The future of Dreamlords

*Who is maintaining the game?

*Future agenda revealed!

Lockpick Entertainment is no more. This is probably easy to miss, as the servers for the game are up and running and everything (just about) is working.

We are few in number but strong in our gnosis. While we can’t give the support we want at the moment, we still do our best to answer your questions, handle non-moderator events and squish bugs in the client.


Let us introduce ourselves

Daniel Ribera Olsen
Community Manager and graphical artist. I have worked with Dreamlords since 2007, leading the graphical artists at Lockpick Entertainment and producing art for Dreamlords. I have also been involved in the major design decisions in the game (although stats and numbers not are my strength). After Lockpick was dissolved I took on the role as Community Manager, as well as graphical artist.

Daniel Romberg
My desire to do cool stuff led me to accept the offer to make games with Lockpick sometime in 2004 and I became the owner of a tiny piece of the company in 2005. I’ve been a programmer on Dreamlords since the beginning , and I’ve also done some other more or less technical stuff like server administration and some tech support. I’ll continue to do technical stuff and I’ve mostly (by choice) kept away from most other sides of the game even if the underlying systems interest me a bit from time to time.

David Rosén
As the founder and former CEO and Executive Producer of Lockpick Entertainment David has been around from the start and been aboard on the rollercoaster rides the company and Dreamlords has been on since 2004. Today David is much like the Dreamer, all-knowing, omnipotent but absent he remains in the background and supports the Daniels in their new venture on getting Dreamlords back on track. Perhaps the efforts of the Daniels will cause enough turmoil to awaken the sleeping David and he will return to restore Lockpick to its former glory.


Why do this presentation?

We want you to know who is maintaining the game and what we are going to do with it next. Yes, we are still developing Dreamlords and are plotting our true return to Elysion by re-launching the game!.

The re-launch of Dreamlords the Reawakening Q & A
(aka the re-reawakening

Q: When?
A: Q2 2010
Q: OMG, why wait until then?
A: We want the re-launch to include some major upgrades
Q: W00t sounds awesome, what upgrades?
A: What's cooking:

-Coop PvE

Fight battles against the Nightmares of Elysion together with a friend from your CV! New special events/bosses for this is also planned.

-Mission Editor

For dedicated players and moderators, you will be able to create missions on your own which will (if they pass inspection) be a part of the Dreamlords experience.
Player generated content is finally coming to Dreamlords!

-More content

New monsters, new loot and new maps! Discover unseen parts of your patria, and find the strange creatures that live there.


-Get the support up and running again

-Rebalance of certain elements

The rebalance will be very related to if we do a complete reset of the game or not. We are currently debating it internally and weighing pros vs cons. The pros are obvious with a totally leveled battlefield, and no baggage when it comes to rebalancing. The cons being as obvious with some players feeling robbed of their traits. In short it's benefit the game vs benefit the old fans to be honest and brutal. We will create a poll to gather your feedback on the matter and we will take that into consideration. You can find the poll at the top of the page


-Tribute
Reinstate the purchasable Tribute system! So you once again can buy Dreamlord Gear, Divine Interventions and much much more.



This is just a taste of things to come. There will be further, more detailed explanations of these features and more on the Dreamlords homepage and here in the forums. Check it out and keep your eyes peeled for the return of Dreamlords the Reawakening.

/Daniel Ribera, Community Manager

why instead of doing a reset expand the trees by 2x and half the effect of the other skills? and evan throw in some cool new traits :p

Yikes, sorry to put the last option, to me, it's not so much about the traiths and dl gear or tribute, but about my wins and medals that mean a lot to me, and TCW.

All I request is that I get to keep my wins, medals and to keep the old ladders of dreamlords up so I can view them with pride!

Also, I think if you guys were to do a complete reset, the player base would shrink A LOT!, a ridiculous amount that it already had, personally this is my favourite game, of all time besides the original pokemon games(C'mon, can't argue!) and I won't stop playing it just because it is reset, I will however, stop if my medals and wins are erased, that is what represents me as a pvper and that is 90% of why I play all MMO's, to pvp and to gain reputation as someone to be feared on the battleground, someone who will always represent a challenge and someone always looking forward to a challenge! I would feel so hurt if my nearly 1.5k wins and nearly 500 medals were to wiped out.

