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Ten Ton Hammer: You have talked a lot about the crafting system in the game. Can you tell us how player crafted items will stack up against loot dropped from encounters?

Atanas: Items crafted by players will be intricately customized to the gameplay of their owner and will allow thousands of combinations between base Technology and use of multiple enhancement Designs. Looted items will offer no customization beyond what the item has been generated with, with fewer and weaker Designs.

Ten Ton Hammer: Have you run combat scenarios in the office? How are they playing out using the open world format?

Atanas: We have, and we had a blast with it. Although rough around the edges like every development version, it is turning out to be an exciting event with everyone exploring new uses for the combat abilities, finding new tactics and combat styles. We have been running PvP events between small groups up to mass combat events although we expect even larger, epic scale combat to be frequent event in battles for guild territory takeover.

Ten Ton Hammer: A big question in sandbox games is can players solo? Many of these style games eventually become run by guilds or large corporations that can control major parts of the world. How would a solo player survive in Earthrise?

Atanas: The storyline in Earthrise is tailored to what a solo player could play alone although they will find extreme challenges towards the end. Most quests can be done solo and most creatures can be killed solo in 1v1 fight. In PvP combat, however, and especially sieges it would be wise to have friends and not walk the desolated lands alone.