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A2 Quarter for AoC Announced!

20th Dec 2023 / Desseus

Q3 2024 will be when Alpha 2 will be launched (as it stands) for Ashes of Creation during yesterday's livestream right at the end making us sit through the QnA. When polled on the Discord only Volla and myself were the ones who let rationale, logic and experience guide their answers and were not swayed by the hopium smog that was around in the voice channel. Q3 means July, August or most likely September so we got a wait a while still but we got room for if it does get pushed back it will still be in 2024 so fingers crossed.

There are also the Ranger second pass which was well received amongst the whole community, even Asmongold's zergfest, smooth brained audience who usually are split almost wholly loved the update overall and who can blame them? moving in the air mid jump, being able to change from aoe to single target by charging the ability, the sheer rapid firepower of the short bow when combined with some abilities. Overall it was a verdant green eyegasm for all of us. Not to mention the shown early game weapons they are working on and some of the questions answered such as YES you can steal trees off of people if you are simply quicker at chopping them down, speed is the key like in New World.

Aurora in Pax Dei!

20th Dec 2023 / Desseus

A group of us within Aurora were fortunate enough to get into the Pax Dei alpha 1 testing! There was lots of deforestation, pest control, and working together to test out the building and crafting functionality in game to make ourselves a village. We found out a few things that were interesting and some others which cooled down the hype real quick and made us ponder on just how or where would Aurora fit into Pax Dei if we played it as a guild-wide game.

First off the bad - There were of course several bugs some of which more humorous than others. An example would be hearing someone swim out of water (yes there is swimming) despite being up on a mountain and repeats every few minutes. There were several instances where if you built then destroyed something the server thinks it is still there and thus slowed down building until the next server reset, which thankfully happened often. There was also the issues with crafting, be it the need to afk for 30 minutes as you sit there on a loom crafting or the large quantities needed of resources REALLY made a solo try of this increasingly difficult. However probably the biggest gripe is people griefing without PvP, How ever managed this is to claim and build on a plot of land that had nearby resources that others in the local area needed and thus careful consideration is needed when planning your future fortress or town. As you can imagine there were multiple instances of people placing down plots and effectively deleting your whole inventory's worth of clay. Also combat was for a lack of a better word "janky" but they have said that it needs another pass anyway so no need to hold that against them.

Now the good - The world is stunning both at night or during the day you are rewarded with picturesque views and landscapes. The ability to join plots together potentially giving each other that slight increase in room is excellent for any would be architects, The building controls were fairly easy to get to grips which, so long as your mouse wheel is not acting up like mine was and also allowed for great creativity. In fact whole hosts of people got together to make a rather impressive castle. The sound was rather good for an alpha, not New World quality in the actions but the ambience was nice. But above all others was the rather rapid response from the devs with most things, constantly wanting feedback and responding to player queries the entire time.

Overall a positive experience but with the games direction most of us were left with questions. Is this really a game we can see ourselves playing? To be honest whilst it is an "MMO" by number of players per server that is about where it ends before it feels almost Rust like in it's playloop as it stands, you build you home craft.gather what you need before heading more into the centre areas to kill mobs or players then return, whilst there are "dungeons" per say they are open world and more like caves than anything we are more accustomed to. Alas for now Pax Dei is a simple wait and see for us here in Aurora as we await Ashes of creation.

Changes within the CMs

20th Dec 2023 / Fhin

We are delighted to announce that our team is growing this eveningLet us all welcome Dayliwalka, Sexy Fufu, Khy and NumpadNo1(Dave) to the Community Management team! We are happy to have their support and are looking forward to an event-rich future for our guild. With four new faces joining the CM-team, we also mourn one beloved CM departing the team. Funkyblues is stepping back from his CM duties and will be assuming his new position as Officer in the council. We are happy to have him with us in his new role as Public Relations Officer.

As we have teased previously we are restructuring the council to improve our performance and effectiveness for the guild. One key aspect we have identified, is the need for specific roles for each council member, meaning from now on each council member will hold at least one of the following offices on top of their regular council duties.

Chief Data Officer Head of all guild spreadsheets. The CDO is in charge of managing, updating and collecting data for all guild related spreadsheets, improving them and creating new ones as the need arises.

Community Officer Head of the Community Management team. The Co is in charge of recruiting, training and managing CMs, such as setting up an event/dungeon fight schedule and setting up generals guide lines for moderating chats.

Discord Officer Head of all technical related discord issues such as implementing new tools discord provides and also improving and maintaining our bots (World Tree, AI of Creation, Game Stats, Chip etc.). The DiscO is the backbone for managing and improving our Discord Server.

Disciplinary Officer Head and executioner for all disciplinary tasks. The DO is in charge of delivering consequences to rule offenders in the guild, such as handing out strikes, kicks, bans, etc., as well as keeping track of all actions. When deciding on the correct course of action for any offence the DO is working closely together with the CO and the CM-team.

General Affairs Officer Head and driving force behind many macro decisions for the guild. The GAO is in charge of finding ways and devising systems/organisational tools to improve the guild management. He points out issues the guild faces and finds solutions.

Public Relations Officer Head of diplomacy and recruitment. The PRO is in charge of posting recruitment messages in the Ashes discord and forum, improving them and kepping them up to date, as well as building relationships with friendly guilds by representing the guild on other discords and gathering information.