Helping Avalon Why nerf is a dumb expression for Avalon, or how I came to love the Nerf Nerfing is a daft expression when it comes to Avalon and this table of conditions just to use an ability should hint at how complex and nuanced every ability in Avalon truly is... and how you can learn from it.
Updates The bells toll for Avalon's Recovery -- return to 2006 stability The recovery of Avalon since late 2000s is now reality. Why we dropped sponsorship and started removing bad trinkets; the skills we're fixing and improving; the upcoming shop rental spaces and building city streets; outreach and marketing begins.
Updates Update: Website Performance improved by 32x, 4:1 Procure, Professions, Events Latest changes: the website is 32x times faster, Thief and Seer work continues, crowns buy 4 lessons, chapters one per Avalon day, events upcoming.
Updates Economy Rebalanced, Novicehood of 400 tasks, Skill Work Begins Skill sessions start. Economy rebalanced worldwide. Trinket lifespans gone. Procure 4 lessons per crown all March. Streamlined novicehood. 20 open-ended badges, 20 tasks each. Masterclass chapters. Honours chapters for each guild.
Updates Warfare, Novicehood, Skills Warfare is a great success, much improved; the campaign season draws engagement to a close in the first winter off-season; novicehood expands; new chapter types and systems for guidance in the vastness of Avalon; specialisations all standardised to ranked abilities.
Updates As 2018 and 30th anniversary approach... 2018 begins with events approaching 30th Anniversary, the returnee chapters, warfare and insurrections, the four new Crafting skills, general cleanup of CURRENCY/trinkets/skills, and specialisations moving to skill ranks.
Updates Followup: Novice Chapters (phase 2) Current state of novicehood for seniors teaching the new young. (Content will change)
Updates Autumn 2017 marks turning point in Avalon Autumn 2017: new novicehood, warfare, divine globes. We review what happened in Autumn 2017 and what is to come in Winter 2017/2018.
Updates Major Changes Active players will have noticed amidst the heap of daily updates a significant change to novicehood, lesson gain, sponsorship, and the curiosity shop over the last week. Changes are ongoing.
Updates A thunderclap of changes, Bitcoin added Two weeks, 1650 bugs crossed out, new documentation, combat rebalancing, chapter reward fixes, and curiosity shop overhaul with lower prices. Genesis has clearly been revitalised by the year sabbatical.
Opinion Text for Games: Stone Age or Blinkered? What is lacking in the multiplayer text games of today and how far can a text medium go? It all depends on how you use the text. Quite literally.
Helping Avalon Bug Hunting Here are a few tips on ways you can help us track down an issue and get it resolved sooner.
Updates Genesis back on code, Cornelius on product delivery As the first serious update on the Vale, we welcome back Genesis from his year sabbatical and celebrate his first committed code in UPDATES since his year break. A number of outstanding matters
Announcements Welcome to the Vale: Avalon blog officially open A brief welcome to our latest addition to the family of modern technologies: a place to scribble.