Some Darkness Falls Progress

I've split up the work on the remake of Darkness Falls: The Crusade into three sections.  The programming, database work and all similar things are strictly in my hands (Draken) with some consultation from Niteninja on networking and security.  There was also a component of algorithm design and interaction that was developed by me with feedback from both Niteninja and Masterpuppet. The second section is more of a lore theme and is primarily in the hands of Niteninja.  Obviously I will consult with him a bit on this but I trust him to do a superb job.  The final section is a slightly related to lore and consists of the creation of lands, monsters and items.  This will mostly be in the hands of Masterpuppet and Niteninja, and maybe later on a few people who have commented on a previous post, expressing interest. (Note: I do have your info cataloged guys)

Now that that is sufficiently laid out, the news.  Awhile ago we decided that instead of a clean remake that we would make this a sort of "DF3" or a continuation in the story.  Unlike the change from DF1 to DFC, however, there won't really be a huge difference in mechanics.  Without going into too much detail, as Niteninja is still having fun with the lore, here is a rough breakdown in the timeline:

• World wide event to explain the "shutdown" of DFC
• Period of time in which the realms congregate in a single city
• This will be a beta-like situation to accommodate smaller player base with a similar format to DF1
• World wide event that shifts the 3 realms from a single city to 3 new realms, a return to DFC style setup
• This is to account for the fact that we do not have logs to cover all areas in all realms, while some of it can be reconstructed by memory, much cannot.
• Some old areas will make reappearances though possibly altered slightly

Our goal is to make this as much like DFC as possible, while fixing a few balance issues.