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Ugh, definitely getting the "resubbies" again. Why must such a great character system be owned by such a useless company?
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Fewd posted:I'm not sure how much a name list will help because most "active" goons I've known ingame usually play for a bit and vanish for months before coming back for a little while again. Me included. When I was on the other day and did the command for Roflbot it gave no response, so I guess that means no one is around? BTW thanks for all the tips for a fixer guys.
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M6thrXeat posted:When I was on the other day and did the command for Roflbot it gave no response, so I guess that means no one is around? Yea, no huge surprise. It's gone down for months at a time before and nobody seems to know who's hosting it or where. One of these days it'll just stay down.
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I haven't checked this in about a year, and man... What a thrill just reading all of the posts about the game. It's like... the best woman I've ever known left me and got into porn. And my love for her was such that now I can't go on another second without being with her again in ANY FORM. So when I'm at my weakest I break down and decide that seeing her with another man is better than not seeing her at all. But then it turns out she's in awful, horribly shot porn. Exclusively terrible camera angles and almost exclusively weird stuff. She sometimes says things like "gently caress that guy deftest I used to date" and the male actor doesn't even know what she's talking about and none of it makes any sense but I STILL have to sit and convince myself that I won't subscribe. Son of a gun, man. What a game. forgive that analogy. that... might have been a little crass. use this one instead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVUlzNXxljg
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deftest posted:I haven't checked this in about a year, and man... What a thrill just reading all of the posts about the game. Anarchy_Online.txt
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I'm getting a flare-up of my every-3-years itch to play AO (not that I have ever played it very well or very long). If I were to do so now, when there seems to be no Goon social support, is there another group I should hook up with? I'll try to resist the temptation, but...I am but a man.
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Interociter posted:I'm getting a flare-up of my every-3-years itch to play AO (not that I have ever played it very well or very long). If I were to do so now, when there seems to be no Goon social support, is there another group I should hook up with? It happens dude. I get it still once every 6 months or so. I end up logging into a froob account on RK1 and seeing how dead the game is now. OA hill, Borealis, ICC, etc. I then retreat for a few months and come back.
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I would kill to have a regular group for this, at this point making some froob accounts is essentially a cheap way to run an at-home video RPG session.
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Aberroyc posted:It happens dude. I get it still once every 6 months or so. I end up logging into a froob account on RK1 and seeing how dead the game is now. OA hill, Borealis, ICC, etc. I then retreat for a few months and come back. Basically this, except for me I just use AORC to look at my friends list and see all the offline people. I stopped logging in with an actual froob account after seeing the cash shop for the first time months ago. Also hey Abe, its Niq 
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plehsistential posted:Basically this, except for me I just use AORC to look at my friends list and see all the offline people. I stopped logging in with an actual froob account after seeing the cash shop for the first time months ago. I get on every now and then and go check the corner on OA hill. Sadly it is quite deserted. I haven't even logged into a froob account in about a year. Good to see ya, Niq! Been a long time!
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hi hi hi warngle 131 plzzz fgrid???? ic??? God, as dumb as just sitting in Borealis was, I still miss it from time to time. Is it still 140 levels of hecklers these days or is the grind to 200 any better?
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ahmeni posted:hi ahaahhaahAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhhhaha  (no  )
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Anarchy Online was my first MMORPG. I preordered it and hopped on day-of-release, only to be unable to create a character for two days because the login was being pounded. Hmmm, gee, maybe we should muscle up the login servers the first few weeks? Nah, It'll be fine. The bugs were every bit as bad as you've heard. The server was crashy. The client was crashy. The graphics were glitchy, and it chugged if more than a dozen actors were onscreen. Items would stop working at random, and often become un-removable as well. Orgs had no functionality whatsoever... including the 'leave org' command. In true Tradeskills in particular were hosed six ways to Sunday. First, the requisite recipe was missing from the stores about half the time. Then, once you bought the recipe, the kit, and tracked down half a dozen reet anuses, it often failed to work. Finally, if it did work, you wound up with an item that you could have bought in the stores anyway. I struggled with it for six months before giving up. The most fun I had was looking through the forums and finding this. (mildly NSFW) Last week I had a case of nostalgia, so I downloaded AO and made a froob. The graphics had not been changed in the slightest; what was pretty good in 2001 is downright embarrassing now. Even my usual game, City of Heroes, has graphics a trillion times better than this despite coming out only three years later. I wrestled with the uncooperative camera and lovely UI for a few hours of shooting reets on the beach before uninstalling. Gynovore fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Jun 6, 2012 |
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Gynovore posted:Classes were unbalanced, skills were unbalanced, items were unbalanced. I miss the old days when every game didn't have to be perfectly balanced and other bullshit. There was nothing wrong with my tiny agent one shotting people on the way to the pvm mission area in MMD. 
