💬│palia-discussions

[umbral kernel]

I dunno, having a neighbor would be great if you wanted somewhere to put your rotting fish overstock.

[loud axle]

We have to get your Queendom up and running!

(That way I can collect taxes)

[carmine relic]

I feel maybe mentioning and asking if folks want in, yeah, but directly putting the link is a no

[patent dust]

^

[ember swallow]

plays god and places LA on the east coast so it is already afternoon I want those answers

[patent dust]

its 1 in LA, isnt it?

[hidden lynx]

Yesss Roan ahahaha

[loud axle]

lol same. I keep forgetting it's barely noon over there. I'm about to make dinner 😛

[void imp]

how many hours until earliest east coast afternoon hour?

[novel plank]

its 3:24 currently and the answers still aren't there so its fine

[ember swallow]

short after lunch

[patent dust]

wait no its 12:25pm there, which is tenchnically afternoon

[hidden lynx]

Technically it's 12:30 in LA ... So it IS afternoon 👀

[umbral kernel]

I could imagine a "neighborhood" system akin to a guild or clan that functions as a cooperative neighborhood of friend that reshapes or grows as people join and leave (aka move out).

[hidden lynx]

Pastel same mind hahaha

[loud axle]

https://tenor.com/view/judge-judy-times-up-what-time-is-it-gif-5714654

[ember swallow]

yeah but they wrote sometime in afternoon, it is the same soon is alpha

[loud axle]

^Us

[sand barn]

Soon..sooooooon

[carmine relic]

I hope mobile homes become a thing. That'd be so cool

[plush delta]

yee haw

[umbral kernel]

+1 for trailer parks.

[sand barn]

Walking treehouses yes please

[umbral kernel]

Get my redneck fishing on.

[blazing trellis]

House boats

[carmine relic]

Snipin's a good job, mate!

[loud axle]

Only if there are pink flamingos.

[umbral kernel]

And striped awnings.

[magic brook]

mobile homes gives me an idea, like a giant moving turtle with your house on it, or a flying ray in the sky to help you move

[blazing trellis]

Or maybe campgrounds

[carmine relic]

I was thinking a wagon or something but that's nice too

[paper wing]

Is there speculation that there's anything but the one house from the trailer?

[ember swallow]

we have golems so they should move the house

[wintry atlas]

This

[sand barn]

They've confirmed there will be many types no?

[paper wing]

not so far as I've seen

[dense mulch]

I would say not being able to move your house around is better to build a sense of community and belonging to a specific area.

[carmine relic]

I can't remember if the fridge was perfectly square or not.

[umbral kernel]

I'd be a little disappointed if it was just one location for the house, a little happier if there was numerous "plots" in the world that you can upgrade to as you progress.

[blazing trellis]

Cardboard box in an alley.

[umbral kernel]

^

[tepid fossil]

I would be interested in it, but certainly don't send unsolicited dm with invites to random people (as I've already received a few in this server in the past few days )

[paper wing]

the customization is supposed to be deep but full transformation seems a bit of a stretch

[wintry atlas]

Depends how the house interacts with the rest of the game. Are they intending us to spend a lot of time in them or the open world community areas

[magic brook]

if that's the case i just hope I can move around and search for that perfect spot to settle into first

[blazing trellis]

The dumpster is my farm. The rats and pigeons, my livestock.

[maiden nymph]

Yeah i would not do that, i think it would be something i bring up if people ask for VC since that happens pretty regulary

[winter thunder]

So, when are the alphas dropping? 😄

[loud axle]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-enchanted-giselle-amy-adams-gif-7826994

[patent dust]

if i get into pre-alpha i wanna try to be one of the first people in so i can help direct people lol

[novel plank]

yes same^

[carmine relic]

Soon\™

[paper wing]

housing is instanced - we don't know how neighborhoods work but I would expect you are unable to see anyone else's house in the "open world"

[sand barn]

"The house from the trailer is just scratching the surface of what you can do really."

[mystic gale]

I will admit, I will probably take some time to familiarize myself with things before I try to direct anybody

[bitter briar]

wonder if Palia will show up on summer game fest

[magic brook]

if I get into pre-alpha i shall start my exchange empire :^)

[umbral kernel]

Hey, that's trademarked by Blizzard, no stealing.

[paper wing]

but we can also assume that is talking about interior customization mostly

[terse needle]

if i get into pre alpha i'm going to start my bug catching gang

[sand barn]

Tomato tomato haha

[maiden nymph]

Do we know names of places besides "Bahari"

[patent dust]

if it shows up on game fest, be prepared for a LOT of new people to join. it will be hectic, and in some places it will be bad. mods will most likely be called in

[blazing trellis]

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stardewvalley/images/0/06/Linus-Portrait_192px.png/revision/latest?cb=20151218090232

[wispy wyvern]

Thats an unsettling pineapple

[quaint oxide]

I want to play so bad

[novel plank]

i finally bought stardew for my PC

[celest maple]

Good morning/afternoon lovelies >:)

[wintry atlas]

Just a friendly reminder to all, a Pre-Alpha is never a fully polished game, nor does it even necessarily contain a lot of content.

It's nice to dream what you can do, but we have v. little detail right now. Don't overhype yourself.

[patent dust]

o/

[quaint oxide]

Morning ❤️

[magic brook]

i wish i could draw gud cause then i could put my excitement there and draw ideas and stuff

[wanton osprey]

I can’t wait to be honest. Been in a weird funk with games. But this seems like it’ll revive my MMO crave baba

[patent dust]

i wanna draw palia stuff but i only draw goblins lol

i tried to draw jina last night, she looked like a goblin lol

[magic brook]

same, i've been in a funk since i stopped playing WoW back in BFA

[tired trench]

Write it instead

[umbral kernel]

-cracks knuckles- I'm also a VR gamer, I'm use to unfinished, unpolished alphas and beta versions of games or not-games.

[loud axle]

There better be a Pam-esque character in Palia. And she needs to be romanceable.

[maiden nymph]

I always draw random lines until i see something

[alpine python]

Are you a goblin

[magic brook]

I haven't written in ages but that's not a bad idea T-T

[novel plank]

:]

[patent dust]

i am definitely a goblin

[wanton osprey]

I haven’t played a mmo since I stopped playing TERA.

[magic brook]

if i could i'd wanna draw the elf with the glasses and snazzy suit

[alpine python]

Well there ya go

[loud axle]

Same! (Well unless you count League)

[novel plank]

my dad used to play TERA

[carmine relic]

Can't draw a thing but I can make some good memes.

[magic brook]

xD

[celest maple]

gosh, the last time I played an mmo was...forever ago. Probably Free Realms back in 2014 before it shut down

[alpine python]

I got a degree in illustration and I don't wanna draw anything XD

[novel plank]

FREE REALMS <3_<3 still waiting on Free Realms Sunrise

[celest maple]

me as well! update this friday ❤️

[magic brook]

as soon as i saw it in my feed the words 'mmo' and 'home-building' i was sold

[umbral kernel]

Last for me was probably The Secret World. ...This is drastically different.

[patent dust]

everyone knows toon town was the best mmo

[novel plank]

i thought they updated every sunday night

[alpine python]

TSW was great for awhile

[tepid fossil]

Yeah you can't really force yourself for it (unless you are assigned to complete a commissioned piece or something)

[loud axle]

Looks like the dev team are starting to come back from lunch... 👀

[alpine python]

till they ruined it.

[tired trench]

You could even make ideas for npc characters, stories and everything. You can always make Pinterest boards too. Idk, there’s always a way to get your ideas out

[wanton osprey]

I can’t with league. Haha! But yeah TERA is the most I’ve played. black desert didn’t really catch me

[umbral kernel]

The remake was...meh. New design didn't overlay right and was off-putting.

[celest maple]

it recently moved 2 friday ❤️

[patent dust]

Toon Town and Wizard 101 were both great

[carmine relic]

My most recent MMO was about a month ago, Boundless. That game is so dead and quiet though that it pretty much kills itself

[magic brook]

for sure!

[novel plank]

i still play wizard101 sometimes'

[wanton osprey]

I haven’t tried free realms :/

[novel plank]

wish they didnt update it so much graphics-wise it doesnt give me the same feeling it used to :/

[tepid fossil]

Good point bugbitties. There is a lot of drafting and spitballing involved in char design, and a good written direction can be a key to hold pieces together

[loud axle]

Hopefully I don't break Palia like I did TERA. Once climbed a mountain I wasn't supposed to climb and found this just... empty flat void where a future map hadn't been developed yet 👀

And then got stuck lol

[mystic gale]

I realized I should go with the flow and give myself titles

[wanton osprey]

I feel like I had a similar experience 😂😂

[umbral kernel]

Oh, wait, I lied. Last MMO I played was OrbusVR. Would not suggest.

[novel plank]

i wanted to nickname myself sarah | friendly neighborhood witch ... but it was too long :(

[rain crescent]

Diddo

[loud axle]

Oh good I'm glad I'm not the only one who enjoys going off on adventurers they're not meant to have lol. It was while hunting for the exploration signposts for achievements 😄

Really hope we have similar achievements / trophies / titles in Palia.

