All Posts by Kcissem

Originally posted by Hoobley

I find it strange that the official forums are 'hidden' to those who are not currently paying customers.

 

I had expected to be able to read the forums, but not post so that I could get a clear picture of what's going on.

 

This is yet another thing Funcom has done which puts me off the game even more, all along it's just been like they're hiding things.

 

I followed AoC hardcore for years and way back it sounded like the perfect game... anyway that rant isn't for here, what's up with hiding the forums?

only account holders should be able to view and post on the forums, it keeps the kiddies out that are just there to flame.

Originally posted by Digna

I was confused as to the logic of creating only 1 RP-PvP servers and Zero RP-PvE. I would surmise that the RP-PvP will get serious slapdowns for OOC chat/naming conventions etc and they figured the PvErs were just more inclined to 'roll thier own RP' without using extra (or at least more than normal) GM hours.

there reasons were that there just wasn't the population base to support a rp-pve server, yet this has been proven wrong time and again on past mmo's.

Originally posted by openedge1

 

Originally posted by Kcissem

 

Originally posted by randomt

Interesting notion, although the RP community endorsed RP server IS the rp-pvp server, so the majority of us will be there.  Dunno if its such a good idea to split yourselves from us like that.

 

Keep in mind that even if the official server is a pvp server, we are still RP'rs, and not childish gankersquads.  and we WILL react as a community to any such group attempting that.  The weight of the entire world will bear down on such a squad, rendering them unable to play until they give up their unsocial ways, or driving them off the server and thus making them fall far behind on whatever other server they decide to reroll on.

the RP community has endorsed Wiccana as the Unofficial RP PVE server.  Check out rp-aoc.com announcements.  they also endorsed bori as the unofficial european rp-pve server. 

 

 

This is not about trying to split the community, this is for those of us that do not enjoy FFA PVP, this is the alternative for those that want to enjoy AOC the way the devs originally intended it to be.

This is my only issue...if they create this game with this really awesome story...why then remove the RP element...except for PvP RP...which will still be full of "ooo..I am a psychotic killer assassin...yea...thats my roll...lulz!"

 

It is NOT as Funcom intended...they WANT PvP RP...and added the story to create a reason to gank...

(PS: i am rolling Wiccana....note my official T-Shirt)

 

you may think that, but you must have not been around that long, back when they first announced possible server types only PVE servers were listed.  The devs even stated at that time that game was intended to be PVE with consensual PVP hence why there is the FFA Borderlands aspect on all servers.  When the devs made that statement the FFA PVP crowd got in a uproar and did petitions, polls and whined about it until the devs finally gave in.  US RP-pve'rs have been just trying to do the same, we may not get a rp tagged pve server so this is why we voted on one to be the UNOFFICIAL RP-PVE Server.  The point of doing this is to try and get all the like mindind rp'rs that do not want to deal with the hassle of FFA PVP on one server. 

the below statement is not intended for you, its intended for the general audience

We are not trying to take away your pvp servers, i for one am glad you guys got what you wanted.  so why bash the people trying to get just ONE official RP tagged PVE server?  It will not affect anyones gameplay at all, if you hate rp just don't join it is as simple as that.

Originally posted by Digna

 

Originally posted by Kcissem

 

the RP community has endorsed Wiccana as the Unofficial RP PVE server.  Check out rp-aoc.com announcements.  they also endorsed bori as the unofficial european rp-pve server. 

 

 

This is not about trying to split the community, this is for those of us that do not enjoy FFA PVP, this is the alternative for those that want to enjoy AOC the way the devs originally intended it to be.

http://www.aoc-rp.com

Sorry the site name was backwards.

thanks for the correction

Originally posted by xcalibur

Wiccana is the official 'go fuck with the rp'ers' server.  No enforcement ftw.

it's called /ignore idiot

Originally posted by randomt

Interesting notion, although the RP community endorsed RP server IS the rp-pvp server, so the majority of us will be there.  Dunno if its such a good idea to split yourselves from us like that.

 

Keep in mind that even if the official server is a pvp server, we are still RP'rs, and not childish gankersquads.  and we WILL react as a community to any such group attempting that.  The weight of the entire world will bear down on such a squad, rendering them unable to play until they give up their unsocial ways, or driving them off the server and thus making them fall far behind on whatever other server they decide to reroll on.

This is not about trying to split the community, this is for those of us that do not enjoy FFA PVP, this is the alternative for those that want to enjoy AOC the way the devs originally intended it to be.

