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Thread: Friday with Means - April 9th, 2010 - New faces, Old faces

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    Funcom employee Friday with Means - April 9th, 2010 - New faces, Old faces

    Work continued this week on putting more polish on the Daily Missions. As of last week everything pretty much "worked" but there were still some issues that provided "inconvenient" or "annoying" moments...and these need to go before hitting the Live dimensions. The team is doing a great job of ironing out any remaining issues so we have high hopes of seeing this one out "soon". I can't wait to see the first groups die horribly in the new instance. Ouch. I think this is the most challenging chain of encounters we have ever produced.

    I had hoped *ahem* many weeks ago to be putting together a video of the new engine...but things are just not where I would like them to be. With the artists focusing their efforts on supporting the art team in Beijing with the production of the new heads/bodies it hasn't been a good time to bother people about making me grass. Fortunately the longer we wait in getting the video started...the more features will be in and complete. I am sorry about the much longer wait than anticipated. We all look forward to witty "vaporware" jokes....but it won't stop us from working on it....even link the word "vaporware" to Wikipedia if you like. Funny stuff.

    Speaking of the new heads...part of the work in preparing to make the new heads was determining which heads were actually in use. The results were both suprising and NOT surprising. Heads 1,2,7 and 8 are unsurprisingly the default choices for Atrox, Solitus Male, Nanomage Male and Opifex Male. Surprising were the rest of the "Top 10" which only included two female character heads. The first Nanomage Female head does not make an appearance until 19th on the most popular list. The winner of the "undesirable" contest...with only 51 uses in the entire almost 10 year collection of data can be seen below...

    I have also included some images of the new heads "in progress" from the Beijing office. This work began on Monday and it is always amazing to see the work unfold.

    Have a great weekend!
    Last edited by Means; Apr 9th, 2010 at 17:18:30. Reason: Corrected numbering :)
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    Sorry Sir... Can't allow you in. Seems you're not on "The List"

    Oh, my apologies... it seems you are here; right between "Duke Nukem Forever" and "Metroid Dread" Please, step inside.
    Last edited by Melinea; Apr 9th, 2010 at 19:51:52. Reason: Someone thought it would be funny to actually add the engine to the list.
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    Damn!
    Astarra "Esthaer" Hakhamaneshi, Atlantean Clan Female Pistol Nanomage Engineer 220/30/70
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    still here
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    Excellent.
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    First page!

    And really nice images.
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    first page woo!
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    First page! WOO! I'll go cry myself to sleep now.

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    First page. Better than usual
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    No one essential at FC office came down with Chickenpox and had to be hospitalized and work put on hold this week? I am duly impressed.
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    Nice work on the heads, i'm looking forward to this...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Means View Post
    Heads 1,3,7 and 8 are unsurprisingly the default choices for Atrox, Solitus Male, Nanomage Male and Opifex Male.
    You mean 1, 2, 7 and 8 ...

    By the way, did your head-popularity stats take into account the legions of xp-stim farmers and gold-spammers that were simply rolled as fast as possible, thereby inflating the popularity of the default heads. I wonder what the rankings would look like if you only looked at characters that made it to level 10, for example.

    Also, I was just about to roll my next toon as the hawt steel-jaw Nanomage female, and now she probably won't make it into the engine upgrade

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    Quote Originally Posted by cbus97 View Post
    By the way, did your head-popularity stats take into account the legions of xp-stim farmers and gold-spammers that were simply rolled as fast as possible, thereby inflating the popularity of the default heads. I wonder what the rankings would look like if you only looked at characters that made it to level 10, for example.
    My thoughts exactly...
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    Auron 220/25 Keeper ::: Shadowslave 220/23 Shade ::: Radius 211/21 Nano-Technician
    Sunza 207/21 Martial Artist ::: Voss 182/15 Engineer ::: Shadowhead 150/16 Agent

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    o.O
    The winner of the "undesirable" contest...with only 51 uses in the entire almost 10 year collection of data can be seen below...

    and i know one of my alts got the head...

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    Nice read and interesting heads, tyvm!

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    Solitus female looks like she got Mick Jagger lips, so not sexy lol...


    I dun wanna get a cyb0r data with the bulimic vacuum lips...
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    nice
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