[regal swallow]

Did someone say Adventure???

[void imp]

lets start a coven

[loud axle]

Stuff like that is what really keeps me coming back~

[celest maple]

there are friendly witches?

[novel plank]

say less

[umbral kernel]

Reminds me of old WoW world before the implemented flying into the vanilla world. Old clan and myself went and skirted ourselves across mountains until we found ourselves above the mountains above Stormwind (we were Horde). We then freefalled our Warlock down into the city where he and others set up a gate inside a civilian building and just started teleporting ourselves in repeatedly, lol.

[tepid fossil]

Reset position / unstuck button should be available via hot key - I hope xD especially early on

[novel plank]

i have a game on my steam wishlist called "The Little Witch in the Woods" which isnt available yet :/

[void imp]

in the name of the moon and the stars, so be it!

[dark zenith]

Chetoo

[void imp]

i had her cute little face as my profile pic for the longest time

[plush heart]

a

[novel plank]

like im definitely gonna want to build my house in the forest next to a lake so there's tons of little fireflies around me (if there are fireflies in the game) and a good view of a full moon

[minor gust]

I'm so excited about this game.

[sand barn]

[novel plank]

shimmerflies

[void imp]

sounds lovely 🥺

[novel plank]

im putting them into a jar or a little terrarium if the game allows me as a form of lighting HANDS DOWN

[celest maple]

I wanna do a backflip

just want to live on a mountain

[celest maple]

Do it

[celest maple]

this is absolutely the dream ❤️

Can't

[novel plank]

one of the reasons im so excited ;-;

[wanton osprey]

Lakeside scene for me :)

[umbral kernel]

Well, I don't want to be like everyone else, so I'm just going to live under a rock and tell myself I'm special.

[celest maple]

i know u can do it

[eternal temple]

I liked the ending to the VVitch movie

[regal swallow]

light butterflies that lead you on deeper in the black forest where Sarah's abode is bound

[wanton osprey]

but you are special! @umbral kernel

[celest maple]

like your mother does

[umbral kernel]

Don't I know it!

[novel plank]

yes basically

[celest maple]

You r special

i particularly want to live next to/in an enjoyably full village ❤️ i wanna be able to walk out of my house and interact with all the neighbors and get to shops quickly 😄

[zinc moss]

you're my kind of special

[keen aspen]

i just hope i finally find some friendly people who dont freaking ditch you after one day of talking...

[loud axle]

I do wonder how much control we'll have over where our plot of land is located. Better location = harder / longer quest, more $$$ spent, etc.

[regal swallow]

Shrew can be anyone's pal!

[celest maple]

this sounds lovely

[celest maple]

THIS is the dream

Bro when this game comes out I'm gonna quit my job

[celest maple]

Truly

[novel plank]

like my house will definitely be far from everyone's so if anyone wants to visit me... you gotta go on a nice woods stroll <3

[rose cedar]

housing is instanced so location wont be a real thing. lol

[celest maple]

You have a job?

[patent dust]

i will log the most time on the game, i already know

[dusky spruce]

Oh, I super hope we can just live in isolated little areas because something about living near people just wigs me out

[celest maple]

I work as a host at O Charlies

[celest maple]

i'll make sure to bring lots of snacks 😳

[eternal temple]

Just log in remote and play on your phone

[umbral kernel]

I'll have a ways to go to beat my record in an MMO of 2k hours.

[wanton osprey]

if you got party potions i am there!

[grizzled yoke]

Is there gonna be a community market?

[dusky spruce]

Like you have control but you also don't so you just dwell there instead of really living there.

[novel plank]

yes.

[celest maple]

don't even know o charlies

[keen aspen]

I have over 7k hours in my main game, gonna be tough beating that XD

[novel plank]

definitely do <33 ill be a baker and potion maker ;)

[umbral kernel]

Yup, lmao.

[patent dust]

in gw2 im at around 3k hours in playtime, someone yesterday said they had around 8k though lol

[sand barn]

Does it have to be a competition always ? 😅

[wanton osprey]

sold! count me in!

[celest maple]

Restaurant

[grizzled yoke]

Also, what model, f2p, b2p or subscription?

[paper wing]

2k hours in MMO terms is probably on the low-end for long-timers

[novel plank]

we dont know yet

[celest maple]

Must be something from america

[summer skiff]

ohhhhh elden ring

[paper wing]

not sure

[umbral kernel]

2k is impressive for someone like me who has pretty severe ADHD. I told myself I was going to clock some hours into a couple games today, currently 2:46 and haven't done squat.

[rose cedar]

Yes

[celest maple]

I have well over 15k hours on WoW over the years

[celest maple]

It is indeed

[patent dust]

its pre-alpha, you likely wont get this info till closer to full release

[umbral kernel]

That reminds me, haven't taken my meds yet.

[celest maple]

Im from Germany xD

[novel plank]

this game will definitely consume my life and i will make my boyfriend get it and play with me too and make him befriend y'all also <3_<3

[celest maple]

Ahhhh

[dusky spruce]

laughs in 1,600 hours in terraria pain

[zinc moss]

i dont even know that chain tbh

[void imp]

we started a coven

[celest maple]

O charlies is okay

[keen aspen]

you have my attention

[novel plank]

yes

[paper wing]

I think my priest in WoW had over 2k hours played and that toon hadn't been my main since WotLK

[celest maple]

I've never really had their food

[dusky spruce]

If we can do arboury I'm totally going to plant a circular tree grove with a field of flowers in it, ain't no way to miss that chance

[void imp]

tried to find that message again and saw your fey/fairy comments, @novel plank

your aesthetic keeps getting better

[void imp]

come on in

[wanton cobalt]

Lucky! My coven only plays PvP games. :(

[novel plank]

pls my perfect aesthetic is a cottagecore, witchy, fey/elven, celestial... and dark academia kinda look ;-;

[umbral kernel]

I'll only be going back to WoW once it gets a WotLK Classic.

[dusky spruce]

Sarah those vibes are immaculate

[void imp]

thats kinda badass tho

[patent dust]

friendly reminder: a lot of questions can be answered by looking at this document: <https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1ECHPsDvyC0KP6ldYRaeFtmR0mhwBVGckWEPcH_zNc7E

[regal swallow]

I want a simple earthy feel to my home, when i finally get one

[novel plank]

i love them :)

[celest maple]

My lock on WoW has 334 days, 8 hours 7 minutes and 8 secs played

So well over 8k hours

[wanton osprey]

Where's the palia funko pops? ;p cause ill pop off

[keen aspen]

Animal Crossing Mush Lamp is LOVE

[dusky spruce]

Also the fact you have a coven that plays video games together is amazing ;^;

[keen aspen]

I want something like that for Palia please

[paper wing]

see, now we're talking

[novel plank]

oh we've just formed this coven

[void imp]

omg shrew your profile pic 😭 💕

earthy is very good, gotta have that bare dirt floor

[plush delta]

Gamer coven??? That sounds dope

[celest maple]

In my town witches were burned at that time

[viscid aurora]

gamer coven?

[celest maple]

I'm scared to go on all my toons, so yea my account easily has over 15k, maybe even over 20k hours combined

[keen aspen]

how do I join the coven hehe~ i need me some friendly fey friends

[viscid aurora]

gamer witch

[plush delta]

I'm actually a witch :0

[umbral kernel]

"Why do you all play together"
"'Cause when we do, it's magic."

[novel plank]

yes.

[regal swallow]

My girlfriend drew my profile picture for me for an anniversary gift

[plush delta]

Nice!

[patent dust]

take a closer look at that snout!

[celest maple]

Don't say that too loud here

[grizzled yoke]

Also, is it normal not to get any confirmation that your pre alpha registration was submitted?

[novel plank]

pls its a safe space here

[dusky spruce]

I've been trying to learn about wicca/pagan religions but hooo boy is feeling like you don't belong a heck of a situation

[plush delta]

Take a closer look at that meme!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[novel plank]

she can be a witch

[patent dust]

yes, theres no confirmation email

[void imp]

omg i love that we all double trouble with the fey

i just changed my nickname to match sarah's

[grizzled yoke]

Thanks!

[plush delta]

Oh, I'm sorry ;w;

[novel plank]

you can definitely join

[regal swallow]

And in return i gave my girlfriend a poem

[bright junco]

what region is the team based out of? just curious when afternoon is to them for the weekly answers 🙂

[paper wing]

Their office is in LA

[wispy wyvern]

That is an impressive snoot.

[bright junco]

ah ok thanks

[dusky spruce]

I'm guessing NA so PST/PDT

[keen aspen]

hmhmhmmmmm.. what kind of witch would i wanna be..

[celest maple]

Bsht I am in Germany and the neighbors already get out the pitchforks

[paper wing]

Los Angeles, CA, not Louisiana

[void imp]

i like your profile pic even more now

[paper wing]

just to be clear

[sand barn]

Duuuude I wanna see you write stuff about the game

[bright junco]

i assumed haha

[plush delta]

c: picrew is a blessing

[novel plank]

like are we gonna have a friendly witchy coven neighborhood ????