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^^^^ Balance is too overrated. You balance poo poo too much and games become sterile. Yeah, this game was poo poo at launch, no doubt about it. But after they fixed the server issues and the major lag and bugs, its still to this day the most innovative MMO to ever be released. Just look what they introduced with AO.... Unparalleled character customization. The skill, class and item system coupled with implants is pretty much the most in depth customization any game had. Introduced instances, and not only that the instances were randomly generated. Something that was pretty drat revolutionary in 2001. First game to get rid of lovely travel times. The grid, whompas, and flying vheicles made traveling trivial. The chat system was revolutionary for its time. first game that you could link items in. Not only that you could do so much with the chat system, like make bots, item searches, Item shops... guild tools...etc... Still unrivaled to this day. We take simple things like item linking for granted today, but AO was the first. First 3 faction open world PvP in certain zones. First to have huge servers with which could support tens of thousands of players, instead of the lovely small servers all games have now which have 2-3 thousand max. First to have social dungeons with instanced copies of themselves based on population... There is probably more that Im not thinking of right now, but, yeah, it was pretty drat revolutionary for its time, back in 2001 and still one of my favorite mmo experiences. Yeah, maybe they tried to bite off a bit too much with this game. But with a smallish budget and probably 1/2 the people that work on mmos now days, they pulled off something that was unique and truly groundbreaking for its time. Peechka fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jun 6, 2012 |
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One of the best experiences was Heckler-grinding with some pubbies when one of them got knocked off the edge of Shadowlands. He landed in unfamiliar territory and because the way the game worked, he would've lost all his experience if he died. So, I went on a rescue mission into an area 10-20 levels higher than both of us and brought him back alive. It was such a self-made heroic experience that's missing from most MMOs.
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Sometimes makes me wonder how AO was before AI and SL, given the customization system. SL added symbiants that knocked the old implants out of the water, save some specific bits like r-hand and maybe feet depending on the class (and Xan symbiants removed lot of that!), and AI made almost all of the existing armor pointless with the Combined armor. It still is there by making lowbie PvP-twinks, but high level, AO is really locked down now. Doctors used to run around with shotguns, pistols, massive bolt chargers, axes, fists, but now it's all about the Dreadloch guns. When going for "best build", anyways. There certainly were FotM weapons before, but it really wasn't so clear cut, with MA Doc you could argue for better synergy with symbiants/implants, MBC had best damage at one point et al. The option always was there, and suppose it still is, but being locked to Support symbiants really cuts down on the options. Lost Eden research lines limits things as well, or atleast the viable choices. Having 2 L220 Doctors (started off as neut, wanted to roll about omni later on for PvP reasons), the Dreadloch weapons kinda ruined it for me. I was really enjoying my MA doc, but then Collector and Aune dropped in, encounters in which staying still at range healbotting with occasional fling/burst was massively more beneficial than going into melee range really made me not want to play it anymore. (respeccing to pistols certainly would've been an option but eh.) Still waiting on that engine upgrade to resub, tho. AO still is the best MMO there is to me, thanks to the incredible depth. And probably due to it being the "first" MMO I religiously played for so long. Cstar fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Jun 9, 2012 |
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Before AI/SL, nearly every Omni character went for Omni-pol Elite or Nano armor with a Primus coat. Their AC weaknesses were some of the least used damage types in the game. There was some agi/sen armor that a lot of fixers and agents went for too. Every castery/noncombat kind of class went for ithaca shotties with an extreme low light targetting scope. It was extremely fast, and you could stack huge amounts of crit with 15% ellts + MA's self-crit buff which wasn't self-only then. Traders, crats, engineers, MPs were all very rare since the pet system was awful and traders just had absolutely nothing to offer a group. Enforcers all went for 2h blunt with beams, though 2h edged became popular with the mantis queen blade. I guess the point is that there were always "best" builds and weapons. The most diverse point was probably when Shadowlands was mature, right before AI. phreaky fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Jun 17, 2012 |
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Goons still active on RK1? I just resubbed my account and I have a 80s enforcer and a 90s monk and a 40 somthin fixer on RK2 but I have completely forgotten how to play so I was going to roll a new char. Thanks!
