Mark Jacobs Chat

MassiveMultiplayer.org reports that Mark Jacobs, President of Mythic Entertainment, paid a visit to Stratics’ chat channel last night and answered several questions, including the possibility of adding dragons to the game:

Mark_Jacobs: Our Herald board site went up today, that was a good thing.
Dragon_SR: Yeah i went and check that out I love the maps of each server
Mark_Jacobs: Isn’t that cool? 🙂
Khorum: how often are the realm war maps updated, btw
Mark_Jacobs: I think it is every 5 minutes but Scott J. knows the real answer.

JackTheMad: pardon me Mark do you know if there is any talk of a sped up lvling server? like was in towards the end of beta?
Mark_Jacobs: Jack, no, people are leveling fast enough in groups. If we sped it up anymore it would get even uglier even quicker. 🙂

Isidien_LoV: Mark are you guys hiring? 🙂
Mark_Jacobs: Isidien, we will be looking for one additional graphics programmer, probly one or two world devs.

Zedd: will they finish off the character classess, like infiltrators getting climb and all of the other talked about abilities?
Mark_Jacobs: Zedd, of course we will. Our first priority over the next 5 weeks though is taking are of all the issues that have arisen since we went live. That’s why our two most recent patch notes had so many fixes in them to quests, etc.

Dragon_SR: Will they wipe RP’s when they put the rewards in?
Mark_Jacobs: Dragon, I haven’t heard of any plans to do that.

Zedd: Last night a bunch of people had their compter reboot on them while playing RvR, it got real laggy then all of a sudden instant reboot. This a know problem?
Mark_Jacobs: Zedd, I haven’t heard of that happening but I wouldn’t be suprised if it is true. If there is a ton of lag (not low frame rates), the client could think it was disconnected. Now, that shouldn’t cause an instant reboot who knows, anything is possible.

Dragon_SR: Mark What’s your favorite class?
Mark_Jacobs: My favorite was a wizard.

Dragonsabre: On the Paladins refresh chant. I can read that 2 ways. Is Mythic going to can the stackable refresh or just any other class group heal being able to stack with it?
Mark_Jacobs: Healing should not be stackable.

Dragon_SR: What’s Mythic’s Stance on players entering the home realms?
Mark_Jacobs: As to attacks in the home realm, it should not be doable in the stand rules server.

Melal_LR: Are you satisfied with the territory control aspects of RvR? Are you considering adding specialized vendors or other things to them to make taking and holding a non-relic keep a real benefit?
Mark_Jacobs: Yes I am happy with what’s in there today and yes, there will be a lot more coming down the road.

Webin: So will longshot and volley exist?
Mark_Jacobs: Webin, as far as I know, they were on our list last time I talked to Matt F about archers.

Isidien_LoV: what’s the best way to communicate with you guys?
Mark_Jacobs: Isidien, through a cage with metal bars. 🙂
Isidien_LoV: who’s in the cage, us or you? 🙂
Mark_Jacobs: Us lately.

Dragon_SR: Will there be Message Boards on camelotherald Mark?
Mark_Jacobs: Dragon, not likely in the short-term. I don’t want to simply set up boards that we will then have to moderate and deal with on a full-time basis. I want a solution that works better than that.

Sparrowhawk: Are you so far pleased with where things are at in respect to the game itself?
Mark_Jacobs: Sparrowhawk, in some ways very pleased. In other ways, no. Overall I’m thrilled with the game’s performance but I wish that some of the things that we have seen over the last few weeks had been seen in beta.

Melal_LR: Care to give us any tidbit that we don’t already know about upcoming RvR enhancements?
Mark_Jacobs: We want to really expand it’s impact on the game in its standard rules configuration as well as when we have a heavier PvP server.

Pad: Will there be any *dragon type* mobs added to the game, my guild comes from more of a PVE type enviroment and one thing they miss is big mob fights with multiple groups, and latley its hard to get them to come out and play
Mark_Jacobs: Yes, there will be dragons. I saw the latest cut at them today. They look pretty cool. We also have lots of other NPCS on the drawing boards. Our guys are itching to add more models but we have been holding them back in order to keep the download small.

Webin: What are your plans for realm points. I have about 30,000 just wondering if that’s gonna do anything. I haven’t been able to get a definate answer as to what they do or will do.
Mark_Jacobs: Webin, nope, RPs will have no impact on the game at all! 🙂