[keen aspen]

id be totally down

[regal swallow]

Poems for me come naturally, they can't be forced out, they flow.

[mystic gale]

And I'll sell you fancy robot automated mixers for your potions

[dusky spruce]

Oh, truly love picrew, it's super useful if you dont want to draw a character token for roll20

[sand barn]

I will wait for a moment that brings

[novel plank]

like our houses wont necessarily be close but we'll be connected through the coven <33

[plush delta]

HeroForge!!!

[void imp]

i say say it, it's a high fantasy game server, not a medieval server 😤

[dusky spruce]

My friend actually bought minis from them and they all broke.... really easily

[regal swallow]

Maybe I'll write a poem of Shrew the Greeter

[void imp]

d&d gang gang

[celest maple]

hey bunny! how are you today!

[umbral kernel]

Tabletop gaming all the way.

Though, more Pathfinder oriented for me.

[dusky spruce]

Lancer looks pretty cool too

[plush delta]

Screenshot the stuff n edit out the background and have a top down token doe roll20!!

[dusky spruce]

Oh that's an excellent idea Bunny

[plush delta]

Hi :0

[celest maple]

Good to see you around 😄

[plush delta]

Is what I do!!

[plush delta]

H-Have we met? ;w;

[novel plank]

im rly out here playing stardew for the first time on PC (i used to play on the switch)

[keen aspen]

now you have!

[celest maple]

^

[mystic gale]

I still have never really played Stardew

[loud axle]

Isn't the UI so much nicer? lol

[plush delta]

I wanna play stardew so bad xc

[brisk dome]

Hello o/ just popping in to say hey hey and hope everyone is having a peachy day!

[novel plank]

im still in the intro LOL

[sand barn]

What would you all say your favorite co-op game is?

[novel plank]

its so cute but i wanna figure out how to get the cottagecore looking mod ;/

[celest maple]

I've played Stardew but I find my character walks WAYYY too slow for me to enjoy it. Plus I hate having to go around to talk to everybody every single day lest they give me some 'We haven't talked in a long time!' dialogue.

[loud axle]

Oh. RIP lol I played on PS4 for a bit but just... Hated the controls

[patent dust]

i only have 220 hours in stardew and that feels so low

[keen aspen]

i wanna get into stardew but all those min maxing and tons of sheds with automatic stuff in them is like.. no dude, thats not peaceful

[plush delta]

I'm just broke xP

[loud axle]

NICKELS! ❤️

[plush delta]

I LIVE IN THE BOONIES DX there's no nickels laying around

[patent dust]

i dont think i live in the boonies? is 15k population considered the boonies?

[umbral kernel]

Take up widdling and an etsy store.

BOOM! $20 bucks in 3 months, lmao.

[plush delta]

I'm good with my hands but not like that

[regal swallow]

No my girlfriend lives in a town with 1500 people

[patent dust]

😏

[loud axle]

oh dear

ANYWAY

[keen aspen]

oh shit the sunset is brilliant, i gotta take a pic rq and show you

[mystic gale]

My town is like 23k? But I'm in the suburbs of Boston and that's considered small here.

[dusky spruce]

Lmao oh lord

[umbral kernel]

I feel like that's one of the top 10 things to never say on the internet.

[white rivet]

Does it have any stoplights? My hometown is ~2k people and 1 stoplight

[carmine relic]

It probably is

[final grail]

@patent dust I got burnt out bc of using mods with @brittle linden

[dusky spruce]

Eyy New England gang

[weary holly]

wassup palia chat

[loud axle]

I'm in the tourist capital of the world, Orlando 👀

[final grail]

we never even made it to winter cause we slowed the clock down

[dense pelican]

Thank you, I hope you're having a peachy day as well!! 🍑

[patent dust]

in stardew?

[regal swallow]

only the town center, 1 stoplight

[umbral kernel]

What's up? Well, my blood pressure's a bit high, but I'm working on it.

[carmine relic]

Hype for question answerings is what's up

[final grail]

@patent dust yes

[mystic gale]

Oh nice! Feel like I never meet anyone from the area in gaming circles

[weary holly]

Netherlands or Norway gang?

[novel plank]

i dont know how to download stardew mods ;-;

[celest maple]

Henlo

[umbral kernel]

Uh-oh, the Vikings have arrived.

[dusky spruce]

Yeah, my brother and sister in law are in Quincy

[celest maple]

I'm British lol

[patent dust]

use nexusmods and vortex mod manager, thats probably the easiest way

[novel plank]

HOLD UP

[plush delta]

🥺👉🏻👈🏻

[novel plank]

Y'ALL ARE IN MA TOO ??

[weary holly]

Netherlands or Norway gang?

[keen aspen]

okay, where to share a beautiful sunset

[dusky spruce]

Southern NH

[mystic gale]

Wait are you?? Awesome

[loud axle]

I use nexusmods, but honestly if you're not confident don't do it. My friend couldn't figure it out and broke his game lol

[patent dust]

southern VT o/

[celest maple]

🤢

[novel plank]

Saw ppl say New England then someone said Quincy and i perked up lol

[mystic gale]

EYYY

[celest maple]

I guess I'm the only one lol

[patent dust]

i go to MA to get my weed lmao

[sand barn]

👋

[keen aspen]

any german girls here D:

[loud axle]

100% agree it's the armpit of the US

[dusky spruce]

Heehoo, greetings neighbors

[void imp]

ME ME

[umbral kernel]

Don't be using "y'all" if you're that far north. Shameful.

[patent dust]

sort of? i was born in germany by left when i was 3 lol

[novel plank]

my father grew up in virginia .

[weary holly]

German girls accent 😍

[mystic gale]

Girl I went out with last weekend is from Quinzee but I'm a little farther from the city

[loud axle]

I use y'all because it's gender neutral D:

[celest maple]

Welp ;3;

[novel plank]

all my family on my dad's side is down south i speak like them sometimes so :/

[celest maple]

Went there 4 months ago to Disney, insanely crowded for literally no reason

[umbral kernel]

That's fair! Lol

[plush delta]

German girls accent 😍

[mystic gale]

I mean that's better than the Boston accent

[void imp]

you're family then 😤

[novel plank]

oh im down south shore ahah

[celest maple]

Any Brits here?

[novel plank]

i dont have an accent i just say some words like... y'all ...

[hasty crescent]

I've got an accent thats a mix of american (undefined), british and eastern european, according to people I've met

[umbral kernel]

You should hear what the accent is like here in Missouri. Just pretend you got a bunch of chewing tobacco shoved under your lip and talk as lazy as possible.

[hasty crescent]

Greetings

[patent dust]

i dont think i have any accent? im not sure though lol

[plush delta]

I don't have an accent but can bust out a full southern yeeyee hick one like is nothin'

[celest maple]

Eey

[patent dust]

some words i say have different accents mixed in

[mystic gale]

My parents are both from Philly and their accents kinda canceled out Boston for me, if I have any accent it's traces of Pittsburgh oddly

[undone mist]

Im west coast, but I slur words, due to a variety of dialect mixtures lol

[novel plank]

If I spoke out loud in a voice chat, i don't think you'd hear a distinct accent

[loud axle]

Will Palia have different dialects depending on region? 🤔

[patent dust]

also that reminds me, if you pronounce bagel as bag-uhl, youre wrong

[celest maple]

I'm a game dev student lol

[dusky spruce]

Y'all familiar with Chutter's in Littleton? That was my hometown lmao

[hasty crescent]

People don't often hear their accent. If someone isn't from your area, they'll probably hear something

[void imp]

🥺 longing sigh voice chat

[mystic gale]

Yeah my accent is pretty neutral, or at least I think so, but people from other parts of the country say they can hear traces of one

[carmine relic]

Only if they call Hamburgers Steamed Hamd

[rain crescent]

How do you pronounce it

[novel plank]

that's absolutely correct, [bah-uhl] is WRONG

[summer obsidian]

of course it will, why do you think some people say Chuu and others Chapaa...it's based on your starting area 😛

[plush delta]

I'd hop in a VA and let y'all hear but I feel weird about my voice

[hasty crescent]

Oh lmao, I'm a Games Design student xD

[novel plank]

we should make a lil witchy coven discord <3_<3

[patent dust]

i say it bay-gul

[keen aspen]

she is! 😄

[sand barn]

However you want

[loud axle]

Oh my look who became a booster! 😮

[plush delta]

Its "bay-gull"

[mystic gale]

Bay-gul is correct

[dusky spruce]

Baygel

[carmine relic]

Guess I'm wrong

[wispy wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/beagle-gif-8018695

[summer obsidian]

I know, I decided to get Nitro today and it came with two boosts so I figured why not

[dusky spruce]

Pubby!

[novel plank]

thats bee-gull

[patent dust]

no thats bee gull

[rain crescent]

Yeah that’s right

[sand barn]

There's a free deal for nitro atm, if you've never had I think

[carmine relic]

How else do you say bagel?

