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I feel like I am singing from the top of a mountain, so out of touch with modern gaming, but why the hell didn't they just do the maps and allocation by hand? Why make a tool you don't realty need and then just watch it car crash every time it tries to go on the road? They must have guys trying to fix this, what a waste of resources. Ok guess my paper play by mail days are just nostalgia but we got it done and no one said "I can't claim my domain".
We've done work to identify the root cause of the site issue that surfaced this morning when we re-enabled the D&SS app and claiming. We're working on solutions now and this may take us some time, but we did want to communicate that we don't expect to have this resolved today. We're working hard to get this fixed, tested, and back in your hands, and we'll continue to provide updates when they're meaningful. For now we wanted to let you know that we're making progress.
We know you're eager and excited to claim your holdings, and we're just as enthusiastic to get you on your way. This will remain our top priority until D&SS is re-enabled.
Thank you again to our community for your patience!
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Bit o' salt over on the official forums about the delays.
Seems some folks took off work, kept their children home from school to serve as proxies, or are returning to their regular job on the oil rig for the next few weeks so won't be able to participate later.
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Bit o' salt over on the official forums about the delays.
Seems some folks took off work, kept their children home from school to serve as proxies, or are returning to their regular job on the oil rig for the next few weeks so won't be able to participate later.
This has happened, 2/3 times before as well (probably more). I think Caspian is a masochist, he likes getting roasted for these delays
Bit o' salt over on the official forums about the delays.
Seems some folks took off work, kept their children home from school to serve as proxies, or are returning to their regular job on the oil rig for the next few weeks so won't be able to participate later.
The idea of keeping a kid home from school to act as a proxy did make me laugh. What did it say on his digital sick note? Did they have Elyrian flu?
Bit o' salt over on the official forums about the delays.
Seems some folks took off work, kept their children home from school to serve as proxies, or are returning to their regular job on the oil rig for the next few weeks so won't be able to participate later.
The idea of keeping a kid home from school to act as a proxy did make me laugh. What did it say on his digital sick note? Did they have Elyrian flu?
I'd be lying if I said I didn't let my son stay home from school to reserve our character names and server when Vanilla WOW launched.
Or that we stood in line at midnight when BC came out to pick up his copy or that I let him stay home from school the next day to play.
I dragged myself into work however, mostly because I had quit playing by then.
My only real mistake was in not insisting he play fpsers...then he might have a shot at a big time pro gaming career....
Instead he's now a cube warrior just like his father....
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Bit o' salt over on the official forums about the delays.
Seems some folks took off work, kept their children home from school to serve as proxies, or are returning to their regular job on the oil rig for the next few weeks so won't be able to participate later.
Oh boy, the salt continues to grow.
Seems like SBS never properly load tested their DSS selection "tool" so they failed to consider how it might run when opened to anyone and everyone trying to log in at once to buy more land vs the more controlled access of the first go around.
Even better, with no test environment they had to sporadically turn on and off the Prod version yesterday, with those players lucky enough to hit the timing tight allowed to choose and keep their purchases.
Yeah...unrest is clearly growing and SBS really doesn't have a proven fix yet, mostly doing a "poke and hope" patching strategy to the prod server.
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Oh yeah, and what is the "White Knight" response to those who would complain?
Players should have made their selection during the original pick windows. LULZ.
It then has to be pointed many backers were blocked from picking for several reasons, one being those who spent more money to upgrade their packages from Mayor to Count lost their original spot on the pick list.
Others found themselves blocked by the system for one reason or another, language barriers caused a slew of Spanish players to screw up their selections, which SBS promised to rectify in this next round.
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Phase 1 was Kings - they picked but was a failure Phase 2 Everyone else - picked but awaiting on names Phase 3 Late starters - starts Monday
Phase 4 Reverse auction - tba
But as for DSS so far (With the new maps and actually having stuff shown) has actually been everything people expected. Imho.
My major criticism of the team is the doubling back on promises.
Question, is the Dutch auction what people call Settlers of Elyria?
Some higher tier backer on the official forums "guestimated" Settlers was probably looking to start around mid November based on previous statements from Caspian on gaps planned between phases for the team to regroup, rest and recover.
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So just to be clear, there was no playable game on Sept 22nd right? And no evidence there will be a playable game anytime soon right?
