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@Pyrephox Hmm. I think a Practice Dungeon is definitely possible. A practice Duel Bot would be far more difficult. Better documentation on the card battle system is on the way though, in lieu of that.

@Tez & @Third-Eye A hard to forget instance, but I’d love to focus on the game if that’s okay, and not give that guy any more thought.

The world’s most popular Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online RPG.

In the wake of the malicious virus known as Pluto’s Kiss, the network of computers we humans became dependent on, ceased to function. Trust was broken. As the world’s channels of communication and technological infrastructure crumbled around them, humanity cried out for an answer.

After eight painful years, the answer came; ALTIMIT. A revolutionary new Operating System designed to be free of all viruses, ALTIMIT was released to the public with an unprecedented level of success. With the ALTIMIT system, the world could begin again.

Bundled with ALTIMIT was this game: Elder Tale Online, a universe apart from our own. It was created from the remnants of old programs long forgotten, previously small-time games overlooked during the original MMO craze merged with the wildly popular Elder Tale. Those fragments of lost worlds became one-third of the foundation of ALTIMIT’s success, and soon, millions of people became engrossed in the world of Elder Tale Online.

And then, millions of people became trapped within that same world, amongst Monsters, Empires, and those original inhabitants known as the ‘People of the Land’.

The day it happened would come to be known as the Apocalypse. A new expansion for Elder Tale Online, consisting of data from more long-forgotten games, brought with it terror arnd confusion as the world those people knew abruptly ceased to exist. Locked in this strange new world by unknown means, Alliances were formed in a desperate struggle to find their place in this world. Formed from this chaos, the New World Alliance seek to protect the Landers and the World from the harmful Waves of Calamity and foreign influences, making this their new home - the Olympus Alliance seek to change the world and adjust it to the growing needs of Adventurers - and the Scale Emblem Alliance seek a way home, fighting some of the hardest battles.

Now, two years later, travel has opened up to a greater world. Daring pioneers finally go beyond Yamato’s borders, while the climbers seeks to push beyond the bounds of the tower’s treshhold. New allies come out of the woodworks, while new enemies are revealed in the form of the Palace Lands. Newly made homes are threatened, and new inventions are being brought to bear. Secrets are revealed, and the dangers grow greater.

This is the story of Elder Tale Online. How will you change the world?

Elder Tale Online MUSH is an Isekai MUSH within a VRMMORPG setting. It features major themes such as Sword Art Online, Log Horizon, and the .Hack series, and others hidden amongst its expansive lore.

Features

Collectable Cards: A unique Card-based Combat, Project, and Rolling system, featuring Classes and interesting Power Paths!
Duty System: A community written system for traversing pre-written adventures with forking paths and card rewards!
Codex System: A special system allowing you to track secrets your character and their Alliance have learned!
Scene System: Automatic logging and posting to our website.
Discord Integration: Channels accessible on the MUSH and Discord, as well as a bot to warn you when a scene you signed up for is about to start!
Community: Between large community Card Projects, its collaborative storytelling and a friendly attitude, the Elder Tale Online community welcomes new and old with open arms.
Quick Approvals: We aim to get people on the grid as fast as possible.
Find Us
Website: https://eldertaleonline.com
Connect: mush.eldertaleonline.com 7705

We recently hired two new wonderful staffers to help us do More Stuff More Quickly.

@Roz
The only memorable ban on our game. The amount of drama on ETO is honestly significantly low - so this really stood out like a sore thumb.

@Pyrephox
This is very helpful input, thank you!

We recently had an influx of newbies, which might help some of the concerns in regards to the older dungeons. But we’ll look at other ways to perhaps incentivizing this.

@Istus I’ll look into documenting this more closely!

To give a direct answer, let’s say that the memory is that she had puppies, and that made her happy. Let’s now assume as an extension, they likely adopted an animal in the Isekai world because they remind her of her puppy.

Losing that memory may make Sarah still like the animal, but no longer understand exactly why the animal makes her so happy. Maybe it deteriorates the bond, maybe it doesn’t - that’s something entirely within the player’s hands.

It is important to note that it is the player’s choice which memory they lose, when they lose one as a result of actions.

Edit: Memory files in Application have been updated to expand documentation on this.

@Pavel said in Elder Tale Online Discussion:

1. In conversation with your players, what is the key (or top three if finding one is hard) thing that they describe this game as excelling at?

• Deep Lore.
• • Even on day 1 we had people who spotted the use of Hymmnos on our front page (originating from a game called Ar Tonelico) and they rushed to translate it, and were theory-crafting about what it could mean.
• Friendly players / sense of community
• • We are generally just very low drama.
• A sense of ownership
• • Ownership of things they created, especially as a community. All shops, inventions, homesteads, etc are done by groups. We always have people offering assistance to eachother. Also, because we mark milestones both on the MUSH and on the site. For instance, the Scale Emblem Alliance has to beat a boss to get to a higher level of the tower - and each room shows what they beat, and who were there to beat it!

@Pavel said in Elder Tale Online Discussion:

2. Do your players have any oft-repeated complaints that are worth noting?

• Staff has been pretty slow on +jobs in the past. We are addressing this by hiring on new staff (a much needed thing) to solve this on the long run.

@Pavel said in Elder Tale Online Discussion:

3. While we all might want a game to go on forever, do you have future plans to draw the game to a conclusion - and if so, how far away do you anticipate that to be?

• There are a variety of ways we could draw the game to a conclusion, but we also have a lot of long term plans. We have enough content for at least another 10 years or so. It’s a bold statement, I recognize. Every single year played is one I am happy with.

@Pavel said in Elder Tale Online Discussion:

4. What’s one thing you, personally, like about the game and one thing that you find a challenge about it?

• Like: I adore the excitement people get about engaging with the deep lore and slowly peeling away the many layers of secrets.
• Challenge: Having a lore-heavy game has made it so the players feel it is harder to run their own (larger scale) content, something that we intend to address in the next few months by making more lore publicly findable and creating a way for them to find spots to interact with / things they get to hold onto and play with, with less staff interference.

@icanbeyourmuse
I was not aware this was an important information point. That’s easily documented, and I’ll do that right now!

Edit: Completed.

@Pavel said in Elder Tale Online Discussion:

@Mercutio Most excellent answers, thank you. One more question, since I forgot it off of my list

How friendly is the game to more casual players? Many of us are old and grey(ing) now, with many commitments. Is there a distinct disadvantage to only being able to put in an hour or three a week?

I think the best way to answering this are the following items that our game keeps in mind:

1. Unless it’s an FC, we don’t ever idle a player out, and we don’t have activity requirements. And even with FCs, we are fairly relaxed in our stance, as long as folk at least log in. Most importantly, we just do not idle-nuke, ever (aside from non-approved characters who have sat idle in the app room for ages).
2. We have a few European players. We have a few players who actually use SceneSys to play-by-post when they are having trouble with schedules.
3. We keep a page of ‘things that have happened in the world’ so that if someone was not around for a while, and comes back, can catch up quickly.
4. We do recognize that more casual players may miss our bigger scenes, during which lore tends to drop. Which is why we use the Codex system to try and distribute it. We keep all bigger scenes published as public Scenes, which can be found on our website.
5. Bigger scenes are scheduled, usually at least a week ahead of time. They are announced on Discord, so more casual players at work might be able to check in on the game.
6. Players can also use our OOC and IC channels through Discord, which connect directly to the MUSH.