Fly on the Wall: Castle Building, Part 2

[Pann 8,118]

In this episode, the creative director, art director and design lead discuss different parcel types to be utilized in players' private Eternal Kingdoms and also for campaign worlds.
 

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[Ziz 1,454]

Lots of fun things to fight over!

[Kiro 790]

Wow.

 

Also, Heads on spikes confirmed.

[pang 4,173]

Love the little bits of info. Resource gathering in the EK sounds like its 1 log at time whereas in the CW its 3000 at a time. There's more to it than that obviously, but just more info stating beyond quality being better in the CW that resource gathering in CW is more efficient as well.

Edited January 26, 2016 by pang

[IamMe 565]

Love it! Answered lots of questions. I like that they adress solo play and design with that in mind too.

 

P.S. The link beneath the news article is broken.

[McTan 2,032]

I like the bleeding of resources from factories.  Gives another playstyle which is to go sabotage enemies' factories- I'll try to carry back the 3000 on my caravan with a bunch of friends, or go in alone and just chunk away the 3000 that sits there.

 

Edit: I understand factories not to have strict ownership, I'm speaking more like soft, frequent harvesters ownership

Edited January 26, 2016 by mctan

[Tobran 53]

Pretty cool to hear about caravans again

[ZYBAK 2,987]

I really liked the talk about how traveling with materials via caravan is much more efficient than breaking the resource down and carrying it via individual characters. It should lead to some interesting caravan escorts vs. highwaymen gameplay.

[sneaky_squirrel 994]

We've heard a good deal about castle design, but what about construction speed?

 

This question is directed towards the CWs.

 

Are castles built instantly in their blueprint completed states?  Do they take time to build and suddenly appear in the world out of nowhere?  Do they take time to build and get a "under construction" appearance while they are still not completely built?

[pang 4,173]

I really liked the talk about how traveling with materials via caravan is much more efficient than breaking the resource down and carrying it via individual characters. It should lead to some interesting caravan escorts vs. highwaymen gameplay.

Should lead to some hard choices as well. If about to be attacked and feel like you won't make it back to base do you risk it and try to fight them off might lose it all or break it down and divide the pieces and try to make run for it to at least get some of it back to base.  

Edited January 26, 2016 by pang

[Destrin 3,072]

Hype!

[freeze 3,759]

We've heard a good deal about castle design, but what about construction speed?

 

This question is directed towards the CWs.

 

Are castles built instantly in their blueprint completed states?  Do they take time to build and suddenly appear in the world out of nowhere?  Do they take time to build and get a "under construction" appearance while they are still not completely built?

 

my guess is, that as long as you have the ressources, it'll probably build instantly...

 

but I agree... some info regarding build time would be nice. Maybe we'll see something like Archeage where you hammer the air a little bit before the building is constructed.

[Caenth 3,893]

This video and the info in it made me so hyped again! 

[VIKINGNAIL 5,680]

Please have a build time on things kinda like RTS... thx

[EDM 1,055]

Lol when I mentioned seed and growing it in our campaign world landscape in the last update, i didn't think they'd honestly do that haha

[BurgundytheRed 215]

Arawulf,

You forgot the "Farmer" EK owner.

Farmers are:

1. "Loyal Citizens" of their guildmaster's EK, who produce resources on their own EK for the guild  or
2. "Travelling Merchants", who maintain resource parcels, a trade shop, and minimum buildings to provide CW buffs. These support independent (tax-free) trading.

[BurgundytheRed 215]

Blair confirmed that factories cannot be built in EK's.

JTC introduced Refineries, which can break down materials into resources with max efficiency. Refineries can be in your stronghold.

[Khoth 85]

Man I would love to just see every meeting they had like this. This gets me so hyped for the game. It's also nice to see why choices are being made form all sides Design, Art, Technical.

[Arkade 3,451]

my guess is, that as long as you have the ressources, it'll probably build instantly...

 

but I agree... some info regarding build time would be nice. Maybe we'll see something like Archeage where you hammer the air a little bit before the building is constructed.

Building took time in SB, so I wouldn't be surprised if the same is true in CF.

[Recatek 326]

Todd mentions buildings having static slots for NPCs. Any thoughts on having a building like a barracks from Shadowbane that gives you access to roaming NPC guards?