We are a pretty dedicated lot here on bane. Those of us who are still here decided to stick, and here we sit. Its a solid community that can put up with allot more crap than most.

All we want is for one of you funcom people just to say;
"we are going to keep (or not, or fix, or change) the culture rule set"
Hell I don't even need a time frame "when we feel like it " would be just fine and dandy.
Give us the same nod the rp'ers get - we only bitch half as much as they do anyway.

You say we are in the same boat as the other servers, well we are not. The other servers know that they are going to merge. They do not know when or with who, but they know they will merge.

Use that poking finger and throw us a frickin bone- we don't need much- we are still here that should say something
- Now its your turn to speak up

somebody....


anyone.....

Bueller...Bueller?

Hey guys,

I'll see if I can get some updates on this but from what I can say now is that most servers will be merged. It's just a matter of retaining the ruleset of Bane is what I think most are concerned with.

Hi, I made this review in hope that the developers may understand the problems with the PVP system.

My main problem is that we hit level 80 too fast and all we can do is raid or just PVP. The PVP is just turning into a mindless slaughter without any meaning and we can just kill without thinking; murderer or not. The limited small instanced world also didn’t help the system at all.

The murder system has problems because people can run a lowbie in their high level group to randomly run them into an area of effect (AOE) to turn us into murderers while splitting our group rezzing in half. On top of this, there is also a bug where free prey will give you a murder point upon their death.

The murder system is also not affective as we can just kill lowbies up to around 850 murder points and wipe the slate clean 1-2 days later. I did this by camping lowebies and asking them for gold to let them EXP. In the end you do something bad like killing lowbies to be a murderer but it’s actually more of a benefit than any type of punishment. You don’t lose anything when you become a murderer and it can actually be good having your own private resurrection pad, and potions. You can also travel in main cities freely without fees as you can go around it with stealth and other sneaky paths into town. Then on top of this, dying as a murderer is not even as bad.

Tell me, how can this be PvP? This is mindless killing and dying without having fear of harsh consequences with a worthless PVP system that ultimately doesn’t do anything. The PVP Level and gear are also imbalancing the game more while separating PVE and PVP when they should go along together.

What I suggest is using a PVP system similar to Lineage 2 because it’s truly nice. It allows protection for everyone that don’t want to PVP while not killing it with not only just lowbies. I’ll explain this system fast. In Lineage 2, and believe me a similar thing will make sense for AoC.

Player A attacks Player B (both have white names). Player A and B names will now turn purple because he is PVP flagged. If 1 kill the other then the flags will wear off after 45 seconds and the kill will count as a normal PVP kill. If Player A attack player B while his name is still white (meaning he didn’t attack back) then Player’s A name will turn Red (he’s chaotic now and can be attacked by everyone). Then when other white players attack him they stay white while Player’s A still under the same flag.

Player A will gain a karma point when they kill other players like this (chaotic way) and they can only remove the red flag by dying or grinding the same level mobs. If Player A has enough Karama, he can also possibly lose gear while everyone always loses EXP (4%) in PVP.

This system allows some protection from everyone while allowing full PVP for all. This will encourage more trust inside guilds as players would be able to lose items which in return causes guilds and PVP to be more serious.

I believe Funcom should do something similar for World PvP and allow player to reach 99.9% EXP inside their level 80. That way EXP loss and DELEVELING would make since.

TY and sorry for bad English!

Yeah, I reformatted the post for you being it was freaking out my browser. I also added some of the correct terms for you being it seems English is not your first language here.

Will reply, still reading.

Yeah, I think I'm the only CM who actually will correct poor formatted feedback in order to make it clear for everyone to read and understand. Always helps when peoples first language is not English.

Thanks for the feedback! Glad you took the time to explain your comments on "PvP being useless" from the other thread. I can't express enough how one liners don't tell us enough detail on what you mean. We want the detail as much as possible as long as it's constructive. Just for those who consider constructive to be away of us saying "We only want positive or nothing at all," are incorrect. We encourage both negative and positive constructive posting because we can get a clear understanding on what you're expressing with less ranting/flamewars and so on.

Anyways moving on!

I think everyone agrees that PVP should have meaning. That meaning will be different for everyone and there is no way we can make a system that everyone will love. For example, we can have looting in Age of Conan if we truly wanted it. That does not mean everyone would enjoy the system because looting is still very harsh with a lot of baggage on it. The same goes for not having looting at all too. The impact is also harsh for those who see it as meaning.

Either way, having meaning is key and it's something we can improve on with Conan. The murder system with being a criminal and all the other sorts does add more detail to the system. In adding detail it will in return also add more meaning. We can improve on these systems and I think the feedback above is encouraging for us to tweak it just for that aspect.

Speaking on the suggestions, I think it is very possible that we could increase the risk of being a Murderer in-game. Like for example again, making it possible to loot on extreme cases. Maybe even having other additional negative aspects to make it more challenging for those who choose to be that vile. However, that's not something entirely up to me on my end as I am only the messenger but I will convey this to the system designers as well game director.

