State of the realm: what works, what does not, what is next
We would rather you knew exactly what you are walking into than found out at
level thirty. So: everything, in three lists.
What works today
You can make a character, choose a house, and walk out into the world. From
there:
- Combat, against creatures that use their own skills and pick them by
weight. - Levelling and skills, across all five paths.
- The world itself — Sparta and the regions around it, the roads between
towns, portals cast rather than clicked. - Loot and equipment, with rolled attributes that vary piece to piece.
- Bags and the warehouse, so what you own persists and can be organised.
- Merchants and silver, in both directions.
- Death and recovery, which you will meet earlier than you intend to.
That is a game. It is not a finished one, but you can play it for a long
evening and never touch an edge.
What is half-built
- Forging — arriving next patch, with the odds published up front.
- Guilds — the structure exists, the social half does not. No banks, no
ranks worth the name yet. - Trading between players — direct trade is close. Stalls are further out.
- Quests — the content is there and mostly unwired. You will see the odd
quest that accepts but does not complete; that is why. - Pets — early, and rougher than the rest.
If a system is on this list, treat anything it gives you as provisional. We
will say so loudly before anything on it gets reset.
What is next, in order
- Forging, next patch.
- Direct player trading, immediately after — the economy is the thing
most held back by its absence. - Guild functionality worth the name: banks, ranks, a reason to have one
beyond a tag. - Quest wiring, region by region, starting where new characters actually
walk. - Stalls, once trading has been in players' hands long enough to trust.
The parts nobody sees
The launcher now patches the client on its own, so an update is a
click rather than a download and a folder of instructions. Character profiles
went up on the site this week — your gear, your rolls, visible from a browser.
Rewards from donations deliver on their own now, including when the world was
restarting at the moment somebody paid.
What we are not doing
We are not adding a stat to the shop. We are not running a season pass. We are
not resetting the realm to sell a fresh start.
If any of that changes it will be announced here first, in advance, with
reasons — not discovered in a patch note.
Next update in a fortnight, or sooner if something breaks interestingly.