[mystic gale]

Bee gull sounds like you're from New Zealand

[celest maple]

https://tenor.com/view/excited-dogs-puppy-puppies-gif-15784012

[hasty crescent]

how do y'all say bath thou

[magic brook]

omg that pupper is cute

[carmine relic]

Bah-th

[novel plank]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/818918406370885665/831564349717479474/image0.gif

[hasty crescent]

"bar-ff"

[novel plank]

my favorite gif again :)

[patent dust]

THE B A T H

[celest maple]

https://tenor.com/view/golden-retriever-pijama-blue-yawing-yawning-gif-13767222

[rain crescent]

Bah-th

[magic brook]

a cat broke my discord oh no

[regal swallow]

#🐾│pet-pics

[umbral kernel]

Aaaaand...stolen.

[novel plank]

these aren't our pets, just gifs ;)

[regal swallow]

I was confused!!!

[hasty crescent]

I mean we are still offtopic

[keen aspen]

im kinda too shy for voice chat hah..

[patent dust]

this channel is always off topic lol

[wispy wyvern]

Beeeasleeeyyy

[mystic gale]

Anyway awesome to hear a few of you are from the area, we gotta stick together in game

[hasty crescent]

everytime I VC someone always compliments my voice so I've gotten confident lmao

[foggy ingot]

just talk bruh

[dusky spruce]

Unfortunately I cuss to much to go near a voice chat in this wholesome realm

[novel plank]

it would be more on topic if we had more info about this lovely game LOL

[rain crescent]

The off topic channel is more on topic than this one

[hasty crescent]

replace the swear words with jelly beans.

[patent dust]

wait what area? i cant remember who said what anymore lol

[dusky spruce]

Truly excellent

[ember swallow]

tell me something new

[novel plank]

new england i believe

[void imp]

yay ☺️

[plush delta]

https://tenor.com/view/bunny-rabbit-yawn-stretch-cute-gif-16869285

[regal swallow]

Do you think there be bouncy shoes?

[hasty crescent]

Hi I'm from old england... aka england. Can I join you

[mystic gale]

NE, I'll say you and sarah and Mopsi and I all count as one area

[umbral kernel]

Rabbit! Now I'm hungry.

[void imp]

that's okay you don't have to

[mystic gale]

And whoever else we find

[patent dust]

D:

[novel plank]

we're americans but sure as long as u dont try to claim new england as old england ;)

[keen aspen]

tbh, up until a month ago i wasnt living alone, so i couldnt really talk anyway. now that i am alone i probably would join VC more often if the people are nice, for some company, ya know

[sour gorge]

dang still no answers in the ask the team section

[hasty crescent]

Nah don't worry, I know a lost cause when I see it 😉 /jk

[patent dust]

https://tenor.com/22id.gif

[mystic gale]

As long as you don't mind when we dump your tea out eh heh heh history jokes

[buoyant heath]

How are all you lovely and deserving people today? I hope you're all having a magnificent day.

[wispy wyvern]

Since you last checked your email?

[foggy ingot]

I see you chose chuu huh

[novel plank]

bostonions diff

[loud axle]

No that was 2 minutes ago.

[lament citrus]

Does anyone else check their phone every 15 minutes waiting for something to happen?

[patent dust]

well yeah, im waiting for a discord announcement rather than wasting time refreshing emails :P

[hasty crescent]

2 minutes. yes.

[novel plank]

im just keeping my email up at all times... lol.....

[dusky spruce]

Real talk though? Boston aquarium stingray pond is a blessing.

[regal swallow]

[lament citrus]

I'm with pastel, I haven't checked my email once

[ember swallow]

we will get the answer earlier than the alpha keys, we will?

[willow sundial]

hello 👋

[novel plank]

i haven't been to boston in well over a year thanks to the pandemic... I miss Canes 😔

[magic brook]

i want land sting/mantarays in-game, like just flying around in the sky

[celest maple]

My carrier pigeon also no longer shows up

[mystic gale]

Yanno, I love NEAQ and all, went on so many field trips as a kid, but I gotta say most other aquaria I've been to are way nicer

[magic mist]

well, I 've been checking my email, but I have other stuff arrive there too..

[novel plank]

mystic aquarium is so nice in CT

[regal swallow]

#💬│off-topic-chat ...

[patent dust]

theres gunna be an announcement, so theres no real reason to keep checking lol

[umbral kernel]

Between hoping for game invites, GPU notifications, and the other half a dozen other things I'm keeping an eye on, my email has been open constantly.

[mystic gale]

Yesssss

[dusky spruce]

Yeah, it's definitely older, have you ever been to the Sea Science Center?

[celest maple]

^^^

[umbral kernel]

...Probably gonna have to abandon this email eventually due to too much junk mail.

[mystic gale]

Mystic is great, and I went to an awesome one in Charleston SC awhile back

Even the one in the Mall of America is kinda nicer >_>

[dusky spruce]

They have a blue whale skeleton with a reconstructed tail fin and her name is Tofu.

[celest maple]

Yall Pc players?

[umbral kernel]

PC4Life.

[novel plank]

i just signed up using my regular email and then my email that i made for my twitch for gaming related stuff

[regal swallow]

Yes

[novel plank]

yes i <3 PC

[carmine relic]

Ye, I'm a PC player!

[magic mist]

does it have to be just PC? 🙂

[hasty crescent]

👀 you registered twice...?

[umbral kernel]

Yes, always need that separate email for Twitch.

[paper wing]

anyone here hoping for pre-alpha better be a PC player

[carmine relic]

Though I sometimes hate console exclusivity.

[celest maple]

you are sympathetic

[mystic gale]

I play stuff on PC and console, but consoles won't be included in the pre-alpha so PC it is

[rain crescent]

I play PC but i hope it comes out on switch

[novel plank]

i was in the car originally in a place with bad service and thought it might've glitched out so when i got home i used my email for games

[sour gorge]

The game is only launching on PC for now.

[hasty crescent]

I mean fair enough, it wasn't done with bad intent :) Just if both some how get a spot inform the devs

[celest maple]

no xd

[mystic gale]

I hope they don't disqualify you; they said something about weeding out multiple registrations

[sour gorge]

@paper wing i read your message wrong lmao

[umbral kernel]

I don't mind console exclusivity in instances of the game only existing because of the company funding it. Now, when a game has a long exclusivity just because they bought the right instead of funding the game first, that's an issue.

[patent dust]

i already know theres going to be people who signed up who dont have a pc. theyre going to be quite disappointed if they get chosen

[buoyant heath]

Well, Unreal Engine 4 is certainly cross-platform, so there's the availability of putting it on other systems in the future, but I get starting with the PC

[void imp]

denglisch

[paper wing]

oh lol I thought you were just reinforcing my point

[novel plank]

i only registered twice because my service was garbage for the first one ;-; and didnt know if it went through

[honest pulsar]

how many people are even being chosen @patent dust

[loud axle]

Wait you mean you can't run this game on an etch-a-sketch?

[ember swallow]

or sell their key

[hasty crescent]

we don't know.

[sour gorge]

we dont know. Enough to stress test the servers though

[honest pulsar]

i hope they choose at least couple thousand

[celest maple]

you know denglisch?

[mystic gale]

Yeah, hopefully they'll only get rid of the second/third/whatever ones and still leave people registered with one address

[honest pulsar]

if they choose 500 out of 100,000 people who registered thats pretty bs

[novel plank]

so for all i know maybe im only registered once if it didnt go through

[patent dust]

we dont know, theyre getting as many as they can but theres no exact number

[honest pulsar]

i hope its more than 500 @patent dust

[void imp]

feel that, i had to ask if anyone got a verification email when i didn't get one

[dusky spruce]

I don't know how many got chosen for sky saga's stress test but I imagine around there.

[ember swallow]

something I hope I will never see in this chat

[hasty crescent]

its a pre-alpha, so it can't be too many people.

[mystic gale]

It's not bs, it's just they only have so much testing capacity to start with. They have to start small and work their way up

[sudden mango]

more platforms are planned. I don't expect the kind of Epic exclusivity behavior from other devs

[paper wing]

I don't think you can expect them to select a percentage just to be "fair"

[umbral kernel]

Pretty standard for any version of a game that's not late-late-beta/near-release to be on just PC. Getting it ok'ed by the console companies would be a nightmare for every daily update that's needed.

[sour gorge]

yeah they should have made it send out a confirmation email just to reassure us that we successfully signed up.

[mystic gale]

An alpha isn't about being fair and inclusive, it's about getting the kind of testing they need to complete the game

[celest maple]

why not

[hasty crescent]

They can do that for when alpha sign-up comes out

[novel plank]

exactly why i used my gaming email when i knew i had wifi at the comfort of my PC to sign up

[celest maple]

I hope you all have an awesome day/night!

[ember swallow]

because it is just wrong

[celest maple]

and funny

[buoyant heath]

I showed my daughters the announcement trailer yesterday and they've asked me six times since then if I've gotten in

[rapid hound]

Guys, will there be character creation in this

[novel plank]

yes

[hasty crescent]

yes!

