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Mortal Online IRQ Chat with Henrik From Today (29 July)
Rohn
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Tizio posted the text of a Q&A session held on the MO IRQ today on the official forum. There is a lot of really good information, and clarifications on some of the things that have been revealed recently.
Here is the text, as posted by Tizio:
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<[UW]Kuroi> Lord Henrik is here
HenrikNystrom Hello
<[V]Busard> HenrikNystrom: Can you slap EPIC in the face so they can work faster and give you that engine patch
HenrikNystrom Busard, which part is it you want so badly with it ? 
<[V]Busard> HenrikNystrom: Flash UI and AI pathing
HenrikNystrom indeed AI is wanted a lot.
<DenonSix]> hey henrik, any word on the fix for negative skill points/missing skill points?
HenrikNystrom denon yes, wait for the next patch
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HenrikNystrom does everyone in here think that mounted combat is way to OP and not to fun?
[Bla bla bla from others]
HenrikNystrom ya mount knockdown will change with the mount equipment patch
HenrikNystrom ya, we try to change/balance mounts as well
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<[Myrm]Odie> Henrik I heard it is your birthday soon, can you confirm?
HenrikNystrom Odie, it was in March
<[Myrm]Odie> Happy late birthday!
<[Myrm]Odie> Henrik, TheMap said Mortal Online is dead, can you confirm?
HenrikNystrom Odie, who is TheMap?
HenrikNystrom sounds like a noob to me...
<bletch> it is not dead but if shit isn't fixed soon there will be less and less ppl logging in by the day you only have to look at pop numbers right now to know it is not doing so great
HenrikNystrom bletch, im very happy with the amount of players we have today
HenrikNystrom so any rumours on that, is just that, rumours, I have not heard a lot of it thou
<[Myrm]Stubben> is it enough to sustain the game Henrik?
HenrikNystrom Stubben yes
<[Myrm]Shara> OVERHEAD SWING! :EEEEE
HenrikNystrom Shara, special moves and swings comes with combat special move patch, read under development section
<[TOG]AIA> @HenrikNystrom i ve got to questions for u1: whos in charge of pet stuf, and 2nd, do u intend to make it so that the weapon used in combat becomes a player personal choice or will we have to roll with the flavour of the month weapon to be anny good in pvp?
HenrikNystrom AIA, each weapons group will have their special moves and strenght, if you ignore this area, then its a bit of your own personal likings in the weapons,
<Kylar> Henrik I got here late, but can you clarify what you mean by "Player crafting recipes" how does that work?
HenrikNystrom kylar, yes, you simply create a recipes instead of crafting your selected item, and saves those settings into the recipie
HenrikNystrom for you to trade or sell, or keep to "mass" product that very item faster and easieer as long as you have the materials and skills
HenrikNystrom it was a most wanted feature to get rid of spamming buttong to train or create something, and to give the opportunity to trade sell a special setup for an item
<[Myrm]Odie> henrik will the recipe work with full armor sets?
HenrikNystrom odie, so far only for 1 created part
HenrikNystrom but later on I guess a full set of recipe is not a problem as well
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<[UW]Kuroi> Henrik will special moves be primary skills?
HenrikNystrom kuroi, those are related to its parent weapon skill, which unlocks it
HenrikNystrom for instance, to be able to bleed trhust with a dagger, you need 90+ in dagger, and may need something else as well.
<[ConfirmedNonFactor]Cyde> DoTs, NOOOOOo
HenrikNystrom cyde, nah its a bleeding you can stop if you are activly perfomring the outcome of a battle, player skills, thats the key
<[FOR]Thaeric> @HenrikNystrom: sorry if someone asked this before (I just got here), could you explain exactly what the impending 'guild tags' are and how they will work? I know many of us are concerned about that. Isn't that defeating the purpose of heraldry?
HenrikNystrom tharric, sure
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HenrikNystrom guild tags is toggable, and abbrivation for it, this is used for id guilds, declearing wars/alliances, then there are going to be an infiltration tied to this, combine a temp title with for isntance steal a guild tabard
HenrikNystrom and you could get some interesting game play
<[FOR]Thaeric> so by toggable, you mean tab-targetting, like the names work now... or something else?
