Ask the Admin (7th of July, 08)

Ask the Admin was on today, so I'm covering and summarising main points made from Lanzer and others in the thread.

- The item norm project didn't affect item layering at all. There will be an avatar system update however that will focus on that, presumably giving us more freedom. Lanzer has said that the item norm is half security and performance, and half for feature upgrades, such as forging items.

- The item shading feature when dressing your avatar will stay. It's a permanent feature (for now) and will help see which item you have equipped if you have multiple of one type.

- A "forum re-write" is coming up "pretty soon", in which the forums will be worked around, fixed up, and changed a bit. More formatting options, etc.

- After the battle system is released, the update focus will be on Guilds and Forums (during Autumn). After that, they're also planning a Homes and PM update.

- After the item norm, some items if they were listed in the Market Place and in trades may take a few days to return to your inventory.

- Devs are going to be working on inventory usability and loading speeds over the next few weeks, after all of the item norm issues are fixed.

- The price reductions in the Market Place could be atrributed to the decline of botting now the CAPTCHA system is in place, and the fact that the Bag of Win is now gone.

- Lanzer is allergic to alcohol and likes tiramisu.

The major source for this article can be found here.