💬│palia-discussions

[remote latch]

I hope it won't feel too scripted .. and less patterny .. so, just because they went to the beach on a sunny Tuesday at 11am .. doesn't mean they will do it the next sunny Tuesday at 11am

[prime adder]

If there is a bar, I'm gonna hang out there. I love bars and I do romanticize barkeeps

[heavy dew]

I can see some form of pattern being required so you can actually find them

[remote latch]

there is an inn in the village 🙂

[celest maple]

bardcanthea?

[heavy dew]

There is a tavern sooooooo 👀

[prime adder]

Nice

[heavy dew]

you can enjoy some all lettuce soup

[peak monolith]

when is the first barcrawl?

[prime adder]

Hope the barkeep's cute hehe

[remote latch]

Reth works the day shift at the inn ( https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/850062378926473227/885585781903720538/Villager-Vote-Reth_Discord.png )

[celest maple]

i'm gonna be picky and ask for kale instead

[heavy dew]

Take a :#🌠│official-art message

[peak monolith]

you might be making a good decision here ^^

[prime adder]

Nice! I like Reth already- Reth and Ruth. Ruth being my OC that I'll play as

[remote latch]

you might be lucky that he is romancible 🙂

[prime adder]

Eh, even just hanging out there and looking at him will be fun lol

[wooden anvil]

Morning dudes o/

[prime adder]

Hello!

[heavy dew]

Can confirm sometimes I just enjoy looking at @peak monolith so I get it

[surreal crest]

hello new friend!

[peak monolith]

i'm only interested in romancing @heavy dew in Palia ❤️

[wooden anvil]

How's it going

[heavy dew]

Doing great! how about you? ^^

[wooden anvil]

Doing alright, had a run-in with a really old game last night lol

Looking forward to a good Sunday though. Best coming over and gonna have some much needed growler time

[celest maple]

hi siigari!

[prime adder]

Hope you enjoy your day!

[wooden anvil]

Thanks :) what have you guys got planned today

[heavy dew]

The best of days to all!

[heavy dew]

Some shows, some games, some illustrating ^^

[prime adder]

My day is almost over already, it's 5:40pm here

[heavy dew]

Eyyy same, 17:40 gang

[celest maple]

same here! i still haven't had dinner yet

[wooden anvil]

Nice! And that's crazy, time travelers op

I'll have to ask you guys for lotto numbers on Wednesday

[celest maple]

5 and 41

[prime adder]

I've had a big meal just earlier, so now I'm having a snack

[heavy dew]

What you did here, I see it

[wooden anvil]

Lol

[remote latch]

surely it should be 17 and 41 🙂

[celest maple]

i swear i wasn't trying to do that it just jumped out of me

[heavy dew]

Ah a naturally funny person I see, we're gonna be good friends

[celest maple]

heads up i charge by the hour

[surreal crest]

go for Friday, going big or going home

[heavy dew]

It's a good thing I'm filthy rich.. in.. nice.. you charge by good company right?

[celest maple]

i will have a think on that and get back to you later

[wooden anvil]

Heh, I was driving around the other day and saw both the mega millions and powerball were up in the high 300s

[heavy dew]

Invoice me later for the first hour

[prime adder]

Better accept that deal, honji, never saw a better deal

[wooden anvil]

Once it gets to silly numbers I start considering buying a ticket

[celest maple]

i'm taking the chance by postponing the deal cause right now i gotta get some grub

[wooden anvil]

Sensible

[celest maple]

buy a ticket! buy a ticket!! buy a ticket!!!

[heavy dew]

What a responsible human being.. putting their needs for nutrient intake first? What kind of.. oh no wait they're buying lottery tickets

[wooden anvil]

Lmao

[remote latch]

🤣

[heavy dew]

It was right there, I had too xD

[celest maple]

if win lottery....Many burgers?!

[heavy dew]

Are.. are burgers you favorite.. food? 👀

[celest maple]

yeah i love burgers

[heavy dew]

I LOVE BURGERS

[prime adder]

BURGERS

[heavy dew]

<-- had a burger less than an hour ago

[peak monolith]

BORGOR

[celest maple]

WOOOOOO
to be honest i like chicken burgers a lot, but if it's not chicken and the meat is very tender....

[heavy dew]

I mean.. Halloumi and fried fish burgers are so good too..

[surreal crest]

le Borguoer

[celest maple]

fried fish sounds really good

[heavy dew]

I can hear the accent, how did you do that

[celest maple]

i want some fish. i'm gonna look for fish now, thanks berry

[heavy dew]

You are very welcome ^^

[prime adder]

You gonna look for fish? In the ocean? A lake? River? Oh, ask Einar

[heavy dew]

[peak monolith]

[heavy dew]

they're very sensitive about their fish

[prime adder]

Ah

[heavy dew]

(not sure if they are, just go with it for the joke)

[prime adder]

Sorry, Einar. I'll not mention your fish ever again. Or look at them.

If I even ever SMELL your fish, I'll turn around and go the other way, Einar

[peak monolith]

[heavy dew]

I'm sure Einar will be like.. the fishing shack npc that gives you a rod and teaches you best floats and bait for different spots ^^

Gives you a little pat on the back when you've caught a 1cm little fish

[prime adder]

Just thrusts a fishing rod in your arms

[surreal crest]

or a sword

[prime adder]

Both, in one

[heavy dew]

Spear fishing with Einar, when?

[peak monolith]

imagine einars reaction if you tell him you don't know how to fish
'oh no no, this won't do at all!'

[heavy dew]

[confused in binary]

[warm plover]

i'll fish up a mascot character

[heavy dew]

[eyelid malfunction, repeat, twitch]

[prime adder]

"how do you not know how to fish, fish are the world, they surround us and provide us and we gotta catch them to survive and it's sad and good at the same time and fishing in itself is an artform that can be used to express yourself and depending on your mood you can catch different fish i swear to me noodle armsies-"

~Einar. Probably.

[heavy dew]

Insert Ron Swanson, "Don't teach a man to fish, he's a grown man, fishing is not that hard"

Einar is far more supportive

[peak monolith]

returns without fish 'pls help'

[uneven pebble]

Hello everyone

[heavy dew]

Hi Khontis!

[peak monolith]

hey ^^

[remote latch]

Looks like Duck is suspicious of the latest suggestion rofl

[peak monolith]

Guess he doesn´t wanna end up on a hook

[heavy dew]

haha

[prime adder]

If we have that festival... we need Peking Duck as a food option...

[blissful orchid]

oof I missed the reveal of the new villager! i was on Do Not Disturb that day streaming

looks like i was right though, he's my new favorite

he was slept on

[warm plover]

speaking of streams i just discovered that i want to do another karaoke stream but with all the lyrics passed through google translate

[uneven pebble]

That's gonna be a fun stream

[carmine relic]

Very

[remote latch]

Yeah I’ve seen some YouTube’s of that … it’s hilarious

[surreal crest]

quackity quockity! Your Duck is now my property!

we should hire someone to make a opening for fictional Netflix series called "Pond Patrol"

we could have music, cool artworks and ponds

[peak monolith]

And ducks, right?

[surreal crest]

nah, no Ducks
chairs!

[heavy dew]

The notorious pond chairs

[peak monolith]

Sounds relaxing to sit in on a hot day

[surreal crest]

not to mention future seasons like "Pond Patrol: Before the Pond", "Pond Patrol: Ducks gone rogue", "Pond Patrol: Dirty Chapaa" and of course, the best of them all "Pond Patrol: Bad Boys"

imma browse Fiverr.

oh there's this dude called Mike (he's from Sweden, so CC: @heavy dew ) who composes for €13.33/each 60 seconds)

I was joking when typing the previous messages but seeing the prices...

[heavy dew]

Value for money be like that huh

[surreal crest]

well I'm not aiming for masterpiece, this sounds like a elaborate shitpost anyways...

... I'll write this idea down, it's legit plan at this point, imma drop some sick Pond Patrol beats one day, you just wait

[fallen summit]

looking forward to it

[surreal crest]

first I'll save some money, those prices are basically 4 x for me (different currencies aaaah)

[thin grove]

hello

[carmine relic]

Ok, I'm here again, for the most part!

[warm plover]

maybe palia was an elaborate shitpost all along

[gloomy vine]

Ello

[surreal crest]

oh dear god one of yogurt brands in my country went with "impostor" meme for their ads
ehhhh

[late trellis]

Yooooooo I just seen the Ad for this game on Facebook.. I’m liking what I’ve seen

[surreal crest]

hello new friend

also ey yo devs your ads work B)

[summer obsidian]

Welcome to the community!!

[tulip wagon]

Bruno intensifies
Welcome to the party, Pal!

[heavy dew]

This ad coverage crazy, love it

[tulip wagon]

It's bringing us new artists and new friends! Hooray!

[surreal crest]

btw I didn't see a single ad. Anyone has pics?

[tranquil cosmos]

There are ads now?

[surreal crest]

apparently yes?

