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[Xeevis]

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What I had to say about moderation is in the #serverfeedback channel.

But to address issues you have with the bot. I have added query feature because it's useful and fun. It was always a fluid conversation of many people and wasn't spammed, it was within limits of fair usage and nobody had intent of breaking rules or disrupting the service. I was present there and didn't find anything actionable. Only when @Torgue_Joey queued lots of queries and he did so only because there was a lag and queries weren't responded to, bot tried to catch up so created a small wall of text (which @PoliceTrooper pointed out as spammy) I disabled the feature until I can fix it to prevent this unexpected behavior and as @DarkCisum points out it was indeed my fault for not having proper thresholds and timeouts on it .

But I strongly disagree that server is poorly run, that is uncalled for.

 

[Ronyn]

2 questions:
1. Reminder? where was the first post?
2. Mark said there would be no vertical progression. Not that i'm unused to game devs breaking promises, but what changed?

That is a common bit of confusion on this issue. I will see if I can help.

The original fundraiser for the forum stated that Em-8er will be-
"A shooter first, with great movement, guns and abilities. Skill matters. Progression is horizontal, opening up more options and abilities and gameplay."

In a later post he clarified what horizontal progression means in this case.

So, horizontal progression still has a power curve. But it has 2 main differences in Ember:
1) Power curve is much shallower than traditional online game.
2) There is a strong skill component to many things, making skill matter

Just wanted to remind everyone that horizontal does not mean "flat" as we've defined it.

 

[Ronyn]

There's still a lot of theme park MMO thinking going on here, guys. Most of this logic won't apply in Ember due to the nature of the game. "Boss scaling" hopefully won't be a thing, because hopefully we won't be facing the same boss over and over, and we won't be "higher level" because there won't be a traditional level chart.

I could not speak to boss design or even whether or not there will be bosses in Em-8er. I do want to make a quick reminder that there will be some amount of vertical progression in this game.

 

[Grummz]

No Donation drive this year. We need to deliver the exes and 3D prints. We may, however, open a Patreon this year as many have asked for. All depends on what rewards we can offer for Patreons.

 

[Ronyn]

Does that Mean a new Donation Drive Coming Soon?

It's still going to be a while before the next campaign.