If you look at the official Korvara website, you'll learn that Geladyne is a place with not much food. And Telegrad is a place with a lot of food. This sort of concept is crucial to the world's dynamic. However, if you go into the game... Not only is that not really visible, it's also something people disagree on in certain cases. The existence of player farming, and grinding, and all those mechanics, means that as players, we live in a world of post-scarcity. There is no way anyone is going to go hungry or struggle because the first random person will simply give you food and money. That being the case, the nations and the setting feel mostly meaningless to a person who isn't purposefully playing up the harshness of the world. You can go anywhere and live as a nameless drifter without experiencing any hardship. By extension, this also means nations are not very different from one another. Unless players come to agreements and post stuff on discord we just never really know what is up. Should we expect everyone to read the 4 lore documents and keep themselves updated on the political shifts? How can the player feel like the world is alive without going through the work of informing themselves about all that's going on? And even if they do, there isn't that much happening in the world that impacts nations as a whole. Why is not much changing? I believe it's in part because... Everyone is prosperous and chilling. Why would they be at odds? The only problems nations face are usually mismanagement, crime, power shifts and drama. Events as well, but those are usually solved as soon as they arise.

I would like to propose a system to change this. Simple but significant.

Korvara Nation Status Message
Each nation would have stats and a status. When you enter a nation or log in inside it, you get a very short system message that describes the current situation as well as the resources it has. Here's an example that should explain what I mean.


You could make the values have a little clickable link that explains to you what the number means. For instance:
2 food: People are starving and many are dying. The people are angry and close to rebellion
3 food: People are very hungry and restless
4 food: People are going hungry
5 food: People have just enough food to survive
6 food: People have enough food, but aren't always satisfied
7 food: People are satisfied
8 food: People have plenty of food
etc.

These values don't represent a stockpile, but production. Meaning the values aren't going to accumulate, they are just the amount you get, for instance, per year. This means that if you trade 1 food for 1 treasury, those values are changing exactly once and as long as the trade deal is in effect, that change will remain. If the trade deal is off, then boom, the values return to what they were before. This means there is a finite amount of resources "available" in the world, and the factions must trade or fight over them.

So, how do we change it? And how do we determine what nation has what resources? Well, that's simple. Dev decides the starting values because he made the game. Then, the values can only be modified via trade, conquest, or gm-approved significant changes in the nation, and never from mechanics such as farming. GMs would be the ones who can tweak the values in the first place, while the status could be modified by the nation leader. So once a trade deal is done, one of the leaders message modmail, and a GM makes the change.

What effect will this have?
From a glance you might realize how useful this would be. First, the status itself would allow people to quickly learn what the hell is actually happening in a nation without needing to dig. Additionally, it would let people know of the IC conditions of the nation. It would let people know in-game that, oh yeah, this is actually the amount of food we have. How about we trade it? How about we go take it from another nation? Oh, we lack this or that, how will we get it? These are things that can't just be fixed with gathering 1000 tomatoes, you actually need to interact with people and make shifts in a nation, a movement, interact with OTHER nations. Make big projects that cause visible changes to the nation, not just in the map, but in the actual IC of the nation in a quantifiable manner.

The obvious issue that arises would be that players naturally tend to want to fix every single problem that arises in the game. It would be good if those people could be pointed to what they can do to change that value. You want to fix your nation's economy? Well first of all, you can't do it alone, and you'll need to make it a significant movement with rp to back it up. I'd like to see an SL2 where things are allowed to not be perfectly ok in every way all the time, and as such, it should be a difficult endeavor. Something that takes a lot of time and interaction with many people.

Furthermore, this system would introduce a way to have a war with much lower stakes. Currently, the only real point of war would be conquest for the sake of it. With a resource system, war could have an actual purpose people could get behind. You could just take a small part of territory and steal one point of resource. No nation-ending conquest needed to have some conflict. Just... We want to be better off, so we'll take some of your land.

I'd love to hear thoughts about such a system. I think a departure from the "just let the players figure it out as they go" mentality and the hard mechanics is needed to have meaningful inter-faction roleplay. We need broad game-ified systems, because this is a game after all, and without something being written down as truth, people simply cannot agree on what "should be" on that scale.

Although my example is crude, it would obviously be more elegant when/if implemented, without being too complex. We would need to decide what resources are relevant, and what exactly is required to shift a resource one point up or down.

In addition, the status message is kind of a secondary suggestion to the resource thing. Both can be addressed individually.

I'm not entirely sure how to collect evidence for this bug. But for awhile, I haven't been able to hear whispers from certain people, like the Regent of Geladyne. Here are two screenshots of the same scene. The first from my perspective, and the second from theirs. Including a reference for distance.

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I'm currently weilding 2 Summoner's Tandem Daggers and a pair of Summoner's Dancing Shoes. I am Spellthief/Grand Summoner, and using impact call.

I had tested this combination on the test server and there the order of the items went boots -> main dagger -> off hand dagger -> allowing me to summon, move toward an enemy, and then do two 1/2 damage attacks. 

I made the same character on the live server and got my daggers/boots, only to find I can"t do the same combo as it goes main hand-> boots -> off hand. I was advised to submit a post here about it to see what it should be, as the two servers are inconsistent.

I've tried unequipping and re-equipping in various orders, changed enchants and materials, changed my other gear and class, and no matter what, it always happens in the consistent different order on each server.

Thanks

I know this may seem like a crappy call out but if weather can be a toggle, by chance can darkness also be a toggle. The game gets really dark and traveling is sometimes a hinderance. Not to mention darkness seems to be very buggy. Sometimes it is darker then others, when tabbing out it can sometimes get brighter when u tab back in. Others times when you go into areas it gets so dark you can't see more then your torch radius.

Perhaps we can get a torch upgrade that has a much bigger radius, maybe a flashlight/Latern which can be crafted using a torch as one of the ingredients?

Most times when you make a party in Cellsvich you can't toggle free party mode or other similar places unless you leave and re-enter the map.

Name suggests when you eat  different type of foods it give you buffs instead of eating 100 Soups!

The effect reads, for armor: "Being hit by an attack creates Cinders at all tiles within 2 Range of you (LV 15, 2 rounds, once per round)."

The adjusted effect for Volcanic is only making cinders in 1 range of you instead of 2. Only the tiles directly adjacent to your character will contain cinders.

A simple Mage support skill, whenever you cast a non-damaging spell add 20% of the FP cost as power to the first offensive spell you cast. This can stack forever. Enchantment spells, Blink, Swap location, would give even more reason to cast before engaging. Of course the percentile would need to be looked at, since it should be useful but not over-powered since no matter what it won't ever be as good as double casting.

Now, I understand why the Cleaving Clarinet's ability is supposed to be helpful - to help Bard multiclasses, such as soldiers and duelists, close distance while still supporting their team or doing AOE. However, pure bards have little use for such ability, as they generally want enemies to be at mid range. I understand this comes off as whiny, but it's very annoying when I try to do a big AOE setup only to attract them right to my face, and the only other instrument that scales with San and Strength can't get Reliability.

I was pondering what sort of alias to give to my latest character when I caught myself wondering how other players tend to come up with their aliases. My typical go-to is to make an alliterative alias, describing the character with a focus on their personality traits rather than a physical description. Though I do have some exceptions. I've noticed alliteration in general is somewhat popular. I've also noticed that aliases with more or fewer than two words are extremely rare.

So what do you do? Do you focus on a physical description, description of the character's personality, or thematic description? Do you like to employ linguistic tricks like alliteration or rhyme? Do you usually think on it for a while, or just wing it? Do you default to the same style of alias, or change things up from character to character?