Concerning Cataclysm

[Psychyn]

About Accounts - will we need to re-make/re-request them off the Kretorc?

Man, that'd be a major headache for the Overlord...

Don't we have a new fancy component for that?

For a second. ^^ There's still people with a third, fourth, fifth... seventh.. account.

Got my third a while ago, but if I decide on killing most of my toons I won't need that back for a while.

[Alpharius]

Oeh, that would be great.

A dream coming true for my engineering Goblin.

-Drools with spinning stoned rainbow background-

Heh, I had a goblin salesmen I tinkered (hah!) around with when I was bored. He was a half silver salesmen (You know how we have silver and true silver? Yeah.) so all of his stuff was "Half Silver: It's like silver, but better!"

That was fun...

[Kretol]

The accounts table is shared, so you'll be able to use your existing accounts. In fact, I'll keep the old server up temporarily even after the Cata server is officially opened so that folks can refer back to their old characters for reference as needed.

[Nikodemos]

[Stealthscout]

The accounts table is shared, so you'll be able to use your existing accounts. In fact, I'll keep the old server up temporarily even after the Cata server is officially opened so that folks can refer back to their old characters for reference as needed.

A thousand hugs.

[Aphetoros]

Our bodies are ready, are yours?

This seems as good a time as any...

[Harmonic]

Woot.

[Scow2]

I have a few suggestions for handling Ashenvale for Cataclysm! But first, South Barrens because it's easier.

For both, the answer is events. We may need to create "Pre-war" phases for those areas, and have the establishment of the Warsong Lumber Camp (And the goblin base too) in Ashenvale, and the destruction of the Tauren camp and Dwarven dig site and establishment of the Human Battle-lines as early GM-run events.

From there, though, the southern barrens devolves into Trench Warfare for the rest of the Cataclysm. Maybe with an event or two to spontaneously pop up and give one side more ground temporarily.

Ashenvale doesn't go into trench Warfare, but the fate of the forest at any given time should be up to the GMs and players, with attacks, counter-attacks, and frequent skirmishes. The events don't even need to be 'formal' - If a bunch of players and at least one GM are online and bored, they can jump over to Ashenvale or other war hotspot and cry havok.

There is a LOT of potential for active events in Cataclysm, because the quests are so dynamic. Since most of them will be broken, it might be a good idea to make them "World Quests/Events" that actually change the world for everyone, and be spread throughout Cataclysm's run.

[Geoni]

I guess I'm excited but at the same time uncertain about the change. I hope that Cata events aren't going to knock us over like a tidal wave, because I'd rather they be done one at a time. What I'm saying is that when the server changes to Cataclysm, there's a chance that a lot of people are going to jump the gun to make Cataclysm based events, but I hope we can all schedule around each other so that every event can be attended.

But yeah, I'm super excited because I can finally go through with having a Goblin as one of my main characters alongside Troovo, Eta, and Ghurm.

[Jaella]

I have a few suggestions for handling Ashenvale for Cataclysm! But first, South Barrens because it's easier.

For both, the answer is events. We may need to create "Pre-war" phases for those areas, and have the establishment of the Warsong Lumber Camp (And the goblin base too) in Ashenvale, and the destruction of the Tauren camp and Dwarven dig site and establishment of the Human Battle-lines as early GM-run events.

From there, though, the southern barrens devolves into Trench Warfare for the rest of the Cataclysm. Maybe with an event or two to spontaneously pop up and give one side more ground temporarily.

Ashenvale doesn't go into trench Warfare, but the fate of the forest at any given time should be up to the GMs and players, with attacks, counter-attacks, and frequent skirmishes. The events don't even need to be 'formal' - If a bunch of players and at least one GM are online and bored, they can jump over to Ashenvale or other war hotspot and cry havok.

There is a LOT of potential for active events in Cataclysm, because the quests are so dynamic. Since most of them will be broken, it might be a good idea to make them "World Quests/Events" that actually change the world for everyone, and be spread throughout Cataclysm's run.

Well, maybe have a few of these world events be repeatable or something like that. Or simply a dynamic area that changes with minor events, that would be nice too.

[Scow2]

I have a few suggestions for handling Ashenvale for Cataclysm! But first, South Barrens because it's easier.

For both, the answer is events. We may need to create "Pre-war" phases for those areas, and have the establishment of the Warsong Lumber Camp (And the goblin base too) in Ashenvale, and the destruction of the Tauren camp and Dwarven dig site and establishment of the Human Battle-lines as early GM-run events.

From there, though, the southern barrens devolves into Trench Warfare for the rest of the Cataclysm. Maybe with an event or two to spontaneously pop up and give one side more ground temporarily.

Ashenvale doesn't go into trench Warfare, but the fate of the forest at any given time should be up to the GMs and players, with attacks, counter-attacks, and frequent skirmishes. The events don't even need to be 'formal' - If a bunch of players and at least one GM are online and bored, they can jump over to Ashenvale or other war hotspot and cry havok.

There is a LOT of potential for active events in Cataclysm, because the quests are so dynamic. Since most of them will be broken, it might be a good idea to make them "World Quests/Events" that actually change the world for everyone, and be spread throughout Cataclysm's run.

Well, maybe have a few of these world events be repeatable or something like that. Or simply a dynamic area that changes with minor events, that would be nice too.

That's kinda what I was getting at... at least for Ashenvale, South Barrens, and the Swamp of Sorrows.


Also, out of curiosity on the server in general, is there a way to make Outland and Northrend relevent again? Blizzard's lore just sends people back in time, but is there a way to reinvigorate at least some previously 'solved' problems to permit retail-style spontaneous RP in those areas, instead of just letting them rot away into irrelevance?

[Edgar]

Hopefully you can find another stand-alone file for us to download. I'm horrid with patching.

[Grakor456]

Also, out of curiosity on the server in general, is there a way to make Outland and Northrend relevent again? Blizzard's lore just sends people back in time, but is there a way to reinvigorate at least some previously 'solved' problems to permit retail-style spontaneous RP in those areas, instead of just letting them rot away into irrelevance?

They probably aren't going to be high priority since they never were major RP hotspots in the first place. Nor do I imagine that the move to Cata will do any harm to RP in those locations if you want it to happen.

That said, talk about looking at those areas has happened, so some changes may happen, if we can make them in a lore-friendly way. It just isn't top priority at the moment.

[Kage]

Oh deary me.. Now I am all confused. What is the time difference between cata and now? Is there a time jump of some kind?

[Grakor456]

In lore, there's around a three year difference between the beginning of the events of Wrath to the beginning of the events of Cataclysm.

From OUR perspective, there shouldn't be a time-skip at all since we've been in the "between expansions" limbo for a while as it is.