[warm plover]

i heard about ads but havent seen them myself
kinda weird to have ads out this early

[celest maple]

Hrm, not necessarily. Could be tie-in ads with the announcement?

[warm plover]

i guess? i just wouldnt want people to see ads and go "hey cool game" and then get hit by the "jk we're in pre-alpha"

[celest maple]

Yeah, the wait is a good time to forget about the game - besides lose interest 😦

[prime adder]

There are SO many ads for games on kickstarter or games in developement. I think it's pretty common these days

[warm plover]

didnt know that since i have ads permanently blocked pretty much everywhere

[heavy dew]

Me too

[surreal crest]

oh yeah Rin you just reminded me that I have 2 ad blocks xD

[warm plover]

man i wanna do something but i dunno what

[surreal crest]

I'm getting weaker since I have to work tomorrow...
god damn why can't I be rich

[warm plover]

:(

[peak monolith]

such a mood..

[fallen summit]

things that I usually do when in a state like that: go draw something, go read anything that comes to mind, go on a Wikipedia spree, go talk to someone, go listen to some music for inspiration. Not sure if this helped ;-;

[warm plover]

bleh

[fallen summit]

XD

[heavy dew]

I tend to do the same, I just grab whatever is closest and get to doing something, snaps me out of it most of the time, and even if it don't, feel better afterwards that I did something rather than not xD

[warm plover]

the most productive thing i could do at this time would be to sleep

[fallen summit]

that's also a solid and good plan

[warm plover]

so im not going to do that

[fallen summit]

ok, sure

[gusty rivet]

any chance theres gonna any sorta update about game or anything anytime this month

[heavy dew]

We've been getting both weekly and monthly updates in #🌠│official-art and #❓│old-team-answers-alpha so far, there's a post in #📮│public-polls going a little further into what we can expect the coming weeks and it seems promising so take a look at that

[gusty rivet]

ok thank you

[carmine relic]

I wonder how our next vote-thingy is gonna look?

[summer obsidian]

I think that's how it will go! Amelia will pop on "This week's vote-thingy will be on mechanics!" 😛

[carmine relic]

Yea, but I mean what mechanics we'll see up on the board!

[summer obsidian]

I dunno, will be interesting for sure

[carmine relic]

Time to wait a few days, I suppose.

At least I got my pals in this chat to kill time with!

[surreal crest]

AYE GAMBIT MAH BOI

[carmine relic]

AAYYYEEE CHAIR!

[surreal crest]

AYEYAYEYE

[heavy dew]

AYYYYY!!

[remote latch]

[remote latch]

Hopefully they’ll pick ones we’ve screamed about the most

That they can of course

[carmine relic]

I think we'll get the option to pick which one is released, so we just gotta get together and scream for our favorite the most

[surreal crest]

or maybe they'll scroll through every option

[carmine relic]

One at a time, "Do you want ___? No? Ok, we'll give you the next one over next week!"

[pure pasture]

Hello, I am new to the server and discovered Palia on YouTube yesterday. I am really excited to see the final game. 😄

[surreal crest]

hello new friend!

[carmine relic]

Aye, welcome!

I think ya arrived at a relatively good time. With those mechanics votes, we're bound to see some actual gameplay bits instead of the usual villager art and facts we get

[surreal crest]

yeah, can't wait

[short thorn]

Fact: Ashura is a dilf

[pure pasture]

Ohhh are there any hints about which mechanics are considered?

[carmine relic]

Well, people have speculated each villager specializes in one type of craft. Or at least some do, so that kinda narrows things down.

[celest maple]

"Kenyatta: Hasn't declared her Path" - so some sort of class system, in line with what Gambit said [actually, I'm not adding anything knew or non-obvious, huh :/ ]

[remote latch]

Not yet . They’ll be some sort of voting system similar to what we’ve been doin in #📮│public-polls. We don’t know what choices but mechanics covers various gameplay systems so whichever ones we get each week will hopefully give us some bright new ideas and speculations 🙂

[heavy dew]

(they've also said you won't be locked behind some kind of "you can only pick 2 professions/classes/paths", you can do everything if you want, but they're thinking people will get comfy with around 3)

[carmine relic]

I will do everything there ever is so I can learn how to teach everything ever to everyone ever! ...Ever!

[remote latch]

They said it may become difficult to manage ALL ‘of the things’ meaning skills and abilities

[carmine relic]

If I can do rocket nonsense in Kerbal, I can absolutely do this

[remote latch]

Correction the word they used was challenging and they know some people will try

That phrasing is making me wonder if there is a use or lose type thing over time.

[celest maple]

Specialization benefits would be nice, like a "use or lose" type thing. Not like we can do everything, realistically.

[pure pasture]

Use or lose could make sense

[celest maple]

gives a weight and acknowledge-ability to our experiences, efforts, and contributions. (Maybe... always comes down to implementation/mechanics...)

[carmine relic]

What about a situation where it's just a nest of utter hell?

[remote latch]

A what?

[carmine relic]

"I can't make this because I need to collect this this and that, but I need someone to make me a tool to do this this and that, and-"

[heavy dew]

I mean they have said if you wanna fish all day you can whether that makes you better at it or not, we'll see

[carmine relic]

I'd only fish just to throw them at people.

[remote latch]

Yeah I doubt it will be too challenging but may be enough for most people to change their mind and pick a few to concentrate on.

[heavy dew]

That moment when you become so good at fishing, you just walk up to the lake and the fish jump into your lap

[carmine relic]

I know a really neat fishing trick, but don't tell anyone. First, ya get a stick of dynamite...

[remote latch]

You’ve been speaking to najuma again haven’t you? Grr auto correct and then wrong editing rofl

[celest maple]

I honestly don't know what will work, let alone work well, though I understand your concern. Gambit. Arbitrary constraints can definitely be exhausting - I just hope it's enjoyable ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[carmine relic]

Maybe.

[heavy dew]

Speaking to speaking about seaking?

[remote latch]

Shush :p

[heavy dew]

I am here to be myself, and we all know at this point that that is sometimes somewhat of a prick 👀

[carmine relic]

Gonna explosive-jump, who needs Yeet-inar

[remote latch]

Hey Berry, some Scandinavians have just introduced themselves 🙂

Well, maybe recently rofl

[heavy dew]

Oh hello fellow norsefolk

[remote latch]

They’re must be shy lurkers rofl (checks spelling before pressing send)

[carmine relic]

Srewcr ytping coretcly, gramer tkaes too lnog to croect aynway.

[heavy dew]

Is.. this where I.. point out the first word?

Just to be a prick? xD

[remote latch]

Darn it rofl

[heavy dew]

I'm sorry I couldn't not haha

[heavy dew]

Thanks I hate it xD

[remote latch]

Ah .. I changed the second word .. that’s why I missed the need to change the first 🙂

[heavy dew]

Happens to the best, all the time ^^

[celest maple]

Eshe looks snobby... oh... She was "born into the elite governing class".. hrm

[carmine relic]

Yeah, that sounds about right

[heavy dew]

Posh af

[carmine relic]

Praying she gets a "Please, tell me more." line. You know exactly how said line is said, too

[remote latch]

that reminds me .. what do you think this could mean ? [S6] BuscoBear — 06/05/2021 Our skill system will be sarap AF Looking up Sarap .. this came up as a possibility Sarap literally means yummy or delicious. It is usually used in food but you may hear girls say it pertaining to men with good physique

[carmine relic]

Hmmm. Maybe they're just using a fancy word to say rewarding or addicting in a good way?

[surreal crest]

I'm feeling like skills will be hidden, at least part of them will be.
Like when you learn certain skill, you will get to pick 1 of two next skills or something

[heavy dew]

Pulled pork sandwitches because they're ripped

Other than that I think Busco is just a cool cat xD

[surreal crest]

Maybe one giant skill tree where all skill are intertwined

[warm plover]

theyre saying the skill system is kinda hot doe 😳

[remote latch]

they do say that you pick and choose your level of involvement in each skill so possibly

[heavy dew]

yummy yummy skill systems, mmmmm hot diggity darn

[carmine relic]

It'll be quite something to see different people of different skills to come together to perform a task, if that's the case.

[remote latch]

I should think so .. they have the most answers there .. I still haven't extracted their ones ( 497 responses they did alone )

[carmine relic]

Looks like Rin has some competition for documentation

[remote latch]

ah no .. nothing like that 🙂 its just in case we lose access to the #❓│old-team-answers-pre-alpha channel

[carmine relic]

Ah, right.

[celest maple]

Xrystal is Rin? Documenting things? One of the things I'd like to do is contribute to the wiki, building it up, like journaling adventures through Palia 😄

Oh, PNN.... Palia News Network 😄 ?

