News on Unknown

            Taken from the Net by Alex van Kaam

@~This should have been in the News section but we ran out of
@~space!

@~Some of you may have heard of Unknown by now, this is for you
@~and those who haven't heard of the game yet:

Let's start off with the economy. Grand in scheme and complex to
explain, Ogra did hit some things correctly. It is both a player
and world economy. Items increase and decrease in price, certain
items will run out. You will hear of shops looking for certain
items.  The game is designed with X amount of items. Do not expect
to see 5000 healing potions. Or 7000 Long swords. It will never
happen.  The game is designed to force trading not just among the
shops in the game but among the players also. Times will be hard
to find sometimes. In certain regions of the game some items will
nearly be impossible to find. Will trading start to these shops?
Will people attempt to make a profit by travelling great distances
to trade with these shops?

NPCs, yes most can die. We have had a few evil characters go among
and kill NPCs. Not just one or two but over 50 were killed.
Needless to say we did correct that. Special thanks to the Legion
of Onyx. How was this corrected?  A) Not all NPCs start off at
level 1 like you. Most have had their abilities edited. Two, you
will not see too many NPCs out at night. Very simply they sleep.
Last the experience is small, compared to killing a monster of the
same level.

Now about Skills, an example like Dragon Armor takes 1.5 seasons to
make.  Battle Armor can take as long as 5 seasons to make
depending on what you wish to have it made of. A blacksmith can
not take two swings of a hammer and go Walla here is a suit of
plate armor. It takes months for a blacksmith to craft this. This
is true with a sword. A sword cannot be created with a swing of a
hammer on an anvil. If you wish to spend 100s of hours creating
armor we are more then happy to give you that option. This holds
the same with weaving cloth into a shirt, or building a ship.
These all take time. I felt this was best left to the NPCs of the
game. The Land of Krythoth was not built in a day, neither are
items. We feel with Weapons Lore, Armor Lore, Mending, you will
have skills that people will pay for you to use. Armories and
Weapons Shops will charge much more to repair armor then say
someone who is standing outside the shop and doing it cheaper.
We are not saying the blacksmith will reduce his/her price (it has
happened).  But you the players have the power to control the
economics.

Now some things that have happen: We have had taverns run out of
food.  Armories running out of the most simple items, a sword, a
shield and dagger.  You will control the shops to a point. There
is no one sitting outside anything and selling. It happens all the
time in ShessShessmarlown. It seems Healing Potions and Long Swords
are the most commonly traded item.

We are using 3 servers at this time for testing. Overall it is 2
to 1 for good to evil. Except server 2 which is reversed. We use
this server to test what would happen if players go on a killing
spree.

I will talk to the Legion of Dark Onyx Guild Master and get him to
post here about some of the things they have done. They have
opened our eyes on some of our errors in thinking. But even now
they do admit being evil is fun, and you can sometimes get away
with murder, but if caught you are mostly likely killed.

Yes they have had their guildhall attacked, not once but 4 times.
In matter of fact one is planned soon by the council of 13 on
Server 2.

I will remind him to post here. He can tell you how evil can be.
The ups and downs of killing and Pking players and NPCs and the
overall standings of being evil. Some of the things he has done
with his guild.

On the reverse, the Champions of Krythoth two nights ago were
attacked by a bunch of evil mages with elements of earth. It was a
long deadly battle for both sides. Which made matters worse for
them the Legion of Onyx attacked right after the battle. They
heard about the attack from NPCs and waited to strike one of the
most powerful Guilds of Good on Server 3. The battle was quite
intense, but the Legions of Onyx almost defeated them.

Some other titbits:

Most Common Characters: Fighter, Priest and Mage

Most Uncommon Characters: Woodman, Assassin and Bard

Most Common Races: Human, Minotaur and Elf

Most Uncommon Races: Centaur, Xeletrabe and Halur




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