Friday with Means - February 19th, 2010 - The trifecta!

[Talita]

It's good to know you are all doing your best Means, have a beer on me this weekend.

[Means]

When will you unlock stamina potions bac... Errr. Wrong forum.

When will my MP be fun to play at PvP again?

Oh come on...that felt "phoned in". Was that written by some guy in India you pay to troll for you?

[Autohead]

1st PAGE!!

First page finally!

first page!

Wrong, you are all on my second page!

10 posts per page FTW, 20 is too long.

[Alternity]

But I shouldn't operate heavy machinery right now...we can agree on that.

Now is actually the best time to drive heavy machinery, the potential for a good memorable time will be bigger, because you won't be uptight and worried about the lumbering 17 ton metal mayhem beast you are driving doing anything "bad"

You'll feel euphoria, and a most likely a kinship to God, hell you'll feel like God and you will start pushing boundaries!


Can police cars be driven over?

How flat can a cat possibly get?

We need a house with a hole in the middle, donut house!



mmmmm Donuts!!!!!


I mean 5 dead cats, a flock of fleeing police later, you'll be enjoying your donut @ 7-11 who just got a new hole for customers to enter!




Set yourself free Means!



Yeah and GIEF AO2

[cube0]

Wrong, you are all on my second page!

10 posts per page FTW, 20 is too long.

hahaha!! XD

[Shareida]

Nope. Sick, sleep deprived and a bit stressed. But I shouldn't operate heavy machinery right now...we can agree on that.

Hehe, if you tell any of those AO fanatics that anarchy online means stress, exhaustion and nightmares, they will tell you, your nuts.

I rather enjoy the product, as getting too involved in how to make it pleasant.

May your work be our pleasure. Rofl.

P.S. sucks to be you.

[Macrosun]

This is my post. Enjoy.

[Iamkama]

Oh come on...that felt "phoned in". Was that written by some guy in India you pay to troll for you?

lol @ the conspiracy theory of outsourcing forum posts XD.


Anywho.

Glad to hear the engine is coming along faster than expected, I'm sure we're all eager to see that new video Means.

AO2 doesn't sound like too bad of an idea if **** hits the fan.

[Narhemoth]

This is my post. Enjoy.

hail Macrosun

[Dolfindwe]

Just a quick question for MEANS

Do you EVER plan on letting us sign on to Battle Stations from Anywhere? Meaning from a simple HUD boutton or an inventory item?

This could be the BEST FIX for AO PvP in a VERY long time. Simple explanation. Today, the terminals to sign up are spread all around the main cities.

( That is an ISSUE. Indeed, you know as well as us that low level characters, with low runspeeds, tend to stick to the areas they are leveling in. The reason is simple, low level characters are slow as hell, very annoying to move around, more even so in SL, so as a player, you try to avoid moving too much from a part of the world to the other.

For example, if I am leveling in Nasc, then Elysium, then Adonis for a few weeks (months) I will simply NOT go back to the main cities each time I log in, it's way too much of a hassle.

The result is VERY BAD : 95% of the player population while leveling does not take the time to sign up to the BS, even if some pvp would feel quite good after too much farming. BS are empty, people are even less motivated to go ALL the way to the terminals to sign up, with very little chance to ever get into a game, it creates a VICIOUS cycle, and new players are convinced that BS are just a marketting feature, which never open in the real game. )


To make things short :
- The fact that BS terminals are spread around and not easily reachables by lowbies while they are leveling, is the MAIN reason why sub 150 BS are DEAD.
- Simple FIX : make us able to sign from anywhere, it is not game breaking, it does not have any cons, it could revive AO's PvP like nothing before !!

[JenShay]

*Does signature subliminal mind tricks on Means*

"You will read."

*Droning voice.* Hail Macrosun!

Edit: *Brings a box of Bar Ones into the office with some Pepsi and hands them out. Then puts a music player with some soothing classical on a desk and lets it play.*

[Autohead]

Just a quick question for MEANS

Hell yeah that was quick, it must have been so quick that it tore the space-time continuum and travelled into the future!

Edit: I was right, it showed up 12 minutes later and editted his post!!!

[dustmouse]

Macrosun wants to make AO2...and after this amount of time dealing with code-archeology so do I.

Gah! Don't even joke about it. Tease.

Anyway, daily missions in the subway if I interpret correctly? Cool!

[Genele]

Anyway, daily missions in the subway if I interpret correctly? Cool!

Yes, we will also change a couple of things in the subway while we are at it.

[Autohead]

Yes, we will also change a couple of things in the subway while we are at it.

Add more feces and vomit please. That will make it more realistic.

[unback]

3. A test server is up for the new balance work. I'll tell you guys where once it is acceptable to us so you can tell us why it isn't acceptable to you

and transfer to test works again ? ... checking... um.. still pedning so i guess not yet ><


have fun on weekend

Do you EVER plan on letting us sign on to Battle Stations from Anywhere? Meaning from a simple HUD boutton or an inventory item?

and bump for that ><

[Technogen]

I'm available if you need a dev for ao2.

[lostlife]

should we expect balance test (dubbed RK5) with in the week?

edit: wait... balance test is ready? where is the new balance info then?

[JenShay]

I am just available, easy and cheap. Use me FUncom, use me!

[Amosco]

Very cool update, Means. Now, was THAT so hard?

Actually, I enjoy hearing all of the behind the scenes stories of catastrophe around the Anarchy Online office. It is sort of like Scotty from Star Trek when he told Geordi LaForge that you should never tell the Captain exactly how long it will take you to fix a problem because then you don't get to look like a hero when it actually takes you less time than you predicted!