[AC] Weekly Update 4/10/07

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[turbine]

http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?t=33769

Hello there and welcome to the Weekly update. I apologize for the delay on this weeks update, things have been very hectic around the office these last couple of weeks and we are all doing what we can to help each other out.

So let’s get down to business, shall we?

This week the team has been discussing a few different things. One of the things that came up in our most recent meeting was PK issues. Despite what some may say, we are in fact reading your posts on what you think could be done to improve our PvP game. Some of the items in particular that have been brought up are healing/chugging in PK, as well as the negative/positive effects of “harming” people. This discussion was in large part brought up as a direct result of discussions going on here in the forums. I would expect to hear more about this going forward. In particular we will be asking some more questions about these very issues.

We had some issues this week on Darktide and Morningthaw with players getting stuck or frozen. The team is investigating this and we are optimistic that we will be able to get to the bottom of what was/is causing this to occur.

In the coming months you may notice a change to how we release the patch notes, Letter to the Players, Dev notes. As we grow as a company we want to start having more processes and ways of doing things that are inline with all of our other titles. This will just make it easier for everyone involved as we continue to help each other out. At first these changes will be subtle, and not noticed by most, but in the end we all feel it will better help us communicate what is going in the game each month. Once we have everything ironed out and have a uniform system in place, I will give you all of the details on what these changes will be and how they will affect everyone who reads these notes that come out every month. Please do not worry though, the fiction will still come out every month as well as all of the information you would get from the LttP and the Dev Notes. These will just come in a somewhat different format.

The list of folks who will be getting replacement Colosseum keys has been given to the person who will be replacing them. If you are one of these people, please be aware that at some point a member of our staff will be attempting to contact you in-game in the near future.

Last but not least, a reminder that Tuesday April 17th is our scheduled day for the April event, Strange Sightings. If the day needs to change for any reason, we will let you all know. Also, this upcoming Monday the 16th is a holiday for us, so the team will not be in the office that day. This of course means that the weekly update will come at some point on Tuesday the 17th.

That’s about it for now. Everyone have a great week!
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc