New Content Trouble in Elani (sp?)

[Jakys]

Sorry... not in game right now, so the name may be spelled wrong, but it's the new city that just "turned on" down in the Ruin Falls chunk of Thestra. It's great to see a potentially "full service" outpost coming online near the high end content, but this place already has some serious issues to address. Here's just some of what we've found so far.

On BIG issue is that there are merchants, including a general goods vendor, weapons and arms vendors, etc. and NONE of them offer a reapir option!? Hello? That's kind of critical.

The initial quests there range from buggy to broken. The Blasted Frogs quest gives you a message after killing "x" number of frogs that "You hear a gigantic splash in the pond" (something close to that) but no giant frog appears to finish it. Other quests have issues as well.

Mob pathing outside the outpost is just flakey. The swordbeak birds (for another quest which you actually can finish) run *away* from you in several cases, for quite a ways, before they try to catch you. If you're snare kiting, as I was, this is darned close to an exploit.

And, while you're looking at it, would it be possible to incorporate civic diplomacy options into the NPCs when a new city/outpost is brough online?

[sypher001]

When you kill x number of frogs (typically clearing whole pond), hopper a giant frog pops in center you kill for the satchel...

did all the quests available in elani and the outpost nearby (east along road), all worked fine and one ends in a nice rare reward...


This outpost is still in dev and most not meant to go online yet...this portion i think went online to prepare for the lead in quests down in the 3 contending faction areas (gorgo, mantis, flordielians, etc)...

still not finished or would have been in patch notes probably.

[Cylus]

Added repair functionality to those vendors.

[Jakys]

Thanks, Cylus. That's a huge step toward making this a prime base of operations for SW Thestra content. (Of course, a broker and a banker would be nice, too. *hint hint*.) :-)

As to the frog quest, we were able to finish it and get the frog to spawn by abandoning the quest and taking it again. This was repeatable for three people. Have now finished all of the quests from this area we could find, and while a few of them have some glitches, they are all doable.

Now if we could only get some civic diplomacy in there, I'd probably call Elani home for a long time to come. Heck, I already built my house over in flowing seas!

[Leaf]

Originally Posted by Jakys

Thanks, Cylus. That's a huge step toward making this a prime base of operations for SW Thestra content. (Of course, a broker and a banker would be nice, too. *hint hint*.) :-)

And taskmasters, so we can get out of the lag that is Southwatch :)

[Renfail]

Originally Posted by Leaf

And taskmasters, so we can get out of the lag that is Southwatch :)

/shudder