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iirc, you can transfer froobs to paid accounts, but not the other way around.
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This is correct. It is the only logical way for things to work. Because if we allowed a player to transfer a character from a paid to a froob account, then he/she wouldn't be able to play on that froob account until it was converted to a subscriber... and this would be a very bad customer experience. Because characters on paid accounts all have flags that allow them to obtain in game advancement not available to froobs. It's just how the model works.
I have a question that nobody answered me before. Will there be an upgrade of the audio engine to have 5.1 audio like AoC and TSW?
It's not specifically planned. We use Miles Sound (I actually don't know what AoC and TSW use for their sound middleware). Coincidentally, Miles Sound has a new SDK toolset has some sound upgrades and I was planning to speak to Macrosun about this when he gets back from vacation.
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Sweet. I love it when AO bosses speak honestly to the player base. And by love it, I mean just reactivated & resubbed for a year. You guys should do this more often .
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Reminds people of how far the game has come, reminds them of the anniversary date. Little bit of nostalgia is triggered when some people read it (personally it makes me think of how AO was before SL, I liked how you could see desert-planet survival in almost all gear).
And, of course, the way they phrased it is humorous due to how terrible the launch truly was. Still considered the worst MMO launch.
I was of the opinion it was there to strengthen the image in player mentality that FC had no idea what they were doing and still don't, and still try to whitewash horrendous problems...
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Although as an audiophile and musician, I would greatly appreciate a move to 5/6/7.1 surround in AO, I'd just like to chime in on how horrendous surround gaming can be when enough time is not devoted to it - and its easy to break with minor patches. My other recent MMO, Star Trek Online managed to completely break surround encoding in a content patch, so those of us running some of the more common sound cards had everything that was supposed to come from the center speaker sound like it was being played back in Satan's bathtub for more than a month.
Not that I doubt the capabilities or dedication of the AO team, and like I said, it would be great to hear, but I'd rather just emulate surround with my sound card's control panel than have a quickly/poorly done surround implementation. Audio design in games is often under-funded in comparison to graphics and other aspects, even though it is easily as integral to gameplay immersion. To do it properly and make it sound good with AOs current music and sound samples would require a massive rework of all the audio assets, and judging my the size of the AO team and the lack of a dedicated staff sound/music guy, might very well take longer to get right than the new graphics engine.
tl;dr, don't bother with surround sound in AO unless you plan to really, really, really spend some time and money on it. Better 2ch good quality sound than 5.1 that sucks.
-= Make the new engine look even better. Don't forget to post a screenshot! =-
Anarchy Online Account Merge
This offer will permanently merge two of your Anarchy Online customer accounts.
The account you choose to merge will be merged as a sub account of the account you are currently logged into. Once the merge is complete, the other login will no longer be available for account management. However, you will still log into the game with your old username and password.
Once the accounts are merged, your Anarchy Online accounts will all have the highest number of veteran months available to any of your merged accounts.
--------------- Above posted to the Server Notices Forum on Sept 7th ------------------
Yes, each account in the merged group is paid/not paid separately. You can have paid-paid, froob, and unpaid-paid accounts up to 10 accounts and this count includes all Funcom game accounts linked/merged together.
You can transfer any toon to an account with equal or greater number of expansions. So a froob toon can go up to an account with expansions but not the other way around. Also a toon with only shodowlands can transfer to an account with all the expansions, but not the other way around.
However, the promised ...
"" Once the accounts are merged, your Anarchy Online accounts will all have the highest number of veteran months available to any of your merged accounts. ""
... is currently not working, or at least not working for players who merged/linked their accounts previously ...
My merged/linked accounts currently only show their own veteran months ... not the months of the highest/longest-open account within the group as promised.
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Unless I'm mistaken and you have a character not mentioned in your signature, you haven't really played for the last 6 years. Of the 11 year timespan the game has been out, it appears to me that you've played about 2 of them. Not much playing and having fun you're doing there :/
I wouldn't call it a personal vendetta. Most people around the forums do have a problem with the series of false promises we've been fed by FC over the years. I'm not sure how you equate the first link, about AO not being the only MMO still left alive from that era, or the second quote/link, about AO's terribad launch, into anything resembling hate for the current development team.
I've played alts
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