A few in game questions

[Legate of Mineta]

Alright!

 

1) Is it still intended to have some kind of spell mastery that improve the more you actual use similar magic and if so at what year will it be introduced?

 

Yep. It doesn't look like it will make the cut for Y2, which would mean Y3. But you never know.

 

2) Can Mastery be used to increase a person's skills if the caster is good in the skill to be raised?

 

To an extent, yes. It's easier to do mental than physical, for instance, but both are viable.

[Schwarzbart]

1) Are you allowed to share some of the year 2 class by now beside the few we know already? (Brew, Familiar Handling,Orthography and Tattoo Magic are already confirmed as Y2 class to my knowledge)

[freespace2dotcom]

And don't forget orthography.

 

Really, Legate, I think that the class list should be known by now. Either tell us that, or the reason why you aren't telling us anything. Is it because some classes would cause us to ask too many questions about things you don't want us to know until Y2 finally does come out?

[isadorbg]

And Artifice too.

[Legate of Mineta]

Free;

 

No, it's more that we don't want to announce a class, and then cut it. Considering Y1, Brew, for instance, was a late removal.

 

But you're getting some of the classes out slowly.

[Metis]

How late a removal? Later in development than Y2 is at currently?

[Legate of Mineta]

Metis;

 

HmmmMMMMM. No, I think it came a little earlier. Rimbal was a later remove- that essentially happened to clear the way for the release.

[Schwarzbart]

What? Rimbal was even supposed to be a class maybe even instead of Athletics? That way it would become clear why there is no way to increase the maximum for athletics (Beside research)!

[Legate of Mineta]

Schwarzbart;

 

And the mini-game, too. Yep.

[Metis]

How were both removed so cleanly, though? There's no dummied-out classes, no dummied-out professors, and the DELETE skills can't actually be deleted because they're still referenced places (like student's AI tables, in the case of...Conspicuousness, was it?).

[Legate of Mineta]

Metis;

 

In the final data entry, the classes weren't entered. You can still find a few references to them here, and there, though, especially in the Events.

[Schwarzbart]

But Rimbal also not make it back as class in year 2 when I remember right?!

[Legate of Mineta]

Schwarzbart;

 

No, although it does appear as an Activity, using the new Conflict Engine.

[Schwarzbart]

with a little Secret Project ™ coming, *possibly*, this week!

1) So the Kickstarter video is finished and you started to do the Greenlight video for Academagia Y1?

 

2) Is the fan application for DLC 17 content closed by now or still open?

 

3) Any hints what the new Kickstarter is about?

 

Edit: don't forget to prepare news for the previous Kickstarter and for this forum and put one up ahead of time and a other at the start of the KIckstarter.

[Legate of Mineta]

Schwarzbart;

 

1) No, not quite- in fact, it's the last thing we're waiting for before we launch the campaign.

 

2) Still open- will be open, likely, until the Greenlight is approved.

 

3) I want to, so bad. But, I can't.

[Schwarzbart]

Just don't forget how important it is to give Infos out ahead of the Kickstarter.

[Legate of Mineta]

Schwarzbart;

 

Heh! You'll find out about it first here, when they set up the new forum. Also, there's a new moderator that we need to introduce as well, who will be helping to cover this one.

[isadorbg]

New forum heh ? Intriguing.

[Schwarzbart]

1) Will the moderator just help out for the Kickstarter or for longer? (I suspect with the Steam release of year 1 and probably even year 2 this year the work at the forum will increase compared to what it is now where just the die-hard fans are active)

[freespace2dotcom]

Well, we hardly ever see any of the other mods like Academagia Fan. I suppose they only get on for certain announcements?

[Legate of Mineta]

Schwarzbart;

 

Yep, I think they are probably long term.

 

Free;

 

The others tend to come and go only when they are needed, so you see them appear in bursts.

[Metis]

Is there something like an adventure's Guild in Mineta? Say you want to explore Elumia Proper or know of a place you want to have explored, where'd you go to find/hire muscle?

[Schwarzbart]

@Metis have you forgot about the Mercenary Guild House or the Inn where the former Godina students hang around? They might not call them self adventurer but there you get your muscle / brain for hire as long it don't get to illegal.

[Legate of Mineta]

Metis;

 

Not truly a formal Adventurer's Guild is the Licentiate of Mineta, which registers and insures wanderers, travelers and adventures of all stripes. They are affiliated with the Academagia, actually, although their practice is strictly non-magical.

 

And, as Schwarzbart notes, there are dozens of lesser mercenary guilds and organizations in the City.

[Metis]

I didn't forget about the mercenary guildhouse, I just didn't think they'd be the kind of muscle appropriate for exploring, scavenging and cartography as opposed to just pointing them towards a group of differently uniformed people that need to be murdered. At least in a setting as Academagia I see mercenaries more as human-shaped bulldozers, not explorers.