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[Wild Shadow]

Was just trying this out. The premise is fun, but I feel like it is direly in need of some "quick chat" functions. Like, a button to hit to declare "Medic!", "Thanks!", or "Help!", perhaps showing a speech bubble with its tail pointing to your character

These are good ideas!  We'd love to encourage ad-hoc grouping and co-op play as much as we can.  We're also thinking that's it's a bit hard to find and get to people for grouping.  Any ideas?

Rob & Alex, Wild Shadow Studios

[Inanimate]

How about someone can send out a 'flare', which shows up on the map? You can pick a color, too.

Or, someone can just click an option for 'SEARCH', and it'll show up in the chat as a 'link'; click it and you get sent to the person.

[Kazerad]

Or you could give the option to put a "tracking tag" on another player. It would show what direction they were if they walked off your screen. That way people playing with a friend could easily regroup when one dies, and players who are looking to stick with a group of strangers could just put a tag on someone in that group so they could more easily catch up to them. You wouldn't have to worry about losing them if you get separated.

[Lon]

These are good ideas!  We'd love to encourage ad-hoc grouping and co-op play as much as we can.  We're also thinking that's it's a bit hard to find and get to people for grouping.  Any ideas?

Rob & Alex, Wild Shadow Studios

It is difficult to find friends and/or your group if you get separated (or die).  Being able to send a ping on the mini map would be nice for not only finding friends, but also for pointing out different locations.  I know that some archers with the Golden Bow shoot in all directions, or Mages use fire to grab players attention when you are nearby.  Perhaps away to see user names on the minimap would be nice.  Id imagige that would get crowded or messy pretty quickly though.

It can be difficult to find Oryx too.  Perhaps he can have his own dot mini map. Or maybe that is part of the fun, hunting Oryx.  But it isn't much fun if you can't ever find him and some one kills him before you get to see him... XP

Kazerad's tag idea is nice.

[TheRadicalOne]

Hey, I've been playing your game for a few days now and I think it's incredible for a flash MMO.

I was just thinking you could encourage player grouping more if players had a small HP/MP meter above their head, or any indicator of what condition they're in, like the color of their name changing from green to red. It's a bit frustrating to see a teammate die right next to you while you are a priest and just didn't know how much life they had.

Maybe potions could also heal everyone around you in a (much smaller) area of effect? Since it's a fast paced game, being able to move next to someone and use a healing/magic potion on both of you could really be great for the small armies I keep seeing.

I agree with the suggestions everyone else gave so far about finding each other, the boss, where you actually are in the world.

Great job on the game so far and thanks!

[hatu]

This is amazing, it really captured what I liked about MMOs when I was younger.

I guess it's already been discussed but I'm not sure if I like the rotating camera.

[Lon]

I guess it's already been discussed but I'm not sure if I like the rotating camera.

You can press 'o' or '0' to toggle control schemes.  Using the alternative control scheme you can easily play without having the camera rotate.  It will play more top down, like Zelda, Bomberman and the likes.

[J. R. Hill]

It can be difficult to find Oryx too.  Perhaps he can have his own dot mini map. Or maybe that is part of the fun, hunting Oryx.  But it isn't much fun if you can't ever find him and some one kills him before you get to see him... XP

This is again why I'd like to see more differentiation on the map, maybe have a section in the middle of the map where it looks like a temple.  I say the middle because if Oryx spawned in the middle of the map, it would take all players about an equal amount of time to get to him.

[rszrama]

Not to play devil's advocate, but people can just alter their play strategy according to the game at the moment.  I missed Oryx the first time he spawned b/c the people fighting him wouldn't respond about his location.  However, I managed to figure it out based on map activity and a preponderance of item drops when I finally got there.  Now I know where he spawns based on my familiarity with the world map, and as the creature count nears 0 I head his direction.  If I'm not mistaken, based on ZarroTsu's map, he spawns in the south of the Iota quadrant.

