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09/22/2007 |
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I figured I'd write this up to address the common questions and troubles people have as a new AO player that I've seen posted here and asked in game. I've really aimed this at the newbie fr00b since I expect those in SL to know their way around well enough already and could always post in the AO forums. This has some info also found in the AO site and/or manual but also is meant to go beyond the scope of the manual which I strongly recommend all players, especially new ones download and read (there is also a version you can view in the AO site). Please note that they finally updated the manual late in 2005 and made a few revisions since then, the current one is quite good and answers most of the questions I see new players asking in game. Note: I also did not write all of this for this post. Almost all of the B and C ones I wrote over time and added to personal help files I can access while playing for my own reference or so I can just copy paste in answers for others. Then at least some of those in A section I had answered one or more times in the past here or elsewhere so just found and added them in. As a result most of this was just copy pasted together from things I wrote over my time playing AO. .
. . . . . . Before Playing . A-01 Is it Really Free? Currently free play of classic AO and NW is until early 2008 but so long as that offer does not cause them too many troubles expect them to continue lengthening that period (has already been lengthened multiple times). The MMORPG.com trail offer refers to a free 14 day trail of the original, NW and SL expansion, once that ends though you either start paying to play or you will no longer be able to play using that account. . A-02 Is it Complicated? If you spend some time looking over your options with the help of various info sites on AO you should be fine and be able to make up your own build. You can also look in the profession specific forums in the AO official forums for help (anyone can read them but you need to be a paying player to post in them). There's a good bit of possible and usable variations not just between professions but builds of a profession as well. It takes a bit of time and thought but I'd sooner do that than be like just about every other char my level of a given profession. . A-03 Getting Started (Downloading & Patching) 1. Go to the Game Download page and select either the small (about 800 MB) or large (about 1400 MB) client. The small client is only for free play while the large one will allow you to play for free or any of the expansions. You can get either by way of a BitTorrent download or through various listed download sites. With a BitTorrent download you will get a small torrent file from the AO download pages then need to open that up in a BitTorrent client and let it download everything. You can use the official BitTorrent client or a host of other ones (personally I like Azureus). . Once you have it all the client will continue sharing it with others until you stop it. It is a good idea to let it share as much as you've downloaded (100%+ share or a 1+ share ratio). With lots of people sharing some to all of the data downloading something with BitTorrent can move along quite well. 2. While the game is downloading you could register your AO account. As a new player it would be a good idea to get used to it the basics of playing by playing for free for a while. Once you've got the hang of things and if you're thinking of going P2P there's the MMORPG.com 14 day SL trial offer which gives you a trial code. Also Funcom offers 7 day upgrade trials for either expansion which include NW but if you decide you don't want to keep playing you'd need to cancel the account before either traials end or your credit card will be billed. Please note that both trial and paid accounts are not reverted to free accounts when their period expires and cancelling a trial account will likely result in the deletion of all related data including player accounts and characters. Also you will need the large client to use any of the expansions. 3. In the downloaded folders you'll find a setup.exe file, run that. If the installer asks for numbered disks when installing browse to the main folder you just downloaded and select the folder with the same disk name that was requested (disk1-disk3). 4. The game version you've downloaded will likely not be the current one and the main folder you just downloaded will have the version in the name (AOInstall16.0.0_EP1_EP2_live = large client version 16.0.0). Rather than using batch patching AO applies each of the required patches one at a time in sequence. Once installed you can run AO then let the patcher get the patches and use them or you can download each of them from the AO site. If you download them get the ones from the version you have to the current version on the servers. Also if you download them yourself from SL/15.x on there are two of each patch (ex. 16.0.0 - 16.0.1 and 16.0.0_EP1 - 16.0.1_EP1). The ones ending with EP1 are for those with the large client, the ones without are for those with the small client, make sure you get the right ones. The patcher may need to restart one or more times as it patches from your downloaded version to the version on the servers when it hits certain updates. So there is no problem if it restarts and says you need to patch some more. Then in the bar at the top of the log-in window it shows what version your client is at and what version is in use on the servers, until those match you will need to patch further. Since patches are applied one at a time what I like to do is download them from the AO site, use an app like WinRAR to extract the files in the "Patches" folder each contain and save them in one folder I