Life is Feudal Official Forum

[Azzerhoden]

661. Will permissions to access buildings/shops/chests be in the game at the Lif-YO early access point?

• Answer: Nope, we do not plan this feature in LiF:YO

[Baal]

662. Have you some ideas to make desert area more attractive to settlers or travelers, i mean by adding some rare dry bushes to at best be able to collect some branches to craft a fireplace and cook some meat or fish. If unprepared, travel in the desert can starve you to death, i like that difficulty.
Deserts represent almost 1/4 of the map, i understand it's design to be harsh land that can be settle in the futur when large guilds decide to build communication network, roads and boats to bring some materials, dung and forest soil to establish settlements and grab valuable areas rich in minerals. But at least some rare branches to find doesn't hurt.

• Answer: Maybe we will make a whole separate region out of the desert. In that case, many players around the map will require regional resources from that region and will have to settle there or will provide a demand for someone to settle there and satisfy them

[Some1Else]

663. With the resource shuffle, will resources still get spawned below sea level? It's a bit disappointing to prospect for iron, find some, then spend hours if not days to reach it, only to dig down to sea level, where you can see the ore, but not gather it because it's under water.

• Answer: We will double check it - it should not be the case...

664. Will the new Castle Walls make an appearance in CBT#5 or will they come to YO before the Steam EA tests begin? Or at least some layouts, how much tiles they will take up? Planning and preparation would be easier if we knew what we're going to deal with here.

• Answer: You could see them in our latest devblog.

665. About masonry - Are any changes planned for this skill? With the change from rock to shaped rocks it has become much harder to skill masonry now. Not only do you need people providing the shaped rocks, but also those shaped rocks are added to a construction site much faster.
For example the stone wall: With normal rock you could add resources around 6 times, skilling each time. Now you can add almost all stones in one go. Also the process itself seems to give way less skill points, so you now need drastically more materials and construction sites compared to before the change.

• Answer: We'll consider it.

[Azzerhoden]

666. is it true that the God the natives worship is actually a demon?

• Answer: Good number for that question I think you should pay a visit to the lore section of our forums

[JohnValentine]

667. I've noticed that combat swings have a tendency to "stick" (swing is held back and wont release without a second click or will auto recock), is there a toggle somewhere or is it a bug?

[JohnValentine]

667. I've noticed that combat swings have a tendency to "stick" (swing is held back and wont release without a second click or will auto recock), is there a toggle somewhere or is it a bug?

Nvm, clearly a bug. We've isolated it and will be sending a bug report here soon. Just looking to see if it's player hardware specific, as only our players with Razer Nagas have reported it, so far.


668. Some major changes to spears. Was surprised to see big function changes. Do the Developers have a vision on how they want classes to play or is this reactionary to player input? If so, what's the general census? ATM it kind of feels like there isn't a clear picture on how each class is suppose to play/feel, much less anywhere near a stage for tweaking damage/attackspead/weight/etc.

• Answer: We're constantly reviewing and tweaking our system. Unparriable spears was a bad idea and we have basically reverted it. I don't think that you can expect that we will implement target based combat, laser guns, and helicopters in our game. But you can expect some significant balance/meta changes until we all (developers and players) are satisfied with the results.

[Yotoni]

620. There are more and more solid/soil bridges in the MMO. It seems bridges, pontoon, harbours and ships are still planned but not yet.
Do you plan a solution against these solid bridges that will cause huge troubles when ships and all the stuff will be there ?
Answer: We will make the jump ability for our ships so they can jump over such bridges. :smiley: trollface.jpg
On a serious note, I think that once we're going to have ships, everyone will use them and will make their own decisions about where to build such bridges or where to dig canals for ships. Anyway, if some guild will decide to block an important ships trading route in such a manner, then that guild will get a lot of troubles from other guilds

621. by "dig canals for ships", do you mean it will be possible to dig under water? What is the intention on it and how does it work?

• Answer: You're able to dig in the water as long as you're not floating/swimming. We plan that such depth should be enough for some basic small ships to navigate down such channels. Bigger ships will have to stay in deep waters.

669. When we dig and reach sea level, there is stone layer everywhere. Do you plan to remove that layer and replace it with dirt/clay/sand in order to be able to dig these channels?

• Answer: Yup, most probably. But it is too distant to speak about it now.

[REATKOM]

670. Do you have any plans for 1v1 2v2 arena with a global rating, it could be good content, it's used in all MMOs ans has good practice.
and personally my opinion, unlike trade-system, what is done genuinely (physical movement with money to the goods), the arena should be done in the usual way, so that people stand in the castle and search for an opponent then they are ported into the arena fought and return back without loss of loot;
When used as trade-system, it can bring to the fact that people will be afraid to lose loot on the way to the arena + there simply can not be anybody, as a result we spend an hour on the trip wait for an hour and return without anything. And this is additional content, which will attract a huge number of people

• Answer: Actually yes, we have such plans in the nearest future.

[Karabas]

671. About the newbie isles. It was anounced where will be wipe every week. But when exactly? monday? saturday? what day? what time?

All the characters (including NAMES, skills) will be deleted too? or where will be only the isle itself wiped?

