I had an idea for a new town while I was standing around for my group to reset a farming run we were on.

Hamilburg lol I cannot come up with a name but its set near the ocean and we could have a Pirate captain there who sounds like Jack Sparrow. I think it would be Hysterical to hear some funny comments from him like the banker in townston.

Anyway does anyone have a idea for a name?

What good whould a new town do? You can access everything you can possibly want from townston so it whould seem to serve no meaningfull purpose to me at least IMHO.

I didnt mean literally!! I was just making small talk.. You know what kind of npc's would be fun to see in game. My two favorite ones are the Sean Connery sounding one and of course Arnold the banker lol "Excuse me my throat is sore I must gargle."

Anyway I thought also a Neo from the matrix would be funny also.

Edited by GeneralNuis (09/28/07 11:20 PM)

Oh, I think there is much purpose to new towns. For one thing it creates a new theme, a new atmosphere, one that would coincide with any dungeons the town may be linked to. An example would be the poster's idea on a seaport themed town, which could possibly link to underwater dungeons and the like. IMO, I don't think this game is developed that far enough to need another town, but the idea has merit.

On the negative side:
More towns? The game isnt very big so I dont see another town coming for that.

On the possitive side (Multiple possitive things):

1. When the game gets bigger, the amount of people gets bigger, and doing it all from the center, townston, is a bit uncool, so yes a new town would do for that.

2. New ideas that come for vendors, aunction things and more of that kind, you can put it in a new town also, makes it fun!

3. The lag issues Townston had (maybe still have) and the support for only 25 players per Townston, makes it sometimes annoying to find friends ect.
A new town would make this solve itself a bit atleast, more people spread over 2 towns!

So short: I do like the idea in the near future, still for now I dont see it happen. When like 3 more dungeons come and more options, I really like to see another town, yes!

Good point Legend!! I have noticed alot of lag myself the last couple of times that I have played. Usually there isnt many players online or at least enough to cause such lag spikes. Do you think maybe the amount of chat and spamming of items could cause this?

Just trying to see if there is anything I could do to cut down on creating lag.

I never had serious lag ever, actually, except when the townston issue made its way. The cause of lag is or your internet connection, or the saturnation/amount of active zones.
Press /info to see that stats, when people get lag and I check the saturnation its always above 95%.

Is there any plan to a new town?
If the awnser is yes, when the new town as going to be finish?

As far as I can speak, so not for sure, There are no plans for a new Town for now. Still when the game gets bigger, there will come a new Town, I have no doubts about that.

In the past Stephen has said they may be a new town in the future ... but the distant future. Now this was many months ago so I cant speak for current plans. But I can say there really isn't a "NEED" for a new town. IMO there are many other additions and improvements needed before a new town is added.