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As someone who wants to play either a Ry'nari or Krona, I want a huge family. Not because I want to make an empire or anything... But because I like having that surround of people who want to RP. I've always been big on IC relationships, from Midkemia to Lusternia and everywhere inbetween.

But I don't think Krona make royals. Or Ry'nari. But horde with me please.

Dodger said:

Another barrage of questions!

1. The art of Maddox has got me thinking: How wide of a selection of firearms will we get? Does the Scoundrel's PIECE, for example, have to be a pistol, or could it be 'customized' as a rifle?
2. Personal shields. Do we get personal shields? Or will it just be a 'health' system?
3. Titles? Could I be "Dread Captain Dodger McScoundrel, Scourge of Starmourn Sector" or will we only get first/last names?
4. Will there be admin-created player-run organizations other than the big three factions, such as guilds/houses/orders/companies/corporations/fleets? Will we get clans?
5. Any idea what the PK rules will be like? Will it be "you need a valid in-character reason to kill someone" like the other IRE muds, or more complex (or lenient!) than that? Will there be "lawless" open PK planets/sections of space where we can basically be pirates and gank people UO-style to our hearts' content?

1) For opening, Scoundrels will just use the PIECE.
2) You'll have to wait and see.
3) Titles are earned through actions.
4) There will be clans, but the main social organisations will be your factions. We're not going to subdivide them further into houses/guilds at this time, preferring to leave them more freeform, and encouraging the social melting pot.
5) We've got an opt-in PK system for day-to-day life as a person. Some actions may opt you in automatically. Ship-based, there's lawful and lawless areas of space.

Achaea has a system of assassins to revenge your death. I believe this system would suit Starmourn well

Iarri said:

Is the plan to have less classes as well? I have always found (in Lusternia) that the sheer number of classes, while they share things, tends to obfuscate stuff, because you have all the flavor text stuff. I mean, even monks from different cities, with different weapons and different afflictions were hard to keep track of. 

Well, the plan is to have five classes at launch, because that's all we can manage. If we could have 15, we'd have 15.

Hey everyone! We really appreciate the great questions, but I feel this thread will turn into an unmanageable behemoth if we keep going at this rate. What I'd like to see is a new thread for each of your questions, that way it's easier for people to find information on what's been asked and what the answer was. Thanks in advance!


ETA: I added a new dedicated Q+A category for all your question threads - http://forums.starmourn.com/categories/questions-and-answers

I'm not a fan of combat systems, scripts, triggers, etc.  Would rather read and do the work myself.  Slower combat text would be a good thing for types like me. Or even a seperate text window for combat. Can't exactly ban systems unless Starmourn was only playable in a locked IRE client. I don't think my thoughts and ideas are very popular.