Hello everyone!
I’m interested in learning about what topics y’all are interested in.
I’m on the technical team and there are lots of dragons we’ve encountered along the way to making Torch that might be fun to talk about – but they also might be boring 
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Even if it won’t be me who’s the one responding, feel free to post about any topics you’d like to hear more about – if I can’t answer your questions I’ll find someone who can.
thx,
sam
What is Torch? 
now I’ve stepped in it.
Torch was our internal codename for Arkheron. Not sure where it came from exactly.. we had a theme of national parks for a while, and then “Torch” seemed to come out of nowhere.
sam
I always assumed it was because we are Bonfire and then an offshoot of a Bonfire might be a flame Torch. More recently I heard that it was codenamed Torch because of the old darkness mechanic where you’d have to carry a Torch to light your way
Maybe game stats? As it can be a big ask to stand up apis or maintain static content outside of the game, maybe if for now each match or client session dumped out post-match statistics to a flat (or even json/yaml) structured file in the same path as the log directory.. the community can build some tools around parsing and aggregating that.
To start maybe just the same stats you see on the post-match summary could be nice.. including what the game mode was, was region it was on.. bonus points for p10/p50/p99 fps/latency beancounters!
It was because in really early iterations, we actually had you carrying a torch! Remember that Sam?? It was a long time ago…it was the direct contributor to the line of sight.