Producer Q&A - Questions Thread

Today we posted a State of the Game address (http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=252504) on behalf of the Lineage II team, including the NCSOFT West Lineage II Producer Nicolas "Cryo" Coutant! :)

We're following this up with a new session of Questions & Answers for the Producer, and we encourage questions related to topics covered in the State of the Game post (http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=252504), as well as your concerns, future game changes, and any questions you may have for Cryo as a Producer and as a person.

For reference, you can see the last Producer Q&A questions (http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=239296) and answers (http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=240608)threads in this same Dev Corner section.

This Questions thread will be open for 1 week, until Thursday, January 31, 2013, at which time the thread will be closed and no further questions are accepted. Soon thereafter we will post a separate Answers thread. You surely have lots of intensive and exciting questions, so we appreciate your patience while they are answered! :)

Please post your questions for the Producer here!
Remember: a Producer is not a game developer. Producers generally manage the implementation of game updates and make decisions in order to promote the game to the local market (NCSOFT West, as oppose to other NCSOFT territories). NCSOFT West Producers do not have direct control over the design and development of the game itself. Therefore if you have questions about the origins and development of the game, developer decisions for changes in the game (past or future), Cryo may not be able to answer these, but he'll do his best!

Please use this thread for Producer Q&A questions only. Comments (non-questions) about the State of the Game should be made in the State of the Game thread.

What will be done in regards to this terrible war system that makes little to no sense? The wars are perpetual so there is never a clear victor, the smaller clans are being abused by the larger more domineering clans and paying 5k rep points is ridiculous.

Why are daggers maximum critical messed up ? we no longer have the critical damage bonus on the passive and this is a huge blow (no pun intended) to our class.

Since the decision to no longer do a PTS prior to updates, we seem cursed to go through multiple emergency maintenances, tons of bugged skills, items, quests, etc, and most importantly, lots of unhappy players. We now dread events, patches and weekly maintenances. Most people believe you have completely abandoned the customer service aspect of this game because of problems like this.
In light of this, would you please reconsider opening a PTS server the week (or more) prior to live updates so we can help you with identifying bugs?

Regarding the Echo patches we have received so far. We seem to have gotten these out of order. On 1/23 we got remainder of Echo 2, one little part of Echo 3,4 and half of Echo 5. Sace has stated that we should expect the rest of the changes with Lindvior. I worry weekly maintenance patches will introduce new bugs since we will not have all of Echo patches in game.
Question 1: Why we get Echo out of order?

Question 2: Will we get rest of Echo before Lindvior? (Quest, hunting areas, new items) Slap some koreans if you have to.

Question 3: Lots of bugs on yesterdays small patch. Echo/Lindvior patch will be nasty bugged based on history. What steps will you take to prevent this from happening? (wasted XP runes, characters not being able to log in, quests not working)

Question 4: What steps will you be taking to improve customer confidence in NCwest? Right now most of us think you guys are incompetent due to issues with bots, lag, bugs. Show us that 2013 will be better than last year.

Is there ever going to be a fix for the currently worthless Wynn Summoner cubic?

What will be done in regards to this terrible war system that makes little to no sense? The wars are perpetual so there is never a clear victor, the smaller clans are being abused by the larger more domineering clans and paying 5k rep points is ridiculous.

Why are daggers maximum critical messed up ? we no longer have the critical damage bonus on the passive and this is a huge blow (no pun intended) to our class.
+1

And why all classes have the best SA in ur weapon except daggers, we need critical damage and might mortal again ><

1. Will we get Lindvior update? and when it comes, will be able to freely pick the new path we will take for our class and have the same service that the players had from korea GMs ? (manually editting classes for people)

2. Will the transfer to chronos come back in the future ?

3. Why the destruction/blessed giants scrolls wont be available anymore in the future, how are the newcomers and new level 99 characters suppose to fight in a server where sereral people got +16 r99 weapons from previous sales. I am level 95 at the moment and I started playing some months ago, and I have to fight people with r99 +16 weapons and +6 r99 sets, but I have no chances to make my own items like this (using the store as they did), it is really unfair for the new player base, this need a solution, personally I dont plan to keep playing the game if there will be people who could get incredible strong items just because they were playing before me. The chances should be the same for all.

4 Small pertinent questions:

1) Do you think that last updates have been successful and that all tests were correctly done?

2) Do you have a test place, where you test the patches before applying them on real servers? Are you using a copy from one of the servers or just a fresh unedited server to test patches? Don't you think that a PTS should solve most of these problems?

