After a few hours of reading books and what not and completing some ad’s for other people. I decided that the first ad I made was not only too short, but also did not have enough UMF! so I decided to make it a little longer, and extend some things about it. However, I think the overall ad for at least a while Is complete and I will not be updating it any longer, unless I find a new technique that I need to show off haha. ^_^ Anyway Enjoy! and welcome to Fallen Lords
Well after, making the TGM alliance ad, I figured you know what?! Why not fallen lords?! so I went out and started doing some more research on how to use Adobe After Effects and I ended up making the following ^_^ Now Fallen Lords have their own AD as well!
Well it only took a day for Xsyon to go from One Server, to Two Servers, back to one server. I am getting whip-lash with all the deal changes. I have spoken to a few people and they all feel somewhat the same. I wonder, how lunch will be with these new rules set, as such here is below the updates.
I early await for lunch, haha
I was reading the new updates and I think that Xsyon made some positive decisions and made some good decisions and we now have our full server wipe. However, my big problem is now two server?! It is not big enough player base for two servers ^_^ sigh… here is the Update notes:
Update March 4
Hello everyone!
Before arguments get out of hand I will make some sure things are clear up front. I see already many misconceptions about the War and Peace servers.
The differences between servers will be slight. This will not require a lot of additional development, just a matter of settings and switches in the code.
Update March 4
Hello Xsyon citizens!I'd like to recap what's been going on for the past two weeks and give an update on what we're working on and what he have planned for the coming week.
On February 18th we attempted a final year zero wipe. As our dowload server shared a connection and firewall with our game servers, the heavy download traffic reached our bandwidth limit, interfering with game traffic and causing severe lag. This lag exposed various exploits and problems with tribe and totem placement which in turn led to crashes and bad data being saved. On the 19th, we decided to push forward the official launch for two weeks so that we could resolve the problems that surfaced. The major issues were as follows:
Heavy lag due to bandwidth limit:
This was resolved a week ago as we set up two new download servers separate from our game servers.
Tribe and totem exploits:These were fixed and confirmed throught testing.
Corrupted data saving:The saving system was revised with additional error checking, double back ups and automatic shut downs in the case of bad data being created. After a few days of server crashes and shut downs, both forced and due to problems in the code, we corrected all issues and since then the saving system has been running smoothly and rollbacks, if needed, are small and without data corruption.
Built up lag due to simultaneous terraforming activity and terrain actions:After some optimizations we haven't been able to reproduce this lag in the past few days. We are wary that it may happen again, however. We've added some additional checks and measures so that if lag does build up again, we will be able to pinpoint the exact cause much easier in the future.
With all this out of the way, we are nearly ready for the final wipe and real start of Xsyon!
Here's what is currently in motion:1) We will proceed with a clean slate for the Year Zero start.
The totem survey that we sent out resulted in over 70% of players that placed totems and roughly 90% of players that responded in favor of a clean start. In addition, many totems were not saved properly or were missing from the saved data.2) The game will start with two game servers: War and Peace.
The main reason for this is to handle our current game population and anticipated growth over the next few months.Although the lands beyond the green mist were created a long time ago, we spent a lot of time this past year improving the central active Tahoe zone. Our terrain artists are currently revising and improving the outer lands to match the central zone. The first expansion zone should be ready by the end of April. Currently, however, we can't clear the mist so we are limited to the Tahoe starting zone.
This limitation along with the recent addition of homesteads is crowding the starting zone with our current population. This is driving creatures too quickly into the green mist and not allowing enough active wilderness areas for creatures to breed. We have some additional changes to creature AI that will help resolve this issue, but at this point a two server solution is necessary.
Additionally, this solution will help with the land rush and reduce lag when the servers are full.
With an obvious existing split in the community between players who want more of a construction game and players that want to focus on PvP, we decided to use this as an opportunity for War and Peace servers.
- Both servers will allow for PvP.
- Both servers will retain our anti-griefing policies.
- Both servers will start off the same and change over time.
