Summary of suggestions from the AO community.That,1--> Are of benefit to all AO players2--> Everyone agrees withThese are suggestions collected mainly from reading the forum section and talking to people in teamspeak. Some of these suggestion may seem a little "out there", that is why i phrased most of them as being an option. As long as you still have the option to have it the old way its all good. Any changes should not be made default for current players, but if FC wants to make any of it default for new players, that is out of my hands. Any suggestions that are opinion based, very long or simply vague as hell, will probably end up as a hyperlink at the bottom of the list. To quickly jump to whatever subject of interest use Ctrl+F to search for key words. If you want to contact me for anything regarding AO make sure u have caller ID on and calltel: 31 62 4463 895 (from outside europe, if you inside europe look up Dutch code)and let it ring only once so it wont cost you anything, and il check forum messages and hop on teamspeak as soon as i can, most likely europe primetime.Top 3
- Much bigger inventory, without the need for bags.
- portable mail terminal roleplay?
- Make it easier to give your own characters a buff from one of your characters of the same account.
- Chat
- sound effect on tell message / (BS)invite, or a visual effect thats hard to miss, hotkey to turn it on/off. Can be turned on even if AO's other horrible sounds are turned off.Also would not mind customizability, like auto activate after 10min afk, setting exceptions such as friendslist only. (ignore option already exists) Also an option to activate only on certain key words.Give option to redirect all tells to ur current online toon. If possible, compatibibilty with the program that lets u chat without being logged into your actual character. high priority
- option to make tells/mails shared among all toons under the main account, so any tell/mail sent to one of ur toons can be picked up by any toon that is currently online
- options to give a sound effect on particular (de)buff almost running out, for example charm/AMS/DoF/DB3buff , must be able to it turn on/off ofc. see GUI/ncu section for more.
- have autosubscribe to channel actually work from the first time, for private channels. Not just after 20 times. high priority
- option to make all chat behave like a tell window, as in not having to type enter twice in order to keep typing. see GUI section for information.
- give us 1 global-OOC channel and 1 zone-OOC, the system atm is too confusing.
- automaticly spawn a chat channel of the users native language, and show this chat channel by default, along the other important channels ofc. Also show a "A new Polish/Eqyptian has joined AO" message to everyone of the same origin in that channel. What country a person is from can be detected just like in teamspeak. AO has one of the best player communities, it would be a shame not take advantage of it with only a few lines of code. Most will eventually learn english anyway because its pretty much required to get teams/loot/buffs. With enough players FC can even advertise AO in non-english websites etc.
- portable mail terminal
- option to give each channel his own color, each new channel will get a new color by default aswell, when all colors kinda run out start with different font styles
- Global chat channel for omnis, clans and neuts combined, there will be an icon next to your name showing what side you are
- remove the limit of maximum friends, and let us group them and name each group as we wish
- let us log all tell messages online and offline, and access the log in-game.
- option to share friends list on multiple characters of the same acount
- show ignore list, and let us add or remove people
- R-Click options in chat
- Allow arrow key use in chat.
- Allow numpad use, when numlock on , it types numbers, when off it changes view angles.
- Built-in calculator
- double click a word will select that whole word
- make Ctrl + A work
- filter profanity by default, can be turned back on in some way. high priority
Login/Logout
- 99% of the people click Play after starting AO, for the 1% that clicks the settings button, make a different executable.
- 1 paid account = can dual log another character for 2 min to give urself a buff, with a 15 minute lockout
- 1 paid + 1 frozen = can log 1 any character regardless of which of the 2 accounts it belongs to. can dual log another character for 2 min to give urself a buff, with a 15 minute lockout
- 2 paid accounts merged = can dual log any combination of 2 character regardless of what account they are one, and log a 3rd character for 2 min to buff thier own characters.
high priority- tell everyone where the new hidden prefs folder is so people can copy paste and fix it
- make arrow keys scroll trough account names while still keeping the type cursor in password be default.
- speed up logout time and the cant-zone-after-login ALOT high priority
- let us log out even when under attack, but use the old 30 second "character remains attackable" for in-combat-logout to prevent abuse.
- lessen the cant-zone-on-login preferably, or as temp fix make the RK/SL recall beacons not lockout right after logging in.
- option: Esc cancels all popups(bags, descriptions etc, whatever's in settings) and bring up settings window, its default button for menu/settings is most games.
- show quit to login also under actions
Account management
- "cancel account" reworded to "cancel automatic payments"2 choices of payment methods
- 1: single gametime payment (default)
- 2: automatic repay when gametime runs out.
- pending/failed payments should not affect playability as long as there is still gametime available.
- "Cancel payment" button , otherwise people who change from 12 months to 1 month, you get charged with both payments.
