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As a side topic that sprung up in the Community Introductions Roll Call thread.

How do you guys want Goblinworks to handle the so called "problematic" real world regions? China (and apparently Sough Korea) is very often associated with gold farming in MMOs and other methods of ingame strip mining of resources that can be sold for real money and other disruptive out of game methods like account hacking.

Do we expect GW to ban all Chinese ( and apparently South Korean) IP ranges to ensure the integrity of the economy and potentially loose out on legitimate Chinese ( and Korean ) customers?

Or do we not assume that the Chinese and Korean population consists of only gold farmers and risk the danger of said gold farmers and expose GW to a much higher administrative burden by dealing with the problem on a case by case basis?

What do you think?

One of the criticisms brought up about any pricing model that involves a cash shop is that it's very easy to loose track of how much money you have spent and thereby getting more in dept then previously planned/anticipated with your credit card company.

One thing that pretty much anyone can do is keep track of it yourself and make your own statistics about your own spending. I for example keep a spreadsheet on how much I spend in what game/online shop/cash shop/etc. in what month. So i'm always aware of how much I spend.

But how about this:

What if GW would offer an menu option in the account management page, and possibly in game when you are about to buy something, that would display, very visibly, how much you have already spend this month and in total in the cash shop?

Possible additional options would be to graph out how much you have spent int he past in every month. But that would be icing on the cake :)

The digital copies of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook and the Guide to the River Kingdoms where added to my available downloads as part of the backer reward for the tear i chose for the Kickstarter. I have not yet claimed the downloads and downloaded the files.

Would it be possible to exchange the english language PDFs to another language ( In my chase German )?

I'd like to have an official answer to this question before I download the rulebooks because if it's possible and I download the english version and then the german one I would feel like i scammed paizo/goblinworks. I suspect it's not possible but better save then sorry I guess.

As I've read in several places the Early Enrollment Beta is not so much a buggy beta but what I believe Ryan called an "internet Beta" meaning a version that has a very low bug count but is not feature complete.

So my question is:

Mr. Dancey, Mr. Cheney and/or Mr. Hammock, what is the feature list that is expected to be at the start of the Early Access period?

I am asking this question under the assumption that the answer, if one is provided, is not final and can change as time progresses.

Alternatively what do people thing would be a reasonable feature list to start with?