@17thCenturyCableGuy responded: Thanks for the question! Couple things:

First, the war system isn’t the limiting factor on number of players in a server, so no changes to the war system would affect that server concurrency limit. The server population number is primarily based on ideal player density for a good experience, which can actually degrade if there’s too much player density.

Secondly, we do agree that we want more players to have access to war, and we have ideas on how to address it, but nothing we’re ready to share yet. On the rewards for territory ownership, we continue to look at them with an eye on better balancing, but in general we want territory ownership rewards to be in line with the difficult achievement of taking and holding territory on an open server.

@17thCenturyCableGuy responded: Three key elements to this:

One, if you’re in ‘combat’ state (indicated by the crossed swords on the health bar), you can’t summon your mount.

Two, ANY damage from another player will dismount you if you are flagged, including ranged attacks.

And three, summoning has a 2 second delay, and any PVP damage will cancel the summon. We have a few knobs and dials to tune, and have done so a few times after our own playtesting, so if we still feel like it’s too easy to ride away from fights, we will re-tune. Our goal for mounts in PVP is that they don’t interfere with fights as much as possible.

@17thCenturyCableGuy responded: We would love to see all of those in the game! With the exception of open world housing–there’s good things about it obviously but our experiences from the early years have shown us that it’s not always desirable to need physical space in the world to accommodate every player.

We feel our current housing solution, using phased house interiors, strikes a really good balance between settlements feeling like living neighborhoods, but without needing to introduce urban sprawl to Aeternum.

@17thCenturyCableGuy responded: We are currently looking at the amount of items in the inventory, with an eye and strong desire to streamline them across the board.

Music sheets are a great example of where the inventory can get bloated – but we don’t yet have any concrete plans to share on how inventory items will be streamlined, including music sheets.

NateDoesLife: Is there a planned Inventory/storage overhaul coming. The storage shed system is very frustrating/annoying in terms of organization. I would love to see a full blown banking storage system similar to runescapes in which we can have custom tabs and sections for all our various items.

@17thCenturyCableGuy responded: We agree strongly with your point of view, and are actively looking into it. I’m sure you can imagine there are technical constraints to work around. We are still exploring!

@17thCenturyCableGuy responded: We can’t fit 20 people in a leaderboard at the moment, but as we look at future raid content, we will look at improving these leaderboards as well.

NW_ZinRamu: Yes, this is something we’ve discussed in the past and we think is important so we can push for exciting and strong PvE experiences without breaking the balance of PvP.

The first part of it will be coming in S3 when we use this new system to replace some of the balance we achieved through “required” perks. We will then build upon this system over time to include more aspects of combat.

NW_ZinRamu: There are no plans for solo expeditions at the moment. Those experiences are built for multiple players and designed with support and tank classes in mind.

However, we want to make sure everyone can easily participate in expeditions, so we’re making some changes in S3 to the difficulty of base expeditions to make them easy for all. We want players to be able to experience the fun and story of our expeditions in a low pressure setting. If players want a challenge they can participate in mutators.

Also as you can see on the roadmap we want to take expeditions cross world, like we recently did with OPR. That should make it much easier to find others to play with you.

NW_ZinRamu: We agree this would be a great addition, but we don’t have any current plans or time lines on when this might happen.

NW_ZinRamu: There are no plans to remove trophies when we remove banes/wards. Trophies are one time acquisition, versus gear which you continuously update and change. Likewise trophies are a separate system, whereas banes/wards impacted options and choices on gear and replaced them with “required” perks. Lastly, I think they are sort of cool chaser items for that last bit of power.

NW_ZinRamu: Interesting idea, I agree that this would be a good flow. But this isn’t something we’ve discussed internally yet, so no plans to pursue atm.

NW_ZinRamu:
1. Our main goals with the invasion changes were to speed up the experience and create a smoother difficulty curve. We were pretty happy with the ending waves, so this mostly resulted in earlier waves becoming a bit harder. This has resulted in a dip of win rates. They dipped a bit farther than we had anticipated (especially on Fresh Start worlds). Win rates are starting to increase a bit as people are learning the new setups. We’ll be keeping an eye on win rates and if this trend doesn’t continue we may need to make further changes.

2. An inherent buff for Stalwart was not added. This was intentional. Overall, we feel stamina regen was in a good place without it, and prefer the way the game plays without it.

3. No plans atm for any APIs like this.

Yes, we are very happy. We wanted to winrates to be difficult. It is balanced to be hard. That’s a goal we had and we think we’ve achieved that. It should be challenging elite content at first and then open up to more players over time. For example, when gear score increases etc.

It’s something we are talking about, but no plans to share yet with the community.

We’ve talked about both of those alot. We’re not ready to talk timeframes. But, at a high level I think both of them. The open world PvP is just fun, it’s cool. Season 3 will bring a new way to push influence that will hopefully bring a lot of open world PvP moments into the game.

But in the long term we have plans to push well past that.

I think we made a great change on the PvP reward track, and I think what’s happened is that players are wanting to purchase more items. However, we are looking into the issues of not having enough salt.

No, no plans for them at this time.

I think seasonal content is real definitive content. I think it’s engaging content for the players to come back to and participate in after other content has lapsed. It gives players a reason to come back and check in.

We are looking at ways to keep seasonal content around longer.

Yes, it is on our plans. Our next communication will be more about the expansion. After that we’ll have a roadmap for next year. We are not ready to talk about barbershop just yet.

We’ve seen the amount of OPR matches increase dramatically since cross server OPR. What this has also brought is a little more polarity with the results. There are definitely matches where there are stomps. We know it’s an issue. We are starting to look at it.

With that said, matchmaking is a huge complex proglem and it will take us a while to get to a solution that we are happy with.

Yeah, this is something that we are looking at. I don’t have an ETA because it’s a pretty complex UX system.

We’re thinking about that, but no definitive plans.