Dawntide Beta

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Hello and welcome to Beta 2 of Dawntide development!

Throughout Beta 1 we made great strides in expanding and improving Dawntide
functionality and performance, and the 'ecosystem' is getting evolved enough
for our vision of the gameplay to slowly begin working out. Players can now
create rudimentary settlements and towns and fight each other properly, as
well as craft a variety of equipment and trade it in the market.

You have been sent a Dawntide (http://www.dawntide.net) beta
registration code. This code will enable you to create a Dawntide Master
Account instantly. Your one time activiation code is:

EDITED THIS PART TO REMOVE BETA ACCESS KEY

Please go to [http://accounts.dawntide.net/create_master.php?code=A42A-EE5B-D30F-F8F4] to create your
account. Your master account will also give the following:

* Install instructions
* Game account
* Ability to link your forum account
* Automatic access to the Beta bug tracking tool

The goals for Beta 2 are primarily finishing, polishing and balancing
functionality. The early stages of Beta 2 will focus on ensuring that the
foundation for the game is rock solid - we hope to see players fighting,
crafting, questing, trading and talking to each other around the clock
without dangling the epic loot carrot as the ultimate reward for doing it.
It's our goal that these activities be inherently fun and meaningful.

That's a broad topic, of course. Making a game mechanic fun is part making
it deep and complex enough to be an interesting individual component, but
also balancing it against the others so it's neither inherently superior or
inferior, and implementing it in a way that's intuitive and engaging.
Frankly, a game can never be successful if its core elements feel like a
chore. We fully realize how difficult this is to carry out - if we don't
nail it off the bat, we hope you'll stick with us long enough to tell us
what you think is wrong.

Once we are satisfied with the core elements and the feedback we receive on
it, both on our own forums and what we can find off-site, we will begin
fleshing the game out in earnest. Among the features we will be adding at
this stage are:

* Full Conquest mechanics
* Full Sailing mechanics
* Prospecting for resources
* Research
* More islands

As the Beta 1 testers did, you may be wondering where the NDA that comes
with most beta tests is. There isn't one, because fundamentally we want
people to talk about Dawntide and show things off, and we need to know when
something is broken. If people find something wrong with the game, they're
going to tell other people it's a bad game regardless of any NDA. Feel free
to take and post screenshots and discuss the game with your friends.

The Dawntide Development Team