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3397 Posts	Link to post - Posted November 27th at 2:05 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Greetings Bush Whackers! The next developer forum Q&A begins Monday December 11th at 1 PM to 2 PM Pacific (or 8-9 UTC). Feel free to post your questions in advance if you're unable to attend, and I'll try to answer all the questions during the live session.
107 Posts	Link to post - Posted November 28th at 4:40 PM Vegan1964 How about having holiday specific shows at the Theatre? Home Alone, Die Hard and Gremlins for Christmas, Mad Max:Fury Road and V for Vendetta for Nate's Birthday, Pride & Prejudice and Princess Bride for Valentine's Day.
394 Posts	Link to post - Posted November 30th at 1:44 PM BarbZak I agree with Vegan.. Change some Theatre shows..HAVE NY Eve one, the Grinch etc..
774 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 3rd at 11:41 PM Last Edited December 11th at 2:04 AM Russel Denton 1-I’m guessing by now, you have a laundry list of QoL’s, suggested by players etc, I was speaking to a few, and it was suggested perhaps you the devs took a month to try to make some of these QoL’s to fruition , perhaps, and some of the players would like the following QoL’s to happen -Combining old trinkets into better ones, basically combining trinket that do the same thing like max mana,max power can be combined with other trinket alike it -Runes not expiring while in unequipped swords -Extra 2 trinket slots or even our pets have 2 slots on their collars even - fences that ACTUALLY keep our pets in please 2-Update prizes in casino, particularly the topaz dreamz, get rid of the agate,sapphire gems and replace with something more useful like pet treats or even luck spheres or even bigger gold wins then it is now 3-This idea might be a bit time consuming but make all tables, and furniture rotatable, some tables are still not rotatable, same for furniture too 4- i still have that xmas tree glitch, ok nick, you can see it on wildlifeguru's ranch ok 5- can we get just plain basic mannequin bases we can buy more of, please, and place on our ranch as we please 6- Idea for the next Nate/Kaine Mystery Nate: we are talking to Nate in the commons, when 2 Rocksmasher Enforcer golems turn up with a mine dwarf, and the dwarf says to Nate " your coming with us" the rocksmasher enforcer golems grab Nate and head off along with the mine dwarf, the Town crier says we must help Nate, then a parrot flies and lands on the ground and says " the High council of Bushwhackia requests the one they call the bushwhacker to go to the high court now please" , so off you go, to the high court Upon arrival to the high court you see a panel of folks from different parts of bushwhackia, the priest from Port Black wood, a Miner dwarf from the mines, a mermaid in tank of water,a person from Prismatic passage, a mushroom man, the cloud king and in the middle the red man the Red Man stands up and says, "everything bad that has happened in Bushwhackia is Nate's fault, and he is on trial for his actions, if found guilty he will be sent far away, banished from the land of Bushwhackia", upon hearing this you ask how can i help perhaps, the red man says " all we want you to do is find evidence of Nate's wrong doing all over Bushwhackia so off you go: the quests will involve going all of the map, gathering items: - Shady forest - find 200 used matches in the bushes - Evergreen Forest - Find 200 red, 200 yellow and 200 Blue jewels - Mausoleum - find 200 foot prints of nate's - Abandoned Bazzar - convince 50 desert guards to come to the high court - Mine collapse - Find 200 leftover bits of TnT - Mermaid city - Find 200 remains of water proof dynamite - Autumnal forest - Convince 50 sloths to come to the high court - Cloud zones - find a few items for Zeus to tempt himto come to the high court - Find 100 inflatable Lightning bolts - Find 200 cloud flavoured milkshakes - Find 100 pet toys for zeus's pet sparkles once all found zeus will head to high court when you have done all this, you head back to he high court, and the Red man thanks you , and that the rets of the judges will examine the evidence once they find a suitable head Examiner of the evidence KAINE adventure Kaine is approached by 2 tribes folk and is asked to go to the high court immediatly Kaine heads off tothe high court, then you the bushwhacker is asked too, so off you go the high court asks Kaine is he would like to be head evidence examiner to find anything that might find Nate guitly, and Kaine asks he high court if you can help too they agree to it the quests for this will be visiting he other nate adventure areas and asking folks to provide evidence that proves Nate had good intentions, this is just a rough draft of an idea for the next kaine/nate thats all
118 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 6th at 10:43 AM TheCatWhispurrer Only thoughts, or suggestions would be to make fencing, like the ones on Cretaceous Island available, perhaps even make it so that we can top our blocks (brick, wood, and sandstone; flagged snow/ice atop snow blocks - all blocks from Amicus Island Casino) with fencing. Also, I know I made mention of this in last Tuesday's (12/5/23) stream, but a butterfly net sword for the next butterfly or Spring event.
