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Ten Ton Hammer: What can players capture in sieges?

Brian: You can capture artifacts anytime you want - there's not set time limit on these - and they'll give your legions (Aion guilds) buffs, or it will debuff the other side. You capture these artifacts and they're actually really helpful in capturing the big fortress.

The fortresses are timed, but they're not a once-a-week sort of timed events. They're nightly and they vary.

So you're not expected - if you hold a fortress - to defend it for weeks and weeks and weeks. It's meant to fluctuate back and forth so players can enjoy the content. The Balaur - the PvE race - can own it as well. You have to compete against both factions.

Ten Ton Hammer: Let's say you're a top-end guild. What are some of the advantages of concentrating your time on fortresses?

Brian: As you control the fortresses, your influence rations change in the game, which changes the tax rate. The prices on gear and items all go up and down based on your faction ownership.

You also gain access to specific shops within the fortress and in our launch version there will be dungeons that are a part of fortresses. These will be only accessible through the fortresses.

Ten Ton Hammer: What if you have the highest ranking on the server in terms of Abyss points?

Brian: You can actually have a skill that turns you into a raid boss for a particular amount of time. Obviously this skill has a *long* cool down timer, but for five to ten minutes-

Ten Ton Hammer: You're badass!

Brian: Exactly. But it does have a cooldown timer so you can't just sit around and grief people. There's also a thing that lets people know that you're in the zone and they should come and attack you to try to know you off.

Ten Ton Hammer: But you could use it if you wanted a really high-level person to try to help take down a fortress or something like that.

Brian: Right.

Ten Ton Hammer: What's the sweet spot for guild membership?

Brian: We actually limit guild numbers - I believe it's max at ninety at guild rank 3. You have three ranks, and each time you rank up you can invite more players in and you get different ways to customize your guild.

Ten Ton Hammer: Anything else players should know?

Brian: I think it's important for players to go in and try out our PvP experience during our beta event weekends that we're holding. We're going to open it up even further in our next pass, so players should get in and get to see how things operate.

Also, I think players should know that we are launching with three major updates on the game, so that means three major balancing passes already in place before people even get to jump into Aion.

Ten Ton Hammer: Thanks for giving us the update on this, Brian, and we look forward to talking with you in the future!