[rapid hound]

OH THANK GOD

[umbral kernel]

Yup, alpha should be for people willing to help shape how the game develops or at least help in bug-finding and testing features. Flooding with people who just want a free game tends to be counter productive.

[hasty crescent]

we don't know the details of it yet, but its supposed to be very... Detailed? lmao

[patent dust]

many options in character creation (not much for pre-alpha, but for full release there will be more)

[sudden mango]

limited for PRE-alpha, but planned to have extensive options.

[umbral kernel]

Been in plenty where the majority come in and complain without being constructive.

[sour gorge]

A LOT of character customization in this game

[dusky spruce]

Time to make OC's that my DM will simp over, because that's the QA I live by lmao

[hasty crescent]

Guys remember this is pre-alpha, alpha would be different xD

[rapid hound]

Just hope there is like a option for acne or freckles lol

[thorny bear]

And post alpha will be different than alpha.

[mystic gale]

Yeah and sadly I'm sure there will be some of that here, but I hope from what I've seen of the community so far, most will be prepared to provide valuable feedback

[wispy wyvern]

Prepare for a year at least of "Is it out yet Dad"

[magic brook]

I do love me some character creation, I can't wait to see what it's like. If I can make a char remotely as suave as the elf boy on the mainsite I'll be happy

[hasty crescent]

even if you get in they can't see cause of NDA

[mystic gale]

We'll have people who make it into the pre-alpha and get on chat like "YO WHY CANT I KILL ANYONE"

[hasty crescent]

Oh the one with glasses? I wanna draw him so bad, gives me gothic victorian vibes

[novel plank]

i love character creation i always make it look like me or the version of myself that i want to look like so i feel like im rly in the game

[dusky spruce]

Oh, did you see the article about how they're handling gender in this? It's pretty rad.

[mystic gale]

"0/10 GAME LOL"

[sudden mango]

Not the first NDA play test I (hope) participated in and won't be the last

[umbral kernel]

Seems it. Games like this attract less of the adrenaline-seeking individuals that can lead to toxic behaviors, so helpful individuals -should- be more common. And people just casually playing helps too, just a matter of what percentage.

[hasty crescent]

wait how

[buoyant heath]

That was the new Minecraft update for the last six months or so, and then it came out and now they are like WHEN PALIA, DAD?

[magic brook]

yeees, i'mma simp for him. he gives me those vibes too

[hasty crescent]

tell me about the gender mechanics, wise Mopsi

[patent dust]

there is no assigned gender in this game for the player

[wispy wyvern]

nods Yep.

[dusky spruce]

Let me go grab the article

[magic brook]

Ooh I wanna see this article too

[hasty crescent]

best way of doing it 😎

[umbral kernel]

My spouse will be a major fan of that feature of the game, definitely.

[dusky spruce]

Is it acceptable for me to post a link?

[hasty crescent]

dm it to me, they're open

[mystic gale]

Hope so! I'm sure the pre-alpha will have some people that never joined the Discord, too, so that's a wild card.

[rapid hound]

Thank god

[wispy wyvern]

That depends on relevance and the content

[rapid hound]

No gender

[patent dust]

You don't choose a gender or pronoun, just a body type```

[dusky spruce]

Thanks pastel!

[magic brook]

Heck yeah!

[sharp cloak]

dunno but I'd like to read it

[buoyant heath]

It's how it should be. Just give us the ability to make our character look how we want and dress how we want without locking out gendered options

[gray mural]

Yes, you can post links

[patent dust]

hi, im pastel, im your local knowledgebase!

[rapid hound]

So I get to be a gender less adevnturer yushhhhh

[dusky spruce]

It's going to be fantastic for trans and NB people

https://gamerant.com/palia-mmo-unique-approach-character-creation-gender/

[celest maple]

❤️ This is one of the things I love most

[magic brook]

I'm a big believer of clothes have no gender so as long as I get to wear dresses, heels etc im happy with that too

[dusky spruce]

If I get banned, just know it has been a pleasure

[gray mural]

Lol THAT article xD

[shrewd fiber]

as a friend of mine once put it, "I'm playing as a genderless dirt gremlin so whoever I romance, know that they're gay"

[celest maple]

Aww never! If you got banned for saying something like that, I'm sure we'd all boycott

[hasty crescent]

I mean the title of "unique" is clickbaity, thanks Game Rant, but I'm glad to have this information

[celest maple]

SO TRUE

[dusky spruce]

;u; terrified to break the rules here because I love the community

[thorny bear]

Does this means there will be no beards or mustaches? :(

[patent dust]

just a warning: articles can be, and have been wrong about parts of this game. gamerant is one of them.

[gray mural]

Read on https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1ECHPsDvyC0KP6ldYRaeFtmR0mhwBVGckWEPcH_zNc7E it has a lot of info on character creation

[sour gorge]

There might be. We just dont know yet

[ember swallow]

there will

[umbral kernel]

It will. Even for people who don't identify that way, it'll avoid depending on features that aren't necessarily universal and open up the ability for everyone to make a character, if they wish, that resemble themselves.

[regal swallow]

strap on beards?

[wispy wyvern]

Whu?

[hasty crescent]

nothing is locked behind gender or anything, so you're free to customise how you please

can't genderlock if there's no gender, heck ye

[patent dust]

theres going to be facial hair im sure lol

[wispy wyvern]

Beards are not gender locked my friend. @thorny bear

[dusky spruce]

Just take it with a grain of salt for now since it's so early

[dusty bloom]

What hair else can i choose 🙄

[buoyant heath]

As a beardy person who who looks SMASHING in a dress, I'm happy about everything here.

[celest maple]

I'm super excited for this considering I usually never feel like I can really customize my person how I want to. I always want to mix and match and games never give you that option 💔 Palia is a godsend

[dusky spruce]

As pastel said, articles can be incorrect or unreliable

[celest maple]

I'm sure you look wonderful!!

[wary falcon]

anyone got invited yet?

[patent dust]

i dont know, im not a dev

[celest maple]

Nope! No keys have been given out to anyone yet

[hasty crescent]

nope the announcement of emails will be posted on discord so you'll know.

[patent dust]

no there will be a discord announcement when invites are sent

[sour gorge]

The devs did a whole press release thing before announcing the game so it's safe to assume the information in the articles are accurate.

[wary falcon]

ahh thanks

[dusky spruce]

I look sincerely forward to being able to vibe in all genders of clothing a la FF14

[ember swallow]

I want answers

[hasty crescent]

in most of the articles.

[gray mural]

Nope those articles are based on #❓│old-team-answers-pre-alpha . One of the articles even has the doc I linked you as source

[patent dust]

there was an article by gamerant before that got a few things wrong. they came into the discord and got the wrong info

[paper wing]

I'd say it is even more safe if the same information is given across multiple sources

[dusky spruce]

Since pants are so rare on female/female presenting characters in games...

[umbral kernel]

And I want French Onion Sun Chips...but that ain't happening right now. O_O

[sour gorge]

Like what?

[hasty crescent]

i mean FFXIV doesn't have that many gender or raced locked clothes (I'm wearing a wedding dress as a male lalafell) but its nice to have complete freedom

[dusky spruce]

There are french onion sun chips?

[loud axle]

They've since said that a lot of more recent articles have taken things said in #❓│old-team-answers-pre-alpha and run with them though. :/ Think that's one reason for the weekly Q&A.

[ember swallow]

but I have to go to bed now making big chapaa eyes

[sour gorge]

Well if a dev answers a question I dont see how that isn't a reliable source. Sure it could change but that is the current information being given by the devs

[shrewd fiber]

don't tempt me with what I can't have ;v;

[umbral kernel]

They are the best...but somewhat hard to find sometimes, and never in the small bags anymore.

[dusky spruce]

Oh geez.

[patent dust]

i cant remember exactly what it was, i think @gray mural knows though

[mystic gale]

I saw a YouTuber say there were going to be playable elves based on the misinformation that was spreading around this server a few days back

[loud axle]

Several things already need to be readdressed because of changes, misunderstandings, or miscommunications.

[dusky spruce]

Oh I hope so....

[sour gorge]

There will be different races just not right now.

[wintry atlas]

It is reliable, but it doesn't necessarily guarantee hard truth.

Never forget Destiny 1 and that mountain we were supposed to be able to go to.

[dusky spruce]

Fantastic races as a whole are amazing

[magic mist]

"The stylish upcoming MMORPG Palia "

[queen ledge]

I need dis game

[dusky spruce]

Fantasy* not fantastic pardon

[sour gorge]

I know thats why I said it could change but currently it's all we have to go on and game sites are going to use any information to push out articles about a new game.

[gray mural]

I don't xD All I remember is laughing about the source. They copy pasted answers from the devs

[mystic gale]

Where have they actually confirmed that? I was under the impression the bit on the faq doc about playable elves was a mistake.

[queen ledge]

Thank you 😄

[umbral kernel]

There's so little information we have so far, and pre-alpha is still fairly early development, so as others have said, let's control the hype abit.

