Greetings Fellow Avatars!

Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

• Hangout of the Avatar: Release 17 Postmortem
• Player Owned Town Submission Form (BETA) Now Available
• Shroud of the Avatar SoundCloud Playlist
• Pledge Stats Update
• New Asset Pack: Full Founders Armor Set Updated

Hangout of the Avatar: Release 17 Postmortem

There was a Hangout of the Avatar yesterday, with Richard, Starr, and Chris chatting about Release 17 and looking ahead to Release 18. And, of course, FireLotus was fielding lots of juicy questions live from the chat-room and also in advance from the OP comments section.

Several members community members were presented with awards during the hangout, including:

• Sean Saltzer received a ONBE for his role in coordinating large-scale monthly QA playtests and providing valuable feedback to the development team each and every Release.
• The Syndicate was recognized with a Royal Warrant for their role in participating in monthly QA playtests which provide us with extensive feedback on vital game systems in the form of a 20+ page report each release, including a well prioritized Executive Summary.
• The Phoenix Republic was recognized with a Royal Warrant for their continued support of in-game, player hosted events. They regularly host events, they founded the Novian Academy with its growing number of player-taught courses, and they assist other groups who wish to organize an event (providing everything from venues to a great barkeep)! On top of all that, WrathPhoenix, the leader and founder of The Phoenix Republic orchestrated the extensive twitch streaming campaign for Release 17 and the launch of PaxLair.
• Britannia Mining Company was issued a Royal Warrant in recognition of their support of in-game, player hosted events. From beach parties and crafting events to all-out brawls, the BMC hosts multiple events each month and has also created the sotaevents.com community calendar to spotlight all player events.
• Matthew Bernard (Matterio) was awarded with an ONBE for the creation of the SotA Community App for iOS/Android! The SotA Community App is available for free at Apple iTunes and Google Play.

Several cool prizes were also randomly given out to those attending the hangout, including:

• $10 Store Credits to community members Keirna, Xavier, Adnor14, and Lontra1972
• SotA Shot Glass to Kaydrah
• SotA Pint Glass to Logain
• SotA Coin to Womby
• LB/Darkstarr Coin to redfish
• Razer Deathadder Mouse to Themo Lock

Several of these items are available at Relics by Rild, including the shot glass, pint glass, and LB/Darkstarr coin.

Player Owned Town Submission Form (BETA) Now Available

The Beta version of the Player Owned Town Submission Web Form is now live on the SotA website. If you are a PoT owner you can link to the submission form by clicking on the name of your town on your SotA Account page. They only have one template available at this time, but more will be added as they come available. All PoT owners are asked to please start entering their town design criteria. They will be reviewing uploaded images to help guide our template creation process, so get your design layout images uploaded just as soon as you have them available. Please report any bugs you may find with the PoT form to: https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/pot-submission-form-bugs.26114/

Here is a snippet of the current version of the submission form:

Shroud of the Avatar SoundCloud Playlist

Now you can enjoy the Shroud of the Avatar music anytime you like with this SoundCloud playlist that we recently made available! Almost all of this music was crowdsourced from the community.

Pledge Stats Update

From a Dev+ Forum Post by Dallas Snell:

There were some requests during yesterday’s Hangout of the Avatar for an update of the latest Pledge stats (last report was in February). I’m including this data in today’s project update, but wanted to give our Dev+ backers a bit of a sneak peek.

This first chart shows the change in pledge counts from May 2014 to Feb 2015 to May 2015. The data does not include Steam Early Access, Guilt Pledges, or unassigned pledges. No big changes from Feb, but there were slight increases across most of the tiers. Largest percentage increase was probably the Dukes (increased 27% from 84 to 107)

[Note: LotM were over-reported by 3 in the May report due to erroneously counting some test accounts…actual number was 31; Edelmann pledges were combined with Citizen pledges in these charts. It is almost equal numbers of each]

This chart shows the change in pledge revenue per tier from May 2014 to February 2015 to May 2015:

This chart shows the current pledge data with the pledge counts as vertical bars and the dollar value of each pledge tier as a gold line. The Knight tier continues to lead in terms of pledge revenue.

Pledges with property (Ancestor+) represent 10% of all backers (up 1% from Feb report) and 63% of all pledge revenue (up 2% from Feb report). Pledges without property represent 90% of all backers and 37% of pledge revenue.

And this final table shows the current number of Player Owned Towns that have been purchased to date:

New Asset Pack: Full Founders Armor Set Updated

From a Dev+ Forum Post by Chris Spears:

Finally had some free time so I wanted to pull together some armor sets. I’ll try to get a few more out over the next few weeks! Today is just the updated founder’s / royal founder’s set! Unity 5 only these days but the assets are just FBX and can be used in any most engines but might need a tiny bit of material work!

Enjoy!

Chris “Dippy Dragon” Spears