Wiccana has officially been made the unofficial RP-PVE server of choice by the community  for like minded individuals.  Check here to discuss.

forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php

For those of us that don't like PVP but still like to RP, check out the linky below to pick your server of vote for the NA Unofficial RP-PVE Server.  Voting will end at 2pm est -5 gmt friday to give guilds the time to let their people know where to go.

currently Wicanna is in the lead

forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php

Originally posted by reb1981

Is the AoC fourms down at main site?

not working for me either, hopefully they are making the forums non public where only people with active funcom accounts have access.

Originally posted by fagercraft

 

Originally posted by Douhk

I haven't taken the time to read all these posts here, just noticed this thread now...

...I hope somebody corrected the OP... he knows that it was announced that spellweaving, DX10, and siege battles would be released at launch, at least at this point, right?

stated just about every thenth thread id say...

 

OP only comment is, he is in CB and NDA doesnt allow him to answer back on the subject.

 

FunCom has said it will be in on the retail client. So he may very well be actually telling the truth, that those features arent in the CB. I know certainly that spellweaving is supposed to be put in on retail only, from what i could gather of all quotes from devs here and there. CBA to find and give links to trolls, fandbois and haters. Ill just wait for release and see if my preorder was worth it. (1-13 and PvP gameplay so far hasnt made me take the pre order back atleast)

but no point in argueing about it anymore the haters are going to say what they want no matter if their so called facts are actually lies.  The only OFFICIAL statement which is the only facts is stating those features will be in at launch,  we will all find out in a few short days.

Originally posted by Alan0n

Originally posted by Kcissem

Originally posted by spector75

You are the one who said don't buy a game that is broken in any way... that means no bugs, no crashes, aka flawless..........

As for min system specs, come on, who the hell actually goes by those? i assume you are using a 300mb paging file also so our system can't even use the paging file as a buffer when the ram starts to fill up and thus lessening the blow on your ram.

You are wasting soo much energy on here bitching your head off about what should or shouldn't be,when really all you need to do is go buy 1 more gig of ram and you will be able to run it just fine

1 gigs is pretty cheap now too, depending on the brand you can find a gig of ram for 40 dollars plus now.

Actually - buying just random 1 gb to add to your existing Ram could lead to dissaster.  Its highly recomended you buy 2x2gbs syncronised cards if you want to guaranty performance.   Even the virtual memory works alot better than using just some random RAM chips.

true

Originally posted by Alan0n

 

Again - Point that out to Funcom cause there is not one word about that in their minimum or recommended spec on their Pre-Order.

 

http://www.ageofconan.com/order_UK.html

Glad we can agree that 1 gb wont run on Vista.    Now... are ppl gonna be refunded if they pre-order the game with just one gb ram under vista ?   Cause I can't find any official info about that on the pre-order site. 

So..  suggestion might be - Wait and see. Don't by pre-order until you have enough info?  Cause lets just face it.  Even official funcom Pre-order site isn't giving enough info about the Minimum spec for the game.  So what about rest of their info ? 

We should trust the gaming developers 100% on everything they say ?

If people were smart enough they would realize vista needs more than 1 gigs.

All the minimum specs really mean is that the game will start up, but does not guarantee you will run the game without issues,  most of the time if you meet minimum specs you are going to barely be able to play it all.  This is why they put out the recommended spec, recommended basicly means if you meet this you shouldn't have any performance issue, and should have a good gaming experience. thats it.

Originally posted by spector75

You are the one who said don't buy a game that is broken in any way... that means no bugs, no crashes, aka flawless..........

As for min system specs, come on, who the hell actually goes by those? i assume you are using a 300mb paging file also so our system can't even use the paging file as a buffer when the ram starts to fill up and thus lessening the blow on your ram.

You are wasting soo much energy on here bitching your head off about what should or shouldn't be,when really all you need to do is go buy 1 more gig of ram and you will be able to run it just fine

1 gigs is pretty cheap now too, depending on the brand you can find a gig of ram for 40 dollars plus now.

Originally posted by Alan0n

 

Originally posted by spector75

 

Originally posted by Alan0n

 

Originally posted by spector75

Name me one game in the history of gaming that has been 100% flawless

There is a huge diffrence between a game that has gamebreaking issues and flawless.   Name me 10 games that have been launched that had so big issues that it wasn't playable. 

 

Now - is the goal to do better than the games that were unplayable or to set the standard abit higher ? 

changing your arguement now?

 

 

Wasn't it just "What Im asking ppl to do is not spend even 2 cents on product that is not ready or in any way broken- then it doesn't matter if its AOC - WAR - WOW - AC or Super mario."

