Limdul - Shade / Sammybear - Doctor / Swakhammer - Enforcer / Puriel - Fixer / Kalutika - Nano Technician / Tengen - Adventurer
They said in the past they plan to keep the requirements around what they are now. AoC has much higher reqs as it is far more demanding graphically. It's not the engine that displays the graphics that bump the reqs, it's the graphics it is going to display. As those will not change much (only getting some new effects (which we likely can turn off), new faces and new trees) and more of the work will go to the graphics card rather than the CPU the reqs should be around what they are now and it could even run smoother with the gear you have now.
Last edited by PhoenixOfAges; Jun 20th, 2009 at 23:45:49.
nice that is all i was wanting to know
Limdul - Shade / Sammybear - Doctor / Swakhammer - Enforcer / Puriel - Fixer / Kalutika - Nano Technician / Tengen - Adventurer
Mega system reqs to render with new tricks old models and stuff won't change reqs all that much. it might be worthwhile for all those people playing AO to upgrade their systems to take advantage of all those neat modern games that are available. And it's so very very cheap to get performance that'll run Crysis now a days...
Thor Mastablasta Hammersmith - Level 220, AI 30, LE 70 Clan Atrox Nano Technician - Setup
The Red Brotherhood
I'm a Nano-Technician, don't ever expect me to fight unbuffed, alone or fair.
Means: about f'ing time :P
Satenia: heresy <3
Znore: Mastablasta <3
Kinkstaah: I have agro from many mobs ;(
Madarab: we are aoe class, we are supose to use pistols
Marxgorm: the NT toolset does not fit into my raiding tactics
I used to whine about games not getting ported to MacOS.. Got Windows, problem solved :P
Seriously, just borrow your friend's install disk or something and run it in Bootcamp.
Means, or any other employee of Funcom, has no obligation to tell us squat. FwM is a privilege that he is giving us, brief insight into the goings on of the company. If they so choose to do something without notification they can.
As for the change, yes it sucks, nerfing SnD really wasn't needed. However, provided that the nerf isn't a mistake (which has happened before) I'm sure Funcom has their reasons and; disclosed to us or not, they really don't need to justify it to us.
With the balancing act in effect lots of things are going to change, lots of people are going to get all riled up as their lose tools they have become used to and dependent on. (Everyone buy earplugs when they touch AS cause oh boy we'll have a lot of screaming)
Depending on how this balancing act goes Funcom may see fit to return some power to Keepers in another form. But then again, with all the epeen Iruberpvpskillz whiners we have on the forums talking about how everything is OP chances are it will be a wide spread downgrade which will bring Keepers back to par.
(Off-Topic: I really don't get the "omg OP" fad people partake in. Do you think Perens are OP? To a Froob they are. Xan weapons compared to Perens are OP. Down the line it goes.)
Enter the Information Age
Proc Descriptions
Hunt, and be hunted: The Hunting Grounds | Alien Tower Field :Aliens, that really invade!
Pet argo management: Servants Protection | Expand the Notum Silo :Make it worthwhile
Rimor
Tesgri - 220|17|58 (Omni Agent)
Leara - 220|25|62 (Omni Doctor)
Ponygirl - 220|25|56 (Omni Bureaucrat)
Means: "We have done way dumber things than this..."
The problem was though that there was no tangible reason to make any sort of nerf against Keepers. They are in fact behind other professions in terms of attack power and Slice and Dice is one of the few attacks that helped them win a few kills, but now that that's been "modified" the Keeper profession is at an all time low because of a sudden, unannounced and unnecessary change. And as quite a few people said it's not sensible for this to happen and have to wait months for the next balance cycle, if indeed this was the intent of SND's nerf (balance issues).
After reading Means emm initial post i decided to read all the pages of replies and to my surprice noone have done this yet .....
Means your a n00b!!!!
I am shure macro and the rest have already picked on him already and will for a very long time remind him of this emm failure.
Florentino"Marlark" Suitt
Master of the Universe of The Asylum
[Genesis] Marlark: First rule of Genesis, Blame canada for anything and everything with other words blame Rotender.
[Tsunameh]: i just bought this acct on ebay and you're only friend on the friendslist. There's no creds, could i get some plx?
[Genesis] Marlark: **** HAPPEN WHEN YOU PARTY NAKED!!!!!!
[Nipntuck]: what org r u in
Originally Posted by "Thetweek" : yeah well its a big thing to do marlark is like god :> so hard to go against him hehe
Florentino"Marlark" Suitt
Master of the Universe of The Asylum
[Genesis] Marlark: First rule of Genesis, Blame canada for anything and everything with other words blame Rotender.
[Tsunameh]: i just bought this acct on ebay and you're only friend on the friendslist. There's no creds, could i get some plx?
[Genesis] Marlark: **** HAPPEN WHEN YOU PARTY NAKED!!!!!!
