Dev Update #3 - Hi, I'm Straw!

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to this week’s news post. This week, while Malcs is away, the CM shall play. 

This week’s post is being written by me (Straw) - aka the Community Manager for Melvor Idle and Melvor Idle 2.

In case we haven’t met…hi, I’m Straw

Hello! I’m Straw Hat aka Straw (or stra-what), and I’m the Community Manager for Melvor Idle / Melvor Idle 2. 😁 

I’ve been a part of Melvor since October 2021, right around the time when we went into full launch. 

I’ve helped do a lot of fun things over the years like creating an advent calendar to share skill tips, multiple live streams, meme contests, mod contests, fan art contests, and more. 

I’m also in charge of posting on socials (which usually involves making fun of Malcs). 

I’ve been a Community Manager for the past 4-5 years now, and Melvor by far has the best gaming community I’ve had the pleasure of managing. Sure, sure, Malcs will read this, so I need to say something nice. HOWEVER, I actually mean it. 

This community is always helping each other, answering questions, and celebrating each others’ wins, which is part of what makes Melvor so special. 

Over the next few months, you’ll see more of me while we ramp up for Early Access. I’ll especially be around to help collect feedback, answer questions, and make jokes where applicable. 

If you have any questions for me, drop them in the comments or message in the Patreon chat on Discord. 😁 Or if you have any ideas of future contests or events you’d like to see, drop me a message.

My favourite skill is fishing and collecting funny screenshots. I’ve been fired multiple times, too.

I am also a staunch multiple bank tab user. (Single bank tab users, what is wrong with you??) 

See you in chat! (Unless you’re a single bank tab user, then don’t talk to me.)

Progress Update on the Alpha

Here is a quick recap on Alpha progress:

• Statistics System: Almost complete and ready for testing

• UI Updates: Pretty close to being happy with how it's looking so far. Good enough for Alpha testing.

• Release Management: Plans have been discussed for how this may work.

• Cloud Saving & In-Game Error Handling: Yet to begin.

Malcs is also going to create an Alpha-specific Roadmap which lists what features will be implemented in each major update. Stay tuned for this!

What we have been working on 

Here is what we’ve been working on since last week.

Development

Malcs:

• This week, Malcs was away, but he is now back in office as of today (time of posting).

Coolrox:

• Finished testing Item/Currency statistics.

• Added statistics to the Bank, Shop and all of the skills, except for Fishing.

• Working on adding statistics to Fishing and Quests.

• Working on adding Global/Character statistics (e.g. Total Skill Level, Character Age).

Game Design

Prat:

• Finalized the foundations of COWSKILL.

• Currently working on Farming and Agility planning. 

Artwork

Tapi:

• Continuing work on the background for the in-game Shop.

Recapping from last week’s News Post

Similar to last week, there isn’t too much to recap from last week’s post, but we’ll add some clarifications here just in case. 

With the placeholder system, can we (or, would it be possible to or do you plan to) exchange set ups, similar to bank tabs in OSRS? I.e. Can we share a tab setup for things like bossing, or skill specific like farming?

• At this stage we don’t have any plans for this, but if there’s enough desire for it then we can look into a possible implementation.

When was the roadmap last updated?

• It has not been updated since last week’s post.

What if I don’t have access to Discord or I am not comfortable linking my Patreon to Discord?

• Patreon Discord access requires your Discord account to be linked to your Patreon post, as providing manual access is not possible. If you don’t use Discord, we will use these weekly Patreon news posts to update everyone on notable events.

• Alpha access does not require Discord, but it will require linking your Patreon account to the Alpha client to grant access as it must verify your Patreon status.

Conclusion

That’s all for this week’s post! We’ll see you again at this time next week. 👋

• Straw