• Answer: Only the map with everything on it will be wiped back to the original state. Players, their skills, names and some inventory and equipment will stay intact between those weekly wipes. We think about Friday evening wipe with a new life on Saturday and so on.

[Karabas]

672. About items in inventory.
Now the picture for broken items is the same, for example the saw with 0 durability.
When i have several tools of the same kind and some of them are used to 0 durability its necessary to mouse-over them all to detect that broken ones. To drop away or give to blacksmith for recycle.
Any plans to implement pictures/color for broken items? tools, weapons.....

• Answer: Maybe sometime later. We agree that it is a good idea.

[Prexstore]

673.This question about 1st tier guild claims. After wipe I`m going to buy 10 characters, build my own guild claim and craft some stuff to barter - something between hermit and merchant.
So I want to clarify one moment about 1st tier claims: as I understood, you are planning to make them 100% safe and unraidable. If another guild declares war on my guild all they can do - destroy everything on realm claim, but capital zone will be protected+they cant create instance battle against me. It seems logical, because its impossible to build any normal settlement on 1T capital zone. Also, this is MMO for a different type of players, and a lot of them prefer peacefull crafting and communicating with other people instead of killing them. Or am I wrong and this is Rust v2.0 when everyone can be raided? Please, tell me.

And in case of I`m wrong, there is another question:

674. Its just the matter of time when bandits starts massive raids on players like me. I`m definetly not good in PvP and the only way I can protect my settlement from raiding is
mercenaries. The only thing I can offer to community which can give me 10-15-20 soldiers to fight on my side is real life money. Just have no idea what else alone player can offer to big guild. But will it be legal?

[REATKOM]

675. It's not a secret that the key to a successful number of players depends on the entry-threshold for beginners. If the game at the beginning pushes the player away, he can remove it and not return, especially for games such as LIF "for a particular circle of people", and online - one of the most important rods of playability. And so I have a simple question: do you have plans before the game is out on the Steam (the most important stage for our game ) to make the interface more friendly for beginners. For example, at some failure (wrong resource for the feed of the monument, the not-so-drawn grid of the clime and many other actions) lead to the playback of the "sound of failure" and the lack of a result to be achieved, why not to bring out the cause of the failure and its possible solution in the notification?
I am also intrested why the "craft" action takes place first (calling the battle near the monument, drawing the clime's cells and others), and failure occurred after. Why you can not immediately tell what's wrong and do not waste time of players for waiting to "empty craft"?

[Baal]

676. Since the last patch 9.15.1 all trees are taller and for my personnal opinion don't look very well and this make forest rendering a bit ugly or odd. The game's world looked much better before that.
Can you explain the technical justifications for this change ? because i don't find any good reason.

[JohnValentine]

677. What guidance and enforcement does the Staff have in store for any exploitation issues come Early Access plus? I personally dislike exploits, but I also understand that playerbases follow the path of least resistance. To fight against that is noble, but also generally a severe handicap. Are there any plans to referee this, or is it in the "use it until we fix it" territory?

[Veda]

678. Do you plan in the future to improve the stone walls like you did for the castle walls ? Specially the diagnol stone wall where u can jump between the crenels

679. Are you gonna re work the maintenance system ? I think it's very good idea but it should be reworked from the beginning. Currently (for example) you making few smelting sessions, and your bloomery is dead. It takes soooo fast to break every buildings, even with a Q90 ... It's not logic. I understand the fact you want to complicate the game, but you should slow down about the degradation.

Another fact, have you ever seen a stone tower fixed with leather ? Nooooo ^^ Why don't you implemant a realistic maintenance system which needs the materials you took to build it ?

Broken wall : stone, clay to fix it
Broken blacksmithshop : shaped rock, leather, anvil ... ?
House/shops : door, window, tiles ?

It would be really more realistic and would add more gameplay

680. improve the chance to have blue prints. It's understanble that you want to rarefy the armors, but it's not fair/realistic to lose your blueprints every single time ... And you should improve the chane to have them

681. dropping max system instead of you cannot put more than X materials. Life the herborist garden, you need to split water and the other components.

682. regional components more chance to have them ?

[JohnValentine]

683. With the Castle Wall and Keep rework, will we be seeing Stone Walls without battlements? Would be nice to have a simple flat stone wall model. =)

[JohnValentine]

Spoiler

684. The new siege system raises some questions. So if Kingdom 1 Declares war on Kingdom 2, does the instanced siege populate only the claim that received the totem or all of Kingdom 2's assets within X amount of space?

If the Instanced Sieges don't populate all relevant Kingdom 2 assets, then building claims that support other claims becomes more aesthetic than relevant. Which is why I ask.

685. Will tickets only be lost on respawn or does each person you bring to the battle also cost a ticket?

686. Can you deny respawn?

687. If a house is destroyed during the siege, does it count against your tickets?

688. Can the attackers "retreat" from the battle?

689. Are the attackers able to loot during the battle?

690. Is there any way for defenders to create their roster from multiple friendly claims, or does the system only give entrance to those attached to that claim?

