We are continuing with the introduction of members of the Vanguard: Saga of Heroes Development Team through special Developer Spotlight features. Join us as we put Elionia in the hot seat! Forum Link
What exciting plans do you have in store for Vanguard?I am currently designing and implementing what will soon be a worldwide quest. There will be approximately 50 locations throughout Telon. This quest will take the player on a tour through all of the continents, regions and some of the dungeons Telon has to offer. Hey Elionia, looking forward to the above quest. Any hint on what level this will be?
What exciting plans do you have in store for Vanguard? I am currently designing and implementing what will soon be a worldwide quest. There will be approximately 50 locations throughout Telon. yes... this definatly intrigues me!.. would love to hear more about it I am also creating what we are calling a "Golden Path" through Qalia that will take the player from 10 to 50. This scares me... I had hoped that the golden path idea had been completely scrapped and would never see the light of day..
Thank you for the warm greeting. The Quest will cover many areas that run the range of levels. The Quest is unique in that way to Vanguard.
Nice to "meet" a developer i didnt already know was working on our wonderfull game! /pokes for new content
Best line is about how VI started what we now call the industry. Gotta be honest, BEST spotlight to date. I love, love, love experience. What Elionia has seen .... well, I hope she is high ranking =D I disagree with Karii and like the idea of the Golden Path however I really do hope it leads to group type content and not solo/duo content. But this is not the forum to debate. Glad you're here. Experience = Key in restoring this game, and rise it up the QUALITY charts. I dont care for 10,000,000 accounts. I'd pay $50 a month for this game if we had premium service like Stormhammer if you remember that Elio!
Great to see you back working on Vanguard Michelle! I really look forward to the world wide quest. Is the "Golden Path" just on Qalia or are the other Devs overseeing the Golden Path on other continents?
Welcome aboard! The Golden Path that was put in place in EQ2 was actually a pretty good way to keep people grouped as they leveled, and also gave a decent tour of the world, plus great rewards. While I love going off the beaten path (esp. in VG), a clearer line of progression will be helpful for any new F2P folks who level up with each other.
The biggest thing that worries me regarding the golden path, is that Vanguard isnt a "rush to max level" game, the best content, the most content is in the level 1-50 range. A new player would miss so much by rushing through it to get to 55. either way, Welcome back and looking forward to seeing more regarding the world wide quest!
I don't know what a Golden Path is about, but I do really (it's one of my favourite things in early on - so smart in its design) like the way, currently, that when you are very low level the npc will give you a quest where you borrow a horse, and then you have a time limit to make it really far away, but you decide how you reach the destination! You get to see a great deal that way, that you might miss if you just stuck to the quest paths. Plenty of opportunities for things in the world to catch new player's eyes.
Thank you so much for the welcome. I am excited to be working on Vanguard again and working with such a dedicated community. I am working on the Qalia Continent of the "Golden Path". Other designers are on other continents and in dungeons. The reference is more of a creative reference. We laid out a "Path" through Qalia and I am reviewing the content, quest, NPCs, exp., itemization, etc on that path. I am making sure that there are tie-ins for each level group so a player is pointed to a direction of the next level area of content. Few things annoy me more than running out of quests and not knowing where to go next for my level range. I know we will not be able to please everyone with the changes we make but please rest assured this team is discussing each change and coming to what we believe is the best choice for the game. I look forward to your feedback. Please head over to the test forums and post your feedback.
any chance that you or one of the other developers could take a look at the lag that is causing a good deal of people to leave the game before f2p launch?
Welcome back to the team. My feedback to you is please please revisit class changes, this more then anything has me looking else where. I can understand a "Golden Path", benefit is when they finish they will crave more awesome VG content, and by then they will have become more acustom to the game world and will venture forth and see new dungeons on their own. As long as this path doesn't completely remove any reason to see the rest of the game world, it can actually benefit the game greatly!
Link seems broken. Is Eliona still around? I remember her from the good ole EQGuide days, great to see her onboard with Vanguard. Couldn't help but notice Isle of Eliona on Kojan. (As well as Daegarmo island.. Gary Grobson anyone?) I really miss the old days of EQ1 and Vanguard brings back fond memories.
Yep I am here. Just busy on the next content and squishing bugs. I speak to Gary often and we are currently playing GW2 with several of the old group. I stay in touch with a bunch of the oldies =)
