Pre-Alpha Test Sep 29 - Key Changes
The following only represents significant and not all changes in the build this afternoon. As a reminder, during pre-alpha both small and large changes will occur without warning to facilitate rapid development and experimentation.
World Expansion
The world has been tripled in size and is now divided into 6 regions. It includes the northern tip of what will eventually be a larger island in the world.
Currency
Local Coin has been removed and has been replaced as Silver as the main currency for paying Taxes and increasing Settlement Status. In addition, Silver can be used to purchase items being sold by other players at Marketplace Shops (see below) or merchants located in the world. Silver is interchangeable between Settlements. Silver is procured in the world, found in animal dens or as treasure from ruins. There is also a small chance to find Silver when gathering basic resources.
Marketplace Shops
Players will now be able to build and open up a shop to sell items to other players. Players will set the cost of items sold. Marketplace Shop inventory can be viewed from the map screen, allowing players to find and seek out the items they need to purchase. The Marketplace Shop will now be the main method for exchanging items within and between Settlements as the Local Exchange has been removed.
Homesteads Changes
Homesteads will continue to be iterated on in the coming tests. Several improvements have been made, but they still aren't working entirely as intended yet and will need further experimentation to get right. Homesteads now support up to 50 players Main Homestead structure has been significantly reduced in size, allowing a House to be built without an Extension Players can now destroy Homestead Extensions from the build menu Build ghost now changes colour to indicate if a structure will be built inside or outside a Homestead Structures that are built outside of a Homestead will always remain outside of a Homestead even if it infrings on a Homestead border after upgrading Homestead footprint is now perfectly square, making them easier to layout
Other Changes
- Branches have been removed from the game (Twigs are procured directly from the ground and do not need to be refined before usage)
- Horses will now have AI behaviours which means they will roam on their own if not confined with fences or Stables
- Players can now mount/dismount vehicles in the border travel area
- Settlement Center now has a Treasury that can only be accessed by Lords and Thanes
- Border travel and cross region deployment queues have been implemented
- Scythe and Hoes now require Flint instead of Iron Fragments
- Animal AI code has been significantly optimized, improving server performance on average