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NDA does cover saying you are in the Beta

Someone said if you reapply with a new dxdiag it overwrites. But I don't know for sure.

You don't have to have an NVIDIA card to get into Beta as far as I know. I am sure we have ATI people also.

afaik we support both cards fine, but we have worked a lot with Nvidia to make sure that things like dx10 and whatnot were working on their hardware. Nvidia has done a lot to even send people to Norway to work with us, so we work with them closer than we ever did with ATI but we can use both cards as far as I am aware.

I am not even sure of specific numbers, I do now we had a large influx recently roll into our general beta, and a recent tech test for PvP

Was hoping this was about Age of Conan so I could say good! I will take that as a compliment :)

I'm a beta drooler myself :) so. Just I happen to actually get into Conan beta a bit earlier than most!

Gaute is just Gaute

LordOrion Is Erling one of our Project Directors in Marketing.

Famine, Pharamond,myself, and the other community guys are looking to address the issue but we need to find a solution and the web developer time.

Well remember. star.buck that more women gamers may come to conan when it is released. Women gamers dont seem to be has hardcore beta droolers as us guys. (Thats a compliment, but if you want to be a hardcore beta drooler too i wont hold it against you)

Originally posted by tbox

 

Originally posted by Athelan

Theres a invulnerability period when you zone so you won't be camping transition points anyway. Ideally an aggression flag on teleporting like in EvE would be beneficial.

 

So how does that stop some guy who just backstabed my friend from bouncing back and fourth from my getting revenge on him. 

 

Invulnerability period reseting over and over.

 

I have no intention of camping zone lines just every intention of not seeing people mass sprinting away to the zone lines in avoidence of their geting owned by myself and friends.

It won't, I wouldn't fight right next to transition areas so I could control the situation. Besides then people can surprise you. If we get an aggression timer then they would not be able to zone for X after having engaged someone which would help however.

The issue is much of the information exists in past forum threads, its dredging that into a cohesive, encyclopedia if you will that is difficult. Like if we could some how wikify it all onto the AOC wiki or do something like that.

Then again I am not aware of any MMO past or present that had the communication from the Devs to the extent to make such a knowledge base let alone took the time and energy to put it together.

Originally posted by Draccan

 

Originally posted by Athelan

Did you just choose to ignore the other posts in this thread where I explained that I was not "attacking people about laziness"? And while not 100% spot on how long did it take Bluealien and Avery to post replies that still answered most of his questions?

 

You obviously had a chip on your shoulder when you made your first post in this thread, which was in no way helping the OP, but I guess that was just the opinion you wanted to express, certainly was not informative or constructive but that is your perogative.

 

Seems to me your problem is with a frustration at not being able to access the information you want which is something I already addressed in this thread, and really has little to do with me.

 

Yes you did attack people about laziness.

Bluealien didn't have the replies to those questions.

Your first post in this thread wasn't helpful.

Personally I saw the original post to be hidden irony. That combined with the fact I didn't have the replies either to the questions, was what made my reply seem unhelpful.

Dear Athelan. It has everything to do with you..

 

Well, Ive explained myself as best I can. You complain yet, when was the last time you think an actual dev read your post, let alone bothered to reply to you at all? Maybe if i type all my posts out like the Elcor in Mass effect youll get my meaning.

Theres a invulnerability period when you zone so you won't be camping transition points anyway. Ideally an aggression flag on teleporting like in EvE would be beneficial.

Did you just choose to ignore the other posts in this thread where I explained that I was not "attacking people about laziness"? And while not 100% spot on how long did it take Bluealien and Avery to post replies that still answered most of his questions?

You obviously had a chip on your shoulder when you made your first post in this thread, which was in no way helping the OP, but I guess that was just the opinion you wanted to express, certainly was not informative or constructive but that is your perogative.

Seems to me your problem is with a frustration at not being able to access the information you want which is something I already addressed in this thread, and really has little to do with me.

Not sure about the coordinates, they exist in game but I am not positive about player access to seeing them. Navigations for me is usually visual.

No player vendors, player towns have their own tradepost/auction houses tho which allows for player economy.

Housing is something we want to do but will be post launch so we can do it well like UO style.

Border Kingdoms is open PvP on every server

PvP servers are open everywhere except hubs. You cannot attack someone in your guild or while they are grouped with you in open PvP, but you can of course use mini games to duel or skirmish your guild mates.

There are areas with dynamic mob generation, areas with static mob placement, areas with patrolling mobs, areas with ambushes etc. As stated we have very advanced AI systems but its been so advanced its been causing a lot of stupid behavior that we are actually dumbing it down to streamline it.

Spammers wont be a big issue as long as trial accounts are only allowed on Tortage, and they dont have access to global channels.

The game is gear dependant but not in the context of forcing you into 20 man raids or raiding at all in order to get gear a larger part of your budget for stats comes from your own feats and skills.

I don't really quite understand what your goal is Draccan.

Originally posted by Shannia

And that is why I love you working on AoC.  YOU care about the project you are working on and the fans.  It shouldn't be just you and Jayde working on Q&As.  You guys code.  I'm sure there is someone in PR that can consolidate this stuff for you or better yet, get Funcom to give myself or Avery (who I recommend by the way, he rocks with finding info) permissions and I'm sure we'd be glad to do that for you.

Sorry if I snapped, I just hate using search tools on forums.

For the record, I love your work.

 

 

I've met loads of developers who even tho they might not post, they do hate players. They spend so much time making content and then see it exploited by players they start to feel like the players are their nemesis, or just a bunch of whiny brats. You have seen the occasional meltdown of various community reps over the years working for various games.

