Lepidus: What will Artifact Entertainment’s policy be in terms of patches, balance adjustments and such? Will you employ a test server, and how would an interested party join that?

David Bowman: We will be regularly updating and changing the world. Some of these changes will be of sufficient content that players will automatically receive a patch during connection, while others will occur dynamically without player awareness. We will test all non-emergency changes on Blight. Blight is our test world and it will be one of the choices during character creation. Players will be informed that all characters on Blight will be subject to possible deletion or radical modification and they should only choose to play their at their own risk. But, if you are interested in experiencing some of the experimentations that might not make it to the rest of the worlds (as we discovered in Beta, not all ideas are good ones), then using one of your character slots for Blight might appeal to you.