Dragon Empires Newsletter - September 5

[Thorwar]

Beta tester diary!
Last week we released our first beta tester diary in which Tester X told us about his testing experiences to date. If you're sad you're not in Beta0 go have a read and check out pictures of the game in development. There is lots of discussion about the tester diary on the message boards.

Dragon Empires map
We have released a geographic map of Fortitude. If you want to examine the world in detail you can get a high-res version here. You can also discuss the map on the forums.


Feature of the week: Crafting
Crafting and the economy are important features of Dragon Empires as both are closely tied to the political system. Successful cities will almost always have strong economies and a bad economic situation will almost always mean a weak city and ruling clan.

In Dragon Empires everyone is able to learn the crafting skill (which has a dozen ranks) through the completion of quests and some construction tasks. This allows you to make increasingly effective and powerful items using your Aurachrome, a special workshop that makes items whether you are offline or online. These items can then be enhanced with special items you can make and find to create truly unique magical and enhanced objects. You can read more about crafting here.


Letter from Gadsolme
Greetings,
Since last we met my exhibition has begun and I have but a few brief moments to prepare something for your delectation. I have therefore decided to once more lift an extract from Elin’s theological lexicon. In this piece she introduces us to the rather complex character of the fire god, Perras....more

Important dates
Friday 12 - Dev diary
Friday 19 - 2nd Newsletter
Friday 26 - Dev diary
Monday 29 - Stratics House of Commons dev chat

Latest news
- An IGN Q&A on artificial intelligence (AI) has been posted.
- DE Compendious has posted chat logs of the last Stratics House of Commons chats.
- Talrias.net has merged with DE Stratics.
- Calistas wrote a dev diary.
- Mark Zechiel had a few things to say in a follow up article on IGN RPG Vault about the levelling treadmill.

Forum post of the week
If you've never posted on the boards and want to get involved why not start by posting to the Welcome newbies thread?

Fan site of the week
BurnOut has created a new site, the Dragon Empires Library where you can see a nice summary of the game with screenshots and downloads.



Peter Tyson
Community Liaison Manager - Dragon Empires
Codemasters
www.dragonempires.com

[Khazadara]

ah super :) schön weiterposten Jarlak.. DE wird für mich wohldeeer DAOC-Killer

[Ownya]

DE wird ein Flopp. Benützt die gleiche 3D-Engine wie DAoC und ist noch Monate von einem offenen Beta-Test entfernt (von den fehlenden Featuren zu schweigen).
Ich befürchte, alles was nicht deutlich vor dem Release von WoW fertig wird und wirklich bahnbrechend ist hat es wirklich schwer...

[Thorwar]

Original geschrieben von Ownya
DE wird ein Flopp.

Immer wieder schön von "Propheten" gesagt zu bekommen was passieren wird... *gg*

Nur schade das die Vorraussagen bzgl. SB schon total daneben lagen.

[Thorwar]

Dragon Empires newsletter - 22 September 2003
Two year anniversary!
It has been two years since Dragon Empires was announced and the first web site went up! On this anniversary we've been busy testing our formal battle system and preparing for an internal demonstration. It's been a lot of fun setting up our demonstration characters with the best gear and equipment, even though with all the dressing and undressing of the characters that this required one developer asked if I had a Barbie doll when I was young! For the record, I stuck strictly with toy soldiers and never ever undressed them.

From the emails we have been receiving I know a lot of people are wondering when they are going to get into beta. With Beta1 starting in November we are not putting out any more invites until then, so please be patient. The test won't grow tens of thousands of testers until the new year and we expect most of you to get invited sometime around then.

Tester X gives us another beta update!
Tester X was so encouraged by feedback from its last diary that it has written a follow up diary which we are pleased to present to you today. Go here and have a read and chat on the forums about Tester X's latest revelations.


Feature of the week: City expansion
If you end up owning a city what mark can you make on the world? Well, you can add new buildings and add defences to your city using our Placement Point system. Around the city are invisible placement points that only appear when clan leaders go to place a building to add to the town. When the leader has a building plan ready in their hands the placement points will appear, showing where that particular city addition can go. Everything from banners and statues through to new buildings and workshops (to improve production efficiency) can be placed. Once placed the city will adjust itself so the new building fits in naturally. In the Redwing empire raised platforms and bridges will appear to connect the new structure to the rest of the city and other empires will adjust in similar ways.