We know what we want, though, so no harm in talking about possibilities.

[dusty bloom]

Can we get a fsk 18 neiberhood 🤭

[winged basalt]

I get the feeling a lot of people will get into the pre-alpha, realize the game isn't even half done, and never log into it again cause they expected something unrealistic and got mad that it wasn't a beta...

[hasty crescent]

they said they would consider adding them later

[queen ledge]

Hey, I just love the art style and that it looks like my wife may be able to play without having to use 30 hot keys and crap 😛

[patent dust]

there was something going around as elves possible, but that was not actually confirmed. a few of us thought it was and accidenty spreaded it, and some articles picked it up

[sour gorge]

It must have been updated because before it did say there were going to be other races. Just like they changed the amount of players that will be in a group.

[gray mural]

And the mistakes in article is mostly referring to this: #💭│discord-server-thoughts message

[winged basalt]

Which will in turn deprive S6 of a lot of the info the pre-alpha is suppose to provide...

[tough orchid]

Team answers waiting room

[void imp]

did i miss anything important in the last ≈ 20 minutes?

[empty barn]

Then the community will get rid of that kind of people, for me it's a win

[mystic gale]

Yeah, I think that was someone misunderstanding an answer the devs gave. But if they say they will consider it later on that's a good thing, though I wouldn't treat it as a promise of anything

[hidden lynx]

👀

[dusky spruce]

Oh, I'm just excited to see what the early stages of the game would look like were I to get in. Obviously a lot is going to be placeholder or missing and block off but still, getting to experience and assist is an honour.

[hasty crescent]

The rest of us will just have to flood the devs with information.

[winged basalt]

We need every single person we can get into the pre-alpha to be productive.

[vagrant coral]

Better scroll back 20 minutes just to be safe.

[void imp]

haha

[sour gorge]

Plus in the FAQ they dont outright say its not a thing. They simply say they aren't talking about it right now.

lol

[hasty crescent]

a lot of what we say is speculation

[patent dust]

people need to realize this is a PRE ALPHA not a demo, not a beta. things are incomplete, there will be bugs, and there will be changes

[dusky spruce]

Imagine getting to be a golem like Einar, sounds cool

[keen aspen]

IF I get into pre alpha ill probably bombard them with every minor detail and bug i come across.. ill probably annoy the sh*t out of them

[sharp cloak]

at what time is considered afternoon for the devs I wonder?

[buoyant heath]

I just spent 20 minutes scrolling, has anyone said anything new?

[umbral kernel]

As said, a large portion of what I play is VR games, so I'm use to unfinished alpha/beta games. I'm ready for something bug-ridden. All about finding ways to enjoy yourself, not finding reasons not to.

[idle lintel]

The point of pre-alpha is to test server loads and core features, not test the game as a whole lool

[mystic gale]

Yeah, which hopefully leads to something some day, but I'm just saying YouTubers using that to tell people "We're getting playable elves" could be misleading XD

[patent dust]

no, anything new would be in #❓│old-team-answers-alpha

[hasty crescent]

Pretty sure they're PST timezone so

[dusky spruce]

I'm est, so they're about 1:30 pm right now

[gray mural]

The race thing will be cleared out in the faq coming up I think

[buoyant heath]

I'm assuming that ex-Blizzard and Riot employees are PST

[sour gorge]

I agree. People are thinking this is just a normal test when it isn't. Its there so the DEVS can get needed feedback about gameplay mechanics and to find bugs they may not be able to find themselves while testing internally.

[hidden lynx]

That edit though

[sharp cloak]

There should be an approx countdown for #❓│old-team-answers-alpha

[patent dust]

the devs are based in LA california, so they are on PST/PDT

[paper wing]

the office is indeed in LA but WhoaNonStop said only a few have been there physically

[lament citrus]

As my first pre Alpha besides crowfall I'm excited to play the raw alpha and find bugs to be productive. Feel involved in the creation of the game

[hidden lynx]

Yeah it's 1:30 for them!

[patent dust]

just saying no sounded a bit rude lol

[umbral kernel]

Lol, we keep heaing the ex employees thing as a selling point, but I want to know....how did they become ex employees? O_O

[gray mural]

Nele said a while back she is working on them...but its a lot to work on

[empty barn]

I didn't say they wouldn't play the pre alpha though. I completely agree with your point

[hasty crescent]

hey guys don't rush their answers

[sour gorge]

They probably left to start their own company. Thats typically what happens

[hidden lynx]

No no it was fine I just loved SEEING it be edited and made me giggle

[mystic gale]

A lot of gamers have been spoiled with early access and so I hope a lot don't come in expecting to treat it that way. I know many of us active people on the Discord know better, but a good many won't have participated here

[buoyant heath]

I didn't consider it rude, but I appreciate the additional information for those who may not know where to look for more updates.

[patent dust]

its blizzard, they always lay people off :P like the 400 employess that got laid off out of nowhere

[umbral kernel]

I know, but can't help being devil's advocate, lmao.

[hasty crescent]

By... Moving on? Games Design / Development is mainly on contracts. It's not normally a full-time job.

[meager edge]

ex employees of who

[hasty crescent]

We do it by contracted time. If we're not needed anymore we move on to the next contract

[sour gorge]

Yeah unless you're a higher up. IE Todd Howard level.

[patent dust]

blizzard, riot, zynga, and some other companies

[sharp cloak]

their carreer site says they're currently employing out of office only, tho it is in LA, guessing because of social distance stuff

[meager edge]

ah thx

[winged basalt]

Not even server loads. That's an Alpha. A pre-alpha is a proof of concept. It's the briefest and most bare bones 'this is the general direction we're going' preview. Most of the time pre-alpha never leaves house...

[mystic gale]

This is the gaming industry. Almost nobody stays with one company permanently

[hidden lynx]

Wait there are people in here who are active???

[umbral kernel]

I fully understand how development works, just posing a joke on it being a company of people who got fired, lol.

[mystic gale]

True, I think I must be mistaken!

[buoyant heath]

I am currently inactive

[patent dust]

pfft active? id never be active... >.>

[umbral kernel]

Details matter!

[sour gorge]

same

[magic mist]

I walk with my dog everyday a few times, yes

[hidden lynx]

I thought you were a joke 👀

[ember swallow]

only pretend to be activ

[undone mist]

I mean Im active, I walk 8 miles a day...

[sour gorge]

@buoyant heath There is only one true Dad.

[hidden lynx]

LoL LOVE IT

[buoyant heath]

Only my kids think that

[dusty bloom]

I walk arround 12.000 steps while working

[hasty crescent]

the definition of pre-alpha, alpha and beta can vary to company. So yeah, it could be less bare-bones than we think, considering what we saw in the in-engine trailer (when I think bare bones I think t-posing base character model lmao)

[mystic gale]

I certainly don't feel active

[celest maple]

😭 I love this guy

[patent dust]

3,232 messages sent by me yeah...im probably the least active i think

[undone mist]

I walk to and from work @dusty bloom

[paper wing]

They talk to you? Weird...

[magic mist]

how many of those are "They are not ready to talk about monetization"?

[ember swallow]

where do you get that information?

[hasty crescent]

Well lets not get into Activisions Layoffs... cough

[umbral kernel]

Many times I've seen pre-alpha it's been introducing players to the first area of a game only.

[proud nimbus]

Let us be honest.. Blizz is basically Activision now.. Blizz Went out to pasture along time ago.

[hasty crescent]

search bar

[undone mist]

@paper wing HAHAH! Oh lord, if my neices wouldnt talk to us so much...

[winged basalt]

Whatever it is, we'll be here to provide feedback and opinion as S6 needs, and cheer them on all the way.

[hasty crescent]

I've only sent 540

[sour gorge]

1,627 for me lol

[hasty crescent]

100%

[celest maple]

Only 120 here considering I only joined 2 days ago 💔

[buoyant heath]

They're young, the oldest is just getting to the angsty pre-teen stage

[ember swallow]

186 haha

[patent dust]

43 from me

[novel plank]

LOL

[hidden lynx]

Wait how do you see that????

[gray mural]

@ember swallow type in the search box "from: @ember swallow " you will get the numer at the top* of the results or something

[hasty crescent]

discord search function

[paper wing]

my oldest is 13 now, so exclusively in the basement communicating via grunts

[sharp cloak]

19 from me, my adhd brain cant possibly react to y'all so I get way too nervous

[bold robin]

i'm just hoping I get chance to try it out and give feedback 🙂 Even if not pre-alpha then alpha or beta would be cool. Been awhile since i've been on an MMO from the beginning

[dusty bloom]

How old are you all? Just intrested, i think we have a wide spread range here. Im 29

[patent dust]

i have answered the monetization question 43 times using the word monetization, there are more though

[sharp cloak]

26

[drowsy canopy]

i joined super early but im like

[novel plank]

the age range here is huuuuuge

[hidden lynx]

:o this is message 669 Nice 😏

[buoyant heath]

I have a few more years until that, hopefully.

