I agree, having more options for people just gives everyone a chance to play the game their way

Yup, they are making sure server owners have the tools and settings they need.

I know! It's going to be a lot of fun trying different servers and seeing how the communities develop on them.

I love this option as well! Cant wait to see the action and not be killed on sight for simply existing

It's a worry many have with their PC's. The Devs really want as many people to play as they can so they have been doing a lot of performance testing with people on the test server. Seeing what settings are just not worth the performance drop

It will be great to see so many different servers

Problem with that is that the clans can do it as well, and likely a lot faster. At the moment the stat system works as we grow. We wil also have to see how the pearls affect gameplay to.

@@Lusewing I mean as it stands you can't really get good stats unless you join a clan adding activities to participate in would give them the chance to increase stats as a solo. Also if you keep in breeding genetics I doubt clans would bother to much with it given they have a shortcut as long as they have breeders in their clan. Adding activities would give you something interesting to do while providing solo players a way to improve their genetic stats. It would also make losing a dragon less brutal because it gives more ways to get a better bloodline. I think the game just needs more ways to improve blood line, stats , genetics. Programming and development of these features wouldn't even be that hard or time consuming to make compared to everything else they are doing. They also need to reduce growth times in my opinion especially for hatching. Theres a lot of fun to be had in the game even in its current state. There's just a lot of unnecessary gateways to it that don't need to be there. The formula comes from many other survival games and its just bad no matter which game you take it too. Reducing grow times wouldn't devalue the gameplay at all especially since you have elder you can work towards. Make it like 2 hours at most to a full grown and make 15 minutes of that be hatch and the rest Juvenile. So your at least able to do something that way soon. Having the hatch stage so short would be great because it would still allow for you to experience the full breadth of what the stage has to offer and still give you a stage of vulnerability that adults would need to protect you. Only starting as a hatchling if you are hatched in otherwise start as a young juvenile. This would encourage more player interaction. People would be less frustrated and just as satisfied growing a dragon. I think this would encourage people to be more risky raiding nests more and more willing to roleplay as well. As it stands people are terrified of losing their dragon and for good reason. Furthermore adding ways to grind stats, bloodline, and genetics would add to this and allow the time spent feel more impactful. You could add a variety of activities. With a few being dragon specific to grind certain stats. Also adding some kind of generic xp system that allows you to accumulate xp to spend by dealing dmg to other players and healing dmg. Letting you spend this xp to upgrade genetics and maybe even spend it on growth to help you reach adult faster. I believe that all of these mechanics would be a massive improvement to the game, and I also believe based off the work that I am seeing from the devs they could easily fully complete and implement these features in 3 to 6 months. The hardest and most time consuming part would be dragon specific activities and how that would look and be animated. They could easily shelve that and implement the more general features easily. You don't need to sacrifice fun for a sense of accomplishment, and the current formula that Day of Dragons has that other survival games have as well just simply isn't good.

@@Breelik thankfully with the new settings coming there will be servers that can do a lot of that. Setting it so that you hatch out as adults and that all dragons have the same stats no matter how much you breed.

@@Lusewing Oh and another feature I just thought of. You could add a system where if you kill another dragon you steal one of traits that is superior to yours. This would encourage people to nest raid hatchlings and create an interesting dynamic where weaker blood lines try to attack nests of good bloodlines to steal and kill a hatchling. As well as encouraging duels between full growns who are more equal. Seems like a very dragon thing to do.

@@Lusewing Honestly other survival games have the server custom feature and while it will help a little its jumping from two extremes. They need to implement mechanics that makes the stats mean something at the same time not being frustrating losing your progress. To do that you can't make it frustrating surviving or trying to grind stats. Making genes the same will take away some of the charm and making you able to spawn as a full grown instantly also gets rid of the point. I mean imagine going into any game where its mechanics are currently frustrating to deal with. Handwaving them and getting rid of them is almost always the wrong answer in development. Honestly I hope they do more with this game as it is by far the most promising of its genre. Right now it seems a lot of there money and time is going into aesthetic design that being animation, sound, and atmosphere. It shows but it does feel like they are missing vital low hanging fruit so to speak.

