Livestream Notes - Friday, May 8

May 9, 2015 by

Bragi has posted notes from the last developer livestream on the forums.

Source: http://forums.trovegame.com/showthread.php?17941-Livestream-Notes-Friday-8th-of-May

Hey everyone, standard disclaimer, i may have misheard or misunderstood things. Please click here and you can view the stream for yourself. Trove is in Beta and everything you see is subject to change so have a sense of humor and don't take things you see or read too literally.

Participants:

Brian - GrumpnTug
Ted - Dopesheet
Ellery - MysterE
Adam - Decoy
Avarem is out of jail finally but is now looking for a new job in Chicago or something

Boomeranger

Boomerangers will come at the same time as the Monster Bash update in late May (not next week.. around the 26th?)
Adventurer class has been cancelled, but good news is the boomeranger class is identical in every way
- Jump: you should click the link above and see for yourself - Trion intend on keeping it that way
- Passive: Every third attack does bonus dmg (bow 3 arrows no-spread, sword swirl)
- M1: basic physical Damage attack uses sword or bows (your choice)
- M2: Boomerang that stuns on the way there and back, reduces cooldowns if you catch it
- Skill1: big bomb with approximately 4 second fuse that sticks to things, looks to have a 6 block diameter. Will be able to blow up dungeons
- Ultimate: random of 4 things
  - Chickens that attack
  - Gems that reduce cooldown
  - Cluster bombs
  - Healing
  - Dance: let me show you How It's Done

Golden thread:

Aimed at new players to get acquainted to trove. One time cubit bonus payout as you do simple tasks:
- Harvest 40 ore
- Complete 10 quests
- Complete 50 quests
- Complete the Tutorial World
- Enter a Novice Adventure World
- Enter an Adept Adventure World
- Enter an Elite Adventure World
- Earn one Rank in Ringcrafting
- Go Fishing
- Complete a Shadow Arena
- Collect 100 Radiant Shards
- Craft a Deconstructor
- Craft a Forge
- Earn Mastery Rank 10
- Earn Mastery Rank 30
Can click J to see all tasks
It will appear under your star bar and there is a checkbox if you want to hide it

Upcoming New Mounts

Ancient Cubits (looks like a caterpillar made out of 5 cubits) mount wil be FOR cubits not four cubits...
Unicycle: (cycle with a unicorn horn) will be in store this week
Love seat: chair mount will be in store this week
Overlord omniseat: chair mount will be store this week
Bentobox adventure box will replace budgies this tuesday (ty friedsushi):
- Shuffling Shrimp Nigiri
- dragonshrimp
They might add a mount in the future that looks like a boot

PvP

In experimental stage, trying to come up with a system that fits trove and its gameplay style
trove is not a hypercompetitve game and wont become one
will be completely optional
current experiment status: spawn into a world, can kill other people, stuff explodes.. things will change

New forging system

More information will come next week
idea is to make forge system less random and more progressionistic (is that a word?)
gear wont be levelled with xp, you'll still use flux
eyes will be used in a different capacity,

Questions From the Community

There will not be a button to toggle between sword and bows for boomeranger
Wont be able to choose which boomeranger ultimate comes - meant to be random
Wont be able to choose which stats go up as you level - it's pre-set when they are creating the class (not an attribute system)
Building improvements: will come but it's a big thing that requires a lot of thought and will be addressed before launch (not in the next few weeks)
Plasma fishing not soon
Lairs and dungeons don't have a limited lifetime and they haven't removed older ones yet BUT some older ones aren't as polished as newer ones and older ones might be removed or kept in easier worlds.. nothing has been decided for sure but there's definitely no fixed time limit dungeons are in game.
They like waffles, Brian will give you free game codes if you mail him waffles - send him pm's on the forums
Fewer but larger biome chunks? No way Jose. That's how it used to be and they like ti this way
More elemental worlds like sky world? Yes
- underground realm in the thoughts but not yet in the works.
- Maybe a variant of a skytype biome including a large lava floating dragon infested biome
- but not anytime soon maybe near game launch or afterwards.
Club world telepoters: place 2 things in club world and you can travel between them.. thats the idea, will be worked on soon, and possible come in a month or so
Colourblind mode or something will be addressed but can't exactly put an icon on it because of biome size.. Maybe changing the colour values or something on mouseover.. discussions in progress.