[Nipntuck]: what org r u in
Originally Posted by "Thetweek" : yeah well its a big thing to do marlark is like god :> so hard to go against him hehe
Enter the Information Age
Proc Descriptions
Hunt, and be hunted: The Hunting Grounds | Alien Tower Field :Aliens, that really invade!
Pet argo management: Servants Protection | Expand the Notum Silo :Make it worthwhile
Rimor
Tesgri - 220|17|58 (Omni Agent)
Leara - 220|25|62 (Omni Doctor)
Ponygirl - 220|25|56 (Omni Bureaucrat)
Means: "We have done way dumber things than this..."
People, let's calm down and breathe a little.
I am not pleased either with the nerfs my favourite prof (aka keeper) is undergoing, but don't forget we only see what's right in front of our noses.
We don't have the big picture, we have no clue how they plan to redo all specials and the rest of the perklines.
I guess we'll just have to do momentarily with what we got, suck it up and wait upcoming patches to see how this is all turning out.
Cos if in the end, everything and everybody gets nerfed to some balance we're asking for for some time now, we won't have any reason anymore to complain.
just one question....do u have adequate comments in ur code means? or any comments at all? THATS what comments are for, so after 4 years later u dont have to spend all day figuring out why u didnt get an invite to the ship, because before diving back into ur code u supposedly looked over ur comments section again to refresh urself.
ur post should read *face palm* i shoulda wrote better comments
just a suggestion, but in ur defense, i know from personal experience that its easy to get into the habit of NOT writing proper comments.
Formerly Vhab.
Once upon a time ruled a server. And then sold out. Sorry.
Enter the Information Age
Proc Descriptions
Hunt, and be hunted: The Hunting Grounds | Alien Tower Field :Aliens, that really invade!
Pet argo management: Servants Protection | Expand the Notum Silo :Make it worthwhile
Rimor
Tesgri - 220|17|58 (Omni Agent)
Leara - 220|25|62 (Omni Doctor)
Ponygirl - 220|25|56 (Omni Bureaucrat)
Means: "We have done way dumber things than this..."
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"Coll1000" Zephyr 215/22 Fixer
"Tiellae" 180/6 Martial Artist
"Exachix" Zephyr 132/?? Doctor
And many many alts.
of Pantheon.
All the whining that Means should have checked the code to see how to trigger a AI ship invite from ground raid. Sorry I am with Vhab. Code needs comments but a rule list should have been part of the development process and documented long before there was code.
I personnelly would love to have seen him write:
Today Macro and I tested AI Ship Invites in the new instanced cities. After a quick viewing of the AI Raid How-To on the offical site we were off and running with a team of 4 toons to ensure the ship invite.
or even better would have been:
Today Macro and I tested AI Ship invites in the new instanced cities. I pulled out the AI City Raid design package and dusted off my 4 year old rules list of what will and will not trigger the ship invite. Macro and I decided it was best to do some regression testing and we ran about 6 raids in various team sizes and such.
Then the only mistake he could have maybe made was one being a GM. Since I have helped test content on Test Live through NW and SL and AI I know that not all content has the GM restriction. Since that restriction is not universal (why i have no clue) then it would be an acceptable mistake. Still a mistake though.
The fact that a fan site has better guides than the offical web site says tons. For me it is a marketing indicator. "Um actually having guides and player handbook is to costly for us with the low population. Let the fan sites handle it."
I agree FC should keep some stuff a mystery. But the basics on all the content should be there for everyone to look over. Even the Devs.
As i said on page 1. Even if it was a mistake it was excellent regression testing of the mechanics. So noob he may be. But in the end it was much better tested.
Last edited by Lheann; Jun 21st, 2009 at 16:09:26.
Lheann
President of When I Grow Up
Lhisa - MA - RK1
MaxKillz - Enf - RK1
Namaru - Enf - RK1
"If you find yourself loosing a fight, your tatics suck."
All those times of hugging the CC were in vain... I remember upgrading to SL&AI and my org officers explained it is very necessary to pull the general to CC to ensure ship invite. Such superstition
Eroz, finally 220/26/70 Adventurer & proud General of Regulators on ex-RK2 (outdated) equip
Rokroland, 170 Engineer No more crab for j00 Northern Front on ex-RK2
Ranged roxxorz!
Sig last updated properly when West Athens still had people sitting about the subway.
Or, funcom might not want spoilers to be out there immediately. I have a strong su****ion that FC asked AO Universe and co to hold off their guides until a few weeks after LoX released.
Come on, is it more fun to do the quest by what you get from the game, or just grind it out with a guide.
Lupusceleri L220/30/70 Agent -- Advisor of Spartans -- equip endgame AR setup endgame def setup <3 Azs wearer of Cheree's pants
Arrowsmith -- Arafellin -- Alphacenta -- Aesculapias -- Wolfseye -- Lysdexic
TL5 enf twink: im out those MPs are to overpowered
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