Discussion: 4/28 Dev Chat recorded on Ustream

For those of you who couldn't attend the live developer chat on Ustream last night, a recording is now available for viewing here. In this official dev chat, you'll see:

• The announcement of the Steampunk booster!
• Information--and a date!-- for Global Server Access!
• Your questions, answered!
• Matt "Positron" Miller and Nate "Second Measure" Birkholz arm wrestling!
• AND MUCH MORE

It's still depressing to think that revamping the Shadow Shard Zones to be co-op is "too big" of an undertaking to be considered (short of making them the focus of an Issue release). The Shadow Shard has some of the most beautiful locations in the entire game, and is a region just begging for further development ... and yet, it has been almost entirely untouched since Issue 2 (aside from a few bug fixes here and there, and easier travel options). I just think it's a terrible shame that probably only a minority of players even know that these zones exist, let alone what's in them (or indeed, why anyone would want to go there).

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...

With Rularuu being hinted at as a player in the whole "Coming Storm" thing, I'm wondering if we won't get an Issue-sized Shadow Shard revamp someday.

Watching now. Man, I wish I could work there!

Edit: Can I take that 'They don't survive' as a challenge and come get an internship? Maybe us Brits are hardier than your US squishies?

Edit Edit: I see Matt doesn't check the suggestion forums very often, if he's surprised at the community having csome good ideas And fixed wing wings have come up many times before.

Edit Edit II: Zortel pointing out that shards are effectively now useless and pointless isn't 'snark', guys. Come on. There are many, many ways of putting that that could have been genuinely snarky, and that was not one of them. Kinda unfair on Z there.

Edit III: Is Zwillinger the one doing the actual reading out and PC management?
He is credit to team!
He hears the voices too!!

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Posi, something very cool that you said about how a lot of you designing the game weren't really huge mmorpg players and so that you somewhat set out to design the mmorpg for yourselves...
I think it shows in great ways.
Great job and I've enjoyed listening to you guys talk about this stuff as I'm doing some mundane tasks this afternoon.
Reminds me of the first New York Meet and Greet, as I enjoyed listening and talking to Posi about the game. The interest and enjoyment of it all is evident. And the loyalty is appreciated much as well!

And Zwill... I guess your job hosting these streams might be a little more difficult if maybe you had the Marx Bros. show up!
Hehe, great to work in a fun environment!

(Yeah, me again... I forgot to mention...

The steampunk art and pieces look really nice. The wings... The designs look fantastic!! Can't wait to see those in action!

Nice job art team!