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Crusade

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CRUSADE is a revolutionary fantasy-based MMORPG that allows thousands of people to play together in a virtual world that features multiple races, powerful weapons and armor, deadly magic, epic quests, ancient places to discover, the utilization of detailed tradeskills, and more.

Designed from scratch, the initial goal in designing CRUSADE is to provide "Simple Gameplay with Unlimited Growth in a massive world of immersion and interaction".

Part of achieving this goal was to create a game that makes it easy for anyone to get started, but build the game in such a fashion that even the most skilled and hardcore gamer has the potential to grow beyond their expectations. A world where the causal and hardcore gamer alike can adventure, grow, build, and share with other players.

The four principles on which CRUSADE is based are:

Community
Immersion
Interaction
Reward

We made a conscious choice to focus only on a few starting races and classes so that we could refine each to be unique and expansive far beyond what other MMOGs have to offer. Quality, not Quantity. That’s what CRUSADE is about.

Taking place in the massive world of Andarus, CRUSADE brings the player into a world dominated by Deities that are representative of two warring organizations known as the Asheroth and Kujix. Order and Chaos. Unique in their culture, skills, and physical abilities, these two organizations are battling for dominance of the two largest continents in the world, Alganon and Harraja. Recruiting only the most skilled followers, both the Asheroth and Kujix have spread throughout the world and infiltrated the culture of nearly every major race.

All those who enter the world are born into special families that instantly bond them with others who have chosen the path of either the Asheroth or Kujix. As a player grows in the world, their conquests and honor reflects on their family’s reputation and standing.

The Deities that control regions of the world are often seen by those fortunate enough to follow them, and unfortunate enough to follow their nemesis. The gods of CRUSADE are not just history, legend, or lore – they are real and living in the world, and are a part of the players experience. They can call upon their followers to engage in Crusades that bring hundreds, if not thousands of players together towards a common cause, and can assign unique quests with incredible rewards to their favored followers.

Both the Asheroth and Kujix control great libraries of information and news. Discoveries and accomplishments of players spread throughout the lands and are available for all to learn about through these grand repositories.
MMOG development is extremely complex in both design and technical production. A game must be designed with a core set of features, yet flexible enough to evolve beyond the initial design based on player feedback. We here at QOL acknowledge that the design CRUSADE may evolve far beyond what is defined here during its multi-year development process; however, we will continue to update this section as such design changes occur.

Below is a breakdown of the core features that CRUSADE has to offer.

Families & Guilds
Instantly communicate with your new family, protect your siblings, and establish your family's name in the history books! Also design family & guild crests and create a history to share with all.

Deities & Crusades
Become a patron to the most powerful deities in the world. Join in crusades against your sworn enemies with hundreds of others!

Hybrid Character Progression System
No level cap. Build your character based on your actions. Train certain skills while offline!

Auction System
Share your goods on the public auction house for a profit. Beyond this, our default auction system will support a number of internal tools to help determine the current market price for merchandise, as well as demand.

World Environment
Day/Night cycles with full Weather & Season support.

Enhanced Appearance
Your character's appearance is directly affected not only by the weapons and armor, but your actions and power. For example a powerful Kujix eyes may glow black, while a powerful Asheroth eyes may glow white.

Multi-server, PvE & PvP Support
CRUSADE supports both PvE and PvP server types. Both server types will feature Battlegrounds and a ranking system that reflects in both title and the ability to acquire specific items and even skills.

Tradeskills & Economy
Professions, Gathering Skills, Processing Stations, and more. The world of CRUSADE is designed to have an internal stable economy where a balance between "controlled" currency, items, and materials exists with player-based economic involvement.

Using tradeskills, player will also be able to enhance items, add to them (through "mountings"), and engage in embroidery and dying of weapons and armor.

Quests
While the world will be populated with numerous static quests that all can partake in, CRUSADE will also offer custom dynamic quests specifically for the character. These quests are designed to add variance to the system and provide unexpected rewards.

Companions
Taming animals and controlling creatures with magic is an important part of CRUSADE. These companions will grow with their master, protect them, and can even have their look customized.

Items
There will be many different types of items in the world. Weapons, Armor, Jewelry, Bags, and Materials are just a few. Items will need to be repaired as they become worn, but it's easy to find a repairer in most villages, towns, and cities. Items come in six flavors: common, special, enchanted, magical, legendary, and godlike.

Instances
CRUSADE will feature both world and instanced areas for exploration. Some instances will have restrictions on the number of individuals allowed.

Parties, Battalions & Legions
Teaming up with other players is critical for many of the quests and crusades in the game - and a requirement to take on many of the legendary creatures in the world. Players can form parties of up to 6 people by simply teaming together. Party leaders can then band together to form Battalions, which allows up to 36 people total (6 party leaders). The leaders of those Battalions can then choose to form massive Legions of up to 216 players.

Both the Battalion and Legion interfaces support unique command options where the leaders can easily transmit commands to specific groups, and even classes within their organization.

A legion has one warlord leader that can issue orders to all battalions and parties within the legion, allowing for specific and concise orders to be relayed.

The Library
Both the Asheroth and Kujix capital cities contain a grand library. From here, players can research items, creatures, magic, tradeskills, and learn about the history of the world and what families, guilds, and people have made amazing achievements. These libraries serve as the central hub of information for each side.

Transportation
In addition to the use of magic, numerous types of mounts will be available to the player, allowing for accelerated traveling. Transports by air, land and sea will also be available.

Dynasties
A dynasty is an era of time within the game world. Each dynasty has a theme and history associated with it. Players will be able to look back on a previous dynasty, read about it in the library, and find out more about what happened in the past, and who did it. A dynasty can also have economic and deity-related ties to it.

World & History
The world of Andarus has a rich multi-cultural background and history that spans thousands of years. Grand cities, dark ruins deep in the most dangerous parts of the world - it all ties together in some fashion, and all of it has a purpose, a history, or a legend. Much of this history is available to the players through the library, but much of it must be discovered.

Andarus features two large continents. The Asheroth-controlled continent of Alganon, and the Kujix-controlled continent of Harraja. Both continents have all types of terrain spanning forests, fields, plains, deserts, mountains, jungles, swamps, and tundra.

Factions
Numerous factions control various places within the world. Each character will have the ability to enhance or lower their standings with these different groups, races, and organizations.

Races & Classes
CRUSADE focuses on quality rather than quantity. The game will ship with a total of six races and six classes; however, there are so many variations in skills, abilities, and specializations that the results guarantee no two characters will be alike.

Magic System
Magic is critically important to the Kujix and Asheroth. CRUSADE allows those who wish to focus on the schools of magic to refine their skills and gradually raise them based on the use of the magic. As a character's skill raises, new spells, abilities, and skills are made available, allowing for even more choices to be pursued.

Client Customization
We are going to give our players the ability to adjust the client in many ways, including the querying of game data and the modification of the UI.

Music
Find unique insturments and play custom music within the game either by yourself, or with others.
Homepage:
http://crusade.qol.com/index.php

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