691. Where do the attackers spawn after the battle, especially if they lose?

692. Is the attackers/defenders area protected in any way while they are in battle, or will they have to worry about "ghosting" after instances finish?

693. Are you able to repair or build while in the siege instance?

694. Are you able to terraform while in the siege instance, and when the "ingame" world updates, will it copy that terraforming back over?

• Answer: Most of the quetions regarding sieges have been answered in this Q&A session (02/27/2017).

[JohnValentine]

Spoiler

695. Does Damage to Infrastructure within the Instanced Battle Transfer Back to the Main World?

696. Would destroying containers during a siege effect the loot obtained?

697. Is there a numerical limitation or odd cap for these battles? Not so much tickets, as much as 100V100 or 200V100.

698.: Does Subterranean molding transfer over to the instances sieges? Tunnels and whatnot.

• Answer: Most of the quetions regarding sieges have been answered in this Q&A session (02/27/2017).

[JohnValentine]

Spoiler

699. Are you able to repair or build during siege instances?

• Answer: Most of the quetions regarding sieges have been answered in this Q&A session (02/27/2017).

[Karabas]

700. Q: - what is the SIZE of defenders battle area, where the tickets will be counted - where houses and keep/tents will give tickets??
in numbers, please !!!
Is it some radius around the guild monyment? or some squer area x*y with center on monument?
clarify this pleaseee !!!!!!!!
numbers "about 120-160"- is not a clear answer ... we dont understatn it was counted with large storehouse+large stables+all set of workshops+walls on it? or only keeps+houses standing wall-to-wall
it is super-importatnt for base planing and building. and no clear answer in Q&A session.

[JohnValentine]

701. Historically, servers have been "locked" when they reach a certain number of players. If players are pulled into an instanced siege from that tile, should the cap go above the "locked" limitations during battle, will they be able to return to the real world?

Example: 200 Players are in Server 30. 140 Players are pulled from Server 30 into an Instanced Siege Server. Three hours later 160 Players are in Server 30 and the siege ends. Which leaves 300 players trying to occupy a server with a 200 player limitation (in this example).

Is there some sort of "reserved" slots feature? Or not an issue?


702. The system doesn't seem to account for Troll Burning Tickets and Same Team Attacks. In a 70v70 siege, all it takes is one player to work for the other side, and he can burn his entire sides tickets by either attacking his own players, running out to the enemy, or committing suicide over and over. Is there any plans in the work to protect sieges from this extreme metagaming? Like a "kick panel" that can be used by "Battle Commanders".

[Khan-]

703. What's the point to keep a skill like "general activities" ? 100 "useless" points ? Or is there a secret behind this skill ? Could you tell us a little more about the need to level up ?

[JohnValentine]

704. Currently with how small objects disappear after X amount of distance, structures like keeps and towers give archers a theoretical maximum range that exceeds "travel distance before despawn". Is there any plan to scale arrow/bolt distance (including volley) to the actual travel distance before it disappears or preferably increase the distance these objects travel before disappearing?

Completely understand it's a low priority adjustment if any, just curious if there where any plans for it (within the MMO or YO)?

[Veda]

705. We all know that u have to plan a modular building system with wood, plaster, bricks walls ... Will be like medieval engineers ? You build your house like you want, or the skin of the buildings gonna change ?

[ThorneRazeri]

706. Will players be able to download the client prior to November 17th? I (and others with slow connections) would be quite frustrated if we had to spend our early access period downloading the client rather than playing the game.

[Artoria Pendragon]

707，why the NA and EU server couldnt share with the same charators.... i mean just name and skins

[JohnValentine]

708. Will blood graphics be expanded across all classes? Currently shield users receive a massive visual debuff while other classes get little to no indication of level of health.

[JohnValentine]

709. Is there a reason bolts where changed to slashing damage from piercing damage? Plate is an obvious meta right now, the only low tier piercing damage available are javelins/spears. A Crossbow obviously has more piercing power than a guy throwing a sharp stick.. doesn't make any sense.

[Deathstar]

710. Currently, you can fully destroy a castle gate with drawbridge by only targeting the wooden landing at the end of the bridge even whilst the gate is closed and the bridge raised. Is this intended, or will you consider making the platform impervious to damage?

711. To expand on this, I did some testing with the new castle walls. When using average quality resources, I got about 11.000 durability on an average single wall segment. With trebuchets dealing upwards of 700 damage per shot, fully tearing these walls down is rather easy. Is this to balance the fact that defenders are supposed to sally out and take out trebuchets before they are ever erected?

712. Aside from making them premium purchases, have you got plans to introduce regional variants for buildings, clothing and weapons with bonuses tied to the climate? If there ever is harsher survival system with temperate to consider, should people not wearing appropriate attire not suffer severe penalties? This, besides access to regional resources, could be a good reason to settle in the desert or in the icy mountains up north - Invaders would need to come well prepared.

[Khan-]

710. Currently, you can fully destroy a castle gate with drawbridge by only targeting the wooden landing at the end of the bridge even whilst the gate is closed and the bridge raised. Is this intended, or will you consider making the platform impervious to damage?

Answer : Reported as a bug few weeks ago, support closed the bug report as fixed in the next incoming patch