It gets 10X worse than that, in my opinion of course. You know what is worse than missing a deadline? Missing a deadline and not mentioning one word about it. Look what they are doing now, adding stretch goals towards a whopping 1 million dollars raised, then reverse auction should add a shit load more cash, when they are done with this cash-raising period, Caspian will make a post how 2019 has been a transformative year and everything they accomplished, he will throw the community a bone and by that point it will be May 2020, you know what that is? Oh ya, the 4 year Kickstarter anniversary.
The sad part is there are people in the community that think pre-elyria will pretty much be a complete game, and once it's out the next phases A1,A2, B1+B2 will each take a few months, the reality is there are developers that spend 2 years just in Alpha-1...look at projects like Saga of Lucemia, CEO directly said their A1 will take 18-24 months...look at camelot unchained..they wanted to be in beta 4 years ago...fast forward now and look where they are. The community is in for a surprise if SbS ever releases pre-elyria, which will be nothing more than a tech demo with minimal mechanics. The only thing Soulbound studios proved to the community is how they can raise 7.5M+ cash without showing a damn thing, must be nice being Caspian, wonder how much salary he is taking for himself.
SBS are geniuses. I finally clued onto the pattern a few months back. Take what is happening now. People thought Pre-Elyria would be coming out. So to keep people busy, they release some event, normally some lame event like the plague. But DSS fits well. Then release some promo that lasts for a month+. Then they do another event/promo. There is already talks of more events after all this is done. Which takes as well into next year.
State of Elyria will come out in the middle. Telling everyone of all these exciting times coming, leading to up Pre-Elyria. Right when Pre-Elyria is meant to come out, like you said, oh look another KS event/promo happens.
It's really bloody surprising that no one cares about SBS showing off the game and cares about giving them more stretch goals. I made a comment on the forums, about them giving us mounted combat. Got shot down that they don't want feature creep. Yet wanted and got SBS to add in more goals/features.
I'm starting to think people don't ever want to play the game and just want this "perfect" game that can't ever be made. Which reminds me of how Star Citizen is going. Better to get a good/great game that can be played sometime this lifetime.
SBS are geniuses. I finally clued onto the pattern a few months back. Take what is happening now. People thought Pre-Elyria would be coming out. So to keep people busy, they release some event, normally some lame event like the plague. But DSS fits well. Then release some promo that lasts for a month+. Then they do another event/promo. There is already talks of more events after all this is done. Which takes as well into next year.
State of Elyria will come out in the middle. Telling everyone of all these exciting times coming, leading to up Pre-Elyria. Right when Pre-Elyria is meant to come out, like you said, oh look another KS event/promo happens.
It's really bloody surprising that no one cares about SBS showing off the game and cares about giving them more stretch goals. I made a comment on the forums, about them giving us mounted combat. Got shot down that they don't want feature creep. Yet wanted and got SBS to add in more goals/features.
I'm starting to think people don't ever want to play the game and just want this "perfect" game that can't ever be made. Which reminds me of how Star Citizen is going. Better to get a good/great game that can be played sometime this lifetime.
Notice how quiet Caspian is about pre-elyria, he is smart, he knows right now is the time to squeeze the community for as much money as he can, then comes reverse auction to squeeze the community more, he already knows pre-elyria is delayed but he will wait until all this funding is complete to make any comments about, pretty clever. The last State of elyria literally said that "pre-elyria is 3/5ths done and should take until the end of summer to be completed"...summer ended, not one word about it.
SBS are geniuses. I finally clued onto the pattern a few months back. Take what is happening now. People thought Pre-Elyria would be coming out. So to keep people busy, they release some event, normally some lame event like the plague. But DSS fits well. Then release some promo that lasts for a month+. Then they do another event/promo. There is already talks of more events after all this is done. Which takes as well into next year.
State of Elyria will come out in the middle. Telling everyone of all these exciting times coming, leading to up Pre-Elyria. Right when Pre-Elyria is meant to come out, like you said, oh look another KS event/promo happens.
It's really bloody surprising that no one cares about SBS showing off the game and cares about giving them more stretch goals. I made a comment on the forums, about them giving us mounted combat. Got shot down that they don't want feature creep. Yet wanted and got SBS to add in more goals/features.
I'm starting to think people don't ever want to play the game and just want this "perfect" game that can't ever be made. Which reminds me of how Star Citizen is going. Better to get a good/great game that can be played sometime this lifetime.
Can we agree that if caspian is to be taken seriously, as of right now...Pre-Elyria should be close to completed, and should be out within the next 2-3 months...if it's not we will have serious doubts about whether he is stringing us along or wtf is happening over there.
