AspenTD wrote:Thanks for the info and the warm welcome everybody. It seems as if my suspicions were right, and that there really is no concrete answer until the game is finished. Hence my desire to create a "neutral" character as high in level as possible....OR....just enjoy playing the game over and over each time there's a new release! I've been playing this game non stop since I first discovered it. All the while I've tried and trashed dozens of other games. This has to be a testament to its replay value!
Thank you AspenTD for your excellent question.
As for the answer to your question of whether there are any quests that you can complete that won't make much of a difference of the overall game or the amount of future choices given - not even I can answer that unfortunately. Since this is still a game in development, we might choose to continue past quest-lines in the future, and we may choose not not continue them. Most of them, we haven't actually decided yet whether to continue or not, even if most of them are written in such a way that we have the option to continue the quests in a future release if we wish to do so.
Technically, all your choices are stored in the savegame files - the ways you choose to complete quests, the fact that you have completed particular quests, the monsters you have killed, the items you have used. I would really like to be able to tell you which of these that would make a difference in the finished product, but as of now, we can't, since the game is not finished.
On the question of making choices - we are really aiming for you to make a choice based on your personal preference: on the outcome of quests, on the types of skills that you choose, and on the types of items that you want to use. Our aim is that you should get the benefits of building a strong character regardless of which particular choices you make. However, if you actually do make the choice and not stay on the "not-choose-anything-path", we aim to reward you with being stronger in the direction of your choice.
I love your enthusiasm for the game, nice to hear from you!
I've chosen the way of the rogue for all of my characters. I figure that most probably go the goody-goody way to go, anyway, so some of us need to choose the opposite.