NextSeason

You can read all about the next season being planned here. This page also serves as an indication of which pages on the wiki are likely to be changed as part of the new season.

Fiction

Day 1: Those was visiting the volcano report increased activity. Numerous openings vent steam into the air. There is an increase in lava flow and an occasional fall of rocks off the mountain side.

Day 4: Rumors travel from the eastern coast that an actual Gorean built ship has been sighted! No such vessel in sailable condition has been seen in many years in New Sardar. What does this mean, are we to be rescued? Who sails this ship?

Announcement

I don't love wipes and we as a team are committed to avoiding them as long as possible. However, we want sailable ships and have maintained the assertion that when they become available we will implement them, and change maps ... so as to have sailable water.

That time has come.

The sailable ship mod is available and great fun, we feel it will add to the role-play. Consequently we will be changing to the Siptah Map which is an island with a lot of sailable water. Map changes come with server resets.

You will need to purchase the Siptah DLC if you do not already have it. It's available on CD Keys for $10. If you are in financial difficulty, the community has offered to help players with the purchase, please open a ticket.

What does a Server Wipe/Reset Mean It means at all characters must be recreated. However, additional steps can be made to restore some portion of your progress. Details are forth coming, but in summary:

You will be able to recover a selection of the following items: your level to 60, build materials, weapons and armor, t4 thralls, high end pets, gold and so forth. Not everything will be available to everyone, but we do have a thread below where you can request items be made available. We will pick a selection and have it available for purchase on restart.

Also, we will be continuing with IQOL so your character appearance can be transferred over as well.

Additional Goals for Season Two

Our biggest challenges right now is getting players on screen as soon as possible and maintaining storylines even when individual clans grow and shrink.

We are working out details, but we will be implementing factions (hubs/Home Stones) for players to join and work together at. These factions will have central crafting areas useable by everyone allied to the hub. This is intended to increase player interaction both immediately and long term.

(While one of the joys of Conan is to go out and build your own base and do your own thing -- it is not driving enough consistent role-play to keep players engaged -- this must be changed. We don't know if our solution will work - cats and players are herding challenges - but we are going to try until we fine the right answer.)

What's Next Role-play events are being scheduled to introduce the storyline that will take us from New Sardar to the island known as World's End. Everyone is invited to participate. More details of the fiction will be released after each event.

Our time frame is in the next few weeks. We will update with more definite times as we get closer to being ready.

Additionally, we are going to release both the ship mod and the new clothing mod to the current server so that you can all get a preview of the goodies to come.

Other Changes We made a promise to re-look at the suite of Tot's mods, and we have given it serious consideration. Unfortunately, it does not meet our needs without a lot of time-consuming work arounds. And honestly, we would rather come and play then spend a month or more trying to recreate what we already have. So we will not be changing to Tots.

Wiki Changes Planned

• Sardar Fair The Sardar Fair will be gone, players can place merchants at their homes.
• Building and Bases (Rules) Build limits will be reduced to 200 per person and players will be STRONGLY encouraged to build near the hub. And we mean RIGHT near the hub, as close as land claim radius will allow. Base game lighting is to be disabled, and Shani's lighting to be made freely available. Players will be limited to 3-5 crafting stations per person - this will apply to beehives, planters, animal farms and fish traps. This will reduce lag and drive interoperation.
• Natives Are being renamed to Hyborians.
• Membership (Rules) Registration needs to be updated for races