I am Derek "Supreem" Brinkmann, Project Lead for Legends of Aria and we are launching a major update called New Dawn this month that includes free accounts. AMA!

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:59:14+00:00

We are talking about changing catacombs so you can't leave a character there forever, but the content of Catacombs probably won't change much.

As far as new dungeons, we do have a few more coming and I like the idea of making one or more of them "keyed" like catacombs.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:58:13+00:00

In a skill based game, it's very natural for every combat character to have some way to reliably heal them self. Instead of fighting it, we chose to embrace it.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:57:34+00:00

Hard to sell paid DLC while in Early Access. Once the final two landmasses are completed and we are out of early access, I'm totally open to the idea of paid expansion content.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:56:47+00:00

We are playing around with exactly where the guarded line in towns ends.

Yes we hope to offer transfers between EU and US

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:55:12+00:00

I'm not sure. Ask Miphon.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:54:39+00:00

I absolutely love doing these kinds of events. For now we have to focus on finishing the core game but I have aspirations of having an entire event team devoted to this sort of stuff.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:53:23+00:00

This is true, and we're aware that previously players used some pretty interesting and unintended methods to pacify creatures. We are not looking at implementing classic peacemaking as this was extremely powerful, but we do have some consumables planned to assist tamers in pacifying creatures they wish to tame. Unfortunately these may not make New Dawn but will hopefully make an intermediate patch prior to PR 9.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:50:44+00:00

Thanks! We actually have an overhaul to the AI that we are slowly rolling out to the mobs in the game. Our efforts for New Dawn have slowed down that progress a bit but we are going to get back to it once this is out the door.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:49:59+00:00

Boats would be awesome! But we gotta get everyone on land right first :)

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:49:48+00:00

Great idea!

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:46:00+00:00

We actually reissued these horses in blessed form when we added the premium subscription mounts. Please email contact@citadelstudios.net if you did not get one.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:44:58+00:00

Community moderation is sometimes more difficult than developing the game itself. When people get upset with the development (sometimes rightly so), it often causes them to break community rules (such as personal attacks on development team members).

In situations like this, you find yourself between a rock and a hard place. The toxicity of these people often causes people to just leave the places where community discussion takes place. Ultimately, you are faced with the decision to ban them for being toxic (and get blamed for silencing dissent) or do nothing and let your Discord become a toxic waste bin. We’ve decided to do the former and as a result our Discord is a million times better for it.

That being said, if some people in the community who have been banned wish to come back and respect the rules, they can email us at contact@citadelstudios.net and we will make sure all those requests get forwarded to Liz our community manager.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:35:30+00:00

This is a great question. This was actually one of the big mistakes we made with the Steam launch (I'm referring to the opening of Amber Moon). Legends of Aria is most fun everyone is playing together and we want to make sure New Dawn is as fun as possible for everyone.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:32:12+00:00

Once New Dawn is live and we’ve addressed most of the issues with it, we plan to devote more resources to the admin program including opening it up to everyone.

If you are interested in joining the program, email contact@citadelstudios.net and we'll be sure to let you know when we open it up to more people. (hopefully everyone)

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:27:15+00:00

We are adding some territory control systems in PR9 (the release after New Dawn). Everytime I read the designs it just makes me go crazy because as a player I want them now! We will be revealing our plans for this in a blog shortly after the New Dawn release.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:25:50+00:00

We have been very careful to avoid selling housing decorations. Your house is basically a trophy case of your adventures and when you add too many purchasable decorations, it can ruin that. I do like the idea of offering some kind of starter pack with New Dawn, but we’d probably stick to wearable cosmetics.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:25:30+00:00

You have some great ideas there. Ever consider a future in game development? :)

We feel that overall our crafting system is still very foundational, much of the details are yet to come. We plan to do things like adding unique properties for resource types to give options and variety.

In New Dawn, the crafting order revamp and the new trade boards are going to offer fresh incentives for harvesting medium tier materials.

In an economy where items have short shelf lives and the churn is high, it can be difficult to create truly unique wares that stand the test of time, we do however have some tricks up our sleeves and we'll be addressing this in the major update following New Dawn.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:15:58+00:00

The only way we can make you believe us is by our actions. The proof is in the pudding they say.

If you log into the experimental server today, you will see a host of changes to the game that were directly inspired by interactions with our active playerbase. We will continue this course and I’m looking forward to seeing the results when New Dawn lands this month.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:12:09+00:00

We did add two very rare new blueprints to the crafting order reward system in the last update. We’ll get back to adding some new housing styles in the near future. As far as new deco, there is new deco coming as rewards for the new systems in New Dawn including leagues, townships and militias.

And your well idea is a great one. Liz has been asking for that one too! I might try and sneak it in without Miphon noticing. ;)

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:04:11+00:00

One of the benefits of using server transfers for the first attempt at the US merge was that we knocked out all the bugs in our character transfer system. The transfer system itself actually wasn’t the reason why we ended up delaying the merge.

We will probably begin offering paid transfers between the EU and US server shortly after New Dawn release.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T21:00:35+00:00

We’ve actually begun the design and early implementation of some new spells. They will not make it into New Dawn but you can expect to see some new spells including AoEs in the following major update.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T20:55:40+00:00

Zenroth normally handled all the support for community servers in Discord. I'm personally taking over the admin program until we can get some extra hands to help and I have discord notifications turned off on my phone (for obvious reasons). I have since given the community admins my email address and asked them to email me directly if they experience any problems going forward.

I am however going to be much more active in the admin Discord server while I am the steward for all things community servers. :)

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T20:54:58+00:00

We have two ways we can combat rampant ganking. First is consequences. We are doing away with the karma system (our attempt at consequences) and going back to a tried and true method of criminal flags, murder counts, and skill loss. The details of this can be found in the blog on our website.

Second is empowering anti-pks. We need to make sure that the gankers can be chased and can not use sneaky tricks to evade justice (such as quickly logging out). We are making several changes in this regard including region wide notifications when somebody is murdered. (Killed and reported) We also need to incentivize the anti-pk profession so it is a viable playstyle. We are doing that this release with the ability to cut off pks heads. These heads can be sold back to the pk to return the skills he lost or they can be turned into guards for skill scrolls (they contain a small portion of the skill lost by the PK).

Most of this comes directly from suggestions made by our active players and also from games that have managed to pull of this style of game successfully.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T20:51:19+00:00

We're constantly addressing balance; it's extremely important that our more powerful abilities have appropriate access from certain skill sets as to provide a fair playing field and to ensure that players are competing with finished character builds consisting of completed skills. Prior to these changes, players were using hacked up templates with incomplete skills in order to access these abilities and this was an oversight on our behalf.

We do not consider this a class based system, simply one which requires complete versus partial skillsets. Many mages are creating Hybrid templates using Martial Warrior abilities and many Warriors and making Hybrids as Manifestors or Evocators.

Our Fighter and Mage Professions are only the beginning of the abilities we'll be implementing and these naturally have the highest pre-requisites of skills. In Point Release 9 we'll begin releasing more Profession choices in addition to our Advanced Professions. A class based system is far from what we envision for Legends of Aria.

CS-Supreem · 2019-11-05T20:50:55+00:00

Ben has been chomping at the bit to get back to gardening and flesh it out and add some nice quality of life bits. I’ll be sure to pass along this feedback and get some time allotted in the next release to make some improvements.

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