Tonight’s IRC chat will be with GM Gizmo, GM Darkenigma and GM Nagafen. The topic will be on the League of Historians. Please try to remain on topic for tonight’s discussion. This will be a moderated chat and please send any questions you have to QT_BreeOge any other questions to anyone else will not be answered. Thank you
*Tagath* How many historians are you wanting for each shard?
<GM_Gizmo> The Historians are going to be the keepers of the Lore of each shard. We're not going be limiting ourselves to a specific number. They'll be in ratio to the number of players on each shard, depending on participation and interest.
*Tagath* What is the primary function for this league?
<GM_DarkEnigmaa> the league will provide ideas and maintain a level of interaction between developers and the world itself, helping to shape their shard's lore ina more dynamic fashion.
*LO* Since new quests, lore NPCs, etc. cannot be implemented without a working delta process, how is progress on reverse engineering it going?
<GM_Gizmo> LO: The process of developing new content and providing new quests, lore npc's and other items for the game is being worked on. We will be announcing the specific items sometime in the near future, but for now, we'll just say that progress is looking good
*Tagath* What are the qualifications for historian?
<Amadan> We'll be looking to veteran players to help document the recent history of Istaria, but contributions to the ancient histories will be open to any player with a great imagination.
*Tagath* How much of each shard's individual lore will be directly written by this league?
<GM_Gizmo> The developers will provide a framework to provide an overall storyline to the League of Historians, within which they can help flesh out and deepen the Lore
*Rawdge* What is the process for becoming a Historian - i.e. what will players have to do to become one?
<GM_Gizmo> We'll be announcing the official requirements within the next 2 weeks, and we'll begin the qualification process after that announcement. Expressing interest and a strong storytelling ability is probably the primary requirement at this point.
*Deb* What signifance will the historians have to the shards? If you plan to have each shard take its own path, then you will need 4 development shards, and 4 development teams. Is this going to be happening?
<GM_DarkEnigmaa> Deb: It's going to be structured so that we'll be able to create different content and lore, utilizing the 4 testing databases and the single testing shard that we have.
*Talonia* Will players moved from Unity to Unitas also keep their lair/plots? .. what if it's a guild lair/plot?
<GM_DarkEnigmaa> Talonia: Access to the Unity database will ensure that we'll be able to make a clean transfer of characters. Plots will be a little trickier but we're still working out the details.
*Rawdge* How will their role be identified to other players?
<GM_Gizmo> Historians will be identified either through an emblem, depending on their level of interaction, or a title in game. The specifics are still being worked out, but we want to reward those who participate for their contributions.
*LO* Four testing databases? Do you mean four seperate development servers? If so, great, but how will new content, quests, etc, be tested on Blight? You're talking about four unique builds and one test shard
<GM_DarkEnigmaa>: Four different testing databases yes, But the actual world server is 1 cluster of servers. The 4 individual databases can use the testing cluster of world servers. New content, quests, etc will tested on blight similar to how it was previously done.. through delta process.
*Peaches* Will we have any type of fall festival this year?
<Amadan> Peaches: We will have a series of events for the Fall Festival, although the event will differ from Tulga's Festival.
*Tagath* Will each race, adventure class, and/or craft class have a representative historian?
<GM_Gizmo> Historians will deal with generally broad spectrums of Istarian lore. We probably won't specify or delegate the roles of each historian, but allow them to fully express their imagination in their own fashion. We're looking forward to a whole new level of lore building and interaction with the players of Horizons!
<QT_BreeOge> This will conclude tonight’s chat. We would like to thank everyone for coming and a log of the chat will be posted on http://hz.stratics.com in a few minutes.