OK, so, basically, whatever party/items/progress I have in Beta, I will have to start anew when the game goes public?
Of course! How would you want the game to be balanced when there would be players with roflstomping equipment in regards to others who want to play this game but had not gotten a beta access? Everyone will get a fresh start to reduce the complaints of the new players + it is necessary in order to add new stuff and functionality to the game, including cards, coop multiplayer and maybe more challenges.
We did another pass on this yesterday and put some of the pizza references back in. I am caught in between conflicting visions of take-out food.
I found the early pizza references helped with my immersion of playing games at Gary's house. My friends will order pizza when we play board games too!
I once payed for the most exclusive pizza on the menu got what looked like a quarter of a pizza with a single leaf of salad and a sliver of tasty olive oil on it. I was too amused by the pure idiocy of charging almost twice as much for that as a crust and cheese pizza that i couldn't bring my self to care about being ripped off.