Rhia

Pleasantly surprised that there were only a few posts I had to hide, I knew you guys could give feedback without spiraling into forum doom! 

Thank you so much for your feedback so far! It's feedback like this that will help 4.0 be it's best. :P

Please tell me town beacons aren't actual sky lasers.

No, they just use the item... It becomes like a SS pillar once it is successfully placed.

Were the magic plugins put in? D:

It may be in the future but as of right now, no. 

Please use this thread to give feedback on the new crafting system.

Feedback should be helpful even if you don't like the changes. Replies to this thread should look something like this:

"I really dislike the new crafting system, The cooldowns should be shorter for items that take __ amount of time."

"I really like the new crafting system but I found a bug and or think _____ would be a good fix"

If you dislike the changes and have nothing helpful to add other than your discontent, please refrain from posting... your post will be hidden and you may receive a warn. We are looking to make changes for 4.0 and feedback should be made with that in mind. 

Be aware that we know the help for this plugin is not fully fleshed out but it will be for 4.0. 

Can we increase Server pop. limit? The server seems to be full.

Already done, It will go up with the next restart (I'll restart it shortly)

Not a single person is roleplaying a profession. I was in the human settlement, and everyone is just ooc mining and making armor and weapons. No one has a job, everyone is just sharing all of the workbenches and doing everything ooc.

 

Which would be fine, but the plugin is too annoying and frustrating at times to not be generating roleplay.

At first this is what we expected, everyone is getting settled and figuring stuff out. 

Hello Lotc,

I am glad to finally say that Thales is open! I just wanted to share a little more information with you about the map before you run off and start testing things out.

EDIT BY TYTHUS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKNwYwkcip4

With the addition of a large chunk of the plugins for 4.0 being added, for large scale testing and to get player feedback, you will notice a lot has changed on LoTC. Vanilla crafting is gone and LoTC is a little more like an RPG but it is designed around RP and hopefully will be tools to help the quality of roleplay.

First off, regions are now claimable! All of this map is freebuild, including where the regions are that can be claimed…. until they are claimed. To claim a plot you will need a town beacon, In the future I think these will be craftable but for now you can buy them at spawn or at the GM shops located at the fork in the east road (411, 210). You can also get tents and rarer blocks there (so no modreqs for tents guys!).

You will also notice an NPC banker at the GM shops, These can be placed on request at a GM’s discretion (As in, near shops… one in a village/town/city…. but not one out in the middle of nowhere for 1 farmer and his cows :P ). You can store mina for safe keeping, and transfer them between personas!

Next, you can mine on the main map but we have also added a mining world… The entrance to that is located down the west road (-101, 382) but do note that you have to be an apprentice miner to mine at that depth so… Make sure you meet the requirement before you head down there. (I think it’s just selecting mining as your profession to set yourself as an apprentice miner.)

Also, from what I can tell... in order to pick a profession you just start doing it and gain XP in that... If there are commands we will update you on it. (Sorry, we suck.. I know)

Inside the mines there is an anvil and masonry station. I also added rails so.. if someone gets ambitious and wants to set up a rail system the start of one is at the mines entrance.

And….there is so much more to discover!

Something else I would like to make clear for this map…. We are gearing up for 4.0 and although this is a temp map the quality of rp needs to come up a tad… far too often in the fringe did you find trolly rp or people misbehaving (Like using /shout for ooc). We will be cracking down on this behavior in hopes of getting everyone ready for 4.0.

Lastly, I will be setting up “My Views” for the plugins so we can start getting player feedback. Not all of the plugins that are going to be on 4.0 are on Thales… so things won’t be 100% like this in 4.0 … so when you respond to the My View threads please keep this in mind.

And that’s all I have for you right now. Big thanks to Tythus, Sporadic, Kowaman, Shiftnative and BNK for helping turn this map out and All of the Tech team for their hard work on these new plugins! We hope you enjoy it and happy role play everyone! :D

Tythus is switching everything over so the server will accept players, It may be a few minutes. 

Over the past three years GMT players have begun to migrate into EST timezones by staying up ridiculously late because we were never catered to after Aegis. I am to trust this will continue to be an ongoing issue where GMT players must stay up to midnight and beyond to be included? 

I must agree with this.

This isn't the thread to address this issue. Feel free to make a feedback thread. 

(by the way I agree, I wish this time zone was more active.)

I think we are shooting for noon est. 