- Both servers will evolve with the player community.
- Players will have the option to create characters on both servers.
The War server will have safe zones removed during the Prelude. The plan is to evolve this server to focus more on tribal warfare and conquest as quickly as possible.
The Peace server will retain its safe zones with tribes having the options to engage in tribal warfare or allow PvP on tribal lands. This server will evolve more for the crafting and building community.
3) The final wipe and land rush will proceed in a controlled manner.
On the day of the final wipe, players will be able to enter the game and form their tribe charters, but not claim any land. This will allow tribes to form their groups and find their locations and then log on.On the second day, players will be able to claim land, but terraforming will be turned off and combat will not be allowed on the Peace server. This will allow players to claim their lands without entire tribes being online, and once totems are placed, players can log off to reduce stress on the servers.
On the third day, everything will be turned on as normal and game play can begin.
We will do this do reduce potential lag and chaos. The goal of the early entry is for tribes and players to settle in, while the game will officially start with a creature reset on the 15th.
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What's next:We are currently preparing the War and Peace servers. These are at a new location that should provide us slightly better connectivity to players around the world. This won't result in a huge difference from our current game server, but any improvement is welcome. These should be completely set up by tomorrow.
A new launcher is almost ready but needs to be testedonce the game servers are fully prepared.
I'm working on a few fixes and changes that I want done before the final wipe. If we encounter any built up lag in game tonight or this weekend, we will have to take some time to work on it as well.As of now, I estimate we'll be ready by the middle of this coming week. I will post an update tomorrow to keep everyone informed of our progress.
I finally got my interview with Pandemic Tribe and Hopi Tribe together. The Interview explains a lot and some of the views that Hopi Tribe has, I kept objective and asked fair questions.
So after a week or so of Hopi Tribe and Allies have been flaming me on the forums and have begin leaving obscene comments on the blog, Jadzia the leader of Hopi Tribe decides to finally voice his opinion on some things. I have asked questions but it was more of a one-sided conversation and so as I promised I’ll post his reply to everything has gone on.
I personally feel after reading this though that Jadzia is trying to repair the damage done to this tribes reputation however, personally for me I will report any news that comes to me, and you all know I have been waiting to get an official word from Hopi Tribe but after their childish trolling and personal attacks against me repeatedly both on the forums and the blog I do not think I could ever think highly of them. However, my opinion alone will not sway anyone in the end it is yours and yours alone.
The Apache Leader and I had a chat about the reasons why they backed out of the alliance and I have heard over numerous amounts of the rumors why The Apache back out. I attempted to ask him about the rumors but he didn’t want any part of the drama that would’ve be in asking them. So I ignored asking and went back to the original reason why they left.
The Apache: leaves the alliance because they want to follow more diplomatic “good” tribes and want to grow slowly and do not want to move from the “current” location South of the Hopi Tribe. However, The Apache have promised to assist TGM and their allies and agreed to allow them to use their land as a staging ground for all TGM movements against the Hopi Tribe.
With The Apache leaving TGM, 420 joins, Templar agree to their NPA during attacking Hopi Tribe and Promise their assist in all attacks. A number of other tribes have joined TGM and wish to wait to reveal themselves upon launch.
The other day, I had the great chance of speaking with Ickum, the producer or the Streaming show [ Justin.TV/Ickum ]. However, due to some issues with in-game harassment and problems with [Reaver] in game he has locked out his Stream to non-friends, which can be understandable.
I stupidly let everyone post Anon which if I turned it off my comments would turn down to zero probably.
Ickum is an Elder Tribe member of Divided Allegiance (one of the 3rd highest ranks achieved). I spoke to him about a few things regarding the game, the poll for server wipe and few other casual things.
Out of overall conversations Ickum showed strong belief and even Voted YES himself for the Poll vote for a server wipe and talked about Divided Allegiance is a close tight group. He loves the game, and will keep whenever release will happen (probably March 7th from rumors.) We cold not speak for prolong time because of the server lag at the time but, I believe overall we can expect some great things from Divided Allegiance Tribe, and I must say ^_^.
