The Great Tree

Thanakar · Explorer Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 8

Things seem to get getting pretty well organized on Atrus but what about Katran and other shards as they come online?

NSymon · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:43 am Post subject:

It's a good point and I have no idea how were going to work around that. I have enough trouble keeping up with my own avatar on the Atrus shard, that creating more characters for myself on other shards would turn into a giant headache for myself. One character is enough for me.

Vandel · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:12 pm Post subject:

Same here, I'm good with just Atrus myself.
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Jon · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject:

How many people are there on Katran who want to hear our message in the first place? I know that most people there joined during the clerical error, so they haven't seen much of Phil, Sharper, or the DRC at all. It seems like they would, by and large, lack the frame of reference that gives our message an impact.
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brian · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject:

I'm mainly focusing on Atrus right now...

Maybe if we were to ever get enough people, it might be something to look into.

I honestly don't know...
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Guest · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject:

I tend to agree with Jon, I think we could expand to other shards in the future especially when prologue is over. I anticipate that the story will be universal across all shards.

Daedalus · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:31 pm Post subject:

Spreading the message on Katran would be great, but I can't help but wonder if the division of shards would affect it. Would it be hard to feel like a whole when we are in separate instances? What do you guys think?

Thanakar · Explorer Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 8

Daedalus · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:01 pm Post subject:

Xptql · Explorer Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 29

I tend to think of Katran as sort of another universe, where-in not all the events in Atrus have necesarilly occured. And in that way I sorta feel that they need to develop their own storyline, and their own groups. People on Atrus have just generally been around longer and may know things that never happened on Katran. So maybe we should let them create their own group, maybe it will be like the GT, but since most of us seem to be used tot he Atrus shard, I recommend we focus on it.

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Ironically, I've thought about this as well...let's hope as bugs get squashed and more server power is brought to bear, only one shard will be needed. (But can all players cram onto one shard? We have population limits now.)
This highlights the need for all pertinent meetings and such to be logged and presented on a central website, it would be a shame if the Katraners miss out on the unfolding story.
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Professor Askew · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 9:52 pm Post subject:

I have to agree with X on this one: Katran is another universe. At best I can imagine someone who already exists in the two shards, and who can represent the GT, starting up in Katran and perhaps getting a Katran-only group going, filling them in on anything they're missing, pointing towards forums, etc. But, a full-time crossover could be exhausting for anyone. And what happens when a third or fourth shard is created? Yikes! Shocked

Maybe someday, somehow, the shards will be intercommunicable. (Did I just make up a word?)

Daedalus · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 1:26 am Post subject:

Zen-17 · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject:

If they were to instead put certain areas on certain servers, and transfer the explorer from one server to other at point of crossing, that might work better than shards maybe.

At the moment I guess there is a definite difference in people and their progresses in the shards. Generally the newer players are Katran and the more well-progressed players are Atrus. The difference might grow with this third shard CyanBill speaks of.

Xptql · Explorer Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 29

From what I've read from the interview with CyanBill and other places the Shards were always meant to be completely seperate, that was in fact the whole point of having shards in the first place. So it looks like they are probably gonna stay seperate. And I think we should try and not bleed them into each other, as it were.