Map and Directions
- give a button that makes a waypoint at the toons current spot, can upload+deupload to team aswell just like an inferno mission. Must work inside missions aswell for marking lifts.
- show all members locations across the world, and just the pf when all in same zone. Does not apply to raid members outside the team
- clearly show the buttons and thier functions by default
NCU Window
- option to make certain buffs/debuffs always show on top of the list, in our own or on nano-target ncu. So they dont get swarmed by other less important ones. Include drop down menu, to toggle between important-buffs-only or show all. will be client side effect, so will affect only that 1 player, not everyone
- option to create sound effect on buff-almost-run-out for any specific buff/debuff.
- option to make debuffs red and buffs green in your own ncu window
- lock ncu button, if u want to choose not to recieve outside buffs, for example like reflect shields
- option to show all hostile programs running on a mob, including LE procs etc, combined with picking certain debuffs appear on top of the list will prevent flooding.
- option to make Ncu window automaticly become larger and smaller depending on how many buffs/debuffs are running
LFT Window
- option to see use more specific lvl range searches, including, All/teamable only/Custom lvl range search (if we ever get big player base)
- option to set default order method for LFT window
- option to also show your alts on lft, tell message automaticly goes to currently online character. See Chat section for more details.
Agg Deff Bar
- Show the point where ur weapon is barely at full speed, and make that point clickable as well as keyboard commands to switch between them
- There are third party programs that put your slider to full agg only the moment u cast a nano and back to normal after. Either implement and alow this feature /ban it/prevent it from being used.
Team Window
- When main leader goes LD/afk for 5 minutes, the second leader gets pop-up window asking if he wants to become leader. If even second leader goes afk, random non-afk member gets the pop-up window. This prevents loot rotting away.
- team members alphabetized by default
- Show current hp numbers in both normal team window, RI-pulled-out hp bars, as well as in the big RI interface itself.
- Hp numbers must show regardless of a person being damaged or not.
- Enable alot more people to be in the same raid interface.
- When someone goes link dead they should not be kicked from an instance, and be automatically be sent an invite when logged on.
- enable right click person and make assist macro
- maybe keep players in team when they go link-dead. is difficult in terms of coding, the option above is probably easier to implement.
Nano Window
- ability to sort nanos by nanoline
- show what nanos of a nanoline you have, and dont have yet
Combat GUI
- a button that switches off "all" GUI "everything", for taking screenshots.
- Give us 2 GUI modes we can toggle through by pressing a button, 1 Normal mode: current one, all GUI is visible and clickable2 Custom mode: Some of the GUI disappears, user can decide which ones those are.
- Loot+Reference Window
- a button that deletes all references, button must show on both loot window aswell as reference window.
- enable selecting multiple items in loot window like in Microsoft Windows, ctrl+click ctrl+a mouse-square, and right mouse click and create reference of all selected items. Can also put a select all button on loot window.
- a button that posts all current references in last used chat window. This button will show on both loot window as well as reference window.
- clicking an item once only selects it, double clicking will loot it. This prevents accidental looting when checking items.
- the moment a corpse has only 1 minute on timer, it becomes free for all and whoever was holding loot will be forced to stop holding loot. If someone really wants the loot to rot they can of course stil delete it before last minute starts. high priority to chat.
Missions Window
- add a new column so we can sort missions by zone name
Intuitive GUI
- An actually working "New player tips" When hovering over any clickable button with in the gui, show what key is bound to that. Wether its for opening a window or for activating perks or actions in bank and gmi. However dont do this with commands that are obvious or already clearly shown, such as WASD to move and anything that is already visually shown already.
- When opening the GUI allow easy and quick jumping from one window to any other GUI windowm like in Deus ex 1 and 3. For example when viewing skills window, show buttons to go to inventory or wear window or map or mission window.
- make default keybinds that actually make sense, cntrl+shift+r+F5+u etc is too complicated.
- make nano/fight/perk/item bars moveable
- Scaling - *Everything* needs to be resizable.
- Locking - *Everything* needs to be lock-able, to avoid accidentally moving it.
- Fading - *Everything* needs to be able to fade in/out under certain conditions.
- when shift left clicking someone, also have "send tell" , "org info" , "start duel" and "inspect ip distribution"
- when adjusting agg deff slider as new player give a tip to keep it at full agg for the time being.
- option to set multiple perk points in a line at the same time with one click instead of 70x2 clicks
- a button for "delete all references"
- option: Esc cancels all popups(bags, descriptions etc, whatever's in settings) and bring up settings window, its default button for menu/settings is most games.
- sign up for Battlestation from anywhere at any time
Mail Terminal
- hovering over a mail will instantly show its what item/creds + what the subject is
- right clicking a mail will open the mail and loot item+creds from the mail.
- a button that deletes all mails that have been read and dont contain items/credits.