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Yep that was it. $75k and 7% revenue just wouldn't work for us.

There are certainly far fewer women in the game industry than men, but this is rapidly changing, which is fantastic. When I was at SOE back in 96 there were very few female developers. There are many more now (but still not enough IMHO).

I'll ask my lead engineer for the details, but if my memory serves me correctly, I don't think you can get the source code for the Hero Engine, and we won't use an engine that doesn't allow us to modify the source.

Any name cache I still have would be obliterated and I would have to work at McDonalds

Sweet -- I'm a Dream Theater, Fates Warning, (old) Queensryche fanboy.

Thats fair. There are some unknowns at this point, most of them depending on how well we do with all of this. Ok, heading to other sites now. BBL.

I'm in. Does Skype have remote group hug functionality?

Hi Utnayan, good to see you. SOE does NOT have this backed. They're putting everything they have into Landmark/EQN. I understand why you don't want to 'pre-pay' and want to wait for the final game and then purchase. I'm sure a lot of people feel that way. That said, I think the world is...

Could Pantheon be the chunky monkey plz?

I'll work something up on travel and post it here and elsewhere. Give me a day or so, thx.

On it.

Found a cool summary of the game. I wordsmithed it a bit. "Pantheon is a harsh and difficult high fantasy MMORPG with old-school sandbox elements, plenty of lore and exploration, a focus on grouping, and clearly differentiated classes-but peppered with modern improvements, like a more...

I'm most certainly all-in. I know people think I'm wealthy, and I did make a lot of money from EQ, but that was a while back. I put a lot of personal money into Vanguard and the stock market. I'll leave it at thatIf I could fund this game myself, I most certainly would without any hesitation.

1. Rare spawns more like EQ 1 than Vanguard. 2. Not sure on the mounts yet. 3. EQ is definitely the foundation we are building everything upon. -Brad

Changing that. Just did a couple of posts on MMORPG.com and will start posting everywhere I can starting today. I won't be able to keep up with everything here, but it's the right call.

Thanks Tannlin -- I hope you don't mind if I steal some stuff from your summary and put it in the FAQ. Going to try to get some shuteye. See you guys tomorrow.

Thanks very much for reaching out to your old guild. I think you're right, that we're not reaching some people, and that there's still a lot of people who don't even know what kickstarter is. We need help reaching out to those folks.

I mentioned this earlier, but it bears repeating: All of us are working pro bono. None of us has the money to self-fund. If I did, I'd be doing it, believe me.

That's awesome -- thanks for reaching out to the VG guild. As hard as we are trying to spread the word, it's tough. We owe a lot to you all for spreading the word! Sometimes word of mouth just works, and all of the 'sophisticated' avenues don't.

Let's keep in touch.

I'll take 1993 for sure!

We have a plan but it really needs to be tested. Basically, less levels and each level takes a while to complete. There will be sub-levels and other achievements while you are that level so you still see your character advancing. But if there are fewer levels, then there is more content per...

Ah man, I'm with you. I wish there was some way.

Gotcha. This game isn't about hand holding much past the first few levels, so I think we'll come up with a system you like.

I want to see how our implementation turns out. One of my mantras I use when in design meetings is this: there's the Idea and then there's the Implementation of that idea. Let's take underwater adventuring... a lot of people haven't liked how it's been implemented in the past. My reaction is...

The FV server was the last thing I worked on before leaving SOE back then. I'm a big believer in alternate ruleset servers.

This.

We will try to get more videos done, but it really takes a bit of time to do them nicely. We DO have 2 more Q&A videos with me answering players' questions, the 2nd one will be up soon. What are your opinions on how quickly we roll these out?

You'll be able to move casting the vast majority of spells. There may be a few you can't, and many will probably slow you down, but in general, yes you can move while casting.

Absolutely. Ok, I'm going back to the FAQ so I can get some more info up tonight. talk to you all soon.

I will read through it tonight -- it's added to my TODO list. Thanks for making me aware of it.

We are indeed throwing everybody and everything at this effort. It's all hands on deck. And we love it and are having a great time -- please don't mistake anything I've said as complaining; rather, I was just being up front with the resources we do have.

The Mac icon has been on the KS page since the beginning, and then I also yesterday added some text letting people know there would be a Windows and Mac client.

Here's a bit of the FAQ I'm working on regarding this: We believe the economy in Pantheon should be predicated on delaying and minimizing item value de?ation (mudflation). Pantheon will have an open economy. There will be many ways for resources to enter the world and a number of ways for...

It means that if the path of least resistance is to sit there and kill the same mob all of the time then that is what many players will do. Even if they know the less efficient content is more fun. We want to avoid this, so the more efficient route, or the path of least resistance, should be...

I love tangible swag too. We hope to have more, but are a little hesitant to commit to a bunch of it right now.

Also one of our team member's is blocked for some reason -- could we get Ceythos such that he can post again? thanks in advance.

Our website is up --Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen-- but I don't think it makes sense to put up our own boards quite yet. Possibly post-KS.

It would be a lot of fun to put in some easter eggs like that.

True.