[remote latch]

Nah .. Rin compiled one of the faq files pinned to this channel .. I just search and grab dev comments direct from the #❓│old-team-answers-pre-alpha channel. 🙂

[heavy dew]

Rin made a faq document and Xrystal is the fastest drawer in the west? is Palia west? idk, fastest to grab quotes from devs here

[carmine relic]

Drawer in the Palian West, sure

[remote latch]

Wikibot was a name I added because Finland started calling me wikibot .. and I added PNN for Palia News Network because CreeperCernon kept calling me the Magical News Roundup Person

[celest maple]

aha, nice. Thanks for catching me up. I'm interested to see how PNN develops 😀

[carmine relic]

I also can't wait to see how the PNN is

[remote latch]

It all depends on what the game lets us do .. if there is a need for an external newspaper with the day to day running of the game ( assuming it is a game where the news will be the same regardless of which server you are allocated to )

In other words .. Is Palia .. one world .. with the people allocated to servers accessing that world .. so .. you may hear about people from the other servers despite not being on there yourself

[heavy dew]

There's a lot of nice people in here that work towards compiling and forwarding information and making it easy to find

[carmine relic]

So some weird parallel universes where papers and stuff cross-over but not people?

[remote latch]

yes .. like layers of information but only one physical world

hence, we ALL help grow the world .. but we may only see a small percentage of the people playing it on a daily basis

[heavy dew]

I like that concept.. I want that irl

[carmine relic]

I also like it.

[remote latch]

It is also one of my future and unlikely to be created game idea rofl

[carmine relic]

Then the world freaks out as people realize the name "Gambit" is sorta common

[heavy dew]

Imagine the freakout when people find out it's not butter

[remote latch]

probably why there was that response of discord time ( no not time .. type ) identities

[carmine relic]

It's not butter!?

[heavy dew]

I've been told it's not but I can't confirm nor deny personally 👀

[upbeat tapir]

do we have any sort of ifno about release date?

[heavy dew]

Much sooner than 3 years is what we have at this current time

[upbeat tapir]

lol okay thx

[thorn magnet]

Do I introduce myself here? Idk but man I really hope I get picked for beta! o_o

[marble hedge]

🥁

Once upon non-alpha dreary, while I look with eyes so bleary
Upon my wife whom pre-alpha took 62 days ago
While I browsed, webpage refreshed, hoping for more gaming progressed
Imagining a world to invest, invest my time to make it grow
"Just some info" I muttered, "just to make my interest glow."
Because pre-alpha is so slow

There have been snippits, I remember. Of a world of brilliant splendor
Where players could surrendor, to a game of MMO
Eagerly I hoped for gameplay, hopefully to happen today
Alpha reaching crescendo, keeping in check angry temper
Those in Discord who want action, playing as a game member
None of us are in the know

.... ok my head hurts trying to turn The Raven into someone Palia-related. And this poem is goddamn long. So I'm not going any further. You just need to imagine Einar standing there, looking at you with his disappointed eyes.

Quoth the golem, "NDA"

[thorn magnet]

what the o.O

[marble hedge]

I screwd up the tempo in that once or twice, sorry.

[marble hedge]

Palia has a pre-alpha test of 1400 people. My wife got in. I didn't. So I post a daily self-help group post

[topaz path]

@thorn magnet do a search for 'non-alpha spouse' its his shtick

[heavy dew]

There's #👋│introductions but a lot also just jump straight in here with what I personally find the best introductions.. a hands on one hello and welcome!
Currently it's in pre-alpha so we may even get picked for alpha 👀 they're yet to announce When these testing phases are happening but they've been very vocal about info in the past ^^

and that's Wippit, his wife is in the pre-alpha as a tester and they can't talk to eachother and he's written one of those every day to make the rest of us smile

[marble hedge]

I mean, we can talk. We just can't talk about the game. And I can't watch her play.

[thorn magnet]

lmaaaaaaaaoooooooooo that's so great

[heavy dew]

Wippit, I've read all of them, there is complete silence in your household

(I'm joking, of course, love both of you)

[marble hedge]

I still have 2 kids at home, trust me, silence doesn't exist.

[topaz path]

Welcome p0ptart81. we're pretty chill for the most part. except for the sobs that come from the other end of my couch.

[heavy dew]

^ that's the wife xD

[thorn magnet]

hahaha thanks!

[heavy dew]

Fair point, checkmate to you

I do very much recommend checking out #🌠│official-art @thorn magnet ! there's so much gifs and reveals of npc's in there, it's a good scroll session ^^

[thorn magnet]

oh awesome!

[topaz path]

2 kids, 3 dogs, a cat, a lizard, 2 axolotls and wippit. this place is never silent

[heavy dew]

That's a big herd

[surreal crest]

hello new friend!

[thorn magnet]

no kids but i have an 8yr old tux cat, a 5mo cockatiel, and my mew baby, a 3mo old maltipoo who is already the love of my life. Name is Chester B

[topaz path]

❤️ that's sounds awesome

welcome aboard

[heavy dew]

I got my 2 furbabies as well, no actual babies

[surreal crest]

kids are ticket to hell

[heavy dew]

My sister's kids are lovely and terrifying at the same time, I don't know how that works

[remote latch]

terrifying when you see them .. and lovely when they go home ?

[heavy dew]

Yeah, pretty much yeah

No for real though they're lovely but so exhausting and so weird..

[bright forge]

Hi guys!

[heavy dew]

Perin!

[bright forge]

Berry!

[heavy dew]

How you doing tonight? ^^

[bright forge]

I'm fine, how are you?

[surreal crest]

Perin!

[bright forge]

Chair!

[carmine relic]

Periiin!

[remote latch]

Love that one Wippit.. I got The Raven stance underneath fine .. I was waiting for the 'evermore' line Paliawise 🙂

[heavy dew]

I'm doing wonderful ^^ Got that post illustration finished high!

[bright forge]

I hope we will get something I need to fuel my hype!

[bright forge]

Gambit!

[marble hedge]

It's a hard poem to change theme on...

[surreal crest]

40 mins till sleep ; - ; I don't want to

[carmine relic]

You can stay up if you just chug more coffee in the morning

[remote latch]

why?

[surreal crest]

work tomorrow ; - ;

[surreal crest]

it's not about that ; - ;

[remote latch]

hmm weird .. my chats seem to be on a go slow tonight .. anyone else notice a delay in the text actually posting ?

[carmine relic]

I did notice earlier today that my Discord's text wasn't lining up with how fast I was typing it

[surreal crest]

yeah, I noticed it

[remote latch]

maybe the server is just having hiccoughs then

[surreal crest]

they are heccin hacking us

[regal swallow]

That happens to Discord sometimes

[heavy dew]

Mine don't send right away tonight, so same

[carmine relic]

I'll sure it'll clear up soon enough.

[heavy dew]

Agreeeed ^^ with that however I am heading to bed

[carmine relic]

Aye, goodnight

[surreal crest]

I need TEA

[regal swallow]

I know chairs have arms, so here have a tea i'll place it nearby 🍵

[carmine relic]

Ugh, tea?

[surreal crest]

TEA, 3,5 teaspoons of sugar

[carmine relic]

Ok that's better

[regal swallow]

[surreal crest]

aight I'm making TEA, who wants some?
Chair's got a nice big kettle, lots of water will fit in

[hybrid cloak]

Hey any new game screenshots?

[celest maple]

Steven Smith Teamaker: Blend No.110, Ice Cream Royale

[remote latch]

only what they have given us in #🌠│official-art . Pre Alpha is under NDA so nothing from in game at the moment

[carmine relic]

There's one thing that isn't NDA, and its the pre-alpha testers' opinions on what they saw. I think.

[surreal crest]

I just remembered, It's probably the case for pre-alpha players (although they can't confirm) but designs in pre-alpha that will not get into the final game stay under the NDA for a looong time.
so you gotta watch out, even after the release

[carmine relic]

Good thing I got garbage memory

[surreal crest]

aye, it really helps. I can't count how many times I had to bite my tongue because I wasn't sure what devs shared on the god damn twitter and what not XD

[remote latch]

note to self .. get a notebook for pre-alpha stuff and tick off allowed items as they are made available 🙂

[surreal crest]

again, not S6, just to clarify, I'm not the part of the dev team of this game

[carmine relic]

I feel ages later that testers would maybe by chance get the a-okay to go "Back in mega mega early mode, (thing) used to be like (weird thing that makes no sense)!"

[surreal crest]

it's not that, it's more about... uh, how do I describe it, lets say you have an item that's in the final game. Devs didn't share previous designs of this item but it was available during pre-alpha. This previous design is under the NDA for probably 5 or more years

[surreal crest]

probably, yeah. Depends on how many people will still play it

[carmine relic]

It's still gonna feel so weird that some of us are gonna have info about how to play the game before it even comes about

[celest maple]

You'll be the wisened village elders. Please guide us well

[marble hedge]

That and who is a pre-alpha tester

[carmine relic]

I'll let you know if I spot any pre-alpha testers running around

[marble hedge]

Found one!

[carmine relic]

Where?!

[celest maple]

Ah.. yes if only there was a role that gave them away.

[remote latch]

me too 👆

[carmine relic]

And no, I'm gonna teach people the most stupid and impractical stuff!

[celest maple]

I'm skilled at only knowing stupid and impractical stuff and getting no further.