3) Don't you think that valuable members of the community should be kept and not be kicked(IOW Banned) from the official boards and taking people with them to other forums, where they constantly keep all players that go there more informed than NCWest Staff?

4) Can you please ask Spam to get back IG? He made some visible and effective work with 3rd party users.

3. Why the destruction/blessed giants scrolls wont be available anymore in the future, how are the newcomers and new level 99 characters suppose to fight in a server where sereral people got +16 r99 weapons from previous sales. I am level 95 at the moment and I started playing some months ago, and I have to fight people with r99 +16 weapons and +6 r99 sets, but I have no chances to make my own items like this (using the store as they did), it is really unfair.

1) I am also very concerned abou this. +16 r99 weapons and Power Shirts make a huge difference in game. Is there a way to fix all of this and make the game ballanced again? I am sure every player and staff membr of NC West realises that this was huge mistake. Now the player base is very separated - these that started early in the Trully Free project, and these that started later. That definitely unmotivates new comers to the game. My suggestion might sound dumb, but it will not be bad if you ban all the +16R99 wpn users, I am sure they all break the EULA with no exception and limith the max enchantment to +10 or +8 as they did at Innova Servers. Somehow nerf the Power Shirts to make both the new commers and the current owners happy.

2) It is the same with the Draco Event. Players that have started earlier have their dyes. Players that started later, need to pay approximately 7 bil to get their dyes. Again this is huge imballance.

3) What are the plans of removing the bots, 3rd party program users and RMT? Banning China will not change much, as every player knows that buying adena from a real player is much more safe than a RMT website. Again it is strange that the management of Innova is able to deal with this problem, while NCWest can not.

4) I hope you understand that life support, player satisfaction come at first place and then the shopping in the NC Store. For instance I will not purchase stuff until I am completely sure that will be useful in the long term. If I keep playing on a server where everyone and his mom has a bot train to farm his adena, there is no point to invest my money in this game in order to reach such people. I would either quit or as well seeing how everyone bots, and uses 3rd party software to PvP, start aswell doing that.

5) Do you plan on giving a money value to the accounts? Right now it costs nothing to start a new account, which really makes banning bots a worthless effort, as it would take to awaken a new bot train under 3-4 days (although Lindvior will change that). I am sure there will be new players, willing to pay 1 subsciption of let say 5 USD to buy a new account to play in a server that is lag and bot, 3rd party programs, and RMT free.

6) You said you need money? Why didn't you guys contact with these connection booster companies like battleping and etc, asked them for a discount of their service and include it as a premium account service at the same price they would sell it to us. I know a lot of people using such services. I for instance never bothered, because I have literally no clue about them, but I would probably get a premium account which will give me better latency in an easy way, directly connected with the game. I am sure there are many more other ways, you have to just think about it.

I know that i'm not only one who asked about this before, but i want to ask again because of this:



Expanded Account Services



Will you add race change service in the future? When "Goddess of Destuction" update arrived i had to delete my main char to create new one because of race skills. I think it's not a secret that orc have much better race skills than human:) But now i'm not enjoy the game because i play on char with race i don't like.

The question all us spoilers want to know..


In Chapter 3 since you are decreasing our damage output (By how much will that be exactly?) because we will be the only class/race who can spoil once again and giving us an AoE spoil again (Thank you for that btw), are you at least increasing the Spoil Success/reward rate? To pre GoD standard? As of now spoil is useless even with AoE spoil with current success/reward rate is useless so if you are going to nerf us spoiler only to have us not be able to spoil too, please let us know so we can choose different othel type not spoiler. But I wish you do something about this. Because I love the spoiler class and that's why I play it.

Do you plan any drastic action to reduce bots ?

1) server wars (coming someday) does this mean we can war clans from other servers and join some "instance" to meet em?
like it doesnt matter anymore which server u play? that would be awesome

2) kinda nothing to do with it but when can we expect full ECHO patch on NCwest server?


3) wasnt reflect suppose to be "nerfed"? atm reflect isnt nerfed at all unless u call it a nerf when u bound max reflect done by a character is based on his PDEF?
because in all honestly with free augments give away every1 will try get Active augment reflect on C weapon
and passive augment reflect on their main weapon

this means people reflect easily up to 50??% of the damage so even if u have low damage output let say u do 1000 damage to Char A
u get reflect 500 back on top of that reflect u get his damage added also

for me it really ruins pvp when i go to siege and do 1 good AoE i almost kill my self if not drop over right away while taking 0 "real" damage but pure reflect damage

ncsoft has stated they nerfed reflect for all classes except a few who have it as Own skill still can boost it over the top but augments where nerfed
i wanna know if the nerf was like i said max reflect is your PDEF is that working as it "should"

5k pdef means u can reflect max 5k damage (which doesnt sound like a nerf to me at all :X)

Can you once and for all use any of the city which is not in use for example Gludin and make it like a market city or how ever you want to call it so just there you would be able to make any shop so that would save so much lag in towns like aden.

