Aion

Originally posted by kitsunegirl

Player shops... *sigh* Worst thing about Lineage 2 (aside from the pking) was the player shops. Seas of afk-shops in Giran.. 3 minutes just for the city to finish loading. And it looks like they are in this game too. I wish that they would make a market instance in the major cities and have that be the only place you can set one up.

afk-shops = eyesore.

Its too bad they didnt do shops like the old SWG, was nice to have your own shop set up somewhere with computer characters selling your stuff while you were off-line or out doing other things. Some people made some really cool looking shops and I always loved traveling around looking at different ways people set up their shops.

Thanks for putting all this info here, very well done!

Originally posted by rav3n2

Damn, thats a major turn off for me :( why does everyone insist on instanced worlds nowadays, hate loading screens.  Ohh well looks good non the less.

I think there was a misunderstanding, you can run from a extreme to the other extreme without finding a loading screen in your way, nor an instance, however, if you teleport instantly to a place far from you, you will get a loading screen, just like you get a black screen in games like Lineage II, which is as seamless as you can get.

About instances, there are some dungeons for less hardcore clans to get decent gear there, the Abyss, the best area in the game for raids, items and pvp is completely seamless.

Thanks for putting this up, this helped allot. :D

For some reason i cant quote anymore but to add to what ephi said, there will be minor instancing but there will also be zoning however there are a few details that people must keep in consideration

- ONLY the newby area's will have this zoning, to prevent them from overflooding on launchday (so we dont get 20 people going for 1 mob as most non instanced mmo's got), This is just to prevent the server from chrashing due to extreme strains being launched at the server at the beginning of the beta.

- The only time these instances will go in effect is when a certain population point in these zones is crossed, what that exact point is unknown to me atleast

- ALL other zones wont have any form of zoning, besides the ocasional (mostly quest related) instance and are in effect seamless

And to the poster above me :), my pleasure were just all doing our little part in reducing the misconceptions there are about aion :)

That's not zoning, that's channeling :P

And yeah, Aion will have channels on the initial zone due to the players rush on the first days, that channeling, not cause of technical limitations, but cause of smoothness for players, devs stated that they know first impressions count a lot, and they don't want to ruin players experiences by having them waiting for mobs on the initial rush.

There's no channeling outside that initial zone and outside of those initial days, I have the Ayase quote somewhere, just search for "singleton" in Aionsource.com and check the option posts instead of threads to see it by yourself :)

mehh eq2 playing up :>, where it was called several instances of a zone :) but yeah channelig is what i meant :)

On another subject ,PVP, the factions, is the PVP completely dependant on the faction( faction X can kill faction Y ppl, and you can only duel your own faction) or the factions are there for certain mechanics but you can still attack people from your own faction?

Originally posted by rav3n2

On another subject ,PVP, the factions, is the PVP completely dependant on the faction( faction X can kill faction Y ppl, and you can only duel your own faction) or the factions are there for certain mechanics but you can still attack people from your own faction?

No , you can't. As you said , there are duels and as far as I know some arenas where you fight with players from your own faction, for fun!

Im not one to go on (and on and on and on) about "WoW Killer" ideology but I have a strange feeling that this game might just give old 'World of Borecraft' a good old shot in the kindeys (with regards to population culling).

Given that Aion looks like a game that WoW players will like; I doubt very much that this game will be for me. Which is a good thing for NC soft because it means that the vast magority of main stream gamers might just come home to graze.

Good on ya NC soft. Keep up the good work, you do an excellent job of creating very basic, low strategy, mainstream mmo's; which in turn keeps the vast majority of gamers away from the boring old games that I play. It is much appreciated.

Was kinda hoping they kept the PVP system from L2, the flag and be red if you PK people and that it was faction independent, would be nice as well that you could party, etc... with whoever you wanted that being the other faction or not. That with sieges in the mix would give it the political aspect and guild relations L2 had which was one of the best in my opinion.