Earthrise

are there going to be entertainer classes? Will there be an area i can relaxe after a hard day of killing/hunting? Like something from SWG with Cantinas.

how many classes/proffesions are there?

are there instances or zones?

how powerful are the battlemechs?

are there crafter specific proffesions?(no combat abilities ... just crafters)

Well, first of all: Earthrise is skill based. You advance through using actions, thus getting better... You learn what you want to learn. No class restrictions.

There is going to be an in-depth crafting system as well. You'll not be required to advance through adventuring to be a crafter, so you'll be independent.

There are also going to be a few "careers" which you'll be able to advance while you are offline. This will basically be your characters "day job", if you'd like to say so.

There will be instances, but the developers don't want to overuse them. I remember their CEO saying that the "the use of instancing will be minimized". They want to create a virtual world, so I guess we'll not see too many of them. But then, we will have to see closer to release.

The devs have been clear that instances will be avoided unless it's impossible to avoid them.  In theory there may be none.

Sounds pretty good to me as I hate instances, sharding, et cetera.

sooo 1 of my questions have been answered ..... what about the other 4?

Well if you bothered to read the replies you would have noticed they answered all but two questions. One of which with a little thought could probably be answered.

One of the offline advancement classes will probably be entertainment based.

The battlemechs require considerable upkeep, besides that not much has been said. But I assume they will be quite powerful.

Originally posted by Avison

Well if you bothered to read the replies you would have noticed they answered all but two questions. One of which with a little thought could probably be answered.

One of the offline advancement classes will probably be entertainment based.

The battlemechs require considerable upkeep, besides that not much has been said. But I assume they will be quite powerful.

how can you be an entertainer while offline? It sounds like the afk entertainers in SWG.

While logged out your character has a "day job" you pick the job. They haven't released a list of jobs but some form of entertainer will probably be present.

I'd assume that being in the future that when you get off work you would enjoy entertainment. Though being the future the entertainment would probably be digital anyway.