On the point of the issues with lowbies, these are things we can look at now. I believe most of the examples have been looked at and will be tweaked accordingly over time. I can't say when or what issues are being considered but we are looking at it closely.

In closing, the systems mentioned in the thread are very important to the game much like every other system we have. The systems are also things we can build on over time and add more depth to the PVP experience overall that most will enjoy.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3


Apparently, they're still going ahead with the Hyperborea/Bloodspire merge, despite the fact those 2 servers do not want to merge together. So after the merge, the combined server will be just as empty.

We still have plans in the works to support some of the top concerns with this. Nothing has been released just yet but we will as soon as we can.

Pssh on that one.

Here's to a safe and good merge this week! This will be a very good thing for everyone the following weeks and I will be sure to be on to enjoy it with everyone.

Yeah was going to do that today. Just waiting for server merge announcement once again.

1. more endgame dungeons and armor sets
2. some understanding on a expansion, and if they will use dir x 10
3. better account managment help, i had my billing off with my credit info by like 1 letter and it took a month to be able to pay with credit again.
4. Server merges, or until more people come back.


and, in 2009 i think many more players will come back because of AOC taking the mmo of the year award http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/feature...he-Year-Awards


GRATZ FUNCOM

lets see some good things in '09

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leave your ideas

AC/DC live in Oslo :<

My second concert ever was AC/DC. Someone threw up near us and we got moved to the family sitting area where Angus Young stood 10 feet away from me. It was mind-melting.

What do I see for 2009?

1. Great Content
2. Diverse PvP Upgrades (yes including look at massive PvP issues)
3. Class Tweaking

Greetings,

As mentioned yesterday, the event will kick off around 3pm EST today and will stretch to around 6 servers.

Click here for more information on the In-Game Season Event.

Minor edit to times but it is the new years and we had to do it sooner today.

10 minute warning!

New riddle found here.

Goasla has killed the goat!

Next riddle at 3:35pm EST (30 minutes from now).

New riddle found here.

Declined!

Krugar of the Darkness guild has killed the goat!

Next riddle at 4:30pm EST.

10 minute warning!

New riddle can be found here.

Tineron (Sacred Asylum I) has killed the goat! Next riddle at 5:05pm EST!

10 minute warning!

New riddle found here.

Jimmyup of the Jimmyup the Great Guild has killed the goat!

Next riddle at 5:40PM EST! Only 2 more to go!

5 minute warning!

Lagged

New riddle found here.

Dartai of Reincarnation has killed the goat! He was killed by his friend from Addiction following the death of the goat.

Oh you're challenging me! Checking my logs. The death battle spammed me!

Ok the final verdict!

Jimmydown of Addiction has killed the goat in an attempt to protect it for a friend. Dartai of Reincarnation stormed in to assassinate the poor goat but Jimmydown killed it before Dartari could. They battled to the death resulting in Jimmydown being the last man standing!

See this is what happens when you spam damages near me.

Next riddle at 6:30, guess who the last server is?

We must play by the rules. I believe he is going to pass the prize over to his guildy. Which is a good thing to do.

Error in link but fixed.

There was some good fighting going on. Wonder if people are still battling it out.

I will have to stick up for Jimmy here because he didn't do it out of Greed. He was helping his guildy by racing together. I believe 70% of the competitions thus far have been the same with guilds running together to solve the riddle. There is nothing wrong with that.

13 minutes till next riddle.

Last riddle found here.

Stanley has killed the final goat!

In the blood in front of the unfinished statue. Stanley found it and of course while talking to her about the prize 3 people slammed us all into the pool of blood and started to gank us.

Actually going threw the prizes now. These will be emailed out to all winners.

P.S

It's not late where I'm at!

First day, second day, and third day winners have been notified. This includes you Xeethot and more on the way!

Indeed yours was sent. If not then let me know and I'll resend.

Rest of the prizes go out today. I also will resend out Thogs.

All prizes sent! If you did not receive your winnings then please let me know.

Sent

All US servers will come down for the merge of the two US servers 'Bloodspire' and 'Hyperborea' on 7th January at 07:00 EST / 12:00 GMT. There will be no update deployed. The downtime is scheduled to last about 6 hours

Dear Age of Conan Community.

We are now launching another large community contest, in which we invite the graphical designers, and artists among you to come out and show us what you can create.

We invite you to get as creative as you can, and create an Age of Conan wallpaper. The only rule in terms of content, is that it has to be Age of Conan related. Everything else is up to you.


- We will not tolerate exploit screenshots.
- Only 3 submissions per account.
- No harassment or flaming.
- No submitting of other people's work / artwork. (Copyright).


The competition will last for 4 weeks, starting today. Friday, the 10th of October 2008.
Which means, we will close it Friday the 7th of November 2008.

We will select only 3 winners.

All 3 winners will receive a inflatable sword, a customized user title, and a gamecard. The main winner will have his wallpaper posted on the official Age of Conan website, and will receive a soundtrack in addition to his inflatable sword.


We wish you all great luck, and we are looking forward to seeing the great talents in our community.