could back up to a CD later on. Should I need to reinstall for some reason I just put all those files into a single "Patches" folder and put that into the main AO game folder. When the patcher goes to work it finds the patches in that folder so won't need to download them, just verify and install them. 5. Start up AO, enter your account info in the log-in window, log-in, select create a new character (not that you have a choice), make a new character and off you go. . A-04 I let it Patch but it Says I Need to Patch Again . A-05 What do the Expansions Add? . A-06 What OSs does AO Play Under? Since the graphics engine is still based heavily on the power of your CPU and not your graphics card it is possible that it may play on a Power PC based Mac running Virtual PC or something like it, your results will not be that great though. Although for those with an Intel based Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) will have an option that lets you install and run Windows natively on your Mac with usable drivers for your video card and other hardware so you can play games and do other things perfectly well. At this time Apple is open beta testing this function which they've called Boot Camp so those with 10.4 (Tiger) should be able to use it once completed as well. Official AO forums thread with info on running AO under Linux. Note: Anyone can read the official AO forums but only paying players can post in them. . A-07 ATI or nVIDIA? . A-08 Graphics, Lag and Performance Tips A new engine that makes better use of the graphics cards of today was announced and is expected to be completed in about a year or so (mid 2008 or there abouts). This is just an engine upgrade, at that point they are not planing to upgrade the textures as well but have said that it will then allow them to make things look better over time. The new engine is just the first step and should also lower client lag due to the amount of graphic effects and items being managed quite a bit as well. For now though the two places you'll get the most lag are while running around in player AI cities on Rubi-Ka or anywhere with a lot of players grouped together. To get AO running smoothly you'll need to tinker with the graphics settings available to you in the settings options of the log-in window. There are various graphical extras you can disable while in game (press F10 for the options window and select the Preferences tab) without having to restart like clouds, nano effects, environmental effects, client side wildlife and others. Then two other such options that really help are the two distance ones. Press F10 in game, then select Preferences > Visual > View Distance and move the two sliders there to the left as much as needed. Those control how far another player needs to be for you to see them (you'd still see their names floating there, just not them) and how far you can see things like trees, objects and the like clearly. After some tweaking you should be in good shape. Although if you know you'll be going into a good sized PvP battle or raid it would be a good idea to lower your setting somewhat ahead of time. Other basic things to improve performance is to have plenty of bandwidth available so something faster than dial-up and don't download things while playing. Also close as many apps as possible when running the game and you could try restarting the system before playing as well. Aside from that you can get more RAM and make sure the RAM you have is working properly. Even if it shows the right amount and everything usually seems fine some small faults in your RAM can cause system crashes and the like. Some utility programs have an option to check your RAM then if you search online for something related to "RAM memory check" or something like that you should be able to find some sites with those available. There are at least a couple decent free ones you could try, such as Memtest86. It's best to get your RAM from better suppliers like Crucial and all of the same exact type. A fast hard drive, lots of available space on your drives and a maintained/clean install of Windows helps too. Bigger drives are good for the space, but they are slower than the smaller ones so it's good to have two physical drives, one small one to put your OS and programs on and another for all your various files. Also Windows can act funny if your drives are too full so make sure additional drives/partitions have at least 10% free and that your main one has as much free as possible for virtual RAM and temp files. There are various apps like the Norton Utility ones and SpeedUpMyPC which will help clean out the junk and fix up the registry or tweak things to avoid at least some errors you can run into. Also one crashing problem that has occured with those playing free in the past had to do with the ads shown in game. Cleaning out the medicache folder in your main AO folder occasionally (as in once a week or something like that) fixes that problem right up. If you're paying to play you can turn ads off and then there are no billboards in the Shadowlands. As far as I know this error has long since been corrected. . A-09 How Much Does it Cost if I go P2P? Download and price info page. . A-10 System Requirements and Communication Ports Used Recommended: The ports that need to be open are TCP ports 80, 7012, 7013 and 7500-7600. . A-11 Is there PvP? Players can also be flagged which makes them open to attack almost anywhere and from anyone outside of their current team. Then once you attack a flagged player you will also be flagged. You can tell that someone is flagged when their name has asterisks (*) on either side, how long this will last varies (you'll find a nano running in your NCU). If you're looking to be flagged the easiest way is to attack a guard and then live through the experience. Easiest way to do that is to target the guard then hit the attack button twice quickly, setting your Agg/Def slider (lower right corner) to full defense to slow your attack rate isn't a bad idea. Lost Eden (third expansion pack) added the PvP battle stations where you can go for group PvP. You can also attack towers in notum fields (requires a shield disabler which you can buy in tower shops) with a team to get some PvP action so long as the org controlling the field can send some people in the right level range to fight you (the Notum Wars booster pack was added to the fr00bs deal a while back). A-12 Can I Solo in AO? |
