Notes from the Shroud of the Avatar International Convention 2019 panel on World Building. Towns, Adventuring Areas, and Dungeons.

General Comments

• The new quest system will be based on the same system that will be used for player created NPC dialog/quests. https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/

• There will be some limitation to player NPC dialog to protect the performance of the server side of things

2020 Highlights

• New land and Player Owned Towns

• New Quest and Task System

• Treasure Map System

• More Dungeons

• Scene Rework and Polish + Wave Battles

Questions (paraphrased)

Note: questions that may be spoilers have been skipped here

• What are the mechanics for travel to the EP2 lands?

  • Probably boat travel like to Hidden Vale

  • Scroll will work as well

• How different will the new quest system be from a user interaction perspective?

  • Shouldn’t be much different from the current keyword system

• Will the player NPC dialog work on vendors as well?

  • Yes, that is the idea

• When will the player NPC dialog be in the game?

  • Hoping for the end of the year

• Will there be a quest for a town sized deed in addition to the row and village?

  • Nope

• Will it be possible to move a smaller house around on a larger lot (flexible placement)?

  • Someday maybe

  • It all comes down to the navigation mesh flexibility

  • Right now, there are too many bugs in the 3rd-party navmesh currently used

Be sure to check out the details in the video posted by NBNN

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