Game Development: A Touch of Death

[burgingham]

Posted on the IoB Skype chat:

[Ronin30]

[pheonix]

Whats your point? the Salem stats are faked, at the height of those stats saying 6k people playing you would see maybe 10-30 people wandering around per day and stalls sit with stuff on them fer weeks because no one was actually logging in.

[Gordon]

Those salem numbers are made for plebs who don't understand difference between Active users per day(It was replaced with current online counter to hide the low currently online numbers) and currently online.
Those numbers are not even comparable, if that's what you're trying to imply there.

[stya]

Those salem numbers are made for plebs who don't understand difference between Active users per day(It was replaced with current online counter to hide the low currently online numbers) and currently online.
Those numbers are not even comparable, if that's what you're trying to imply there.

Agreed, plus active users change a lot, now probably is not the best time to measure either and my guess would be 100 current > 500/day

Plus now it raised to about 130; that's 30% in less than 10min. Unreliable measure.

[hitori]

Posted on the IoB Skype chat:

[DaniAngione]

I like the changes...
The death screen reminds me of Ultima Online "You are dead". Loved that!

And... hhmmm... the fix on the 'bad manners' at table means that they can't break stuff anymore or that they can eat? Because, you know... shouldn't guests be allowed to eat? ^^

[Granger]

shouldn't guests be allowed to eat? ^^

Party them?

[ddrboy54]

Since you can swap charter stone names, it would be worth adding a yes/no prompt asking "would you like to travel to name of village?".

[simimi]

I like the idea of having hostages but I don't see how it could be practical.

When you knock out a toon, there is his heart in his inventory, like a claim deed.
If you take it, you can right clik on the floor with heart in hand to put the HF of the player there ( could be a prison).
While the heart is out of the body, the player keep being knok out, and if the heart is not "plant" within 2 hours, the toon die.