MMORPG.com: Did you just revamp Freeport or are other cities being done as well? If not, what is the time line on revamping other cities?

Travis McGeathy: It's Freeport and the Desert of Ro for now. We'd certainly plan to continue revamping other older zones, but we don't have a time line for their completion right now.

MMORPG.com: How do Spheres of Influence work? How are they gained and activated?

Travis McGeathy: Spheres of Influence are, at their core, areas you create within the game world that apply an effect to anyone who enters them. They can either be static areas, staying put wherever they are placed, or they can be centered on their caster, radiating out from him like an aura. They're very versatile and the in-game effects cover a lot of territory. They're everything from raging snowstorms that freeze anyone entering them to banners that provide a combat boost to everyone around them to areas of intense magic that lessen the impact of attacks against friendly players within the area.