Originally Posted by Technogen
Notum Wars is even faster than BS, just at a vastly larger scale. City PvP is usually more down tempo, unless a zerg goes for 1 person.
So no, there is no oversimplifying here. At any point of having team PvP, location means jack as the mechanics are the same, you retain the tempo.
More buttons to press is not the solution.
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I concur with everything said in this single paragraph.
AO's complexity in my opinion is its highpoint, especially in PvP, but it's long since lost its novelty. What used to be dynamic and interesting gameplay has ultimately turned into a button mashing contest. Only difference between the two is that you have to hit the buttons at specific times, and in a certain order. If you don't, you end up dieing. This may be an ok strategy for a heavily nano-based profession, but it ends up being the same no matter which one you play.
Isn't that just a symptom of playing too much ?
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Argh. You may be right.
I've been with this game on and off for 6 years lol..
Means, is the new engine honestly going to come? I mean it's two years overdue and the game is dying. If you don't bring it on soon then there might not be an AO in another year or two.
Dunno if you read through the last 2 FWM, but its nearing completion and they are fixing up a new teaser for us.
I just hear a lot of talk about how every major player is leaving for other games one by one. I just got back but I skimmed the last few weeks. It's just so overdue and it seems like they might abandon AO due to inactivity soon.
I'd say that talk is bogus. A bunch of old time players have come back recently. In mid 2008, while leveling a low-level crat, I could rarely find people to level with, and when I did it was three or four people in an OST team.
I rolled a shade last week. There are people everywhere! Heck spots in Nasc are crowded, Tig beach in Ely has activity. I can get teams at the drop of a hat. I also notice far more people hanging out in LoX than before.
Don't let the whiners fool you. Population is up.
Totally agree with berinda, i sweep past nasc on my main to check if there are teams for my lowbies - used to be the odd occasion that i'd find it decently populated... Recently each time i go there, atleast two teams are running around and many others sat in the garden/statue.
Off peak times you may still have the odd problem getting a team, but its still better than previous months.
The graphics engine is 2 years overdue? Did I miss something? FC never said they would hit the update button on the engine 2 years ago. They began working on it. At some point they had a target to update at the end of 2009, so at most, it's delayed 3-4 months.
The game is dying? It's busier than it's been for a while, in some spots maybe even 'crowded'. A LONG while.
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Yes, you might want to go back and read some of Sil's timeline predictions not long after the new engine was announced.
From that point on it has been delay after delay after delay, scrap the whole thing and start over, delay, yadda, yadda, yadda...
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yes, we're all anxious to see new graphic engine. but, as the old poverb goes, "a watched pot never boils."
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Sil who? Oh you mean that guy that hasn't been AO game director for over a year if not two years now? OK
Awwww muffin, need a tissue?
You can roll your eyes all you want, it doesn't make your previous comments any less wrong. Just because he's not GD of AO anymore doesn't mean the engine isn't long overdue from what we were originally told.Sil who? Oh you mean that guy that hasn't been AO game director for over a year if not two years now? OK
Sil announced development of the new engine in June of 2007 (nearly 3 years ago). In March of 08 (two years ago) he said they were beginning testing and hopes to get it completed and live that same year. Here we are, a scrapped engine and two years later, and we still don't have it.
Nice try though...
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....and what are you getting at?
the only mistake FC is to blame for here, is they got too excited and just had to tell us about what they were working on.
What I'm getting at is I'm sick of "graynames" treating other posters like dirt...haven't really noticed you doing this though.
Obtena calling the poster stupid is just an example. I, for one, don't consider someone remembering what he read and how long ago that has been "stupid." Sure his "there won't be an AO left" comment might be a little exaggerated, but exaggeration is not a trait I directly relate to stupidity. The fact remains, according to what we were told and when things were announced, it is overdue.
However, I do think scrapping ogre and going to dreamworld was a good move. I don't really have a problem with the delays, I just have a problem with people getting called stupid for remembering how long it's been since things were said to be coming.
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You're just bitter you can't look at your ass in new "high definition"
The first announcement of the proposed graphic update was June 27, 2007, according to the compilation post that's sticked on reets. Were they over zealous and excited about the whole process? Of course. Is it taking a while? Yep. Do they have a small team to work with? We all know that. The only thing right now that's causing me to be impatient is waiting for my CPU to return from an RMA. I'm not getting impatient with the graphic update. I'd rather they get it done right.
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It was a stupid comment on the posters part to say graphics engine is 2 years overdue because it's not, it never was and it won't be. The latest info for graphics update was from Means, targeting end of 2009 so they are a few months late. Anything else is just old information and If people want to base their expectations on invalid information from 2-3 years ago, well, again, they are being ignorant. There is no excuse for ignorance.
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Awwww muffin, need a tissue?
Look everyone needs to keep something in perspective:
How many games have this kind of run? Huh Complainers?! Who the hell r u kidding....they r actually doing one helluva job(Means and his crew). This game could've folded up and FUNCOM could have said Fook-It and shut the servers down because we all know profitability has dropped on the product but FC has continued to stick with it and develop things.
You think the switch over is a cheap fix....?? Hell if u do then ur really like a baby "don't know what to do". The game is OLDDDDDDDD....we need to always stay thankful that FC continues to keep the product running and even developing it more...when they could have shut it down long ago and pushed AO resources into new product development. Look around the world people that's what companies do...run a product until the profitability drops then the move on to the next big thing. Hell some of u prolly lost ur jobs in the last few years because of the very idea I speak of. Most big companies don't give a rat's ass. Turning a profit is all that matters to most of them.
So keep reality in perspective when u pull on ur fookin "ima widdle baby & i wike to complain" diapers and just be thankful u still have this good game in the sci-fi genre to play :-)
Thanks Means and the crew and FC for sticking with AO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amen to that.
Thats the difference between FC and companies like EA - Having or not having a soul. Its more than just earning a buck for the bang, but rather bang for the buck.
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