[patent dust]

28 in august

[celest maple]

17! 18 in a few months, I'm not excited

[magic brook]

am old man at 23

[viscid aurora]

lol

[winged basalt]

That's one thing I really hope we pull off. It's a community based MMO. We need a good community. WoW's community can be summed up as 'the entitled prick screaming the loudest gets what they want' and LoL's was 'the guy ruining the most fun for others got what they wanted'... none of that here. We're a team, and S6 deserves our respect and good behavior

[hasty crescent]

I mean beginning would be considered at release, so getting into the beta or alpha makes it before the beginning so that would make you, like, super cool 😎 ✨

[ember swallow]

I won't be the oldest here crosses here fingers

[tepid fossil]

Yeah i hope they do granulate the channels a bit more to ease the chat traffic in a single channel a bit
I mean off topic is usually slower paced

[mystic gale]

It is a huge age range, like I'm 731 years old

[bold robin]

haha true, true

[proud nimbus]

I am 33 😄

[sour gorge]

@buoyant heath is an impostor. This is the real dad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvfxpJn7VRM

[hasty crescent]

17 😎

[bold robin]

i'm 31

[patent dust]

just in ask-the-team, ive sent 1,884 messages

[gray mural]

It depends, we are in #💬│palia-discussions so I'm guessing palia years?

[novel plank]

o so there are some people under 18 here... iiiiiinteresting

[drowsy canopy]

34

[sour gorge]

27 here

[sharp cloak]

yes that would be nice

[paper wing]

44 this month

[hasty crescent]

I love MMOs because there's just a large age-group

[buoyant heath]

Let me put it this way - to me, the concept of time itself is young, a child compared to my vast and ancient life

[proud nimbus]

Happy Birthday to All Celebrating this Month! ❤️

[hasty crescent]

Its nice to talk to so many people from different ways of life

[ember swallow]

finally someone older than me

[magic mist]

has to be, like "they do not say yet" with reply

[bold robin]

I suspect that'll get easier as more stuff gets announced, there's so little info on anything yet it's hard to have a indepth conversation about anything game specific as we really don't know what direction it'll all go yet

[umbral kernel]

Ugh, is that what it is now? I was a 20-something hanging out with a large community of 25-35 folks who didn't even necessarily guild up, but acted as a better guild than any other I've seen. Very chill casual players who just got on to have fun in what hours they could.

[loud axle]

29~

[bold robin]

so it's all vague speculation

[paper wing]

you're welcome I think?

[empty barn]

I'll turn 18 this september

[whole coral]

I would wager I am older than all y'all 😉

[patent dust]

i think i mostly replied with "they will not talk about monetization at this time"

[umbral kernel]

I'm 34 now, but I never understood the need for that level of toxicity in gaming.

[crystal beacon]

35 here

[viscid aurora]

I am practically a child atleast in my heart

[novel plank]

i'm only 20 :) its fine lol

[viscid aurora]

recently became an 18

[dusty bloom]

Nice to see so nice age diversity

[hasty crescent]

you need like a gif of meme you can macro to automatically send

[empty barn]

heya fellow teenager 😎

[celest maple]

It really is! Especially knowing how polite y'all are ❤️

[buoyant heath]

I at least have that guy on Beardiness

[winged basalt]

I mean wow's forums. Not guilds in general...

[tepid fossil]

Having a #general-1 and #general-2 is incredibly common in large servers.

[hasty crescent]

lmao, hello fellow teenager.

[mystic gale]

I'm 44, will be 45 later this year, so so far it looks like I have everyone beat but am very open to being upstaged on this

[ember swallow]

I'm surprised there is noone 60+ here yet, cause this game will be for every age

[magic mist]

i think i mostly replied with "they will not talk about monetization at this time" (fixed that for you)

[sour gorge]

lol true

[umbral kernel]

There was one thing I loved about The Secret World and that's that the AVERAGE age was around 33, so a lot of helpful people with some life experience under their belt.

[winged basalt]

Wow's forums are toxic enough to kill an elephant from a mile away

[whole coral]

Not quite. I turn 51 in September 😉

[sharp cloak]

general palia derail 1 and general palia derail 2

[patent dust]

i did answer way too many questions lol but it was mostly repeats! cause people dont know how to read apparently

[winged basalt]

And I will admit, 15 years ago, I was part of that toxicity... but I got grey hair, and grew out of it

[mental jasper]

Thats what it seemed to be with Rift aswell

[dusty bloom]

Most toxic game i ever had was metin2 😳

[bold robin]

yeah i'm on a few that do that, but tbh I think a lot of that kind of thing would be better handled with #💬│off-topic-chat getting more use 😛

[hidden lynx]

Man I felt like I was pretty active in here but I haven't even sent 1k messages 😓

[sour gorge]

Welcome to a new game with new people constantly joining lol

[mystic gale]

Excellent, and good luck on having your title stripped from you XD

[paper wing]

44 this month for me so we can commiserate together

[viscid aurora]

reading is hard

[hasty crescent]

and not reading the FAQ

[sharp cloak]

some ppl there are scary 😮

[hidden lynx]

Those people 👀

[umbral kernel]

The Secret World lost a lot of younger players before it's relaunch just by being difficult and requiring you to do research to do Investigation missions, lol.

[sour gorge]

People would rather just ask cause they are lazy

[patent dust]

im mostly meaning people dont even look a tthe other channels, like #❔│game-faqs is the first channel anyone with a question should go to

[viscid aurora]

rip

[ember swallow]

it was hidden in the wrong channel a while

[sour gorge]

Thats the logical thing to do.

[summer obsidian]

Yeah, when joining a discord I normally read through all those official locked channels before I ever submit the first message

[patent dust]

^

[umbral kernel]

Yeah, hurt it's population and thus made it fail, hence why the relaunch made it simple, but it was so well written and designed for an older age of gamers.

[loud axle]

I work with the general populace at a theme park so it's 100% not surprising. I'm constantly amazed by the number of people that manage to get lost in a theme park, with a map, that's ONE BIG CIRCLE.

[hasty crescent]

I'm so worried about wasting people's time so I physically can't repeat a question. If I see a question with even a sentence of the same topic, I didn't ask xD

[carmine relic]

Reading is hard. Anyway, guys, when is the full game releasing?

[mystic gale]

The people who come in and are just like "YO PEEPS ANSWER ALL MAH Qs" are the same people who use Facebook as Google

[sharp cloak]

not everyone understands that I think. I did, but seems like a lot of ppl just skip that

[swift trout]

22

[hasty crescent]

within the next 3 years

[buoyant heath]

I know that Discord activity is no guarantee of getting an invite, but I would consider the game in good hands if many, many of you got brought in early and helped guide the direction of the game's community.

[dusty bloom]

I hope ww get answers in less than 2 hours, or else i need to go to beed 😑 5 am going to work 😭

[ember swallow]

soon

[sharp cloak]

tm

[novel plank]

since i am a lovely socially anxious person i read and lurk to find answers to my questions before actually asking them ahaha

[summer obsidian]

And then Vlad put together the awesome document, and bam...I had wayyyyy fewer questions 😄

[viscid aurora]

there we go

[sour gorge]

soon™️

[umbral kernel]

Lol, I joined and just watched chat for an hour before chatting. Found out all I needed to without having to be "that guy."

[hidden lynx]

I was in here pretty early so could stay caught up early for the most part and tried helping answer repeats haha

[winged basalt]

SWL and TSW were really REALLY good though. The storyline in that game made WoW's look like 2 toddlers beating a typewriter with their mom's iPhone

[hasty crescent]

that document is so good

[celest maple]

I felt this so much

[tropic chasm]

i'm shaking waiting for the #❓│old-team-answers-alpha

[wild niche]

Same

[carmine relic]

I'll happily help point folks into he right direction, maybe even give em an item or two to help em off

[sharp cloak]

ME TOO

[wild niche]

Really curious to see what they end up answering

[viscid aurora]

I was in here early just linking to vlad's unofficial FAQ thing

[hasty crescent]

as soon as one of you sees "Insert Dev typing" we're gonna go crazy

[mystic gale]

Same here, my natural tendency is to lurk anyway, that's why I don't have a sky high message count

[novel plank]

i cant even focus on playing any video games rn i might as well open up spotify and just hang out in here

[crystal beacon]

The amount of people who didnt blew my mind. So many repeated questions, lots of respect for the devs for sorting through all that.

[umbral kernel]

Yup. The writer was the same ones who wrote The Longest Journey and Dreamfall. Excellent game writers, which is rare for MMOs.

[tropic chasm]

there is so much stuff that got asked that was in my head lol

[wild niche]

The things they talk about tells us plenty, but the questions they don't answer are just as telling as well

[burnt fulcrum]

Hopefully the answers come before it's too late here in Europe..

