Friday with Means - February 5th, 2010 - Epeen Epreserved

[Whealer]

Hmm I can post again yay

Oh and more on topic good to get some of the more common questions answered even though mine wasn't.

[McKnuckleSamwich]

woot yay means!

I hope everything is coming along nicely.

[unback]

1. What about them?
2. Ask Kintaii.
3. No.
4. No. But we are still looking into this.
5. Definitely not. Pew pew lazers.

1. ya know, you gonna remove neutrals from game or change them in anyway ?
3. why not ? pande got instanced finally.

[Means]

1. ya know, you gonna remove neutrals from game or change them in anyway ?
3. why not ? pande got instanced finally.

1. I am not removing neutrals from the game or changing their role in any way.

3. It takes more people than a single raid can comfortably manage. It is also fun to have a couple "everyone" experiences. I wish we had more.

[Baja69]

I know it's supposed to be done for questions but I didnt find anything related to this in this thread so... free try:

Having a detailed look at Pande has given us a chance to really dig into the potential to add more interesting encounters to the area...it won't be in 18.1 but I look forward to further flushing out this area with end-game content in the near future.

Any news about this? I really think we need some challenge, to me things have changed a lot since you started to instance everything, just not the same taste... dont get me wrong instancing is good, more stuff for everyone etc etc but ... well... Im sure many have the same feeling.

Anyway, thanks for your time & keep up the good job !

[Klod9003]

When will MPs be fun to play at PvP again? I remember this one year we had...

[Kingbling]

On the new character models, Is there any way you can have adjustable skin color? I've always wanted a "Mr. T" atrox with a frohawk.

[zartosht]

OK..reading this again myself this is not really "fair". It IS fair to say the general frustration you feel at the moment due to the speed of this process and the lack of an easily accessible "big picture" to base your future actions/enjoyment on is fully justified. All I can say is that we are working on these issues as quickly as we can and trying to keep the process as "open" as possible. We do appreciate the patience, participation and understanding you have all provided us with during this difficult period...we will do our best to make sure this is worth the discomfort it is causing.

Thank you.

[Iriche]

Bah..you are only saying that because you actually got to see it.

Note: I gave Iiiiriicheee a T-Shirt and AO Mousepad to write this. He is biased and not to be trusted :P

Lies I am not Biased!

[Graftmage]

It is also fun to have a couple "everyone" experiences. I wish we had more.

bump.

[Mastablasta]

Not too many "everyone" experiences though, as it's all about pointbotting and crapping up the game ;(

[unback]

3. It takes more people than a single raid can comfortably manage. It is also fun to have a couple "everyone" experiences. I wish we had more.

ok im playing only for 3 years but never been in there on raid. nor saw one being done. does that mean noone is doing that because of 'more ppl needed' or im just very very very unlucky then?

but bump for more. esp content that can be done.

and thank you kindly for answering my questions Means!

[Invest0r]

We are opening things up more now than they were before...I completely disagree with your opinion concerning the direction the game is taking. The "free to use all weapons" thing went out with SL and AI years and years ago as all professions do not have perk support for all weapon types....so let's not pretend this is something "new". We are adding new lines that add support for more weapon types...is there something more we should be doing?

Actually I have a little suggestion/question concerning weapons. I would really like to see more diversity concerning end game equipments. Meaning there shouldn't be just one ubar weapon that is best in all stats, but like 2 or 3 different weapons with different advantages. Just an example:
I have a 215 melee adv (DNW), and was using 2* Mongoose MK6. When the upgraded Beast weapons came out, I was facing a "Hatred of the Xan" that had
1. more damage output
2. 300 add HP modifier for each, so 600 HP in total
3. +15 mm, bm and pm

So compared to the HotX the Mongoose totally sucked, and I spent hours of farming VPs in the BS. It was really annoying to realise that I could just throw them away...

