Can I? Of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haxi
Will I? Absolutely not.
He's still my boss, you know.
Can I? Of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haxi
Will I? Absolutely not.
He's still my boss, you know.
he locked it so the entire dev team can get "first!". it's a conspiracy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Haxi
Well I hope he capsizes. How dare he canoe when at best I will be bumping my ass all the way down the river in a tube this weekend. Canada stole my water!!!!!!!
1. Your list doesn't even list half of what we did for the Birthday and have no concept of how much effort goes into those items. If you find what was provided to be insufficient at least list it all...or even close.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hannavald
2. Not a copy of "Beit Grass".
3. Was completed many times during the first 3 days. Jetpack was always supposed to be free. Even if the torch lasted much longer (easy fix) it still would have been a pain in the ass to take every single alt out there to get one...putting it in the store for free (like we have with other items in the past) just made sense.
4. Wasn't a GM manually triggering the raid. It was me. Petitions were not affected. Could the raid be better? Yes. Did people (besides you) still have fun? Absolutely. Is the server wide broadcast new feature fantastic and will we be using on future open world content? Absolutely. It was great to have the content automatically inform the entire population that something was going on...not a big code change...but a significant change in how the concept is used. I can't wait to add a 15 minute warning to Tara...or new things we make.
It wasn't easy to get all this done with a small team...especially as we couldn't exactly drop all the other things we are working on at the same time. Getting the engine ready for a live demo, preparing the live event, dealing with 3 seperate server issues in the preceding two weeks etc etc were important too. I really appreciate that you get it...I'd hate for you to be one of those "How hard can it be" people that nobody can stand.
Oops...locked this weeks thread by mistake. I'll fix it.
Are mission IDs used up only when the missions are accepted or when they show up in the mission terminal ? If the latter, the beloved clicksaver probably has a part in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Means
Sounds good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Means
This is going to be awesome, server wide yelling by Dust taking over control of the announcement system. So many awesome possibilities from that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Means
No Means, no. It was not "fantastic". it was "deplorable".Quote:
Originally Posted by Means
Because of that announcement, a team of 220s could park their butts in Newland City, chat in OOC and wait for the announcement, then when the global announcement went up run out there and OD the people that just spent 4-5 hours farming up the items, leaving them with zip and feeling ripped off.
To be honest, that warning should have been Zone Specific to Newland, Newland Desert, Mort, Broken Shores, and Perpetual Wastelands (i.e. the Zones where people were actually killing Nomads, thus doing the Event).
A global system for announcing SOME things? Good. Having an announcement when the APF is opening, for instance would be good.
Having the announcement for THIS event? Bad.
Read this as: I didn't get any of it, therefore it's unfair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Namiru
That is SOOOOOOO close to being sig worthy. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Anarrina
Read THIS as: Obnoxious troll who doesn't even bother to log in and play anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by crattey
I GOT my Clio. It took around a dozen raids and a week of my life, but my fixer has it now.
That doesn't stop me from noting that the setup from this "raid" is unfair to the people that take the time to farm the items, and that the global message is a good chunk of the problem.
Erm, of course I log in, how else could I be posting under my name? Duh! And I play a lot more than most everybody else. If we still had a postcount you could check it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Namiru
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Originally Posted by crattey
My apologies. I mistook you for someone who had posted in one of the complaint threads regarding the Anniversary Raids that they couldn't be bothered to log in and try it, but was sure were were blowing things out of proportion. My mind had attribtured that statement to you. However after reviewing those same threads I was in error. It was mistaken identity. Again, my apologies.
However, I still think you are dismissing my post out of hand. I'm not speaking from a stanfpoint of someone going "I didn't get the loot! QQ", but as someone who has gotten loot, and is looking at the system objectively. And frankly it sucks.
Yes having a global message system for SOME events is nice. For THIS even for when Means, a GM or an ARK spawns somrthing, also cool. But when people just spents hours of their life farming up the 5000 items to spawn the Rider,the Globalwarning just lets a team of 220 "Campers" camp in the comfort of Newland City, and dash the hope of the people actually doing the work. And that, as I said, sucks.
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Originally Posted by Namiru
I'm dismissing your post out of hand for pretty much the same reason; I figured you for one of the people who just came here to complain about not getting their free ride to epicness.
Keep in mind though that this is just a single event designed for 'open world' ddwhoring. And yes, this favours the people who just form a team of pimped out 220s and take the loot. 'Working as intended'.
You may not like it but well, that's just tough. Not every aspect of the game can, or should conform to your preferred playstyle.
To therefore conclude the entire message system sucks is a bit rash, I reckon, and puts the blame where it doesn't belong.
p.s. I didnt participate. What I meant was that I am still logging in to the forum , the most active game environment within AO. Nearly the same graphics, but more people and better PvP! None of my posts hinge around actually having participated though, so it doesn't really matter.
Beit Gras or Bronto, the point is the same, its a copy-pasted content.
Whether it actually took months of work or 5 minutes of pressing keys with one finger, i don't really know. Last time i checked it was normal for a customer to assess a service for final results , without taking into account how hard it was to do. I'm not quite sure why you are so defensive about it, when people are just pointing out flaws in initial design of the event.