[bold robin]

I'm just interested to see how the community shapes up in game, it's a very different type of MMO than any i've played before so I would hope the community turns out a bit more positive than many others out there. But i'm enough of a realist to know any game will get some kind of negative behaviour, just hope that it's fairly well controlled

[carmine relic]

I figure they might release some big answers to hopefully smush several questions in the process

[patent dust]

when i joined i read faq and announcements, went to ask the team, and just sat and watched. after a bit i started helping answer the questions i knew the answers too, then i ended up as one of the main ones answering lol

[hasty crescent]

don't sleep. lmao I'm kidding

[crystal beacon]

Everyone stops to acknowledge europe time zone lol

[ember swallow]

if we coun till 10k I think the answers will appear

[dusty bloom]

I was anxious till i was 15 years old, then i started to work and had much customer contact, now i have no problems anymore 👍 ❤️

[sharp cloak]

I'll stay up till tomorrrow. Can't sleep now

[summer obsidian]

and a legend was born...

[magic brook]

let's start counting then... 1!

[ember swallow]

at least we can sleep while waiting

[hasty crescent]

europe is around 7-11 hours ahead of PST

[wild niche]

Yeah, certainly getting late there for some

[hidden lynx]

And we appreciate you so much as I'm sure the devs do as well 🥰

[patent dust]

yall are the best <3

[wild niche]

Next week though they'll probably be more punctual on answering questions for the EU folks

[winged basalt]

"My name is Anima" ... that's all. That moment, when she says her name for the first time. She had complained that the researchers always spelled her name wrong... but when she says it herself and you realize... oh... she's a child DEITY... yea... that was a masterstroke.

[hasty crescent]

no u

[tough orchid]

Oh yeah Europeans... they're all going to bed lmfao

[sharp cloak]

I have a theater brain so I'm a different person at work, and get anxious when I get home lol

[spring wasp]

2!

[wintry atlas]

Will certainly make any pre-alpha tests they schedule interesting if any of us EU folks get in

[umbral kernel]

The main draw of this for me is that my wife like chill games and always leaned into fishing/farming/management games and this feels like it'll be a good activity for us.

[hasty crescent]

its not 4am yet why would I go to bed

[viscid aurora]

forgot timezones

[ember swallow]

honestly I don't care if I can read them thursday EU time, I just want answer

[novel plank]

i formed a very new extreme anxiety this year because of being hospitalized in december for GI issues :/ im hoping it wont make me too anxious to be on a plane in august LMAO

[mental jasper]

I hope so Hard the community is going to be good, cant handle working 14-17 hour shift then come home and get shit on by teens

[blazing mason]

I’m hoping my boyfriend will play with me

[ember swallow]

and soon I will get used to calculating PST time again

[tough orchid]

Honestly time zones are a social construct anyway right?

[crystal beacon]

Same! My whole family enjoys this style of game, it bridges alot of people.

[hasty crescent]

hey I'll shit on them back, but in british.

[umbral kernel]

Yuuuuuus. That part of the story was so good. I had played it since it was in beta so I had to wait for that content to release.

[bold robin]

exactly why i'm interested in this. I've played enough other MMOs with the combat and other stuff. I just want big multiplayer stardew valley/animal crossing/my time at portia 😛

[mystic gale]

I'm so sorry you had to go through that! But hey a trip in August is something to look forward to!

[sour gorge]

kinky

[dusty bloom]

My wife will play with me

[foggy ingot]

say the most british thing you can come up with

[paper wing]

isn't that just adding awkward u's to words that are otherwise fine?

[hasty crescent]

[novel plank]

knowing me im gonna take my take as needed anxiety meds and a CBD gummy and possibly try to knock out all the way down to florida LOL

[remote ether]

I saw the trailer and I immediately signed up. Is there any further information on when I can no-life this game?

[mental jasper]

🤣🤣

[tough orchid]

I will make my cousin play with me

[winged basalt]

You had been following that girl's story since FREAKING LEVEL 10... and the first thing you hear from her is 'that's not my name'... and you think it's just the researchers seeing her as an object not a person...

[wild niche]

Nope. Pre-Alpha doesn't have a start date other than "soon"

[hasty crescent]

You're the ones who removed them, and replaced random s' with zs.

[ember swallow]

I will play with everyone here

[viscid aurora]

tm

[mystic gale]

That's the way to go XD Vacation?

[dusty bloom]

Cbd noice stuff, i preffere Tee

[winged basalt]

OMG that game was amazing

[sharp cloak]

I think I've started to drive my partner away from this by being waaayy too hyped. He didn't even join the discord, and he was the one that show me the trailer

[hasty crescent]

look in pinned at the FAQ Document

[novel plank]

oh trust me so do i but i dont want to be paranoid i just wanna calm my body down before the plane ride

[viscid aurora]

you destroyed him

[novel plank]

yesss going to boca :)

[paper wing]

when the z talks, you listen; what can I say?

[celest maple]

Aw love...I know exactly how that feels. Two years ago I was hospitalized because I reacted badly to new anxiety meds and I still have extreme paranoia and anxiety over it happening again. 😦 I hope it gets better for us!

[crystal beacon]

lol I showed my good friend and I was also too excited, he gave me a "Hmmm... we'll see" response.

[umbral kernel]

Always glad to find the rare TSW player around who appreciates it, lol.

[mystic gale]

Nice, you get to relax in the sun and mingle with the old folks!

[hidden lynx]

@distant oar is trying to distract us with cute Twitter posts... It won't work friend 👀

[acoustic lake]

Will the development of the game have its own launcher or will you go to Steam?

[hasty crescent]

Only Z i listen to is Zebra.

[loud axle]

Yesss, yesss, keep me employed! 😄

[bold robin]

probably far too early to know yet

[novel plank]

seeing my boyfriend's grandparents in their lil gated community itll be nice

[carmine relic]

I don't think any of my friends or anything carried over to this game, so I'm basically alone

[sharp cloak]

we were walking to the convenience store, and I held on to his jacket all the way to read discord stuff

[proud nimbus]

What was the tweet ?

[tough orchid]

I learned from the recent twitter post that a group of Chapaas is called a "problem"

[hasty crescent]

I mean most PC games go to steam, but we do not know this information yet. I'd reckon (pure speculation) that it'll be both, maybe?

[frank matrix]

Im a confused or should be something in the #❓│old-team-answers-alpha ?

[hasty crescent]

a problem that can be fixed with hugs

[hidden lynx]

#🐦│social-feed it's about Chapaas!

[ember swallow]

the first answer

[paper wing]

isn't that zed-bra in Britain?

[mystic gale]

Haha yeah for some reason Boca is grandparent central. XD Hope you have a good time! Just think, by then maybe we'll be in Palia :o

[gray mural]

soon

[tropic chasm]

its already 6pm here in Brazil, so im hoping i will be awake when it comes

[sharp cloak]

not yet :/

[wild niche]

From my experience MMOs typically have their own launcher and stuff but that doesn't mean that all MMOs have to have one

[winged basalt]

There are dozens of us. DOZENS!

[sharp cloak]

tm

[umbral kernel]

Yeah, got a number of people with those responses, and they're the individuals who are more....Call of Duty gamers (which I play, am good at, but not obsessed. Play a month at a time 'til I burn out)

[frank matrix]

Ah oke okey

[hasty crescent]

What else is it supposed to be

[burnt fulcrum]

almost 11 PM here in Sweden

[hasty crescent]

I know but a lot of MMOs you can download the launcher through steam and run it through there so, like FFXIV

[paper wing]

that's a good point

[umbral kernel]

Maybe even another one somewhere in Wyoming!

[wild niche]

Yeah, fair enough

[viscid aurora]

this is the completely normal and sensible reaction to Palia its a suprise he isnt as hyped because if he was a conga train of palia discord users would be made just to go shopping

[bold robin]

I mean it's not even pre-alpha yet 😛 I suspect launcher decision will be much nearer the time

[hasty crescent]

that's probably a beta system to tackle

[ember swallow]

have you seen the partial sun eclipse today?

[bold robin]

yeah beta would make sense

[hasty crescent]

I only found out about that due to the news! It's too cloudy in England to see the sky, let alone a partial lunar eclipse

[meager edge]

can you marry someone in the game/is this planned?

[sour gorge]

did anyone redeem the free 3 months of discord nitro from Epic Games? If so when did you get the code?

[patent dust]

the only thing currently is NPC romance, theres no marriage yet

[buoyant heath]

I wanna marry that big robot guy

[celest maple]

Marriage has been talked about in the FAQ but I don't think it's confirmed quite yet. Someone correct me if I'm wrong!

[hasty crescent]

look in the FAQ document thats in pinned of this channel! That has all the infromation we gathered

[tough orchid]

marriage tax benefits inc

[ember swallow]

we had like 8% covering so you didn't noticed anything

[mystic gale]

The eclipse was supposedly something like 75% visible here in New England, but it was first thing in the morning and there are too many trees and hills around me

[sharp cloak]

there seems to be some romance planned, I think I read that somewere

[umbral kernel]

MMOs tend to need so many updates that the launcher is needed. Updates through numerous storefronts take time to get ok'ed, so game launchers help bypass this and give the control to the devs again.

[spring wasp]

Same.

[burnt fulcrum]

nope