sheep (and maybe more!)

Companion Mobile App: A companion app that allows direct interaction with a selection of game features including the following:

Vendor Controls

Crafting

Chat

Maps

Mail

Player to Player Trade

Rent & Taxes

Town/Lot Management

Rent Automatic Payments: Ability to set and collect automatic payments with tenants

Pack Animals: Pets that are mobile containers. Mules, Llamas, Camels

Mounts: Slightly faster than running, perhaps less drain on focus.

Mounted Combat: Expansion of mount system to allow fighting while mounted.

Underwater Swimming: Ability to swim under water

Lot Trading: Ability to securely trade lots between players in-game with option to include the currently placed house and basement as well.

Crafting:

Interactive Crafting: Explosions, Mini-games,

Decoration Color changes via Materials / Dyes: Change the color of decorations either through different materials (ex. Different wood types) or dyes (ex. Cushions on a couch)

More Skills

More Recipes

More Patterns

Tree Visual Variations

More materials to craft with

More enchantments and masterwork effects

Place Items Anywhere: with timers and limits (per user & per scene)

Climbable Ladders/Ropes/Chains/etc: With actual animations

More POT Templates:

Urban: Denser city style template

Underground: more variants

Mountain Port City

Floating City: Built in the style of Isle of Storms

Expanded Quests

More side quests

Daily quest system

More tools to allow player created quests in game

Expand Vendor System

Expand purchase order system

More detailed permissions and controls: being able to remove single items, set limits for specific people, etc.

Customizable Convos for Vendors/POT NPCs/Servants: Build custom conversations for your NPCs

Expanded Item / Container Permissions: Add a lot more customizable rules and permissions to items and containers (ex Only Take 1, Only Put 1, open only X times, open only during these hours, etc.)

Guild vs. Guild Warfare Improvements:

Minimum Size Requirement

Limited to just the guilds involved (i.e. a big duel)

Set Win Conditions / Place Bets / Set time limits

Guild Warfare locations

Companions / Hirelings / Mercenaries Improvements

Customizable Companions / Hirelings: Give them gear to use

Companions / Hirelings in Online Mode: Blocks summons for balance purposes?

LFG system

Register at a lunar rift and allow optionally setting of preferred party role (healer, tank, dps), scene type (PVP, dungeon, outdoor), play duration (0-1hour, 1-4 hours, 4+ hours). Show name as color coded using monster rules (more than 40 levels below = green, etc)

Raid groups: Party of Parties

Up to 8 groups of 8

All in raid share a /raid channel

Those in raid behave as if they are in the same party for rules governing friendly effects. So no damaging each other if PVP, players can heal/buffs others in raid

UI for viewing raid members.

Tamed Pet leveling

Gain a bonus based on how much experience you’ve gained while they are summoned

Lose % of experience on res

Gain bonuses to stats, level based on how many experience they have

PVP Improvements

Level balanced PVP scenes (all players are set to same level and max skills caped) (R45)

Ransom system improvements (larger ransom options)

Thief system for low risk PVP for casuals

Duel with wager: Player to player trade like interface, put up items, both agree to start duel, winner takes all.

Siege/Defense Scenarios for PVE & PVP

Goal based challenges

Teams split by guild/party/virtue

Rewards through title, virtue, items, consumables, buffs, and skill unlocks

Temporary Title system:

Allows for players to gain titles but only for a fixed amount of time

Opens up options for temp titles from being the guy who got the killing blow on a boss, winner of a tournament, getting more than X PVP kills in some amount of time, etc

Item History and Leveling

Track small category of stats per weapon (Killing blows, largest single hit, total damage done, kills by small set of categories)

Small bonuses granted based on achievements in various categories

New Creatures: We plan to steadily add new creatures including more that can be tamed. The below list is just a sample of ideas. We also plan to continue improving AI and visuals of existing creatures. Troll should be considered the minimum baseline for a normal AI.

Wild Boar

Drakes: small tameable dragons

Hydra: Lots of heads, lots of attacks, avoid the business end and be sure not to make more heads for it!

Doppelganger: Looks like and gains many attributes of players in scene

Wendigo: Every point of damage it does makes it more stronger as it consumes your life

Yeti: Snow troll. Think troll with ice magic that uses stealth

Landvaettir: Powerful spirits that guard powerful resource nodes.

Emela-ntouka: Massive rhino like creature, paralyzing growl, and incredibly dangerous straight line attack so don’t stand in the open!

Door Mimic: Sticky handle = long root

More Clockwork Creatures: Can be looted for clockwork parts

Smoke Panther: Lives in darkness, stealth, bleeding attacks, and cancels friendly buffs.

Multiple new bosses: Not named here for secrecy reasons

Combat:

Rework animation state machine to allow for smoother animation transitions

Weapon type vs armor type: Impact/Cutting/Piercing vs Cloth/Leather/Chain/Plate breakdown

Combos with Heat system

Stacking equivalent with Heat system (R45)

Expand combo system to include at least 5 combos for each school and combos of combos

More refinement on the current resistance system

Ammunition types

More Ranged Weapons: Flamethrower, Tesla Gun, Gas Gun, Blunderbuss, Net Gun, etc

UI Overhaul

Everything detachable and movable on screen

Chat as separate windows from game window

Lua Scripting

Expose limited set of functionality to Lua scripting for player added features

Expose simp

Repeatable Puzzle Based Quests/Unlocks

Mastermind like puzzle mechanics to fix items, complete quests, unlock highly desirable game features (Blood Bay Housing?)

Scale in difficulty due to number of elements, difficult to acquire elements, and destructibility of the elements.

More POT and House Decoration Tools: More tools and polish to the ability to place decorations in homes and Player Owned Towns

Align to adjacent lot

Snap to Grid

Multi-Select and Multi-Move

Fencing Tools: Snapping together automatically and selecting complete sets to surround your lot.

Water lots fully water based

Water lots on docks

Toggle “View all Lot Markers & Lot Boundaries”

Ability to rename teleporter signs

Skills

Expand existing combat and magic trees

Add tier 5 and 6 options for all spell trees



If you do not see a feature that you hoped you would then please feel free to suggest it in the thread below and we will consider adding it to the plan.

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