Just as a side note, it would be awesome if you pointed out the changes done to the worksheets since the last time. There's a bunch of em atm and they're all quite long. Plus excel is kinda a bitch to move around in. Finding out new details while trying to remember what was old and what is new is not that fun.
First of all, thanks for the new signature Means. There was a lot of things I wanted to say to people like Oliver, Alternity, and pretty much everyone who complains about when the engine comes out, who is quitting, who is disappointed with AO's timing... and you nailed it. Bravo sir, bravo.
Ctrlaltwin. Man. Legend.
<Means> I always laugh when I have to type "/get sex" when debugging
[Social] Eponyx: I don't drink, yeah it is true. Can you please get that pink moose of the platform. And park the polkadot elephant to reclaim.
Uaintseenme: This is why i love Test sever so Much.
I can wake up in the morning and think to my self, "Im going to break AO today" and should i managed to do it, I'll get rewarded for it.
Ctrlaltwin. Man. Legend.
some of the things that have been done were with older tools that they do not have anymore, if they go to recode it, it could break everything id think, however I still would love to see the logout on AoC here on AO
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You get those through vet points, 10 each. RK gets you to main faction city, about 10 seconds away from grid access, SL gets you to any garden if you have the key for it.
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PS: Gratz Vhab, you go infiltrate and learn all their zekrets and then sell them to the hobbit that is working on AO Cell =P
No, seriously, congratz man, I hope what you learn there may pay off down the line and become an FC employee. FC can always use good talent.
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Thor Mastablasta Hammersmith - Level 220, AI 30, LE 70 Clan Atrox Nano Technician - Setup
The Red Brotherhood
I'm a Nano-Technician, don't ever expect me to fight unbuffed, alone or fair.
Means: about f'ing time :P
Satenia: heresy <3
Znore: Mastablasta <3
Kinkstaah: I have agro from many mobs ;(
Madarab: we are aoe class, we are supose to use pistols
Marxgorm: the NT toolset does not fit into my raiding tactics
<Means> I always laugh when I have to type "/get sex" when debugging
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Uaintseenme: This is why i love Test sever so Much.
I can wake up in the morning and think to my self, "Im going to break AO today" and should i managed to do it, I'll get rewarded for it.
I'm certain it could be changed if we desired and saw good reason to do so. But that was not entirely what I was getting at.
The delay is there to prevent you from logging off in a brief moment of being out of combat.
Same reason why doing a 'quick exit' with alt-f4 twice will leave your character ingame for a while.
My earlier comment wasn't as much about the exact value 30, but rather this value not being 0; which would be open to abuse.
I've actually declined their invitation and dislike what that project is doing long before I started at FC.
I absolutely have no problem with the people working on it, but as a project I believe it has more potential for harm than good.
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Once upon a time ruled a server. And then sold out. Sorry.
Grats to Means for pressing another slave into service. Well done.
@Vhab, stop trlling and go do something.
Things not done on schedule are no surprise. Regular feedback however is an acceptable substitute. I hope that the rebalancing is not considered finished with the implementation of current changes. Im pretty sure adjustments will be needed for a long time. Would like to know more about what has been done for the starter experience, I dont think a new noob island is enough. And would like to know if there is any intention of making adjustments to existing playfields to allow a fun playing experience for everybody. Playfields that are ignored or only used by specially made twinks are not good playfields. Lets hope the rebalance will help with that.
Oh, can I have a direct answer (from a dev) to my post? I miss my 15 seconds of fame.
Time for a Yomama joke nao...
Gustatus similis pullus.
TY Kintaii.
Globally I think it's a bad idea to require quests or quest items to obtain or execute nanos. Quests require us to be patient and follow instructions and this is what I call "work". Not in-game combat, questing, searching, fighting for in-game rewards but rather "you will jump through these arbitrary series of hoops when we deem fit, in the manner we deem appropriate, to gain access to the new bare minimum skill set for your profession". That is what quests, quest requirements, cybonanerdecks, neenercybodecks, all mean to me. Work. I think little of running a mission that takes an hour when I pull it: I chose it, I set the settings, chose where, how and when. If, however, I have to spend an hour fedexing spoo to location 1, 2, 3 and 4, then paging through anything (especially text that is supposed to detail major story line changes, but only insofar as the wall of text says it is) it will feel like a chore, like a job, like work.
I am not paying you guys to give me work. I'm paying you for escapist sex and violence with a cyberpunk spin. The less linear, methodical and mandatory the better. Content should be connected to the underlying story, should have some internal logic that's consistent with the gameworld, but it should not be Uncle Toad's quest on a rail for the McHappy hat of nano functionality.
In summation: boobies.
I have you beat, I once tanked the Beast on an almost naked Nanomage engineer in perk reset with in nothing but Gilthar's Summer Shorts on, I also survived and only 2 doctors died. (Long before iPande.)
"A whole new place to run around for ages in then die suddenly without warning."
"I know who coded pet pathing... and when I see him I say "/follow" and I start waling in to walls :P"
The "Trolls" option is incorrect. The term trolls is not used to describe the gathering of information on the Internet.
<@Kintaii> L2P
It could be alot worse, there could be a requirement for enforced progression quests like some other online games require (the ones that require you to have done quest X before you can level up further).
In here they are only required if your lower then "skip this quest level" in shadowlands, excluding molar for getting from pen to inf.
This is one of many reasons why i like anarchy online alot more then those other games, freedom in how you play instead as you call it "jump through these arbitrary series of hoops when we deem fit".
I agree some quests that are quite long can be a real pain like the DB quest but atleast this is only one of the few that is really needed to be done for a true endgame char.
As to scheduled things well basicly they are a big pain because on inspection it seems like a breeze and it should be done in 10 minutes.
When the actual work starts you find out some hooks into the code you wanted to change make it alot harder then the estimates go from 10 minutes to several hours.
Then when testing that new function is finally possible you find yet another thing bugging up and the estimates go completely out of wack with "unknown / several days".
I can fully understand this as i have had this happen with projects im involved on myself too and know what kind of a pain it is not just for me but also for sales & customer relations.
VHab grats on your new position, i really hope that reworking the character selection will be a smooth and enhanceing experience and prove to funcom you fit well within the team.
Ow and means do not let the complaints get the better of you, i know how frustrateing it is when any positive words about work are hard to find or even absend while your getting swamped in complaints and negative comments.
It is a pain but the ultimate reward is in the end it all will work out good when so to speak the dust has settled.
AO needs to keep moveing with the market mechanics, i would be worried if AO wouldnt because then its a slow creeping in death of a game, wouldnt happen overnight but if a game gets behind too much its hard to catch up again.
One thing im wondering, are there any plans to make "game time cards" part of the shop or (might be good or bad i dont know) exchangeable for ingame currency.
I know eve online did that and it seems to be growing bigger then ever because money comes 2 ways, people normally not able to play can play when they pay someone who can afford to buy GTC's for their card in ingame currency so the money comes in from multiple sources then.
Not sure if it is a good idea or not because it might collide with the "selling power for money" possibly but then if some money sinks are added to it might also be a good way to move some money arround, its just ideas for stuff that might work out well.
But surviving isn't the fun part
Basically, for fun I announced I was tanking and charged the beast expecting to just die.
I just assumed everyone would ignore it and watch my corpse just lay there.
Instead every doctor and absolutely nobody else followed me.
So we ended up with me dead, all doctors dead and the rest of the raid still standing there trying to decide what the hell just happened.
This event also brought up the subject whether it was technically possible to ban a superadmin off the bot
Formerly Vhab.
Once upon a time ruled a server. And then sold out. Sorry.