485 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 6th at 1:15 PM Horsedancer1 How about when finding eggs it tells us what level they are in. I spend ages trying to find an old egg to hatch. Thanks!
485 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 6th at 1:16 PM Horsedancer1 Oh, and we haven't had new fishing bait for ages! I still want a fishing net, too. :D Thanks!
394 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 7th at 9:59 AM BarbZak @Russ,I asked Nick for the non expiring runes yr or so ago,....soo
485 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 7th at 10:10 AM Horsedancer1 The drop rates for the puzzle pieces in the new area are terrible. I whacked up all the items from the town and only 16 puzzle pieces came up. Yesterday on the first puzzle I got over half of the pieces when I got all the other items, then came back and got the rest. Can you please take a look at your drop rate? It's great to have a new area! Thanks.
1839 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 11th at 5:43 AM Flybaby A couple of players have asked about the Christmas Theme. Will it be offered for BBs on Amicus this year?
3397 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 11th at 1:01 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Afternoon, Bush Whackers! It's good to be back! Let the Q&A begin! I'll be checking this forum thread regularly for questions throughout the next hour.
3397 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 11th at 1:04 PM Last Edited December 11th at 1:05 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Vegan1964 wrote: How about having holiday specific shows at the Theatre? Home Alone, Die Hard and Gremlins for Christmas, Mad Max:Fury Road and V for Vendetta for Nate's Birthday, Pride & Prejudice and Princess Bride for Valentine's Day. BarbZak wrote: I agree with Vegan.. Change some Theatre shows..HAVE NY Eve one, the Grinch etc.. Themed plays are a great idea! I'll note these down to consider.
3397 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 11th at 1:21 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Russel Denton wrote: 1-I’m guessing by now, you have a laundry list of QoL’s, suggested by players etc, I was speaking to a few, and it was suggested perhaps you the devs took a month to try to make some of these QoL’s to fruition , perhaps, and some of the players would like the following QoL’s to happen -Combining old trinkets into better ones, basically combining trinket that do the same thing like max mana,max power can be combined with other trinket alike it -Runes not expiring while in unequipped swords -Extra 2 trinket slots or even our pets have 2 slots on their collars even - fences that ACTUALLY keep our pets in please 2-Update prizes in casino, particularly the topaz dreamz, get rid of the agate,sapphire gems and replace with something more useful like pet treats or even luck spheres or even bigger gold wins then it is now 3-This idea might be a bit time consuming but make all tables, and furniture rotatable, some tables are still not rotatable, same for furniture too 4- i still have that xmas tree glitch, ok nick, you can see it on wildlifeguru's ranch ok 5- can we get just plain basic mannequin bases we can buy more of, please, and place on our ranch as we please 6- Idea for the next Nate/Kaine Mystery Nate: we are talking to Nate in the commons, when 2 Rocksmasher Enforcer golems turn up with a mine dwarf, and the dwarf says to Nate " your coming with us" the rocksmasher enforcer golems grab Nate and head off along with the mine dwarf, the Town crier says we must help Nate, then a parrot flies and lands on the ground and says " the High council of Bushwhackia requests the one they call the bushwhacker to go to the high court now please" , so off you go, to the high court Upon arrival to the high court you see a panel of folks from different parts of bushwhackia, the priest from Port Black wood, a Miner dwarf from the mines, a mermaid in tank of water,a person from Prismatic passage, a mushroom man, the cloud king and in the middle the red man the Red Man stands up and says, "everything bad that has happened in Bushwhackia is Nate's fault, and he is on trial for his actions, if found guilty he will be sent far away, banished from the land of Bushwhackia", upon hearing this you ask how can i help perhaps, the red man says " all we want you to do is find evidence of Nate's wrong doing all over Bushwhackia so off you go: the quests will involve going all of the map, gathering items: - Shady forest - find 200 used matches in the bushes - Evergreen Forest - Find 200 red, 200 yellow and 200 Blue jewels - Mausoleum - find 200 foot prints of nate's - Abandoned Bazzar - convince 50 desert guards to come to the high court - Mine collapse - Find 200 leftover bits of TnT - Mermaid city - Find 200 remains of water proof dynamite - Autumnal forest - Convince 50 sloths to come to the high court - Cloud zones - find a few items for Zeus to tempt himto come to the high court - Find 100 inflatable Lightning bolts - Find 200 cloud flavoured milkshakes - Find 100 pet toys for zeus's pet sparkles once all found zeus will head to