Gallahan: Welcome to tonight's Lineage House of Commons! To ask a question /msg or /query [QT]Erusun, [QT]Ichabod or [QT]GrayRed
Gallahan: Please do NOT message either myself or the developers as these questions will be ignored
captsturm: Hello everyone, I'm CaptSturm--Lineage Producer, NA
Kyzah: Hi everyone, I'm Kyzah, Community Coordinator for Lineage; great to see you all here tonight! :)
Leilo: And hello again! I'm Leilo - Community Manager for NCsoft Austin and part time celebrity cruise director... Welcome!

Gallahan: With all the news of this new class. When will it be coming?
captsturm: It'll be coming with Episode 13, currently on the Korean Test Server (and an internal austin server)
captsturm: We don't have a firm date for publish to the Korean Main Server, but we'll want to make sure its properly tested.
captsturm: It should hit the US main servers 2-3 weeks after this.
* Leilo pokes Captsturm in the head.
captsturm: Meaning, 2-3 weeks after it is published to the Korean Main Server.
* Leilo nods.
captsturm: :^)

Gallahan: Are the elixirs going to remain in the U.S. client in the next episode?
captsturm: If it is published to the Korean Main Servers, it'll be published here as well.

Gallahan: People have been waiting sometime for the 2 handed weapons update on LoA. When should we expect this update?
captsturm: I discussed that one prior to some issues that significantly delayed my LoA dev efforts. It's still near the top of my list of changes, but I don't have a firm timeline on this one.
captsturm: I want to make sure the changes are appropriately balanced and I'm working very hard on introducing the class bonuses right now as well.
captsturm: However, I do completely agree with the need to revisit those 2handed types.

Gallahan: *Fenyx* What is Richard Garriot currently up to?
Leilo: Richard Garriott is currently acting as Creative Director here at NC Austin. He's primarily involved in the creation of Tabula Rasa - one of our games in development.
Leilo: He also lends his time to other teams around NCsoft, consulting when teams request his input.

Gallahan: *Elbasin* what is lineage?
Kyzah: Lineage is a massively-multiplayer online hack-and-slash game with a dash of political hoohah-mayhem freshness on the flip side. :)
Kyzah: But seriously...
Kyzah: If you'd like to learn more about Lineage, try checking out our website at lineage.com, our message boards at boards.lineage.com, some of our awesome fansites, like Compendium, Stratics, The Player's Guide...
Kyzah: Not to mention all the great players; try checking out #lineage here after the chat is over to see what others have to say about Lineage.

Gallahan: I have heard that the start of episode 13 is really a start of a new lineage. Are there any details about the new Episodes that you can share?
captsturm: It is indeed the beginning of the next era of Lineage 1, the first of six planned episodes introducing a fresh creative approach to the game design.
captsturm: It's centered largely around the emergence of the Dark Elves and the animosity and ancient conflicts of the races and lands.

Gallahan: Will the level 50 quests be adjusted or remain just the four classes
captsturm: Currently, I believe the level 50 quests are to remain the same, with level 15, 30, and 45 Dark Elf quests ready at publish time. This is subject to change during the test cycle process--but that's my current impression.

Gallahan: *NitRaTe* Will this game still have the developers' support after Lineage 2, is the same team in Lineage the original working on the sequel?
captsturm: Two completely different teams. Lineage will continue to develop and deliver new content for some time come.

Gallahan: *TheEbonHand* I thought Paagario's hatred (LoA server weapon) was supposed to bestow all the powers of the demon to the wielder. I only cast earthquake. Where's my 200 HP+ fireball?!!
captsturm: Well, that weapon is intended to be quite the monster. If its not behaving properly, I'll need to look at correcting that.

Gallahan: *SplutterFish* any plans for extending the limit of bookmarks/storage with all the new areas/items comming in game ?
captsturm: None that I'm aware of, but I'll request this information from the design team.

Gallahan: What will the U.S. version of the name "Cross Rancor" be?
captsturm: We're discussing this with marketing at this time--I hope to have an announcement for this soon.

Gallahan: *DragonSpire* With all these new items most are either knight only or all classes. Are there going to be any Items for everyother class like mage, elf, prince only?
captsturm: Sure--I'm wary of announcing too much until I'm close to releasing it.
captsturm: Right now the focus has been on the Knight class, but the attention will soon move around the classes.

Gallahan: *treelike* Are there any plans to introduce a level 50 bonus for the mage class?
captsturm: Not that I'm aware of at this time.
captsturm: We've mentioned this to the dev team, but I'll be glad to reforward this question. I've been tracking the discussion on boards regarding this and have seen some pretty good suggestions to send as well.

Gallahan: Will we get to see Dragons on ALL servers anytime soon. equal strength on dep/ken/loa else i think NC should update commercials using the challenge dragons part.
captsturm: I don't have any new information on the dragons at this time, but will add this one to the list of requests.

