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[CMAstra]

The time has come, folks! The answers to your February Developer Questions will be answered on stream today!

 

Totally bored with the weird Tuesday maintenance schedule? Be sure to tune in at our Twitch Channel to watch my Boxing the Compass livestream at 3:00PM PST!

 

Not only will I be revealing the dev's A's to your Q's, I'll be showing off a very special new box we'll be dropping today after maintenance, in honor of Gravity's Anniversary.

 

Get excited!!

 

If you missed the last stream, here it is:

 

 

 

[allygator1]

SUP NERD, what ever happened to that fanart friday you were talking about months ago?

[CMAstra]

Wha?! I post Fanart Friday on the Facebook and Twitter every Friday!

[allygator1]

wuuutt you said something about streams and stuff.

[Ashuckel]

@astra

I noticed only the first half of my question was showed on stream(ranged weapons bug)

Was only that part sent to them, or they just commented on that one? The other part was also a bug report, did they said anything about it?

[CMAstra]

wuuutt you said something about streams and stuff.

 

weh @_@ I must have forgotten. My streams are on Tuesdays but I can probably feature some cool fanstuff during them anyway~

 

@astra

I noticed only the first half of my question was showed on stream(ranged weapons bug)

Was only that part sent to them, or they just commented on that one? The other part was also a bug report, did they said anything about it?

 

That was the part they had answered, the bug report bits get sent to Camp, who then compiles a bunch and sends them to HQ.

[CMAstra]

Here are the answered questions from yesterday's stream! You can see the stream here, and questions below the Spoiler tag.

 

 

Spoiler

1.     Are there any plans to make damage formulas available to players? It would help the community theory craft and min/max their character builds.

          Answer: Unfortunately, we do have any plans to share the damage formulas at this moment.

 

2.     Are there any plans to expand Doram content, such as allowing them to pursue job classes other than Summoner?

Answer: Yes, we do have plans to expand Doram contents. The kRO users were also fond of the Doram class and therefore we have already updated new skills and new gears for the Doram on kRO. We have also added the marriage system for the Doram class as well. We hope to apply theses updates on iRo in the future as well.

 

3.     Can we improve the EXP payouts of many quests in the game? Barring instances and bounty boards, there are few quests that worth doing because the EXP rewards are not worth the effort.

Answer: We have plans to update the Memorial Dungeon in the near future. After this update, we will proceed with updating other quest contents as well so that the users can keep on enjoying the older iRO contents.

 

4.      Would it be possible to have a service to turn headgears into costumes? For example if you have a headgear you like the look of but not the stats, you could pay a zeny fee to turn it into a costume? I think this would be very popular for old headgears that don't see much use these days, like drooping kitty, tiara, crown of mistress, boys cap and the like.

Answer: Yes, we think it’s a great idea. We will definitely work on this content with our US branch (Warpportal).

 

5.      Do you have plans in revamping the graphical interface of Ragnarok Online?

Answer: We believe it’s important to improve the UI of Ragnarok so the users can have a pleasant gaming experience. Like the Refine system, we plan to improve and develop the user interface. We ensure you we will update the improved UI on iRO once it’s ready.

 

6.     Unfortunately, the only way to communicate in chat is using 'Basic Latin' character set. Is it possible to add native support for multiple *character sets (e.g. Cyrillic alphabet and diacritics) in Guild chat?

Answer: After checking with the studio, unfortunately this will not be possible on Ragnarok.

 

7.     Recently the "Position Bug" was fixed on kRO, as well as Bowling Bash so it no longer needs gutter lines, and changing critical attacks to allow multiple hit passives like Double Attack, Trifeca and Fear Breeze to proc off a critical. Could these be pushed out to iRO as soon as possible? Fixing position bug alone might be one of the greatest QOL changes this game has ever had.

Answer: Yes, the position bug has recently been fixed on kRO. We will work with our US branch to fix these bugs on iRO as well.

 

8.     It's been years since the last sprite color alt dye was introduced, could it be possible to create more palettes for players to choose from? Can we also receive more hairstyles as well?

Answer: Unfortunately, adding more palettes is not an easy job and we do not have plans to update this in the near future. We will consider to add new hair styles in the future.

 

9.     Why don’t ranged weapons (Bow, Pistols, Gatling, etc) receive the over upgrade bonus as other weapons do (speaking of the 0~14 atk per refine on lvl4 weapons, for example). Intented or a bug?

Answer: We assume this is a bug. We will communicate with our US branch to fix this issue.

To Michael: After checking, this seems to work properly on kRO. Please give us a ‘bug fix request.’

