Public Stage Call #1

A recording and notes from the public stage call on October 3rd, 2023

Public Stage Call #1
Created
Oct 3, 2023 11:28 PM

Audio Recording

Welcome everyone - WE ARE SO BACK

  • So excited to be back and having these conversations again, it’s been too long!
  • Will work a little differently than Insiders calls, we’ll go through all of our topics before taking on a bunch of questions (We’ll still try and answer them at the end)
    • No dates for rides though, sorry! We’ll still give some information…
  • We’ve had a nice break but we’re here to cook now 🧑🏻‍🍳

October Events

  • What do you all think of the Halloween Event so far? Are tokens balanced?
    • Mixed feelings on how difficult getting tokens is, but we have a looottt of ways to earn tokens
  • Other colors for Nerf Blasters exist and will be released over time!
  • TBH no new token design because Cam forgot to order one oops
  • Everything we’ve done so far is not where it ends, a lot more stuff coming!
    • Actual Halloween day, Saturday before (Halloweekend!)
  • Sorry to everyone who completed the quest early and didn’t get tokens, if you still haven’t gotten them please make a ticket!!
  • There will be lots of opportunities to get new tokens, and mayyyybe even some events to get new tokens!
  • Leak: There is at least one more exciting announcement coming this month, unrelated to a Feature Friday or Halloween Event

Vote Crate Changes

  • Would like to remove the vote crate and introduce the Vote Token Shop
    • Each Vote = 1 Vote Token
    • All of your keys would carry over to vote tokens
  • Tokens are a way to work towards better items, boosters, buying magic keys, and event tokens (when applicable)
  • Rather than voting for a chance of getting an item, now you can just save up your tokens and buy it
  • Has a rotating 3-5 slots that update weekly for a chance to get a cool cosmetic that can only be earned in the vote token shop
  • Kind of like the current event shop
  • Only for the vote crate!! Magic crate is staying the same
  • Will bring back vote parties as part of this
  • Aiming to release this pretty quickly, working on it ASAP, this was the final check-in to make sure people reacted positively to it
    • Either this month or next month

Trader Tam’s

  • Sell items of same tier for a KC payout, kind of like the Collector but it takes everything
  • Has set prices for items, typically sells for less than what’s in the shop, etc.
  • Tiers include Common, Uncommon, Rare, Legendary, Mythic, Exotic
  • Higher the tier the higher the items will be tradable for more (do not argue about what an items tier is I will riot and get flashbacks to the gift exchange)
  • Trader Tam will also have a viewable menu of things he's bought from players in the last 24 hours, players can buy these items from Tam before they're discarded to the void (at a markup price)
  • He will fit into the lore, don’t even worry
  • Generally positive reception to this from the crowd!

Timeline Updates

  • We'll be focusing on improving new guest experiences, and providing a more welcoming environment for those who are new.
  • We’re still working on a lot of what we initially discussed, just making sure we prioritize the new user experience and continue to make improvements to the overall server
  • If you see changes on our schedule, it doesn’t mean those features are abandoned, we’re just reprioritizing to focus on what matters now
  • Cam cares about It’s a Small World!

Insiders Server Updates

  • What do you guys want us to do with the Insiders server?
    • Keep using it as-is for polls and such
  • Trying to build out a new schedule to keep regular Insiders announcements going
  • Alsooo, Quality Assurance team will probably open up again soon to guests to help with bug testing and testing new features before they launch!

Honesty Hour

  • We made a lot of mistakes this year, we prioritized some of the wrong things and went for some crazy ambitious projects that weren’t beneficial. some were cool but some hurt your experience and we’re sorry for that
  • Although we spent a lot of time on projects that weren't beneficial to growing the community, the members of the community provided a ton of support throughout the year, and our team was there with us through it all, so thank you to everyone who continues to push us to do better
    • We see all of your positive messages and support, and it’s heartwarming to read
  • We’re making improvements to the process and putting new processes in place to make sure anything we announce is something we are actually committed to and can make happen. It’s not fair to give you all empty promises. We want to stand behind what we create and make sure it’s impactful
  • We’re changing up our process and how announcements work to make sure we’re committed to stuff and that it’s ready before it’s announced
  • We may discontinue Feature Friday early and go back to focusing our energy on highly impactful improvements, although it’s been fun to ship something brand new every week for the last few months it’s something that unfortunately not everyone has enjoyed and we’re looking to pause it for now
    • We still have many planned for the foreseeable future, but might not go to the end of the year
      • Maybe every other Friday
  • Want to make sure it’s impactful, not just rushed releases
  • Again, big thank you for all the support. We’re constantly trying to do better and make cool stuff! So much cool stuff in the pipeline we can’t wait for you to see.

Misc.

  • The Pin Hoarder has bought >7000 chaser pins lol (the exclusive rare ones)
  • Small World will be released by 2046
  • How our process works: Every Monday, a few of us have a discussion on what to prioritize for the week. Work on weekly cycles
  • Some leaks for the people!
 
