New Engine Release should come with new blank slate server

[Cratertina]

Server is overpopulated... Had a full team doing Enigma dog daily. Outrageous.

[Gimpynoob]

Server is overpopulated... Had a full team doing Enigma dog daily. Outrageous.

Yeah, but roughly one month after patch it goes back to "normal".


But here is how to fix all of AO's problems with or without a new server in 12 easy steps:

1- Price. 5$ a month or 50$ a year.
2- Froob program canceled. Without warning. Full game trial for one month for each new account.
3- Multi-logging/boxing made difficult by allowing only one AO program to run on each computer.
4- Instance and level lock all dungeons. Create timed player locks as needed.
5- Delete half of the junk loot. Create decent leveling gear (use OFAB as guideline) for all professions/levels that drops everywhere.
6- Put all the better loot only in team and raid dungeons.
7- Remove best loot from dynas or turn them into roaming and unremarkable mobs.
8- Turn all the better loot nodrop.
9- Fix loot rights selling by introducing timed portals and rewards directly spawned on toon.
10- Make all grey mobs run when attacked or taunted.
11- Make PvP more accessible to everybody by divulging information, making good gear available to everybody and making toons viable in both PvP and PvM.
12- Fix tower fields making timers independent from player interference. Create noob friendly PvP by removing kill counts and vp rewards from Battlestations. Make solo and team score only available in arenas.

[Raggy]

Yeah, but roughly one month after patch it goes back to "normal".


But here is how to fix all of AO's problems with or without a new server in 12 easy steps:

1- Price. 5$ a month or 50$ a year.
2- Froob program canceled. Without warning. Full game trial for one month for each new account.
3- Multi-logging/boxing made difficult by allowing only one AO program to run on each computer.
4- Instance and level lock all dungeons. Create timed player locks as needed.
5- Delete half of the junk loot. Create decent leveling gear (use OFAB as guideline) for all professions/levels that drops everywhere.
6- Put all the better loot only in team and raid dungeons.
7- Remove best loot from dynas or turn them into roaming and unremarkable mobs.
8- Turn all the better loot nodrop.
9- Fix loot rights selling by introducing timed portals and rewards directly spawned on toon.
10- Make all grey mobs run when attacked or taunted.
11- Make PvP more accessible to everybody by divulging information, making good gear available to everybody and making toons viable in both PvP and PvM.
12- Fix tower fields making timers independent from player interference. Create noob friendly PvP by removing kill counts and vp rewards from Battlestations. Make solo and team score only available in arenas.

Please don't ever touch game design.

[DigitalBath]

Yeah, but roughly one month after patch it goes back to "normal".


But here is how to fix all of AO's problems with or without a new server in 12 easy steps:

1- Price. 5$ a month or 50$ a year.
2- Froob program canceled. Without warning. Full game trial for one month for each new account.
3- Multi-logging/boxing made difficult by allowing only one AO program to run on each computer.
4- Instance and level lock all dungeons. Create timed player locks as needed.
5- Delete half of the junk loot. Create decent leveling gear (use OFAB as guideline) for all professions/levels that drops everywhere.
6- Put all the better loot only in team and raid dungeons.
7- Remove best loot from dynas or turn them into roaming and unremarkable mobs.
8- Turn all the better loot nodrop.
9- Fix loot rights selling by introducing timed portals and rewards directly spawned on toon.
10- Make all grey mobs run when attacked or taunted.
11- Make PvP more accessible to everybody by divulging information, making good gear available to everybody and making toons viable in both PvP and PvM.
12- Fix tower fields making timers independent from player interference. Create noob friendly PvP by removing kill counts and vp rewards from Battlestations. Make solo and team score only available in arenas.

Please don't ever touch game design.

This. Those ideas are, for the most part, horrendous and some have even been proven not to work in the MMO market we have today.
Not touching that mess.

[lainbr]

Yeah, but roughly one month after patch it goes back to "normal".


But here is how to fix all of AO's problems with or without a new server in 12 easy steps:

1- Price. 5$ a month or 50$ a year.
2- Froob program canceled. Without warning. Full game trial for one month for each new account.
3- Multi-logging/boxing made difficult by allowing only one AO program to run on each computer.
4- Instance and level lock all dungeons. Create timed player locks as needed.
5- Delete half of the junk loot. Create decent leveling gear (use OFAB as guideline) for all professions/levels that drops everywhere.
6- Put all the better loot only in team and raid dungeons.
7- Remove best loot from dynas or turn them into roaming and unremarkable mobs.
8- Turn all the better loot nodrop.
9- Fix loot rights selling by introducing timed portals and rewards directly spawned on toon.
10- Make all grey mobs run when attacked or taunted.
11- Make PvP more accessible to everybody by divulging information, making good gear available to everybody and making toons viable in both PvP and PvM.
12- Fix tower fields making timers independent from player interference. Create noob friendly PvP by removing kill counts and vp rewards from Battlestations. Make solo and team score only available in arenas.

Do you wanna kill the game? Because thats how you gonna kill the game.

[drainbamage]

Some of them are bad, but some are good.

[Enforser]

Some of them are bad, but some are good.

Only 1,4 and 10 are good.. so only 25% of the suggestions are not insane.

[drainbamage]

Only 1,4 and 10 are good.. so only 25% of the suggestions are not insane.

5-9 are all good ideas. 4 is good aside from level locks, which are garbage. 3 and 10 are stupid but well meaning. 1 and 2 are just plain dumb. I have no strong opinions on 11 and 12.