This is wrong on sooo many levels. I will discuss after the Discord Quotes:
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Caspian ☁Yesterday at 3:14 AM
In all honesty, I had communicated to the outreach folks to post a reminder about Server Locking needing to be done by the cutoff date, and that we'd need to set the IP scale around that time so I'd have the interpolation steps correct.
This resulted in a post which said we were going to lock IP, which was never the plan, nor what we have implemented. When I learned about the post, I asked them to take it down as it wasn't what we'd communicated to people in the past, and we don't have any system in place currently for "locking the IP." The simplest thing we could do is create a new table, take a snapshot of the influence, and then update our code to use the secondary table rather than the current numbers, but that comes at the cost of more dev work.
Caspian ☁Yesterday at 3:15 AM
In any case, I was hoping someone had a quote that said we were going to lock IP at some point so I'd know where people got the impression that was ever our plan. Perhaps then I'd be reminded of what I was thinking if I/we ever said that.
Caspian ☁Yesterday at 3:17 AM
If we've stated previously that we'd lock the IP, then there's a case to be made internally that we should push back the start of D&SS to lock the influence. If we never said that, then past experience with Surname Reservation and the fact that people can't see when OTHER people are picking, makes an influence race unlikely - or even unreasonable. So I'd be less interested in making code changes.
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This is a perfect example of what is wrong with development of this game.
- This discussion is only happening between the dev and a few people on Discord.
- As seen in the first quote, he once again blames his team for a screw up. He told his outreach team to do something and they screwed it up...
- He apparently does not have a thorough enough development plan documented as he is literally asking people in Discord to go look for quotes related to this feature they are implementing for the Domain and Settlement Selection event that is later this month.
- Is so unsure of himself that he starts to immediately talk about delaying D&SS if someone can find this quote.
That is NOT how you successfully work... He should have a REASON for his decisions and those reasons should stand up to mild questioning. And he should have a documented development plan that he can reference. Everything this guy touches turns to drama and over-complication combined with blaming the team for anything that goes wrong and discussion with a handful of people on Discord. THAT is the development of CoE in a nutshell.
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To cap everything off. To where "anything said on discord can't be shared onto the forums" BS. This is just another case, in the long line of complete failure and break down of their communication.
Being under two weeks away from this event happening and everything being this messy. I'm just going to sit back and watch the drama. Nothing about this will end well.
1) an ambiguous post by serpentus (or whatever his name is)
2) people reading too much into this post and worrying too much about ip order.
In reality the only people that need to worry about ip are the Kings and dukes.
Counts and barons will be released in waves rather than individually just like surname reservation.
True Caspian panics alot but can you blame him when 70% of the time his ambiguous posts are taken the wrong way.
He just needs to be better organised before releasing info
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And he is saying that he will then delay jot so that he could...
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Seems Caspian could have come out ahead of this whole problem just simply saying "Ok I have heard many people are confused about IP getting locked, this isn't the case".. then explaining it all in detail. To where someone made a forum post, Serpentius replying in it, did little. Caspian talking about it only via discord. It's made what should have been a simple mistake/some people being confused, into just a giant mess. To where it's just going around in circles. Caspian asking for a quote.. just why? Even if it was that way once, who cares. Just explain the way it is now.
I could argue that IP is more important for counts/mayors. Simply cause they seem to be released in groups and have the same window time frame as kings/dukes. But even if counts/mayors have different windows. Knowing many people will completely miss their window, bad time etc. It's going to make some duchies messy as all hell.
In the end, this feels like all unnecessary drama that wasn't needed. This event has to go smoothly. If there is some bug/glitch in the middle. Plus if people are still confused. It be more than a popcorn moment, when people have dumped thousands into this, all miss their pick/can't pick/something else stops them. This going smoothly would also partly shut up people saying, everything stuffs up.
I would love to see this game be a cluster fuck on release where every kingdom breaks down due to the a big influx of people who hate the p2noble
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Having IP charts become invisible is more of a reason that IP wouldn't be locked rather then locked. You can't have bidding wars and snipe peoples land if you don't know when they are picking. While you can still move your pick time it doesn't allow you to know where anyone else is and whether or not you have surpassed their IP.
It's also the third time in a day that he mentioned possibly pushing back or delaying the already delayed D&SS. Here are the other 2:
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Caspian ☁Yesterday at 12:41 AM
Caspian ☁Last Tuesday at 1:00 AM
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I think he's just itching for an excuse to delay it even further.
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Is it too much to ask to properly setup a SOUND business plan that will WORK and get a game FINISHED?
What are the odds we get ONE AAA MMO that is finished,NO CASH SHOP,no Early access,NO crowd funding,what are the odds.....less than 1% ?
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CU, CF, SC and others just keep endlessly rolling on.....18 more months you know.
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Gonna give that a "Snowball's Chance in Hell"
What us wrong with the development is.
1 They restarted\ made 4 diferent clients (that none have seen even if they promisd to let ppl get access).
2 They only take feedback from a very small pool of whales.
3 They have not shown any real progress and what is shown is a 3 second gif from in egine prototype.
4 They ban or mute anyone how ask critical questions.
5 Caspian and SbS in general is incapable of completeing one task before moving on to the next one,
6 They sold so much Pay 2 Win crap that the nobels will forever be safe, and if you think you can become king think again! You will need the vote of majorety of nobels to get in, you bet that is a tight nitt group at release.
I could go on.
Remember they startet PR 2015 went Kickstarter 6 May 2016, and before that the concept was in "development" from 2000. They are still in a Pre-Elyria state even though Alpha should have been out in 2017.
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2) They presumably have no use for feedback because they aren't developing anything with that feedback, because they aren't developing anything. They only "take" feedback from the whales because it encourages the whales to feel special and keep paying them, but there is nothing they actually are using that feedback on because there is... well, nothing.
3) There's nothing to show in the first place.
4) Because there's nothing, there's no answers to give to questions. So may as well ban the negative ones for PR's sake. It's not like they can take those critical questions and actually use them as constructive criticism to the development of the game when there is no development of the game.
6) Tight knit groups at release isn't a problem for a game that will never be released. But yea, if some bizarre offense to the very fabric of reality as we know it results in this game being released, it's going to be terrible and hamstrung by all these pre-sold things from the start.
Since the launch of the event has been delayed, it made sense to us to extend the cutoff date for land title holders who have since chosen their primary server to participate during the event. To be clear we are extending the deadline to have selected your primary server to the day when we announce the new start date of Domain and Settlement Selection.
https://chroniclesofelyria.com/forum/topic/31584/server-selection-deadline-extended#post350227
By the way, all you suckers who locked in a month or two ago are stuck. No changing
Sometimes you just cannot make this stuff up.
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