Friday with Means - May 8th, 2009

**macattack** · May 11th, 2009, 19:57:03

Originally Posted by Means

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Dirty Underpants of Bungerman

Runspeed: - 1989
Sense: -314
Intelligence: -50

These befouled undergarments are painfully confining having previously belonged to a detail-oriented individual with much smaller genitals. Walking is difficult...running is impossible. Stains of a dubious nature adorn both the front and back of these "tighty-whities". Noxious fumes make your eyes burn and your nose run while wearing these. One can only imagine what you are doing wearing them.
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No faction or side restrictions
Yes to shade wearable
As a requirement, make this a pass it along item. For fun... (social ofc) if you "inspect" someone, you automatically gain this item and wear it (current social pants are unequipped). You can only unequip this item when someone else inspects your toon. The description of this item (bottom half) must list all people that had worn this pair of undergarments. You cannot uncheck your social tag to hide/hoard this item. IF worn longer then 5 days, it automatically finds a new host, as obviously you are too dumb to maintain it's thirst for stupidity.

One can only imagine what you are doing wearing them.

=auto-emotes; your toon goes through all emotes randomly until the loss of these shorts... (but your toons still functions normally... he/she/it only acts like an arse)

**grumpy-mcfart** · May 11th, 2009, 21:06:01

that's hilarious.

**psyxorrr** · May 12th, 2009, 07:45:27

Originally Posted by Ittledoc

No faction or side restrictions
Yes to shade wearable
As a requirement, make this a pass it along item. For fun... (social ofc) if you "inspect" someone, you automatically gain this item and wear it (current social pants are unequipped). You can only unequip this item when someone else inspects your toon. The description of this item (bottom half) must list all people that had worn this pair of undergarments. You cannot uncheck your social tag to hide/hoard this item. IF worn longer then 5 days, it automatically finds a new host, as obviously you are too dumb to maintain it's thirst for stupidity.
=auto-emotes; your toon goes through all emotes randomly until the loss of these shorts... (but your toons still functions normally... he/she/it only acts like an arse)

Bump!

**vadagget** · May 12th, 2009, 17:08:42

Actually, once they migrate the db, why would it -not- be a 2gb patch? I assume all clients have the embedded db now and with a new version of that db I don't see much way to avoid a huge download - except possibly if they have a conversion tool and then you download and the db skeleton and run the convert tool, saving having to essentially re-download the whole db.

**Lheann** · May 12th, 2009, 17:40:42

Actually that is a good point. I suspect some form of conversion tool would come down and run as part of the patch. But in the event that it dies they will probably have a good version for download. Either way being ready for a huge patch might not be bad advice.

**Zandibel** · May 12th, 2009, 19:39:18

It's next week already, come on testlive patch! Couldn't give 2 hoots about instanced pandas but I want to see what you've done for ranged advies.

**SSK** · May 12th, 2009, 19:51:13

Originally Posted by Zandibel

It's next week already, come on testlive patch! Couldn't give 2 hoots about instanced pandas but I want to see what you've done for ranged advies.

Bump, except it's not advs i care about

**macattack** · May 12th, 2009, 20:03:16

Bump for Enf (1/2HB) works (boo for instanced Pande.. no more carebear please!!)

Bump for new shorts!!!!

**Notcrattey** · May 12th, 2009, 23:30:29

Originally Posted by Ittledoc

(boo for instanced Pande.. no more carebear please!!)

because pande will be soooo easy without a zerg

**Hacre** · May 12th, 2009, 23:33:57

Originally Posted by SixCharacters

because pande will be soooo easy without a zerg

I believe the point is the opposite.

**Mereditche** · May 12th, 2009, 23:50:10

Originally Posted by Lheann

But as someone pointed out there is alot of junk in the database that could be removed from game and no one would care at all. A good of armor and weapns and general junk loot that I am sure would free up some serious space. Like really the nano Give Energy 10 nano points. Prehaps since the db has become an issue they could at least take the time to scroll through it and say hey that should go on some items.

Debump on removing items. There are some real pearls out there yet to be discovered.

**Kaylinne** · May 13th, 2009, 01:00:10

Originally Posted by Mereditche

Debump on removing items. There are some real pearls out there yet to be discovered.

Pearls that none discovered in 8 years can be thrown in garbage bin with all the rest of the crap imo.

**shadowgod** · May 13th, 2009, 01:37:36

this talk about removing items is just silly. since the actual file-size of all current items+nanos is just under 80meg.

calling it the "item database" is really a misnomer, as more than just "items" are stored in it. all the textures, meshes, etc are also in there. which take up alot more space than just some random text that make up item data.

**bungerman** · May 13th, 2009, 02:18:28

Originally Posted by Ittledoc

No faction or side restrictions
Yes to shade wearable
As a requirement, make this a pass it along item. For fun... (social ofc) if you "inspect" someone, you automatically gain this item and wear it (current social pants are unequipped). You can only unequip this item when someone else inspects your toon. The description of this item (bottom half) must list all people that had worn this pair of undergarments. You cannot uncheck your social tag to hide/hoard this item. IF worn longer then 5 days, it automatically finds a new host, as obviously you are too dumb to maintain it's thirst for stupidity.
=auto-emotes; your toon goes through all emotes randomly until the loss of these shorts... (but your toons still functions normally... he/she/it only acts like an arse)

sounds kind of like an STD O.o but bump regardless !

**macattack** · May 13th, 2009, 13:20:47

Instead of creating "new" items hense making many items worthless (whole sets of Graft/flowers/kirch/etc used to be sought after... ***cough** a long time ago *** eons ***) and labeled as trash on mobs, make improvements to them. (you did for some of the wpns). Like doing a TS to armor and combine with another (MIY?). (this would engage not only fr00b players but also twinks and make mission loot viable again.

**Maeventura** · May 13th, 2009, 14:53:05

Ow, little idea on patching, isn't it possible to hash an update into parts like: mechanics, loot, mobs, areas, etc. And all "definitive" coding for a patch could be uploaded slowly to the clients.

Explanation:

You start AO, AO says there's a pre-patch ready, wanna download or not?

Press yes, and game starts downloading pre-patch while player logsingame. At end of pre-patching, files are stored in a special folder. When actual patch will be online, launcher only downloads the missing parts and then installs everything.

Result: downloading "pressure" is spread around instead of focused on one moment, and players can patch and log in much quicker.

For those who wonder, it's the system they are using now in another game; AO (Atlantica Online).

I hope my clumsy explanation is clear enough and might give FC some ideas.

**gergiskoo** · May 14th, 2009, 01:05:41

That's a cool idea.

**macattack** · May 14th, 2009, 21:51:39

Sorry.. have to do a bump.. 20 hours (almost 21) and no comments....

(~and the tumble weeds roll on by ~)

**Troxxor** · May 15th, 2009, 13:13:28

Originally Posted by Ittledoc

Sorry.. have to do a bump.. 20 hours (almost 21) and no comments....

(~and the tumble weeds roll on by ~)

*sits cross legged on the floor in Zen-like quiet, wondering what the next FWM might bring*

**Reids** · May 15th, 2009, 16:29:00

first!

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