Jayde and I might be very blunt, but we do care about the game, and about the fans. We just don't like to play nice and kiss babies for the heck of it. As hardcore gamers ourselves we just don't feel its necessary to sit on our thumbs.

As far as Survey results I dont know if they are public anywhere or where they are posted. So I dont want to paste them all out if I am not supposed too.

I tend to agree with you about the boobs thing. Most the mature gamers, like its presence there in addition to everything else but don't look to it as a defining feature. Most people who would, might tend to be younger. But based on our recent survey most people seem to be over 18 anyway and should have ready access to other forms of boobage.

While character advancement is important, as if it feels hollow then it ruins some of the achievement feeling of the game, really gameplay is paramount, and for me whats most important is if the act of playing is enjoyable.

Originally posted by Shannia

 

Originally posted by Athelan

I tend to disagree about the lack of information, the biggest issue is peoples laziness or inability to find information. The reason that now discussion seems to be less productive is so many things are rehash.

Anyone who thinks we dont share information as much as we can is either so jaded or self centered that they just want their own personal certain tidbits of info or just a scrooge.

 

Ok, Athelan.  Two statements in one of your post above are just two examples of why I love to hate you as a developer.  That is how you treat people and answer people's questions on the forums.  You are good people and I enjoyed meeting you in Atlanta, but please...

Why do you have to be so insulting to your fans....

The bottom line is, the Q&A section of Funcom's site totally sucks.  You guys took thousands of questions from the fans and answers to those questions should have been added to the Q&A section.  So please, stop insulting your fan base saying it is OUR fault we don't know how to find information.   We ask and you dodge by saying learn to use the search function. How about your employer post an updated Q&A section based on the thousands of questions asked.  Once Funcom does that, then we'll talk about people being lazy.

Ya, I'm a scrooge because I've been waiting a god damn year for a CRAFTING update to AoC and still have not seen or heard anything since the video on raising a freak'n building.

And you wonder why everyone says all you guys do at funcom is throw smoke and mirrors...

And Avery says I'm so negative... at least I'm not a rude shit to potential customers.

 

Ever since I prototyped on my blog with the QA script I have been harping on and working with the Community team to find a way to achieve the same goal. The big issue being when I was doing it myself there was no check on the information before I was posting it. At least on the forums I can be moderated should it go beyond what they want said. It was ugly, it had no search function, it was not laid out well but it let me answer lots of questions in a fast turn around, which is what I wanted because I want to be able to communicate with you.

That being said we tried the current QA Community/Dev FAQ the issue is that these questions have to be gone through by someone on the community team then sent to me to answer, then back to them to be approved by marketing then finally done through an update.

Yes I want the website updated with a useful FAQ of info that has all the tidbits of information I have said over the years but it's not in my hands and I just keep pushing on it. We are continuing to push on this and find a better way to keep a data repository.

The good news is we are working on hopefully some stuff to improve that, and its a major goal of ours on the community side right now to improve this.

This is taken from the recent survey we did and from the results.

This response is almost entirely due to the efforts of myself and Jayde and the amount of time we have put into the forums. Re-read the two comments that you "love to hate" me for.  I disagree with the lack of information because in many cases it is out there. You use an example of crafting which indeed is one of the areas where very little detailed information has been released, but the topics covered in most of the OP questions have been discussed in great detail. And saying that we don't share any information or the information we share is non-existent when the real issue is that certain information you want is not present are not exactly the same thing.

And the first part of the statement is very true, how many times do people not even bother to search before posting the same question there might be 4 other threads on that might even have one a dev has responded in? The second part of that statement is about the inability to find the information which I have already stated is INDEED a problem we want to improve upon. I had over 2,000 posts answering questions over 6 months ago, so again saying we dont provide information is wrong which is the first part of my statement. the second part is that often people don't search or they simply cant find the information. The latter is of course not their fault and ties into what I said above. And you also have to admit the second part is also true, some people only care about what they want information on and ignore the fact we answered everyone else has best we could.

I don't sit down and think how can I respond to this post to be insulting or what can I do to be a rude shit today because thats not my intention at all. I've always tried to be a straight hip shooter and give you the raw info as i have it along with my opinions. Re-read what  I said and try to think it through again. I can see how you get the "inflection" or tone you do from what  I said but that was not how it was written.

I'd love to tell you about crafting but honestly I don't know much about it still and have not gotten to use it on Beta or test it. As far as buildings, I believe they are still constructed at the location, where city layouts have preplanned grids, which allow for choosing which buildings to build where but not freeform placement. The building itself takes time and resources but does not require standing there during the building process I believe but am not certain.

I think you are misunderstanding. I said the general problem people have with finding information is a laziness to be willing to look for it. And I tried to point you to some places where you might find the answers to many of your questions instead of having to look them up individually. I then addressed what you said was a common lack of good discussion on the official forums.

I mean *I* don't even want to go have to dig up all the previous times I have answered all your questions so if I am calling you lazy then I am calling myself lazy too. I am so appreciative when guys like Avery take the time to compile things I have already stated.

We have been working on ways to make it easier to sort of catalogue the different answers. That are from the commonly asked questions because they far exceed what one would find in a normal FAQ.

You also state that there are thousands of posts but it isnt active. I am not being combative here or trying to insult you, merely stating that we have tried very hard to provide information and I can guarantee I have probably answered everyone of those questions in some format at some time already and you could find that answer or discussion but it would take a great deal of effort which you said very specifically in your OP you did not want to spend.

Theres a big difference between us not giving you information, and your not being able to find the information when you want to see it.

There are some videos from Leipzig and Dragoncon showing CTF PvP Gameplay. But some of the people who were recorded are just random fans walking up to play so are not very skilled. Although, someone may have recorded me for ultimat