Friday with Means - March 20th, 2009

[Rewo]

Ah my favourite past time <3

Blasphemer!

Just take your engi off your toon list now

[ninor]

I will start with the questions the then:

global research: questions has been here before. Do you still plan to bring new ones or are you not really a fan of those , e.g. it's leftover from before your time as boss

Mail system: has been requested several times and is a really nice feature of a lot of other games. think you could be inspired by it? (so u don't have to copy it....)

Trade: New trade auction system has been suggested many times. On the other hand maybe just redesigning the interface would get most of the problems solved at a cheaper price. Any .02€ from u on that?


I hope and pray that you get some official FC backup when the engine is up to revitalize AO...
Until then lots of cookies (u should add those to the game) to you and the AO team.

[rustinel]

Ah my favourite past time <3

OMG! You killed Kenny! You bastard!

[Brampfine]

Orbital Appartment nice

have this Appartment a personal yalmaha spaceship hangar ?

like to see in future a orbital booster

[Saetos]

Whatever your team of artists did to make the face... ...keep doing it. Looks fantastic, a lot more human (and yet a lot more opifex) than the first rendition.

[Ashes2Ashes]

Awesome stuff Heads look sharp, very nice surprise with new apartment, and nightclub! Maybe as we look to the future, more stuff to do in space, or even offworld missions (you know the ensign with the blue shirt dies first on any away mission right? Star Trek ftw)!! Damn, that would be very cool.

Thank you for more updated info about the engine, thats really great news to hear. Oh yes, like Uaint said, new main pet please! If you do, please no Widowmaker clone, it's one ugly pet!! Or if you don't, how about Face Graft nano for pet classes to change the look of thier pets, to one of an earlier model. I miss my Black Slayerdroid.

[Adjuster3]

We're more interested in the technical side.
Stuff like bottlenecks, optimization methods (which scene structure, which shadowing method, stuff like that), etc.
[...]
The AO community has more than just players, there's several developers lurking the community as well hungering for technical details

I could not agree more!!!

[Rewo]

Trade: New trade auction system has been suggested many times. On the other hand maybe just redesigning the interface would get most of the problems solved at a cheaper price. Any .02€ from u on that?

Just new interface please, auction systems make leets cry.

[Technogen]

Another idea I just had for the SpaceAPT, is let us spawn a boss in it :P but make it a huge cred sink.

100m Mercs
300m TNH
500m Beast
900m Artillery Commander

Just make a shop in there with an "Essence of" the mob. You buy the essence of item and use it in a small machine that spawns them, kind of like an incarn.

*edit*

For those that would start off "WUT! CRED TO FARM!!!??" Means said the SpaceAPT would be AFTER the instance Pande so 2 of those would already be spawn on demand.

[Junttius]

Next gen atrox model

A professional boxer named Nikolai Valuev

[Coroline]

The space apartment looks nice!

Q: How is the Profession Balancing Act coming along? Any eta?

And btw, will you be hiring any c++ coders in the future?

[Hacre]

(you know the ensign with the blue shirt dies first on any away mission right? Star Trek ftw)!! Damn, that would be very cool.

Red shirt.

[Saregon1]

Very nice work. Thanks for the new pics and the Friday updates. I count down the days to get to read your post. They are definitely building my anticipation.

An ETA would be wonderful. There are 2 different reasons I'm guessing to why you don't want to give an ETA: 1)its many many notum moons down the road and it would be detrimental to speak in blocks of time that large , or 2)were gonna be surprised soon with it.

Can I have my fear back? Please Please

[Alternity]

I seriously love the way Widowmaker looks, Widowmaker and t3 aka dildo helmet is the solve reason for me making a engy
Yeah the black slayer is also cool, but how about a completly new design for all pets? not just new colors on old models.


Oh and what Vhab said on posting the tech info, we are many utter geeks here! I find technical engine info almost as hawt as a pair of titts.


And last, yes I am a judas for running around in BS with the solve intent of FA/bursting engy mech dog. But let me tell you this: being the devil never felt better!

[Neista]

Orbital Apartment? oh my....*faints*

Yes, yes, yes! thankyou Means, i am so going to get this!

[Uaintseenme]

Ah my favourite past time <3

And thats why, when you die, you are going to hell.

[Kaylinne]

Omgz new apartments *drool*
Can we get some new furniture with them too, pretty please?

[Tinypain]

Omgz new apartments *drool*
Can we get some new furniture with them too, pretty please?

Xan furniture...made from the dead hides of Omni's, Clan's, and Superior Commandos...


--Steve

[Wrangeline]

Apartment and the idea of a club up there in space sounds cool. If it's really expensive then I doubt I will buy one but I'm sure I will know someone who does and I'll at least get to go and have a look. I am a bit concerned that this will end up like the luxury jobe apartments where a lot of people have them but most never actually use them for anything as going there is just an inconvenience. Then again, apartments and any other social/roleplaying aspect of the game is designed for those that like that sort of thing, so just because I myself or the kind of people I hang around with most of the time don't use these apartments, they are still a cool addition to the game.

Maybe add GMS-terminals and bank terminals and save terminals at the apartments so it's a viable place to hang out in. If we have to leave the orbital building every time we want to do something specific, it's going to be a bit boring going up there most of the time. Just a suggestion. Also having access to shopping channels up there would be nice too so we don't feel so cut off from the rest of the world while being up there. Also, the concept drawings look a bit dark and depressing, lighting-wise. Maybe make it a bit brighter and cheerful?

Opifex head looks really good now. Even starting to get "pretty". Looks kinda like some girl I know in RL and she's very good looking so I guess that's a good thing

@Means:

One question that I'd like an answer to before the next patch or the next Friday with Means if possible, as we maybe already found the answer to this ingame or on test before then. My question is; What will the Full Perk Reset cost? I know you said it would be free the first time and then cost 20m if we wanted to do another full reset before 2 days had passed. But what about once those 2 days have passed? Will it be free again? If not, what will the price be? Will the price go up the more we use it or will it stay free every time we use it as long as we wait for the cooldown to end?

[Grim-One]

Heads keep looking better and better every time I see them. New apartments look nice to. So will the new club have an NPC in it called RKTim's Plaything?

About the 12 man instance. Is there any chance of adding a new item that upgrades the Beast armor? A new mesh to match the blue and black of the weapons would be cool. Need something worth raiding zone for other than symbs and spirits.