 

10.   Do you have any plans to release new forgeable items for the blacksmith forging skills, or buff the old abilities and re-balance things by releasing new blacksmith plans to compensate so people would still keep the craft ? The skill has been stagnant and outdated. Way back in 2004 when Ragnarok first started, being a weapon forger was fun. But now, Sage could endow a carded weapon, making it way better than forged elemental weapon, and with the elemental converter the craft has died.

Answer) We are aware of the fact that there are less Blacksmith users these days.

We will review this matter and see if there are any possibilities to improve the blacksmith. 

[JoaquinAndres]

Here are the answered questions from yesterday's stream! You can see the stream here, and questions below the Spoiler tag.

 

 

Spoiler

1.     Are there any plans to make damage formulas available to players? It would help the community theory craft and min/max their character builds.

          Answer: Unfortunately, we do have any plans to share the damage formulas at this moment.

 

2.     Are there any plans to expand Doram content, such as allowing them to pursue job classes other than Summoner?

Answer: Yes, we do have plans to expand Doram contents. The kRO users were also fond of the Doram class and therefore we have already updated new skills and new gears for the Doram on kRO. We have also added the marriage system for the Doram class as well. We hope to apply theses updates on iRo in the future as well.

 

3.     Can we improve the EXP payouts of many quests in the game? Barring instances and bounty boards, there are few quests that worth doing because the EXP rewards are not worth the effort.

Answer: We have plans to update the Memorial Dungeon in the near future. After this update, we will proceed with updating other quest contents as well so that the users can keep on enjoying the older iRO contents.

 

4.      Would it be possible to have a service to turn headgears into costumes? For example if you have a headgear you like the look of but not the stats, you could pay a zeny fee to turn it into a costume? I think this would be very popular for old headgears that don't see much use these days, like drooping kitty, tiara, crown of mistress, boys cap and the like.

Answer: Yes, we think it’s a great idea. We will definitely work on this content with our US branch (Warpportal).

 

5.      Do you have plans in revamping the graphical interface of Ragnarok Online?

Answer: We believe it’s important to improve the UI of Ragnarok so the users can have a pleasant gaming experience. Like the Refine system, we plan to improve and develop the user interface. We ensure you we will update the improved UI on iRO once it’s ready.

 

6.     Unfortunately, the only way to communicate in chat is using 'Basic Latin' character set. Is it possible to add native support for multiple *character sets (e.g. Cyrillic alphabet and diacritics) in Guild chat?

Answer: After checking with the studio, unfortunately this will not be possible on Ragnarok.

 

7.     Recently the "Position Bug" was fixed on kRO, as well as Bowling Bash so it no longer needs gutter lines, and changing critical attacks to allow multiple hit passives like Double Attack, Trifeca and Fear Breeze to proc off a critical. Could these be pushed out to iRO as soon as possible? Fixing position bug alone might be one of the greatest QOL changes this game has ever had.

Answer: Yes, the position bug has recently been fixed on kRO. We will work with our US branch to fix these bugs on iRO as well.

 

8.     It's been years since the last sprite color alt dye was introduced, could it be possible to create more palettes for players to choose from? Can we also receive more hairstyles as well?

Answer: Unfortunately, adding more palettes is not an easy job and we do not have plans to update this in the near future. We will consider to add new hair styles in the future.

 

9.     Why don’t ranged weapons (Bow, Pistols, Gatling, etc) receive the over upgrade bonus as other weapons do (speaking of the 0~14 atk per refine on lvl4 weapons, for example). Intented or a bug?

Answer: We assume this is a bug. We will communicate with our US branch to fix this issue.

To Michael: After checking, this seems to work properly on kRO. Please give us a ‘bug fix request.’

 

10.   Do you have any plans to release new forgeable items for the blacksmith forging skills, or buff the old abilities and re-balance things by releasing new blacksmith plans to compensate so people would still keep the craft ? The skill has been stagnant and outdated. Way back in 2004 when Ragnarok first started, being a weapon forger was fun. But now, Sage could endow a carded weapon, making it way better than forged elemental weapon, and with the elemental converter the craft has died.

Answer) We are aware of the fact that there are less Blacksmith users these days.

We will review this matter and see if there are any possibilities to improve the blacksmith. 

5.- Long time ago the refinement system on kRO was sent... What about us ( talking about the UI revamp)

8.- Could you please push kRO to send us more palettes... how is it possible pservers have more than us-they have tons...- Instead of adding many costumes(headgears) I think you can do more income selling omni clothing dies...We cant be more unique because these costumes are very popular... =(

Edited by JoaquinAndres, 10 September 2018 - 09:53 PM.