Letter from Gadsolme
Greetings,
Since last we met my exhibition has begun and I have but a few brief moments to prepare something for your delectation. I have therefore decided to once more lift an extract from Elin’s theological lexicon. In this piece she introduces us to the rather complex character of the fire god, Perras....more

Dev chat
There will be a Stratics House of Commons developer chat on Monday the 29th of September at 8pm GMT and 8pm PST. To learn more about Stratics chats head to http://chat.stratics.com. On the night connect to irc.stratics.com #de-devchat to take part. The chat will be moderated.


Important dates
Friday 12 - Dev diary
Friday 19 - 2nd Newsletter
Friday 26 - Beta Test diary
Monday 29 - Stratics House of Commons dev chat

Hot news
- A fun dev diary was posted by our database programmer, David Wells.
- RPG Dot posted part 2 of their series of Q&As, this one on skills and the economy
- RPG Vault posted a Q&A on the map we released.
- Roop at Unknown Player created a cartoon about Kittahs and Oranges!
- Mondespersistants has the Beta Tester diary and lore in French

Forum post of the week
Dee posted an interesting message on the world map and looks at some of the names closely. Dee noticed some humorous and whimsical relationships between town names and area names.

Fan site of the week
Moonshade (revisited) www.moonshade.com
The team at Moonshade have been very busy. If you have your clan registered there you can now see a list of all changes made by your leader and members. There has also been a clan leader council formed for clan leaders to chat. They have also been experimenting with voice communications and finally, you can have a clan 'business card' created if you want! Head to their site and have a look for yourself at their hard work.



Peter Tyson
Community Liaison Manager - Dragon Empires
Codemasters
www.dragonempires.com

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[Starlit]

Original geschrieben von Ownya
DE wird ein Flopp. Benützt die gleiche 3D-Engine wie DAoC und ist noch Monate von einem offenen Beta-Test entfernt (von den fehlenden Featuren zu schweigen).
Ich befürchte, alles was nicht deutlich vor dem Release von WoW fertig wird und wirklich bahnbrechend ist hat es wirklich schwer...

die landschaftsgrafik ist schonmal wesentlich besser...

so long
starlit

[Yevon]

Redet ihr mal von DE .. und schlagt euch dort weiterhin die Köpfe ein ;)

Dann hab ich wenigstens Ruhe bei Horizons ;)

[Starlit]

hab ich mir schon gedacht, dass ihr gdeler mehr so ne kuschelhelden seid. :p

so long
starlit n spiel ohne pvp ... rofl

[Yevon]

Naja muss man sich denn immer beweisen und anderen den Pfeil in den ***** ballern ? :D

Wenn Du das willst bleib ich bei DAoC oder geh dir hinterher um dich zu töten *G*

[Starlit]

wer spielt schon noch daoc :confused:

mir strebt es nach höherem... dem universum!

so long
starlit intergalaktischer herrscher in spe :D

[Yevon]

Starlit, der Träumer schlechthin :D


13.11 Horizons, MERKEN ! :D

[Starlit]

zum kuscheln brauch ich kein spiel ^^

so long
starlit herrscher seiner selbst und in allem was er macht :D

[Yevon]

LOOL

Da fragt er lieber mal die linke Hand, gell ?


*versteck*

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D


Btw. Starlit und ich kennen uns schon lange da dürfen wir sowas ... :D

[Starlit]

jo wenn ich dir nicht erklärt hätte das camlann ein pvpserver ist, würdeste heute immer noch denken es issn coop server. :p

so long
starlit dessen linke hand maxi meistens eh das leben rettete so heilenderweise :D

[Yevon]

Ja ja ja ja ja :( und jetzt hilfst Du anderen im Kampf gegen mich elendiger Verräter......

:(

[Starlit]

kann aj nix dafür, dass du in der falschen gilde bist. *g*

so long
starlit :p

[Yevon]

Pah .. elendiger Verräter ! :D

Ich biete dir immernoch nen Plätzchen hier an *fg*

RH is gar nicht so schön und so :d

[Thorwar]

boar ihr spamma. macht nen eigenen thread auf, hier solls NUR um DE gehen, net um euch 2 Nasen.

[Starlit]

um de gehts hier:

http://dragonempires.foren.4players.de/index.php

:p

so long
starlit hehe

[Loddfafnir]

hab da doch mal bischen rein geschaut, so schlecht hört sich das nicht an ^^


mfg

Lodd

[Loddfafnir]

ich werde aufjeden fall in pvp den weg eines kopfgeldjäger gehen ^^, sollte ich nach DE kommen.