Friday with Means - April 17th, 2009

[Vhax]

Win

[fixking]

map navig resetable? when? we know we are annoying...

[Scape]

Still think a general Pande instancing is a bad idea, Id prefer a clan,neut,omni instance of pande so we could all do pande raids every week.

[Kaylinne]

Any chance on getting some info/ETA about professions balance, even without polished marketing comb?

[krumpfwild]

This should be the final update in the 18.0 series (assuming nothing goes to hell). Now we can hope to concentrate on getting 18.1 with instanced Pandemonium, instanced cities, a new space club and apartments out in the near future.

I guess that means blunt perklines love is planned for patch 19..... er... 22.5 ?

[Quilluck]

NCU Wipe

The spawn of the Deranged Xan should no longer trigger an NCU wipe. NCU wipes inside any instance should also no longer remove "reward buffs" of any kind..like Hollow island or DB instance buffs.

Will this also include the NCU wipe you receive when getting back up from the bottom of "Inside the Machine"? Or is this intended?

[Desperado35]

currently every boss in the game should still be able to be victimized by this ridiculous nano.

No marketing combs ftw. I really prefer game officials speaking their mind after the propaganda campaigns and censorship in a more recent Funcom MMO.


And yeah, bump for info on profession balance & new onehander would be great

[Hacre]

No screens/vids again? bummer

I can clearly see it now. I'm already playing D3 or Star Trek Online and there will still be no new gfx engine for ao available.

Work on the engine begun at least the last quarter 2007, now soon nearing 2 years - that is way too long imho.

PS:
I will make a trox or a solitus race once STO is playable(beta, whatever).

Two years is too long for a new engine? Says who? How long would you take?

Will this also include the NCU wipe you receive when getting back up from the bottom of "Inside the Machine"? Or is this intended?

I believe when that was added, it was definitely intended. Death without dying, or something.

[Ashram]

Remember to vote, or ask questions on Google moderator questions for the next few sessions.

http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=16202&t=34126

[Quilluck]

I believe when that was added, it was definitely intended. Death without dying, or something.

Yeah, that was how I understood the changes but seeing as the wording was "any instance" it seemed an appropriate question to ask since that would mean (if my assumptions on the NCU wipes from DB2 were correct) changing the intentions of the pad running a little bit at least

[lugoman]

A busy week while we get another update ready for the TestLive dimension with some fixes, and changes that I hope will put some smiles on collective faces.

Bosses inside "Elder Hall" should now be Boss-Calmable again.

...This was not the "right" fix...merely the fastest with the intention that we would get a better fix in the near future.

I do not feel that the ability to calm ANY boss is a central part of the Crat toolset. The nanoline is not called "Boss Calms"...that is what someone else called it. I respect the idea of a "panic" button...but that is not how it is being used. The ability to drag parts of an encounter off in a corner to invalidate their presence was never the intention of this nano...I am pretty certain those who used it this way know that too.

Colin "Means" Cragg

So why change it? Crat stun/debuffs by themselves are already op (in pvm) and make endgame encounters pathetically easy.

[Hacre]

So why change it? Crat stun/debuffs by themselves are already op (in pvm) and make endgame encounters pathetically easy.

Nerf heals as well in that case?

[SoldiTwo]

Two years is too long for a new engine? Says who? How long would you take?

It's common knowledge - well at least , if you are familiar with the general developement process of a game. Normally a standard game takes 2 - 3 years to develope, but logically this timespan increases as games get bigger every year.

For a good overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_development

Imho strictly speaking, as they are using ogre it should not take so long as it actually does now.
In no way was a developer always working fulltime on the new engine since the trailer was released.

[Obtena]

It's common knowledge - well at least , if you are familiar with the general developement process of a game. Normally a standard game takes 2 - 3 years to develope, but logically this timespan increases as games get bigger every year.

For a good overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_development

Imho strictly speaking, as they are using ogre it should not take so long as it actually does now.
In no way was a developer always working fulltime on the new engine since the trailer was released.

FC aren't developing a game though ... this game is already established. It's quite reasonable to see why there is so much added time to get this engine out. When developing a game, it's new. In this instance, they need to develop the game and adapt the current content to that development. That's a much bigger scope. It's common knowledge.

[SoldiTwo]

FC aren't developing a game though ... this game is already established. It's quite reasonable to see why there is so much added time to get this engine out. When developing a game, it's new. In this instance, they need to develop the game and adapt the current content to that development. That's a much bigger scope. It's common knowledge.

Then, why do you think a port of a game to a new platform takes less time than to develope the game in the first place?

[CriticalDmg]

About this last Test server patch (18.0.4.0_EP1):

• Will the bosses always leave their corpses now ?
• Will all the team/raid members get into the same instance ?
• Will the morphing debuffs override any & all of the other morphs ingame ? (f.ex.: doesn't override veteran leet, so you don't see you're debuffed)

Remember to vote, or ask questions on Google moderator questions for the next few sessions.

http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=16202&t=34126

I might have missed Means/any other FC employee say anything about it, but... anyone ever said Means is even looking at that thing ?
I mean as far as I recall Means is answering the questions collected directly from these forums (FwM threads/patch/whatever) and not from some outside of FCs control polling site that makes you register... (and yes I do have a google account already)




p.s. WTB a 20-30 minutes lockout on team evac. meep wars are lame.

[zartosht]

I heard of the "calming" exploit just before the final build sent to live last week...

Discussing exploits on open forums...

[Technogen]

Then, why do you think a port of a game to a new platform takes less time than to develope the game in the first place?

OMG YOU'RE RIGHT!!!!! They must have canceled the engine! Quick everyone complain about it not being out, that will make it come faster!

[Hacre]

p.s. WTB a 20-30 minutes lockout on team evac. meep wars are lame.

Yes. Nerf the Fixer toolset so you can zerg slaughter people with little difficulty instead of people using a tactic that ruins -your- fun.

After that happens, be sure to complain that no PvP ever occurs too.

[shadowgod]

Then, why do you think a port of a game to a new platform takes less time than to develope the game in the first place?

its Common Knowldege that FC isnt porting AO to a new platform.