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Curious about what we’re working on next? Here’s a few items you can look forward to in the future:

• Travel between Docks – certain towns have docks and you’ll be able to pay a fee and travel quickly from one dock to another via athership
• Improved Artificial Intelligence – look for those NPCs to be a little smarter and a little more challenging
• Battle Interface Updates – you’ll be able to target empty tiles to get better coverage with area-based effects
• As always, more missions
• Content: Realm of Xinoloux – sorry, no hints ;)

Next steps – a little further out…

• Content: Drak Hills
• More SPC jobs (mining/crafting/etc)
• PvP (yes, it’s coming – it’s still a ways out, but getting closer every day; this is going to be arena-based and voluntary, of course) and possibly co-op
• Other secret fun stuff ;)

Don’t forget to read Kranodor’s dev logs for more information from our lead content developer. Oh, and there’s always my blog – it doesn’t get updated much, but if you’re interested in browser based game design and development, you might find it worth a read.

Edit: I know I’m leaving stuff out of this – some things have been left out intentionally, others unintentionally – so I’ll come back and update this from time to time..

The newest entry of my Developers Diary are also always listed on my Logs front page, and can be seen under “Other logs” in the forums. The info within them is subjective… and to be so frank, #4 is pretty light on the infos.

And yeah, that list pretty much sums it up. I’m working on Xinoloux, currently, and can’t give much info on it. It’s a huge project and currently pretty much able to occupy me all by itself. I do have plans for another Plateney NPC group that I may work out in due time, but currently, all my effort flows directly into either the missions that’ll lead to Xinoloux, or the Xinoloux location texts. Yes, I’m not even at defining items or NPC groups for the realm, yet.

Thanks for the “top level” update – I’ll keep an eye on the Dev Forum and blog/diaries…

one thing that always seems to be happening is new action and items, not so much the item but actions definitely.