Monthly Development Update: March 2012

[Phixalicious]

Choose my adventure round 2!

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04...ion/#continued

Get out and vote and don't lose by 3 snivelling votes this time!

I absolutely had to vote...for Asheron's Call.

[heilt-do]

Don't vote, wait for engine n stuff to come out so we can we a good review and not some tour into the ghostlands.

[Louderer789]

Men have died waiting!

[BytEfLUSh2]

Men have died waiting!

Would you please listen to this man?

Far too many people have died in vain, waiting for the long-forgotten promises... Really, do something. Pics and vids aren't going to resurrect those who have fallen.

Simply - DO SOMETHING! Do not let AO die...



Edit: oh, and before anyone asks - yes, I am drunk. That doesn't have anything to do with my opinion, though.

[Gunforhire]

Choose my adventure round 2!

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04...ion/#continued

Get out and vote and don't lose by 3 snivelling votes this time!

Still losing by 145 votes, let's pick up the pace folks.

[Mastablasta]

Doesn't look like a winner But we have more votes than all the other games combined, so that's sort of a victory

[-Bugsplat]

I thought Asheron's Call was dead?

[Mastablasta]

No, but who knows how alive it is compared to AO. Maybe we should all go try it? I have the client downloaded and everything, I just never got round to installing

[Kuegen]

No, but who knows how alive it is compared to AO. Maybe we should all go try it? I have the client downloaded and everything, I just never got round to installing

I'll try it with you, been meaning to give it a real shot haha

[Psikie]

No, but who knows how alive it is compared to AO. Maybe we should all go try it? I have the client downloaded and everything, I just never got round to installing

I'll try it with you, been meaning to give it a real shot haha

Traitors!!! Boys get a rope.

[Vhab]

Traitors!!! Boys get a rope.

I got a rope! Let's do this!

[lainbr]

i got a rope! Let's do this!

http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/jump-rope-relay.jpg

rawr!

[-Bugsplat]

There used to be a show on G4, I think it was called Portal.

They used to feature IC-clips from Dark Age of Camelot, Asheron's Call, AO, and one or two others. I fell in love with AO a year before I managed to break into the computer room at 1 in the morning and finally play it.

I just realized I committed B&E just to play this game. I'm a bad man -.-

[Michizure]

There used to be a show on G4, I think it was called Portal.

They used to feature IC-clips from Dark Age of Camelot, Asheron's Call, AO, and one or two others. I fell in love with AO a year before I managed to break into the computer room at 1 in the morning and finally play it.

I just realized I committed B&E just to play this game. I'm a bad man -.-

Such a Fixer...

[Anna]

Another opportunity for Bad Behavior?

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Reading the thread (well most of it) there is another aspect to consider. As people move to the new server, will existing orgs have claim to the org name on the new server? If not I expect there will be instances of people stealing the names of existing orgs.

One solution would be a two step migration process. First step is that the org leaders get duplicated on the new server at time of initialization. Org then also exists and city can be instanced, etc. They can duplicate toons on the test server, so seems like this would not be a stretch and the org name, city, and bank get duplicated. This conserves the data for the existing players.

When the org leader moves over, it overwrites the existing "placeholder" toon data (preferences) and org data (bank mostly)." Effectively activating the placeholder. The org is then active with city, bank, and name. This would probably require intervention on Funcom's part to ensure it is done properly (never have trusted data transfers completely) but doing it for the relatively small number of org leaders would not seem to be an overwhelming difficutly and it would ensure that current org names continue to be the property of existing members.

Accidently posted to the wrong thread.

[Liwa]

As I said orgs have members .. how do you link to them?

To do it, FC will have to make IDs inter-server.

Unless a dev comes and tells me I'm wrong, there's no way to xfer an org as well as the membership. And people stated the membership is what counts.

Well if that is true ... then I expect to be able to at least transfer the org president/leader with the guild-name reserved for that toon to re-create the org on the new server with only that one toon.

Yes the org members are what is important and I would be happy to re-invite and promote all our org members one at a time ... however long it takes

As long as FC makes it possible for me to transfer to the new server with our 'old' guild name either 'attached' to my toon or somehow 'saved' for us. Our history is in our guild name ... old members can always find us as long as we have the same guild name.

I am our org president btw ... so it is easy to make the commitment.

Kinnik

(Lonicera: Seraphim Cleric rk2 ... Org has been continuously active since 1/4/2003 with only two org leaders ... Lonicera has been in org since June 2003, active in AO continuously since then. )

Another opportunity for Bad Behavior?

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Reading the thread (well most of it) there is another aspect to consider. As people move to the new server, will existing orgs have claim to the org name on the new server? If not I expect there will be instances of people stealing the names of existing orgs.

One solution would be a two step migration process. First step is that the org leaders get duplicated on the new server at time of initialization. Org then also exists and city can be instanced, etc. They can duplicate toons on the test server, so seems like this would not be a stretch and the org name, city, and bank get duplicated. This conserves the data for the existing players.

When the org leader moves over, it overwrites the existing "placeholder" toon data (preferences) and org data (bank mostly)." Effectively activating the placeholder. The org is then active with city, bank, and name. This would probably require intervention on Funcom's part to ensure it is done properly (never have trusted data transfers completely) but doing it for the relatively small number of org leaders would not seem to be an overwhelming difficutly and it would ensure that current org names continue to be the property of existing members.

Accidently posted to the wrong thread.

Bump for a FC answer to how orgs/guilds will be transferred to the new server ...
Preserving historical org/guild names, org banks, etc. and the option of keeping our current city as an instanced one on the new server or rebuild instanced city with another guild if we choose to.

I know my org/guild wants to keep its history and guild name in tact.

Kinnik

[Keldros]

There used to be a show on G4, I think it was called Portal.

They used to feature IC-clips from Dark Age of Camelot, Asheron's Call, AO, and one or two others. I fell in love with AO a year before I managed to break into the computer room at 1 in the morning and finally play it.

Same story here, minus the B&E. (And Portal was the name of the show)

[oegaboega]

lol @ rope thing
i hope : D april community post is up monday : )))
happy early queens day for all the dutch people.

[Unkfix]

1) We are discussing this. We want to either rework Rome, or make improvements to another OT city and redirect new players there instead.
The most important for me is that the shops should be easy to find, with signs, and that they should be closer together. A bonus is to have the grid and the whom-pa more accessible too, and in Rome this is sort of.. not ideal. Even if it looks cool.
2) We are removing auto attack.

Maybe you should direct new omni players to omni-trade. Shops are already closer together there and the grid exit has the lowest comp lit requirement of any omni city right now.

[Gorathon]

Plus the quest NPC for Special Issue OT clothing is there. Great suggestion.