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I get reminded of the goblin in the back cover of Pathfinder 2e's Core Rulebook any time I see it.

Hai hai!~

I'm actually lurking to figure that out myself at the moment. All I've gathered so far is:

• The current map is overall kinda poopy, but hubs/warp apparently make it playable.

• Something about the way regions are done also being poopy?

• The whole wheel-reinvention cycle that happens when the majority of the previous staff generation has come and gone is still a thing, which often manifests in the form of stuff like the aforementioned map design, the overall vision for what the setting is, or their approach to storytelling and lore curation.

• I've found a number of threads expressing concern about the lack of spontaneous, organic role-play with, primarily, strangers over the past few months. It seems many players stick to familiar circles or cliques - but this is nothing new in my experience. If anything, it may have just been the pre-existing issue got exacerbated by the new map's configuration.

• Somewhere in the current world there is a place by the name of Du Loc. Apparently it's a very cool place. I'm intrigued.

As an observer, I'd rate what I've gathered a 7/10, perhaps?

How long do you reckon until a new map gets released? I'm actually debating if I want to return at this time or not given the myriad of issues that would stem from the current world configuration.

I also can't help but notice just how large the map itself is T-T

It’s a High Fantasy. There is no such thing as “Medieval Fantasy” unless you’re talking about Historical Fantasy.

Something something gunpowder artillery is a medieval technology.

I didn’t like how it turned out so I will be changing it again soon @Elennanore

Personally I would strongly suggest steering away from retroactive changes to the established canon, even for something that might not so directly impact the setting. The revisions make sense though.

Maybe trying to get busy with a rat wasn’t the best idea.

Wait, rewrite? How much of a rewrite are we talking? Will it retcon or will it expand upon pre-established canon?

To be fair, it’s an echo x9 since every generation or year per-se has only lead it to stray farther and farther from what it originally was both as a community and a role-play setting. I think the closest it ever got to its former self was with Elysium and Kalos (Khalos?) and early Anthos.

@TheAlphaMoist The conversation about technology locks has been around for almost a decade, since back in Aegis, when the server had actual cannons, steam engines and a prototype hakenbüchse designed by a dwarf towards the end of that era. It has resulted in numerous retcons before.

I believe it was up to 80 - 100 for humans, 300 for dwarves, 150-ish for orcs, ??? for elves, 200 for adunians and halflings, aaand... that's all I remember ^-^"