Update: I spoke with Reaver, here is the Interview.
After Ickum had a chance to read the interview with Reaver, he instantly messaged and provided a link of Reaver’s Death. Below is the screenshot of his death.
* Provided by Tribe: Fist Through Screen.
I spoke with Guild Xaphan and it was anything but informative. Here is the conversation.
I was rushed this story from an inside source! A Guide step forward and handed this over to prove that there is Guides Abusing their power!
I could write an Epic Story about how a guide is abusing their power, and how Hopi Tribe now PROVEN to have a Guide in their pocket but I will let the screen shot of the topic speak for it's self.
Please NOTE the following. That this is SENIOR FORUMS!
Armand a member of Hopi Tribe had to say as he, himself was banned from begin a GM
The source of this story has also informed us that there are more Guides and GM’s within Hopi Tribe. However, will these guides also slip up as GM Armand and abuse their powers to help their tribes. Also this was sent to me as FAN art regarding the late events.
In the middle of the night Xsyon posted a message regarding the forums.
Now this post is telling us that Xsyon will add the totems that were "placed" on the 18th of Feb. However, for people who didn't get a chance to place their totems this was unfair! Moreover, that after Feb 18th, a increase of the player population spiked and even more players have joined Xsyon Online since than. What about these players? Do they not have the right to play on a fair ground as everyone else since there is no "launch" of the game yet. On the 18th the game as shut down due to the unstable and inability to play, however the players whom did place a totem, were lucky but even so, some players who did place a totem were over-taken by another totem that was "not legitimately " placed. (What is up with that?!
So I went out of my way to write to Xsyon and ask him a few questions:
*I cannot show the messages I sent due to the fact it seems that Xsyon does not save "Sent" messages. I apologize the screenshots does not show my messages to him.
Furanku : Xsyon I am wondering what were the requirements for placing totems that were saved? Also, when will you address these questions that everyone is asking on the forums?
This reply was completely logically and understandable but what if the population wanted a wipe? I sent another message to him.
Furanku : Xsyon, What if the population of Xsyon wanted a Full Clean wipe and not a partial one, Would you honor that decision made by the population?
As you saw, Xsyon said that he would honor the decision of the population and now. There has been a POLL created by me on the forums asking the population to make their minds up and what they want. As of 1:30pm EST the votes are still coming in but right now they are.
As you can see so far the population wants a Full Wipe. I wonder what Xsyon will do when the time comes. However, the rumor is from an unnamed source within Xsyon Development Team is that the Full Wipe Will occur on March 7th.
If you wish to cast your vote for a full wipe or no wipe please click the poll picture. However, you can also refer yourself to the link below.
http://www.xsyon.com/forum/showthread.php/4249-Server-Wipe-Asked-Xsyon-Your-Vote-Counts./page18
Around 9pm PST, threads were begin made about GuideRamiel, whom posted early about the forums and respect. However, it turns out that the GM is only 16, lecturing players about their decisions and chooses they make on the forums. The same Guide who removed the Xsyon News Thread because of the following Reasons :
Almost laughable how the Guide blames me for how the thread turned out when, I only made a suggestion for the forums. I requested a pending messaged to Xsyon himself and are waiting a reply. However I have moved my link to this Blog to my sig.
However, more going a player speaks out against the 16 year old Ramiel. He original made a post stating his opinions and the 16 disagreed to his own embarrassment and deleted the thread, and even threaten players whom would reply! I do not believe Xsyon himself must know what is going on since this is completely unprofessional.
As reading the 2nd thread I posted a picture (above) of what the player said and what Ramiel himself said to the player. I refreshed the page while writing this and soon found out that the page had been deleted the player most likely banned.
My Personal opinion is that Ramiel himself is too young to judge obviously the actions that are going through the threads and are probably too young to understand most of the referred statements made. Even a Moderator said to him that “Spaz” is a insult. Furthermore, Xsyon had the servers down for almost three hours now, and players are getting antsy to play. I wonder how much longer it will be, until the doors are back open and players can start again.