[Meow]

Tehe, love it~

Change to the minimap is much appreciated, can actually navigate to where I want now. Further appreciated changes would be a small grid to make telling people where you are easier and possibly a faint outline of the map to speed things up a tiny bit~

Just wondering, is there a way to call up a list of players without refreshing the page?

I love how we now spawn right in the bit of the map full of tough monsters, but I think this needs to be tweaked a bit. At one point we had 10 pages of people spawning and dieing. I respawned to go help them and found it surrounded by flying brains xD. While hilarious I don't think the lower level players appreciated it much.

Miscellaneous ideas I have are:
*Reducing the player's hitbox a bit. This is probably just me playing as a rogue and pretending I'm in a shmup or something but whatever. Perhaps it could be a special thing for the rogue? (, not a very good idea I know)
*Toning down knights a bit. They're invincible and not much worse off than my rogue speed-wise.
*More monsters between humans and slime/ghost gods, djinns and whatever. Currently there are cyclops gods, minotaurs and the robots as far as I know. I think a few more could bridge the gap a bit I guess~?
*Something which tells you how long you've been playing. ><

Thanks anyway~

[VinceTwelve]

I had been having a bunch of fun with this over the last few days, but now when I log in, I'm swarmed by high-leveled monsters and die in seconds.  Log in again, same thing. 

[Wild Shadow]

Just wondering, is there a way to call up a list of players without refreshing the page?

Type "/who" in chat to get a list of who's logged on at the moment.

Rob & Alex, Wild Shadow Studios

[Wild Shadow]

I had been having a bunch of fun with this over the last few days, but now when I log in, I'm swarmed by high-leveled monsters and die in seconds.  Log in again, same thing. 

We rebooted the server, which should give everyone a few hours of respite against the Slime Gods etc who are currently reproducing like rabbits.  We'll have a more permanent fix for this later today.

Rob & Alex, Wild Shadow Studios

[ZarroTsu]

A new problem seems to be (for me at least, so far) upon logging in with a previous character,I am given the name "Name" for the chat box. My name still says "Loki" over under the mini-map, and when I level up; but the brackets seem to just say "Name". Not sure if this is the same for under my character as well, but it may be because of closing the game and re-opening only after a few minutes.

[SirNiko]

Drop rates on rings are really unfortunately low. Since priests can only equip rings, this results in my getting an unfortunately small amount of equippable loot when I play.

It would also be nice if there was an autoloot button, like hit space to automatically grab a potion. This would make looting while in combat much faster and easier.

This game is good for some fast, quick diablo-style fun. With frequent tweaks and updates, I could see this staying popular for a while.

-SirNiko

[Meow]

Thanks for /who command~

I have 47 attack, 18 defence and 70 speed now ^^. As a heads up, greater rings of speed seem more effective at increasing damage than greater rings of attack.

Also: DARK AREA SOUTH WEST IS MINEEEE. Stop exterminating everything so they stop spawning there ;_;

[Craig Stern]

Hey man, I just saw this on RPS. Congrats!

• Music: Craig Stern

Yay!

[Meow]

SirNiko, go south east and you'll find lots of big horrible monsters who repeatedly drop stat potions, greater rings and the best types of equipment~

[Kloi]

ZarroTsu: I think I can explain that.
The name of my character is also Loki; if I had to guess I was playing first and have control of that name. (It's possible there's something else going on, but that seems like too much of a coincidence.)

And yes, this game is amazing.

[Meow]

If you have trouble finding Oryx fast enough: respawn once he's arrived (careful not to lose your recently acquired items) and go south along the coast and he should be closeby.

EDIT: Bug report: If you give someone an item then refresh soon after you come back with the item, allowing you to make unlimited duplicates since it doesn't save often enough. If someone did this with stat potions I can imagine it could break the game pretty quickly.

EDIT2: And before you ask, that isn't how I got my speed . That would be killing endless numbers of gods.