Phase 4: Cities / Surrounding Areas

[John Adams]

Just a bookmark for us to know what our next major task is; Qeynos, Freeport, Neriak, Kelethin, and Gorowyn "city" zones, and their surrounding areas up through level 20'ish.

For Qeynos, that is Antonica
For Freeport, that is Commonlands
For Neriak, that is the completion of Darklight Wood
For Kelethin, the completion of Greater Faydark
For Gorowyn, the completion of Timorous Deep

All of these zones still need to be collected as far as conversations, dialogs, quests, merchant lists, door clicks, etc.

Anyone interested in collecting for the project should make a new character, level up to where you are capable of doing the City quests/tasks, and collect that data for us. Hold onto your logs til you are complete, then let me know and I'll give you a place to upload them. It would help others if you reported what you are collecting here, so others are not doing the same thing.

The Content Team will still be busy with Villages/Hoods for a few more months finalizing spawns, quests, scripts, and additional server functionality to support what we need. After that, we're onto Phase 4: Cities!

Just as a teaser, Phase 5 will be filling in the side-areas from Phase 4, plus Thundering Steppes / Nektulos and out through Zek / Enchanted Lands - taking us to level 30-40 content. I plan Phase 5 to be huge, since hopefully by then all our server functionality for Questing will be discovered and implemented.


Note: At this time, I do not plan for us to work on content for expansions outside Shattered Lands and required Newbie/Starting areas (ie, no additional level 20+ content for DoF, EoF, KoS, RoK, or tSO until Shattered Lands is as far as we can take it). That does not mean we do not want the collected data for these other zones. We'll take it all!

[ZexisStryfe]

You know Gorowyn, Kelethin and Neriak aren't part of the "Shattered Lands" right?

[John Adams]

You know Gorowyn, Kelethin and Neriak aren't part of the "Shattered Lands" right?

Yes. They are "Starting Zones" so we decided they should be spawned and scripted as much as possible. My statement is that we will not be going beyond these starter zones for non-Shattered Lands content initially (and yes, I know about the starting_zones table as well, didn't care to use it for project data).

But now that you bring it up, mr smarty pants :p there is a new field in our zones table: expansion_id

It could use a-fillin'


(I was going to script it from Zam's zone list, but if you want to take a crack at it manually, go for it! )

[ZexisStryfe]

Yeah, I noticed that field. Already started using it on my server! Gotta plan for the future!

I will take a crack at it. There are some new zones I need to add to Tess anyway, like Munzok's Material Bastion.

[Eradani]

I have been doing CL quests. I'm getting close to having them all, but surprised myself with yesterday a dropped quest I'd never seen before. I'll be comparing all my old toon's journals with the new one to see what quests I've missed.

One thing I know I missed is most of the city tasks. I'll get at those when I finish with Mooshga, whom I forgot because her brother is in Nek and I wasn't going there.

Under the journal category: Commonlands, I'm up to 5 current and 72 completed quests. Too bad you can't sort the completed quests by zone as this count doesn't include RoTL HQ or the <?category?> one about the Surveyors on the cliffs by Dog Trapper Lake.