As well all those NPCs like Kartia npc can you place them in few cities as well ? way to many people around 1 npc in aden ....

a)In these days, you play this game like a player?

b)In game petition system will back?

c)When a character got bot report, the GSU investigate only game-guard report or they use a "human eye" to test bots?

d)The priority of bot report investigation for characters 1~85, 86~96 and 97~99 is the same?

e)I report a bot group day after day in the last 72 days, this bots stay in the same place, when a player of this bot party got lvl 99, this player leave the party and join one of "big clans" of server, another bot join the party and the "born place of lvl 99 toons" still stay in the same place (at least 2 of 7 is the same in last 72 days). GSU team speak about a big time to investigate. The time of investigation is greater than 72 days?

f)Since december 2012 the number of people working in support team have more members working for players?

g)Exist any plans to implant FROST in our servers and kick off the obsolete game guard?

My questions:):

1. Cryo, you did say about 1 year ago, that the NCwest plans to translate the game to different languages too, what the players in the options menu can freely manage, it looked to a popular idea.
Do you plan still to release these translations?

2. I did ask it in the last year, but as I see now the whole team looks much motivated, I ask it again.
Do you plan to make higher activities on Youtube? Nowadays it is a very popular and cheap form of promotion if a company comment their product or show them through videos.
Many another gamer company makes it and I guess they are very successful with these actions.

3. Do you have plan to make kinda of power wiki as it is in Korea?

4. When the Goddess of Destruction released, you made great work with the new website.
Will you create new website for the new contents in the Lindvior update too?
Like before the 34 class had own pages with skills example.

5. As before me someone asked too, do you plan in the near future makes effective actions against the lvl 97-99 bot groups?
Most of these farm out the biggest amount of illegal Adena what goes to RMT sites or to their owner.

6. How do you see, what was your/NCwest best and worst decision in 2012?

7. What do you think about the Lindvior update? What is your favorite content? What do you think about the return of the 34 classes? Finally, as player what is the class what with you would like to play?

8. Does the NCwest plans some rule changes in their bot policy? Right now as we know the progress while a bot user get ban is slow, because the rules, what the GMs must to follow.

9. Final question, as Colorado did ask before me too, is it possible, that HGMspam return to the Lineage 2 team? He got under short time really high reputation between the players, while he made really effective work too.

10. When do you plan to add Public Test Server?
I personally do not test on these servers too much, but if ten thousands of players could test 1-1 new update too, they/we could find much more bugs and issues.
It is still ok when a new content bugged, but when release a new update and makes the old contents bugged too (like the daily quest on Kamael Island) it is really annoying.

11. Do you plan to make IP block against Russia too? By my experience they control much more bot trains on Naia than the Chinese farmers had, additionally they don't make only RMT activities, but most of them use the illegal pvp cheats/bugs against another players. Also they have dedicated Lineage II servers to their own country where they could play.

12. About the translations. While I'm not sure, that this appear only in the translation or in the Korean client too, but I did find, that the English game client uses too many names from the Christian, Muslim and Jewish mythologies.
So if I read the forum rules, it blocks the to talk about religion, sex, drugs etc., but even if these names appear in the game, some deep believer can feel, that may some people make joke from his religion. Or a person who believe in any another religion can feel, that the game in hidden mode support some religions, while his religion blocked here.
When the translators try to translate the game, doesn't they try to avoid from these issues?
I do read a lot about the Ancient mythologies and these stuffs so, while may for an average people the name of Lilith or Leviathan is just a fantasy game name, I never know from where this name comes from:).

13. Will we see from you some more comments in this year, than in 2012? Many players was happy and did to you a lot of trust, when you made in 2011 an early translation for the Goddess of Destruction patch notes or that we could read your comments in 2011 more often.
In 2012 mostly we did hear about while u gave the interview for the mmorpg.com site.
The end of 2012 became a bit terrible I guess, a lot of legit player got ban, while you banned after unbanned a lots of cheaters, while servers lagged a lot, constantly server crashes. That all happened under the holiday time when most of people would like to play with his or her favorite game, but the service as we felt not double the activity to solve the issue, but went for 2-3 weeks holiday and let the players in trouble.
So I think it would be a good time to, that you personally who mainly manage or control this game in this area, would write to us about it something.