HenrikNystrom thaer, yes you have to tab him to see his tag if he wish to show it
<[TOG]AIA> nice ideea about the temp guild impersonation @HenrikNystrom :P
HenrikNystrom AIA very
<[V]Busard> HenrikNystrom: one concern of a player from my community board is that, if you choose to hide your guild tag, how will you learn what guild is attacking your own ?
HenrikNystrom Busard, by a message
<[DERP]Exodeus> HenrikNystrom: is it possible to increase magery spell casting speed, and increase the mental timeout?
HenrikNystrom Exo, im not, I wish not to talk about magic atm. Its going to be changed and there will be added new magic schools.
<[RUS]Golozhopenko> Henrik, when magic schools are going to be added?
HenrikNystrom golo, Im not sure, territory control got bumbed because 90% of them wanted that before magic schools. thou its not completely standign still, we are balancing and adding a bit when there is time
<[CIR]Syndic> Henrik - Psyche gives chance to resist Magic, make Constitution give chance to resist Melee )
HenrikNystrom syndic, constitution is not a chanse to resist melee, its simple what it is, making you handle more melee damage before you die 
<[RUS]Weedy> Henrik, what about new keep spots? are you adding them one by one?
HenrikNystrom weedy yes, along with territory
HenrikNystrom territory controll is an insane cool feature for everyone interested in that.
HenrikNystrom claim a land by brute force or diplomacy, as in votes, when the land is having a land ruler, then its up to HIM to set taxes for everyone living in his land
HenrikNystrom if you are not happy with his rules, then you can try to beat him and take the throne
HenrikNystrom keeps is the key for this
HenrikNystrom Lti, the world that you know of, Myrland continent will be devided into different regions/land
HenrikNystrom which are to be claimed
HenrikNystrom and ruled by
<[GD]Princereaper> then can u put some more keep locations on the map
HenrikNystrom prince, yes there will be more keeps
<[DERP]Exodeus> HenrikNystrom: so if some area is claimed, i cannnot go hunting there?
HenrikNystrom exo, yes you can, depending on how close to the rulers HQ you are there are differnt rules he decides,
HenrikNystrom as in tresspassing or not, may flag you, but entering his land for hunting is no tresspassing if you are not to close to HQ
HenrikNystrom if you live in his land, you are affected in his tax choise
HenrikNystrom and thats race based
<[DERP]Exodeus> @HenrikNystrom: I pay no taxes
HenrikNystrom exo, then your house may be in danger
<@Tartuffe>; HenrikNystrom how about some crafter love.... my top 3 would be item naming/labels, a better way to judge quality over all of items, and player vendors (aug9th)
HenrikNystrom tartuffe, we are getting namable crafted items in this patch
<[GD]Princereaper> henrik if possible will we get the chance to name lands in the future?
HenrikNystrom prince yes
HenrikNystrom not in the future
HenrikNystrom but when we patch territory control
<[UW]Kuroi> Henrik will we get a message about the claimed land we are trepassing?
HenrikNystrom kuro yes
<[UW]Kuroi> cool, something like you just entered Sharaland?
HenrikNystrom right
<[DERP]Exodeus> @HenrikNystrom: nice all these patches and expantions... but what about all the server downtime
HenrikNystrom exo, we have 24/7 watches over the server, making sure its starting one sec after it goes down.
<tbm> henrik will people with incorrect number of skill points and attribute points be fixed anytime soon?
HenrikNystrom tbm yes in this patch
HenrikNystrom exo, we fix any crash we can do on our own in our codes, but some cases we are relying on epics network code which is causing a few crashes
HenrikNystrom exo, we have a major memory leak fixed in this patch
<[GD]Princereaper> henrik are player vendors, for towns or just for keeps and houses?
HenrikNystrom prince, for player houses with the shop modules
<[BD]Therawroy> Henrik did you read my /3GB enable article ?
HenrikNystrom thera no
<[Myrm]Angarato> when can we expect a skillbased magic system?
