Friday with Means - June 26th, 2009 - The dead awaken and consume coffee.

**Toasting** · Jun 26th, 2009, 18:40:01

game loading and zoning works MUCH faster now.

i have bad LD issues as some ppl know. the last patch made me not have any LD at all, at least before rollback.

after rollback, i have some LD, but still less than i had before patch.

all in all, good job. id say correcting old issues in the game is something that was needed for some time. plx keep it up

**Prokyon** · Jun 26th, 2009, 18:43:58

Originally Posted by Chrisax

On that day, though, make a social T-shirt and sign for us "Newbies welcome here" that we can wear or hold to tell new players we are ready to help them and they can talk to us.

Bump for this. I think it would go a long ways towards improving new players' opinions of AO if there were a lot of vets wearing t-shirts/holding up signs saying something like "welcome to Anarchy Online" (which would also be slightly ironic, because generally if you see that it means you have LDed, which is something you don't want) or some other newbie encouraging phrase. I'm sure a lot of the community would be willing to do that.

Also, I appreciate the effort the team went through to get things fixed. It's likely not very easy dealing with the archaic code of former coders.

**PhoenixOfAges** · Jun 26th, 2009, 18:48:37

Originally Posted by Prokyon

Bump for this. I think it would go a long ways towards improving new players' opinions of AO if there were a lot of vets wearing t-shirts/holding up signs saying something like "welcome to Anarchy Online" (which would also be slightly ironic, because generally if you see that it means you have LDed, which is something you don't want) or some other newbie encouraging phrase. I'm sure a lot of the community would be willing to do that.

It's a nice idea and all but apparently a lot of new comers never get off of newbie isl. So they would never see people standing around with such shirts or signs.

**Prokyon** · Jun 26th, 2009, 18:50:46

Originally Posted by PhoenixOfAges

It's a nice idea and all but apparently a lot of new comers never get off of newbie isl. So they would never see people standing around with such shirts or signs.

That's true. Newb island should be drastically revamped before the engine (and hopefully the marketing that comes with it) hits live. If this happens and new players actually make it off newb island, then that would be very, very good.

**Solstiare** · Jun 26th, 2009, 19:02:06

Do not mention 12.6 aside that it happened. Nothing to see here, move along.

**atrox532** · Jun 26th, 2009, 19:18:32

good deal

keep up the good work

**Aethyrguard** · Jun 26th, 2009, 19:29:22

It has been an awesome birthday month and week. I love the new changes.. I even loved all the fun we had during the patching and a result of the rollback in the forums.. Thanks a ton to the codemonkey's that worked tirelessly on this and got things right as rian so quickly. As always Means keep up the good work.

PS: In game mail system.. I am so going to logon to test and hump Macrosun's leg on my agent.

**Prokyon** · Jun 26th, 2009, 19:32:17

Originally Posted by Aethyrguard

It has been an awesome birthday month and week. I love the new changes.. I even loved all the fun we had during the patching and a result of the rollback in the forums.. Thanks a ton to the codemonkey's that worked tirelessly on this and got things right as rian so quickly. As always Means keep up the good work.

PS: In game mail system.. I am so going to logon to test and hump Macrosun's leg on my agent.

Make sure you use Ruse 4+Slayerdroid Transference+Quantum wings for maximum effectiveness.

**Windguaerd** · Jun 26th, 2009, 20:57:50

Originally Posted by Means

Stepping into the AO universe and making the kinds of changes we have been making for the past year are always horribly risky. I also like to think we are really beginning to make progress...and despite the loss of 11 hours this week I feel like we are starting to make good progress. Again I am sorry that any of the pain and suffering we normally deal with when combating the old issues of AO spilled out onto our players. I hope we can enjoy another 6 years before this kind of issue gets us again.

I am going to choose to see the positive aspects of what we are all achieving together in making AO better rather than dwelling on this incident and letting it scare us away from making the dangerous changes that are necessary to make AO the game it always should have been. I love AO now...but it can be so much better as long as we never give up. We'll get there.

I knew one day he would mention AO Universe!

Ok, shameless plug, so sue me.