And not playable by who? Minus the crash here and there which seemed to disapear with that last patch, i had no true issues at all, nor did most of the guys i game with, tho we also run 3-6 gigs of ram, and would never be dumb enough to try to run vista on anything under 4 gigs

 

i'll do a fast edit as to not pad my post count, Vist takes up 800mb to 1.2 gigs of ram by itself, AoC takes up 1gb to 1.5 gb itself, run those two togather on 2 gigs of ram, yes, you will be unable to play it. Get more ram

Where did I mention flawless game ?   You brought out that question.  I was talking about certain standards.  That might well include the minimum and recommended spec that I will mention l8ter.

 

secondly - its not playable for me.  After last pach - your miracle patch.  I have posted proofs but they got deleted cause it was breaking NDA.  But look around.

Third.  Again - go to the pre-order website and take a look at the minimum and recommended spec.  Then send a post to Funcom and ask them to add that their game is not running under Vista unless you have 3 gbs of Ram.    Why are you mad at me for using 2 gbs when the minimum for the game is 1 gb ?  Im not gonna try to run AOC with 1 gb of RAM.  But thats what the makers are saying will work.  Now... if they are talking about minimum as a game that will launch at all or can be played for 1 min without crashing.  I dont know.

Standards - not flawless.  There is a huge diffrence.  You can always claim that any product isn't flawless.  But they all have to meet certain standards. Those standards are not withheld in the Gaming indursty.  But maybe we should start thinking about it for abit.  Before we start buying a box and wait 5 years for the game to be developed.  But hey.. maybe you would be happy about it.  Thats why its usually the industry that agrees on the standards.  But the gaming industry hasn't got any.   

minimum is 1gig ram but that is with xp not vista,   gotta remember vista itself almost uses 1 gigs itself, and the OB client used 1.4 gigs according to my system, 1.4 gig plus 1 gigs from vista resources = 2.4gigs when using vista, that is why they are saying 2 gigs using vista is not enough.  Gaming in vista requires atleast 3 gigs or more ram because vista is a resource hog.  Either that or disable all the uneeded services and processes that you don't need running in the background, Plus change vista to use Aero basic instead of full.

just nit picking at your view but the daytime/nighttime scenerio you describe is only viable till level 20, after lvl 20 there is no singleplayer whatsoever it will be pure multiplayer.  Think of the first 20 levels as the tutorial.

Originally posted by Alan0n

 

Originally posted by spector75

Name me one game in the history of gaming that has been 100% flawless

There is a huge diffrence between a game that has gamebreaking issues and flawless.   Name me 10 games that have been launched that had so big issues that it wasn't playable. 

 

Now - is the goal to do better than the games that were unplayable or to set the standard abit higher ? 

In the pc market you are always going to have a game be unplayable to some people no matter how well the game was programmed as the developers have to take into account of thousands of different possible computer configurations and there are bound to be problems with some of them.  It's not always the devs fault either, sometimes it is the users faults with configurations on the computer such as bad drivers, not uninstalling your video drivers and running driver cleaner before installing new one, fragmented hard drive, registry errors.  There are reasons that software like drivercleaner.net, perfectdisk, perfecdiskRXsuite exist.

no they don't exist to just look at :P

Originally posted by Alan0n

 

Originally posted by Vayle

 

Originally posted by Alan0n

 

Originally posted by 3on1

OP, plz dont ignore the proofpost of that AoC blog and post your response to it. id love to hear your comments on it. i wont believe u till u post something that confirms your "facts"

Im not allowed to post any proofs cause that would be breaking NDA.  All I can ask ppl to do is to not jump of on the Pre-Order wagon until you are 110% sure the game is running for you.  The rest will come out as soon as game launches in Pre-order wich is just few days away.   You wont miss alot not pre-ordering.  What I, you and we  all should do is to wait until the game is ready - then we pay for it and enjoy it.  Its not part of the job subscription as a custimor to sit and hope a company comes up with a fix  - weeks or months after you have bought it.    We get one free month playing when buying the game.  That game should offer trouble free gameplay.  Im just pointing out at this point there is a chance custimors wont.  And there is nothing wrong with that.

 

If the game is gonna run great and will be a hit - then the custimors or Funcom havn't lost anything if ppl do the vize thing and wait.  What is worrying is that Funcom is putting more and more extra features to the game for those that pre-order.  Why?   Its just a fair question to ask.

Al you are so full of it it's not even funny.

 

First you "claim' to be in the closed beta then try to spread panic because "you say" the game won't run on your computer.  Now you change your tune and try to convince "other" customers that they should "wait" to buy the game.

