Posted by Lazerlatte

I am legitimately worried that the economy will start to take a major toll later in iGK's life. That is, if equipment is where the money is at. Buff-providing comestibles could give some degree of longevity to the economy.... but it's all up to you, Nico. How will YOU try to keep the economy flowing when everyone has top level gear and no need to buy anything from another player?

We got enough items for future updates, enough jobs to do, enough quests to complete and more. If a player really reaches his goal and gets the best gear available and has no need to trade anymore, he might want to continue on the quests to have some fun. But this will take quite a few time to accomplish  

Stuff for release:

• Kingdoms (Dustari, Crescent Pirates, Zormite, Forest, Samurai), CastleWars
• PvE, PvP, Dungeons, Maybe 1 Crypt/Instance
• Shops for several things, Barbershops, Crafting
• Skills: Mining, Fishing, Farming, Cutting trees and making bords for the beginning, more as updates later
• Guildsystem
• Quests
• Armor like Mails, Helmets, Bracers, Amulets etc with real stats.
• Tradeshops with Tradetables, dropping items, Trade between players
• Playerhouses / Guild HQs
• Gods with Buffs. (Player related buffs)
• Few events for the release. More later.
• Markets for players to sell stuff. (Renting slots for money to put items on it or so)
• Horses for travelling

We have alot of things which we are holding back for our updates, for example, ships for shipwars and so on.
I hope you like it.  

Kingdoms sounds like it has too similar goals to delteria. Its just a matter of who was the edge in the competition and implements ideas better.  

Posted by Kendama

Kingdoms sounds like it has too similar goals to delteria. Its just a matter of who was the edge in the competition and implements ideas better.

Oddly enough kingdoms pc has remained systematically unchanged since about 2002 -- be mindful, no fault of their own.

Yes, they've added a few new things, but unfortulately servers like era and un have held the playercount in that realm.

Nico has spent money out of his own pocket for dev talent, which is not something delteria has delved into at this point.

Either way, graphically and level wise, kingdoms will use terrain (incorporates z axis), and a few other things none of the other ios servers have bothered with for obvious reasons. At the end of the day, you guys think its a competition, but in all reality the money all goes to the same bank account.  

Posted by Torankusu

Oddly enough kingdoms pc has remained systematically unchanged since about 2002 -- be mindful, no fault of their own.

Yes, they've added a few new things, but unfortulately servers like era and un have held the playercount in that realm.

Nico has spent money out of his own pocket for dev talent, which is not something delteria has delved into at this point.

Either way, graphically and level wise, kingdoms will use terrain (incorporates z axis), and a few other things none of the other ios servers have bothered with for obvious reasons. At the end of the day, you guys think its a competition, but in all reality the money all goes to the same bank account.

They will fight over playerbase, not who gets the most money. I know how some people would love to point out the differences between the two server- but they attract the same type of playerbase (medieval, trade-based, quest oriented, crafting, jobs, and large guild competition)  

Posted by Kendama

They will fight over playerbase, not who gets the most money. I know how some people would love to point out the differences between the two server- but they attract the same type of playerbase (medieval, trade-based, quest oriented, crafting, jobs, and large guild competition)

Lol, "who can get the most money" has always been the drivng factor for graal's adminstrative support, and is what destroyed graal's playerbase back in 2000.  

Posted by Kendama

They will fight over playerbase, not who gets the most money. I know how some people would love to point out the differences between the two server- but they attract the same type of playerbase (medieval, trade-based, quest oriented, crafting, jobs, and large guild competition)

Well, Kingdoms iPhone will be the light version of GK. Simpler for the mobile platform. And Torankusu is right, it is no real competition. If a server has 10,100 or 1000 Players, we are not getting the money out of the purchases. I am happy with every single player who will enjoy kingdoms iphone later on  

*Unless you are the manager of the server, in which case you get a % cut of the profits that server makes.  

I'm a bit curious to know what your intentions were with this preview.

I checked it out, and I don't know if it was how it was meant to be, or if I was bugged but I couldn't leave the starting area. The houses were locked and the NPC blocking the path said thanks for completing a quest I hadn't done, and never moved. I was able, however, to move around via middle-mouse clicking and warping around.

I noticed there were levels done, and... that's about all I noticed. The interface seemed to be heavily WIP, there was no items or inventory or anything like that, at least what I initially saw. In fact you can tell everything is very heavily WIP... which is fine since it's beta/preview whatever...

However, what was your intention with this preview that screenshots couldn't accomplish?  

Posted by Dusty

I'm a bit curious to know what your intentions were with this preview.

I checked it out, and I don't know if it was how it was meant to be, or if I was bugged but I couldn't leave the starting area. The houses were locked and the NPC blocking the path said thanks for completing a quest I hadn't done, and never moved. I was able, however, to move around via middle-mouse clicking and warping around.

I noticed there were levels done, and... that's about all I noticed. The interface seemed to be heavily WIP, there was no items or inventory or anything like that, at least what I initially saw. In fact you can tell everything is very heavily WIP... which is fine since it's beta/preview whatever...

However, what was your intention with this preview that screenshots couldn't accomplish?

Thanks for your feedback.
The intention was to give people just a feeling of the tileset and to explore a bit, nothing more. All systems are up and work also for highstaffs/iphones etc.
Tigairius will soon start to adjust everything so we have all the features in the list I posted earlier running. Alarid our Graphics Artist is going to finish new gui images/screens and several graphics within the next week to give kingdoms iphone the last touch.
Our LATs meanwhile are working on the overworld and dungeons, which are already done but just requires a few detailing.
We hope to present a full working server to Stefan soon and release it.
Since Graal mobile became such an important part for the game management, we hope this won't take so long I don't want to give any release dates since the past of server releases shown us that this is not possible at all.

Posted by MattKan

*Unless you are the manager of the server, in which case you get a % cut of the profits that server makes.

I do not think managers get any % of profit. I just heard era and classic management gets a monthly payment, but not sure there.
But this is off-topic right now.  

if its free i might actually try it. starting to grow on me.

Posted by Torankusu

At the end of the day, you guys think its a competition, but in all reality the money all goes to the same bank account.

they dont compete for players or profit what they compete for is to see who could get closer to stefans nuts.  

1. FOREST IS COMING BACK, HELL YEAH
2. ALARID IS BACK HELLA YEAH X2
3. Is this going to be released on mobile platform before it does on fb (like delteria)
4. I hope we don't have to wait more than a month for it to be released and get my hopes up then crush em, like delteria.

Can you andwer #3?  

Why no FB?

is it too laggy.  

Posted by SayianOozaru

1. FOREST IS COMING BACK, HELL YEAH
2. ALARID IS BACK HELLA YEAH X2
3. Is this going to be released on mobile platform before it does on fb (like delteria)
4. I hope we don't have to wait more than a month for it to be released and get my hopes up then crush em, like delteria.

Can you andwer #3?

They posted on the forums that current PC Kingdoms will be on FB. Kingdoms iPhone will be on iOS.  

Shouldn't the two servers just be combined at this point?

You can just have different spawn areas for iOS and PC/Facebook. I feel like the end game here is to have one GK server accessible by all devices and this is just a step in the wrong direction.