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It does for some cases, like if you want your stuff to do unique things.
AO was built by amateurs in the late 90s and the original intention of the game was to run for just 4 years being heavily story based and the story would then end and the game would shut down. As it so happens, that did not happen, and left the many different teams working with what they have today.
Thor Mastablasta Hammersmith - Level 220, AI 30, LE 70 Clan Atrox Nano Technician - Setup
The Red Brotherhood
I'm a Nano-Technician, don't ever expect me to fight unbuffed, alone or fair.
Means: about f'ing time :P
Satenia: heresy <3
Znore: Mastablasta <3
Kinkstaah: I have agro from many mobs ;(
Madarab: we are aoe class, we are supose to use pistols
Marxgorm: the NT toolset does not fit into my raiding tactics
and all that was never planned in the beginning... they tried the first engine and after the exitement was gone they dumbed it - because it was not doable.
then they took the new engine but soon figured out "hey - people will never be satisfied with this"... and now years later they are working on some textures...
to cut the story short ^^
My very first visit to Canada to visit a customer found me waking up one morning to several moose (it is moose for plural right), wandering around the parking lot of the hotel. Being the true redneck I am, I have to admit, the first thought that went threw my mind was "man, if I could tip these bad boys, I would be a legend back home". The sheer size of them (a head down charge into them would land well below what I think is the center of gravity), total lack of motivation (alcohol and drunk buddies to egg me on) and no suitable clothes to change into when I made a mess of myself in the snow of the parking lot prevented me from doing it. Pretty cool nevertheless.
Liamboru 220 Engineer - Brianboru 220 Soldier - Padraigboru 150 Soldier - Tadghboru 60 Engineer - Cormacboru 15 Engineer
...and ofc, the army of buff hoes
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PvPDood: Hey, come back and duel me again, I hardly ever get to fight a gimp like you! - Get a /tell like that and it sort of makes you want to evaluate what you thought was a twink!
Walker: Anarchy! Anarchy! Anarchy! Anarchy!
Texas Ranger: I don't even know what that means, but I love it!
Proud Advisor of Spartans
Taskersolder Level 220 Soldier
Taskdoc Level 220 Doc
Jarew Level 220 NT
Tasker1 Level 220 Fixer
Taskcrat Level 220 Crat
Tasky Level 220 Trader
Taskmann Level 220 Adv
Healer01 Level 220 Doc-semi-retired TT dispenser
Humankind can not gain anything, without first giving something in return.
To obtain; something of equal value must be lost.
That is the 1st law of equivalent exchange
Rubi-Ka needs: a nickel statue of an astronaut pointing at the sky
With the description / plate saying:
When the stars burn out and I find I lack the strength to continue...one of YOU wil pick up the flag and carry it forward.
This really isn't a corporate product anymore...it belongs to all of us. Where it goes it up to us.
Humankind can not gain anything, without first giving something in return.
To obtain; something of equal value must be lost.
That is the 1st law of equivalent exchange
Rubi-Ka needs: a nickel statue of an astronaut pointing at the sky
With the description / plate saying:
When the stars burn out and I find I lack the strength to continue...one of YOU wil pick up the flag and carry it forward.
This really isn't a corporate product anymore...it belongs to all of us. Where it goes it up to us.
You have to realize, that in 2001, EQ was barely over 2 years old when AO was released. Ultima Online was reaching the 4 year mark. Development of AO began in what, 1995? The idea that a MMORPG would be able to last more than a few years was a risky one at best, at that time in the genre's history. Personally, I was intrigued by the idea of a beginning/middle/end of a story-heavy MMO.
Nope, AO wasn't expected to be worth keeping alive after 4 years, they figured, mostly rightly too, that the population would be too low to sustain the income they needed for the game. It's part of the reason the whole froob program started as they were planning on ending the game but froobs brought enough life back into the game at the time that they decided not to.
"A whole new place to run around for ages in then die suddenly without warning."
"I know who coded pet pathing... and when I see him I say "/follow" and I start waling in to walls :P"
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Thor Mastablasta Hammersmith - Level 220, AI 30, LE 70 Clan Atrox Nano Technician - Setup
The Red Brotherhood
I'm a Nano-Technician, don't ever expect me to fight unbuffed, alone or fair.
Means: about f'ing time :P
Satenia: heresy <3
Znore: Mastablasta <3
Kinkstaah: I have agro from many mobs ;(
Madarab: we are aoe class, we are supose to use pistols
Marxgorm: the NT toolset does not fit into my raiding tactics
“A Møøse once bit my sister…”
Don't mind me. I'm just passin' through.
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The Red Brotherhood
“ If this is gonna be that kind of party, I'm gonna stick my leet in the mashed potatoes.”
Maybe we should just re-invent the story - I'm going to have a think about this. were the story should go. We should if its done right put another 10years into the game. But that's what the game is lacking - direction. atm the PvPer's just kill everyone and really upset ppl with there look at me i'll kill u - mostly clan's for some reason - maybe they just got all the boneheads. but in anycase the game needs direction and to be made to come alive again. the old story on the opressed clan fighting the great omni tech don't work anymore because it's omni tech who are the opressed 1's. We need to think out of the box.
If Blizard can rewrite WoW we can do it with AO
Get New Engine
Reblance
New Story
... And maybe a moose or 2 - Pit lizard is crap - make that a moose - starting to like the Idea of Antlers!!!
Last edited by Datch; Feb 25th, 2011 at 14:01:15.