This is separate from The Abyss. Now it still counts toward the overall contribution, so the influence ratio changes the taxes and all that stuff, so they do control that. They also award medals like the other fortresses do. The only difference is you can't fly in those fortresses and they're in a different land than The Abyss. Something else we did was analyze the level curves and that data, trying to figure out if there are levels where players are getting stuck. We realized levels 18-23 were kind of sticky, levels 38-41 were sticky, for example. So we constantly analyzed that date, pushing more content, pushing the story, giving the player a feeling of purpose, driving them up the levels rather than just sitting there beating on the same monster over and over again.

There's another thing coming that I'm actually super excited about, without telling too much. We have an area called The Abyss, and that's where the PvPvE combat is. There are a lot of fortresses and artifacts that players have to go and capture. A lot of that involves flying, because in The Abyss you can fly everywhere. On the actual planet, there are only certain zones where you can fly, and that's because originally there was the Tower of Eternity that connected both halves of the planet. When that was shattered, it created The Abyss. And wherever the pieces fell on both sides of the world, it created an element called aether, and that is what fuels flight. So in The Abyss you can fly everywhere and on the planet there are only certain areas.