I sat down and talked with Leader : Inquisitor and War Chief : Dark Goddess and talked about the recent events in game and on the forums. It is a 14 minute interview and it is my first time doing so. In time I will get better and I hope everyone enjoys.
Video is working fine again, however here is a Xsyon –AD for the paper.
Fallen Lords has been in talks with Pandemic Tribe and The Apache about forming an alliance. This suggestion was original brought up by The Apache and was talked about and agreed upon. As of today Fallen Lords, The Apache have formed their own alliance and have been in talks with Pandemic Tribe about them joining.
As of 4:25PM EST; Inquisitor the leader of Pandemic Tribe has agreed to join the alliance formed by Fallen Lords and The Apache.
There has been another 15 other tribes whom have contacted Fallen Lords and in the middle of talks about joining the Alliance as well. This alliance was not only formed with the idea of attacking Hopi Tribe but also in helping each tribe develop and grow into an independent force by itself. The Alliance Charter has not been made and will probably take a while to create but once the charter has been complete It will be shown here for all to see, and if anyone is interested in join the Alliance let me know !
If you click the picture to the Right you will be forwarded to Apache’s Recruitment Page.
If you click the picture to the Right you will be forwarded to Fallen Lords Recruitment Page.
If you click the picture to the Right you will be forwarded to Pandemic Tribe Recruitment Page.
I have a short conversation with a Hopi Tribe member today whom which to be named anonymous and will be known as Hoopi. Hoopi wanted to talk to with me and share his point from Hopi Tribes stand point. Hoopi is not very up there and could not really answer a lot since he did not have the information or clearance to get the information. However the story that he has to share is the following.
Furanku: Okie, please share your story.
Hoopi: We tried to get into game for the head start, just like everyone else did, and we had issue's with lag, just like everyone else did, but we did manage to place a totem (a few times due to rollbacks, only it bugged out), and we could not use it, even though we still had the zone for the Tribal Land.
We reported the bugged Totem, and carried on regardless, crafting, setting up camp, playing as best we could with the lag, when we start getting visit's from people claiming to be from Evil Hopi, who claim they want our land, and that they will take it.
We PVP with some of them, we kill some of them, they kill some of us, its all good fun right? well, maybe not as much fun for Evil Hopi as they feel the need to try and troll us in /s, and in global.
While all this is going on, we have new members joining all the time, some of whom turned out to be people from Evil Hopi (who in reality are Pandemic), and they recorded a conversation (not a meeting as the recording claims, just a regular, afternoon conversation) we were having on vent about Evil Hopi, a tribe created for the sole purpose of harassment, and we were discussing if they (Evil Hopi) should be able to place a totem just to deny us placing one, and what we would do if they actually managed to get in before us and do so.
That is it, nothing more, nothing less.Furanku: Thank you can you tell me your rank within Hopi Tribe?
Hoopi: I am just a Villager.
This is not much, from what was already on the forums but at least someone from Hopi Tribe has the balls to speak with me without insulting me or degrading me trying to find the fact. Also I have been reading the forums and I come across come some funny post’s picking on me directing. Using my iconic ^_^ < guess no one likes it from Hopi Tribe and Allies.
After the Pandemic Tribe’s Announcements regarding Hopi Tribe and the forum war began Ramiel a guide for Xsyon makes an Announcement regarding “Discussing Moderation Actions” around 9:11 PM PST. He made examples of behavior that is acceptable and not acceptable and has covered his own self introduction.
On a personal note; I think he made this thread to bring down the hate going on in the forums right now. As Hopi is one of the largest groups in game, they tend to flood the forums with their comments. I have been keeps an open objective view on Hopi waiting for their leader to write a counter-statement to Pandemic Tribe’s announcement or even to get ahold of me to give me his story but I have been flooded with Trolling, insults and criticism the whole night. I doubt that Hopi Leader will make any public statement or speak to me directly. However, I am holding my breathe and waiting to see.