Very much so, a few other games as well to be honest

Lovely to have your support

It's going to be fun having to watch out for Snappers in the water, even as an adult

@@Lusewing Definitely 😁 I can't wait to battle it out with the razorback rhino thingy as well haha

It really shows the Devs are not only listning to the community, but thinking outside of the box

@@Lusewing Yes, I once saw a player on Discord having a lengthy discussion with Devs about Elementals killing dragons in PVE mode. At that time, I was worried about how Devs should handle player concerns, but now it seems that everything has been resolved with ease.

Aye, Wildcard seems to be floudering a bit as to what they need to do to keep their playerbase...to then milk more money from them

It's super pretty! Should be lots nested when it comes to the game

@@Lusewing yeah i bet it will! 🤩

Sure I can put something like that together

It's going to be so much fun fighting those things

@@Lusewing but also if u dont wanna fight em and just wanna watch, u can always just sit on a nearby cliff and watch the drama as a bio :>

@@Lusewing i kinda want to try and befriend an elemental as a baby bio. i feel like the person playing it might not be able to kill the lil thing. it might be too cute to die. or not, yknow

@@SilverSabertooth It would certianly be intresting lol

They are aiming to have a single player console release

@@Lusewing ok thx for the info

The test server has been down for the past few days, and will likely remain down until they have a new patch ready. Have you tried reinstalling and clearing all server filters?

As Readable said the test server is down at the moment while to work on an updated.

I think you need to change the branch it opens with on steam, properties then betas, it should say nothing/none instead of legacy

@@ChronicaErys that’s what I did when the test server was inaccessible

@@aemj9277. I think people have miss read my comment after I switched back to the the none on betas the screen was different and I couldn’t search up any servers I’ll try reinstalling the game when I’m home

If you were on US4 or UK8 then the server has moved over to the Legacy branch in preparation for 1.0 servers on the 17th. If you head to my community page I have an image rundown on how to switch over to the Legacy branch

This year for sure. The current aim is the first half of this year. However I am tired of games pushing releases before they are ready so I am happy to wait if need be. So far though, things are looking good.

Sorry, it was only for 24 hours to really push the server to its limits.

The Dunes map is bigger then the current Forgotten forest map, not by a huge amount but enough. The Devs have said they plan on having a river system running through an area of the map with a tropical area and a lot more oasis. The area the worms will spawn will be free from water, with only a small oasis that might dynamicly empty and refill as dragons drink.

@@Lusewing that definitely sounds interesting though as always, I'll reserve judgement until we actually see it. My concern with the desert map is that currently, it's, well, a desert. A big empty sea of sand stretching in all directions. Tbf to the devs, deserts are harder to make landmarks for, but since they've got more experience, I believe the maps will only keep getting better. I'm now particularly interested in how they deal with our more foresty critters like SS, Scrab, and ASD to an extent (not familiar with ASD lore), just how tropical will the tropical area be ? And speaking of ASD, how will their travel be handled in this new desert. A lot of things they have to take into account, but I'm sure they can put out a good map. Quality on this game has been going nothing but up, and it seems like that's not gonna change anytime soon, so I'm really looking forward to this.

@@TheMasterofBlu The proof is always in the results. They are planning on a lot of caves and cave systems to help not only with travel for the ASD but also for hidden locations Bios can tuck away and nest. What is nice is that any caves they make can be imported into the Mega map and reused.

1.0 will be brand new servers. However US4 and UK8 will remain as the official Legacy servers. If you wish to have a different set of dragons saved there will also be a transfer window when you can move them from a different server to overwrite the dragons you have on either US4 or UK8. It will be all or nothing though. You cannot pick an ASD save from one server and an SS from another server.