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Starting Out . B-01 What are good Professions for a Newbie? If I were to pick one I would say a martial artist would be your best starter character. You could then use that one to get the items you need for future characters and earn creds. . B-02 How does the Breed I Pick Affect my Profession? Nanomage: On the down side they will also have the least health of all the breeds and eventually any breed of any prof can use all their nanos. So for characters you intend to take to level cap there really isn't much advantage in going with a Nanomage, especially if you have the expansions. Atrox: On the other hand they will have more health than any other breed and as eventually they will be able to use all the nanos of any prof for high level PvP chars most people will go with an Atrox for any prof. Also limited nano is much easier to deal with than limited health. Opifex & Solitus: . B-03 I Just Made and Named my Character, Now What? You should see a doctor NPC standing not too far in front of you near the rock wall and a ground light, talk to him (right click him to open NPC chat) and that alone will give you enough XP to get level two (that only gives XP while level one) and gets you some starter items. When talking to him he will offer you a simple quest to find some local wildlife. Running around pressing the tab button is the easiest way to do it, if facing the rock wall the first two are to the right, the other two to the left. Do that and talk to him again, tell him you found them all and you'll be asked to do a second quest to go back through them and kill each one once in the same order. Do that then go back to him again and tell him you killed one of each. Doing each quest gives some XP and some credits plus two nodrop items, a light bar (best light source in the game) and a rather nice newbie NCU belt. The way the belt works now is you get one version of it at first then when you ask the doctor what you're suppose to do with it you'll be told to show it to another NPC named Antonio. Once you're shown the belt to Antonio you get the proper version of the belt and one small NCU memory module you can equip once you have the belt on. Before moving on you should level up some on the reets and leets there. To get to Antonio on the main platform from where you start run down the beach with the rock wall on your right till you get to a tunnel in the rock wall (second quest NPC is there too). Run down the tunnel and the one that follows it then when you exit the second tunnel there will be a ramp in front of you and a bit to the right. Run up that ramp and the two that follow it then once at the top turn left so there is a fence on your left and a wall to your right. Run straight and then up the small ramp ahead of you and you'll see Antonio (always people around him) in front and to the right of you a ways and Travis a ways further ahead (bald guy in black). Another thing you can do with the doctor is to exchange three of the monster parts you may find when killing animal mobs for a collection of basic low QL recovery items (last I checked you must do his two quests before he'll accept them). You can trade those in as often as you want to get more and can then stack the items by picking them up in your inventory and dropping them on those of the same type and QL (don't get too many as the QL is very low). To hand items in to an NPC right click on him then click on the hand icon with a box in it at the bottom of their dialog window to bring up a little window to put the items and/or credits in to then press the check mark button on that small window. Those med items will be given to you at a QL equal to your level plus one and cap at QL six. If you run down the beach you will hit another NPC at a tunnel with more quests for you to do. First you'll be asked to kill some certain mobs you'll find roaming the beach further down which earns you a bracer with +20 to your max health. Next you will need to find and select each of the mob bosses on the beach, these will come in order starting from the far end beyond the doctor near where you started and all along the edge of the beach away from there. Since people often kill these bosses though (for the quest you just need to select them) this can be somewhat annoying. This quest gives you a range meter which you could also make which can be a much easier way to get it at times. If you do the second quest you'll be sent to another NPC. This next NPC is on the other end of a tunnel near the docks on the other side of the island (go through the two tunnels near the bio researcher you just helped, straight and to the left from there and through another tunnel, he's just to the left once you exit the tunnel). He will ask you to collect various parts from different mobs and one basic island weapon in return he gives you an upgraded version of that weapon. Next he sends you out to kill a series of robot mobs and the two robot mob bosses on the docks. In return you get a back pack to store stuff in (right click to open, don't wear it). The order of these two quests apparently can differ depending on if you came to him from the prior NPC or not. Once the second quest is done he sends you off to Travis