FAQ
From Secondhand Lands
How much does it cost to play Secondhand Lands?
Secondhand Lands is a free game with micropayments. You can purchase credits and use these items to buy guild deeds, item binding certificates, player appearance customization, and participate in factional activities.
Do I have to purchase credits in order to play?
No, you can actually provide services to other players and receive the credits as payment.
What kind of economy does this game have?
Secondhand lands has two types of money. 1) Credits are purchased with outside money and can be used to buy many ingame services. 2) Gold serves as an ingame currency. You can earn gold through playing and selling items to venders.
Does this game have an auction house like WoW?
Secondhand Lands has a market system. This allows player to put an item up on the market for a fixed prices of gold and/or credits. The item gets removed from the market after a period of seven days, or when the item is purchased. There is no item bidding like in WoW.
What kind of races are there?
Currently, there are two races: sheep and wolves. Sheep are better at being defensive, and wolves are better at being aggressive.
Are the races balanced?
No! While they do need to be a roughly balanced, we're focusing on making the races unique enough so that micro balancing is not necessary. Ideally, we'd like groups of player to include both races because of their differences.
What kind of player classes are there?
None. Once you choose a race, you are locked into a single class. With the skill system, you can make very unique sheep or wolf players that have specific purposes and combat styles.
What's the maximum level?
Level 200 - This may sound really high, but you must remember that gaining levels in Secondhand Lands is very rapid.
Once I get to level 200, what then?
You can join a guild, join a faction, and farm for equipment.
What's a Scrapper, and why can't I create one?
Scrappers are the little biped cats. We chose to exclude them from the first release for time reasons. However, they will be the next race to be added to Secondhand Lands. Scrappers will be very different from sheep and wolves, and complete the other two races.
How does the skill system work
Each races has 24 unique skills. For each level gained, the player may spend a skill point to gain a skill or enhance an existing skill. Generally, it takes about 75 points to completely master a skill. Some skills take less, and other skills take more.
Can I respec my skills?
Yes, you gain respec points by purchasing them with credits. This allows you to unspend a skill point. However, once all your respec points are spent, you must purchase more with credits.
May I create guilds?
Yes. You can buy a guild charter from a merchant and create your guild. There's no minimum guild size either.
What kind of graphics card can I use?
Secondhand Lands requires a graphics card support DirectX 9.0c. Technically, Secondhand Lands runs on graphics cards that support pixel shader version 1.1 or higher. Graphic cards with support for 2.0 or higher shader support give the best performance.
How much RAM will I need?
Between 250 megabytes or more if you turn up your field of view.
Does this game have physics?
Obviously, we have collision physics, but we also have designed the game from the ground up so that everything in the game can be jumped on, walked upon, and used during combat.
Can I get stuck?
Yes, but every player has a Lucky Bunny they may use to teleport themselves out of a sticky situation. The Lucky Bunny has a cooldown timer of 30 minutes. Otherwise, we'll continue to make "getting stuck" a less likely occasion.
What is jumping like?
When you're in midair, you can still steer as though you were walking on the ground. This makes jumping easier and more fun.
Can I take damage if I fall a large distance?
No. Falling never deals the player damage.
Is it easy to fall?
You can't fall unintentionally. Once your player approaches an edge, they must use the jump key to jump off the edge. This allows player to walk along insanely thin objects such as pumpkin vines or on thin rooflines. This sound restrictive, but everyone that tries it loves it.
What happens if I'm defeated?
You can wait for another player to revive you, or you can respawn at the nearest respawn point. All villages have respawn points. You will not lose status, gold, items, or experience if you respawn.
Can I be attacked by other players?
Yes, but you must be an active faction member before this can happen. Even joining a faction doesn't make you attackable until you become overt.
Why can't I choose to be a male or female?
Instead of having different meshes for each sex, we're allowing you to roleplay your sex with your name and equipment.
How does this game support player relations?
We have a number of systems that allow players to communicate and collaborate. Starting with player to player /tell's, combat grouping, friend lists, ignore lists, guilds, and factions. Socialization is the most important aspect of a MMO, so we have a lot of infrastructure to make sure the player gets the right amount of socialization.
Can people abuse the friend system?
No, both players must accept a friendship before it goes through. Also, either player is capable of breaking the friendship at any time.
Is there support for dueling
Absolutely! You can duel anyone in the game. If either dueler encounters non-dueling combat, then the duel is broken. Also, the defeated dueler is immediately revived in place so that dueling is fast, easy, and fun with minimal shame.
Can I customize my appearance?
Yes. There are several makeup kits found in game that will allow the player to change their fun patterns, size, and other attributes. The nicer appearance customization kits costs tokens.
What kind of stats will I have?
We have four basic stats: Strength, Constitution, Empathy, and Mysticism.
- Strength helps determine your physical damage.
- Constitution determines your health and health regeneration.
- Empathy determines your mana and beneficial spell power.
- Mysticism determines your mana and spell damage.
How do I pick my stats?
Each skill is associated with one of the four stats. By spending a point in a skill, you also increase the power of the associated stat.
