Q&A: Post Your Questions! (October+November)

[Karyuu]

Answers to previous questions can be found in this thread.

Hey guys! I'm really sorry we are so behind this month with the Q&A. For those who haven't heard, there was a problem with our internal mailing list and the questions didn't go through for a really long time, so we weren't able to get most of the answers until recently. This month's Q&A will be for October and November both (it will close around this time next month) and we're going to be back on schedule in December. Apologies once more!

Introduction

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All of PlaneShift players are constantly bursting with questions for the development team, and ever-hungry for those answers. Because it's often impossible for the team to browse through the forum to find good inquiries they can provide comments on, we're holding monthly Q&A sessions where players can ask questions about the game, and on the first of each month a thread full of answers will be posted in the Announcement section. (The next "Questions" thread will also have a link to previous answers.)

Now keep in mind that we have some rules for you to follow when you are posting your questions, so make sure to ask something that you not only cannot find an answer to anywhere else, but are willing to wait a month/some weeks for. This may mean no posting questions about a bug that happened yesterday that you already know will be taken care of tomorrow. Any questions that break the rules will be deleted.

The "Questions" threads will close a couple of weeks before the end of the month so that the dev team can finalize their answers and really take the time to write informative replies, without more questions coming in. If you're late in posting your question, just sit tight until the next "Questions" thread will be opened.

Let's try to keep this thread to Q&As only, so no discussions. This will keep the thread easy to look through for the final selection. We're hoping both parties will have a lot of fun participating!

This thread will close on the 19th of November for the final selection. Get posting!

[RayvenD]

Is gay marriage supported in Yliakum?
Can I please have a free helmet? (jk)
What does it take to become a member of the settings team, as it isn't really a case of skill in software?

[Kezzik]

Shouldn't a normal variety of clothes be as important as the armor sets available ingame?
and once these clothes are available will they be customiseable?
will players have the choice to wear their normal 'clothing under and over their armor, if any or even a mix of both?

[Irri]

Why is there a poster of a Diaboli lady all over Hydlaa?

[miadon]

will oja ever have sewers?

[Croconil]

When will the customisable chat window be implemeted

Will there be any sort of fast travel? If not will journey lengths be shorter?

When is the next town going to be implemented (rough guess will do )

When will any new races be implemented?

[ThomPhoenix]

Pay attention Croconil, a customizable chat window has already been developed. Some are already using it (self-built Planeshift), but it will be available for everyone in .17 release.

Just look at this post in the Development Deliberation forum.

[Karyuu]

I would highly recommend against "when" questions, as mentioned in the Q&A rules. I could fill an entire thread myself with when's, but it would hardly be useful :}

[miadon]

What are the names of the current octarchs of each level?

[Croconil]

Pay attention Croconil, a customizable chat window has already been developed. Some are already using it (self-built Planeshift), but it will be available for everyone in .17 release.

Just look at this post in the Development Deliberation forum.

Yeah i know, but I ment when its going to be implemented into actual game, not self build PS.

Ok Kary. Sorry!

Only pay attention to the second one :/

[Venae Rell]

So, I see these nice hammers in Veja's smithy in the Arena, and I wonder....  would it be possible to provide this model for the other fine smiths of Hydlaa and Oja instead of the funny battle-axe thingy they currently have for a hammer model?

[Rolenun]

Some are already using it (self-built Planeshift), but it will be available for everyone in .17 release.

Yeah i know, but I ment when its going to be implemented into actual game, not self build PS.

Croconil, he answered that question already too. Self-built Planeshift uses .16 on Laanx just like your binary. The .17 release is the next available release to everyone.

[Stonn]

Does the rain or fog have any affect on the world in an appreciable way? Is it intended to affect gameplay or is it just for aesthetics? Is there another one of those Crafting Q&A Sessions planned in the near future? I just missed the last one although I must have read the log a dozen times, trying to find hidden meaning in the words  Thanks, Karyuu.

[Karyuu]

Stonn, can you expand on the weather question a bit, so I can understand it fully? :] Do you wonder whether rain is ever going to do something beside "look pretty," and if so, can you give an example of another action?

[Suno_Regin]

Here's one:

Where's the temple of Talad going to be located? Since the Laanx temple is in Hydlaa, the capital of Yliakum, where is Talad going to have room to build his temple?