on the main platform. On the main platform behind Antonio and against the wall you will see a kind of vending machine like thing, this is a shopping terminal selling sets of early level profession specific nano programs you should buy before leaving, right click it to open the shop window (only one set for each profession, they cost about 1500 credits for each set). Then on the one side of Antonio are five NPCs. One is the neutral observer then there is a recruiter and merchant for both Clan and Omni. Before you went up that last ramp to get to the area Antonio and the others are on you would have seen a break in the fence to your left, this is where you can find the Clan medic and Omni unicorn commander you're sent to see by Travis for the island shoulder pads quest. Near Travis is a large door, this is where the whom-pahs (teleporters) off the island are located. Travis will offer you various small quests you can do for different pieces of newcomer armour and starts off the two island sided shoulder pads quests. Then Antonio offers items and tells you how to upgrade your starter weapons, the Clan and Omni merchants sell badges to upgrade newcomer armour if you belong to either side as well as other items. . -Talk to the doc for level 2 and your starter gear but do not take any of his quests yet. . . A couple things to take note of is that the bots, shuttle saboteurs and climbing salamanders will run over to help out if one of their buddies is under attack so be careful of that and try to attack ones away from others. This is something you'll see with other mobs later on as well, while some won't care if one of their buddies is under attack other types will all come over and swarm you. They won't react this way when they have grey life bars in most cases though. Mind you there are some that will always be hostile to you no matter how much higher in level you are. One other thing is that the shuttle saboteurs and rollerrats may end up floating around in the water under the platform they spawn on for one reason or another so if you don't see them, you'll likely find them down there. To get at them you'll need a bow or non-upgraded rifle (the rifle looses range when upgraded). Get on the edge of the platform, target them and start the attack, this will cause them to start swimming to shore. Now run to the bridge between this platform and the main one, hop down to ground level and start attacking them from shore. Another thing you could do is try for a different GS by going in and out of the Teleport Tower . The two bot bosses are on the docks after Adri Afeli. . . B-04 What Happens if I Die? Once you leave the island you will find insurance terminals/cell scanners in all cities and around some cities (does not include player built AI cities). These look like a little vending machine with a blue top and two thin arms on the sides (there's a picture on page 59 of the manual). It will cost you some credits to use them, how much depends on your level and the city you're in. Using an insurance terminal keeps all the XP you gained up to that point safe from being lost should you die. There used to be more penalties and potential penalties but those have been removed. You can also save in SL gardens/sanctuaries and AI XP can not be saved from loss, if an alien kills you some AI XP will most likely be lost. . B-05 How do I Attack? When a target is selected you will see a little life bar show up with their name and the life bar will also show up above the target as well. If the ends of their life bar in your UI are red the target is in range of your equipped weapon, if not it isn't. Take note that attack nanos may have a longer or shorter range than your weapon but those indicators only show if it is in your weapons range. The colour of their life bar shows the target's level compare to yours. Grey means it is so far below your level killing it will give only 1 XP. Green means it is below your level but will still give some modest XP. Yellow means its level is about the same as yours. Orange means its level is above yours while red means its level is a fair bit to much higher than yours. The length of the bar also hints to the amount of health it has. . B-06 How do I Run? . B-07 Using the Shortcut Bar Pressing shift + numbers 1-0 on the main part of your keyboard will let you select your desired shortcut lists quickly on the active shortcut bar. To change the active shortcut bar pres alt + numbers 1-0 on the main part of your keyboard but you will first need to set it so more than one shortcut bar is displayed from your options window. Pressing just numbers 1-0 on the main part of your keyboard will select related shortcut action on the select list of the active shortcut bar. You can toggle the orientation of the shortcut bar from vertical to horizontal by right clicking on the tab on the far left end when it's horizontal or at the top when vertical. You can also put weapons and armour in the shortcut bar to allow you to change gear you alternate between often without having to opening up the inventory and wear windows. Macros to initiate various actions or scripts can also be put in your shorcut bar. . B-08 Basic Chatting See pages 20-24 in the manual for more chat related help. There's also a link in the log-in window with more help and links to more help on different things including scripts. . B-09 Basic UI Usage A number of windows default to the right side column when opened, when too many are open to fit on screen you can scroll through them with the scroll wheel on your mouse when the pointer is over those windows or click and hold on a part of one then drag them up or down. To take a window out of the right column right click on its name to get it on your pointer, move that out a ways from the right edge of your screen then left click in an open space. You could then