Kinsara: The future

Blaatmeister · Post by **Blaatmeister** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:04 pm

Welcome to the players, ex-players, and people who occasionally browse our forums.

The past and present

Hala has been a live Persistent World for almost four years now. Not all of us have been here for all that time, most likely none of us have. In the three years that I have been here, I have had a lot of good experiences. There were a lot of bugs, there were a lot of crashes, there were also a lot of enjoyable players and events that made everything worthwhile. We've had more World Leaders then I can count on one hand: Pitched Black, Chassagne, Drakuul, me, Aiquandol, Nob, and now: Arkon, all of them worked to make the game more enjoyable for us. We've also lost our forum database more times then I can count with my 64bit computer, but have re-built it everytime (Thank god for hosting that we control ourselves.). Overall, our experience with Hala and Neverwinter Nights 1 has been great, mostly due to all the wonderful players we had and have.

The future

However, as all of you know, Neverwinter Nights 2 came out recently. It has it's issues, but so did Neverwinter Nights 1 when it first came out. We have been working on plans for a new world for some time now, and are now getting started on building it. It will be different from Hala, and yet the same, in many ways. We will bring more information to you, the players, within the next few months. A website that will contain it is also planned.
We, the team behind Hala, would like to invite everyone who is playing on Hala now, and has played on Hala back in the days, to do the same on our new world, maybe even help with building it. More information on the positions that still need to be filled will be given within the next few weeks.

T'Holoth Shadowborn · Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:27 am

Do you mind players posting replies here? If so appologize and delete away.

If not I'd just like to thank the team for the last 3 years of fun friends and time well wasted playing on Hala. I've always said the amout we players see to the amount of work that staff actually do is like the tip of an iceberg to whats below the water.

Hala and NWN 1 has been awesome and I'm looking forward to get back into the game. Further to that I'm very interested and anxious to see this new world. The same but different- not much to go on

I'm sure I won't be the only player anxiously awaiting for any tidbit of 'new world information'. Keep that stuff comming!

(Perhaps a subform could be made while we wait for a website?)

Blaatmeister · Post by **Blaatmeister** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:03 pm

Well, for now, you can use this thread or the General Discussion forum to discuss the new project.

But I'll think about adding a separate part for Kinsara before we launch the new site.

T'Holoth Shadowborn · Post by **T'Holoth Shadowborn** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:04 pm

Awesome.

So can you throw us a bone?

If you don't mind me fielding a couple questions,
Will Hala (nwn1) continue to be run in conjunction with Kinsara
Are we able to donate a little $$$ towards the server, upgrades, HD space or whatever is needed? (not cokeacola)

Will Kinsara and Hala be connected RP wise? Or are they seperate entities.

If theres no answers to the questions no biggie, i'm just fishing

Blaatmeister · Post by **Blaatmeister** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:39 pm

T'Holoth Shadowborn wrote:Awesome.

So can you throw us a bone?

If you don't mind me fielding a couple questions,
Will Hala (nwn1) continue to be run in conjunction with Kinsara
Are we able to donate a little $$$ towards the server, upgrades, HD space or whatever is needed? (not cokeacola)

Will Kinsara and Hala be connected RP wise? Or are they seperate entities.

If theres no answers to the questions no biggie, i'm just fishing

Heh. Alright.

The NWN1 server will probably still be live for a while after the NWN2 server goes live. That all depends on if we can get a new server and host, though.

Donating money will be made possible, I think that someone still has to make a PayPal account for that, because the one listed now is out of date, AFAIK.

They will be connected RP wise. Although it will take place at least a thousand years after the events on the current Hala. I can also tell you this much: It will not take place on Ysgard.

Zombie · Post by **Zombie** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:53 pm

Would it be helpfull to have a list of things that individual players like and dislike about the current server/environment?

Blaatmeister · Post by **Blaatmeister** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:56 pm

Sure, go ahead.

Chemical-Burn · Post by **Chemical-Burn** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:32 am

omgomgomgomg <3 no undead! Seems that like on other servers if a dm wanted to do a plot it was ALWAYS undead attacks. So those are always focused to groups that deal with undead and the rouge/sneak attack types suck ass. Here a plot has more dept because its not just random undead grouped up roaming the surface.

T'Holoth Shadowborn · Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:05 am

I love the idea of the server taking place 1000 years in the future.

I'm guessing that setting it up so that what players do on NWN1 Hala would effect future plotlines on NWN2 Kinsaea would be way too difficult. It would still be kinda cool if any of Kinsara's ledgend lore involved wars and battles that players actually took part in. Maybe references to characters in battles, how they died, alliances, city seiges etc..
I think you guys are really setting us up for some awesome RP.

Two questions

Any idea on whether or not we will be a part of some type of Copap-ish RP world alliance deal?

And, is there any thought given to what setting we'll be playing in? Will be be a forgotten realms type world, dragonlance, traditional D&D type thing or someones creative idea?

Blaatmeister · Post by **Blaatmeister** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:50 pm

T'Holoth Shadowborn wrote:
Any idea on whether or not we will be a part of some type of Copap-ish RP world alliance deal?

And, is there any thought given to what setting we'll be playing in? Will be be a forgotten realms type world, dragonlance, traditional D&D type thing or someones creative idea?

Answer to the first: Hopefully. The one thing that kept me playing here so long, is because of the variety in settings. So we'll definately be trying to get something like that running.

Answer to the second: It will be a self-made setting. Mostly Planescape and Greek influences. It will be post-apocalyptic. The way it is set up, especially the Planescape part, will basically mean that it can evolve into anything.

Post by **Arkon** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:09 pm

Hala will have an influence on the new world as certain cities from the current server will be ported... so if you happen to be a hero in those cities (and someone that the team feels deserves the honor) you may very well be included in the lore of the new world.

Zombie · Post by **Zombie** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:44 am

Perhaps Grovel set up a franchise

Idonia · Post by **Idonia** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:12 am

BLEEEH. BLEH ELBEH BLEH WLHH BLEH ELMNBBLHE!!!!

AAHHHNNOO.

*Hisssss.*

On second thought, you could just make us all gods.

"Sceluscio, God of Exposed Chests"

Or should Elly get that one? *Runs.*

Druid523 · Post by **Druid523** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:14 am

upholstery_imp wrote:"Sceluscio, God of Exposed Chests"

That's it! I'm changing my outfit!

Starslayer_D · Post by **Starslayer_D** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:29 pm

Looking foreward to it. I am defenitely going for an intense study of the NWN2 toolset. Hopefulyl Abyss2 and Hala 2 can link up.

We have a chance to balance things right from the start, with experience gained from 3 years of copap.

Wonder if we stick with low item concept *grin*

Blaatmeister · Post by **Blaatmeister** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:48 pm

Starslayer_D wrote:Looking foreward to it. I am defenitely going for an intense study of the NWN2 toolset. Hopefulyl Abyss2 and Hala 2 can link up.

We have a chance to balance things right from the start, with experience gained from 3 years of copap.

Wonder if we stick with low item concept *grin*

Lower as it was when we started, but not as low as it is now.