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===<span id="6">Status and Priority of Pledge Rewards & Kickstarter Stretch Goals</span>===
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:[https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/status-and-priority-of-pledge-rewards-kickstarter-stretch-goals-and-other-items.97389/ &#91;From a forum post by Starr “Darkstarr” Long&#93;]<br><br>''Recently some of you requested updates on the status of Pledge Rewards and Kickstarter Stretch Goals that have not yet been delivered. The good news is we have delivered almost all of them so the undelivered list is thankfully short. Yesterday during the R44 Postmortem I provided a brief update on the status of these items which I am documenting here in this post.<br><br>When we started the Kickstarter we were still designing the game and many systems were still in flux. Now that we are nearing completion there are a couple of items that no longer make sense so we are going to retire them. It is worth noting that we have added at least 5-10 items per pledge since the Kickstarter, not to mention the tons of new features and content we have also added to the game. With that said we understand that those new items and new content were not specifically noted as replacements for these retired items so we will be creating two new rewards to replace the retired items. We will update everyone as soon as we know what these replacement rewards will be.<br><br>'''Retired Items:'''''
::*'''''2 Week Skill Head Start:''' This would have serious balance implications and would only enrage players who did not have access to it.''
::*'''''Pick Last Name Early:''' This simply does not work at all with our current naming system.''
:''The remaining items can be broken down into 3 priorities which will determine the order that we work on them. This order is based on other system dependencies, lead times, resource availability, partner commitments, and overall impact to the entire audience.''
::'''''Priority 1:'''''
:::*''Multiple Characters on Single Account''
:::*''Localization (non-Asian languages)''
:::*''Physical Goods: Cloth Map, Box, Trinket, Signed Deed, Coin, etc.''
::'''''Priority 2:'''''
:::*''Alcohol/Brewing (for German Beer Recipe reward)''
:::*''Names on Tombstones / Domesday Book / Credits Page: requires a way for players to select what name to display so we will be adding a name entry function to the account page''
::'''''Priority 3:'''''
:::*''Fyndoro’s Tablet of Finding''
:::*''Puzzle Box''
:::*''Theater System''
:::*''Castle Defense Scenarios / Castle Types / Castle Merchants''
:::*''Shipping Lanes aka Boat Schedules, Random Boat Encounter Scenes''
:::*''Heraldry aka Custom Family Crests for players and Guilds''
:::*''Custom Duke/LotM Heads''
:::*''PDF of Design Docs''
:::*''Custom Static POTs''

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