move it around and stretch the sides out as you please then later when you reopen the window it will be where and how you left it. The shop and nano program windows defaults to the right column but I find that far too small so pull them out, expand them to fill most of the screen and set them to list mode. You can adjust the order and size of the columns in list mode as well by dragging certain points at the top of the lists as well as add and remove columns by right clicking the top of the lists. If you want to move a window back into the right column right click on its name again to get it on your pointer then move it to the right edge and left click. You can also reorder the arrangement of the right column windows by placing them above or below another when the name is on your pointer. When you move a window back into the right column any vertical sizing is maintained but the horizontal size of all those windows is fixed. With 16.3 you can now drag the greyish bar at the bottom of each window in the right column to resize them vertically without removing them from the right column. In each window you will see an "i" icon, clicking on that will give you an options list that lets you change various settings for that window such as how it displays info, sorting methods, visual appearance and so forth. Different windows when not in the right column can be nested inside each other so long as they are not in borderless visual mode. To do this right click on its name which will put it on your pointer then click on the window you want to nest it in. Both will now appear in the same window when opened shown as different tabs, this can be handy for chat windows or when you have multiple backpacks in your inventory. The "X" key is the default sit shortcut but I find I accidently hit it when trying to go backwards at times which in a fight is not good. To prevent this I exchange it with something that wouldn't cause a problem should I accidently hit it like the reload or brawl shortcuts ("V"/"B"). Press F10 then select the "Hot Keys" to get at the shortcuts editing options. See pages 20-24 in the manual for more help on chat windows. Pages 19, 25, 36-39 and 41-44 have help on other GUI elements. The pages towards the back of the manual has info on shortcuts plus there is a keyboard layout PDF you can download. . B-10 Getting Info on Something . B-11 What do I Need to Upgrade this Starter Weapon? . B-12 How do I add Someone to my Friends List? . B-13 What do the Skill name Colours Mean? . B-14 How do I Combine Things? . B-15 How do you add a Link to an Items Info in Chat? . B-16 How do I Delete Items? . B-17 How do I Check My Level and AC? . B-18 What does QL Mean? . B-19 What is a Whom-pah? . B-20 What is a Fr00b? . B-21 How can I hit more often and be hit less often? . B-22 A Warning About IP Use To help you decided which nano skills need to be increased the most check the prof nano lists at either of the database sites listed in C-02 and figure out which of your prof's nano lines would be of the most use. Then use either one to help you figure out which weapons you should focus on getting so you know which weapon skills need to be increased. It should be noted though that the pet profs (engineers, meta-physicists and bureaucrats) for the first half or so of their life should rely on their pets to do most of their damage while running nanos to help and hiding behind a wall or your team tank as they tend to be rather squishy profs. Then nano-technicians would be too busy attacking with nanos to use a weapon much so and weapons would be more for their bonuses than to do damage. . B-23 When and How can I Leave the Island? To leave you will need a pass from your faction rep first, all of which are on the platform near Antonio. If you're Neutral talk to the Neutral observer about leaving the island to get your pass and starter maps. If you're Clan or Omni after you used the application form to join either side talk to your recruitment rep again to ask about leaving and he'll give you your pass and starter maps. Once you have a pass go through the large doors near Travis to get into the whom-pah room where you will find three whom-pahs. Each whom-pah has a name over it, if you're Neutral use the Borealis one, West Athens/Athens if you're Clan and Rome if you're Omni. Click on the pass in your inventory then with it on your pointer click on the little terminal in front and a bit to the side of the correct whom-pah (your pointer will turn into a gear icon when it is over the terminal). You will then find yourself off the island and near two NPCs, one should talk to you right away or after moving forward just a bit and give you the option to start a series of small quests for starter gear/items, XP and credits. . B-24 Tips Before you Leave Picking Clan or Omni while on the island allows you to get small badges from the Clan/Omni vendor (only available on the island) which you can combine with any of the newcomer armour parts you can buy from Antonio or gain by doing quests for Travis. Doing this will give you upgradable sided armour. The armour pieces offer high all around AC for a newbie and can be upgraded from QL 1-15. It doesn't matter what the QL of the original newcomer armour parts were as the end result will be the same so you can buy the cheapest ones to combine with the badges. You can upgrade the QL of the armour pieces no higher than that of your current character level or QL 15 (which ever is lower) and are upgraded by right clicking of them when in your inventory. Also the quests Travis gives you to help the Clan medic or Omni unicorn commander will give you a shoulder pad for either side. Shoulder pads aren't that common and can't be purchased at standard shops plus those will be the best you can use for a stretch. So run the quest for your sides shoulder pads twice to