Tip of the day

[McKnuckleSamwich]

AO is 10 yrs old.

ORLY.

tip of the day?

seriously guys, if you're going to go to the effort of adding tip of the "day" and it doesn't change for whatever 4 months or however long it's been... it's just retarded.

I have a suggestion:

Change the name to tip of the "period of time you can ACTUALLY manage"

And, btw, "AO is 10yrs old" is not a tip... it's like, saying here's a tip: my biceps are 20 inches (okaaaay).

Now, if youre ACTUALLY going to make an effort to update these, you'll need some good tips. I have a few which are good to ok, but I'm not going to bust out the big ones yet.








ACTUAL TIPS:

• Biomech boots give more treatment than Omni-med boots at high levels.

• Implant agility prior to treatment at low levels to allow higher final implants

• Explosif pillows are equippable at level 1

• When IP'ing Comp lit, it's more IP cost effective to IP tutoring to reach up-to the last few points depending on profession

• All Weapons are "hotswappable" which means that you can use the modifier on the weapon in the calculation for a hard to reach skill requirement

• Use third party programs such as auno.org and xyphos.com to increase your knowledge about the AO database and what is usuable by your profession/breed

• Once or twice a year, special mobs appear in game that drop specialized gear (read AO forums for details)

• Crafting jewlery and refining gems increase the selling price of the items to vending machines (by a lot)

• Increase your chances for loot on AI raids by doing the ship as well

• In city HQ's there is a plastic surgeon, able to help you achieve different looks

• Players have created several hundred "bots" to date, that help with org management, raid management and loot distribution.

• Visit your org forum today! handy information can usually be found on org forums and AO forums

• Different perks have different attack and defence skills, and not all are equal. Increase your PVP prowess by learning about perk checks.

• Different Weapons check different defence skills. Learn about different weapons and different professions to find out why some weapons/ weapon types might be more effective.

• Use calms to take mobs out of combat, to increase chance of survival against single opponents.

• An item called flurry of blows increases your attack rate and critical chance for a brief period

• quests on rubi-ka and in shadowlands can provide XP, game knowledge and useful items.

• Organize your chat windows by right clicking in the chat box and selecting "configuration"

• Add extra hotbars to your playscreen under the miscellaneous page under options (press F10)

• Adjust your field of vision if using a slower computer to increase your frame rate (the speed at which pixels change on your screen)

• Use third party programs such as "damage dumpers" to monitor you and your teammates "DD"

• Use third party programs such as Anarchy Online Item Assistant, to keep track of you and your alts banks

• Did you know: All damage is halved in PVP, this means, add damage items are only 50% effective

• Did you know: Aimed shot, sneak attack and dimach will ALWAYS hit!

• Did you know: you can increase the number of bullets that hit by increasing full auto skill, for that attack special?

• Did you know: as your Aimed shot, fast attack, burst and full auto skill increase, the time for recharge decreases?

• Did you know: by playing more defensively (the slider in the bottom left of your play screen), you may avoid more attacks? But, it will also slow down your attack rate and casting.

• Did you know: the minimum attack time and recharge is capped at 1 second?

• Did you know: you can look up players histories in more org "bots"?

• Did you know: you can access the recipebot for tradeskill help in game by typing /tell recipebot "item you want to look up"

• Did you know: you can build scripts in AO that use different text colour and can automate messages?

• Did you know: symbiants are level locked, while non-refined, non-jobe cluster implants are not?

• Did you know: melee users can interupt casting?

• Did you know: calms and mezzes do not work on other players?

• Did you know: many SL mobs cycle damage type, which makes absorbs in that area more effective than on Rubi ka?

• Did you know: you can get on the "looking for team" window by typing /lft "message"?

• Did you know: melee users can attack while moving, while ranged users cannot?

• ETC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cyberleet]

Hire this guy! ^^

[Honorbound]

A lot of good tips there, and I'm sure the community could come up with a few thousand more like them in a matter of days, if given a "master list" to see what was already mentioned/suggested.

And I really doubt its that difficult or time consuming to code a small function for a PHP driven page that picks a random string from a list to send out on each day. If you actually put your mind to it, that is. I guess that's the part which is missing.

