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twilights 
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 Quote Reply  Posted: 08 Jul 2015 at 10:12 |
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yes but building full research in a city takes over 3 years...you got to keep game timing in mind...its just longer than real time...I hear coffee breaks in illy last for days and often end up in the pubs
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| Mr Damage
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Quote Reply Posted: 09 Jul 2015 at 06:23 |
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Don't get me started on research, so much of it is useless unless off course you care about your rank.
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| Rill
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Quote Reply Posted: 09 Jul 2015 at 07:06 |
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Completing the research takes more like 18 months, if you research continuously. Assuming you occasionally neglect to restart something, maybe 2 years. Or if you are like me and just didn't do research for a while, you might have a few crafting researches left in one or two cities even after four years.
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| Hyrdmoth
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Quote Reply Posted: 09 Jul 2015 at 08:10 |
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Isn't most of the research for specific crafting items, and for all the different sovereignty buildings? Similarly most people seem to be interested in the geomancy spell that boosts food, so you don't need to research the spells that boost the other four.
If you have a specialised city then the amount of research you need to complete to make it fully functional will be much less then the amount of research that is available.
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| Rill
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Quote Reply Posted: 09 Jul 2015 at 09:17 |
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It depends on the purpose of your city. If it's a combined hunting and harvesting city, that 30-day research and the 14-day research extend things. However, a city can do most of the core functions necessary after about a month and be broadly useful after six months.
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| Raco
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Quote Reply Posted: 09 Jul 2015 at 09:27 |
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How is research related to factions?
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| GM Rikoo
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Quote Reply Posted: 10 Jul 2015 at 21:10 |
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Get back on topic or have your posts deleted.
Rikoo
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| dittobite
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Quote Reply Posted: 16 Jul 2015 at 03:35 |
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In regards to the topic then, do the devs have an update on factions for us? ...'shortly going live' has taken some time now. I understand the need for art and poetry contest in the game of Illyriad, but it would be nice to have thrown in-between them such things as live factions or even what were they called.......tournaments....i know, a thing of the ancient past, but still would be nice to see such things once more come to life in illy.....and Ill be even bolder to wish for a tournament involving factions!
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| Mr Damage
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Quote Reply Posted: 16 Jul 2015 at 06:14 |
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Perhaps just admit that the faction idea became too hard so we have decided to give up on it and focus our resources elsewhere.
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| GM Rikoo
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Quote Reply Posted: 16 Jul 2015 at 06:26 |
I just want to clarify:
A community contest has never, or will never, take developer resources. It is the realm of the community manager and, other than a few tiny website bits and bobs, can be done completely by the community manager. There is not a requirement to take part in them, and they are simply a fun way for community members to possibly earn some free prestige.
The artist, GM Cerberus, is not a coder as well. His artwork does not take away developer resources. When he finishes or updates a piece of art that currently goes in the game (like addons in the research tree) they go in with another small bit of work from the coder. If he is working on future pieces (as he is now) they will go in later.
I have indicated several times that the project we work on now is the priority because it is a backbone project for Illyriad. The game is in dire need of the work the coders are doing, but as I have also said before, I will not release any information like dates until the content or update is completed. As you can see from the fact that I still have to field questions about 4-year-old discussions, handing out information about this project before completion (although we've already announced it a long time ago -- look to the UI thread) would simply be a headache.
Again, stay on topic or I will delete the post and eventually ban the user. The topic is faction units... not tournaments or other content.
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GM Rikoo
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