In Monopoly everyone starts with nothing and it is a big rush to explore and see who conquers what first. But what I liked best was Caspian’s analogy of Monopoly versus Risk in how the world is to be setup. Why does Soulbound Studios do events like this? They want to keep the the players involved and allow them to have a say in how the world is formed. They expect to see a lot more of this at the count and mayor level. This will allow for people to fill in the areas left unclaimed during the organized event. This year, per Caspian, they plan to add title claiming of specific land that is available with the various packages and encourage people to up their packages and give new people a chance to make a choice to claim a title. May is Kickstarterversary month and they always do something special for it. Land claiming will stay open after these initial controlled weeks because unclaimed lands are expected to exist. Regardless of what is claimed or not during that week, the selection will move on to the next level. The current idea is about a week for each level and a period of about four weeks overall.
Counts will pick a county and town for theirs. Dukes will pick a duchy, county and town for their seat of rule. This allows the king to pick the area he thinks will give the greatest success for ruling his kingdom. The main reason for this progression is that the monarch will pick a kingdom along with the location of its seat of power, drilling down through duchy, county and finally to the town. It will then roll down through duke, count and mayor/baron. First, the kings and queens can pick their kingdoms. Everyone will be able to see the server maps the entire time. I’ve been joking about being some sort of scribe when the game goes live, and here I am getting another opportunity to write about its formative events. Gaiscioch Magazine had the opportunity to work with Soulbound Studios to write about the upcoming Domain & Settlement Selection (D&SS). I did do a review of the Searing Plague event and a hint at Map Selection in a prior article last fall. I’ve been lurking around checking out this game for several years and it was only last year when I started jumping in more with the Searing Plague event and Map Selection. Unless you want to, of course.FEATURES Chronicles of Elyria: Domain & Settlement Selection - Kingdom Plans You can also make your way over to the Chronicles of Elyria official site for more details. You can check out the latest gameplay footage from the studio below. Unfortunately, this round of testing is covered by an NDA so we’ll just have to settle for twiddling our thumbs until Soulbound decides to reveal more information. The pre-Alpha test is expected to run for three weeks. Some are quite challenging and will take timing and precision to succeed!” Some are quite easy and most players should be able to get the hang of them with a little practice. “A variety of obstacles are assembled together by our procedural dungeon generator, and testers can select the difficulty of the obstacles in the course they want to play. Participants will also get to try out three races: the Neran, To’resk, and The Waerd.
Alpha 1 backers will be able to participate in a procedurally-generated obstacle course where they’ll get to test out different traversal types such as jumping across platforms and gaps, climbing across and jumping between walls, climbing and swinging on ropes, sliding and dive rolling, balancing on beams, and wall-running. The current pre-Alpha build, however, will only be testing a few of these features, specifically traversal mechanics and procedural dungeon generation. Over the past year, the developers have been hard at work on features that make up the core mechanics of the game, including basic and advanced traversal mechanics, combat, a combo system, character attributes and skills, basic survival mechanics (water, food, shelter), NPCs, Events via the Story Engine, procedural-generated dungeons, three explorable biomes, mobs, equipment, and more.
Soulbound Studios has officially kicked off pre-Alpha testing for their upcoming Wheel of Time-inspired MMORPG, Chronicles of Elyria.
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