[surreal crest]

eh, I feel like we will get the idea of gameplay loop pretty fast. You will have advantages, but it's normal

[carmine relic]

Fair enough.

[celest maple]

"But Elder Gambit said, if I wear no clothes, run around in a circle 5 times, my chance to catch rare fish increases by 5%!"

[carmine relic]

But the long-term advantages! I'll be ahead of everyone for like... 1-2 days! Maybe even 3!

[surreal crest]

well if they decide to add the item that spawns only for first 3 players... we gonna have a problem haha

[carmine relic]

There's probably better elders out there, anyway

[remote latch]

rofl, you might like this I found on a preview event review site https://www.esportstalk.com/news/palia-is-a-stunning-animal-crossing-like-mmo-by-former-riot-developers/

In the preview that I was shown, there were design images of different outfits shown from the more traditional, warrior-like fantasy styles to a person who is completely naked except for the barrel that they are wearing to cover their body.

[carmine relic]

This reminds me of Deep Rock Galactic's joke Barrel armor

[celest maple]

People like me who do nothing but game will catch up fast tbh

[surreal crest]

I'm still impressed that pre-alpha is going on for over 2 months already

[remote latch]

maybe pre-alpha will merge into alpha .. will merge into closed beta etc .. with a small downtime for a server update in between

[carmine relic]

Considering it's the first ever step, finding out where everything ever should be/how it should go makes sense to take so long.

[remote stump]

I wish I could watch people play the game at least, even if I can't play it.

[bright forge]

And usually this part is secret and no one knows about game

[remote stump]

But that's way out of the ordinary for a closed alpha

[celest maple]

Yeah, I have no life. If Palia captivates me, I'll end up feeling like I'm an Elder 😑

[short thorn]

Why are people talking Palia in Palia chat, we never stay on topic here

[carmine relic]

"We only expected 200 applicants"

[surreal crest]

today is the opposite day

[celest maple]

We can sit on a porch together judging all the none constant players

[bright forge]

Power of internet

[short thorn]

Dear god

[remote latch]

Its like when the server started up .. they were expecting maybe 5k people to sign up on day 1 ... they got 17k rofl

[remote stump]

I wonder how many people applied because of DoctorDDub's video or if there were other sources

[celest maple]

Sheesh... and then it ballooned to over 100k, I think 😐

[carmine relic]

DoctorDdub?

[remote latch]

I only watched Palia's own video

[surreal crest]

There is more

[carmine relic]

I got here from a Google article. It showed me the video, I joined the server, and I somehow got here on day 1! I think.

[remote stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZkvE5pRJy0&ab_channel=DoctorDDub

[marble hedge]

I never heard of him

[bright forge]

Tbh I find out about Palia through Asmongold

[remote stump]

Oh Asmongold is a way bigger channel

[short thorn]

🇳 🇴

[remote latch]

I heard that asmongold had heard about it when I heard my neighbours watching his video ..

[celest maple]

Yeah he reviewed it

[heavy dew]

I got my news directly from the source, palias own video

[carmine relic]

I've never heard of this guy.

[celest maple]

Hes a popular streamer

[remote stump]

He's a really small youtuber now that I check his stats, but there was a different game he followed and was part of the moderation team for and almost everyone there came from his videos

[surreal crest]

It contains the dying wish of every Palian here

[heavy dew]

Also hi new people!

[carmine relic]

Question

[celest maple]

He's got 814k On Youtube and 2.4 Million on twitch 🙂

So a pretty big following on twitch

[short thorn]

Wait i see new people, hi omg. Welcome

[surreal crest]

chuckle what's your question Gambit?

[celest maple]

Hai

[carmine relic]

I teleported bread.

[tranquil cosmos]

Thanks

[remote latch]

And just to put Matty's hope for a diverted Palia Chat channel aside again .. another pleasant view of what could be Palia https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/850062378926473227/867078140865675274/Palia__ConceptRuinsPast.jpg

[surreal crest]

what

[heavy dew]

Otter.. you’ve been here a long time xD but hi

[remote stump]

not a question but this has dire consequences

[celest maple]

Sounds serious

[celest maple]

Gambit teleported bread. I second this question

[carmine relic]

I have done nothing but teleport bread for 3 days.

[remote latch]

he teleported it from his plate to his hand to his mouth 🙂

[heavy dew]

Gambit.. the yeast you can do is rise to the occasion and fix this

[surreal crest]

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN SENDING IT?!

[tranquil cosmos]

Was it garlic bread

[heavy dew]

The real questions as always Otter

[carmine relic]

Also welcome back from The Abyss, Otter!

[heavy dew]

Is that what we’re calling pre-alpha now?

[tranquil cosmos]

There were a lot of beans there

[surreal crest]

Sniper's a good job, mate

[carmine relic]

Everyone knows the pre-alpha is actually a blackhole. The other testers vanished into it, and the studio is called Singularity. Just try and tell me that doesn't make sense

[bright forge]

Guys how likely it is that we will get something tomorrow?

[tranquil cosmos]

Oh, I was thinking of Magical Trevor and the cow he sent to the abyss

[heavy dew]

Makes 100% sense, falls right into my theory of Palia being a gateway to another real life planet and the elves are actual players from another world

[carmine relic]

It's a Monday, right? So that'd mean we'd be getting a new vote, I bet.

[remote latch]

that is true .. most have not been seen since

[tranquil cosmos]

It's definitely Sunday rn

[heavy dew]

No no it’s Monday right now

[carmine relic]

I accidently time traveled

[tranquil cosmos]

heck

[heavy dew]

Welcome to the future Gambit, or Europe

[carmine relic]

Yep, it's Sunday. Forgive me

[remote latch]

Rofl .. yeah .. definitely Monday now 🙂

[short thorn]

Np yo

[carmine relic]

Why is everything measured in a scaling unit? Meters? Grams? Give me my Football Fields and Hamburger now!

[short thorn]

Hey my peepalicious dogs, what is the happys, yo

[bright forge]

I mean on Monday. We were getting new vote so maybe we will get something right?

[heavy dew]

Because it’s perfectly interchangeable 👀

[remote latch]

yeah, I don't think they will like the uproar if we had to wait a week for ANY info 🙂

[heavy dew]

Uproar? In here? Neeeveeeer

[carmine relic]

call me nuts, but I feel once we get the option on what to vote on, that technically counts as a reveal itself. Although not an actual reveal, it's a show of information about the game.

[heavy dew]

People upset by given news? Neeeeveeeeer

[heavy dew]

You’re nuts

[remote latch]

🤣

[carmine relic]

We'll see tomorrow, I guess

[remote latch]

I think on Monday (assuming they are not shuffling days around ) we will get a a list of choices related to ( hopefully mechanics ) that we can choose from similar to villager vote .. and then on thursday ( or whatever day they may change it to if they're shuffling things ) we get info on that selected item. Rinse and repeat the next voting time

What I think they are doing different this time around is that we may not be getting weeks of the same choices .. so maybe on one week we get mechanics votes and on another week we may get flora and fauna choices to vote on

[hallow girder]

I'm hoping on landscapes/flora

[carmine relic]

Can't wait to see a fight over different colored flowers

[surreal crest]

[ M E C H A N I C S ]

[hallow girder]

Happy timezone everyone

[remote latch]

Yeah hopefully the vote we made this week will start the ball rolling on our preferences and may decide the order we get to see things

[heavy dew]

The feeling I got off Amelia is that they’re looking to disclose as much as they feel they can from different areas

[hallow girder]

like... "how to assemble a chair in Palia" 👀

[surreal crest]

sacred texts

[remote latch]

Yeah so hopefully multiples in the week but alternating to give us the variety

[carmine relic]

I know how to assemble chairs, yeah.

[hallow girder]

we all know... You are hiding the blueprints!

[short thorn]

Who assembled mystic chair

[heavy dew]

I am from IKEA, I’m a master

[tranquil cosmos]

Gambit, obvs

[carmine relic]

Crap, Berry has The Technique

[heavy dew]

I’m also notoriously good at leaving parts out

[carmine relic]

You'd be an expert Kerbal Player

[celest maple]

Hrm, I'm reticent regarding the flora/fauna; I'm not experienced with MMORPG's. But, with gardening skills, would be cool to be able to collect, cultivate, and breed flowers. Throw in some variability and we can have all sorts of combination flowers.

[carmine relic]

I'd just want blue flowers. Blue blue blue. Make it all blue.

[remote latch]

make it pink

[heavy dew]

Loving this idea

[viral lotus]

i will go with gambit blue all the way

[remote latch]

I tried to add genetics to my farming suggestion post .. but I felt 2 pages was enough for a suggestion

[carmine relic]

Here's a good name for your garden shop that came outta nowhere: PETAL PEDDLERS!

[heavy dew]

Petalia

[faint dawn]

Moo

[bright forge]

Everything is blue His pills, his hands, his jeans... no?(Btw cool song)

[short thorn]

Bovine

[carmine relic]

I'd love to see the dumbest names for shops ever

[faint dawn]

"Name of shop" shop

[heavy dew]

Like “revolving door company” and it doesn’t have revolving doors?

