All these new mods are just a waste of time till the ridiculous server syinc problem in missions is sorted out.
Many other on-line games need a far better character location systems than anarchy requires, eg 1st person shooters where it is essential that person x knows where target y is in order to shoot at them and hit, Eg quake, unreal, BF1942 etc etc. None of these games seem to have problems keeping track of 50+ players simultaniously. AO doesn’t need this level of sophistication as we only have to select our target and hit the go button and the server does all the rest.
When you suddenly change velocity in a mission, ie go from sneak to run and then all the doors turn black and you get killed, things become very frustrating.
It seems the AO client is arguing with the server as to where your character actually is. This is stupid. Either the client tells the server where the character is (and forces an update) or the server should tell the client where the character is (and force an update). Either way there wouldn’t be this stupid black door bug that is an automatic death warrant to a character.
Perhaps part of the problem is the doors themselves. If you notice when you move through the mission how the little pink door dots unfold in front of you and disappear behind you, my guess is that the server doesn’t put in doors unless it has to so when you “slip out of syinc” you are in a place where doors haven yet been put into your map (or have been culled). Despite what I have been told by the arks this is NOT a VISUAL BUG. It is a design flaw. It has nothing to do with graphics issues.
Surly this bug is easy enough to fix, it’s not like it used to happen 4-5 patches ago. It is a problem that has been introduced into the game with some changes to missions. That being the case this “feature” could be undone.
It has to be more important to fix this issue than to keep rolling out new stuff, after all doing missions constitutes the vast majority of players time in the AO world, so logically the missions should be the most polished system in the game. Unfortunately despite 3 patches this is still not the case.
Kill this problem NOW.