This past Sunday we had an admin meeting to start with our wonderful new project – Somnium aka the new Noob Island!
What does this mean?
The admin team will now all be working on one project instead of different projects all over Terra and we will be rebuilding Terra from the ground up starting from Noob Island which we decided to name Somnium (chosen from the event held not too long ago, Pung was the lucky winner!).
Why are all the admins working on one project?
This way we will have way more ideas of which we can pick the best for the players. Work will be done way faster and there will definitely be more team work and more creativity. We believe this way of working will be beneficial for admins and all the players.
What is the basic idea behind Somnium?
We are creating a whole new island, which will replace Noob Island. We will definitely be getting rid of those awful brothers! There will be less grind and more fun! There will be interesting storylines and easy quests which are OPTIONAL! Tutorial will be way more effective due to the incorporation of the new quest system which will definitely help the new players to Terra. This will ensure that they will stay instead of leaving in frustration or boredom because of lack of knowledge.
What else can I expect from Somnium?
We will still have Karmiel, Edgewood, Eyre and surrounding areas. This time though each town will have a purpose and theme. Surrounding areas will have fun quests to do in case you do not want to leave Noob Island just yet. There will definitely be more easy and fun quests in each town as well!
What will each admin be doing?
Each admin has a specific task, here is the breakdown:
Project manager: The glue: Fally
Quest Architect: Decides what quests need to be built and manages quest builders: Honey
World Architect: Decides what should be built and manages mappers: Webd
Storyline writers: Storyline for TWO, not only Somnium: GamerNerd, Culain, MadamMihm
Mappers: Work under leadership of world architect: Culain, Travster, Webd
Quest builders: Create quests via quest editor may need to map a bit: Noddegamra, MadamMihm, Pong, GamerNerd, Culain, xNash
As you can see we are very organized and every admin is happy with their position.
We will be starting early June and we will update you as soon as we have made progress. We all are looking forward to this project and there is definitely a strong team spirit, it’s going to be a lot of difficult work but we are determined to see this through.
Here are the images drawn up by xRavx if you haven’t seen it yet!
-Initial Drawing
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The Quest Builders and Quest Architect have had 2 meetings so far to discuss quests already laid out and quest ideas for Somnium.
In the first meeting, they focused on the quests themselves, they decided to review the currently proposed rewards for obvious reasons. We want to make the New Noob a fair one and to do this we need to take into account the rewards given in quests on old Noob. Ideas for an exciting 'Scavenger Hunt' quest and Broad Sword quest were discussed. They also discussed what needed to be done in order to make the Somnium release a successful one and this includes the referall system. They also gave homework to the newer quest builders so that they can become used to creating quests.
In the second meeting they covered Quest Editor functions. Gamernerd helped the others understand the creation and structure of certain quests which will help in the future building of quests. The homework for the Quest Builders and Quest architect this time round is to build a test quest by Friday so that Gamernerd can review it over the weekend and make sure everyone understands the Quest Editor.
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