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==== Topic PVP? ====:"We're not a PvP-focused game, so we're not planning to have forced PvP, or PvP areas that PvErs feel obligated to go into, or anything like that.:I suppose we might have a PvP skill or skills, but they'd be PvP-oriented, not something that PvErs have much use for." : Source: http://projectgorgon.com/forum/general-gorgon-discussion/886-pvp-q-before-i-pledge#6483==== Topic Steam Early Access? ====:"If you get the game during Steam early access we'll have a way to tie your Steam account to your existing game account. (Though it may involve emailing us to tie it together manually for you.): We'll probably wipe unclaimed accounts right before the official launch, in late 2016.":: Sourcehttp://projectgorgon.com/forum/general-gorgon-discussion/881-will-non-backers-accounts-be-deleted-some-time-after-kickstarter-ends#6426==== Topic Mentalism ====:As has been mentioned a few times, though (including on the forums and in yesterday's live chat), Mentalism's high damage isn't intentional and will be addressed soon, so I wouldn't go into Mentalism with the plan to be super-high-damaging. It's primarily a support skill. :: Sourcehttp://projectgorgon.com/forum/general-gorgon-discussion/860-a-few-questions-on-leveling-and-gear#6409==== Topic Kickstarter Lord Tier ====: Each qualifying account will be able to create their own title, and you'll have a special chat command to give it to others, like "/bestow Bob" or something like that. However your exact example of "Earl" is already reserved by the game. But that's the general idea, yeah. :: Sourcehttp://projectgorgon.com/forum/new-and-announcements/857-project-gorgon-questions-answers-town-hall-on-thursday-8-20-2015#6337==== Topic Vocabulary ====:Vocabulary - unfortunately it's so easy to cheat at word games with the internet that I don't want to add much reward to raising vocabulary, because of the achiever-oriented nature of many MMO players, I'm effectively encouraging players to cheat. So I don't expect to tie a ton of intricate things to Vocabulary. But a modest Vocabulary skill is a prerequisite for the upcoming Bard skill. :: Sourcehttp://projectgorgon.com/forum/new-and-announcements/857-project-gorgon-questions-answers-town-hall-on-thursday-8-20-2015#6337==== Topic Breaking Builds. ====:"The unfortunate truth is that all your builds will get broken three or four more times. I'm sorry, but that's the way it will go. Every number on every piece of gear you own? It'll change. Your gear will become useless trash overnight and you'll have to find new gear. Ask veteran testers -- it's happened many times before.:And it's absolutely fair that this is rage-inducing, but I can't do anything about it. I can't deliver perfect balance on the first try. Or the second, or the third, or the fourth, or... it will take me another year before I have all the different attributes in some semblance of balance.: SourceAnd if this is going to make you really unhappy, then alpha-testing is not a good experience for you, because I don't want you to be this mad at a game, and I don't need the stress of people angry at balance changes that I simply must make. So I hope you'll wait a while until late beta when combat balance is more hammered out than it is now." :: http://projectgorgon.com/forum/support/865-manticores-disabled-really?start=20#6336=== Topic = Spawn Camping, Stomachs, Frustration. ====:"It's not an exploit to camp a spawn. Remember that levels are very fluid (a level 60 player may have level 1 skills they're trying to raise) and the content resources are intentionally widely distributed. Do I want level 60s camping a level 20 dungeon? No, but if that's what seems like the best thing for them to do with their time, okay, I need to know that. We can fix up the content when it's problematic. (And in fact I lowered the drop rate of stomachs and spleens from 10% to 5% in this bugfix update to make it less worthwhile to farm the corpses.) When I set up the loot tables on those corpses, I'd forgotten that stomachs are rare right now. That's a temporary thing, by the way. It's just a side effect of how the butchering and anatomy skills work. When the skills can be raised above level 50, it'll become easier for high level players to get organs from kills. Stomachs won't ever be as common as dirt, but their current extreme rarity is just an accident of how the game's content is being added. The point is that I don't always realize the ramifications of new content. Please communicate with us about these things! I make lots of mistakes, so please don't assume I ""must have a reason""... maybe I do, but I try to mention things in the update notes if I think they'll have a big impact on the economy. And please try to keep an objective view about this sort of stuff. Calling him ""greedy"", ""lazy"", ""exploiter"", etc., is over the top. I mean, he's picking up some crap that spawns on the ground. Now I'm NOT saying that people shouldn't be frustrated by that behavior, or by any behavior, really... if you're frustrated, that means other players will probably be frustrated too, so I want to know that. Please report what's frustrating you. We act on that kind of feedback all the time. What I'm asking is that you avoid getting into heated in-game arguments about whether people are playing the right way or not, especially when it's something as minor as camping a solo spawn spot. It just can't end well." ::http: Source//projectgorgon.com/forum/general-gorgon-discussion/833-exploiting?start=10#5934==== Topic Just for Old-School players? (No) ====:No, the game isn't just for old-school MMO players -- the game won't be successful unless there's room for a large audience with many ages and backgrounds. My goal for the game is to have 500 concurrent users daily. That's not at all a large number -- hell, there are a couple of text MUDs bigger than that -- but it's still a lot larger than we are right now. So obviously we will need to appeal to more people than the ones playing right now. And also obviously, there will be growing pains as we figure it all out. :: Sourcehttp://projectgorgon.com/forum/general-gorgon-discussion/820-im-amazed-happy-and-terrifed-all-at-the-same-time?start=80#5881==== Topic Racism ====:''' Despite there being in-game racism, you are still not allowed to use real-world racist terms in General Chat (or Local Chat, for that matter). And if your "fantasy racism" is intentional callbacks to real-world racism ("make the deer pick our cotton!", "gas the deer!", etc.), that's over the line too. ''' :: Sourcehttp://projectgorgon.com/forum/general-gorgon-discussion/820-im-amazed-happy-and-terrifed-all-at-the-same-time?start=80#5881==== Topic Non-Steam Version? ====:"I can say confidently that we'll have a non-Steam version at least after launch... but that's a ways away. We plan to launch at the end of 2016 so a non-Steam version might be as far away as 2017.:It might happen much sooner -- I just can't promise that at the moment." :: http: Source//projectgorgon.com/forum/general-gorgon-discussion/768-going-for-the-kickstarter-but?start=10#5532