Balance documentation

[Klod9003]

(information current as of Nov. 13th, 2009)

Update, pretty please.

[Towerblock]

Aye, that would be fantastic, please.

[Shrubberyman]

+1, WTB General Perklines documentation.

[VinniePaz]

/signed

[shadowgod]

ssshh... we're working on some ways to better get data out there, and in a much easier to view format.

[erozc]

ssshh... we're working on some ways to better get data out there, and in a much easier to view format.

auno.org perk planner plix, and show differences per perk line / action too

[gimpmasta]

auno.org perk planner plix, and show differences per perk line / action too

Hm i like this idea, scrolling through the pages of documentation they posted gives me a bit of a headache :P

[Drakeep]

auno.org perk planner plix, and show differences per perk line / action too

ask to Auno :PP

but all this silence is somehow suspect... kinda you are missing the words to tell us that some of us are goin to be ubergimped ;S

[Essessceeaych]

ask to Auno :PP

but all this silence is somehow suspect... kinda you are missing the words to tell us that some of us are goin to be ubergimped ;S

some of us already are :/

[Dancingrage]

I concur, new and updated documentation would be nice to see what's going on behind the scenes a bit.

[-Klod-]

Are we there yet? Come on. We still didn't see potential general perkline's changes.

[Gaveup]

Starting to feel like Lost Eden, lol.

[Djantro]

They probably still are nitpicking about GTH & BR

[Harios]

scary long silence... :s

[Lheann]

Sadly if FC had THEIR own tools website for players that allowed things like perk planning they could clone it to a "beta balance" site and update the data there and let everyone play with them there. The concept of building my perk plan and seeing how it performs before doing it in game in nice. Being able to do that with the balanced versions would be even better. Imagine you could compare pre and post balance of the same plan. Better stop dreaming before I get to excited.

But instead we will be tortured with more charts and tables in coloring that is only getting crazier I am sure.

[Xtremtech]

It would be nice to see some new documentation, but I'd guess that they're hard at work with specifying all the changes that will be needed to all the nanos (cooldowns etc), the healing change decisions, the ground up rebuild of all pets and also the complete rebuilding of some professions they've announced. In particular, I'd imagine the nano changes will represent a huge piece of specification work and will probably be the next major piece of documentation we'd see.

Since it's very likely that there'd also need to be a re-tweaking of all the perks once the nano, pet and healing changes have been firmed up, that would also include new perk documentation. I can't see them spending the time updating the perk change docs only to have to do it all again after those major other elements are in place.

Sadly if FC had THEIR own tools website for players that allowed things like perk planning

I suppose in a sense FC do have this available... as Jayde who built Anarchy Mainframe did go to work for them. Since he doesn't run it himself any more, I'd guess he'd probably give it to them fairly willingly. But there's a fair bit of time invested in maintaining and updating the websites - and trying to do that for different build versions available as they come through development would only worsen that.

Whether they'd really see the benefit especially when Auno and others are doing it for free...?

X

[Klodovik]

Update please. What's going on?

I'm actually hesitating to use even that free month you offered me.

[Boltgun]

I suppose in a sense FC do have this available... as Jayde who built Anarchy Mainframe did go to work for them. Since he doesn't run it himself any more, I'd guess he'd probably give it to them fairly willingly. But there's a fair bit of time invested in maintaining and updating the websites - and trying to do that for different build versions available as they come through development would only worsen that.

Whether they'd really see the benefit especially when Auno and others are doing it for free...?

X

It would require a couple of database tables, then with some php+ javascript magic a perk planner can be done in a couple of working days...

The problem is that if I can do it, the data is from FC and we know all about it already. The interest would be to publish new info this way.

[delsabre]

So much easier if they just made AO2 from scratch instead of going the microsoft way to patch old patches.

[Gunfytr]

And give up several YEARS of effort? I'd be gone in a heart beat and wouldn't look back.