Ed can correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know they were input into LORE just to ease a transition to the MMO in terms of prepopulating the appropriate data into what will become the LORE system for the MMO. They do no harm in terms of giving the existing population an idea of the personal traits of the deities but in no direct terms are they mandatory for adherence when it comes to worship in the NWN scope. In fact without a better understanding of the whole mantra system it would be difficult to grasp how the deity's mantras fits worshippers in NWN.
I'll followup with a devlog entry introducing mantras in greater detail within a couple days
If you find it confusing for the moment, I would recommend simply ignoring it until more clarity is gotten.
Of course, there's never a right way for this.Don't release information: players state they have to work with a book that's several years old.Release information: it's incomplete, not entirely NWN specific, things like that.
So, we'll plod along and release information. Yes this is piece by piece, instead of all at once. That's a choice we made and which I continue to support.
If we were told about mantras, and then what the mantras were, and then which gods had which mantras, and so on piece by piece, that would be okay.
I didn't make either of those complaints.
Please stop making a strawman of my concerns.
Devlog Entry on MantrasNot sure if a LORE person wants to look into doing what I suggested? Adding the text from this devlog to a Mantras page on LORE and indicating how it is not critical for NWN. Also making the "Mantras:" label on each deity's page to then point to such a page.
I know you didn't make either of those and I didn't mean to imply that. However I can see how I could imply that, so apologies.I'm not entirely familiar with this expression [strawman] but I can guess what it means.
As for the workload and the comment that I am trying to do it all myself. That's not true, there's plenty of people helping out, but if people would imagine for a moment what a sheer amount of work creating an MMO is with people who do it voluntarily and in their spare time. There are many tasks to juggle. Tasks that help getting the game out of the door are prioritized so people help out where they can with getting things on LORE, but there are many other things to do.
Why do you, personally, have to check iffy character submissions, for example? Can no one else decide that this or that background is okay for NWN, even if it might not fly for the MMO? Is there really no CA or DM who can do that? How many NWN-only tasks could you release to someone else (or someones else), fully or partially, to make things easier? Easier for you and easier for everyone waiting in line for your attention. Would it really be that bad if NWN strayed a little bit and a couple of the things we do now don't carry over into the MMO? It's because there is so much to do for the MMO that you shouldn't have to make every little decision for the terminally ill NWN.