Friday with Means - March 26th, 2010 - Amnesia...please.

[plugszzz]

From the Kintaii interview:

PG: "When will it go live?"
BM: "Both the Collector's Lair and the new Daily Missions system will be going in with the next available content update for AO, which should be hitting live servers within the next few weeks. These have both been a long time coming, and the team is really looking forward to seeing players enjoy the new content."

Thanks for that blurb, looking forward to doing something new

[Reacon]

4th page >.>

Good to hear engine work is close to relative completion.

I posted this in the last FWOM but: When AO gets released with the new engine, I think you guys should definitely consider taking advantage of the Steam platform to further advertise. Millions of people use Steam on a daily basis and love its GameOverlayUI, which adds a web browser and other features to any game just like xfire. It is sad that it doesn't work with Steam, as it is a pain to minimize every time one of my friends messages, or I want to look something up.

[Crowena]

As for some reason I still can not copy character to test server, could someone post some more information about the daily mission rewards IF they are indeed on test server already.

[Eponyx]

Will the new engine streamline tasks,

Problaby but that depends on what kind of tasks you refer to.

eliminate bugs,

Visul bugs yes, other bugs problaby not.

open new possibilities?

Yep.

Most people seem to think it's just new eye candy,

Yep new eye candy is also in there.

or maybe my understanding is wrong.

That is also a posebility.

[Surm]

Nice NM head, now remake the atrox one posted last time!

[bitnykk]

all this is cool, honestly (NM face, collector up, dailies updated and all)

but PLEASE :


do smthg about doca work

http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...d.php?t=566048

ffs we mean it !

[Shonta]

Nanomage face:

We are the Nanoborg. Resistence it futile. You culture will adapt to service us. Your Data will be added to the collective. Picard is irrelevent, he will not save you.

[Tlatoani]

Noteworthy for the Friday with Mean is also, that we are planning to create (actually it's already created just hidden) a German subforum right here in this forum; so that we, when the time comes and DNW is closed down in the far distant future, have a new cosy home prepared for the German players in this forum environment. This is done to bring the German players closer together with the English players, while still providing them a new home.

Marketing policy for AO is not only non-existent, you purposely keep players away with this persecution rules of "Annihilate everything non-English!". 2 times have I dared speak in a non-English language here and all I got was both posts deleted and a 3 infraction point penalty for one of those posts. Now it turns out you're breaking this holy rule just to keep players from going away. Does this mean you have figured out the importance of a community in you own language to make people come/stay in the game? How about you make another step forward and try not to only keep players from leaving the game but to bring more new players into the game?

Some data your marketing team should know about

[Kinkstaah]

I hope we can customize these faces.

(ala AOC, Mass Effect etc)

Don't really see why that wouldn't be possible.

[Lusos101]

The new heads look really good but are defenetly becoming "solitised". Beam me up Scottytoot, I want those heads tweaked into a bit moar weirdness. Make it so.

[Hacre]

It's harder, trickier, has big hp mobs

How awesomely unique from other things in the....oh.

[Wrangeline]

I hope we can customize these faces.

(ala AOC, Mass Effect etc)

Don't really see why that wouldn't be possible.

I wonder if FC will be able to do justice to that weird eye-brow thing that your avatar has

I'm guessing they will skip that and make a "vanilla" face expression instead

[If6was9]

... I can't wait to have people besides us and the staff of Duke Nukem Forever trying this. Ha. Is it as funny when I do it?...

Sort of. Bit scary too. Funny mix.

Love the new head. Looks a little asian, a little african, a bit european. It's a dead ringer for "Newarival" in RL. No matter the inspiration it looks very realistic.

[Aiken]

Stubble on a Nanomage just seems wrong somehow. Aside from that, nice pic.

Engage, Shields up 'n all that

Oh, warp facter 15 on the new engine too please, Transwarp-drive it, or find a wormhole...C'mon, make it so Means !

[Tazalanche]

2. The vast majority of the old engine has now been cut out of the new AO client. I thought this would take much longer than it did. Damn. I'm really hoping to get another video to you guys within the next 3 weeks. SOOO exciting.

That was stated 5 weeks ago.

Engine Engine Engine

I know I said I hoped to have a video ready by this week. It didn't happen. OUCH! Right in the personal credibility again.

Despite my lack of delivery on this one the work is proceding well and the actual "production" side of the new engine work is beginning to be implemented. "Old stuff" is displaying and we are currently working through the hideous process of making the "new stuff" work with our world-building and graphical tools...exporters, resource databases etc. The artists are currently tearing through Borealis (the first playfield we are completely updating to new standards), chosen for the fact that it makes use of pretty much all new features (grass, water, light, bump-mapping etc) and hopefully (no promises no promises!!!) we can show it soon.

That was stated 2 weeks ago.

I know things have not been uneventful since then & we can understand delays when they are explained to us, but can we please get a video soon™? Even if it is just another 15 second video, it is better than nothing.

If any way possible, WTB SL or AI related stuff in the next video please.


Back on topic of this week's thread, the nanomage head looks really good.

[Lazuraz]

I posted this in the last FWOM but: When AO gets released with the new engine, I think you guys should definitely consider taking advantage of the Steam platform to further advertise. Millions of people use Steam on a daily basis and love its GameOverlayUI, which adds a web browser and other features to any game just like xfire. It is sad that it doesn't work with Steam, as it is a pain to minimize every time one of my friends messages, or I want to look something up.

Bold = agreed

Think about it Means, people will see it and go OH NEW F2P MMO!? SWEET!

[Klanbear]

Anyone else think that Fergie in Black Eyed Peas looks like a Fixer like on the banner adverts in their latest 'Rock that Body'. Wtb that head

Go get her to advertise AO NOW!!!

[Keldros]

On a personal note to the person who wrote me from prison. Best PM I have ever received. It is going on the wall of my office. To be clear: It is not the policy of my team to delete the characters of people who will be out of prison soon. (Please don't hurt us!)

He's prolly chuckling at my email posted over his desk about being in prison....

You out yet? We should have had an in-game release party for you...a game releases a person instead of...bah...not really that funny I guess.

I owe Kintaii many, many cigarettes after this week.

Why do I expect a severely nerfed Omni-pol in the next major patch?

[Leileena]

... and facial hair? meh, if you can have hair on your head, you can have hair on your face, ... (im referring to the many nanomage heads that do have hair on them)

If you look closely, you will see those are shiny bits of plastic, not hair.

[Nanoryl]

looks good but i wanna see the graphic vid u promised us some weeks ago