It's a nice try but I think 90% of the people here can see that you have an agenda.

I have posted proofs that the game isn't running for me.  Those are deleted cause of breach of NDA.  As for my agenda other than asking ppl to not Pre-order something that they are not sure will be working - And that we as paying custimors should be asking for working product at launch.  Then I hope you see it as well as others.  If you think my agenda is anything diffrent then your welcome to think so.

 

I will be the first to tell you if my issues with the game dissapear and Im pretty sure that Pre-orders will tell you if spellweaving is in at launch and they will probaly tell us what they think of it. 

What Im asking ppl to do is not spend even 2 cents on product that is not ready or in any way broken- then it doesn't matter if its AOC - WAR - WOW - AC or Super mario.  If you dissagree with me on that one then ok.  But then maybe you will think back at some point cause its us that are allowing the developers to throw things out that are not ready.   It wont change unless we do something about it. 

you don't get spellweaving until lvl 40, so i doubt there's going to be many people hitting that mark the first 3 days to tell you if it's in or not.  Only the powerlevels will and they probably won't care about it anyways since they are just there to hit 80 and start ganking.

Originally posted by openedge1

 

Originally posted by Kcissem

 

Originally posted by openedge1

The processor is running at default (E6600 at 2.4) this is a minimum as stated by Funcom, and not "recommended"...3.0Ghz is recommended...and don't throw the "dual core" argument...it is still 2.4 a core, and I dont care who you are...this is a low rating...period. I use an E6600 oc'd to 3Ghz with ZERO issues...(besides 2 other systems all 3 Ghz...and all ran perfectly fine)

why not use the dual core arguement?  the minimum specs that state 3.0ghz is for 1 cpu.  have 2 cpus running at 2.4 is well above minimum specs.   forinstance i have 4 cpus running at 2.67ghz and when i run the "can i run it" program on nvidia's site for AOC it states it is above recommended specs not below.

 

 

Having more than one core means quite alot especially if the program is programmed for multithreading which AOC is,  so while he may have a cpu clocked at 2.4 he has two of them so AOC it self will utilize his second core for different threads, effectively you have 2 cpu's daisy chained sharing the load. The same goes for quad cores and yes AOC does take advantage of all 4 cores as they were all used for me during OB.

Correct...but, it had been noted it was not in Open Beta as well, so some code issues were present to spike the CPU's...even though only one was being used according to posts on their main forums.....so, if he waits, a whole new world may open up performance wise...but, he is stating here that the game is a dud due to performance issues...which having almost the same system, I did not have...

 

It also is of note that spewing doom and gloom BEFORE release is so wrong...really...he needs to get a grip is all.

And the fact dual cores will be working in release, it will be doubly delicious (yep...)

i never listen to the doomsayers, i have a system well above recommended spec and did not have the performance i expected but it did perform well enough to play just not to what i expected considering the system i have.  3dmark vantage scores a 12500 for CPU and 7000 for the video and i was only getting around 40FPS, but i don't believe that AOC is fully taking advantage of my SLI setup yet.  I expect on release to get atleast 60 plus any more than is a bonus as you don't see much of difference past 60fps anyways.

Originally posted by openedge1

The processor is running at default (E6600 at 2.4) this is a minimum as stated by Funcom, and not "recommended"...3.0Ghz is recommended...and don't throw the "dual core" argument...it is still 2.4 a core, and I dont care who you are...this is a low rating...period. I use an E6600 oc'd to 3Ghz with ZERO issues...(besides 2 other systems all 3 Ghz...and all ran perfectly fine)

Having more than one core means quite alot especially if the program is programmed for multithreading which AOC is,  so while he may have a cpu clocked at 2.4 he has two of them so AOC it self will utilize his second core for different threads, effectively you have 2 cpu's daisy chained sharing the load. The same goes for quad cores and yes AOC does take advantage of all 4 cores as they were all used for me during OB.

you're facts are not facts, post some proof

Spell weaving will be in game at launch, this is a fact according to the latest devs information

DX10 will be in at launch, this is a fact according to the latest devs information

Seige battles will be in at launch, this is a fact according to the latest devs information.

I have seen nothing from funcom stating that any of those above will not be in upon release, quite the contrary as the devs stated in a question and answer blog a week or so ago that spellweaving,dx10, the cheetah 2 engine, and seige battles will be in on launch that they were holding them out of beta to give the long time beta testers something new to look forward to.  If you can post proof otherwise please do.  I didn't read the rest of your post because as far as i'm concerned your first 3 so called facts is a lie and made up.