wordspellmods | To Our Beloved Beta Testers:

Thank you sincerely for playing with us thus far, and we apologize for so severely dropping the ball over the recent weeks. We have recently decided to approach the game's function from a completely different angle, and we will be continuing to run it if players are still interested.

We will be applying and working on the following changes:

The game will function in Story Arcs. Due to the game being rather NPC heavy and player decision making being the focus of the game, we feel that it would be better to run the game short term with a plot arc in mind. The game will run for several months and come to a close for a break time as the next "arc" of plot is set up, provided that everything runs successfully.

There will be a limited number of characters allowed into the game. The cap will be 30 total, with 15 Fighters and 15 Sacrifices. Casts will have 3 for their cap, and 5 if they are part of a larger franchise (such as the Tales series, the Pokémon universes, the Final Fantasy series, et cetera...) Players will only be allowed one character, but you are free to continue playing with the characters you currently have for the remainder of the beta period.

The beta phase will be coming to a close within the next few months. There will be a significant amount of plot leading to the close of the beta phase, at which point further information about the next arc of the game will be worked out and announced.

ZEROs are no longer limited to bonding only with other ZEROs. They remain unable to feel pain, but we feel that only being able to bond with other ZEROs will be too limiting with a restricted number of players. They'll be able to pair with any other bondless in the game.

Players will have control of castmates that are not being played. We realize that it's limiting to not be able to control what close castmates that your character regularly interacts with (such as classmates, coworkers, or family members,) especially with a limited amount of characters and castmates. Players will therefore be able to handwave and NPC the actions of characters not currently in the game. Ideally, they shouldn't be involved more than the average character's pet- this is to give a more naturally flowing game experience, not to play six characters at once.

We are removing our leveling system. With a smaller population, measuring involvement is unimportant and irrelevant, and strength will be gauged narratively. There will be plenty of event opportunities to get a True Name with a pair of characters starting in the first arc.

Septimal Moon and Gora will have an information page. This will make the experience of being in Gora/working with Septimal Moon much clearer, so that players can freely understand what state their characters are in.

Wisdom Resurrection will have an information page. Since it is one of the common meeting points for many characters, there will be much more information on the game and any relevant events in the MMO will be included in the setting update posts.

The existing Info Posts will be updated with more information. Namely, information that more thoroughly explains what players are capable of doing, what they can get away with using their powers, and general attitudes of the world of NPCs as they stand.

In this post, we will also have a Check-In AC. If you'd like to resume playing, just comment and let us know! If you'd like to take this opportunity to drop any characters, just say which characters are staying and which are going in your comment. Over the next few days, we will be cleaning up the comms and repairing the information pages, including the Taken page. Check-in is due by February 15th, 11:59pm EST.

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, please feel free to share them with us!