Friday with Means - February 5th, 2010 - Epeen Epreserved

[-Bear-]

My suggestion would be to collect the best and most relevant guide from each of the profession forums and provide a link to the one matching the newbie's chosen profession. Being centered on a single profession, they tend to be much more concise and yet discuss equipment and skill options in more detail.

FC could send a welcoming e-mail to each new account with links to stuff like aouniverse, auno, the forums, the key guides and one of each of the profession guides

[Megasis]

Another question - With the new FX-E will there be a new sound engine so my logitech 5.1 can handle your sounds without crackles? But not for jsut me ofc, everyone else with awesome speakers too! :P

The only time I find when my sound crackles is when I am duel logging. The noise crackle is your hardware performance.

[Mastablasta]

Another question - With the new FX-E will there be a new sound engine so my logitech 5.1 can handle your sounds without crackles? But not for jsut me ofc, everyone else with awesome speakers too! :P

Must be your hardware, nothing ever wrong with any of the different sound configurations I have had with AO. Course, I've never used a surround kit, but digital surround works just fine, even if AO has no support for it and I turned off sound long ago and packed the many speakers away because surround is so overrated...

FC could send a welcoming e-mail to each new account with links to stuff like aouniverse, auno, the forums, the key guides and one of each of the profession guides

Ao-universe is a pretty bad page to link people to from a company's side. It is basically one long spoiler that completely ruins every ounce of fun any encounter in the game could give you. Do this, do that. End. Course, having fun isn't what the forum people here seem to want, so maybe it's a good idea after all the super-spoiler the entire game.

[Tazalanche]

Another question - With the new FX-E will there be a new sound engine so my logitech 5.1 can handle your sounds without crackles? But not for jsut me ofc, everyone else with awesome speakers too! :P

The only time I find when my sound crackles is when I am duel logging. The noise crackle is your hardware performance.

Must be your hardware, nothing ever wrong with any of the different sound configurations I have had with AO. Course, I've never used a surround kit, but digital surround works just fine, even if AO has no support for it and I turned off sound long ago and packed the many speakers away because surround is so overrated...

I'd agree with the others that replied to your post Lazuraz, that it is possibly something on your end. Since I started playing AO in 2004, I have played it on 6 different notebooks & 4 different desktops, with many of them hooked up to either a pc surround speaker set (a 5.1 Logitech Z series), or connected to one of two A/V receivers (5.1 Sony with Boston Acoustic speakers & a 7.1 Pioneer with Pinnacle speakers) & none have had any "crackle" issues... even when multilogged. However, when multilogged, I have the music turned off on all but my primary account. The rest of the sounds are on though.

[madman666]

I will own you with my 220 piercing NR8 Nanotechnician!

I welcome the challenge.

[JenShay]

... Are you seriously using a TestLive MOTD with highlighted typos as your signature? ...

Oooo.... Means has "see signatures" enabled!
*Goes off to brush up on subliminal messages 101.*

[Lazuraz]

You all who replied to my post - I thought it wasn't just me but heeeyy whataya know! you were right. Nub fail

[Tazalanche]

You all who replied to my post - I thought it wasn't just me but heeeyy whataya know! you were right. Nub fail

Congratulations on the fix.

[-Bear-]

Ao-universe is a pretty bad page to link people to from a company's side. It is basically one long spoiler that completely ruins every ounce of fun any encounter in the game could give you. Do this, do that. End. Course, having fun isn't what the forum people here seem to want, so maybe it's a good idea after all the super-spoiler the entire game.

True, but its the website I give people the link to the most And I really doubt anyone wants to find out all that stuff by themselves.

[Mikenche]

True, but its the website I give people the link to the most And I really doubt anyone wants to find out all that stuff by themselves.

The low level quests are easy enough to figure out without guides. AO-universe mostly comes handy (to me) in two cases: finding that thing I'm supposed to kill / tag and the quest gave no waypoint to, and figuring out what I want from an instance I'm visiting for the first time or rarely enough to not remember it by heart. The tradeskill guides are nice as well. Not that it's exactly a bad thing to link for newcomers, but hardly essential at the beginning either.

[Dogtrauma]

That's why you would rather point them towards the profession forums, new arrivals and knowledge database where the level of retardation is significantly lower than balance forum and server forum.

The profession forums for most parts are dedicated to threads about how to use Combined dog-#¤%&er armor to equip Xan of Monkeys on an s10 twink.
People there are generally helpfull imo. but the existing posts are very arcane to a beginner and for the last couple of months the "New Arrival" forum has been working on the subject of S10 and what would be a good tripple-log combo.

AO universe is by far the best way for a beginner to find out what *can* be done in AO. Picking guides at random is a great way of learning stuff and when you stall, something i did a lot as a beginner, some reading there will generally get you something to do that may lead you into the game again.

[tikvah00]

If this has been answered previously i am sorry, i have not been able to find it....

"character name cleanup and wipe" will people with toons lvl 20+ on RK1/RK2 be able to change their names after the name wipe? or is this only for the players transferring?

thanks

[Crowena]

If this has been answered previously i am sorry, i have not been able to find it....

"character name cleanup and wipe" will people with toons lvl 20+ on RK1/RK2 be able to change their names after the name wipe? or is this only for the players transferring?

thanks

If you lose your name because of the wipe or conflict with name from RK3 then you change it. If not, then you are stuck with your old name as usual. The transferring players are also stuck with their old names if they are not already taken on destination server. At least that is how I understood. Nobody gets to change their name just because they feel like it.