get two, one for each shoulder. If you plan on going Clan: The Omni sided newcomer armour is a bit better than the Clan version so you could stay Omni till at least level 15 and even leave as Omni to make getting those last five levels much easier and to get a few things. If you leave the island as Omni get the Omni backpack (provides AC and skill bonuses but can't store anything) and helmet (the Hood of Bobic for Clanners and Neutrals has the same stats) you get in the first few quests plus at least one full Omni med-suit (6 parts, 2 being sleaves) from Omni tailors or clothing terminals in general shops of Omni cities which gives a +78 treatment and first aid bonus (are not sided items). Then go to a neutral city to use the Clan application and use a cell scanner to make sure you don't find yourself in Omni territory after you die. Also only take the Omni items off once you find something better as you won't be able to put them on again as a Clanner. One thing to take note of is that you can't use a starter map set if you have any other maps installed and you can't uninstall maps so if you went Omni, used the Omni map set then switched to Clan you'd need to install each of the Clan maps the starter set would have on your own and have enough map nav skill to install them. It looks like at some point the maps in the starter set for Clan and Omni were changed a bit so if you're going Clan it would be best to wait till you go Clan before installing any maps so you can use the Clan starter map set. If you have SL then once you hit level 100 you could reset some perks to max Cartographer and shove in some high QL map nav implants. With those and trickle down from your abilities you should be able to install most of the maps and all of the map upgrades. . B-25 Clan, Omni or Neutral? Once you switch from Neutral to Clan or Omni you can never go back to being Neutral again. Then while Neutral players can only use Neutral shop terminals (except for sided map and bookshop terminals) Clan and Omni players can use terminals for their faction as well as Neutral ones. Neutral and Clan shops charge a bit more than Omni ones and give you less on sales but the Miir shop in Newland is an Omni store anyone can use so you can get as much on sales to shop terminals as Omni players by selling your stuff there. Although after you get one character to a high level shop prices really won't matter much as aside from trade skill items and some QL 125 or lower stuff the better stuff will be found off of boss type mobs, as random drops, built from dropped items or sold by players, not in regular shops. Neutral players with AI though can search and buy from any AI city player shops, Clan and Omni ones can only search and buy from those of their own side and Neutral. The XP side bonuses each get tends to shift around over time but Neutral almost always tends to have the lowest. Especially for a fr00b neutral is the hardest of the three to play as you don't get a merit board and you miss out on some of the stronger side specific gear Clan and Omni players can use. On the plus side neutral players can go almost anywhere in the game without being attacked, they can listen to and talk in the Neutral, Clan and Omni chat channels. They can also use any not Clan/Omni items such as the shoulder pads awarded in the sided shoulder pads quests off the island so neutral players are the only ones able to wear two level three pads awarded in that quest line (one of each side). The one dangerous place for a neutral player is Tir as the Clan commanders there will attack all but fellow Clanners. The area around the whom-pahs and the grid terminal should be safe though as guards won't attack Neutral players unless a commander initiates the attack. If you have the expansions most the better expansion gear after SL has no side requirements, it can just take more effort to get. Omni specific items in the original AO tend to be a bit better than the equivalent Clan items but with the new gear from the three expansions that doesn't really matter anymore. On the down side I can't stand being Unreedemed in SL, ugly snarly evil little demons that they are. Then Omni players spent so much time in Borealis rather than Omni cities that Omni chat could be more active in Neutral cities than Omni ones at times. This may have been what inspired Funcom to have Omni guards occupy Borealis for a time in a plot development action a while back which made Omni city chat even quieter during that time. Since Clanners tend to actually spend time in Clan cities I've found getting buffs or services easier as a Clanner. In the original AO most Omni specific gear does tend to be a bit better or just different but after the original at least most were just different (ie the Redeemed armour would have X Fire AC and Y Cold AC while the Unredeemed would be the other way around) or had no side requirement. |
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After you Leave the Starter Area . C-01 Helpful in-Game Bots Recipebot Helpbot Itemsbot . C-02 Helpful Web Sites AO Patches Anarchy Mainfraim Auno.org AO Universe Anarchy Arcanum AO Vault AOFroobs.com Faunlore CSPmap Travel.to Rubi-Ka ( address 1 & address 2) SL Sphere Map Aquarius SL maps halorn.com Anarchy Online ClickSaver Rollability Facts Grid Stream Productions (GSP) AO Devs See page 104 in the manual and the links list on the AO site for some others. There is also an AO Bookmarks thread in the forums. . C-03 Better Planet Maps . C-04 Where can I Store Things and how can I Hold More in my Inventory? A backpack with stuff in it can then be put in your bank allowing you to store a very large number of items. You can also rename backpacks to make identifying their contents easier. To rename one open the backpack, click on the "i" icon in the window and select "rename" from that menu. There