14. If I look another games, I feel, that the community of the Lineage 2 very separated from each others, as I did hear or read in another games has much more active community communication too, while here it is very minimal, example many of the Innova players simply hates those who play on our servers.
What do u or the NCsoft think about it? Do you or the NCsoft plan to take closer the players to each others and make a good "world wide community"?

-Due to everyday servers reaching max capacity of players logged in, implement server resets.

-Possibly Monday, Wednesday, Friday resets with Monday/Friday during non peak times for less than 20 minutes.

-Feel this would help with possible leaks on your servers and the lag problem we all experience. once a week server reset is not enough imo.

-enable the resets so not to effect instance timers already inplace.

-figure out a way to get players away from all these instances and back out in the game. Everyone just does dailies and never leave town. need to find a way to get players out of town.

My Questions: there any plans to...

1- Translate the game to other languages... for example Spanish? (the spanish people of America and Europe appreciate this very much)

2- Better optimization for the game? (I can play Guild wars 2 full graphics... but I can not do the same with Lineage II... :S )

3- Reintroduce an improved version of the Manor/catacombs System or something similar to ensure a source of income for players Adena? (is currently very difficult to get Adena and that causes each day there more and more bots)

4- Create a search engine for automatic groups and explore dungeons to make the game more fun? (Yeah... something like that is in World of warcraft...)

5- enable any option that allows the system to use motion "QWERASD" or something more interesting?

6- crafting professions or something more interesting for all races?


I think that's it, thanks in advance for answering ^^

I have only one question. When you start Ban 1.8k bot farm adena on Naia server in locations MoS HF LoA or SoH, FoG, and etc?

2) kinda nothing to do with it but when can we expect full ECHO patch on NCwest server?

I just wanna know this... FULL Echo not scraps...

1. In the case of NCKorea giving up on lineage2, what will happent to NCWest. It has the resources to keep Lineage2 alive even without any future updates?

2. Does NCWest have any posibility to modify the game content as it is atm? Meaning, has the posibility in changing the game as it is - making for example from frinteza instance, back to no instance and to pvp for it?

3. There are several bugs and features in game that dont comply to customers requirements ( ex. war system as it is atm), can NCWest change these according to customers willing in order to increase player satisfaction and make the game what once used to be, not only instance farming? Or we should take the game as it is and not expect any changes?

4. Is there any chance of creating a forum post with bug reports and a moderator to update on regular basis the bug reports from players in first post and to have like a "to do" - " fixed" list of them?

5. Is it possible to have again "gm assisted raids" just to see that they are not as intended or written in patch notes? Like Cryo went to valakas with SilentHorrors in order to see the disconnect bug that was preventing players for killing valakas. Atm, the antharas/valakas/extreme tauti HP status are way higher than it`s written in patch notes. Also there is a bug when going Earth Wyrm Trasken that he dissapears and cannot progress in raiding anymore.

I also would like to know when I will get spoil abilities back? My rogue is lvl 90 and am lucky if i get 1 spoil out of lets say 10 or 15 tries.... is very disappointing indeed because is my favorite class to play. :(

1) Will you guys do anything about the bot infestation that is taking over the whole Chronus server? Guilhotine Fortress got same bots everyday and is a really laggy location, bot party in Garden of Genesis, Dragon Valley, Orbis Temple and we clearly notice that bot report don't work, the horrible PK sistem force us to let bots take over the place and move to another place to try to finish our daily quests

2) There is a chance of us getting "REAL" events back, like when the server are Pay To Play, now every event is free gk, 1 adena to remove aug and no xp penalty when you die or buy U$ 999999999,00 in l2 store to win something (it's business ok we get that but there is chance to have both event at same time for donators and non donators)

+1

And why all classes have the best SA in ur weapon except daggers, we need critical damage and might mortal again ><

Shadoway... enchanting ur dagger to +4 u take critical dmg to +844, if duals 555 and some crit rate... So u can take focus, haste and critical dmg at same time.

My questions:

1- Lindvior: Date release? (Of course you can't say exaclty when, but some preview?)


