Ask Your Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part VI!

[Caillum]

What are your plans/ideas on making content, be it end-game or not, that will limit the use of "zerg"/burn tactics by players and in turn making the overall feel of content more engaging and difficult?

Examples, from 1.0, of players using such tactics would be the use of Black Mage parties on Garuda to avoid most of the fight mechanics or using Monks to quickly kill Miser's Mistress. This quickly ruined, what I thought were, very fun, but difficult, boss fights.

[Dhalmel]

Will my fellow dhalmels come back?

[Susanoo]

Can I please have a Gunblade and Necromancer job. PLEASE!

[Susanoo]

Where are the Tonberrys!!??

[Rabntah]

I played some MMO with PVP and some of them had areas where PVP made impossible to do a quest because some people like just to bother. I would hate to be bothered all time and focus on what I want.

Will be PVP areas only for PVP or will be in open areas so players can't be bothered for quests?

[Caillum]

In other MMOs most major raid/dungeon/end-game bosses have loot pools of 5-10 unique items and the final boss has an even bigger loot pool with, usually, the best overall armor/weapons. Certain items would be rarer drops (i.e. epic weapons or unique armor pieces), but you would at least be guaranteed a couple drops from each boss kill. In 1.0, though, it did not seem to really follow that pattern and bosses would tend to drop, relatively, useless items other than the occasional super rare darklight/primal weapons.

Could you possibly go into detail on how you plan to handle end-game drops and the rate in which you think players should be able to gain those items?

[Eruantien]

Will married couples be able to share a house and share storage within the house?

[Kavaskous]

What are the server names you plan to have, or expect to have at Phase 4 and release? This is a big deal to a lot of Free Companies trying to get or stay organized, in the chaos of the MMO equivalent of 'New Game Plus.' I for one would love to know as soon as possible so I can focus more on other tasks, and enjoying myself trying the judging the new content of course!

[Kavaskous]

You mention Free Company properties being extensively capable of being customized such as furniture and furnishings, but what is the actual extent. Example: Individual rooms that have options to allow no one outside of them from hearing? Locks? Will there be ways to design rooms themselves so perhaps I could have a "Great Hall" for events with my Free Company mates?

[Kavaskous]

How much are the largest properties for Free Companies to purchase? Do we have to buy the plot of land first then build the building? Is that an option? Please tell me that's an option...