And now, assuming you've read this far, I'll give you the treats.
I was able to score a few choice bits of information from Leilo and
CaptSturm, some of which they asked that I not report yet (should have a few
more I can report on soon ^^) but I did get a couple you might be interested
in.
I asked this first question because it has always plagued me when I
let a monster go whether or not it would have dropped me the same thing it
dropped some other lucky sap. Not necessarily useful, but interesting none
the less.
"Do monsters spawn with the items they will drop, or are the drops determined
when the monster dies?" - Me
"Drops are determined when a monster spawns" - CaptSturm
The second question I got answered (and one I'm sure all of you are
infinitely more interested in)...
"There are rumors circulating that another morph event is upcoming. Any
truth to that? And if not, what type of events are you planning?" - Me
"[hesitates] Well, alright I'll give you the scoop. I'm planning on an
event which combines the morph event and a drop event at the same time.
Susan is gonna be upset I told you that. [Leilo glares at CaptSturm for a
moment]" - CaptSturm
"Ooo that sounds fun, forget her, tell me more." - Me
"Neah, that's all you get. You'll see when it comes out." - CaptSturm
"So would it be happening in conjunction with the Episode 13 release?" - Me
"[laughs] No! episode releases are always a little hectic around here.
We try to avoid doing anything else while that's going on." - Leilo
So there you go guys. Since episode 13 won't come to US servers for at
least a month, there's a fairly wide window of time during which the event will
occur, but I did my best!
The third important question I got answered was about what is and is not
possible to be implemented by NC Austin. I began the question on the topic
of castle income and it became more general.
"Recently there seems to be a lack of interest in Castles that is really
hurting the community. Is there anything being done with the castle income
system to correct this?" - Me
"Unfortunately, we're tied to Seoul when it comes to that stuff." - CaptSturm
"I've heard that there are some differences between our servers and theirs
though. Could you not request the change since it seems to be pretty
important to the US players?" - Me
"Well, all the servers have the same code, but some things have flags that
say something like 'If Server = 1 then do this, if server = 2 then do this' so
it would be possible to change it in that way."- CaptSturm
Unfortunately I was never directly told that anything will be done about
castles so we may just have to wait that one out.
And yes, I did actually ask them to tell me what characters they
played. And no, they wouldn't tell me even if I promised to keep it my own
special secret. They did give me some vague information. They do
pretty much all play. They don't have any level 50+ which I found
surprising, though there are a couple 49s apparently (not sure which server).
They seemed to be more interested in LoA as far as actually playing. They
have been in pledges but at least Leilo and Captsturm are not currently
affiliated with any due to the fact that it becomes difficult when people start
asking each other personal questions (like "where do you work?") that they
obviously can't answer.
Also, I did not get to see the servers =(. They are not actually
onsite. They have offsite hosting through a Texas-local ISP.
Thank you all for reading, and many thanks to Leilo, Kyzah and CaptSturm for
setting this up and putting up with all my questions. I'm sure I'll see
you all at Richard's next yacht party ^^.
- Morticae/Bizanti