So the question is:

For example, why not add the HotX with more damage, but make the Mongoose upgradeable as well and put the other modifiers to the upgraded Mongoose? Result would be two weapons, one with advantages in damage, the other with advantages in nano skills and HP. So the player could (and would have to) choose between damage an HP.

Again, this is just an example, but I hope you get what I mean. As I am german my english is far from perfect, sorry
So please, give us choices and not just new weapons that totally own the old ones

P.S.: I would LOOOOOVE to see the scorpion morph ingame

[Gridpain]

This decade. Excellent..a timeline I know we will make!

1 person happy...now many to go!

fyi, "this decade" ends the 31 dec 2010 ...

no you have a challenge

[Castaras]

I don't know...I'll have to ask. I'm sure there is a reason of some kind. Thanks for bringing that up.

You're welcome. Would be nice to be able to do so as that would mean I can finally pay with my own debit card rather than working through my parent's credit cards.

[Kahava]

6. Probably a very good idea...though I guess the actions you already have for this function have too long cooldown or the price you pay for them is too high. We should look into this as there isn't much point/fun un running though an empty dungeon only to get to the exit. I'll think about it. This would also be kind of "Giving away Fixer stuff" as well...something to keep in mind...if you included Fixers in your teams you wouldn't really need this. Anyways..further thought and input needed...easy to implement-ish...but possibly not a perfect idea.

Make the button drop the toon either right inside or right outside the mish/dungeon.
This way nothing is "taken away" from fixers (or other gridding profs) and we don't have to run through the empty space.
Plus, gridding isn't always a useful solution, like when doing several missions situated closely together.

[crude4gone]

Make a teamversion of the fixer garden warps, that should cover all types of missions, and give more incentive to hire fixers for your teams.

And then bump for more non-instanced content. Making S42 instanced would be destroying the last really fun social encounter that's not pvp based.

[Demoder]

6. Probably a very good idea...though I guess the actions you already have for this function have too long cooldown or the price you pay for them is too high. We should look into this as there isn't much point/fun un running though an empty dungeon only to get to the exit. I'll think about it. This would also be kind of "Giving away Fixer stuff" as well...something to keep in mind...if you included Fixers in your teams you wouldn't really need this. Anyways..further thought and input needed...easy to implement-ish...but possibly not a perfect idea.

I'm sure you guys will tell me what you think

If fixers' warps worked in SL (warp team to a given garden), I'd agree with you. But it doesn't.
MPs have team warps, but it's almost faster to run out of the dungeon, than wait for everyone to find their keys, equip them, and tell the MP it's all equipped, *and* for the MP to cast the nano in question. Keep in mind the MP team warps stop at ado.

So for SL, not so much a fixer toolset concern.

[madrid]

What kind of events do you miss? We would like to know

Way back when game first came out there was a in game event where GMs were carrying a load of equipment or something from 4holes and trying to make it into the grid. Clan had to protect the shipment and omni had to try to stop it...I think. That was a ton of fun, until the zone crashed over and over and they decided to give up .

There was also a really cool in game event long ago in milky way that was some sort of mutant take over...everyone had to try to kill as many mutants as possible...teams were encouraged. Team with the most mutant kills got a prize and then also got access to the next stage of the event....IIRC.

Anyway stuff like this, esp. if there is some pvp involved would be a ton of fun.

[Gatester]

What kind of events do you miss? We would like to know

I remember about 4.5 years ago seeing Leetzilla or some giant leet attack West Athens. That hooked me more than anything at the time, it was reallly exciting.

The total big fights I have seen include 2 giant leets, a massive Omni attack on OA (which we lost lol), 4 or 5 Alien raids in OA and borealis, and an RP event where a political figure was being escorted through OA, and at the Jobe Whompahs he was attacked by renegade clan NPCs. Oh and the last holloween giant UPH of lag-death

The Giant Leets though were my personal favorite, and mobs like "please say CH" haven't been around for years afaik.




Beyond that, thanks for the replies. I do wish the Mass PVP participation area for VP was around before I grinded 12000 VP in LE mishes on my level 1 lol.