**rustinel** · Jun 26th, 2009, 21:11:50

*Sues Windguaerd and buys XP stims*

Gotta speculate to accumulate y'know!

**Siahanor** · Jun 26th, 2009, 21:37:20

Originally Posted by Means

Macrosun still found time this week to start work on an in-game mail system.

Awesome. Now just add in the Centralized Shopping Database ( auction house ), tie it into the mail system, and remove the need for player shops.

And while you said before you don't like this idea because it would "split up the playerbase", answer me this:

What splits up the playerbase more?

Everyone running off in 2 thousand different directions to go hunt down the items they just bought in some obscure non-instanced player city where there are no players?

Or everyone gathered together at their respective CSD (Rome Blue, Old Athens, and Borealis) shopping, talking, and interacting?

Furthermore, how much sense story wise does it really make that on a planet that has resisted terraforming on 90% of its surface, some Joe Schmoe's have slapped pristine player cities down all over making RK look like Vegas?

**Rewo** · Jun 26th, 2009, 22:01:06

I'd prefer to see a system where the current shops are retained. Give the buyer an option to pay a fee, something like 10%, to have it instantly delivered to their mailbox. You could then also implement shops in instanced cities where a fee would be charged to both the seller and the buyer, say 10% each. This keeps real cities attractive as its the cheapest way to sell goods, it allows people to get their instant gratification when shopping if they are willing to pay and it gives full functionality to instanced cities but at a cost. Added bonus is a bit of a cred sink.

No matter what they do, I hope it keeps the same flat price sales structure rather than an auction system. Just say no to AH.

**Siahanor** · Jun 26th, 2009, 22:05:44

Originally Posted by Rewo

I'd prefer to see a system where the current shops are retained. Give the buyer an option to pay a fee, something like 10%, to have it instantly delivered to their mailbox. You could then also implement shops in instanced cities where a fee would be charged to both the seller and the buyer, say 10% each. This keeps real cities attractive as its the cheapest way to sell goods, it allows people to get their instant gratification when shopping if they are willing to pay and it gives full functionality to instanced cities but at a cost. Added bonus is a bit of a cred sink.

No matter what they do, I hope it keeps the same flat price sales structure rather than an auction system. Just say no to AH.

Boohoo. Someone might undercut that 300 billion cred item and actually bring the economy back toward reality.

And the only ones who really want the shop are those delusional ones who think a non-instanced city is worth 5bil because of them.

**Redbar** · Jun 26th, 2009, 22:50:38

The mail system sounds fascinating. Two questions:

1) Will we be able to send items?
2) If yes to 1, will Global Market Search deliver through mail?

..and a bonus question:

If yes to 2, will instanced cities be able to have a shop building after all?

**oddbunny** · Jun 27th, 2009, 00:08:42

Great work Means and Co., and thanks for checking out my toon going into the instance, it was a crummy client

**Windguaerd** · Jun 27th, 2009, 00:12:48

Just noticed, no mention of AO's 8th Anniversary or Celebrations at the Official Website...

GIANT /FAIL!

**Dancingrage** · Jun 27th, 2009, 01:25:33

No, there's mention of it on the launcher tho.

**Darkkblood** · Jun 27th, 2009, 01:45:05

Originally Posted by Windguaerd

Just noticed, no mention of AO's 8th Anniversary or Celebrations at the Official Website...

GIANT /FAIL!

they don't want new customers to know how old the game really is

**shadowslider** · Jun 27th, 2009, 04:04:22

I wonder if means gets mad...."the help from the community" was really more like "OMGWTFBBQ YOU BROKE THE SERVER I WANT 11 HOURS OF CREDIT" lol....if I was means id go crazy and start screamin screw you guys, im goin home...hats off to your patience my man

**Castaras** · Jun 27th, 2009, 08:27:58

Originally Posted by IpwnThee

I wonder if means gets mad...."the help from the community" was really more like "OMGWTFBBQ YOU BROKE THE SERVER I WANT 11 HOURS OF CREDIT" lol....if I was means id go crazy and start screamin screw you guys, im goin home...hats off to your patience my man

[cartman]Screw you guys, I'm going home![/cartman]

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