 
 
 
 
 
This one comes out next week
 
  • One more leak: we hope you guys like aliens (little green guy coming to you soon™)

Questions

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Economy
  • Will Vote Tokens be physical items or an invisible item like keys currently are?
    • Crowd poll: overall majority says virtual
  • Can we get a llama seller?
    • Yes, trying to figure out the name, thank you for your ideas
  • Will Pin Hoarder be reworked?
    • Yeaaaah, will be put on the back-burner, no ETA though
  • Will the Collector still be collecting?
    • Yes, we’ll probably have the Collector offer a slightly better price than Tam to act as somewhat of a “competitor”
  • Any word on Moe Keys being fixed?
    • Cam just learned he is broken and will fix it tonight
Hotels
  • Will the Grand Californian be the only hotel released?
    • No, but it will be the only one at the release. Cam really wants to do the Star Wars-themed hotel (Galactic Starcruiser) even though it’s closing IRL
  • Would it be a separate hotel or replace the hotel?
    • The goal is that you can purchase different rooms in different hotels, so you can have more than one room (can have up to 5 in the current system)
  • How much will the rooms be?
    • Prices haven’t been determined yet.
    • You get the base room for free, then you buy expansions for either KC or Magic Keys (you can choose)
      • Floors cost 100,000 KC each right now
  • Will hotels have Redstone?
    • No, Cam is scared
    • No plans to allow you to build rides in your room right now
  • How big is the biggest room?
    • Over 100x100, ask people who played Beta
  • What’s the timeframe for Hotels release?
    • Not giving one right now, even Cam doesn’t know yet
  • Will there be new vendors around the server for furniture and stuff?
    • Yes, will also be selling furniture bundles
  • If you place an item is it inaccessible in your inventory?
    • Yes, you’re taking it out of your inventory and placing it in your room
  • Will there be a way to turn off other people except your friends?
    • Yes, by default it’ll be private, you can control who can visit and who can build
  • What are the dimensions of the basic starter room?
    • 10x15 blocks, start with a dresser and 2 beds
  • Will we get signs and fence gates?
    • Yes
  • Will it switch you out of adventure mode, and would that lead to bugs and hackers?
    • We have a system set up to handle this!
  • Will we have shelves for rooms?
    • Yes
  • Is there an item limit in rooms?
    • Yes, there are physical limits set up so you can’t lag your room out, the limit expands depending on how many expansions you’ve bought. Nobody hit the limits in the beta, so it probably won’t be of concern
Events
  • Will there ever be an 80s nite?
    • Never say never!!
  • Oogie Boogie Bash incoming?
    • We’ll be doing something, not sure about Oogie Boogie Bash specifically. Enough Halloween leaks for tonight!
  • Is there lore on the server other than pin hoarder lore?
    • We have some other stuff yes, check out the lore discord in #community
  • What is your favorite toy you’ve made to be released in the Halloween season?
    • Cam didn’t make most of the toys, Ramen did almost all of them this year so it’s really exciting to see them all!
  • Any leaks/updates on Pin Hoarder lore events?
    • Not at the moment
Updates
  • Any idea when loot crates will be back?
    • Soon! Have to revamp them a little bit first
  • Did the people who voted 200+ for the month of September get their magic keys?
    • Oops we’ll do that today
  • Achievements update?
    • It’s on the dev rotation, we’re seeing how we can make it work + be cool now! No dates sorry, but it’s definitely being worked on
    • Definitely gonna have secret achievements
    • A whole document of awesome achievements exists already
  • When will Newswires return?
    • We don’t know yet, we’re going to use these stage calls to have more convos about what’s currently going on rather than the Newswire where everything gets announced for months in advance
    • Newswire takes a ton of time that could be used more efficiently for developing, plus having conversations in stage calls and getting instant feedback is more fun
  • Mobility scooters update?
    • Cam hasn’t looked at them since the last time he said he looked at them, they are farrrr on the back-burner of things we are interested in focusing on
  • What happened to the Insiders quest writing contest?
    • Sorry :( We had such an awesome quest writing contest idea and had such incredible submissions, completely forgot about it but will still be following through on it ASAP
  • What happened to the pancake pin?
    • It’s in the resource pack, we’ll see about sending it out!
  • Will /ignore get fixed?
    • Working on that right now
  • Is IASW getting canceled?
    • No, the end goal is to finish the park and every ride
    • Just need to prioritize stuff to come first that’s more valuable to the server atm, rather than spending a heinous amount of hours on IASW animatronics
    • Very excited for it in the fuuuuuture
  • What is the progress on Storybook Canals and It’s a Small World as well as Enchanted Tiki Room?
    • No comment on IASW and Tiki Room, but Storybook is actively getting new ride audio with new storytellers right now!
  • Hall of Fame update?
    • Confident we’re moving in the right direction with that, sorry about that taking so long. We’re getting there!
Misc.
  • Can we get a model leak for Monsters Inc?
    • Nothing to leak!!!
  • how many signatures can go on one item without it crashing
    • No idea, don’t want to find out
    • Play on Lunar for scrollable tooltips to see all of them!
  • Can we get a command to clean item signatures off?
    • Can probably make that a thing, would probably get weird with Imagineer signatures vs. item signatures
  • Does IF have any sponsors?
    • You all are <3
    • We are not sponsored by anyone though, but we have some awesome partnerships (e.g., MineHut, OfflineTV + their mod team)
  • Will we eventually be able to spawn the droids and make them follow us?
    • Wellll there are some very cool toys down the road with awesome effects similar to this, not sure about all droids particularly (see leak in Misc. category)
  • Do you guys need any more builders?
    • You can apply here!
  • Will you implement a setting that turns off other players other than your friends?
    • We don’t plan on doing that at the moment, would be confusing if you try to get on a full ride vehicle when it looks empty to you
  • Will there be a way to have a minigame that is like Hypixel Build Battle?
    • Yes!! Probably Disney themed
    • 2 upcoming minigames eventually: block party (stand on the correct color block) and Tron minigame (using Tron discs)
  • Will there be any new Jungle Cruise skippers?
    • Don’t know, we already have a lot
  • Can we have a signed Cam shoulder pet giveaway?
    • Sure, on Halloween Cam will raffle one of them off
 
 
 
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