are some good backpacks for adventures to wear but for the most part other profs would wear other back items. To trade a lot of stuff at a time more easily just put them in a backpack and give it to the other person in a trade window. You can not trade a backpack containing nodrop or unique items though. Unique ones can be traded, just not while in a backpack or if the other person has one of those unique items already. Also since things no longer have mass/weight only get the medium or large backpacks if you want a pack that is clearly different without checking the name. For the rest stick with small packs as they all have the same number of storage slots. . C-05 Trading and Dropping Items If you drop an item on the ground only you can pick it up but outside of your apartment they will disappear in time. Then your apartment can only hold so many items, thirty I think, after that new items will disappear after a while. You should receive a warning notice when you dropped more than your limit though. After a patch a ways back now only some items can be put on the ground, it used to be anything not nodrop could be. . C-06 Why Can't I add any More to this Skill? . C-07 How Long does the Global Market Search Take? . C-08 What are Reclaim Terminals for? . C-09 How do I Return this Mission Item? . C-10 What is the Grid? See page 49-50 of the manual for more info and a picture of what a grid terminal looks like. Grid Comp Lit Min Requirements 76 Omni Entertainment 151 Omni HQ . C-11 Using Maps In the Shadowlands you don't buy and install maps, you run map nano programs. Although only the first two areas and Jobe (is grouped with the one for the first area) are available to everyone. After that only adventures get map nanos to see the outside PF maps (can be run on other but many skip the higher ones). All these maps nanos take a certain amount of adventuring skill to run in addition to one nano skill. A new vet item (7 VP, req 2+ years as paying player) added in the 17.3 or 17.4 patch gave us a new general use SL map nano that covers all areas past the second area and unlike the other two general ones can be run on others. . C-12 How do I get Items from my Overflow Window After I Closed it? . C-13 How do I get Vehicles and Can I use them as a Fr00b? The only regular ones really worth getting though are the yalms which use vehicle air skill to equip (lowest is VA 81 for a QL 30 yalm, run speed: +150) but have a base cost of about 5 million credits (lowers with increased comp lit skill). There are lower cost land based ones and water based ones (no one really buys water ones) but if you can't manage a yalm yet and aren't a fixer, MP or adventurer for long trips you would be better off using mission terminals to roll for Boosted-Graft: Sparrow Flight, Boosted-Graft: Sparrow Flight (Team) or Boosted-Graft: Playful Cub then hacking them with a hacking device (takes little skill to do). Those are easy enough to use, at lower levels I found popped up often and give up to a 190 run speed bonus. Please note that vehicles can't be used indoors or in the Shadowlands also adventures and meta-physicists have nanos that allow fight. Even though a land vehicle of equal land vehicle skill requirement as an air vehicle has vehicle air requirement would have a higher run speed bonus, the air vehicle will still be better. With land vehicles you need to go around obstacles, water and over changes in land elevation plus deal with agro mobs and the like on the ground. With air vehicles you just go up a good ways, level off and avoid all that. Notum Wars added some additional vehicles, some are just yalm paint jobs or alternate types of yalms but there is also an attack land vehicle which would be good for profs using ranged weapons. All the Notum Wars vehicles are quite expensive though. . C-14 Where can I get an Apartment and What are they for? The ones on Rubi-Ka for each faction are all about the same and aren't much to look at really, the Jobe ones are much nicer then the luxury Jobe apartments blow them all away (need to have pre-ordered SL or got a luxury Jobe apartment pass another way). It is possible to have up to three apartments, one on Rubi-Ka, the regular Jobe one and a luxury Jobe one. Then you can have at the most thirty (I think) items dropped in each of your apartments, after that items will disapear in time but you should get a warning when you exceed the max. Furniture and other things can be found in missions, purchased in furniture terminals found in luxury stores, this one NPC in Jobe harbour has a lot then there's Uncle Bazzit's shop (need AI) which has a lot too. Really though apartments are just for fun things more for the role players to have fun in. If all you want to do is run around killing things apartments will just be a drain on your wallet if you want to deck your apartment out as some of those items can cost quite a bit considering they don't do anything but look nice. . C-15 How do I Install Implants, get Clusters, etc...? If you have SL there are also symbiants which are like prof group specific implants that give a wider range of bonuses than implants can but as they have level requirements and are much harder to get for most slots you'll usually want to use implants instead for a stretch. Especially for at least the first 200 QL implants can be better for twinking on things though while symbiants tend to be better for general use. There are also some cases where you may want to use custom implants rather than symbiants the whole way through (left hand for martial artists, MPs using 1HB weapons, etc...). Shades can't use implants or symbiants, instead they have their own symbiant like items called spirits. On the plus side though those can be found as regular drops from some types of mobs in SL (mainly spirit mobs) so you can farm them with another char. There