[xtasie]

calms and mezzes do work on players, ask a TL doc how much they like healing and trying to UBT in BS while they have contemplation running (-2100 inits). And I dont think FC will ever promote 3rd party, well....anything. Other than that. OMG you are so right, I mean how long does it take to change a line of text, and are you telling me our game devs arent creative enough to come up with a new line even maybe once a week?

[Destru]

Excellent post. As for FC never promoting 3rd party anything, ORLY?

[mcnurja]

this guy>kintaii tbh

[Tazalanche]

Okay, this is funny.

They added a "Tip of the Day" to the launcher.

Wanna start a pool on how long each "day" last? lol

That was posted in July. So far we are up to over 3 months of the same "tip of the day"... hence my signature.

[Saetos]

Tip of the Day: 7Up doesn't taste much different from Sprite.

Tip of the Day: It was the sled.

Tip of the Day: Vader is Luke's father.

[hokutonoken]

give them slack...FC still looking for a coder to code those tip of the day ^_=

[Notcrattey]

this guy>kintaii tbh

Must... resist... laughing...
He lists things anyone should really know if they've been playing over a year and should be hired? if he was hired he'd go on some crazy "boost melee profs and give MA's love while removing every bit of love ranged got" campaign

But yes I agree, these need to be updated to something that actually help the little newbies.

[Johnnykay]

Tip of the Day: Roll a Pistol Advy.

[McKnuckleSamwich]

Must... resist... laughing...
He lists things anyone should really know if they've been playing over a year and should be hired? if he was hired he'd go on some crazy "boost melee profs and give MA's love while removing every bit of love ranged got" campaign

But yes I agree, these need to be updated to something that actually help the little newbies.

Tip of the Day: Roll a Pistol Advy.

aye!

First thing I'd do is go to FC board of directors, and ask for 500 grand for an advertising campaign.

Then I'd put a 50 crit modifier on the AS pistol (currently 100) and lower the min/max damage to 200, and increase the recharge on it by 0.3 seconds, and make pistol perks check 100% DR.

the next thing I'd do, is put a lock out on 1he/hb perks.

then I'd fix dimach recharge on all profs to 3 minutes at 1k skill, capped, and 10 minutes at 0 skill linearly related.

then I'd adjust the FA recharge on endgame Soldier weapons, and, then I'd put a scaling level lock on drains.

then I'd adjust FA so that the first, three bullets have sequentially higher checks, from 50% DR, 75% DR, 90% DR, 100% for each one after.

then I'd slightly adjust the FA recharge on Ofab hawk (faster)

then I'd add fast attack on BoB (left hand) and sneak attack on BoB Right Hand

then I'd put a shared lock out on FA and AS.

then I'd start looking at the agent FPable nanos, and mix that up slightly.. like, for example, add heroic measures to the mix, and leader of the pack, and something like, every SL nano up to level 210.. now we're talking.

Then, need to adjust perks for MP's. remove shield, give em acrobat.

then I'd adjust the bow perkline, because it blows goats.

then I'd adjust a few bows to be TSable from ranged init to phys init.

then I'd remove all triples from game, keep doubles though, but add 1 second to the recharge.

then reduce all the PVP snares/ roots to max 2 minutes for snares, 1 minute max for roots.

then I run out of ideas. but, anyway, I figure you fix all that crap and you got a fun game again.

[AGPEcko]

You got my vote.

[Ekarona]

You don't need hi-level engineer or trader tradeskiller for everything, for example hi-level keepers and other toons are perfectly fine doing those low QL implants and maybe even that carbonum. Ask them first, always in tell and multiple times.

[Manicmouse]

Even though you like to wall-of-text a lot, bump for McKnuckleSamwich

[Slynn]

Bamp any new and fresh ideas.
At least someone has brains and not lack of it,

[Dogtrauma]

• Did you know: While executing ( some) perks, your attackbars will stop moving but you will still do auto attacks anyway... Yay!?!

[Arriviste]

Just logged in and saw a new Tip of the Day. Huzzah!

[Seoin]

Have already seen MORE THAN ONE tip of a day over the course of more than 1 day Nice job

[Kintaii]

Both this thread and a similar one over in Reet's by Wrangeline gave us lots of good tips to toss together and put into the launcher. Our thanks to everyone who contributed to give us suggestions. =D