Public Stage Call #12

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Public Stage Call #12
Created
Oct 24, 2024 02:08 AM
Thanks for joining us for this call a week earlier than usual!

Halloween Event

  • We were glad everyone was open to trying something new
  • With the event ending we wanted to give a huge shoutout to how involved the community got with this event, absolutely blowing away our expectations
    • Original team goals were like just over 1mil candy for each team… some players hit those themselves (like 50+ players!)
  • We will definitely continue to innovate when it comes to new event concepts and branch out, even if it looks like something more collaborative than this one
    • Christmas will likely look different than Halloween
  • Also GOTG: MAD leaderboard will be closing in the next couple of days so get your final rides in!

Profiles Update

  • Long awaited update to player profiles dropping soon!
  • Display ANYTHING you want rather than just items
    • Achievements
    • Items
    • Statistics
    • Can’t put titles there right now but will write it down and make it so you can add titles
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  • Not going to talk about the other aspects of that menu (you can theorize), but you WILL be able to access this starting November 1st
  • Maybe just maybe you are able to change the backgrounds and the outfits… Don’t tell Soggy that Cam said this

Magic Pass Season 2

  • This also releases on November 1st! You don’t get the theme leaked, you’ll have to find out then!
  • There are multiple themes and designs for your new profile in the Magic Pass

1.21.3 Update

  • 1.21.3 support will go live tonight (hopefully), you’ll be able to join on this version and get back into the park!

Phone Update

  • Lots of new buttons! Releasing November 1st
  • Goal is to provide quick access to all of the features that are used most often.
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More on Nov 1st

  • Happy to announce we’re kicking off November 1st with a mini update to the server
  • Few QOL features, new rides that are now more realistic as constant spawned rides (1 is the Matterhorn)
  • NPC area: Visit all of our ImagineFun Citizens in one place in DTD
    • INCLUDES THE VOTE SHOP!! YES OMG FINALLY VOTE SHOP YES!!! IM SORRY!! WOOO VOTE SHOP WOOO!!!!
      • All your vote keys will be converted to vote tokens which you can spend here. There will also be some profile backgrounds going into this shop
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    • They are not moving out of their current positions, most will stay at their current homes they just also have a second shop
      • Richie will be moved out of Coca Cola Corner, and might move Moe out of Main Street
    • They’re taking up buildings that if you didn’t look on Google Earth you wouldn’t know what’s there
      • Like Sunglass Hut or something? The building opposite of Black Tap — nothing we were going to build anyways
      • The rest of DTD will not be opening with this, but as a part of a later release

Autopia

  • DISCLAIMER: this is very early concept, things can change, nothing is set in stone
  • Will not work exactly how the old one did
  • New ride car models
  • Reanimating all of the tracks
  • If all goes according to plan (EMPHASIS ON IF ALL GOES ACCORDING TO PLAN) you will be able to press W to go forward
    • Will still have the ability to turn on autodrive
  • If you are to go forward a little bit and then stop and finish a ride later, it’ll only count the amount of time for 1 ride. You can’t get extra ride time for AFK’ing on the cart, to keep leaderboard and payout fair.

Winter Event

  • Item Requests and Ideas thread here
  • What style of event would you like?
  • Token, Team based, something new
    • People generally want token, we’ll play around with innovating on that though!
 
Note: There may be some other things appearing in the month of November! November 1st is not our only release day :)

Winter Event - Fireworks

  • Good stuff cooking… great stuff even

Let’s Talk Hotels

  • No dates! No timelines! No set in stone pricing!
  • Coming along quite well, a lot of the core functionality has been taken care of
  • Lot of focus been put on making it as ‘open as possible’ to allow people to create whatever they’d like and design their room as they please
    • You will not have access to redstone
    • Base room is free, you will spend Kingdom Coins to upgrade/expand your room
      • Base room pretty small, approx. 20x20
      • Can get up to approx. 400x400 — multiple floors, etc.
        • Will be quite pricey to get every single upgrade
      • Haven’t finalized yet, but you’ll be able to upgrade quantity of items you can place as well as expansions (haven’t decided if you purchase both at once or if they’re separate types of upgrade purchases)
    • Essentially a blank canvas, for whatever you want it to look like
  • You can invite other people to your room either to visit or help build
    • There are multiple levels to access
      • One idea being that an added user can place items but not remove other people’s items
  • Your room is permanent
  • In the future, you’ll be able to buy additional rooms in additional hotels, but for now it’ll be singular rooms in Grand Californian
  • If you’re placing an item in your room it’s gone from your inventory — you can pick it back up but it’s effectively “placed”/put down
    • If you place a signed item it’ll save the signatures for when you pick them back up
  • You won’t need to use item frames because you’ll just be able to place items and hang them wherever you’d like — more freedom than an item frame
    • We might use item frames for displaying pins
  • At the moment, not letting you place storage blocks/chests/etc. but not sure for the future
    • Perhaps you’ll be able to place locker blocks so you can directly open your locker from there
  • Penthouse will make a return but way later, not with initial hotels release

Questions!