Below is a picture of Guide Ramiel post, however if you click it will bring you to the post itself.
Before I show it, I want everyone to understand I am not a graphic designer or anything of that sort. ^_^ I hope it is cool because it is going on our recruitment AD!~
Earlier today, Pandemic Tribe War Chief “Dark Goddess” stands up against The Hopi Tribe and rumored GM Favorism. Dark Goddess sits inside of the The Hopi Tribe’s Ventrilo and records a meeting and in the meeting it is stated that “GM’s will ensure their totem location”. Dark Goddess also known as “CeJay” was banned from the forums after posting about this video on the forums! Virtus had banned CeJay the following :
| You have been banned for the following reason: |
This type of ban was a bit questionable to say the least and I find it quite amusing that such a reason would be given for banning. Not only is it unprofessional but “Has proven to be ruthless” WHAT?! lol
I started a Thread called “@CeJay” to ask him a question; if he would join up with Fallen Lords to take down The Hopi Tribe. The thread in the last thirty minutes has hit over 2,000 views and has over 100 posts. Following this; most of the Pandemic Tribe members have been Banned from the IRC and it is currently the most talked about topic on the forums!
To Follow this here is the link to the thread (click the picture), and after is the video.
I also include this since it is relevant regarding the GM Virtus. Note the Screen shot below.
I was chatting on the forums (which is usually a no no for me, I can’t not tell someone that they are a retard) and people were talking about the PVP policy and how it will effect both Reds ( Pvp players) and Blues (Non-pvp players). However, someone posted a link I am now to going to share with you the contents of that link ^_^ I hope this helps.
A few people have posted questions regarding PVP and death in Xsyon. I will explain the system a little more.
PVP is open, but it has severe consequences.
Players can choose to fight in different combat modes: to the death or to unconsciousness. (I'd love to say 'to the pain' but that's not quite right).
In the Prelude, technically neither results in actual death.
As religion enters the game during the prelude there will be forms of permanent death as well as resurrection but the details about this will be given later.
In the Prelude:
Unconsciousness results in very minor skill loss and in general the victor will be allowed to loot an item of choice as a reward for a fight well fought.
Death results in some stat and skill loss and allows the victor to fully loot the player. This is not without complications and consequences for the victor.
- Carrying capacity is limited, so fully looting another player will not be practical.
- A dead or unconscious player can be looted by friends as well as enemies. Friends have the loot advantage by having a quick button to rescue select loot from a fellow player. The advantage is to players that fight in groups and players that know when to pack up and flee from a losing battle.
- Killing or looting a person that is not in an enemy tribe will cause severe reputation loss with the other tribe and within your own tribe.
And there’s more…
When tribes are formed an overall tribe alignment is chosen. Players in a good or neutral tribe will automatically become outcasts if they ‘gank’ a good or neutral player of a non enemy tribe.
Players from an evil tribe are free to loot and pillage and will gain reputation within their own tribe for doing so, but they will also be vulnerable to attacks from all players who will be able to attack evil players without negative consequences. Players in good or neutral tribes will be allowed to put bounty quests on known evil players. In essence, if a tribe chooses to be evil they become the ‘monsters’ of the world.
Tribes can choose different levels of diplomacy with each other.
Players from friendly or allied tribes can fight each other, but only to unconsciousness and without looting capability.
Players from rival tribes can fight each other to unconsciousness with partial loot to the victor.
Potentially the amount of looting can be agreed upon by rival tribes. (Setting the amount of looting is not currently implemented, but it’s something I am considering).
Players from enemy tribes at war can fight to the death with full looting (Potentially tribe leaders can come to a looting agreement for this as well).
Tribal leaders can set what actions are acceptable by their tribe members, in effect determining the laws within each tribe. Even an evil tribe may have a set of lows for its members to follow in order to maintain civil trade and exchange with other tribes.