high court when you have done all this, you head back to he high court, and the Red man thanks you , and that the rets of the judges will examine the evidence once they find a suitable head Examiner of the evidence KAINE adventure Kaine is approached by 2 tribes folk and is asked to go to the high court immediatly Kaine heads off tothe high court, then you the bushwhacker is asked too, so off you go the high court asks Kaine is he would like to be head evidence examiner to find anything that might find Nate guitly, and Kaine asks he high court if you can help too they agree to it the quests for this will be visiting he other nate adventure areas and asking folks to provide evidence that proves Nate had good intentions, this is just a rough draft of an idea for the next kaine/nate thats all 1) I agree! I'm hoping to do a Quality of Life update after the Prismatic Quest Hub! a) I wholly agree that trinkets need to be cleaned up, and that combine recipes is the way to do it. b) Runes not expiring while equipped has been discussed before, and is on our list to consider. c) I'm more leaning to adding one or two cosmetic/effect non-bonus trinket slots versus adding more general slots, which would more greatly affect the power balance. I do like the idea of pets having a trinket slot, but need to think more on that one. d) I think the fences issue stemmed from trying to make the pathing efficient. I still need to consider how fixing this escapee issue might affect performance on ranches, given it's already quite slow when there's lots of critters on it. 2) Updating the slot machine rewards is on our suggestions list. 3) I do wish it was easier to make all the ranch items rotatable, but it often requires redrawing the entire object, which really adds up as you do more ranch items. We'll maybe consider this piece-meal if you have some specific items in mind. 4) Yes, I've been seeing multiple reports of the Christmas Tree bug. I looked into it in past years but didn't see any clear reason why it might be happening. If I have time, I'll poke around it again. Sorry about that! 5) I'll consider adding some more basic mannequins. It is neat to see how players set up scenes with them. 6) Ah, the classic crime-redemption case! Nate and Kaine would be great candidates for that. I'll note your idea down to consider. Thanks, Russel!
3397 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 11th at 1:24 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) TheCatWhispurrer wrote: Only thoughts, or suggestions would be to make fencing, like the ones on Cretaceous Island available, perhaps even make it so that we can top our blocks (brick, wood, and sandstone; flagged snow/ice atop snow blocks - all blocks from Amicus Island Casino) with fencing. Also, I know I made mention of this in last Tuesday's (12/5/23) stream, but a butterfly net sword for the next butterfly or Spring event. Combining fences and blocks to make fancier walls is a neat idea! And I wholly agree with adding a butterfly net sword.
3397 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 11th at 1:26 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Horsedancer1 wrote: How about when finding eggs it tells us what level they are in. I spend ages trying to find an old egg to hatch. Thanks! Yes, there are a lot of eggs and a lot of pet generations! Pet eggs do say what generation they are in if you mouse them over in your inventory.
3397 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 11th at 1:31 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Horsedancer1 wrote: Oh, and we haven't had new fishing bait for ages! I still want a fishing net, too. :D Thanks! Yes, I agree its time we get a new type of fishing bait! And I've still got your net idea noted down.
3397 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 11th at 1:34 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Horsedancer1 wrote: The drop rates for the puzzle pieces in the new area are terrible. I whacked up all the items from the town and only 16 puzzle pieces came up. Yesterday on the first puzzle I got over half of the pieces when I got all the other items, then came back and got the rest. Can you please take a look at your drop rate? It's great to have a new area! Thanks. The drop rate for puzzle pieces should be the same. The latest Nate and Kaine adventures do require more pieces for their puzzles than in past content, so the progress will be slower.
3397 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 11th at 1:36 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Flybaby wrote: A couple of players have asked about the Christmas Theme. Will it be offered for BBs on Amicus this year? The Christmas Nights ranch style won't be available for BBs this year, but is available until Wednesday in the package deal.
1839 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 11th at 1:55 PM Flybaby Nick the date you posted for the next stream says Tuesday, November 7th
3397 Posts	Link to post - Posted December 11th at 1:57 PM Nickshire (CNE Dev) Oops! Thanks for mentioning that. I've corrected the date to December 12th.

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