[carmine relic]

Sure.

[hidden lynx]

im still here >.>

[carmine relic]

Boundless made me make a handful of shops, and I always tried to make their names both fun to say and actually mention what it is in them

[faint dawn]

That or the staff are always in and out..

[surreal crest]

aight its 1:21 am

[heavy dew]

Or they’re really self centered.. cause.. it revolves around them..

[remote latch]

bed time ?

[surreal crest]

I work from... 9? yeah 9 sounds good

my battery is low and its getting dark
gn everyone

[celest maple]

Good night

[carmine relic]

How dare you make me remember the poor Rover's fate. I'm sad now

[short thorn]

"Our workers are irritated and underpaid"-Mart

[surreal crest]

we will get curiosity back one day, dont worry

[short thorn]

Look at our special for yell at a cashier and get an item free

[tulip wagon]

recalls ancient meme
Ye Olde Torrent Shoppe

🦗

I'll get my coat.

[remote latch]

hi Offal 🙂

[tulip wagon]

turns to camera
Oh! Hello there. I didn't see you.

[remote latch]

I was hiding 🙂

[tulip wagon]

puts on cardigan
Hi neighbour!

I'm being weirder than usual. Must be venturing into the wee hours of the morning.

[carmine relic]

G'morning Offal

[remote latch]

yeah that usually does it 🙂

[tulip wagon]

Hello friend Gambit!

Xrystal and I were just about to discuss Palia. Wanna join?

[carmine relic]

Sure

[remote latch]

Matty sighs again at Palia chat being .. shock .. about Palia 🙂

[tulip wagon]

Gambit when did you get lost?

[carmine relic]

I don't know

[remote latch]

Rofl .. I must be losing my sight in my old age .. I didn't even realise it had changed again

[tulip wagon]

Wanna borrow my cool guy shades for better vision?

[remote latch]

rofl nah .. I'm sure my eyes just need a rest from all the words and numbers I've been looking at today rofl

[tulip wagon]

puts cool guy shades on Xrystal's teleprompter

[remote latch]

So, what Palia topic is on your mind Offal ? Or are you hoping I had one 😛

[tulip wagon]

I don't know. We usually think of something.
Hey! What if you could be a barber in game and give people new hairstyles?

✂️

[remote latch]

hmm, yes, that would be interesting

as you learn you gain new hair styles

[carmine relic]

I feel like there'd just be nothing but people ruining your haircut

[tulip wagon]

Well... I would hate to think anyone would be able to give you a style without your permission.

[remote latch]

maybe it will be one of those things where you can finalise the option afterward .. are you sure ?

[tulip wagon]

is totally not going to make a Buzz Cut Bandit

[remote latch]

'Got bored of your hairstyle chosen at character creation .. never fear .. go and see the barber to have it changed to one of the options they have available'

[short thorn]

I'd ruin so many hairstyles

[celest maple]

You can have any style you like. As long as you like bald. Or... wait... do they NOT steal hair 🤔

[short thorn]

I'll feed the cut hair to the monster under my barber shop

[remote latch]

barber shop of horrors .. feed me matty feed me

[short thorn]

I gotchu fam

[tulip wagon]

Bugs Bunny intensifies
FIIIIIGARO

[short thorn]

Do re mi fa so la ti do

[remote latch]

The Palia Hills are alive 🎵

[tulip wagon]

actual flashbacks

[short thorn]

The Palian Hills have Eyes

[shrewd fiber]

roughly to the tune of Battle with Magus from Chrono Trigger
PALIAN HILLS WATCH, THEY ARE ALIVE
PALIAN HILLS, YOU KNOW THEY HAVE EYES

that swoopin' part near the beginning, you know?

because when you roll down a hill you swoop?
no...?
aw.

[remote latch]

no, sorry, don't know that one

[short thorn]

I played pokemon if that helps

[tulip wagon]

I'm lost in von trapp memories

[shrewd fiber]

It would help if I had played pokemon before Gen8 lol

[remote latch]

out on the hills ( in Palia ) there once was a goatherd ..

[tulip wagon]

yodels intensify

My first gig outside of school was playing a von trapp spawn lol

[remote latch]

I was on a songs of praise episode when I was in junior school choir .. way back in the 80s.

fortunately I was way short and when the camera panned over .. you could only see the top of my head whew

the next singing episode was joseph and his amazing coat when I was a teenager .. but I got stage fright before the night

[shrewd fiber]

I might've made it somewhere, stagewise, someday.
Someday. I mean, it's possible.

But I had a very cruel choir teacher who ridiculed and humiliated me in front of the class.

[remote latch]

that would be a downer for sure

[tulip wagon]

Aww.

[shrewd fiber]

I haven't returned anywhere near that side of a stage since that year.

[tulip wagon]

I won't even sing karaoke for similar reasons. Wasn't a teacher, but having any adult humiliate you can leave a Mark.

[remote latch]

yeah one of my friends tried to get me to do karaoke but I refused ..

[bright forge]

Ok my friends I think it's time for me to sleep😴 See you tomorrow and remember I love you all.

[tulip wagon]

Goodnight Perin!

[remote latch]

rofl I just spotted this in #🎭│palia-memes from one of the devs - #🎭│palia-memes message

[zinc scarab]

Hellloooo Palians :D how are my favorite people on the Internet today?

absolute silence, lovely

[shrewd fiber]

I was posting in server suggestions about the seeming silence on the subject of new pronoun roles, honestly

[remote latch]

sorry 🙂 I am here 🙂 kinda sleepy

[shrewd fiber]

I'm also about to go to bed in a minute, myself.

[zinc scarab]

good night then :D

[remote latch]

hmm .. interesting block of #❓│old-team-answers-pre-alpha discussion here ```Certhas — 06/03/2021
hello. do you buy and sell a land in not instanced zone in Palia? Second Life did it great.

[S6] BuscoBear — 06/03/2021
No, purchasing and selling commodities and/or land isn't a focus of the game

Luke — 06/03/2021
Soooo.... does that mean there wont be any trading?

[S6] BuscoBear — 06/03/2021
No, just that is not a focus``` So, complex social, complex skills, complex house .. simple combat, simple trading ??

[marble hedge]

Sad panda if it's a simple economy

[remote latch]

I just used that phrase as they said its not the focus . like combat .. so I guess they've equated trading as a basic system maybe .. like combat can be .. pew pew .. you're dead .. oh dear I missed it

And this discussion on skills give the impression that specialisation may be what you want to do .. ```SniderThanYou — 06/03/2021
What is the source of difficulty in Palia? Resource scarcity, time limits, feats that require player skill...?

[S6] BuscoBear — 06/03/2021
Really depends on the activity. I expect some folks will gravitate and even specialize in certain things they like more. But technically you can do it all

49238932 — 06/03/2021
How does community building work if everyone can do it all? One thing I liked about EverQuest and about traditional tabletop RPGs is that you rely on others to help you do things you yourself cannot do, which fosters community interaction. Is there anything at play like that here?

[S6] BuscoBear — 06/03/2021
You can technically do it all. But people who specialize in milkshakes will bring more boys to the yard, so to speak```

hopefully the economy will be one of the mechanics they will expand on during one of the reveals

[faint dawn]

[remote latch]

ok think my brain is definitely telling me to go to bed .. nite 🙂

[celest maple]

I want to play a game that'll make you want to be unemployed.

[tulip wagon]

I'm supposed to be sleeping.

[tulip wagon]

I'm actually hoping this will be a game that doesn't feel like a job I'm paying to work...

[carmine relic]

Not gonna sleep anymore, it seems.

[tulip wagon]

Every time I hit the discord app I know I'm giving up on sleeping

[carmine relic]

At least I'm here!

As I always am, apparently.

[wispy meadow]

The Gambit Saga has progressed I see

[carmine relic]

I am lost.

[wispy meadow]

Anyone send a search party after you?

[carmine relic]

Probably not

[tulip wagon]

I did. But the party consisted of my platypus and a Chapaa of questionable morals.

[wispy meadow]

Is it.... Perry the platypus?

[tulip wagon]

No. Her name is Dithy.

[wispy meadow]

Aww

[tulip wagon]

She's very sweet, but also sneaky. She told me only female Platypi are venomous, but I looked it up and it's only males. She just didn't take off her knitted booties at bath time.

[wispy meadow]

Lmaoo

She sounds adorable

[tulip wagon]

She is, but don't tell her. She'll use it to get extra dessert.

[wispy meadow]

One more piece of dessert can't be too bad right?

[tulip wagon]

My ox already sneaks her second dessert. She's not getting a third!

[wispy meadow]

XD

[tulip wagon]

If she gets any more desserts she won't fit in the Dithy carrier I made so I can carry her around.

To think she used to fit in the palm of my hand. They grow up so fast.

[short thorn]

Chat is dead

[carmine relic]

Well let's get it up and going again, then!