2- Once we will get back 34 classes:

2.1 - Some notes says if u are othell rogue (example), will be possible "choose " between the 4 "new" othell rogue classes: adventurer, Ghost Hunter, Wind Raider, Fortune Seeker. By the way, those notes come from not trustable koreans translations and are confuse.

My question is: If in game, now u are one human othell rogue (Awakened By Adventurer class, of course), will be possible change my class for another othell rogue? I mean, am I bound to my preview class skills essence or can I select another? It will influence my race? My lvl? In resume: Can I be free to select the new othell rogue class as I wish without be worried about race changes, penalties, lvl, or something like that?

2.2 - Same question from before, but based in dualclasses. If I took one Sigel Knight in dual class based in one evas templar(example), am I bound to "essence" of evas templar, or can I select a new sigel knight class without any penalty?

3- Some classes just don't exist anymore, there is no ISS Judicator in new update, as well, no Kamael Sigel knight (Stone of destiny was one horrible thing... really, really bad idea). What will happen with Kamaels? Will be possible dualize more classes (like humans does)? What about kamael gender restriction? Why keep it? If I want one kamael male yul archer, I will need make one feoh/tyrr lvl 85 and dualize in yul for it?

Thank you.

Regarding the L2Store / L2Galleria :

How many rounds were done on the Aden Prize Wheel on the two times you launched this event ?

Did you consider posting something like a list of prizes won on each server ? Like "One Valakas necklace was won on Magmeld. One Anakim Sealbook was won on Chronos". It may just give some motivation for players to post that

Do you think some items in the L2Store/L2Galleria were a misktake when you think about it now ?

Juji recently posted that Destruction scrolls will not be available again in the shop, whatever the grade. Do you think introducing DEAR/DEWR was an error regarding game balance ?

The price regarding NCCoins purchase is not clear at all. Do you plan to chance it, so we could have an easy balance regarding NCCoins and its price ? I am especially talking about VAT. I will take as example Riot, which is publishing the game League of Legends. This company is selling "Riot Points" for real money, to purchase some items within the game. They are selling to several countries, in Asia / Europe / United States and they always give a price including VAT, whatever your country. Do you plan to include VAT in your price ?
Do you also plan to do something easy like "$1 = 100 NC Coins" ? It would be easier to understand the value of items we purchase. For example I would think "Ok this item is 1800 NC Coins, so it's $18". Just something easy for us to do the math.

Do you already plan to introduce more trade-able items (like the XP rune 50% you are selling since last week) or this rune is a test to see how players behave, and depending of the results you may add other items ?

Do you plan to decrease items price in NC Coins ?

Do you plan to introduce a premium account system which would work by paying a monthly fee ? If no, why ?

Since several months, tons of people are trading NCCards codes on the Lineage II and Aion forum. Tons of scams appeared also, and took place on the same forum we are using each day. Do you plan to do anything related to those trades, like creating some rules or forbidding those trades on the forum, to avoid old players being scammed ?


Regarding NCWest and its relation to Seoul

In December, there was an article on Reuters (see here : http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/036570.KS/key-developments/article/2658297) that NCSoft sold its shares of NC interactive inc. and create a new subsidiary for 2/3 of the previous money (see here: http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/13/3762362/ncsoft-selling-all-nc-interactive-shares-opening-new-us-subsidiary). How does it affect NCWest regarding game management ? Regarding game development ? Does it change anything, or are you more linked than before to the mother company in Seoul ?

Don't you have the feeling that 3 people is too low to manage this game ?

Do you plan to release a team bios like before (http://legacy.lineage2.com/community/teambios.html) including Sace, Juji and yourself, but also some people like Spam (who is as far as I know both responsible of Aion & Lineage II support team) and some GMs / Head GMs / Game Surveillance Unit / QA team ?

How many times per month do you fly to Seoul ? Is the timezone shift a problem since you basically deploy a maintenance early for your timezone, and late for Seoul and it often has bugs ?

Which control do you have regarding Lineage II server files ? Can you just change so configuration files (to launch for example events with no teleport fees, no xp loss & so) or you are allowed to edit files like ai.obj (which is managing quests, scripts and monster AI) or files ruling skills & items ?

Do you think you could improve your relation with Seoul, or you are quite happy with its current state ?

How do you communicate regarding bot & RMT problems to Seoul ? Do you even talk about it ? I may take as example the bug with the Energy seeds in Seed of Annihilation, which were bugged for a long time because some users, using a 3rd party program to collect them, would bug them. Since a program was needed, it seemed that it was impossible for NCSoft to reproduce the problem and get a fix. It just give the idea you are clueless about programs. Do you ever talk about it with Seoul so ?