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As for DSS, phase 2 of 4 is done.
Phase 1 was Kings - they picked but was a failure
Phase 2 Everyone else - picked but awaiting on names
Phase 3 Late starters - starts Monday
But as for DSS so far (With the new maps and actually having stuff shown) has actually been everything people expected. Imho.
My major criticism of the team is the doubling back on promises.
https://chroniclesofelyria.com/forum/General-Discussion
@bcbully guess D&SS isn’t “done” after all.
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Seems to have run into a new snag however.
https://chroniclesofelyria.com/forum/topic/33932/dss-claiming-mode-temporarily-disabled
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Hello Elyrians!
We've done work to identify the root cause of the site issue that surfaced this morning when we re-enabled the D&SS app and claiming. We're working on solutions now and this may take us some time, but we did want to communicate that we don't expect to have this resolved today. We're working hard to get this fixed, tested, and back in your hands, and we'll continue to provide updates when they're meaningful. For now we wanted to let you know that we're making progress.
We know you're eager and excited to claim your holdings, and we're just as enthusiastic to get you on your way. This will remain our top priority until D&SS is re-enabled.
Thank you again to our community for your patience!
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Seems some folks took off work, kept their children home from school to serve as proxies, or are returning to their regular job on the oil rig for the next few weeks so won't be able to participate later.
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The idea of keeping a kid home from school to act as a proxy did make me laugh. What did it say on his digital sick note? Did they have Elyrian flu?
Or that we stood in line at midnight when BC came out to pick up his copy or that I let him stay home from school the next day to play.
I dragged myself into work however, mostly because I had quit playing by then.
My only real mistake was in not insisting he play fpsers...then he might have a shot at a big time pro gaming career....
Instead he's now a cube warrior just like his father....
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Seems like SBS never properly load tested their DSS selection "tool" so they failed to consider how it might run when opened to anyone and everyone trying to log in at once to buy more land vs the more controlled access of the first go around.
Even better, with no test environment they had to sporadically turn on and off the Prod version yesterday, with those players lucky enough to hit the timing tight allowed to choose and keep their purchases.
Yeah...unrest is clearly growing and SBS really doesn't have a proven fix yet, mostly doing a "poke and hope" patching strategy to the prod server.
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Players should have made their selection during the original pick windows. LULZ.
It then has to be pointed many backers were blocked from picking for several reasons, one being those who spent more money to upgrade their packages from Mayor to Count lost their original spot on the pick list.
Others found themselves blocked by the system for one reason or another, language barriers caused a slew of Spanish players to screw up their selections, which SBS promised to rectify in this next round.
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Some higher tier backer on the official forums "guestimated" Settlers was probably looking to start around mid November based on previous statements from Caspian on gaps planned between phases for the team to regroup, rest and recover.
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The sad part is there are people in the community that think pre-elyria will pretty much be a complete game, and once it's out the next phases A1,A2, B1+B2 will each take a few months, the reality is there are developers that spend 2 years just in Alpha-1...look at projects like Saga of Lucemia, CEO directly said their A1 will take 18-24 months...look at camelot unchained..they wanted to be in beta 4 years ago...fast forward now and look where they are. The community is in for a surprise if SbS ever releases pre-elyria, which will be nothing more than a tech demo with minimal mechanics. The only thing Soulbound studios proved to the community is how they can raise 7.5M+ cash without showing a damn thing, must be nice being Caspian, wonder how much salary he is taking for himself.
SBS are geniuses. I finally clued onto the pattern a few months back. Take what is happening now. People thought Pre-Elyria would be coming out. So to keep people busy, they release some event, normally some lame event like the plague. But DSS fits well. Then release some promo that lasts for a month+. Then they do another event/promo. There is already talks of more events after all this is done. Which takes as well into next year.
State of Elyria will come out in the middle. Telling everyone of all these exciting times coming, leading to up Pre-Elyria. Right when Pre-Elyria is meant to come out, like you said, oh look another KS event/promo happens.
It's really bloody surprising that no one cares about SBS showing off the game and cares about giving them more stretch goals. I made a comment on the forums, about them giving us mounted combat. Got shot down that they don't want feature creep. Yet wanted and got SBS to add in more goals/features.
I'm starting to think people don't ever want to play the game and just want this "perfect" game that can't ever be made. Which reminds me of how Star Citizen is going. Better to get a good/great game that can be played sometime this lifetime.
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