Updated the op again. Anyone wanting to claim a region needs to check it out!

Still it never hurts giving us a chance sometimes :P So do you have a time it will be up so we can make plans?

Hmm why does it seem that only EST players are being catered to?

There is normally about 15-30 players on at this time, I know.. I check. It would be... nearly pointless to open the server up now. If we have a bigger following at this time... sure. 

But what about the few people that actually get on around now?

We try to base release off peak times, I know that sucks for aussies and the like but... that's just the reality. 

Donation money doesn't disappear.

 

But to stay at the topic at hand, please plan your releases more carefully. I don't mind it taking forever, but stick to a deadline for once. The problem of unexpected problems can be easily avoided by taking the server down for an entire, predetermined, day and doing everything that has to be done there. GMT players (including myself) have now wasted an entire night waiting for the heavily anticipated release of 3.75. The way is has been done now comes across as careless and like only American players count to you.

 

 

That being said, I realize I'm complaining about free entertainment. I love the work you guys have put in the server so far and it really shows that you're all dedicated to creating a wonderful experience.

 

Yours sincerely,

Tom

I originally posted this update 7 hours ago, I'm sorry you didn't check the forums sooner? We could have released it tonight but waited as to not screw over the people that did go to bed when I originally posted this. 

ORRR They aren't putting enough effort in.. I guess I can't blame them. The only reason they have of doing this is so they make us happy. They don't get payed... I mean Shiftnative does but.. other than that.

I lol'd so hard, Native does not get paid. None of us do. 

Lets stay on topic guys!

PEX issues seem to have been resolved. We (only Sporadic, I'm just here for moral support) are working on making sure Nexus is good to go (there were (are) some bugs), then some other things need to be double checked.

 

ETA: Soon

We are still going to wait for tomorrow to release (no I don't know if there is a set time). It would just be a bad time to open the map now, it's late at night for all of America and even later/earlier morning for everyone else. 

"Progression of the story"

What story? Please tell me we dont have a set and defined storyline now!

There has always been a lose underlying story to all of our maps, we call it "world lore". 

Look, I hate to be an ass, but this is getting silly. I understand that testing is needed and these things take time, but this whole "we ran into problems" things happens a lot. Obviously there's going to be problems, I'm not stupid. But I'm a little sick of these "it's onna come out today, were basically done!" To "yeah it's gonna be a few more days". Do not misunderstand, I'm not tryig to rage, I am just concerned on why this happens so often with plugins to maps.

This is a server run by people who donate their time, it's not going to be perfect or move smoothly. Although Tythus is in bed the rest of the tech team is still working to iron out bugs so that we can release it tomorrow. Pex is the only thing really preventing us from opening the server at the moment and it's mostly because of the changes with Mojang. 

Uhh, do the halflings have region plot specifically for them?

Not really, as this is a temp map we only really covered racial capitals and they are still going to have to hustle over to their regions to claim them... we just let them pick out rough areas that they would like. You are more then welcome to claim any open plot... and even if you don't get a chance to claim one... this is a super temporary map.

There are racial region plots for racial capitals not shown on the previous map. Not sure if Rhia wants to post it yet or not.

Nation leaders know where they are at. I will leave organization up to them (As in... make a post guys). 

OP updated, we are releasing tomorrow. 

ETA?

Tomorrow most likely. 

What is Pex again?

Pex is server groups like VIP, ET, AT ect. It's also what gives you access to our plugins. 

Hello LoTC,

As most of you know the server is changing maps, right now nation regions are done and we are mostly waiting on pex... We are converting our normal pex to something called UIDpex (Mojangs new user id's for servers) and still need to add RPessentials ( a pain in the arse I guess) 

So the hold up is communication between our server and mojang as your pex will now hold your assigned user ID from mojang. 

We all want this map out as soon as possible and I know waiting sucks a lot, Thank you for your patience guys. 

We decided to delay release until tomorrow because of time zones, Go to bed you GMT peoples :P

She's right, lets stay on topic guys. 

If anyone wanted to know we are calling this map Thales. so... yay. Also, tech is working on configuring plugins and we hit a speed bump. Map will be out as soon as humanly possible. 

This players questions have been answered and the situation resolved.

Should you wish to have this reopened, please PM me your reasons why it should be so.

Can anyone tell me what these important special lore items are?

Things like Heibe's hammer. I'll remake them if no one else wants to. Not a big deal.