A few in game questions

[Rhialto]

1. Are there any professors from Plezyca?

2. Are there any Rules in Academagia or laws in Mineta prohibiting plays that satirize/insult other regions or countries?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

1) Not presently, no.

2) Lese Majeste laws for the Emperor and Empire, and their officers, etc., are on the books in Mineta. Depending on the crime and the influence of the person involved, it could be prosecuted for other nations as well.

[Rhialto]

1. Is Plezyca part of the Empire?

2. Is Walking Talking Sneezing Bear Pelia's Familiar?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

1) It was a client state.

2) I am not sure about that one, I'll have to ask.

[Schwarzbart]

What form of client state? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_state client state isn't a very specific term of relationship.

[Legate of Mineta]

S;

They were loosely controlled at various points by the Empire, especially in terms of foreign policy, and they paid tribute to the Emperor.

[Rhialto]

Where does Mineta get ivory? I am writing a random event for Y2 in which ivory is treated as a luxury from Valvili (I was thinking walrus ivory), but is this inconsistent with the setting?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

No- it received ivory from both northern and south/eastern sources, although especially the latter are clouded in mystery.

[Rhialto]

Is there a continued trade in ivory from the north, or did that end in the past?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

No, it continues.

[Rhialto]

Is there ivory in Alesfa?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

No.

[Schwarzbart]

1) Are item that give each day a other effect possible in year 2?

[Metis]

Is it set which of the PC's Classmates end up being mentors in Y2, or is that determined based on some series of values, or does the game completely skip over that entire idea?

[Legate of Mineta]

S;

1) Hmmm, can you clarify? I am not sure I understand what you mean.

2) It doesn't quite skip, but it's minor and story based.

[Schwarzbart]

I ask if it would be possible that a item get each day a random effect from a table? So I.e. Monday you take some damage Tuesday some attribute is boosted for this day Wed. curses you got damaged once again Thursday A Skill got temporary boosted Friday A other Attribute got temporary boosted.

[Legate of Mineta]

Schwarzbart;

Hmmm. It's possible to do, but there isn't a specific Effect. You'd have to set it up by hand each Day.

[Metis]

So that possibility of having two Familiars in Y2. How does one go about acquiring another Familiar?

[Legate of Mineta]

M;

Alas, that is [Redacted], but it has to do with your Bond Level.

[Schwarzbart]

1) So you say I would have to set up the result for the item each day separate and there is no way to just do a reference table with like 5 or 6 result and the game select one random result for the item each new day/ or better each time the player hit the process turn button? That is not really practical.

2) Will the actual knowledge of spells and pheme become more and more something separate from the skills in the next years? (I think it was already tried in year 1 but with the limited usefulness of spells, bad favor and shopping system it not really worked out)

[Legate of Mineta]

S;

1) You could, but you couldn't guarantee non repeating results, though.

2) Yep.

[Schwarzbart]

1) Will year 2 require a 64 bit OS? I ask because according to a recent update of one of my backed projects at KS: "The latest Steam Hardware Survey shows that over 97% of gamers now use a 64 bit operating system" but that also means some people will not be able to play it. Still I think its a must step for a memory hungry game like Academagia as 32 bit OS can not even full address 4GB of Memory (depending on other hardware it can become even less then 2 GB) .

[freespace2dotcom]

Given how long Y2 has been in development I think that's pretty unlikely. Still It probably wouldn't hurt to plan that way in future years.

[Schwarzbart]

If I remember right I already had Windows XP 64 back when year 1 did come out or short after and so a company who have development cycle of 5 year + could already jumped on this back then.

[freespace2dotcom]

XP 64 bit was more of a novelty than a serious OS. Very few proper drivers came out for it. I ought to know because I was looking for a 64 bit windows, and preferred the older ones if possible.

Besides, even when 64 bit XP was retired there still weren't that many people using 64 bit PCs.