V4 Launch: 10/10 at 5 PM (CDT)

[Tim]

A Game of Stones: V4, the latest version of the Wheel of Time themed, browser-based MMORPG is launching this Saturday (10/10) at ~5 PM CDT!

Version 4 brings many changes to the game, hopefully for the best, such as:
- Quests: Complete quests to gain rewards, or create quests of your own for other players to try!
- Clan Offices and Shops: Create an office for your clan in any town. Offices allow your clan to open and run your very own shops, reguardless of if you control the town or not. The higher you clan's score in the town, the more upgrades available for your shop!
- Return of Stamina: All players now have a stamina stat that decreases as you fight, reguardless of who started the duel. The lower your stamina, the weaker you get. Be sure to keep an eye on it!
- Consumable Items: New, one time use items that give small, temporary boosts to stats. Food, drinks, and herbs are available. Use them wisely!
- New Town Buildings: Inns and Wise Women have been added, and Tavern's have been expanded. Find consumable items here, but each building has its own additional purpose. Buildings are named after actual businesses in the WoT world or by your fellow players!
- New and improved classes: New classes are now available, with some improvements made to existing classes.
- New Stats Bar: A stats bar has been added for easier tracking of your characters status, without having to constantly flip between pages.
- Updated Map: New towns and wilderness areas, with better connectivity between them and a better spread of enemies to battle!
- Improved Weaves for channelers: Weaves stats are now dependant on the character. They improve automatically as your character progresses!
- Donor Benefits: Donors to the game will now receive additional bonuses for their contributions. All bonuses are minor and should not give them unfair advantage, but at the same time makes their life easier and allows them more options!
- Bug Fixes: As always, a variety of bugs found in previous versions have been fixed!

I hope you are all looking forward to this release as much as I am! I'll see you Saturday!

A Game of Stones site: gos.talij.com/
A Game of Stones forum: gosos.proboards.com/

-Tim aka The Creator-in-training

*NOTE: anyone willing to help spread the word of the launch could copy the above post to your favorite WoT or gaming sites. Would be much appreciated and hopefully add more players for you to beat up on! Go Team!*

[Crom Cruach]

Please explain CDT: how many hours less than Greenwich?
dang, it's probably going to be on at nighttime here

[Tim]

It's 11:50 AM as I make this post.

If nothing else, you could simply create your characters and log off. Since you start with 50 battles, you'd have a day or so before you start losing potential battles from your 2 per hour.

[fearless]

love the ad.... just wish there was an address in it : (

[Tim]

Oct 8, 2009 14:12:43 GMT -6 fearless said:

love the ad.... just wish there was an address in it : (

DOH! I knew I forgot something. Too late to update the email I sent out to all forum members (sigh), but I'll update the above.

[macmutt]

CDT is Central Daylight Time or UTC (GMT / Zulu ) - 5 hours more info on time zones at

www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/

[alSeen]

it starts at 5? dang! thats when i got to go to praise in the park, a concert in lucedale. well at least i get to make my characters before i leave.

doesnt matter though. just ill be behind on the first day.

[alSeen]

oh and whats this about the weaves? i dont remember hearing anything about them being changed?

[Tim]

Oct 8, 2009 17:48:37 GMT -6 alSeen said:

oh and whats this about the weaves? i dont remember hearing anything about them being changed?

gosos.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=cdv4&action=display&thread=825

[Crom Cruach]

Thanks! It's going to be on at 10 pm here then, not bad.

[alSeen]

thanks tim

[Tim]

FYI: I've been down with the flu for the last few days (still sorta feel like crap), so I'm way behind. Launch time and date stand though (about 5.5 hours from now), as its too late in the game to be changing it. Will try to get as much done between now and then as possible, but a few minor changes may happen after the launch. Nothing that should break the game or change the gameplay. Mainly just display changes. Still shooting to get them done before hand though, but we'll see what happens.

The test site will likely be in flux quite a bit between now and launch, so if it's down or reset, don't worry about it. The game will be reset at 5 PM (CDT) as planned, regardless of any resets prior to that.

Wish me luck! And Go Team!
Wish me luck and

[alSeen]

tim, hope u get better man. the flu sucks. and which site will v4 be on? the viv. or the gos. ?

[Tim]

The official version will be on gos.talij.com at launch. viv.talij.com will likely go down then, and v3 will probably get moved to gosv3.talij.com until I create the v5 test site.

[alSeen]

ok thanks