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Look how time flies, almost a month from the last post. Guess I'll go ahead and explode this thread with activity by making the next one! So, uh, any news from the new graphics engine?
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You just have to let it go man. Let it go. Purge that nano.
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It's dead Jim.
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killstealing posted:It's dead Jim. You shut up with your facts 
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Considering they finish maybe a model a week, I'd say we have a while to go. 
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I don't care if the game is dead or not. I just reactivated my account and bought the last expansion. Haven't played since 2009, but hey. It'll all be fun and games.
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Datasmurf posted:I don't care if the game is dead or not. I just reactivated my account and bought the last expansion. Haven't played since 2009, but hey. It'll all be fun and games. Good luck, I might drop by as well, need to see who is still playing this.. add me and give me a tell if you see me online, I might have some poo poo to give away. I am "Marxgorm" ingame. Clan supersoldier.
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The new Game Director has announced she's leaving and they haven't announced who her replacement will be. I know the game is cash flow positive and all, but with Lindelu and Kintaii leaving I'm having serious doubts about the future of Anarchy Online.
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Tyshalob posted:The new Game Director has announced she's leaving and they haven't announced who her replacement will be. I know the game is cash flow positive and all, but with Lindelu and Kintaii leaving I'm having serious doubts about the future of Anarchy Online. Everytime I see this thread gets a new post I think oh god they've finally released the graphical update. One day I'll finally accept that it's never coming out, probably when they turn the servers off.
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Game director after game director figures out their career is being buried alive and claw their way out of that coffin before it's too late. And Kintaii is leaving too? Well, I dunno if that's a massively bad thing seeing as he's the content designer. Last time AO got actual new content I liked and was even doable solo was... eh... not in the recent years.
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killstealing posted:
Anarchy Online is like your grandfather. 95 years old with a cancer and his head has started to mutate into an angry tree. You wait for good news, but deep in your heart you know they will never come. Only thing to expect now is death, and when it finally arrives, it'll bring relief to everyone involved. That said, I wonder when the engine is ready 
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I really wish they'd put the IP to auction already instead of dragging it down with them.
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They have a popular IP, and they're the gently caress not making a goddamn modern sequel.
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Tyshalob posted:The new Game Director has announced she's leaving and they haven't announced who her replacement will be. I know the game is cash flow positive and all, but with Lindelu and Kintaii leaving I'm having serious doubts about the future of Anarchy Online. I thought they had a chance of a comeback after Means departure, I guess my optimism was premature. And LOL at those hoping for the new engine.
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If I ever become filthy stinking rich I'm going to buy the AO IP and make a good game out of it.
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Big patch. Also, apparently they're actually going to be deploying the new engine next year. AO is also going to be on steam shortly.
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-Troika- posted:Big patch. Also, apparently they're actually going to be deploying the new engine next year. AO is also going to be on steam shortly. Holy poo poo what? This feels like when DNF got a release date. Holy poo poo what??
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-Troika- posted:Also, apparently they're actually going to be deploying the new engine next year. You'll forgive me if I don't believe this statement as it's the exact same thing they have said at least 3 times before. Truth be told, if there were a significant player population left on Rimor, I'd be back pretty quickly but I knew the game was doomed when my 217/30 soldier was having problems getting into easy inferno missions due to lack of players. I wish the best for them, I haven't seen anybody nail the basic game mechanics better than them.
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