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We plan on continuing this process with a select number of items. While this definitely was a fun exercise, and is something we want to continue, it's not feasible to do it for *everything* we put in game.

In summary: Some, not all .

Well, to be fair, I was a Drama major in college.

And awwwwww...you called me the "younger generation"! How nice!

Obvious answer...watch at work! Who needs productivity! (The preceding is meant in a joking manner. Please do not lose your job because you were watching War Witch and I talk about donuts).

It's a given.

No, we work with a vendor to build the Market Interface and implement the Paragon Market into the game. The actual "running of the store", i.e.; putting up items on a weekly basis, inventory, etc, etc is all done by the business team here at Paragon.

Ah then it was Second Skin.

I think it was Current TV that bought the rights for it and renamed it something much more sensational like "My Gaming Addiction". I was a bit disappointed at that because I felt the original title was more evocative and less tabloid-ish. C'est la vie.

We add to SG bases as time allows. over the last 2 Issues we've made some decent QOL improvements (More easily manipulation of objects in the designer and increased nodes on the telepads) and we'll most likely do more as we're able to.

When it comes to bases we tread very lightly. It's a legacy system which takes a significant amount of time to reverse engineer any time we want to do *anything* to it. Because player bases are tied to it, and subsequenty a significant investment of your time, anything we do is going to be done in a methodical and cautious manner.

It's not on a schedule right now but it's a feature we know is wanted.

As Tunnel Rat has said both on Ustream and her all things art thread, she's investigated it. I don't know if she's scoped out the amount of time it would take or if it's been approved by production, however the FX team has done more than just nod gratuitously at it.

Stock Synapse answer every time he's on Ustream (he'll be there again this Wed): If it's within reason it will eventually be proliferated. It's just a matter of time.

We're adding new maps every issue, including a new cave map with Issue 21 and (I think) another in 22.

No.

No. We know people want it, however right now it poses to much of a risk from a customer service standpoint. It's very easily exploitable by RMT'rs and opens us up to untold amounts of fraud.

Yes, although I do not expect a fix in the immediate future.

The current Market interface doesn't support this. We do not have direct control over this. I imagine there's other concerns such as performance and how much real estate this would take up in the interface, but that's between our vendors and the graphic designers.

Don't forget you can always preview costume parts in the costume creator which will let you jump directly to it in the market if you don't own it. This feature was added in Issue 21 to accomodate players seeing items before they purchase them.

If you've seen how frequently we're putting out Power Sets these days, you know that the likelihood of this happening is probably better now than it has been in the past. We have some plans for defensive based secondaries/primaries, however I cannot say what AT's they're for at this point.

The devs spend a lot of time answering concerns and responding in the beta forums. This is the content they're currently working on and thus requires the most direct interaction. When they have time they answer questions in the non beta forums, but that is less frequent.

Keep in mind that I do a Ustream broadcast every week. Each Wednesday at 10:30 AM Pacific you can join us and ask your questions in real time as we usually have a developer stop by and chat for awhile. We always dedicate the last 15-20 minutes to Q&A and we rarely shy away from any questions, so long as they're asked in a respectful and non trollish manner. We also record and archive each episode, so as long as you don't mind sitting through a bit of tangenting, there's usually some decent information to glean from them on a weekly basis.

On a broader scope: If we can provide a more detailed answer, we will. If we can answer it, but only in general terms, we will. It's my belief that it's just as important to acknowledge a concern or a request as it is to provide a specific detail regarding it which is why we will always acknowledge a question as a known quantity when it's appropriate for us to do so.

Possible. Are they showing Second Skin again?

This particular pack was definitely an *everybody* effort, with David doing the concept and Sup, one of our resident character artists, doing a stellar job on implementing the vision.

In your experience, does the office suite for Mac perform well?

The only major compatibility issue I've got right now is with our VPN software here at work. It doesn't like to connect through anything but a browser for the time being.

For now, for email and other office related things I'm using Open Office and Thunderbird (the default mail app doesn't play as nicely). I will, eventually, invest in Office for the Mac, but that's more than likely a month or so down the road (or at least until I need to start working on Power Points for the Pummit ).

Location is 99.9999% certain to be at the Dinah's Garden Hotel again.