A moot point, as we've made the card Soulbound now.

But as an aside, when you see the Altars of Kaerellun come into the game, they will provide all the starter cards for all the races (except racial assertions) as drops.

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Going to be a couple weeks until you see Diplomacy in Ahgram. But when you do... hoo boy.

(We're doing our pass of New Targonor first, watch the patch notes!)

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I've lengthened the amount of time you get to complete this quest for the next content update.

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We designed the entire Diplomacy card game around PVP dueling, and have a plan for "political parties" where players can compete with one another politically - essentially Team PVP.

This is a post-launch feature. PVP always = balancing, and we want to do it right. :P

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Hi guys,

Drummers have been made slightly easier in the next patch.

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They are things to come.

We'd rather do them right than do them earlier.

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I'll be curled in a fetal position under my desk, whimpering.

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I'm going to hijack this thread to use it to say hi too! I finally found my way over here. It looks great guys!

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I agree. Excellent job on the forums. Now I just need to finish setting up my account here.

Keep up the great work!

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The basic tools of parley failure are lockout from the NPC and faction loss. We do have situations in-game now (including in one newbie line!) where failure to win parley means (almost) certain death.

The lockout represents a "cooling down" period in which the NPC is likely too angry, apathetic, alarmed, etc. to interact with you. You will not be able to do any parleys with the NPC until this lockout timer is ended.

Faction loss is our main deterrent to loss as it is generally much more than you gain in a single parley.

We also have a situation coming into game where losing a parley causes a locked door to remain locked - you have to win to continue.

Finally, in one of our Diplomacy engagements we have coming post-launch, losing certain parleys in the engagement causes you to lose cards permanently.

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