Q&A: Post Your Questions! (December)

[Karyuu]

Answers to previous questions can be found in this thread

Introduction

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 25th of December for the final selection. Get posting!

[Ishtar2]

What's the state of the religions in Yikium?  Are Taladism(?) and Lannaxism(?) broken up into different denominations or are they each unified churches?  And how are they organized?  Are the churches complated hierarchies like the Catholic Church, barely organised like Islam, or somewhere in between?

[miadon]

I know this is for the long distant future, but what are the current plans\ideas of how a player govenment will run? Will it work like a series of check boxes and scroll bars to change certain laws and "tax rates"?

[Under the moon]

What ever happened to Galeran Tarbius?

[Datruth]

How did the God's become god's?

Were they ever human?
Will they live infinitely?

Can they have children?

~~Datruth

Edit: Changed LIVED to Live

[lordraleigh]

Extending Datruth question...

Does the PS universe have(at least theoretically) the concept of "godhood"(mortals becoming gods)?

Are glyphs intended give the caster only one spell each? Or will they have different spells that may be casted using through different manners the same glyph? Can the most knowledgeable mages(or will they be able to) combine glyphs from opposing and/or not aligned ways on spellcasting because of their superior knowledge on the ways?

Will Xachas get damage(sunburn) from walking without protection during sunlight? If so, how will it work? Will it be sometimes fatal?  What kind of protections may be given?

[steuben]

it's mentioned in the character creation, but no where else. what is a goujah?

[sun_and_moon]

Are the various ways of magic practiced by those who believe in them? But if they're followers, was there a leader of each way? Like a god of fire or god of darkness that led others to follow it's way?

[Kelod]

Why do body parts seem to be the only things blocking?  Wouldn't it make sense that not every blow lands on the target but instead some, if not most,  are blocked by their adversaries weapon(s)?

[mb2love]

how can we tell if we can kill a monster ? , I mean it's VERY annoying to die and waste 40 minutes on running out of the dead realm (which I think was a bad idea) , so if we know we can't kill that monster we won't try.
will you implant a system that we can recognize by color or description if we are able to kill that monster ? (it will REALLY help).

 

[neko kyouran]

mb2love, If you have a high enough intellect I believe, viewing the description of the mob, at the bottom it will tell you if you will be able to kill it easily, or if you will likely die, etc.  Granted I don't think that system really takes in all factors like weapon skills and stuff, but it seems to work for the most part.

[eldoth_terevan]

When is Vladovic going to be back in his shop? (the NPCs still think he is there)

[mb2love]

Kran don't have females, so why in the character creating we still need to choose father and mother ? (if we know they don't have males/females , they are all the same) , shouldn't the character creation be different for kranes ?

[emeraldfool]

^^^ Wow, never thought of that...


Anyway, In the 'Overview' section of the main website, it mentions something about people coming into Yliakum via "portals from other worlds". What's the deal with that?

[ThomPhoenix]

Though it has been confirmed that there will never be Alliance chat, what about the ability to form sub-guilds? More and more guilds use the system where they have a fighting, a trading and crafting/mining and or intelligence branch, sometimes even in separate guilds. Having subguilds within a guild and having the ability to have for example one guild window for your guild and one chat window for the overlapping guild would be great. As there isn't going to be alliance chat, what is the standpoint of the developers on this kind of guildchat?