Aventurine held the introductory test event for the Darkfall Dynamic Lore System yesterday and has followed it by posting a Q&A session with the development team. According to the post, these events will be ongoing and will allow players to have an "actual impact on the world lore and the history of Agon." For example, the names of players and clans may appear in future quests and events.

The Q&A also states that yesterday's event "went smoothly considering that the majority of tools to support the system won't be in place until after the November 'Conquer the Seas' Expansion." The team plans to add tools to help players join the events more easily so everyone can participate. The full Q&A can be found after the jump.

We took the opportunity, after yesterday's first official event, to ask some questions of the Developer Team about future events in Darkfall.

Here is the outcome:

Darkfall saw its first official Event. Where you happy with how it turned out?

Yes we are, it went pretty well for an introductory test event of the Darkfall Dynamic Lore System. It went smoothly considering that the majority of tools to support the system won’t be in place until after the November “Conquer the Seas” Expansion. On the other hand we didn’t think that so many Darkfall players would actually be defending the caravan and we expected a lot more attackers. I believe that the attackers were thrown off by the hints we were giving. In future events we’ll make sure that we communicate these hints more clearly. We also want to thank all the players that showed interest in and offered to participate and support our test event. We are aware that we left some players out of the loop who would have loved to participate and hope to not have this happen in the future.


Will there be other Events similar to this?

First of all, these are not normal MMO stand-alone Events of which you might see for Halloween or for Christmas. These events are part of the Dynamic Darkfall Lore System. Players will notice that their involvement is going to have an actual impact on the world lore and the history of Agon. So yes, this is an integral part of Darkfall and will be an ongoing game mechanic. We’re also adding more tools to help players to join in on these events more easily.

It is very important for us to create a unique experience for each player. These Dynamic events allow players to not only impact the event itself but also the game and the gameworld directly.


Are you going to incorporate this into the actual Game? Will actual players become a part of the story?

We always hear about games involving the players in the actual storyline, but haven’t seen something like this actually happening with any consistency. This has always bothered us as players and it inspired us to create the Dynamic Lore System. A simple example of us using event outcomes in the actual game, is that we will introduce player names and Clan names in Quests, Quest lines and in future events. If a specific group or a specific player does something outstanding during a Dynamic Event, they will become the inspiration for future storyline development. The event team is actively building on the outcome of past events.

Darkfall is truly player-driven and we want to emphasize this in every possible way.


How often do you plan on having these events?

The events are ongoing. The non-player characters involved in the storylines, are active parts of the game. We are constantly tracking events involving their interaction with players that might be important to a particular storyline.

As mentioned earlier these are not supposed to be one-time events but they will drive and determine the storyline of Agon based on what the players do. They are also part of a chain of events leading up to world events, items, and/or open up new content and storylines.


Will we see any of the big names mentioned in Darkfall's Lore in the game and will they be tied to these events?

Absolutely, but please allow us to not give out any spoilers just yet.

Those events will of course take place on all servers with slightly different event setups.