Gallahan: *DragonSpire* lineage seems to be losing interest in the US other then the few loyal fans. Any plans on going into Advertising to get more custommers?
captsturm: I've had some recent discussions with our new VP of sales and marketing which have been quite encouraging.
captsturm: With our new products slated for release, I'm not sure how much of the marketing efforts we'll have exclusive ads for lineage--but
captsturm: he did confirm our commitment to the US Lineage customer base.

Gallahan: *BaBoManiA|LoA* I am one of the many that enjoy this mimic event. but many do not. I was wondering if there are any new or exciting events planned. Perhaps the frequently requested EXP event?
captsturm: We're always working on something neat and fresh to do.
captsturm: Not every event is intended to be a "blow your socks off, here's a RoTC" event
captsturm: An exp event is something that I simply don't have to tools to do right now--but I've been following suggestions on the boards for possible events.
captsturm: I've also noticed that pretty much every event has its share of critics--it's difficult to make something everyone enjoys.
captsturm: But, we're tracking what seems to work and exploring what we can do.

Gallahan: As far as the story is concerned, is the Dark Elf class supposed to be a durable, melee class (lots of HP, good fighters) or more like a delicate, special unit (low HP like mage, must be played very carefully) or some combo?
captsturm: The story has them portrayed as a race that turned from good and are somewhat of assassins.
captsturm: How this plays out ingame, I'm not sure yet.

Gallahan: *ArtofWar* will the other mage spells ever be introduced?
captsturm: I'm not sure of the long term plans regarding the mage spells--we'll introduce them to the US main servers as they're released to KMS.

Gallahan: The Maphyr's Pestilence (LoA item) is really quite the disappointment. it has the animation of Disease, but does not cast it. Why is this?
captsturm: Currently all the magic weapons have their own spells--direct damage only.
captsturm: At this time, the spell effect is limited to target specific damage. That particular weapon is intended to be a lower end weapon--Maphr's Retribution will be the monster of the earth line of weapons when introduced with a future publish.

Gallahan: *amer* We've seen from the Korean Test Server that most of the Dark Elf items are Dark Elf only. Does this work in the other direction (most regular items will not be usable by Dark Elf) as well?
captsturm: That's been my intitial discovery.
captsturm: I just got the new content and server running on my internal dev box late yesterday, so I'm still digging and investigating--but it does seem that many items previously restricted (I think the BoE for example) continues to be restricted--even from the Dark Elves.
captsturm: But, the Dark Elf stuff is looking very cool.

Gallahan: *DragonSpire* I have heard Rumors or Darkelf being a Chaotic class and always being at war with the humans and elves is this rumor true?
captsturm: I don't believe that to be the case--currently, it seems to function as any other character. Again, subject to change and still getting my first look as well.

Gallahan: are there any plans to do something about the wafer prices? 3k for 8min hunt is kinda xpensive
captsturm: None that I'm aware of--other than the recent duration. I believe the rarity of that item is part of the overall class balancing, plus the relative safety (though timeconsuming) process of harvesting this item.

Gallahan: *BaBoManiA|LoA* I fear that 6 episodes over 3 years could be devastating to the North American Market. By then, many users will have moved on other things. What are your feelings on this?
captsturm: Oh, I think it beats not delivering any more content! :^)
captsturm: The ongoing delivery of content is one of Lineage's strengths, I think that by continuing to provide this content your loyal customers will stay--and hopefully bring in friends and other new users.

Gallahan: *amer* Can you tell us what kind of limits will be placed on the Elixir? Will it be 5 elixirs collected? Used? Can you sell them? Are they common?
captsturm: Still looking into this--but first impression indicates that there's a limit to how many can be used (I think its 5) and though they're not that rare a drop, I'm not sure how common the mop that drops them is.

Gallahan: *dampierre* Leilo, do you consider yourself more the sexy dark elf or the cute girlish normal elf?
Leilo: Too few choices.
Kyzah: I thought Leilo was the Succu-babe!?
Leilo: But if I had to choose, I'm more the girlish normal elf who screams in terror when confronted by a Texas cockroach.
Leilo: And Kyzah and Captsturm need to chime on what THEY are!
* Leilo glares at Captsturm.
captsturm: I am definitely a sexy dark elf. I'm so pretty. /me Dances the pretty dance.
captsturm: :^)
Kyzah: Oh dear.
Kyzah: I think I'm too traumatized to answer now.
* captsturm is still dancing.
Gallahan: o.0
Gallahan: Well thanks for attending tonight's chat! A log will be posted shortly on http://lineage.stratics.com!
captsturm: Good nite all--thanks so much for stopping in!
Leilo: Thanks everyone!!!