[summer lark]

Hi chat hi

How we doin 🙂

[short thorn]

You guys killed chat, you monsters.

sob you monsters sob

[carmine relic]

Things are good!

[short thorn]

And good, busy and bored

[tulip wagon]

Look, I would not be talking about Meredith if Gambit hadn't gotten lost! Never trust a guide Chapaa.

[carmine relic]

This is why you don't trust Chappa.

[tulip wagon]

I could hop on Simon and try to go find Gambit. But Simon is a giant tortoise, so it could take a while. The good news is Palia might be out by the time we get back!

🐢

[carmine relic]

Bah

[short thorn]

Palia sounds fun

[tulip wagon]

Yes it does.

[wispy meadow]

Lol the rescue needs its own saga now

[celest maple]

so is the game out yet?

[brittle halo]

nope, it's still in the pre-alpha stages, but it'll be !

[celest maple]

ooo okay ty, I come in this server every few months to check lol

[heavy dew]

Guarantee you’ll see in flashing neon light or the stars rearranged in the sky when they announce the release date

That’s how I’d do it at least, pay to move some stars around, I mean

[celest maple]

ahah I'll keep an eye out then lol!

[hushed bluff]

So excited for it to come out!

[cinder temple]

The Jina art challenge is live! We have a head start on this one because she's already so beloved that I have 21 images of her in reserve.

[robust bluff]

Evening all

[chilly valve]

Hello. Where do the answers go in submit your questions?

[wintry wasp]

They will be posted in their own channel once they're posted.

Previous ones can be found in the archives section.

[kindred sable]

how are my fellow Palians doing today?

[chilly valve]

Thanks

[carmine relic]

Doing somewhat alright

[wispy meadow]

I died a little on the inside

[surreal crest]

Morning. Bleh, Mondays...

[fallen summit]

Good morning!

[hasty glen]

good morning

[wispy meadow]

This day sucks already

How's everyone else doing?

[fallen summit]

Actually doing great so far. Hope your day will also get better.

[wispy meadow]

That's great!
And I hope so too 😅

[carmine relic]

My day is close to ending, I think.

[fallen summit]

good night then

[carmine relic]

I think! I'm not going down yet.

[spring rivet]

good morning pals! 🦆

[fallen summit]

And how are you doing Ducky?

[spring rivet]

Currently having my breakfast hehe, you?

[fallen summit]

Sounds great XD I'm also doing pretty good myself, haven't eaten breakfast yet though ;0;

[warped oriole]

Good morning, Duck.

[green kraken]

Hello! Happy Timezones to you all~

[warped oriole]

Happy timezones, Karsa!

[viral lotus]

to you also Karsa Happy Timezones.

[green kraken]

How are y’all? Good days or just getting started?

[viral lotus]

its a great afternoon here

[fallen summit]

Just getting started

And how are you Karsa?

[green kraken]

Just settling in for my nightshift! My wife cut my hair today so I’m feeling FANTASTIC!

[viral lotus]

got botw today played it for 15 minits so far

[green kraken]

Heck yes! Like it so far?

[viral lotus]

seems pretty good

having a bourbon at moment so im happy

[green kraken]

Yessss. Once you get out and see more scenery it’s just so gorgeous! And kind of what led me to being so endeared to Palia, the colors and art are slightly familiar!

[viral lotus]

ill play it tomorow and see

also got animal crossing

played it for like 1 hour this afternoon

[green kraken]

Oh heck yeah! That’s a really good one too! These two games make up 80% of my switch time, haha! The last 20% would be Stardew Valley. Ah, so many good games…

[viral lotus]

thats for sure

have pokemon shield to love that

[green kraken]

I’m a simple kinda gamer, I find a game I like and then I playing repeatedly for the rest of my life, hahaha! (Looking at you Final Fantasy series..)
Yessss! My wife and I played that one together! I had Sword and she had Shield, we tried to keep pace with each other and do everything at the same time, so fun!

[viral lotus]

cool good you have awife that loves games also

[green kraken]

Oh yeah, for sure! I am disgustingly lucky and in love, haha!

[viral lotus]

good to hear

i have final fantasy 10 x its pretty good

[green kraken]

My gosh, 8 and 10 are my absolute favorites. Playing 10 like… recalibrates my soul. I love the imagery, the colors, man… timeless.

[viral lotus]

i played ff 14 on pc a couple years ago

till they ripped me off and i stoped playing

I played ff 7 on ps2 if i rember

[green kraken]

Lots of people recommend plying 14 while we wait on Palia. But I tried it once and just felt so… behind. And lonely.

Yeah, ps2 was the best!

[viral lotus]

use to love mine

[green kraken]

I have the uh.. remains of three different PS2s and when the need arises I can usually create a working one from them, haha!
Pretty much the only game I love and can’t play on any other console is Radiata Stories. So good!

[viral lotus]

it had way better games on it then the 3 and 4

never did hear of that one

[green kraken]

I never had a three, but I had to get a 4 for a couple games, mostly FFXV, haha.

Oh, and the 7 Remake! But I can’t get a ps5 anyyyyyy time soon so.. regret, haha.

[viral lotus]

i cant get a 5 also have bills to pay so can afford it

[rain carbon]

Just a reminder - please only use this channel for Palia related topics. For other topics such as other games, you can use the #🎮│other-games channel. Thank you

[viral lotus]

ok

[green kraken]

You’re right! Thanks Turtle! I got carried away~

[viral lotus]

so did I

[green kraken]

Hope you’re having a good one!

[celest maple]

I read the answer to the recent question about seasons and weather as I was wondering about that. I would like seasons that aren't so clean-cut with their transitions; the devs aren't ready to discuss it, but the dynamic weather sounds intriguing

[stone sierra]

Timezone to everyone o/

If the dynamic weather will be a thing (and i hope so it will be cause more fish variety) there must be some way to predict the weather

like an caster NPC or some other item / weather board

[surreal crest]

enters #💬│palia-discussions
everybody put your hands up!
this is a robbery!
gimme all your pebbels!

[spring rivet]

bonks and yeets Chair

[viral lotus]

[viral lotus]

dont have any pebbles as yet maybe you could steal some rocks of me

[surreal crest]

Chair uses: boomerang back
good try Duckyboi
now, your money or your life

[fallen summit]

bit early for a robbery, don't you think Chair?

[prime adder]

All I have to offer is stress and boredom Chair

[celest maple]

Maybe he meant strawberry, but his tongue slipped. And in order to grow more cool strawberries, he needs our pebbles!

[fallen summit]

also, good morning Chair! How's your monday so far?

[warm plover]

i woke up at 5 pm 🙃

i really have to fix my sleeping schedule
i dont know how

[fallen summit]

one day you just have to decide and force yourself to go to bed around midnight even if you're not tired and put on an alarm for 8 or 9am. After you keep doing it for a while your body will start to accept it.

[warm plover]

i tried sleeping at 10 pm once (and woke up at 3 am)

[fallen summit]

then try to go to sleep at midnight or 1am max. try finding a time that fits you. Do you have like a general time that you want to wake up at or?

[warm plover]

not really

[fallen summit]

well, then just take into account of how much sleep you need a day (ideally 7-8 hours, but some people manage to work on less, idk how). Perhaps put on an alarm for the next day, and go to sleep before 1am ideally.

[wispy meadow]

How do people do that? My natural wake up time without alarms is 11 or 12

[warm plover]

i avoid going to sleep because i'll inevitably get sad without any distractions

[surreal crest]

Everything has a price... even your life!

[warm plover]

or your heart

[surreal crest]

That's a nice head you have on your shoulderz

[fallen summit]

Chairs monday seems to be going great so far

[surreal crest]

not really
can't wait to get back home and chill

how's your tho?

[fallen summit]

so far so good, can't complain.

hope you'll get to chill soon enough

[regal swallow]

Happy Timezone

[pure badge]

Good day yall!

[heavy dew]

Good moooooorning what a wonderful daaaaay

[celest maple]

how does one make friends?

[bright forge]

Just stay here and that's all

[heavy dew]

Congratulations you just made some new ones ^^

[surreal crest]

hello new friend!

[final tartan]

Just buy food for them :P

[summer obsidian]

Blessed Shimmerlies Everyone!

[heavy dew]

Hey boo boo, you doing alright?

[olive swift]

¿Cuándo sale el juego?

[heavy dew]

It's only english in the discord for now, sorry Klaus ^^ but, there's no release date, they are: "Much closer than 3 years from launch"

[summer obsidian]

I'm doing good, trying to rally myself for a Monday morning. Very curious about what we will see in here today. Normally Monday means Villager Vote, but not doing that this week...so keeping my eyes open.

[heavy dew]

Super excite about what's to come!

[abstract rover]

huuuu... I want to sleep...

screw work...

[shrewd fiber]

morning from me

[heavy dew]

Mooooooooooorning!

[abstract rover]

yeah same. goodmorning claris and berry :)

[wispy meadow]

Everyone is gonna start celebrating when devs announce it to be closer to 2 yrs instead of 3

[heavy dew]

I'm already partying

Non stop party since 3rd of June

[worthy rose]

good morning

[heavy dew]

Morning Nish ^^ How are you?

