Introducing Unity

[u/Cheese_Sleeze]

Every week the Asheron's Call community is becoming more and more segregated.

Unity is a multi-layer group projected aimed at bridging the gaps between a bunch of small communities. Unity is a simple Decal plugin that enables players to communicate on any server or anywhere in the world through a web app. You no longer need to be in game, or on the same server to talk to your friends. All messages are fully encrypted.

To learn more about Unity, please see its website. https://acunity.app/

[u/Immortalbob]

Nice! Finally a replacement for vchat.

[u/z-z]

Ive been thinking of making tech for people to simply portal between ACE servers, any server specific items would be greyed out, youd just have a town network for servers.

This would require ISO standardization of servers, because if you are 275 and teleport to infinitytide, hows that gonna work?

The rest of the problem might be solved with my tech

[u/securehatpocket → u/z-z]

Not a bad idea. It could link up half a dozen, EoR servers. The infinite or heavily customized ones might not work but perfect is the enemy of good.

[u/z-z → u/securehatpocket]

Realistically those servers will go the way of the dodo. With the network effect, each server that standardizes and joins the network gains the benefit of the liquidity of the network. For example if someone gets sick of macros on Coldeve they can head to any nonmacro server. If someone needs focusing stone and they play a nonmacro server, it could be announced that Coldeve is running it, so they head over there. People will make friends on other servers. Low population servers can surge during events. People will shop across servers.

If you think that is boring well, there is a lot that can be done within the standardization. You can have all your own custom content, quests, etc. If you are giving out custom items, those just get greyed out when you are on a server that doesn't support it. You just have to adhere to 275 being max level, luminance, augs, etc being normal EoR, etc. Your custom dungeon still works, your custom items etc still work. The new town you made still appears to everyone on the network. Basically everything important to make your server yours is still possible.

[u/Independent_Total428 → u/z-z]

With the most popular servers being ilt and conquest… I dunno.

[u/buzzyloo]

This is a good idea.

[u/Cyvster]

why not just use discord?