Dear fellow roleplayers and prisoners of the mist,
As most of you are aware, a new patch for NWN:EE was recently released. It has for long been our intention that the arrival of this patch should also be the occasion for us to start using NWN's built-in downloader called
NWSync. Beyond making downloads easier to manage for all, this setup also has the significant advantage that we do hak updates much more frequently without having to worry about notifying everyone. The game itself will make sure that you are always up to date.
We are already far along in testing the new patch and NWSync, but another recent event that will affect us is the release of NWN:EE for various consoles. Combined with NWSync, this is likely to result in quite many visitors using these platforms. While you can (unofficially) attach keyboards to these devices, and in that way, meaningfully participate in the roleplay if you wanted, it is fair to assume that many who join will do so unaware of the expectations of active roleplaying. And this is also likely to be the case for some of the PC users who simply notice us being highly populated on the server list and therefore join us without being aware of what we actually are.
On the other hand, it is a cardinal principle for us to be open to diversity and not make it be too circumstantial to become a part of the roleplay or our community. Consequently, we do not want to just bar people off by setting a player password or disallowing console users altogether.
Therefore, we have decided to rather provide an alternative setup for those players who are not able to or even interested in participating in the roleplay - in the form of
a mirror server that's action oriented and have no roleplay requirements. With that in place, we can encourage these players to seek out this server instead. In an ideal world, there would be plenty of other servers that could serve this purpose, but the reality is that many will still prefer our server due to our world and setup in itself. Unless we offer these players an alternative, they will always frequent our main roleplay server.
However, make no mistake -
we are and always will be a roleplay server first of all, and so, we won't make any compromises for the main server in terms of running this action alternative. We will still direct far the most of our time into developing and improving the roleplay server and we will set up the action server in a way that will require minimal management and supervision by our DMs. On the other hand, it may likely help improving the experience on the roleplay server, and so, if things go well, this could turn out to be a win for all.
Our concrete plan is to launch the action server first before we migrate the main server to the new patch and set it up to use NWSync. In that way, the action server can also serve as a test to make sure that we transition to the new patch gracefully.
If you have any comments or further questions regarding this, please post in this topic:
linkSincerely,
The Development Team
