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**Athelan** · Today, 11:01:53

Some people reported that there was a recent statement made at eXperience saying we would not have RP PVP servers but only RP servers.

As far as myself and Jayde are aware at this time there have been no changes as far as cutting PvP servers, and Gaute and myself (and Jayde and probably many others) all agree that RP does not exist in Conan without PvP.

So in short as far as we know, we should still be looking forward to RP PvP servers.

Just so you know PvP and RP PvP servers would be identical as far as code, the difference would the added presence of the RP guidelines that will be composed by Customer Service.

**Athelan** · Today, 12:22:50

As far as I know the FFA tag was something people applied on their own.

All PvP servers in Conan are by default "free for all" because we do not impose sides.

We do not have official plans of special ruleset looting PvP servers yet, as stated before we were looking at ways of working looting in but that is not final nor is where it would be deployed if it came to be.

**LordOrion** · Today, 13:56:14

I'll not go into the lore debate -- I'm not one of the designers on the team -- but I do want to comment on how Funcom tries to show how Age of Conan is a mature title when we do demonstrations.

I certainly understand that some people think it's a case of "shooting yourself in the foot" when you talk about female nudity to make a case on the game's level of maturity. However, nudity is an important ingredient when selling the game's mature theme and it is one of the best ways of showing it during a short demonstration in front of people who are not already familiar with the game. Most if not all MMOs out there right now have little to no nudity, and we really want to hammer home the fact that we have it in Age of Conan. It is a central element of the lore, so it's only natural for us to for instance show off the bare breasted succubus, even though it might be interpreted as a "haha, look, boobies!" sort of thing. It is, of course, not.

The fact that Age of Conan has a mature world is something we really want to point out to people when they first see and hear about the game. People are so used to elves, fairies and teen rated MMOs now, and we're very proud of the fact that we're aiming for a mature rating. That's why we bring up subjects such as nudity, heavy drinking, pirates urinating, heads flying etc. The danger of all this is that it might come across as immature, and we might have to be more careful on how we word ourselves in future demonstrations.

Another thing to keep in mind is that you guys and girls have seen hundreds of different demonstrations, and when you see the succbus breasts being pointed out for the one hundredth time, I am sure it gets very old. But for people who has not seen the game yet, who is used to playing other MMOs, that "ingredient" right there is enough to put a bit of a shock into them and to really underline the point that we're trying to do something different here. There are of course plenty of other things in there that makes Age of Conan a mature game -- the level of violence, the quest themes, the conversations etc. -- but right then and there , during these short demonstrations, that bit of nudity really sends the message home. We will, of course, try and show you more of how the maturity is reflected in the game.

Again, thanks for all the constructive criticism. Keep it coming, but be nice!

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