Two good tribes can not become enemies, they can become rivals at worst.
Breaking the rules agreed upon by your tribes is possible but will result in a warning. If you proceed to act after the warning, your character is set to full evil mode and your reputation, alignment and karma consequences will be severe.
But that’s not all….
A primary worry for players is that they will loose their gear or loot. Keep in mind that in Xsyon all armor and weapons can be crafted and are thus replaceable.
Regarding death by age, this will not occur in the Prelude. By the time any characters will age enough to reach a natural death there will be several (and I think very interesting) methods to deal with permanent death without character loss.
If you are with Fallen Lords, you already know what area we start in, this is how you get the base camp
Stats
Every stat shown can be adjusted any way you want. There are 6 stats, each affecting different in game skills and functions. They are Strength, Fortitude, Agility, Dexterity, Intelligence, Spirit. You can raise, as well as lower, all the stats on this list, as far or high as you feel like, but you start with a set amount of "pool points." You get 100 bonus points, along with every stat at 50. You can decide to leave the stats at 50, and just spend your bonus points, or take away from the stats at 50, reducing them, and then add those points to other stats. It's your choice. The effects of stats can be found in the game manual, but for ease, am copying it here:
| Attribute | Primary Skill | Secondary Skill |
| Strength | Carrying, Capacity, Combat Damage, Logging, Terraforming | Bone craft |
| Fortitude | Energy, Stamina, Hit Points, Resistance | None |
| Agility | Combat Speed, Jumping, Swimming, Climbing | None |
| Dexterity | Basketry, Tool Craft, Woodwork, Bone Craft, Leather Craft, Tailoring, Cooking, Fire Building, | Logging, fishing |
| Intelligence | Poisoning *, Healing *, Architecture, Reading *, Religion * | All Crafting Skills, Stealing |
| Perception | Cooking, Fishing, scavenging, Foraging, Hiding, Detection, Stealing, Woodwork, Fire Building | None |
| Charm | Animal Taming, Tribal Leadership *, Religion *, Fail *, Luck * | Hair Dressing |
| Spirit | Healing *, Cooking, Animal Taming, Faith *, Religion *, Experience * | Architecture, Basketry |
*All Skills marked here, I am not sure if are in game, or will be game. If a Guide or Developer could respond and let me know which of these need modified or changed, please let me know. I know religion was "changed" of sorts, but am not sure if there was something that took its place. Please let me know. So I can make this Guide better.
Starting Skills
Next, you get to choose your Character's starting skills. These are the skills in which will be skill level 25 at the start of the game. All other skills will start at 5, and slowly decay to 1 if you don't use them at all.
Combat Style - this is your primary combat style, Armed Combat (1-handed), Unarmed Combat, Dodging, Parrying, and later a type of 2-handed combat, and "Ranged Combat," when they add that to game. (There are plans for Bows in the works, but will be after launch.)
Combat Weaponry - These are Axes, Blades (knives, not to be confused with crafting tool style knives), Clubs, Pikes, and Pole arms and Staves. Neither Pole arms nor Staves are currently in game at this time of the Beta. I do not know when/if they will be added, but the skill is present.
Two General Skills
These are mostly "gathering" type skills, to get resources. They are Gathering (plants), Scavenging (pick junk up off the ground), Fishing, terraforming (change the shape of the ground around tribal zones), Logging (chopping down of trees), Hunting (this is not the skill to hunt animals, but to skin, debone, decapitate of killed animals and humans), Hiding (the ability to hide yourself, works best at night, higher skill level lets you hide better), Jumping, Swimming, Running
Crafting Skill - you primary crafting skill, this skill is the craft that you will be best at, and able to learn patterns through "grinding," or practicing your craft. Build stuff and you will learn all patterns of this craft, eventually. You will also start with "some" of the patterns of the other crafts, but you will not be able to learn all of them through "grinding," you must find or trade for "books" found from scavenging, that are then read to learn that one pattern. The crafts are
(This was pulled from the forums and I did some minor editing.)
