Founder Sandstorm Posted September 23, 2021 Founder Share Posted September 23, 2021 Greetings, Velheimers! Think it's about time I should start doing these, I don't promise them every month, nor an accurate follow-up when the time comes to develop my ideas into the game, but people have been asking me multiple times and I think it's only fair I respond. So without further ado, here's what I want to achieve next month! Death Penalty Dieing is completely safe to do on Velheim (unless in PvP (apart from Aura's and temp. effects)), which I think removes all the risk factor players have when bossing. Like "it's fine I'll reset and come back" shouldn't be a thing in my opinion. Safe death's removing ~5%-10% charge of each degrade-able item you have currently equipped of the items maximum charges. An easy example would be if an item has 100,000 charges, on death it would remove 10,000 and leave you with 90,000. Items that are close to breaking/dissapating would instantly break/ash them. This effect being negated by half (so from 5-10 to 2.5-5) after unlocking a reward from the Death's Store (I'll talk about that down below). I still want auras to deplete on death, so that's still staying. However, aura refreshes WILL be a thing! (again, I'll talk about this down below) TLDR: Safe death's not penalised enough, degrade-able armour losing charge. Death's Store The current interface is just a big image with clickable elements which I added in a hurry back when I didn't have the tools to make proper interfaces (back in 2018), is very lack luster and generally just.. terrible. I've already made a whole new interface for it (can be seen on Discord #server-teasers channel), pretty much completed just the server-part yet to be done which I'll do later down the line. The new store includes all current RuneScape rewards, including aura refreshes, cosmetics, and detailed descriptions/information for unlocks showing what you need to do to unlock them! Current unlocked rewards will not be affected and will be ticked off as unlocked when the update hits LIVE game so you don't have to worry about that part. TLDR: new death's store interface to match RuneScape's one, with new rewards and unlocks. Spoiler Curses, Ancient/Lunar spell-books There is no unlocking sequence for these additional books on Velheim, you get the level and start using them. Simple as that. However, these books are locked behind a time-gate of levels AND a series of quests on RuneScape which makes them fair to use to players who dedicate time and effort into the game. These additional books (curses, ancients and lunars) will now be locked behind an unlock that will be purchase-able from the Loyalty Point store. I think it's THE store to put them in, as a time-gate of sorts. I'll also be making them trade-able so there's a good market for those, not quite sure on that one but when the time comes I'll make the decision. TLDR: Curses, ancient and lunar spell-books will now have to be unlocked via 'codexes'. 120 Herblore & Farming Not much to say here, but for people who don't know: Jagex made these 2 skills go to base level 120 with new seeds, new herbs and more powerful potions. I'll first need to sort out the current kinks I have with these 2 skills, they're still remnants of the original 718 Matrix code-wise and aren't the greatest. Have to overhaul everything, and then build up from there. I'm not 100% sure I'll have it ready by the end of October, but I sure as hell want to do it, at least the basics done if I can! TLDR: 120 Farming/Herblore, new seeds, new potions. Halloween event Can't forget about Halloween, which is on the 31st of October. You can expect some great reward hunting a bit before the 31st TLDR: Halloween event soon'ish! With that, we'll give you a break from reading for today. ~The Staff Team. 8 1 5 1 1 1 Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy L Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 Absolutely can't wait for next month! So many good things coming our way!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron raveZor Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 I really like the Death Penalty, although I die a lot while PVMING haha, but still a good feature to be added! Good job and thanks for every minute n effort you put into the server, Keep going man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eila Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 sick insights on the updates to come thanks :> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NubonmyPC Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 this is huuuuge! lets gooo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxx Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 2 hours ago, Sandstorm said: Death Penalty Dying is completely safe to do on Velheim (unless in PvP (apart from Aura's and temp. effects)), which I think removes all the risk factor players have when bossing. Like "it's fine I'll reset and come back" shouldn't be a thing in my opinion. Safe death's removing ~5%-10% charge of each degrade-able item you have currently equipped of the items maximum charges. An easy example would be if an item has 100,000 charges, on death it would remove 10,000 and leave you with 90,000. Items that are close to breaking/dissapating would instantly break/ash them. This effect being negated by half (so from 5-10 to 2.5-5) after unlocking a reward from the Death's Store (I'll talk about that down below). I still want auras to deplete on death, so that's still staying. However, aura refreshes WILL be a thing! (again, I'll talk about this down below) I agree with a death penalty, not sure it should be this big to account for game crashes due to memory leaks and timezone lag to account for everyone just to be fair. Especially if we are talking about changing the way we repair items if that becomes a thing. Nonetheless an amazing idea! 2 hours ago, Sandstorm said: Curses, Ancient/Lunar spell-books There is no unlocking sequence for these additional books on Velheim, you get the level and start using them. Simple as that. However, these books are locked behind a time-gate of levels AND a series of quests on RuneScape which makes them fair to use to players who dedicate time and effort into the game. These additional books (curses, ancients and lunars) will now be locked behind an unlock that will be purchase-able from the Loyalty Point store. I think it's THE store to put them in, as a time-gate of sorts. I'll also be making them trade-able so there's a good market for those, not quite sure on that one but when the time comes I'll make the decision. Wonderful idea, would also remove spell books from people who have them until they buy it. Disagree with tradeable as this would reform loyalty farming to an extent (albeit not to the extent as bonds since it's a one time unlock), but would be better to force players to learn the game and not skip to "end game content." That's just my two cents on that for those who care. Everything looks good, can't wait for colored EOFs :^) Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
517 Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 Huge updates coming. Thanks for the sneak peek into the things we can expect. Can't wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Server Support Diogo Moder Posted September 23, 2021 Server Support Share Posted September 23, 2021 Pretty good sand, love that, now we can know what to expect, way better 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 woot can't wait to see all le good updates Spoiler DO NOT CHECK THE SPOILER! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprout Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 Shut your damn mouth, October looking to be awesome. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardcoreThor Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 I JUST spent all my loyalty points. rip super excited for the Halloween event and 120 herb/farm ! Good job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yggdrasil Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 HOLY AGGROLOADS HOLY AGGROLOADS HOLY AGGROLOADS Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulltimewife Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 Okay this is actually good, this is actual transparency that players have been asking for, 10/10 step in the right direction if you keep these up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimp Maag Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 Good job, looking forward to the Halloween event! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Hyped for h'ween event! ★·.·´¯`·.·★ get your sᴡᴇᴀᴛ on ★·.·´¯`·.·★ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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