I’m Not One For Gossip, But…

Hi folks!

In keeping with my focus on atmosphere and immersion, we have some updates to the GOSSIP system to announce today. Before I get into the specifics, I want to reiterate that the feeling of Achaea’s world being alive and active and busy is one of my chief concerns as Producer and I consider this to be another important step forward in achieving that.

– GOSSIP LISTEN can now be used by anyone and no longer has a cooldown.
– GOSSIP LISTEN will still require you to be in a location suitable for eavesdropping (taverns, etc).
– CONFIG GOSSIPNOTIFICATION now exists and is off by default. This will give you a periodic reminder if there is non-player gossip (see below) that you haven’t listened to.
– GOSSIP SPREAD is still limited to Bards on the player side (and only visible in the tavern they use it in), but can now also be used by Gods and Celani to spread “worldwide” gossip.
– Gossip of this nature can be discerned from any valid listening location.
– Gossip has a lifetime of seven days and will gradually become gibberish as it ages.

I anticipate this seeing common use during events and other times in order to propagate information or clues or simply raise the atmosphere of the game alongside the “main” pillars of content delivery: game emotes, globals, shouts, etc.

If there are locations that you think should work that don’t, please file a bug and we’ll fix them up.

Enjoy!

Penned by My hand on the 9th of Ero, in the year 982 AF.