As an update for future stage calls, we’re going to be changing how they work:
  • Not actually opening up the meeting questions channel until during the call because a lot of the times a lot of the questions that are being asked are already planned to be discussed, so it’ll be easier to talk about any questions that arise as we talk about the topics
  • Then if there’s stuff that hasn’t been brought up at the end of the calls you can ask and we’ll go over
Note that we’ve skipped some questions that we felt were already covered by what we’ve talked about so far!
Click on the question to expand the answer!
Any plans to create new storage items besides the current ones in /w storage, the lockers themselves, /ec and the 3 item loungeflys?
  • Want to make more large storage items in the future and candy buckets able to store stuff!
Speaking of Autopia, do you think we can have npc cars like how the monorail? (Basically there is the model of autopia cars going around, maybe with NPCs in it)
  • Yes, if everything goes according to plan
could you add some more meet and greet locations because it’s weird meeting certain characters in locations.. such as the gravity falls characters in cars land so on so on.. So why not have like a meet and greet location located in a forest, or like a meet and greet location themed to villains?
  • Not gonna build a ton more pre-set locations, but can look at doing pop up ones here and there with specialty builds
How has your day been?
  • Cam: Great, been in meetings all day getting ready for what the team is working on this week
  • Nara: Great, went to House of Mickey party and you should definitely go tomorrow!
Have you had water recently?
  • Cam: My building’s water has been disconnected since like 8am so maybe after this call
What's your go to Halloween snack?
  • Cam: Canadian Smarties
  • Nara: Kit Kats and American Smarties
What are your Halloween plans?
  • Cam: Probably going to friends house
  • Nara: Hosting my younger sister’s Halloween party!
is there anything different you would change about the idea of team event?
  • Definitely love the engagement but would tweak some stuff going forward with what we know now
Any new minigames in the works? Because I haven’t been able to host any recently
  • This is news to us, will battle the minigame servers for it
  • More minigames in the long term works
    • Some games we’ve been discussing making: Hide and Seek, Block Hunt, Build Battle (copy/recreate a build), Block Party
will the munchling pin pack be staying or is it going to leave once the event ends?
  • It’ll leave when the event ends, buy the pins while you can!
Haunted Mansion constant spawning? (Side note: The reason I know it's not a constant spawned ride yet is because it's not excactly synced with the moving walkway and it says "Ride vehicles are constantly spawning. Please contact staff if they do not appear".
  • Haunted Mansion is currently not a constant spawn, put on pause, but is on the works to become one the way Ariel did
  • Working to get it with a cinematic camera. However, created cinematic camera for regular Haunted Mansion and wouldn’t make as much sense with HMH
Will there be a viewing box for Paradise Gardens when World of Color releases?
  • I’m sure we’ll add one, but will say it looks a lot cooler from the ground
Will there be a premiere ceremony for World of Color like the one back in 2010?
  • We’ll have a special opening similar to any new firework show, don’t know if there’ll be a “ceremony”
Disable the "apply resource pack or disconnect" message & bring back /pack | /resourcepack | /rp (command that gives a countdown and then applies the resource pack). This would help for players who can't load the resource pack efficiently as it takes 30 seconds (or more) for me to load the resource pack.
  • Unfortunately won’t be doing that, we don’t want people manually downloading the pack. Working to make the pack smaller to make it easier to download.
    • Almost 99% of pack downloads are successful. Looking to fix it for the 1% of players it fails for
Condense achievements that have the same objective (ride autopia 10 times, ride autopia 100 times, etc.) with their names & rewards intact into 1 singular achievement. The separate tier achievements can be viewed (with names/rewards) through a different menu when you click on a condensed achievement. This could help reduce clutter & would help players find a specific achievement easier.
  • We can definitely look at decluttering that menu
When exactly will the leaderboards be closing for GOTG:MAD? I'm assuming reset on the night of the 31st?
  • GOTG: MAD will officially close on the night of November 3rd (11:59pm PST)
is there any reason you add these cool characters like monty from today's party to not have them show up in mngs?
  • Parties are more casual, M&Gs/walkarounds we stick to
How will the VIP hall work when it moves to Hall of Fame?
  • We will most likely actually not be moving it at this time, at first was pretty set on moving it, but kind of redesigned the current VIP hall to accommodate everybody, so doesn’t need to move at this time
  • Probably will move once it runs out of space
  • Also, you can click the leaderboards in the hall of fame. A little finicky right now
  • Also, you might notice the VIPs are now able to decorate themselves in the VIP HOF with items/hats
when does the rest of the state of california release so I can simulate the whole trip to disneyland
  • When we become an MMO maybe we will build all of california
Will we get the IF battle royale anytime soon?
  • Probably not soon, too many ongoing projects
if your not able to be online for the end of the halloween event, will you still be able to get the rewards?
  • Will definitely give a couple days to claim the rewards
Was there a reason why JC auto-on was removed since 2.0?
  • We can bring it back
Are there any final halloween events? like maybe a halloween hide n seek? or is that alll folks?
  • I believe we’ve announced every part of the Halloween event. Definitely attend the House of Mickey tomorrow!
Is there plans to open the parking garage? I wanna walk around lol
  • Perhaps when we have more to look at around the parking garage, right now would just be staring into the void
  • Long tangent about building the entire Earth and being able to fly from LAX to Disneyland Paris and the plane counting as a ride
Are you still revitalized to remake the API?
  • Yes, need to remake the API so myIF can exist
 
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