#Season 1, Episode 7
November 15, 2012
Forum thread
Original post by DashAhead
After a brief hiatus, RealmCast is back in action with Episode 7! This time around, your usual gang of misfits is joined by Mike Sellers and a very special guest, our own Forum moderator, Doc. Join the whole crew as we take your questions, hear direct from Doc his ideas for the game, and talk about food way more than we should.
Summary by pajamakid
(11/15/12) - WIP; transcribed up to 21:32. Feel free to contribute transcribed audio if you please.
###Attendees
- DashAhead
- TiffyTiff
- Zbornox (Gloria )
- Willem
- Mike Sellers
With Special Guest:
- Doc (Trustee)
###Community News
Design your own UT set event
Dash: "We want to see what you think would be an awesome set of UT weapons for your favorite class."
Check out the Official Thread on forums for more info.
Thanksgiving is coming!
Fall themed color, animals, and possibly more.
Tiff: "Gobble Gobble"
Hacking Issue
Fixed the exploit and banned players who took advantage of it.
Working on a direct line of communication between Forums Mods and Kabam in the event of another serious issue.
Zbornox: "If you feel like your account was been banned incorrectly then let us know through a support ticket."
Support Tickets
Been working though a whole bunch of tickets. If you still have an issue, just respond to the ticket and it will be read again.
Zbornox: "But this also means that we received a really fantastic ticket and we just had to read it on the air because it’s so fantastic."
Fantastic Ticket #1: "Your game is now horse -bleep-! I broke 2 2 ammies and got zombified both times! 5% my -bleep- you -bleep- -bleep- -bleep-! You sold the game and lives to Kabam and you should quit now. This game sucks -bleep-! As does the support and all of your -bleep- staff"
Dash(?): "Another happy customer."
Game News
New Dungeon: Cemetery
Arena format; 4 stages consisting of 5 waves each.
Cemetery themed Pet.
Backpacks
Doubles inventory when applied to a single character.
Bug Fixes
Huzzah
###Doc’s Q&A
Q) So before we begin with the questions that are on here. I just kind wanna know, what’s up with your names? I know Doc, but what’s Trustee?
A) Ahhh, there’s a couple of little stories behind that. First doc has been my name for a long time, you guys know why, but doc just always been my nickname since I was a kid; it’s just what I brought forward in all my games. When I started playing there was actually another Doc register on the forums about a month before me. So I couldn’t register on the forum but he and I both played the game simultaneously. I don’t know if you guys know, but early in realm before there were registered accounts, multiple people could just share the same name in the same realm. So there could be 5 "Doc"s floating around and there were. When they started having registered names, the way Alex did it was, whoever had the most fame at the time-cause you couldn’t spend fame you just collected it-whoever had the most fame could register first. And then every couple days the amount of fame to register went down, so I happened to have the most fame of all the "Doc"s.
But although I don’t trade anymore, when I first registered was when the nexus first came out; before nexuses it was just a menu. Once we had a nexus to trade in everybody would drop trade and people got scammed all the time. There’s loot ninjas all over the place taking your stat pots when you drop it. So my idea was to be a middleman, so I chose the name Trustee as a middleman service; that was my first post (on forums). About a month later I swore against ever trading again and I haven’t ever since. But I’ve kept the name and that’s where it comes from. [So what do you go by most?] Doc. [So now our goal is to get you to trade again, to make conditions so that you would want to trade again.] I trade on Karma so I’ll trade WC tops for wines and kinda really worthless things. But as long as somebody who I’m trading with pays it forwards then that fine.
Q) What brings you down here to SF?
A) My sister in law lives here and my Father-in-law is here to visit so we thought it appropriate to get the family together in SF. She’s like 15 minutes from here so I’m like, ‘Hey, why not swing over to KABAM’s office and say hello?’.
Q) When did you start help on forums for ROTMG? It sounds like a long time ago.
A) Well I got my modship back in June shortly after KABAM purchased (ROTMG). It was kinda all working at the same time. I got asked to be a mod I think like a day or two before the KABAM announcement came, so it all kinda hit at the same time. But before that I’d just been poking around a year and a half. My 2 year anniversary was a few days ago, I completely missed the 2.0 year. [You didn’t have a WC party or anything like that?] No. I’ve actually been playing for about a month longer than my forum account’s been registered. And I had some WC back in September just with some friends.
Q) Before you became a forum mod or actually aside from being a forum moderator what else do you do in your spare time?
A) Not a whole lot I mean I know you guys… hmmmm, I don’t know I pretty much exclusively play ROTMG I’m not a huge gamer otherwise. I was when I was a kid and I kinda just drifted away from it. But then I discovered realm on Reddit 2 years ago and I kinda got stuck with it. I know that once I get stuck on a game I’m stuck forever, so I’ve purposely avoided WOW and EU(?) and those other things that’ll just sap your life away. But Realm is easy enough to hop in, play a while, and drop off where you were without any … it’s, I hate the word casual, but it’s more casual and I’m kind of a casual player.
Q) What is it about realm that first hooked you?
A) It was simple; I don’t know I really like the retro graphics and the simple game play, especially that it is in flash. I mean I wouldn’t have played it if it wasn’t in flash. There’s other free games that I’ve looked at like on Kongregate, but they require an install and there’s cumbersome things. At the time it was even easier to play because you started the game and hit play and then boom you’re right in the realm. There’s a couple more steps now but it’s still really easy. But I don’t know what hooked me about it really.
Q) What is your favorite realm class, your favorite dungeon, and your favortie god?
A) Well, Medusa rules all; she’s definitely the favorite. I did a pumpkin of Medusa last year, I posted it on the social forums it’s there(?) a year ago but it turned out pretty good. It’s fun getting all the little pixels in the pumpkin.
I actually started, I was a necro-exclusive player for a long time and I never really got anywhere. I got like forty-thousand fame and never maxed a class never maxed a stat, so I really did suck for a long time. Then I started playing on test and, I’m kinda ashamed to say but, took advantage of the cheap amulets there. And just by being able to survive death enough to actually start maxing stats I got a lot better. [With a Necro?] I switched to priest and I’ve pretty much been… I main a priest all the time. I’m branching out to other classes.[So are you a nice priest?] Oh yeah, I heal everybody. All these arguments about … yeah… it’s a cheap ability, you have enough wisdom to regenerate a full use of your tome in about 14 seconds, it’s really no harm to you to heal other people. I always reserve the last use for myself, so if there’s everyone else around getting damaged to pieces and I have one use left I’m gonna, sorry, save it for me. But everyone else I share.
[And what dungeon do you like the best?]
Probably the abyss. It’s fast paced; those brutes will cut you down no time if you’re not paying attention. [You like how aggresive the enemies are in this?] It’s not just the damage quantity. It’s small rooms, low maneuverability cause of the lava, and there’s a lot more, I mean as much strategy as this game can get, just going around corners trying to figure out how the next room is configured so you don’t get attacked from 5 different entrances. I find it takes a lot more thinking than other dungeons.
Q) How do you feel other Lord Ruthven?
A) He killed my assassin last Friday, I’m pissed off with him(?). [Was that a Zbornox spawn?] No, that was his little ferus. They stack up and I don’t know if there’s a maximum number, but if you’re not constantly going back into the room and cleaning them out there can be hundreds in there.
(11/15/12) - WIP; transcribed up to 21:32. Feel free to contribute transcribed audio if you please.