Regarding Lineage II itself, the game, the community, its problem(s)

I may be harsh, but there is almost no maintenance without bugs or unexpected changes. Of course bugs are never expected, but they are just too frequent those times. Does it come from a lack of time to test new patches, or a lack of manpower, or something else ?

Do you have a precise schedule regarding update, or can you just say "Ok this release is not ready enough, we will do it next week" ?

Does NCSoft have ever considered removing Gameguard from Lineage II ? Any 3rd party program can emulate Gameguard behaviour, which is kinda normal since Gameguard is as far as I know first a protection against keyloggers and such threats. But this program is more than annoying for any user, and eat a lot of computer performance. Would it be possible to be back one day where playing without gameguard won't result to an automatic ban ?

Do you have ever played Lindvior yet ?

When is the last time you played Lineage II by yourself, as a player ? What did you do ?

IP Blocking is a first step regarding RMT combat, a small step but a step nonetheless. Do you think Chinese players are really a problem, when most of farmers / bot owners / adena sellers are from Europe / Russia / USA ? Do you plan to do something related to those players ?

In the past, on some occasions, GMs were seen during some raids & so (see Dodge post). Do you consider a player-led trip into the land of Elmoreden, so we can help you finding bad users, and some way to check them faster ?

A crash server is a weekly event. Why that ? Is it hardaware or software related ?

Several websites (see for example http://www.lineage2.es/misc/retail.php) display the current statistics of servers, especially about its population. Any webserver can do that easily with few php functions (no need for 3rd party programs). Do you plan to implement such a thing one day on the Lineage II website ? The status page being updated each 5minutes, it miss some accuracy.

Why don't we have a PTS server anymore ? Is it a problem of money ? Of workforce ? Of time ? I am just a casual player, and I can imagine the money loss from the previous bugs which could be avoided with a PTS. Why don't you use one anymore ?

You talk about 1.5 millions account created in 2012. How many accounts were banned during the same period ? Do you really think it's a good thing to say such a number when everyone can experience ingame the RMT spammers and the bot characters farming ?

Do you think there is an adena inflation on all servers ?

Regarding several bugs from NCSoft (Eyepatch texture crash, Windows 8 library problems), a solution was always found and offered by a player. Instead of banning this player from the official board, why didn't you take this as an opportunity to go a step ahead and use this work as a start, to find a fix faster ?

Did you ever heard about the Cache size change in the L2.ini file, which is by default at 32MB ? Did you requested an improvement regarding this value which is just too low regarding current video cards ?

Why do we get mixed updates, with a mixed game client, instead of fewers update following what Korea had ?

Why does the localization process take so much time, especially when some NPCs are still talking in Korean ingame (see Guillotine Fortress Quest NPC) ?

Did you ever used a 3rd party program yourself to understand them ? Especially since you were once in the QA team, you may be confronted to those programs.

About the suggestion forum, do you even send some suggestions to Seoul ? How does it work exactly ? People are posting, but we don't even know if the thread was read. Some involvement from NCSoft would help the community trust in you

Do you think servers are in a good health ingame ? Rank between 1 & 10

Do you think Lineage II franchise is healthy regarding all previous and current bugs ? Rank between 1 & 10

Do you have the feeling you can do better as Producer, seeing all the current problems at the moment ?

Cookies or Muffins ?

Do you miss France ? (not this girl in the party last month, the country :P)

Are you doing what you thought was a producer role when you were not a producer ?

Do you sometime read forum or you rely on Sace to get a daily update about hot topics ?

Do you consider some players / posters as annoying as possible, especially some involved in various fansite

Since all the matters that concerns me are asked in the posts before me i will only make one Question/Request:

Can you pls answer all these questions thinking and speaking like an L2 player primarily and secondary as the L2 producer?

Shadoway... enchanting ur dagger to +4 u take critical dmg to +844, if duals 555 and some crit rate... So u can take focus, haste and critical dmg at same time.

I know, but it's bored compared with a s80
I've 500 crit, in oly w/o focus SA, and also full atk. speed w/o haste, so it's useless, so simple :)

So back SA, or back drop/craft Mamba (best and most cute dagger) :)

Thank you all for your questions! This thread is now closed and we'll work on getting the answers for you in the near future. Please remember that there may be some questions that cannot be answered in detail for various reason, excessively-trolling questions might be ignored, and note that some questions of similar topics may be merged. Stay tuned for the answers! :)