Narrative
Narratives (Meta-stories) that play out on a particular server are driven by various story arcs.[1][2][3][4]
- There is of course a meta-story. That meta-story gets informed by regional stories and regional outcomes; and depending on how players progress within their personal stories, that could be either racially based or could be their class-based. They could be a per-node basis. All of those things support a grand structure of the meta-narrative.[2] – Steven Sharif
- Q: What is your vision for the overall player story when comparing the more emergent personal stories versus the more curated story arcs?
- A: The narrative keeps in mind what the meta narrative is of the server; and that's something we have generally kept relatively close to the chest. It's something that we don't want to spoil leading up to our testers participating in Alpha-2 and Beta and eventually launch. It is however true that there is a meta narrative that exist within Ashes. There is a purpose why you are on Verra again; and the supporting narrative structures are there to reinforce what that meta narrative is. So, players will have insight into that as they travel and adventure within the world.[1] – Steven Sharif
Eventos de historia
Narrative Events help shape the story of Verra based on the choices that players make during key questlines. While narrative story arcs take time to develop across a server, Narrative Events will show players that their choices play a bigger part in shaping the world around them through individual actions.[5] – Peter Bisulca
Los eventos de historia permiten a los jugadores dar forma a los arcos argumentales que se desarrollan en su servidor a través de las elecciones que hacen en las misiones clave.[5]
- Es posible que algunos arcos argumentales se desarrollen hacia un destino más oscuro/malvado, si un personaje así lo elige.[6]
Arcos argumentales
Los arcos argumentales impulsan la narrativa que se desarrolla en un servidor en concreto. Dentro de estos arcos argumentales hay puntos específicos que pueden cambiar para contar diferentes historias basadas en los parámetros del mundo.[2][3][4]
- Within the context of these story arcs, there are specific points that they can pivot to tell a different story. That different story can be based on predicates that are in the world: from a player decision standpoint, from a cultural representation standpoint, from situational to which node gets developed. There's a lot of different components that interact with the way the dialogue and narratives play out on a particular server; and what that means is- and I've said this from the beginning many sandbox MMORPGS, they do not create as much curated content as theme-park MMORPGS; and their excuse for doing that is because they incorporate player-driven mechanics. But that's a bit of a cop-out and it's the opposite approach that we've taken with Ashes of Creation; and the reason for that is, if you give the player a door and there's nothing behind that door then opening the door is meaningless. So what we have to do is we have to create a very functional story arc system that provides content in many different ways, but is behind a door of world progress or world development that is then executed by the player population. And that's how we construct our narrative systems.[3] – Steven Sharif
- Decisiones de los jugadores y líneas de misiones personales o de clase .[2][3][8][4]
- Es posible que algunos arcos argumentales deriven en un camino más oscuro/malvado, si el personajeasí lo elige.[9]
- Even player driven mechanics will still have story components. There will be a reason why the player driven mechanic is available or required of the player; so every system that's created touches a story.[8] – Steven Sharif
- Representación y líneas de misiones culturales.[2][3][4]
- Líneas de misiones regionales.[2][4]
- Every stage a node develops it's unlocking narratives, storylines, it's changing the spawn population of the area around it, changing what bosses exist, it's triggering events where you may have legendary dragons attack the city. It's basically writing the story of the server based on the actions and determination of the players. So, you may experience a dungeon one month earlier and have a completely different story that relates to this location the next month, because something has changed either geopolitically or from the node standpoint.[10] – Steven Sharif
 | Parte de la siguiente información no ha sido confirmada recientemente por los desarrolladores y es posible que no esté en la hoja de ruta de desarrollo actual. |
Algunos arcos argumentales se pueden desbloquear a través del sistema de tablón de anuncios.Para poder acceder a las misiones de los arcos argumentales será necesario cumplir ciertos requisitos.[11]
- Los alcaldes necesitan ciertos recursos.[11]
- Los edificios son necesarios dentro de un nodo.[11]
- Es necesario completar las tareas de organización social.[11]
Narrativa impulsada por el jugador
El mundo de Verra será el mismo en cada servidor, pero los Nodos se desarrollarán de forma diferente. Cada servidor tendrá diferentes narrativas. Las cosas que sucedan en un servidor pueden no suceder en otro.[12]
- La narrativa deneral de Ashes of Creation es que los jugadores son los hijos de Verra que regresan, pero no serán considerados de forma individual como "salvadores"..[13]
We want as many people as possible to experience the main server Narrative. These will branch at different scales, but largely at the personal level. Where things change is at the Node level – different parts of the story will be unlocked based on where and when Nodes grow. Unlocking a part of the story in a certain way locks out progression of the story in a different way. You’ll see different antagonists, different NPCs, and different calls to action depending on what’s happening with the server at that time.[14]
It redefines what the players will experience in an MMORPG to come into a wilderness that is devoid of really any structure outside of what the community creates themselves; and then what can be created can be changed, if they want to experience a storyline that's been seen on another server, but you're fighting a dragon because you're near a mountain and the other server's fighting a Kraken because they're near the coast and you want to fight that Kraken because of its drop table. If you want to meta it or because you just want that under your belt: to be the server first to take out that Kraken and you have yet to develop the node there, it's incumbent upon you to manifest that in the game.[15] – Steven Sharif
Narrative quests
Narrative quests will focus on gameplay that reflects the story and won't contain "filler".[16]
- What you find in the Narratives category is where you’ll find most of what you might call traditional quests. Because we’re jettisoning filler, we’ll have the resources to craft a really excellent story, with gameplay that reflects the scope of that story.[16]
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Referencias
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Transmisión en vivo, 2024-02-29 (1:23:07).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Transmisión en vivo, 2022-04-29 (1:05:37).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Transmisión en vivo, 2022-03-31 (1:15:29).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Transmisión en vivo, 2018-01-18 (39:08).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Types of Events on Verra.
- ↑ Transmisión en vivo, 2017-05-26 (15:37).
- ↑ Forums - Dev Discussion #49 - Lore Characters.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Transmisión en vivo, 2019-05-30 (1:18:16).
- ↑ Transmisión en vivo, 2017-05-26 (15:37).
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Vídeo, 2018-04-05 (35:01).
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Transmisión en vivo, 2017-10-31 (29:50).
- ↑ Transmisión en vivo, 2017-05-19 (37:03).
- ↑ Transmisión en vivo, 2019-12-17 (1:10:30).
- ↑ Interview: Ashes of Creation on Building Their Virtual World, 2017-04-13.
- ↑ Transmisión en vivo, 2017-05-22 (28:02).
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 MMOGames interview, January 2017