MassivelyTV: Anarchy Online Edition!

[Lackofgravy]

Lol as I was watching in 10 secs in... POP CAT FOOD COMMERCIAL! -.-

omg 10 mins in... srsly cat food commercials are annoying ;[

[Tazalanche]

Lol as I was watching in 10 secs in... POP CAT FOOD COMMERCIAL! -.-

omg 10 mins in... srsly fat food commercials are annoying ;[

firefox with adblock plus FTW!

[Gaveup]

I didn't get any ads ;D It kinda reminded me wandering around noob island for about 11 hours trying to figure the game for the first time, eventually made it to Rome and luckily found a nice start up org. There is a big lack of direction at the lower levels, and with the whompah/grid system I know my wife still asks me the travel routes to get places.

[-Klod-]

The uncontrollable anger was not mine. No sir! I swear.

[Darkstabber]

So there's one thing we need to do at least - Add in a visual indicator for exactly which mission you've got uploaded to your map. ;P

or show ALL waypoints on the map, and show the mission name when you hover over it

[-Klod-]

So there's one thing we need to do at least - Add in a visual indicator for exactly which mission you've got uploaded to your map. ;P

I think you need to add those silly big "!" and "?"s floating in the air, like every other freakin' MMO on the market did.

Sure it will look too Asian, but hey...

P.S.
"Stucked in attack stance" visual bug is still with us, I see.

[Darkstabber]

I think you need to add those silly big "!" and "?"s floating in the air, like every other freakin' MMO on the market did.

no... just no

[-Klod-]

no... just no

But, but... Think of the n00bs. :'( You meanie. :\

[Darkstabber]

But, but... Think of the n00bs. :'( You meanie. :\

think of the AO atmosphere giant punctuation marks would totally ruin the game.

[dustbunny]

At least for the very first NPC a lot of people miss (by running left), I've been thinking it would help to let him buff himself often, the particle will make him stand out a bit more. Would be easy enough to add and should attract the attention of most noobs.

Maybe instead of immersion-breaking ?! marks, they could add boss auras to quest NPCs? Just something you notice.

[Darkstabber]

or just make the thorn convo start automatically upon arrival

[Wrangeline]

Doesn't blue name mean it's a quest-npc or such? I haven't really paid attention to the consistency of those blue names but blue names often seem to hint at questage.

[-Klod-]

think of the AO atmosphere giant punctuation marks would totally ruin the game.

Why? If they are visible only to people who are running specific mission in their mission rooster.

Marks should apply only to active mission. That's what I meant.

[Darkstabber]

still would ruin the atmosphere, IMO

[Anarrina]

There are floating boxes with question marks on the old backyards. I don't think they actually float over anyone's head, though, i haven't looked recently.

[Ayria]

There are floating boxes with question marks on the old backyards. I don't think they actually float over anyone's head, though, i haven't looked recently.

And we have that new floating question mark thing you can see next to a few of the Agency direction signs. Sort of like the "big exclamation mark" but more discrete and fits with the theme a bit more.

[Mawerick]

I think you need to add those silly big "!" and "?"s floating in the air, like every other freakin' MMO on the market did.

Maybe make Quest NPCs hold signs with "!" and "?" on them?

[Ayria]

Maybe make Quest NPCs hold signs with "!" and "?" on them?

Funny and in theme with AO. I approve.

[-Klod-]

There are floating boxes with question marks on the old backyards. I don't think they actually float over anyone's head, though, i haven't looked recently.

amgawd but it totally ruins teh atmosphere.

[Dagget]

About the Daily Mission.

Beau had the proper mission uploaded from the moment he received it - that Daily mission has a waypoint set at the center of the Wartorn Valley ruins, though, and you have to actually scout around the whole area for suitable mobs. What threw us for a loop was that he opened up another mish that was also located in Wartorn Valley right after getting the Daily and we didn't see what the actual Daily was, or that he had several missions in his mission list. Once we spotted the 'real' Daily Mission, we got it cleared up in a hurry. AO can't mark 'areas' the way AoC and other games do when you need to kill mobs in a general area, they can only mark a single point, which just added to the confusion in this situation.

As for IP, Beau didn't ask where to put IP, and we didn't tell him where to put it. Those of us who knew he was in-game were as hands-off as possible, to not color his evaluation of AO. He was mainly using the auto assign IP button but on some levels had started sticking IP where he thought it would be interesting. Keep in mind that this guy plays like 5-10 games a day, every day, year round (check his columns on Massively)