GM Retser announces that Reim Fortress Defense is now live on the Test server for … well, testing. For a week, or less. He even provided a color-coded map! As always, what happens on Test … stays in Test…
Category: Paid Events: Adventures, Quests, and SimuCoins Topic: The Settlement of Reim
Date: 05/03/2017 02:12 PM CDT
From: GS4-RETSER
Subj: Beta Testing: Reim Fortress Defense
Hey everyone, the test server is now up and refreshed with your characters as of today for prime. Testing with RFD will remain open for approximately a week or less. There are a few scripts and portions of the grounds that aren’t quite out of QC, but the majority of the quest is now live in test for testing.
Plattesting will begin when the remaining items finish QC.
I placed a pile of orbs at the entry way to the Empyrean Tower. You can take as many as you want and test as many times as you want. Simply raise one to flag yourself for entry.
Added to the post at the top, putting down here to add to the chain.
Retser,ASGM
Date: 05/03/2017 07:40 PM CDT
From: GS4-RETSER
Subj: Re: Beta Testing: Reim Fortress Defense
I’m between concepts on the sappers, but right now they’ll break it. I gave the room messaging on that.
If you notice typos or something, or missing room descriptions, that’ll get updated sometime this evening or tomorrow.
Retser,ASGM
Date: 05/03/2017 08:08 PM CDT
From: GS4-RETSER
Subj: Re: Beta Testing: Reim Fortress Defense
Updated the board to give you time, people, and round for fun!
look board You glance over the status board and see,
Current Reim Defense Queue Status
1. Green Room: Available 2. Yellow Room: Available 3. Purple Room: Available 4. Red Room: Available 5. Pink Room: Available 6. Orange Room: Available 7. Teal Room: Available 8. Cobalt Room: Available 9. Indigo Room: Available 10. Blue Room: Available 11. Ivory Room: Available 12. Ebon Room: Available 13. Mauve Room: Available 14. Magenta Room: Quest Underway | Current Round: 1 | Adventurers: 2 | Time Left: 29 minutes 15. Cyan Room: Available 16. Salmon Room: Available
Retser,ASGM
Date: 05/03/2017 08:34 PM CDT
From: ROBLAR
Subj: Re: Beta Testing: Reim Fortress Defense
Nice update to the board!
I think everything looked great and it was alot of fun . I’ll go back in tonight.
Oh, I know what’s missing – drinks in the tavern!
Date: 05/03/2017 10:20 PM CDT
From: ARCHIGEEK
Subj: Re: Beta Testing: Reim Fortress Defense
Not opening any google doc’s today…
Date: 05/04/2017 08:18 AM CDT
From: HJELTE
Subj: Re: Beta Testing: Reim Fortress Defense
Sadly, I didn’t even get to complete a full run last night! Sad real life getting into the way of my testing!
A few initial thoughts: Love it. Fresh, new, fun. And not a pushover!
Rares are harder than I was expecting. 100 AS over normal waves.
I lost the crit padding randomization lottery against a claid with an instant death to a 129 (Base Critical damage 13, base blood damage 13) endroll in HCP/520 (+9) Double Leathers. Not sure if they’re coded to also get additional crit weighting or bypass padding, but man… the Tier 8 critical endroll means that I got my +19 Crit Padding randomized down to a 5, AND they got their crit randomization to not drop a rank. I lost your Reim lottery once again!
Scaling up to 10, per our discussion in game, is awesome… 6 is a bit too low, and would have resulted in a few hurt feelings, and a little too much handpicking classes. Poor Rangers would never get picked!
I know you’re working on balancing rewards, but they’re fairly low for an average player… I walked away from a solo run with 18 wave clears, and ended up with only 469 total scrip. I’d likely consider anything 16+ to be a solid run for normal players! The achievement threshold of 100,000 contribution points (when I only ended up with 71 on my run) seems exorbitantly high considering that RFD isn’t slated to have free daily entry like Reim Village, and will be purely a simucoin driven entry.
Other than that, some analyze help text on the various traps describing them/the verbs to use them would be wonderful.
And are catapults volleys using SMRv2?
~Whirlin
Date: 05/04/2017 11:56 AM CDT
From: NAAMIT
Subj: Re: Beta Testing: Reim Fortress Defense
A voice shouts out, “Incoming catapult fire!” The debris from the catapult fire comes crashing down on you!
A tempestuous pulsating barrier is overwhelmed by the onslaught of the impact attack. … 25 points of damage! Strong blow to your back! You are stunned for 5 rounds! Roundtime: 10 sec.
TREBUCHET: a missed opportunity on so many levels! 1) You could have killed me outright. 2) It would be really funny if the dead were taken prisoner/scooped up and used as projectile fodder, then hurled back into Icemule. Decent alternative to getting shuffled down a river. Oh Wait. No go. You chose a catapult instead of a trebuchet.
P.S. I had a lot of fun in RFD. The critters were challenging and rares extremely so, but the duration was much more palatable. Thanks for opening up the test server!
Date: 05/04/2017 12:40 PM CDT
From: DAID
Subj: Re: Beta Testing: Reim Fortress Defense
>just hist You have committed 13 crimes in Wehnimer’s Landing in the last six months. They are: 1 count of murder 1 count of endangering public safety 8 counts of jailbreak 3 counts of demonic summoning You have committed 1 crimes in Kharam Dzu in the last six months. They are: 1 count of demonic summoning You have committed 1 crimes in Vornavis in the last six months. They are: 1 count of demonic summoning You have committed 2 crimes in the County of Torre in the last six months. They are: 1 count of murder 1 count of endangering public safety You have committed 1 crimes in Kharag ‘doth Dzulthu in the last six months. They are: 1 count of demonic summoning You have committed 1 crimes in Ta’Illistim in the last six months. They are: 1 count of demonic summoning
Date: 05/04/2017 12:48 PM CDT
From: VANKRASN39
Subj: Re: Beta Testing: Reim Fortress Defense
>You have committed
how did you pass your background check?!
Date: 05/04/2017 12:50 PM CDT
From: ARCHSENEX
Subj: Re: Beta Testing: Reim Fortress Defense
>> how did you pass your background check?!
1 Count of Fraud
Date: 05/04/2017 02:25 PM CDT
From: UBERWENCH
Subj: Re: Beta Testing: Reim Fortress Defense
>how did you pass your background check?!
The previous administration didn’t perform sufficiently extreme vetting.
Date: 05/08/2017 04:10 PM CDT
From: GS4-RETSER
Subj: Re: Beta Testing: Reim Fortress Defense
Thanks to everyone who took a moment to test. I’m going to go ahead and call the beta testing closed.
