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What exactly is the state of the magic/druid/bard system?
My interest is mostly with the bard system. The (main) website says bards supposed to be able to cast magic using melodies/notes (that's why I became a bard in the first place, my poor misinformed newb self... not that I don't like rping one anyway ).
When is this supposed to come into effect? Is there a projected timeline?

I'd wike to cast magic wiff my harp... *sniffles*

As far as i know

Magic is working but is teacher taught only at the moment, but wil lbe reworked sometime soon

Druid magic is on hold and the system will re reimplemented sometime

Bard magic is conceptual and wont jhappen in the near future

Magic: Working for now. Remaking is planned but not in near future.

Druids: Concept is avaiable, but there is currently no developer at this system. The date of reinimplementing is completly unknown.

Bards: Neighter a concept nor any plan of making it is avaiable.

Priests: Base concept and scripts are done. But the development is currently not running.

Estralis had the concept for bards done, i thought. Or at least almost done. That's what he told me.

The concept for bard magic is currently being worked on. The original concept is outdated since our devs implemented so many new possibilities. 6/20 steps are done with the major steps upcoming. Vital informations are still missing.

Bard magic won't come before priest magic or the newbie island, that's for sure. But I quite like the stuff and I look forward to play my first chaotic dance song!

By the way, the informations about the bard magic concept given on the homepage are 100% correct, one of the very few cases that the development section contains correct informations.

(Linked are internal documents)

Can you please stop linking us to boards we can't get to?

People who have access to those boards will have seen it already, and non staff... well... can't see it at all?

Been a month, so I thought I'd reiterate the question...
What's up? Anything new?

I can be annoying...

Nothing new.

Changes in Illa take a while, normally you can say "when its done, it get his way inside the game" so..if it isn't there..nothing is changed then.

Always so prompt.

Is there a way to see what's been done so far (besides linking to staff boards) ? Sorry, just curious... and impatient.

There where once a few staffweek reports..but I guess the ones lost "interrest" becaus of the lack of respons or because it couldcreate tensions between people, when it was mentioned that the staff talked about a player and so on.

I didn't know staff reports needed responding to... Aren't they just like memos or something?

The ones who wanted to care for for the staff reports just stopped writing them. I liked them as well. The reasons are RL issues and maybe no motivation to write them. I don't know.

The internal work of the staff mainly focuses currently on introducing a transporting system for huge amounts of items. On the development of the Joomla based new homepage. Furthermore in the organisation of a new place for the server.

Beside this not much happens.

We have a good amount of demotivated and fully inactive persons in the staff. Something that has to change but since there hardly is anyone to fill up the open positions in the staff... well. Everything goes rather slowly.

Nitram

The concept for bard magic made quite some progress. Only minor issues are incomplete. However, a concept is just the first step and scripting new magic systems has absolutely no priority. Referring to a dev, it is not hard to script magic, but it is much work and not very challenging thus, not motivating. An apprentice scripter could do it, but as far as I recall, there was no serious attempt of anyone to become a new scripter for Illarion recently.

What kind of basics would you need to know to become a scripter for Illarion?

Basic knowledge in programming
basic knowledge of any other programming language
knowledge in using a computer
ability to think logical

Thats it basically.

I'm okay in C++. Would that be enough?

Yes.

Beside this you need:

much time
much motivation
and the ability to motivate yourself to go on

In case you are still interessted contact me with one of the messangers i put in my profil.

Nitram