Ask the Devs: Week in Review (April 13, 2008)

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Posted April 13th, 2008 by B. de la Durantaye

With the launch of Ten Ton Hammer's Ask the Devs feature, the forums have been overflowing with questions that Age of Conan fans want answered. Jason "Athelan" Stone has stepped up as Funcom representative to answer those very questions. For those of you who like just the meat and potatoes, we have compiled a list of this week's questions and answers.

As the game gets closer and closer to the launch, our celebrity devs are getting busier and busier. However, that didn't stop Athelan from answering nine more community questions right here on our forums. Here they are in summary:

Kagutsuchi asks: "Does release date vary depending on what country you are from - some regions say the 20th, others the 23rd? In that case, how will it be affected by the 3 days pre order ahead start?"

Athelan: "The three day headstart will happen three days before your regions launch date."

Fyrestryder asks: "Will there be a variety of group loot options at launch and if so can you give us an idea of what type we might can expect?"

Athelan: "There are free for all, need or greed, and round robin etc type looting already in place in beta."

Kelemvor asks: "My question is about the player capacity of a single guild. Is there a set limit?"

Athelan: "I am not aware of any limitations on guild population."

Dopeski asks: "I was just wondering if AoC will have specific server locations? Such as East-coast, West-coast, etc or if maybe you'll be using a sort of "centralized" server and have it right in the middle somewhere?"

Athelan: "There will be servers in the U.S. based on the East Coast, and then in various parts of Europe."

Macadami asks: "It's been said that you acquire blood money while pvp'ing in the Borderlands, and you get your starter amount by paying a 'fare' to enter on PvE servers. Will a similar system be in place for the FFA PvP servers or do you have something else in mind?"

Athelan: "As answered before Blood Money is up in the air as one of the options for risk and reward systems for PvP."

tutanka asks: "I was wondering if there is a mount that can hold more than one character(any you can give a buddy a ride on if he doesnt have a mount?)"

Athelan: "This was desired at one point in time but we cut this feature for the time being. Issues with another character effectively being "stuck" under someone elses control. Targeting passengers, and riders, vs mounts, if we could allow passengers to perform mounted combat etc."

Kagutsuchi asks: "There is this rumour going on the official aoc forum that a dev. have stated that the HoX can only be in the Xotli form for 20 seconds, what can you say about this?"

Athelan: "It is true that recently the Herald of Xotli was changed from being in his form always to a short duration "super buff" this is because Heralds never got to see their character and their armor and items etc while being polymorphed. The transformation has much more impact now as a short duration buff and is quite powerful. It is also on a relatively short cooldown."

Fyrestryder asks: "Will jumping drain stamina/endurance to prevent a Counter Strike-like PvP experience?"

Athelan: "Jumping as a substate disallows many actions. This means even though you can attack on the run I do not believe you can jump and attack. This limits the usefulness of jumping in combat but I do not believe it has a stamina cost at this time. It is very easy to add one if we find we need to for balance purposes."

Johnny asks: "Can you customise the appearance of your Herald of Xotli's demon form? If not, are there plans for this down the track?"

Athelan: "It was designed so different parts of the model/texture could be swapped out to make it unique. This feature will be coming in post launch however."

Do you have a question about Age of Conan that you'd like answered by Funcom? Head on over to the Ask the Devs forum and ask away! Be sure to read the guidelines.

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