Pann 8,689 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Note: Our website is still undergoing some major work, so we're publishing this update here on the forum again. We hope to return soon to our usual method for delivering news. - Pann Hey, gang! Two great announcements for you today!First, we just crossed the line of $3 million in crowdfunding! Add that to our investment funds and licensing money and it puts us right at $10 million in project funding. Both of these are huge financial milestones for us, and we will be forever grateful for your continued faith in our team and in Crowfall®. Second, we have successfully started our first persistent world test! This means: - Expect the servers to be up for days at a time (instead of hours!) - Size of the world map has increased dramatically - You can log in and out of the game, and then pick up from where you left off from the last test session - Skill training (and equipment) are persistent between game sessions and test windows - You will continue to advance your skills even when the game world is offline - Skill training can be changed from the lobby any time – even when the game world is offline! This is a huge step forward for Crowfall. Our first test run, last Friday/Saturday, went off without a hitch. This test had relatively low concurrency (with only 250 people invited) but the server stayed up for 27 hours without interruption until we decided to take it offline. Our second test, which started last night at 5pm CST, brought the total number of invites up to 800. We did a game update this morning, and sent out another round of invites – bringing the number of invited players up to 1600. The test group now includes ALL backers with the Pre-Alpha1, Pre-Alpha 2 and Alpha 1 reward (in other words: Sapphire pledge packages and above). We’re going to extend the time window on THIS test by 12 hours because we also made a significant change to combat movement (with the Myrmidon) this morning, and we want to collect additional feedback. The current test will now continue until 11pm CST tonight (11/02/2016). Next Test Window Our next test will run for 50+ hours. It is scheduled to start on Friday night, 11/4, at 5pm CST and to end on Sunday night, 11/6,11pm CST. Our current plan is to invite the Alpha 2 Kickstarter test group first (~3,000 people invited), and – subject to server performance – we will look at adding the rest of the Alpha 2 test group folks during this same test window. Everyone in the Alpha 2 and 3 test groups should be in by the next weekend, 11/11 (unless we have some kind of development setback). Problems in development are to be expected, so don’t be too distressed if that happens. Every problem we find and fix now is great for the future stability and scalability of Crowfall! Remember: we want to invite people as quickly as we can, but that is limited by the performance and stability of every test version. We’ll continue doing mid-week tests, followed by weekend tests through most of November. Your skill training and inventory will persist between tests**. Exciting times! As always, we appreciate your help as we create and iterate on Crowfall, and we can’t wait to see you in game! J. Todd Coleman and Gordon WaltonCo-Founders, ArtCraft Entertainment ** unless we have a development need to wipe the database, which will happen from time-to-time. We are still in pre-alpha, after all! chancellor, Arawulf, Tinnis and 19 others 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolster50 2,952 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Friday night will NEVER come soon enough! Gorwald and JamesGoblin 2 You Can't Be A Genius, If You Aren't The Slightest Bit Insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zolaz 806 Share Posted November 2, 2016 JamesGoblin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thyr 522 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Well scaling things up (purposely breaking things/stressing things) isn't so bad so nice to see. Wonder how the Big World will feel when we hit a certain threshold performance wise and gameplay wise (bloodbath continued) JamesGoblin and Gorwald 2 You get the wolves...lots of wolves...and sheep that wear armor and have developed an appetite for blood soaked grass - dubanka Even insects smell good when roasted - a random confessor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emcredible 140 Share Posted November 2, 2016 I've been waiting so long for this </3 JamesGoblin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eaden 719 Share Posted November 2, 2016 JamesGoblin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garion132 2 Share Posted November 2, 2016 this is going to be great JamesGoblin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrisDDevil 3,473 Share Posted November 2, 2016 10m$? Weren't you at 7 and something, including the 2.5m$ you had in crowdfunding? Math doesn't add JamesGoblin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youma 423 Share Posted November 3, 2016 JamesGoblin 1 Click here to join the Crowfall Discord chat community Sekket on Mourning. Bhorov on Test Server. Youma the Pirate wherever TSP has sailed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrant 6,543 ArtCraft Dev Share Posted November 3, 2016 10m$? Weren't you at 7 and something, including the 2.5m$ you had in crowdfunding? Math doesn't add We hadn't gotten around to adding $2m in licensing and we raised another $500k in capital last month. it will be up on the site tomorrow. Eaden, Greenfox21, JamesGoblin and 4 others 7 Gordon Walton, ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc. [Rules of Conduct] Follow us on Twitter @CrowfallGame | Like us on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tark 961 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Fenris is on to something. I keep hearing that Tyrants emails are missing. Thats not what I'm saying but thats what I'm hearing. JamesGoblin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Healein 893 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Oh yeeaaaaaah, Alpha 2 lets go! JamesGoblin and Noc. 2 I don't want to kill more rats, fill another experience point bar or collect another meaningless badge. I want to play a GAME against PLAYERS, where my actions, my decisions and my SKILL will determine if I win or lose. Allies. Enemies. Alliances. Betrayal. risk. Conquest. To compete with THOUSANDS of other players for a chance to claim the THRONE. Even if i lose, the experience won't feel hollow. I don't want another worthless trophy. PLAY TO CRUSH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zolaz 806 Share Posted November 3, 2016 We hadn't gotten around to adding $2m in licensing and we raised another $500k in capital last month. it will be up on the site tomorrow. ACE lost it in the couch cushions. JamesGoblin, Mother_Fable and Greenfox21 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betaguy 38 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Thanks for the update, great work! JamesGoblin 1 THE CORRUPT FEAR | THE HONEST SUPPORT | THE HEROIC JOIN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sioncent 194 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Great to see ACE hit this milestone - excellent progress!! JamesGoblin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmizer 340 Share Posted November 3, 2016 (edited) KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GUYS!!!! Edited November 3, 2016 by snowmizer JamesGoblin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalus_Konkwest 114 Share Posted November 3, 2016 CASH HYPE YA'LL! JamesGoblin 1 Join Domunation |||| Domain of Mazzaroth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miraluna 2,831 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Congrats on the $3 million in crowdfunding ACE! Making an MMO for $10 million = good times had by all JamesGoblin and RikForFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenfox21 289 Share Posted November 8, 2016 We hadn't gotten around to adding $2m in licensing and we raised another $500k in capital last month. it will be up on the site tomorrow. Good Stuff. I know that there's lots of wages to pay and other stuff. Having an bigger puffer is always better. Makes you not " we needed to realese" later on ... as likely. xD Keep up the good work~ Your the only hope in the mmorpg sector, now that Everquest Next is an dryed Mummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sadrax 71 Share Posted November 8, 2016 I'm extremly happy for you guys and to be honest very much hyped for the game I shall wait in beta 1 untill i get an invite ^^ In the meantime Praise the sun! \[T]/ \[T]/ PRAISE THE SUN! \[T]/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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