Monthly Development Update: February 2012

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Originally Posted by Ilaliya

You can also blame me for the the gem revamp if you played back then

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Ah HAH! I absolutely blame you for that!

At release I made a Dark Templar (big mistake at that time). I was the gimpest of the gimps. Then I happened upon the joys of a full 1he gem set. I began 1-2 shotting people like crazy. That was a glorious week.

Then came the gem nerf, and I was back to being the gimpest class in the game again. Thx ;p

(Sorry to get off topic)

Tomorrow is going to be a great day for a special reveal on one of our most anticipated changes to the game. Stay tuned!


This was posted on AO Facebook group.

So everyone calm down and wait for tomorrow ?

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Originally Posted by Psikie

Yea let me introduce you to circular logic which seems to be your flavor.

I order a steak, it's not the way I ordered it so I complain, I complain even though I got what I ordered, I pay for it even though it's not what I wanted. I complain again thinking I will get a different steak, but I get the same steak everytime I order, so I complain some more. This time it will be different, but it's the same, so I complain again, but I'm still eating steak so it's ok. Even though it's not the way I want my steak, so I have reason to complain. I have reason to complain about bad steak but I keep ordering it. bla bla bla bla bla

You have no arguement because you are paying for what you don't like. That's an oxymoron. You don't have to pay, you pay to complain, you complain because you pay on and on and on again.

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Actually, it's the only place in town that serves steaks. Sure, other places have food, but you want a steak. Even though it's not prepared the way you wanted it to be and they promise to make it better next time you come, so far you didn't get food poisoning and you can kind of enjoy the meal. Maybe you could enjoy some other food at other restaurants, but hey - you feel like eating steak, and maybe today it will get better.

Or tomorrow. Or soon™.

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Originally Posted by equilibrium

Tomorrow is going to be a great day for a special reveal on one of our most anticipated changes to the game. Stay tuned!


This was posted on AO Facebook group.

So everyone calm down and wait for tomorrow ?

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Time for wild speculation on what, exactly, is in the announcement!

The Engine video is the biggie, naturally, but it could also be levels for cash (given what the AO FB page is usually used for), the server merge or something else...

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Originally Posted by equilibrium

Tomorrow is going to be a great day for a special reveal on one of our most anticipated changes to the game. Stay tuned!

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Hyping up, and showing, the new engine video no doubt. What would be a "special reveal" would be a fixed and confirmed release date.

/speculation on

If it's the video, I guess that means a gaming site has been selected to do the actual reveal. Oh jeez, what are the odds that all the gaming sites passed on the exclusive? If AO releases the video I will be mightily disappointed.

/downermode off

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Originally Posted by equilibrium

Tomorrow is going to be a great day for a special reveal on one of our most anticipated changes to the game. Stay tuned!


This was posted on AO Facebook group.

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At this point, I fully expect the announcement to be "The collector's edition of TSW will include a sneak preview of the AO engine video."

I think the special reveal will be a new Auction House that allows us to buy items without traveling to player cities.

They are adding a Combined Daily mission, you buy a Miir handbag and give it to an NPC. And you get rewards from all the daily missions, it's on a 17 hour lockout.

So you can MMO while you singleplayer

my money is on a fix for a floating rock in DAV

Tomorrow is going to be a great day for a special reveal on one of our most anticipated changes to the game. Stay tuned!


YAY new engine :)

It's the mystery behind the CoH chest finally explained.

Also, stop talking about steaks, I'm f-ing hungry now... :o

I bet 5 armenian doillares on another, endgame, one room, boss instance. Atroxes of all professions will finally be able to equip all alfa symbs even without towers.

Becuase we not haev enuff WTS's on our LFT's.

But there is always tommorow :(

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Originally Posted by Service

Ah HAH! I absolutely blame you for that!

At release I made a Dark Templar (big mistake at that time). I was the gimpest of the gimps. Then I happened upon the joys of a full 1he gem set. I began 1-2 shotting people like crazy. That was a glorious week.

Then came the gem nerf, and I was back to being the gimpest class in the game again. Thx ;p

(Sorry to get off topic)

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I pwnd so much as Dark Templar, I think you did it wrong :(

Reading the thread (well most of it) there is another aspect to consider. As people move to the new server, will existing orgs have claim to the org name on the new server? If not I expect there will be instances of people stealing the names of existing orgs.

One solution would be a two step migration process. First step is that the org leaders get duplicated on the new server at time of initialization. Org then also exists and city can be instanced, etc. They can duplicate toons on the test server, so seems like this would not be a stretch and the org name, city, and bank get duplicated. This conserves the data for the existing players.

When the org leader moves over, it overwrites the existing "placeholder" toon data (preferences) and org data (bank mostly)." Effectively activating the placeholder. The org is then active with city, bank, and name. This would probably require intervention on Funcom's part to ensure it is done properly (never have trusted data transfers completely) but doing it for the relatively small number of org leaders would not seem to be an overwhelming difficutly and it would ensure that current org names continue to be the property of existing members.

Bah, hit the wrong thread line. Sorry