Testing, testing...

[Spiky]

Plus there's the fact we can use flying mounts in Azeroth, which is always good as it means we can access literally anywhere.

To be completely honest? That's not entirely a good thing.

With the current state, there seems to be a lot of tinkering to be done, and even after that it might still not be fixed. The fact that other servers employ this only tells us that either they stuck with it because of player demand, and then later recieved a lot of complaints when everything was buggy, or they found a fix to it and don't want to share it / secretly used another core.

Fact remains, don't get your hopes up too high for Cata. We all more or less want it to come to CotH eventually, but we'd also rather have it working, yes? Patience is your ally, people.

[Ormica]

Okay, but I still am worried about cata, I'm really scared of it, for good reason, no?

[flammos200]

Do you mean redoing the profile process or just making the character in game? If the former, that will only be the case if a lore restart, if the former, you just have to remake the character in game once we get on the new server core for Cata and then get leveled again, no resubmission of the profile necessary.

Just remaking the character in-game, and getting it leveled. The last restart was taken to prevent another re-profiling from occurring when we reach Cata, which was a pretty damn wise idea.

What I'm wondering about is additional accounts... I'm hoping really hard that our extra accounts will stay open(I already figured they'd be empty, just like with the last restart) and that we haven't got to bother Kretol again to re-make them for us...

[Reese]

My face when.

[Bovel]

Alright, some notes on how the test server seems to be working so far...

We're still debating how to best proceed, but that's a few warnings and limitations to get out of the way right off the bat.

Have you considered getting in touch with the Molten team for advice or something? I've played the entire Goblin start on their server which works fine apart from two quests that proved not to be vital.

I have yet to try the worgen start but from what I gathered, it works fine on Molten.

But phases will be problematic, I agree with that. Running around having fun on Molten with other people is often interrupted when they two players haven't completed the same quests and one ends up in another phase due to this.

[Grakor456]

Keep in mind, Molten most likely has a larger and more capable set of staff when it comes to technical issues like that. We're really just a bunch of guys that like RPing. In short, even if they were inclined to offer us some help (which is a big 'if',) there's still likely only to be a very limited amount of things that we can do.

One thing I will say is that even if we can fix certain issues that are most pressing to us as an RP server, the move to Cata would essentially destroy questing and instancing.

[Clovis]

[Bovel]

...the move to Cata would essentially destroy questing and instancing.

In detail I don't fully understand the challenge, but this is what I fear with a move to Cataclysm. In the end CotH is an RP server so I guess we shouldn't care, no?

[Bwoyar]

...the move to Cata would essentially destroy questing and instancing.

In detail I don't fully understand the challenge, but this is what I fear with a move to Cataclysm. In the end CotH is an RP server so I guess we shouldn't care, no?

I think they want to have as Blizz-like an experience on the server without RP. Rp is the main concern, but not the only one, or the move would be made without any discussion on it.

I've heard people to enjoy to level on the server, so it would ruin that for those who do like it. But, as you said, it is an RP server first and I guess there needs to be a big group discussion.

[Piken]

...the move to Cata would essentially destroy questing and instancing.

In detail I don't fully understand the challenge, but this is what I fear with a move to Cataclysm. In the end CotH is an RP server so I guess we shouldn't care, no?

I have to say, I'd be upset if all instances and stuff were destroyed.. I enjoy doing instances and raiding, personally. While it wouldn't stop me from playing here, it would really sadden me if they didn't work.

[dastmo]

I am not much of a raider or leveler myself, when it comes to playing on CotH. I don't mind if quests and instances don't work. This will keep us more focused on RP. But then again, when people need just to relax or gain some gold to raise that profession and get the awesome looking item with nice FX that they want... it might become problematic. Also, sometimes one needs to detach themselves from RP for a day or so and to go mindless on some PvE quests, just for the sake of relaxing their minds or killing boredom. That's when it could become problematic as well.

Long story short - I care not if we have questing and instancing available, but many other people would get bored when they can't find RP (due to a bad time zone or something) and have nothing to do, so it's a blade with two edges.

[Grakor456]

I mostly bring it up because I know a lot of people enjoy doing it. Personally, I only care about the RP and if the server can properly support that. If people want to quest, there are countless other games and servers that can be used for that activity.

However, we always like to have the option available. Moving would mean that, while not impossible, it would be very inconsistent and glitchy. Especially for any Cataclysm content.

[CappnRob]

Psh, wingswords.

Gantrithor did it before you, Clovis!

[Zhaei]

Personally I'm not bothered about losing instances and such, but I do fear running into a bugged mob in RP and having the session ruined or have to be moved because of it.

[Ural]

2. A lot of the NPC speech (as in, the random /says that they do) is missing, or replaced with random text that the Skyfire devs put in. Often this text is low-brow and poorly spelled with over-use of exclamation points. It's really painful to look at.

It is really distracting if you're nearby and keep seeing "Your weapon is very beutiful" over and over. Personally I'd just shut them all up, but I have no idea how intensive that is.

My only real interest in quests is that some of them have unique quest rewards that us 'real gear buffs' drool over.