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[Aklyon]

What are you, some foppish, unreliable elf with their little thin letters with all the curves and round bits!?

No, but I can't tell if your lowercase m is an m or you were drawing a square instead

[Seriyu]

Is there some way to raise my defiance cap? It seems like everything takes up the majority of my control. Are people just strategically swapping companions in and out?

Yep, something like that. I had the same problem. So here is what I did:
- I bought some cheap tabard first, to raise my leadership
- tried to recruit the highest possible companion, based on level
- hopefully, that companion's level was high enough for me to raise my base leadership skill and defiance along with it
- repeat until you have 4 companions then sell the one you were recruiting (or the one you do not desire in general)
- now repeat the whole process again, either with the same companion, if that still raises your skill, or with some other, higher-leveled, if you can.
  If your level is too low, invest in better tabard.

Hope this helps.

edit: it should be noted that defiance specifically is tied to your "sociability" base trait. Just like any other trait, this raises as you raise one of it's skills, in this case leadership. This probably means you can raise it by also raising spying and commerce, but I'm not sure, never tried.

Okay, I think I get it, as my sociability rises my buddies become less defiant, is that it?

[Singularity125]

So I made a new character but barely into the tutorial, it kicked me back to the homepage. Now when I try to login with him it says "Access Denied". 

I just want to see whether the servers are broken for anyone else, or if it's my character that's broken and I need to delete him (not a big loss if so, it was about 3 minutes of progress tops)

[Rumble]

So I made a new character but barely into the tutorial, it kicked me back to the homepage. Now when I try to login with him it says "Access Denied". 

I just want to see whether the servers are broken for anyone else, or if it's my character that's broken and I need to delete him (not a big loss if so, it was about 3 minutes of progress tops)

no issues here.  sometimes online games get out of sync with the client.  try logging your account out, closing the browser, or simply waiting for the char to be kicked after timeout (30 minutes?  45?)

[alexwazer]

Same, not having any issues. But the server sometimes randomly kicks some people out while others remain untouched.

The "Access Denied" part however I've only encountered when switching between English and French websites and/or forum after logging in. I typically get that when trying to access a French page/post while logged into my English account. So if you were doing anything related to that, that would be it. Otherwise... don't know.

[Sinistar]

Okay, I think I get it, as my sociability rises my buddies become less defiant, is that it?

No...if I wasn't a complete idiot, I could form my post better. 

So, it is actually the "Authority" that is tied to sociability. Sociability level = Authority points. Every point of companion's defiance takes away the same amount of points of your authority. So buddies won't become less defiant as you level up, but you will be able to take them in due to YOUR increased authority.
I hope I was more clear this time.

Now question for those who moved to next continent and/or have a concession: is it better to wait till you move to next continent before you get a house? Or, can you have more than one house, in different locations that is?

[Seriyu]

Okay, I think I get it, as my sociability rises my buddies become less defiant, is that it?

No...if I wasn't a complete idiot, I could form my post better. 

So, it is actually the "Authority" that is tied to sociability. Sociability level = Authority points. Every point of companion's defiance takes away the same amount of points of your authority. So buddies won't become less defiant as you level up, but you will be able to take them in due to YOUR increased authority.
I hope I was more clear this time.

Now question for those who moved to next continent and/or have a concession: is it better to wait till you move to next continent before you get a house? Or, can you have more than one house, in different locations that is?

Dahaaa, okay. Don't worry about it, my reading comprehension is terrible sometimes.

[alexwazer]

Now question for those who moved to next continent and/or have a concession: is it better to wait till you move to next continent before you get a house? Or, can you have more than one house, in different locations that is?

You can have as many concessions as your wallet can afford, and then some more because concessions are free in Lanfar. There is no reason to wait until you have access to Lanfar before getting a concession, except the cost. Also, the "next continent" isn't all that far, so once you have access, it remains relatively easy and fast to move back and forth, which you are quite likely to keep doing for some time after gaining access to Lanfar.

