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Another unique feature debuted in Xsyon this past week, the Welcome Station!

Welcome Stations allow existing tribes to stage entrance areas for new players. New players arrive at these stations where they can find nearby quests and items for sale and where they can leave messages and apply for tribe membership.

Tribe leaders and members with permissions can manage the stations and accept new tribe members while they are offline.

The Welcome Station is designed ...

Welcome Station Patch

Welcome Stations
- The Welcome Station is a selectable starting point for new players.
- Any stand-alone ‘room’ building or ‘roof’ part can be set as Welcome Station.
- Can be placed by any tribe or homestead.
- One Welcome Station can be placed per tribe.
- A welcome message can be set by the tribe leader or players with ‘Set Messages’ permissions. This displays for new players during character creation.
- New players enter ...

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

The Test Server is open for final testing of the Welcome Station feature. The Welcome Station allows tribes to set up locations where new survivors can enter the world and apply to join the tribe. This allows tribe members to accept or reject new applicants even if they are not currently logged on.

For more details and to join in the final testing session please join our feedback thread

I decided to wrap up the Welcome Station as it was ...

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

The Test Server is open for the first round of public feedback on the revised creature AI system in progress.

The system has been heavily optimized with a lot of old, unnecessary code stripped out. This allows for more frequent updates which should result in better motion, synchronization and ultimately, combat. The revised system is much easier to tweak and adjust based on variables.

I will be enabling and disabling functions of the revised ...

Hello Xsyon Citizens!

I don't have any especially important or interesting to report at the moment, but I'd like to keep you all updated on what's going on behind the scenes.

I'm still focused on the major revision to creatures and combat as detailed in last month's update. Things are coming along, but slowly. I've further revised and optimized some components that I had considered 'done' last month and I've updated the code so that I can switch between the current live ...