PS, there may be some minor bonus events during the 4 weeks in the same thread. So keep checking for some more fun

- The Event team.

And the winners are:

• Dacius
  
• Izbehl
  
• TheContractor

(Note: Due to image hosting services removing unused images, the competition entries were taking down. We will try to get this on our site from the winners themselves.)

3 Winners will be rewarded today. Wait winners will be sometime tomorrow.

Today, we wanted to give notice that the holiday gift will be extended to all accounts active on January 2nd, 2009. The holiday gift will also be available on January 2nd, 2009 for those accounts who did not receive it.

We hope everyone had a great and safe holiday weekend. Happy hunting!

Yes, this is the same thing. We received lots of concerned petitions on players who resubbed just before we gave out the item. Thus we decided to extend the offer so everyone can receive the item.

Hey guys,

We had some issues with accounts prior to the 31st but we are looking into it now. The examples in the thread all fit with the issue and should be resolved.

Goodza: Need info via PM on who.

Greetings to all raiders of AoC!

I am curious to know which guilds, at this point in time, have gotten past Seruah and are fighting for a world first! Currently, it seems that the last encounter in Wing 2 is impossible to defeat and everyone is waiting for update 1.04, which might scale down the boss fight.

So, if your guild is tied for a world first, I kindly ask you to post in this thread in order to satisfy my curiosity.

The board is set and the race for a world first is about to begin! 1.04 is close!

(The only guilds I personally know of are: Legends of Valhalla, Addiction, Reincarnation. But I am not very globally aware and a lot of the Progression Threads are out of date. Please and thank you!)

Just a reminder to everyone that discussions on exploits are not allowed on the forums. If you have any questions on exploits or have one to report please email email@address.hidden.

Funcom,

I feel bad about waking y'all up but someone needs to remind you that it is

NOW January. You may vaguely remember a promise that you made about Server

Merges, we hope so. Unfortunately, we have as yet not had any updates

regarding this little thingy. Perhaps, after you've had your coffee and

muffins you would be kind enough to give us an update on the planed schedule.

Oh, by the way, Darkfall is being released Jan 22. You may not have heard,

but everything that you promised at launch is reportedly already in place and

functioning in their Beta. Just a polite reminder.

Silirrion has already mentioned that we will begin the server merges in January in his last letter to the community as well as mentioning it here. Closing this thread seeing that it's gone off topic.

jk

[Moderated: Famine secrets can't be revealed! Muhahah]

Omg this is getting moderated!

Well, nobody else has bothered to do this so I will step up for our community and just say to Famine, Sillirion, and all you other Funcom cats out there.

Happy New Year!

I hope you guys have had a great holiday season!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Happy New Year everyone

This thread is to let people know what happend with the siege delceration problem I posted about here,

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=178686

For those that would prefer a brief synopsis, I will summerize by saying that 48 of us got together, 7 guilds in total and spent a lot of time deicidng when we would like to have a siege. The date was picked and everyone was excited.

(As a side note for those that don't know, you must delcare your siege 24 hours before the vunlerabiltky window of the defending guild begins)

Anyway, I went to declare with about 6 hours of spare time. The siege interface bugged, claiming that the target guild could not be declared upon until they were out of being contested.

Needless to say I petitioned. FOUR AND A HALF HOURS LATER, a GM arrived. Walked around the target guilds BK, asked a couple questions to ensure that he understood the situation, then said there was nothing he could do. Then he left. He just peaced out and that was it.

Luckily, another guildie got ahold of a GM also. Her GM was far more apologetic, but in the end provided the exact same result. The GMs could do nothing, and that was it. I have to say that personally, and on behalf of the 47 others, I'm pretty disappointed.

HOWEVER THAT IS NOT ALL

The guild leaders involved decided we would try to salvage peoples' sad feelings and reschedule. Fortunately, another BK is vulnerable this Friday, so we planned to attack them. Unforutnately, THEIR BK IS ALSO BUGGED AND UNABLE TO BE DECLARED ON.

Are you joking FC? Seriously?

Anyway, I put in another petition (I've waited 2 hours thus far), this time there is 36 hours left for funcom to correct the issue.

Again, a massive group of people is excited and hopeful.

Will FC or a GM do a better job this time? Will it just be another failure?

36 hours and ticking...



P.s Yes, I will also let people know how this one turns out.

P.s.s Anyone wondering if I PM'd Yakomo, I did. I've yet to receive a response.

Please keep in mind that issues with CS should be directed towards them via email and not on the forums. One of the reasons is due to the fact that almost all issues in-game can be speculative from hearing only 1 side of the story.

I know the main point of this thread is not just dealing with CS but a bug that happened in-game which could not be resolved. That's very understandable on all ends but bugs to happen and we must ensure they are reported/resolved. On the other end, CS cannot do actions outside of policy. They must follow a very strict guideline in order to provide service to all players. The reason for this is because it is a game where character involvement is a huge factor in not making mistakes with them (i.e.: helping retrieve lost items that were never lost to begin with).

Speaking on the specific issue at hand. I will take a look into it with more detail with QA and CS. That way we can look at it from all angles.