Going Medieval News

Greetings medievalists!

Let’s take a break from all the diplomacy/trading talks and discuss expanding the existing features. Remember our Settlers Screen?



Not many choices there, right? You could reroll characters, randomize their names (or write your own), and… that’s about it.

Check out the new version we are working on:



Now, you will be able to change the first and last name of the character and/or reroll them as a group. Stellar options!

Just kidding! You’ll want to turn that Advanced customization option on. Doing so will turn the Character screen into this:



This is the fun stuff. A lot of you asked for more customization options for your settlers - you wanted to be the one to choose what each settler excels at, what their background will be, and how they will look. Good news! You will be able to do that and more.

Do you want every settler to be a killing machine? Go for it - enhance those "Melee" and "Marksman" skills. Do you want them all to be tall old ladies with the same skin tone, head, and hair shape? No problem! You will be able to choose their pseudonyms (if you want to) and backgrounds. Does your settler feel like a Tireless Carpenter? No? How about Deadly carpenter?

You will be in complete control of the starting scenario. Will you make it too easy or too hard? It’s up to you, but there is no doubt that it will be your unique personal experience.

That’s all for today. While you wait for the new update, be sure to join our Discord server and talk about your Going Medieval experience with our active community.

We also make regular posts on Twitter, so be sure to follow us there!

Thank you for your time.

Foxy Voxel

Greetings, medievalists!

So let’s continue the last talk. If you don’t want to be spoiled, now is the time to stop reading.

You can’t have trade without the traders, and there are several types of traders in Going Medieval, like:

• General Goods trader
  
• Rare goods trader
  
• Weapons trader
  

These traders belong to some of the game's factions, but not all of the factions will have the same type of traders.

For a faction to trade with the player, they’ll need to have a "Neutral" or "Friendly" label on them.

Status with every settlement is represented with a diplomacy number (for every faction) and can be influenced and changed with various events occurring in our game, as previously discussed.

Once a trader appears, an event will pop up:



Bodyguards will accompany traders, and depending on the relationship with their factions, their numbers may vary. Now, what will happen from there is up to the player. They can interact with the trader by selecting a settler and right-clicking on the trader - this will prompt the trading screen discussed in the previous dev log.

Players can choose to attack the trader. With every hit a trader receives, a diplomacy status representing the trader's settlement and the player's settlement will diminish. Some might experiment and try to lock/trap traders - this will also result in diplomacy loss. If the trader loses a way to exit your settlement, the diplomacy stats related to their settlement will diminish with every passing hour. Once they turn into 'Enemy' - they will start with the attacks, just like raiders.

As the game evolves, the capabilities of the trading system will expand, too. But right now, we think this is a good starting point.

While you wait for the new update, be sure to join our Discord server and talk about your Going Medieval experience with our active community.

We also make regular posts on Twitter, so be sure to follow us there.

Thank you for your time, people.

Foxy Voxel

Greetings medievalists!

The new hotfix (0.5.31.15) is now live on all of the platforms. Please save your progress and restart your game client to update. You should be able to load normally and continue playing. If you have any problems, please let us know.
[h3]Bugs and Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed crash caused by placing traps under the stairs.
  
• Fixed issue that caused the game to freeze upon large-scale enemy encounters.
  

Talk to you soon!

Thanks,

Foxy Voxel

Greetings, medievalists!

New Monday, new talk, and a new feature. If you don’t want to be spoiled, now is the time to stop reading.

This was mentioned in the previous talk, but let’s extrapolate it. We are, of course, talking about the trading process.

We need to clarify that trading is done in a manner of exchange - goods for goods. There is no money to be made or to give. The rampant plague known as the “Black Plague” in our game was one of the harshest periods that made 95% of the global population perish. Money was the least of the problems for the people that survived, and exchanging resources as a means to survive and prosper made sense.

Let’s say that you’ve been playing on the “Valley” map type and you are missing that sweet, sweet limestone, but you have more than enough clay. Here comes a merchant with enough limestone - players will select their settler and engage a merchant. As a result, this screen will appear:

(keep in mind that this image is a mock-up used to demonstrate how this system will work, and not a final in-game screenshot)

In the trading screen, the player determines what will be given to the trader and what will be taken. Players should keep their eyes on the scale, as it goes in favor of who has more wealth at the end of the transaction. One side represents the amount of wealth the player will take in the transaction, while the other represents what the player will give in the transaction. It’s important to keep the scale balanced, because if the player asks for more things than the trader offers - it may result in a dispute and the trader unwilling to do the transaction.

Once the trade has been accepted, the player's resources from stockpiles and shelves will disappear, and the trader will drop the things they have sold.

Want to gamble even more? You will be able to attack the trader and try to take away things you’ve sold, by force. But what are the consequences of these actions? Stay tuned and see you next week when we talk about the trades in more detail.

In the meantime, join our Discord server and talk about your Going Medieval experience with our active community.

We also make regular posts on Twitter, so be sure to follow us there.

Thank you for your time, people.

Foxy Voxel

Greetings, medievalists!

Keep in mind, these Medieval Monday Talks might not happen every Monday, but we’ll try to keep them frequent enough - we want to continue to be as transparent as possible. With that being said, now seems to be a perfect time to talk about some of the features that we are working on for the next update. If you don’t want to be spoiled, now is the time to stop reading.

Remember our Region map?



It’s time to evolve it, by introducing factions into our game.

Each settlement placed on the map will now have a name and faction. We are working on a system where several factions will be formed on the region map and will be given neutral or enemy diplomacy status towards the player’s settlement. Some factions will be enemies by default and will never be neutral/friendly toward the player (like Progeny and Bandits).

Each of the factions will have a different relationship with one another and, in turn, a different relationship with the player's settlement.

Player’s relationship with those factions will influence what type of events they have with them - friendly factions will lead to events like trades, while hostile factions will cause events like ransoms or raids to appear.

Players will be able to change opinions of the settlements that belong to those factions with various events like trading items, fleeing settlers, gifting resources, etc.

If the player becomes an enemy with one faction, the enemies of that faction may, in turn, be friendlier with you. You know how they say - the enemy of my enemy is kinda neutral, right?

Relationship with the factions will be shown in the new Faction panel. That panel will open a list of all of the present factions in the current game, along with their relationship to the player.

Of course, more details will come regarding these features as we further develop them, but for now, we hope that this little sneak peek will get you excited for the next update! Let us know what you think in the comments below.

In the meantime, join our Discord server and talk about your Going Medieval experience with our active community.

We also make regular posts on Twitter, so be sure to follow us there.

Thank you for your time, people.

Foxy Voxel