[shrewd fiber]

Technically, if they announced it was "much less than 3 years", that implies that "much" is more than "half", so it's already closer to 2 years than 3.

[knotty silo]

Darn guess i didn't make it in the second wave

[wispy meadow]

There is no second wave yet

[worthy rose]

tired. Am very sleepy. And I just realized that I forgot to finish hat in time yesterday >:(

[shrewd fiber]

Nah second wave of pre-alpha, there was the first wave (200) then the second wave (the other 1200)

[knotty silo]

Really saw it in the announcments channel

[shrewd fiber]

that's public info.

[heavy dew]

I think they mean the official second wave from last month

[wispy meadow]

Ohh okay

[shrewd fiber]

there was a big kerfluffle when they didn't do all 1400 at once right away

[heavy dew]

2 months ago*

[knotty silo]

Oh well still super hyped

[wispy meadow]

I remember when 1400 was 10% of the chat.... Now it's less then 1%

[heavy dew]

Ah the good ol' days of day 1

[shrewd fiber]

I remember one thing and one thing only about my early days of joining Palia server:
y'all had my then-pronouns available as a role right away.

[heavy dew]

So much more friends followed though

[shrewd fiber]

I was testing out xe/xem to see how I felt with those, and I had yet to encounter a server that offered those pronouns as a fact like that.

[knotty silo]

I didn't even know there was a discord or ida joined much earlier

[worthy rose]

I miss being purple :(

it was a nice color

[warm plover]

become purple

[heavy dew]

If you leave the server and rejoin it takes your boost away from you

[shrewd fiber]

Nish is a tester and would have to contact an admin to get that role back.

[heavy dew]

but that wasn't the color in question 👀

[shrewd fiber]

I mean fair.

[worthy rose]

they changed the color of the tester role

[shrewd fiber]

oh that 👀

[worthy rose]

it's dead

[heavy dew]

I mean cause purple was unreadable xD

[shrewd fiber]

not just that, but it made us super stand out to other users, and they were worried we'd get bombarded with questions.

[spring rivet]

Green is de wae

[heavy dew]

Can pick this color Nish

[abstract rover]

duck

[heavy dew]

Completely unreadable name 10/10

[wispy meadow]

Lol

[abstract rover]

i can read it.

[spring rivet]

Hi! Are you new?

[shrewd fiber]

I can read it but hurts my eyes

[wispy meadow]

I don't even know how to describe my color
Murky orange?
Rusted brass?

[heavy dew]

Hi yes I just joined! Found this game through a facebook tik tok reference link through vine and one of the least popular very popular streamers that led me to a website where I met a nigerian prince that then showed me a Palia trailer.. IN 4K?! can you believe it?! and I'm beyond hyped

[shrewd fiber]

Bossa Nova Brass
that's what I think of with that color

[abstract rover]

poo brown

[worthy rose]

can I be green? :3

[spring rivet]

You should look for Sir Berry if you wanna make some friends! ✨

[heavy dew]

Awwwwwwwwwwww

[abstract rover]

berru is a pretty damn good friendo

[spring rivet]

Ohh heyy it's you

[wispy meadow]

Lol

[shrewd fiber]

the opposite of "nobody cared who I was until I put on the mask"

[wispy meadow]

Pink suits Berry somehow

[worthy rose]

nobody cared who berry was after he put on the mask

[abstract rover]

i care who berry is no matter what

[heavy dew]

I can rock a pink dress shirt too, it's a confidence booster color

[abstract rover]

you mean girly colour 😳

[worthy rose]

pink is a nice color to wear for sure. I'm also a fan

[heavy dew]

[abstract rover]

nah my favourite colours happen to be purple and pink so i cant say shit

[heavy dew]

There's just something much more vibrant about a subtle pink dress shirt with a suit rather than just white, so it's my go to

[abstract rover]

although i'm just weird in general for being bi and christian at the same time. so at this point nothing is weird for me

[spring rivet]

I want black+red or crimson 😭

[heavy dew]

You know, so you know what I'm wearing at the wedding Ducky

[abstract rover]

yoooooo crimson is badass tho

[heavy dew]

Sharp crimson tie, mmmmm

[spring rivet]

You'd release Ducks instead of Doves after the ceremony lol

[heavy dew]

Oh yeah, you bet

Turtle ring bearers, it's gonna be a long day bois..

[ocean stone]

Looking good in pink snish

[worthy rose]

why snish

[ocean stone]

I'm not sure how to call you by only 4 letters now sorry

[worthy rose]

yeah sure okay cina

[heavy dew]

Actually, no, no ideas for new names

[ocean stone]

I saw that berry

I don't need to be given new ideas for new names anyhow. I makes em as I sees em

[heavy dew]

I mean Nish doesn't need another name change xD

[worthy rose]

you're right

[heavy dew]

Alright I'm out, god damnit

[ocean stone]

[spring rivet]

[ocean stone]

Always a good day to see disorder restored

[hollow tendon]

It's always a great day Mr. Roger's neighborhood. “Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.”

[wind ibex]

Balance is needed

[tranquil cosmos]

snishes get stictches

[golden dust]

Do we know when a larger alpha might be taking place?

[wind ibex]

We do not know IF let alone when.

[remote latch]

No, at present there hasn’t been announced a big test run. The web site faq section shows a possibility of some small tests but those may only be emailed to individuals

[golden dust]

Okay, thanks guys

[tranquil cosmos]

I'm sure they'll want to do larger testing at some point. When is the big mystery lol

[wind ibex]

Ashura Balance is needed.

[remote latch]

Just checked beyond my assistance today as it was yesterday

[peak cargo]

Palia... the most passive aggressive gatekeep'd game ever!

Welcome to the underground of mmos.

[wind ibex]

Looks at the over 100k user count This is a huge underground...

[heavy dew]

I mean that's only because I'm here that it's passive aggressive 👀 I spread that attitude

Also! @wind ibex ! Did you see a certain something is finished? :3

[wind ibex]

You finished the Nai'o facepalm?

[heavy dew]

Nai'o is too happy for facepalms, Eshe on the other hand

I got a reliable source saying she's the perfect facepalmer

[wind ibex]

Yes I did see, I was hoping you would respond with said Eshe faceplam.

[heavy dew]

I can't in here

I know.. it's a disgrace

[abstract rover]

doot

[merry crater]

good morn Palia. Gonna be a sleepy work day here. Hope everyone else has an okay time today~

[wind ibex]

Running on 4 hours of sleep myself, and that is 4 1 hour attempts at sleeping through the night.

[merry crater]

Those nights suck. Hope the day goes smoothly for you! Or you at least get some rest ASAP!!!

[wind ibex]

6 hours left in the work day, with a 2+ hour meeting scheduled in there. I hope I have a smooth day as well.

[merry crater]

I’d be falling asleep during a 2 hour meeting. good luck with the day~

[wind ibex]

For me, when I'm at 4 hours, I don't have an issue staying awake, I have an issue staying focused.

[lunar tundra]

Yeah I can't wait! It looks like it will be a great game.

No more villager votes for Monday, I wonder if they will do other weekly updates or if it will be more sporadic?

[somber crag]

👀

[tranquil cosmos]

I hope it'll be weekly tidbits

[heavy dew]

I mean they did say we'll have a whole new round of votes to look forward to

So my guess, still weekly

[lunar tundra]

Ooh, I didn't catch that!

[heavy dew]

#📮│public-polls message it's in this ^^

[somber crag]

I will adsorb all new Palia information.

[prime adder]

Hey everyone!

[heavy dew]

Hello again Acanthea ^^ How you doing today?

[prime adder]

Good! Has been a long day, but now I am sitting down with some food and enjoy my evening

How are you?

[rugged garnet]

when is this game gonna be released? can't wait 😐

or, better question, is there gonna be an open beta?

[wind ibex]

You might want to read the docs pinned at the top of the channel.

[prime adder]

#❔│game-faqs is also an interesting read x3

[heavy dew]

@prime adder Doing great thank you! Another wonderful day in Berry ville!

@rugged garnet There are no dates announced at the moment as they're only in pre-alpha stage, which is 3 years into development. They've not given any dates but said they are much closer than 3 years from launch. The additional 3 years being how long it normally takes for a game of this kind to be developed, which is about 5-6 years. When and if there are announcements about it it'll be in #📢│palia-news! For now we have #❔│game-faqs #❓│old-team-answers-alpha as well as 2 compiled pinned documents with more answers to read through, it should answer almost all your questions

[rugged garnet]

thank you!

[heavy dew]

There is a TON of information about the game in the compiled documents, I highly recommend them!

[rugged garnet]

I was lazy to go search for stuff ngl, I did read the answers of my questions on the doc file 😛

loved the #Afterword

[heavy dew]

I mean, it's honest and up front, what more could you want ^^

[carmine relic]

Ok, I've landed in Monday!

