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how long has it being there ?

 

cant see it being changed anytime soon but stranger things have happened

Add it to the list of either unfinished or promised/not delivered things LOL

Hmm Hopefully someone does not have a short term cash flow problem...Sure looks like it.

expensive offer + no new content = no thanks!

I have to say I like the pack but $90 / $100 is a little to rich for me. I do agree with a lot of others here that you should be able to buy this pack with FSP, so thanks for the offer but I will be skipping this as well. Should anyone be looking for FSP and have a extra gift code I'm sure we could work something out.

Better plan Pardoux.

Scrap LE cave events altogether, put ALL LE events in the freaking realms.

Scavenging caves have always been a gigantic cheating rip off if you ask me.

Now as for my idea its that we have a "Thank You" button so that would mean if a players help other player answering his/her question. That player can "pay" him or her with a "Thank You". After 48hrs that "Thank You" could be reset and so that player can thanks again if he recive help. I know this might sound maybe abusing but maybe there are few more ideas about this.

 

Why would we add a Thank You?

Maybe that can go handy with a new Medal, in some way or other it would give you a medal for supporting the game in other way than donating money for fsp.

Example 1: Player1 and Player2 are friends. Player1 goes into chat and asks something (anything). Player2 answers. Player1 clicks the "Thank You" button for Player2. Player2 gets prize! Yaaay! Now Player2 asks a question and Player1 answers. Player2 clicks "Thank You" button for Player1. Player1 gets prize! Yaaay! "Thank Yous" successfully exchanged.

Example 2: Player3 posts ad: "I want to buy Thank Yous! 100 gold to anyone who will arrange for me to answer a simple question for them in chat!"

Basically: Very abusable.

If you want to help people by answering their questions, just do it for the good of the game; I do.

Buffs (pots for higher level buffs) for global events are

- Animal Magnetism

- Conserve

- Reckoning

- Global Booster

Don't use Lightfoot or Goldfoot, they just distract the chance of reckoning activating on AM & CONS which means you get the re-spawn of the creature with AM activating

Reckoning does affect AM and CONS

I don't think any of them actually play legit...seems like they just edit their level like the hooftest so it really don't matter

 

I think if the team actually played the game in general it'd keep more players...nothing more depressing then a dev team that don't even want to play their own game

 

now alot of people will say their busy, but like I tell my friends it takes less then 10 minutes to use your stamina...so ya

It's not that we don't want to play. We spend all our time working on and improving our games which doesn't leave a lot of time to play.

Also if we did play and say join a players guild, other players may think that guild will be getting inside knowledge or special perk from having a member of the team as a guild member (this happened before in Gothador when some of the team joined player run cults in the game).

If someone doesn't want another player buying an item/ buff/ etc, then advertise through the shout box or fs box and use secure trades. AH is open to everyone to see and use, that should NEVER change.

The purpose of this thread is to give everyone an overview of what we're currently working on (excluding normal game content) and what is in the pipeline for the game. We'll do our best to keep this as up-to-date and accurate as possible

Recently Completed

Diamond Medals (25th July)
General Bug Fix Update (5th August)

Updates for UFSG (6th August)

Further improvements to the UFSG (Thread) (14th August)

World Chat (22nd August)

Composing (6th Sept)

Map Footprints (27th September)

Currently In Development (Estimated Release Date)

(Updated Roadmap coming next week!)

Planned Development

Improve Chests (Thread)

Karma

Epic Quest (continued)

Personal Achievements

If we've missed something from the list that you feel is important, please let us know

~ The Fallen Sword Team

What gets me about topics like this is people talk about the dwindling numbers, but don't take into consideration the resource (coder/artist/writer/grim) time which is needed.
Even things which seem simple, such as a new LE or a new SE take a fair amount of time to keep up a decent level of quality. Down to designing the creature, story, artwork, set and so on.
Sometimes even simple things take a lot more time than people may realise from a coding perspective. Hoof even does a lot of coding out of office hours. There's bugs which they are fixing on a regular basis as well as trying to implement new things.
 

There will be a lot of conjecture that improvements will bring more money in. But that's just that. Conjecture. There's an overabundance of FSP being stockpiled with less and less to spend them. Flow on from that is less need to donate.

Really as players we need to take a big step back, look at what fallensword is, and be realistic about the leveraged resource which works on the game.

HCS is not Zynga, Blizzard, Bethesda or any of these other companies with a massive assembly line of staff in battery hen cages churning out updates.
Fallensword is not a simple game, it's evolved and has a lot of different facets such as titans, arena, pvp, and so on.

Fallensword has a small team who do their best to try and keep everyone happy. In doing so they have often become their own worst enemies. Such can be seen with the way it appears they always refer to the community for ideas now, rather than just putting them in. This takes up more time with the bickering and so as threads degrade into ego battles.
We can also see the uber potions working against HCS, while players like them, they are also the root cause when it comes to things such as boredom. "Oh I have an xp event and a global container. Watch me get hundreds of levels for little cost!" then a week later "There's no content, you guys suck".

Could things be done better? Yes.

We just need to find a way make clones of the staff. Except maybe forn. Another forn would be scary, and lead to world domination

In the mean time being constructive on the forums with meaningful and accurate information provided to cows in threads will often help us get nice things sooner.

Gear:

I would like to see players receive items which don't fill in the quest item slots from the tutorial, so maybe gloves, helm, boots and a rune. 

The gear should only give a minimal boost BUT has the ability to be evolved. This means that after x levels they can invent using a bound resource (as part of the promotional new player pack) to create a slightly stronger item to carry them over the next X levels. 

Potions:

There is no need for a high level AL or LIB as when doing the tutorial you will gain levels quickly as it is, without them. I would like to see included in the pack an improved courageous draft and adventurer elixir. This could be a couple more buffs thrown in and a much longer duration (say 12 hours or so). This will allow new players with the abundant stamina at the start to really get a feel of the game. 

Pack Contents:

1 set: gloves, rune, helm, boots. 

5 sets of evolving resources: Each would require level 10,20,30,40,50 to be able to use them in the recipe to improve the gear. 

3 pairs of starter potions, consisting of:

Improved Courageous Draft:

Enchanted Weapon 180

Enchanted Armor 180

Fury 180

Berserk 180

Coordinated attack 180

Smashing Hammer 180

Duration 1000m

Improved Adventurer Elixir:

Adept Learner 180

Librarian 180

Animal Magnetism 180

Lightfoot 180

Doubler 150

Resource Finder 100

Quest finder 100

Duration 1000m

Obviously the gear can be shuffled around, but the intention with the above pack is that the new players would get the feeling they are given the resources to get a good start in the game. That HCS wants them to make it past the first few levels. 

I would also suggest that the starter pack could be discounted while they are in the first week or two as part of the promotion.