Given that we've have the most info so early before release than any game I can think of, don't push your luck.  I for one am not part of the 'community who would really love what you want more detail on' who demand everything now and even more later.

Give an inch....

THe real problem is that we (all of us) want to know everything about the game. Now. No excuses. If the alpha was released right now, many would have problems to take the time to post a "thank you" before pouncing over Impulse to download it and... well, you know.

The multiplayer aspect is the only special topic that wouldn't be solved with the alpha/beta release but I think that it's just a matter of time for Starodck to really see how things develop before taking a final stance about it.

Don't  worry about   astrath   he hates any comments/topics regarding multiplayer.  

 Thanks for creating the topic... and we recently received a response which came as a response in a recent developer journal.  [e digicons][/e]   

 Official Response =

Frogboy:
LAN almost certainly. Hot seat maybe. PBEM, not sure yet.

It means electric dragon in Japanese actually. He is actually a dark blue dragon with golden eyes that uses electricity as his breath weapon...Been my online persona for as long as there has been in interweb...

Mine is downright pathetic: my black lab's name, plus her genearl species.

In any evernt, a major question:

Will essence regenerate? Denryu, Luckmann, pidgeonpidgeon (man, that's hard to spell), GW Swicord, and I have been bashing each other over the head about this over in the ideas section for a few days now, and while the dev journals tell us what we can do with the essance, they say nothing about it coming back or not. I seem to get the genearl vibe that it is finite in some way, but I really don't know.....

As far as my memory goes, essence doesn't come back. You use it, you lose it. So you save it and become a god-like being or you spend it in other minions, losing yourself power but making stronger servants. At least that was the idea Frogboy was preaching somewhere along the timeline.

I was under the impression the Essence is finite, however magic shards spread across the realm can be found to provide new Essence. 

Ideally the game would provide at least two options... one being finite amount and the other allowing a regeneration of essence over time... perhaps a slider by how much it regenerates as well.

I think GW Swicord has it right.  Mana wells are for spells and magic.  Essence is something your Channeler gets when levelling up....can then be used to boost the Channeler or other stuff.

It may be that "Essence" and "Mana" are two different things: the former representing a non-corporeal part of the channeler; the latter representing more of a "short-term endurance".  I don't think every little spell should cost Essence, but major works should.  Otherwise the end-game will just become a physical slugfest.