Depending on your main trade, it might not be as useful to get a concession early. However, sooner or later you'll want more than one anyway to gain access to varied resources.

[Sinistar]

alexwazer: ah, thanks. Yeah, with "next continent" I ment Lanfar which isn't exactly a new continent...I used a wrong term there, sorry.

Dahaaa, okay. Don't worry about it, my reading comprehension is terrible sometimes.

A quick note - I was wrong again, dammit. >_>
Chat just told me "Authority" is actually "Sociability/2 + Leadership/2", not just "Sociability".

[Sappho]

I think it's quite useful to get a concession as early as possible, if only for storing spare companions. Opens up a lot of options when you have the ability to swap them out as you need to.

[palsch]

Seems to come up quite a bit, so here's as much about leadership/authority as I have worked out so far.

For all skills you have two scores associated with your hero. One is for the field - eg, wood, metal, offence, sociability, etc - and the other is for the specific skill - woodcutting, leadership, etc. Each field has three skills (although not all are implemented yet). Your hero's total score at a certain skill is the average of your field and skill score. For leadership that makes it the average of your sociability and leadership.

It is this hero score that determines your authority/dominance. This makes authority the average of your sociability and leadership, and dominance the average of your fauna and taming.

Your overall ability at any skill is a weighted average of your hero's total score, your equipment, your companion's skill and your surroundings, plus any bonus from jewels or potions. The first four contribute as 40/30/20/10% of their totals.

You (or a companion) will have a chance of levelling up their skills when you are carrying out any task within 5 difficulty of that skill's score. So let's say I'm cutting oak trees which has a difficulty of 17. I can raise both my skill (woodcutting) and my field (wood) scores as high as 22, along with the woodcutting scores of any foresters who happen to be with me while I'm chopping away.

For leadership that means your leadership skills (sociability and leadership) can be raised to the difficulty of any given recruit plus five levels, provided you are willing to grind and spend the gold. Obviously you need to reach the overall ability to beat their difficulty in the first place, which generally means a good companion and tool (generally a tabard) plus a jewel to boost your ability.

A Page will have 10 +/-3 leadership base, plus any levels they gain. A hemp short tabard costs 7s 90c and gives 6 leadership, with better often on the marketplace (although be aware you need to be within 15 points with your hero to use such an item so can't leapfrog too far ahead that way).

The obvious grind targets are the Big Guy in Craneharbour (5 difficulty, 1s per attempt) and Scholar in Hawkoria visitor's district (9 difficulty, 3s per attempt). Note that there are plenty of worthwhile companions you could get some grind levels out of as well if you have a concession to stash them in while not using them. A Guard (Raven Inn, 8 difficulty, 10s per attempt) makes a nice addition to any combat team at lower levels. Expensive, but if you want one any way it's probably best to get one early while you will still level from it rather than wasting extra cash on Scholars you won't use.

[Aklyon]

So, where does alchemy actually get used at? I got it since it sounded useful, but nothing show up for me to do at the charcoal place, so I'm not sure where you're supposed to go to do anything with this.

Also, what do rails do? I saw a lot of them in the market.

[Girlinhat]

So, where does alchemy actually get used at? I got it since it sounded useful, but nothing show up for me to do at the charcoal place, so I'm not sure where you're supposed to go to do anything with this.

Also, what do rails do? I saw a lot of them in the market.

Rails are for Extraction of gems.
Rails for Ore are for Prospecting of ore and Prospecting of nuggets.
Rails for Stone are for Extraction of stone.

At least what I can tell.  I know for sure about Ore, I have one.

[Shooer]

So, where does alchemy actually get used at? I got it since it sounded useful, but nothing show up for me to do at the charcoal place, so I'm not sure where you're supposed to go to do anything with this.

Also, what do rails do? I saw a lot of them in the market.

The charcoal place is just for metal workers to get some charcoal, slowly. 
Go to where you picked up the science discipline.  That's where you can do alchemy.

[Aklyon]

So, rails are a concession building piece?