Another week has flown by. Today we had a fun visit from a couple long time friends of AO. Macrosun and Kintaii preserved the team epeen by defeating them soundly in Rock Band...where we really should have been having meeting concerning the daily missions. We also went out for pizza...Macrosun and Kintaii somehow won at that too...I'm a little hazy on the rules on that one. MstrBstrd, who is allergic to everything, survived lunch so that was also a good thing. Either way it was great to get to spend some time with a couple of you to remind us again why we all work so hard on AO. An hour of fun every now and then is very refreshing.
The guys working on the engine were not allowed any fun...so no delays were experienced in that area. I imagine I owe them some pizza (and possibly my eternal soul) at some point in the near future.
Lindelu, Flaptoot and Genele contiued to kill themselves working crazy hours this week getting another build together for the Test environment of the new daily missions. It is shaping up to be a great start for this new system.
Thank you for the feedback I have received this week concerning issues within AO. The feedback this week has directly resuted in:
- Free players gaining access to organization headquarters.
- LE Weapon upgrades found in LE Alien missions becoming Yes-Drop in the next update. I think we can agree that this was not "fun". These items will now become part of the world economy where they probably always should have been.
- The "Shut down the terminal" mission to "target The Beast from a close distance CORRECTLY" now updates the entire raid on the death of The Beast...when the "terminal" is actually "turned off". (I actually fixed this one myself...it was very exciting!)
...AND
Most importantly with all the amazing feedback and help we have received concerning the new missions they are improving every day. The changes and improvements suggested and implemented are too numerous to mention here...but I hope you all understand how much help you have been in making this a truly collaborative experience. Lindelu really can't say enough about how helpful the TestLive community has been. We can't say enough how amazing Lindelu has been getting these missions together. I understand she will be speaking to game design students at Stockholm University at some point in the near future concerning her work on AO...I think we should all show up with big emoticon placards.
Questions...oh no...
It has been a VERY long time since I opened up the floor for questions...I know we like to ask the same ones pretty often (ones we generally can't accurately answer)...but post your questions here and I will try and get to as many as I can over the next week. Try and make it "AO" related as I still feel sick from finding out where milk comes from.
Note: Anything I have to write a novella to respond to might not get done....but I will try.
Have a great weekend!
Tentative target date for transfer from D3 and Character name clean-up: February 26th.