[merry crater]

Welcome!

[heavy dew]

Welcome to the future!

[carmine relic]

Where's my flying cars and moon cities

[heavy dew]

In the future

[wind ibex]

Biden gave the money for them to the Taliban.

[heavy dew]

It's like tomorrow, you'll never actually get there

[carmine relic]

At least I'm in time for the votes. I think. I wonder if the channel is gonna get renamed?

[heavy dew]

Renamed to................. votes

Or maybe just Reveal-vote, works

[wind ibex]

The name can stay the same. We are the villagers, and they are our votes.

Oh, and Ashura Balance is Needed.

[carmine relic]

Nah

Ok maybe yeah

[merry crater]

I’m super excited to see what they plan to reveal or have us vote on first!

[remote latch]

👋

[heavy dew]

I too am very excite!

[carmine relic]

I got a good feeling about this!

[prime adder]

HAH! You call yourselves excited. look at me! I am excitement personified

[heavy dew]

<-- do you.. do you see.. this face?

[remote latch]

I'd do my excited auni emote .. but ... 😛

[wind ibex]

[heavy dew]

Squish the cheeeks!

[carmine relic]

All ya gotta do is go squish that cat chappa

[wind ibex]

💥

[heavy dew]

That emote sequence is probably the best accident I've completely not done on purpose

[wind ibex]

Reminds me of Corgis...

[heavy dew]

Now you may ask.. why would you make, and how would you make an accident on purpose, well, i dont know, I don't know what I just said

[remote latch]

accidentally on purpose ..? Yeah, done that many times 🙂

[prime adder]

Clowns do it all the time, and earn laughter

Or screams of terror. Depends on the clown, I guess

[carmine relic]

You've obviously never heard the phrase "happy little accident"

[wind ibex]

Accidents on purpose are used to assassinate people all the time...

[heavy dew]

And the audience

[prime adder]

True

[heavy dew]

Oogway says there are no accidents.. but Bob Ross says no mistakes only happy accidents.. I'm so torn, my life is a lie!!!

[carmine relic]

Defining an intended accident also helps

Did something but got a different result? Intentional but accidentally did something Else

[remote latch]

Random Thought for the day ... you know how we as players will have a selection of outfits we can wear ... I wonder if the NPCs will change their outfits randomly .. maybe to suit the weather .. or their mood

[wind ibex]

There is no such thing as a coincidence.

[prime adder]

Yeah I also find it weird how some NPCs sleep in their full armor and attire in games...
then again, it might be hard to program a change of clothes

[remote latch]

it depends if the NPCs are using the same base models as the player characters .. if they are .. it should be as easy as automating equipping new outfit a player would do

[carmine relic]

And you don't?

Let's be fair: we all sleep in our death-ium 200 pound armor every night

[remote latch]

I just realised .. Amelia said Here are some of the fun areas of Palia we'll be sharing wee insights into over the next few months when listing the items .. that means there are more fun areas of Palia that they aren't sharing

[carmine relic]

Absolutely.

Ugh. Why can't time go faster?!

[remote latch]

because you are not having fun ?

[carmine relic]

Fair enough.

[merry crater]

Distractions make time move a little faster for me. I like lurking here, chaotic days especially make time fly.

[carmine relic]

Well, let's make some chaos then!

[merry crater]

Idk where I’d start. The best Palian chaos is organic.

[remote latch]

so made from organic material check

[wind ibex]

I hope I can have a Jutebox in my house in Palia. Would be even better if I can collect music for it to play through out the world.

[carmine relic]

Bring in the Yeetinar.

[merry crater]

I was thinking organically grown. Can we build our own chaos now!? Would be so much faster.
Jukeboxes or old timey record players would be lovely.

[remote latch]

I was making a pun as if Palian Chaos was a food dish 🙂

[merry crater]

Ooo. Maybe it could be the name of a super intense meal! Or a mixed drink.

[carmine relic]

Chaos is pretty easy to build. You just need some explodey stuff, and some glitter

[merry crater]

No glitter.

[carmine relic]

But glitter is the primary component!

[merry crater]

we’ll never recover.

[carmine relic]

A worth trade for chaos

[wind ibex]

Like instead of a jutebox it was a Phonograph, and we collected the Cylinders for the music?

[merry crater]

Yeee. Or depending on what the human tech was like, maybe there could be old human music stuff to collect. Could be records or some other format. I like that idea, collecting music sounds like a chill time.

[carmine relic]

What about those wind-up music boxes, too?

[remote latch]

rofl .. ChapaaBot 'Scurrying about to improve the Palian experience.'

[merry crater]

I love little music boxes.

[tawdry schooner]

que onda gente

[merry crater]

Is ChapaaBot a thing?

[remote latch]

its one of the bots in this server

[tawdry schooner]

todo tranquilo?

[remote latch]

English only on the server at the moment

[merry crater]

Ahhh. Good to know we’ve unlisted the Chappas for their scurrying skills.

[carmine relic]

How long has the chappabot been here?

[remote latch]

first time I have noticed it .. but maybe a few days maybe even weeks .. usually I don't see many of the bots

[carmine relic]

I swear I've started seeing it 2-3 days ago.

[remote latch]

PartyBeast is relatively new as well .. but again .. only new since I last saw all the bot names

[carmine relic]

Wonder what that means? Hmmm.

[merry crater]

In Palia orrr?

[carmine relic]

Nah, more as for th server as a whole

[merry crater]

Someone else’s message was there. They must’ve deleted it or I’m hallucinating.

I looked up PartyBeast and apparently the champ bot lets us party as hard as we want AND cleans up after us.

[heavy dew]

[carmine relic]

AW YEAH!

[rose bison]

hiii everyone

[prime adder]

HI ZENI

Oh geez sorry, capslock was on!

[feral jacinth]

Cheese

[carmine relic]

HI ACANTHEA!

[prime adder]

Hehe

[heavy dew]

We're just excited!

[carmine relic]

I wish I could remember the exact hour a vote happens.

[boreal bear]

hello everyone, what's up ?

[merry crater]

Hello~
Work. Waiting for updates here.

[carmine relic]

Ok I looked back at the channel. The exact hour of the vote is: ...Nobody knows.

[warm plover]

wait is the vote today

[heavy dew]

It was before, so we're hopeful

[carmine relic]

We don't know, it isn't here yet

Oh. Yeah I think the vote happens today! I can't read.

[warm plover]

i thought we already had a vote going though

[wooden anvil]

vote vote

[remote latch]

I think the last vote was the type of stuff we were more interested in… the weekly votes will likely be on one of those (hopefully mechanics at least first)

[warm plover]

ah

[earnest quartz]

I’ve been away for a bit. Any update on timeline stuff, or where to look to find that out?

[worthy rose]

nop

[remote latch]

Anything they post will be in the announcement group of channels

[warm plover]

nop

[carmine relic]

nope.avi

[merry crater]

Idk why but I completely missed the fact that we were voting on the categories. I’m excited to see mechanic stuff. Maybe if they talk about fishing for example they’ll also give us some concept art or screen shots of fish, fishing rods, etc.

[short thorn]

Are we voting on something

[carmine relic]

Not yet.

[merry crater]

In the villager votes there’s a bunch of categories but it does just say “which of these are you most excited for?”
So I guess not really a vote. We here hoping something comes up today.

[boreal bear]

what kind of vote is happening ?

[heavy dew]

It's a vote to see who is excited for what and why ultimately you're wrong if you're not part of the majority? kidding do what you want everyone, it's all exciting

[boreal bear]

can someone kindly explain it ?

[heavy dew]

It's just a reaction in #📮│public-polls asking what people are most excited to get sneak peeks about ^^

[short thorn]

Torn between landscapes and mechanics, huh

[merry crater]

Those seem to be the popular ones, understandably. I wouldn’t mind some dev diaries but a little of everything would be nice.

[boreal bear]

hmm

[heavy dew]

I'd love dev diaries, but I'd love them more when they can actually deliver them somewhat freely? I can't imagine I can enjoy even half of them with so much still under NDA

[boreal bear]

i want to know more about the world, the characters and the story

cozy and beautiful environment is what i'm excited for

[merry crater]

If they’re being written by the team they should be good to pick and choose what to share freely. I’d bet they’d cover things that are mostly solidified though, or go over the hurdles they experience and such without revealing game specific info.

[remote latch]

Yeah they said the dev diaries are likely to be monthly rather than weekly due to the vetting of what can and can’t be publicised. Link: #💬│palia-discussions message

[heavy dew]

Yeah but that's what I mean, I'd enjoy them more if they could speak freely about exactly what they were working on and struggles with it or their excitement for the idea, etc etc. I wouldn't want it to be cryptic and vague where they can talk about process but not what it's about

I hope that makes sense, somehow

[merry crater]

Ahhhh yeye makes sense.

Monthly updates would still be solid even if they can’t deep dive details quite yet.
There’s a game called Snacko who’s devs do about monthly development posts, and I’ve really enjoyed them. It’s been a cool exposure to the game development process.