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City of Steam  

City of Steam
DeveloperMechanist Games
DistributorReality Squared Games
Official Sitehttp://www.cityofsteam.com
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Next Content Update
May 31st, 2013
New Level Cap, New Races, New Content, New Systems, New Events
Loot Pinata
Loot drop-rates are extremely high at this time in:
Underworks - Survivor Challenge

The majority of these drops are level 8-11 and are intended to fuel crafting.

City of Steam is a web-based game but it uses the Unity Web Player to drive full-power 3D graphics. If you play in fullscreen mode with the graphics quality turned up you will not see a visual difference from any AAA title in the market! You have to install the Unity Web Player plug-in before you can play the game, which can installed from the link-ed name on this page or with the link on the City of Steam registration page.

  • Open Beta has begun for all players!

City of Steam is set on the World Machine, a vast and ancient system of interlocking gears powered by unfathomable energies. Long ago, a race of ingenious conquerors called the Paragons sought to claim those energies for themselves, and destroyed themselves in the attempt. They left behind a shattered world and a complex legacy.

Even now, millennia after the Era of Myth, that legacy continues to affect the course of history on the World Machine. To the races that already inhabited the mechanism – humans, goblins, orcs, and hobbes – they added the charismatic riven, insular draug, and half-mechanical dwarves. Life on the Mechanism has been revolutionized by the study of the Praragons’ lost technologies. Airships soar overhead, robotic steamtoilers patrol the streets, and great factories produce weapons wielded by heroes and villains alike.

Four great human nations have emerged since the fall of the Paragons: The confederated city-state of the Heartlands, the allied kingdoms of Ostenia, the patriarchal Republic of Avenoss, and the harsh Empire of Stoigmar. At the site of the Paragons’ fall lay the City-State of Nexus, a once-great industrial cneter whose connection to the Era of Myth continues to attract attention from across the Mechanism.

Rumor has has it that somthing deep within Nexus has awakened – A secret that will change the world forever.

— from the official FAQ

Daily Tasks

Daily Tasks
Daily Tasks
On the right margin of the UI is your Daily checklist. Pay special attention to any that are highlighted!
  • Daily Login Bonuses: Login each day and claim your bonuses. You can claim every day without reducing your progress towards 7 days. Day 7 gives you a 100% chance to get a Lesser Blessing, a Daily Blessing! container and a Potent Blended Quaff, and a 15% chance for crafting materials, Chorbs, medicine and some currency. After day 7, login each day to continue getting day 7 bonuses!
  • Events: Participate in the PvE Arenas to earn shillings and materials.
  • Objectives: Check your Daily Goals. Finish as many as you can and be sure to claim a reward! Each Goal rewards points and there are more points in total than the 100% you need (if you are below 18 you will have to do PvP to get to 100% since you can't Smelt). The rewards are cumulative so 100% completion gets you 3200Shilling 3Spiremarks 3Keys  and 1,000 XP!
  • Completion: Get a few Challenges done to unlock content!
  • Quests: Work on your progression to unlock features and content! Complete repeatable Daily Challenge Quests to earn Chorbs and Shillings!

Unity

Only the 32-bit version of Unity 3d currently works. There is a 64-bit version but, since late last year, the status is still "Does not work with Unity 4.0" so it is not recommended.

Browser

Much discussion has taken place about the best browser to use when playing this game. I am not going to get into the Browser Wars™ debate here, but I will make a few observations here on my experiences so far.

  • Google Chrome: This is my preferred browser and the one I use most. The game performs well.
  • MS IE: Unity 3D seems to be a little more stable on this platform but IE seems to have problems with getting resources quickly. When first zoning in it takes much longer for all the icons to load, often causing a large lag-spike before things settle down. Also, upon leaving an instance it takes an extra minute or two for some character resources to load, such as the turn-in NPC outside the dungeon. Also, IE seems to have more trouble quickly and accurately responding to rapid mouse movement and action.
  • Opera: I have been told by a guildmate that this is the most stable platform for Unity 3D but I have not tried it yet.
  • Firefox: Untested
  • Safari: Untested

After playing on both Chrome and MSIE I have returned to Chrome because of the response amd resource lag issues. Since current issues like the GetThreadContext bug and Movement bug happen on both browsers I cannot say if they are a Unity or Mechanist issue.

About This Wiki

I originally played in the Alpha Test, and used that experience to gather some quest data, design a few templates, and try to basically lay out how this game works. Some of this had changed by the time Closed Beta launched, and I began re-working some of what I had already done, and scoping out the new additions.

By the time this game exits Beta and goes Live I am sure some of what I have done will be wrong. For this reason I tried to make only as many quest, mob and item pages as I needed to test my assumptions and work on the templates.

Here is where you, the newly arrived player come in. If you want this wiki to become a real community tool then we will need your help to make that happen. Make an account, click the Edit button, take charge of your obsession!

- Bludwyng, ZAM Sr. Wikibase Admin and all-around Super-Ferret

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