Plus, if traits are to be wiped out, then I guess there should be some kind of compensation for old players like, say, if you have played, all 10 eras of dl's then you gain 1500 tribute a day, for free, if you played 9, then you get 1300, 8, then 1100 etc, and new players only recieve 100, this would allow the old players to get back on their feet quickly, get essential traits back and all that.

OR alternately, for every 2 eras you have played, you get to choose a building of yours that you want to get all your traits back in, say you worked REALLY hard in the war strat building and had, I dunno, 500 trait points in there, you could then choose to get those 500 back, this would be a fair way of doing it for the old players as well because, in 99% of circumstances, the older tha payer and more eras you have payed the more traits you have anyways, so for every 2 eras played you could get your essential traits back, but still be left with a big rent to fill, and that could be filled with extra tribute.

Just my 2 cents, hope they helped, Shadow-Desperate for pvp!

for a second my heart stops beating :O.
Just refreshing the page and what i see co op pvp more maps relaunching...
just awesome.
I barely reached lv ten at the start of the era and i have plans with gears ect ect for pvping BUT i think its better to do a overall reset,it took me long to get there but i also see that there's a oppurtunity for everyone now to start over. I think there will be more players playing it if we do this.

Another little token.

I am not saying this is true, but is merely a theoretical observation:

I think this poll should only be availible to players who have played more than 1 or 2 eras, as it shows they like dreamlords and plan to play it more and it is their opinion you should be looking for.

Also it is REALLY only affecting the old players, and many new players do come to dreamlords though the eras but also quit 1 or 2 days, or maybe a week after starting and they are the ones that are most likely to put for a total reset, then they quit but their vote still counts.

Assuming this scenario happened where the dev's decided to do a total reset based on the votes of this poll, but it was kinda hijacked in a way by all th 0 era players wanting a total reset and then them quiting, then you lose those new players AND many, many of the old players as well, thus making your player base quite miniscule.

Also small things for the old players, like, maybe different colour writing, but definitely wins and medals, as they do not affect the balance but are something everyone has earned.

Been dreaming for full reset for couple eras already. RPG looses the great deal of charm when most things are reached, researched and crafted to many times.

Was willing to discuss many things but got a feeling it would only lead to endles posts of "I think my idea is better" so maybe will leave my thoughts to me.

Just one thing - GUYS CAN YOU MAKE ANOTHER POLL with many questions to represent the likings of people. It would be much more effective than long posts of many people discussing single idea. For example:

1) Do you need compensation for account reset?

2) Should compensation be based on tribute payout?

3) Should compensation be based on notable atribute like name color or prefix as "Elder XXXX"?

4) Should compensation go in form of aditional DL skill or skill slot?

Best regards.

Must say I been waiting for this really long

It seems this thread got long enough to become boring to read in less than several hours

But I vote for a big questionaire and a golden name for Shadowscythe to make him feel better he already forgot his reall life due to this game

I have unlocked 482 Trait points. 1st Transcendent last era, will have again it this era, and always been close to the top in that ladder. I have a fully charmed level 10 DL Gear set. Both of these possible by the fact I have been here since game launch, been a premium member throughout, and bought Tribute for it, as opposed to Tribute farming with alts or using the much increased daily Tribute. Losing all those will be beyond devastating to my Dreamlord and patria; I've activated every trait in Warfare and War Strategy and Welfare is about to be done too. It will take another 1.5yrs to get back to where I am, if I was premium and bought Tribute again, and the likelihood of me spending all that time and money again just to get back what I had worked for is slim to none. It's not a matter of I can't, it's just a matter of wondering how long until it happens again. I've stayed premium since the beginning, a paying member, and everything I paid and worked for could potentially be gone, there's no way I would pay and dedicate myself again.

Maybe you should see how many of these people voting for a reset have paid in the past by their account, or possibly who would pay in the future for these benefits.

Vileu wrote:Must say I been waiting for this really long

It seems this thread got long enough to become boring to read in less than several hours

But I vote for a big questionaire and a golden name for Shadowscythe to make him feel better he already forgot his reall life due to this game

Vileu I only met you once, but what you say is true

Viestartas wrote:Just one thing - GUYS CAN YOU MAKE ANOTHER POLL with many questions to represent the likings of people. It would be much more effective than long posts of many people discussing single idea.

We will make more polls as things progress further. At this point we're mostly interested in what you think of the idea in general and open discussion is probably more valuable until we start revealing specific plans.