Goblinworks Blog: 48 Hours and Counting

[Ryan Dancey]

Early Enrollment starts in 2 days!

[Tyncale]

Awesome!

[<Kabal> Daeglin]

Arghh I'm on the road! I knew this would happen!
But still, this is great news :D

[Elorebaen]

Hard to believe we are finally at this point!

[<Kabal> Häagen]

HOLY SCHNIKES!

[Kadere]

Woohoo!

[Urman]

"Stand in the door!"

[Grimmel]

Here we go!

[TEO Cheatle]

"Kick the tires and light the fires, bid daddy!"

[darrenhfx]

Wooooooooooo!

[Nihimon]

WOOOOOOHOOOOO!

[KarlBob]

Wooooo! With a side of Hoooooo!

Edit: I hope someone will broadcast the Battle of the Superheroes on Twitch. That should be fun.

[Franz Lunzer]

Damn. i'm in barcelona right now,and without my laptop.

[Bringslite]

<Looks at sealed scroll case.>

"Break Only in the Event of Early Enrollment."

<Picks up The Tiny Golden Mallet....>

[Giorgo]

*Faints* :)

[Caldeathe Baequiannia]

Countdown timer to Early Enrollment

[KarlBob]

Goblinworks Blog wrote:

We are going to be ending the Alpha Test on Tuesday with a bang! When the server comes back on line after normal downtime at 10:00am (Pacific), players with Alpha accounts (about 100 of you!) will discover that you can make characters with the same capabilities we use for internal testing!

Will EE account holders have access to the server (with our existing characters) during this event, or will we be offline from downtime tomorrow until EE begins?

[Ryan Dancey]

Early Enrollees will be able to log in to the Alpha as normal on Tuesday but you won't be able to make Tester accounts.

[<Tavernhold> Locke]

@Bringslite

Please read final paragraph of the blog before using said mallet.

[KarlBob]

Ryan Dancey wrote:

Early Enrollees will be able to log in to the Alpha as normal on Tuesday but you won't be able to make Tester accounts.

Good to know. Thanks.

[Bringslite]

<Tavernhold> Locke wrote:

@Bringslite

Please read final paragraph of the blog before using said mallet.

<Looks around...>

"What? I'm just holding the Mallet!"

:)

[Thod]

My wife was about to invite some friends from about EE start onwards (we talk 18:00 UK time) for New Years Eve get together. Luckily the best of all wifes agrees that I will be allowed to game part of the time - so we need some different arrangement.
This means my earlier today started Dwarven Banded +1 will not finish in time - but who cares.

[RHMG Animator]

Time for a New Year's Eve Marathon

[Bonny Paz]

Yes there will be live streaming :p and lots of shenanigans I'm sure!

[Bluddwolf]

So on a day when most people are spending their time with family and friends... Afraid the servers will crash?

[Neadenil Edam]

Good news!

That is 5.00 am new years day here in Eastern Australia.

[StormHunter]

Neadenil Edam wrote:

Good news!

That is 5.00 am new years day here in Eastern Australia.

And half an hour earlier here - who needs sleep?? See in the New Year ... hover impatiently by the PC ... see in EE ... go to work 24 hours later ... crash on the weekend. Easy plan :)

[Proxima Sin of Brighthaven]

F#@k yeah.

[Mbando]

Very exciting! Congrats GW (and the community at large) on getting to this milestone :)

[Rokolith]

Sorry, but only giving 48 hours notice is the first decision by goblinworks I don't endorse. Of course I am happy the game is coming into early enrollment, but such short notice and doing it around holiday times robs many of us of the opportunity to be there for the beginning.

All that aside, have fun everyone!

[Swiss Mercenary]

19h00 for me, so time to log on and start the count before going out :D

[Ziggumesh of Katapesh]

Kudos for the most creative way to keep everybody from logging in same time!

[T7V Jazzlvraz]

Franz Lunzer wrote:

Damn. i'm in barcelona right now,and without my laptop.

Barcelona's its own reward :-).

Congratulations, Goblinworks!

[sspitfire1]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

[Ravenlute]

What's this I hear? Persistence? Well, 'bout damn time. :D

[Nihimon]

sspitfire1 wrote:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Feels like thirty...

[sspitfire1]

Goblin Works Blog wrote:

and a blog about key resources for people to access as they're learning how to play.

I do hope this includes the abundance of player-generated materials out there.

[Schedim]

Arrugggh! That means I have to lug the laptop with meeeee .... And how the frakk are I getting that one into my allready overfull pack ....

[TEO Alexander Damocles]

Well, shall be an interesting New Year. I'll get my characters made that morning, go celebrate, and then start the day after the game goes live. Congratulations to Ryan and Lisa on getting the product to this point!

[<Kabal> Kradlum]

~6pm tomorrow for me, and I have the next 4 days off work, and a full bottle of Jack...

I will probably be changing names in EE. My crafter will be Kradlum, but my rogue/scavenger will be Snotbad.

[Pyronous Rath]

If PFO fail's I will blame the grass

[<kabal> Bunibuni]

2 PM eastern but don't get off work until 5! So three hours after it starts, I can start downloading the new installer and hope it actually downloads and doesn't hang up halfway through. An hour or two after that, assuming it doesn't take more than 3 or 4 tries to download, I can start playing.

Since I have New Year's Day off, lots and lots of gaming to be done late at night!!!!

Now, which is more important for gathering? Knowledge skills or actual craft skills?

[Black Silver of The Veiled, T7V]

Knowledge skill is for PvE Loot drops. The gathering skills on taught by Crafters.

*Dowsing, Forestry, Mining, Scavenger

[Schedim]

Hmmm I ditch the laptop and go for convincing gf that it will be fun testing on her mac.... Must check so I have enough bandwith left for downloading it ... About 1.5 Gig on Mac too?

[Bluddwolf]

Will we be able to pre install the EE client?

[Ryan Dancey]

No. The EE client will be available when the servers come back up tomorrow.

[sspitfire1]

Schedim wrote:

Hmmm I ditch the laptop and go for convincing gf that it will be fun testing on her mac.... Must check so I have enough bandwith left for downloading it ... About 1.5 Gig on Mac too?

Closer to 2 in my experience, possible more if you have to download through the patcher (not sure if Patcher does file compression).

[Schedim]

sspitfire1 wrote:

Schedim wrote:

Hmmm I ditch the laptop and go for convincing gf that it will be fun testing on her mac.... Must check so I have enough bandwith left for downloading it ... About 1.5 Gig on Mac too?

Closer to 2 in my experience, possible more if you have to download through the patcher (not sure if Patcher does file compression).

Oki, and thus takes about 2 Gig discspace also?

Edit: Found answer elsewhere .. 5 Gig. Hmmm that may prove a stumbling block ...

Mayby should lug the laptop anyway..

[Gol Tigari]

Question for when EE starts. Will the Settlement leaders need to Email Goblinworks to get settlements up and running? (like they did in Alpha?)

Edit: I know it doesn't matter much until War of the Towers, just wondering.

[Ryan Dancey]

Yes - all the companies and Settlements will need to be re-established.