HenrikNystrom angarato, when you see our new magic school
<[UW]Kuroi> any chances about town player vendors? even if expensive
HenrikNystrom kuroi maybe
<Raydric> HenrikNystrom: Those player recipe's, will they take a bagslot for each saved preset?
HenrikNystrom exo, depending on what of the 13 magic schools you choise it can be a group school, solo school, or support, or something else
<[Myrm]Angarato> or will that still be herpaderp thunderlash spam?
HenrikNystrom herpaderp melee spam angarato??
HenrikNystrom 13 schools designed, but not ready to be patched
<[DERP]Exodeus> @HenrikNystrom: can my mage get another 200 skill points please ??
HenrikNystrom exo, for 2 new schools?
<[TOG]Kurin> @henrik, when are you fixing the -Skillpoints bug? ....
HenrikNystrom kurin in next patch
<[DERP]Exodeus> @HenrikNystrom: I take it all of the schools are primaries
HenrikNystrom exo correct
<[Aegis]Zangler_wrk> HenrikNystrom: any chance to get different quality resource nodes at different times? similar to how SWG had it...creating a resource market and deliniation in the quality of crafted items?
HenrikNystrom zengler, we are expanding our nodes evetually, but not yet
HenrikNystrom now we only balance changes it
<[13]Mekon> and can you describe the "deployable" extracting tools?
HenrikNystrom mekkkon, its a small portable grinder, where you can extract some raw resources next to the mountain you are minding on
HenrikNystrom to more effectively get resources to transport
HenrikNystrom with your pack donkey
HenrikNystrom yes its destroyable
HenrikNystrom there will be no shared bank slots between your 3 chars
HenrikNystrom use yoru friends or houses
HenrikNystrom exo, theres no holiday for me really, always work
<[SS]Melkor> Henrik Will you make it possible for the one house on the Account to be accesible between all 3 characters on an account
HenrikNystrom melkor??
HenrikNystrom melkor, if you own a house and place items in the chest, then all your characters can access it
HenrikNystrom so can youf friend if he got a key
<[UW]Kuroi> Henrik, will taming stay just as a single primary skill or will it expanded in various primary skills? i.e. reptilians, mammalians etc..
HenrikNystrom kuroi it will expand
<[13]Bizzy> Henrik. Any more storage coming to keeps... Any modules gonna work in keeps.. Any love for keeps at all?
HenrikNystrom bizzy, there will be 4 chests in a keep
<[UW]Kuroi> so for a full tamer won't be easy to be even mage :P
HenrikNystrom kuroi depends on what you are aiming to tame
<[AQ]Morthi> Henrik any eta on new inventory system ?
HenrikNystrom morthi, could be in a couple of weeks
<[GD]Princereaper> i hate to add all 3 characters which use up 3 slot in the guild 
HenrikNystrom prince, mm have you hit the 100 guild member cap?
HenrikNystrom we are rewriting how we handle the guild members, now they cost performance, hence the 100 cap, we will soon have it dynamic which means no cap
HenrikNystrom if its a huge demand on that we need 200 cap for the time being, then we may add that,
http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/50858-irc-q-henrik-29-07-10-a.html#post981768
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Comments
Thanks for posting this. I'm still keeping an eye on MO (from here at mmorpg.com), and it's nice to read something other than rants once in a while.
Tie that flagging system into territory control and they might just have the 2nd successful PvP game in existence. Definitely a game to keep an eye on, but the relience on epic for " fixes " really does worry me alot.
The reason they are waiting on Epic Games for "fixes" is because they are using the Unreal Engine for development.
I thought htey just flew people to Epic to fix everything like 2 months ago. Is there still stuff Epic has to fix in MO?
they are working with epic as its epic engine so i guess theres only things epic can do :P thats why they so epic :P
The one that was two months ago was Star Vault upgrading to a newer verision of the Unreal Engine. Star Vault got help in doing that from Epic, which there development tool. There is still thing the Epic needs to fixes with their engine. Like A.I. pathing, and the like. Since the engine that Star Vault is newer, and there right very few MMORPG that use this tool.
Being that MO runs on the unreal engine, you can't be that surprised to see SV working closely with Epic.