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Why is specialization (as far as character abilities) even necessary? What people are asking for is specialization in terms of character productivity. They want people to buy stuff from other people and be able to sell stuff to other people, and they see all-rounder characters as having no need to e...

You know, I hate to rain on your parade and all. But, despite the fun that you had with a few close friends building up your socialist communities, there are real reasons why those types of economic systems all end in failure. They can work so long as they are small enough to keep an eye on everyone...

To Respen: It is easier to obtain A FEW items through means other than crafting, most items are not like that. Furthermore it is those item drops that make the use of those skills sustainable. Removing them would cause far more consequences than simply forcing people to buy stuff from a crafter, and...

I honestly don't like the idea of penalizing people for having their skills too high, especially since putting that into place would basically be a giant "F*** YOU" to all the players who currently play the game in which they are pretty much required to multi-skill if they want to get any...

I honestly don't like the idea of penalizing people for having their skills too high, especially since putting that into place would basically be a giant "F*** YOU" to all the players who currently play the game in which they are pretty much required to multi-skill if they want to get anyt...

Perhaps the best thing is to talk about what can be done right now to help the situation. Well. The only thing which can be done now is that the players change their behaviour. NOTHING will be changed script-wise before the VBU. And with nothing I mean nothing except for serious bugs. I won't discu...

Depending on how long it will take for the VBU, it might be a waste of time to talk too much about this now. For instance the "faction" variable that will be implemented might be extremely useful for guild use, even to the point of being indispensable. A lot can be done by modifying the &q...

I'm glad to hear that so many of these things have already been dealt with, Estralis. That gives me some confidence in the direction that the VBU is taking (even if I do question if it will ever be finished (I hope you don't mind me being honest about both the good and the bad)). Though, as for #3 (...

Druids can use coin to get around their time requirement by buying herbs, mages cannot. :arrow: this might be right for most of the herbs, for some otheres not and i never meet a rich druid, may be you are meaning alchemists, but not druids. :arrow: and as i know there are a lot of receipts a druid...

Back on topic, the extreme herb rarity issue is supposed to be fixed after the VBU. I think I remember someone somewhere saying that gem dust would be craftable as well, though I might be mistaken. If this is true than it should fix a lot of the major issues. The other problem is that, currently, th...

Ok, so even a character with a 10 in WP still has 14 or so extra points to spend. Are you trying to say that this is a trivial thing? Or, even if the mage doesn't raise Pervestigatio and Decisio (and what mage doesn't raise those skills?), the one skill they do raise takes a lot longer than Herb Lor...

It always made me scratch my head that we have an aquatic race that can't actually swim. Of course I understand the technical reasons for this but it still seems strange. Perhaps this will be changed someday a long way off, but there are bigger things to deal with right now than that.

Honestly, I have said this before and will say it again as many times as it takes. Until this game gets some sort of automated selling system, such that individuals don't have to be physically present in order to sell their items, there will be no true player economy. At best we might encourage peop...

I enjoyed reading this paragraph though i can think of a few warriors who would disgaree with most of this :wink:(though its a good theory). I would love to explain to you exactly why so many of the things you've said here prove to be untrue but i think that would take a long time so I'll refrain. ...

Until the advent of some sort of delivery system that can ensure that the needed products can be attained when they are needed, especially those products needed for one's own productivity, your dream of specialization will have the same substance as any other dream; yet with a far lessor chance of b...

Do you find it to be well, 'druidy'? Mostly. If you ignore the possibility of "our druids are different", RL druids are usually people who supposedly use the magic contained within plants and animals in order to cause different effects. Sometimes these effects are distilled for personal u...

I can't see the pictures that you posted a link to, Banduk. I think the permissions for viewing are not set right, since default does not allow non-friends to view it and this is the most common problem that is the reason for the error message I got when trying to go to that page.

Rarely. Very rarely. Sometimes my characters buy some things that I can make some random use of from new players to help them with coin, even though I don't have any real need to do so, but unless my characters have some way to use the things they simply direct the other characters to someone who ca...

Warning: this is a bit long. I've been RPing long enough that it isn't an issue for me to separate characters from myself, they are two completely different personalities and persons that do two completely different things. The first step is consciously reminding yourself that the character is someo...

So I wondered into the path of some scorpions today. Seriously, WTF is the idea behind giving them (or anything other than a boss creature that is meant to be fought by multiple people) poison like that? I got hit once total, and the poison from that single hit killed me. Now, granted, the character...

I look forward to being there if I can. The chat client keeps not working for me but I think it may be a problem on my end so I have been trying to work out what it is.

A million thanks for posting that for me. It really does help out a lot; not only to show how changes are being made to take care of a problem but also to show how the player's opinions and experiences help to shape the game and how much the developers care about how to make it better. There really ...

Yep, it had a lot of good information but still had some holes on some important things which is why I asked. If any other questions do come up than I will be sure to ask. For now, all I can do is thank you for what you have given and see what else becomes important.

Thank you so much. That actually helps a lot.

Thanks for the reply and the information. Is there any way I can find out about what was said during the tech talks? I can only get to the chat service about half the time and even then it doesn't always work, and add that the fact that my schedule is really unpredictable, and that just leaves me in...

So sad to hear that. It would have been a good resource for new players and a fun preview of part of the game otherwise.

I have a simple question that should be easy enough to answer for any staff member or developer. What, exactly, are the major changes that are going to be happening with the completion of the VBU? For instance, how exactly will skills be changed; to what degree will the new map resemble the old one;...

Sorry to thread necro, but is there any reason that this can't be added on the main page with the screenshots? Change the name of "screenshots" to "pictures" and there should be no problem. Changing the name is something easy enough that I'm fairly certain that even I could do it...

Upon seeing a letter written in orkish yet written much more skillfully than what is normal and written in ink rather than mud or blood, a certain unusually well mannered lizard seems to become interested in learning the contents. "Excuse me, skin brother," the lizard known as jack says to...

I guess more information on this will have to wait till after the VBU after-all. Though I am one who thinks that being constantly in demand to keep weapons sharpened is much more fun for a crafter than to be intermittently in demand to completely replace the old weapon (the same with tools and armor...