is also an item shades can use on a nearly dead SL mob which will give any mob a chance to drop a spirit. Pre-Made Implants: Making Your Own: If you want them built get the right clusters for your implants and the clusters need to be a minimum percentage of the QL of the implant or higher for them to go in (Faded/Bright/Shining - 82%/84%/86%). So if you had a QL 100 implant you need at least QL 82 faded, QL 84 bright and QL 86 shining clusters. Please note though that for QL 50+ implants if the person installing the clusters has a good bit more than enough of the required trade skill the implant can go up in QL with each cluster. So don't scrape the bottom of the QL limit too much for more than one of them and warn the installer if one or more only just fits. Once installed the bonuses given by each cluster will relate to the QL of the final implant so a QL 82 faded cluster will give the bonus of a QL 100 one if installed in a QL 100 implant. Also that a QL 200 cluster will give a QL 100 bonus if put in a QL 100 implant. There are also two variations for all those parts, basic and refined. Basic ones are in the QL 1-200 range while refined are QL 201 and higher. Refined clusters will only go in refined implants while basic clusters will only go in basic implants. While implants above QL 50 can go up in QL as clusters are installed basic implants will never be boosted to refined in this manner. Two added things to note about refined implants is that you can't remove the clusters from them and that they have title level requirements. Jobe clusters will only go in QL 100+ implants and implants with Jobe clusters in them will also have title level requirements (TL 3 for QL 100 implants, TL 4+ for QL 101+ implants) and Jobe clusters increase the requirements of the implant. The clusters you get from terminals on Rubi-Ka will require nano programing skill to install but those from Jobe and the heal/nano delta ones can use other trade skills. Also the build requirements given by Nano Nanny can be rather off at times so make sure you try to combine them yourself before hunting for someone to build it so you can note the min required skills accurately. . C-16 What's Twinking? . C-17 Why does this Weapon/Armour say it's Over Equipped and why won't my pet listen to me? Pets although will not listen to your instructions if you are in OE of the nano requirements to run their nanos. Due to this getting hit with nano debuffs during a fight as a pet prof can be a bit of a problem. You don't have to worry about OE with things other than weapons, armour and pets though, once those other things are in/on you're fine. Also this only affects the AC of armour, damage of weapons plus any max health/nano bonuses, any other bonuses they may have (ex. +skill or +damage) are not affected by OE. OE comes in blocks of 25%. You will hit 75% OE when you have less than 80% of the required skill/abilites and 50% OE when you have less than 60%. Anything below that and the item likely isn't going to be too useful to you. . C-18 Where do I get a Merit Board? . C-19 Can I Still Change Sides? Always make sure you change sides in a Neutral city and that you use a cell scanner/insurance terminal in a Neutral city when you switch as well. This is to keep from getting attacked by the guards of your former alignment if you were to switch in a city of your former alignment. Also so that the next time you die you don't find yourself being reformed in a city of your former alignment and stuck in an endless circle of death where you are killed by the guards there, reformed then killed again although there is a death loop protection that will move you somewhere else if you die quickly multiple times in a row though. . C-20 Where to go at Level X and Notes on Team Fighting Those Early Levels: Another one that takes advantage of the increased XP cap on missions with fixed XP pay outs is the Clan Tirbo Ratcatcher mission that has you bringing him some rollerrat tails (he is in West Athens North a ways from where you popped up from the island). Each tail will give you up to 500 XP, 500 credits and a random armour piece at a QL equal to your level but really this is only effective if you have a number of tails saved up from some of your other chars. If you go out and try collecting the tails now other things will be much more useful to you. This mission is available for your first fifteen levels. After that if you're Clan you could see the NPC in Old Athens beside the whom-pah to Tir who asks you to deliver a report to another NPC in Tir standing by the whom-pah to Old Athens making it a very fast quest to do (should only take about 30 seconds). You also get a two slot belt for doing this but if you're in it for the XP delete the belt, it's not worth much. In an early 17.x patch the effectiveness of such missions was reduced from 5.18% of the total XP required to level and 48 times your level in credits to 3% the XP and 40 times your level in creds. Due to that teaming and going after higher level mobs would be more effective XP wise but if you're new and low on credits the amount you'll make while doing this would be helpful, it's just very boring. This could take you to level thirty-one if you wanted. Random Mobs: Dyna Camps: Missions: Dungeons: -Subway (Borealis - 635 x 470, West Athens - 390 x 390, Rome (Galway Shire) - 170 x 875) -Temple of Three Winds (Greater Tir Country - 1815 x 2710) -Biomare/Foreman's Office (The Longest Road - 1940 x 770) -Steps of Madness (Omni Forest - 800 x 2800) -Cyborgs Barracks (Greater Tir County - 3232 x 2340) -Hackers (20K / Pleasant Meadows - ? x ?) -Cyborg Domain - Avalon (1290 x 3870) -Crypt of Home (CoH) (BrokenShore - 355 x 2215) -The Smugglers Den (Southern Foul Plains - 1740 x 880) -Cyborgs Strongholds (west of Mort grid access - 1400 x 560) -Inner Sanctum -Abandoned Omni-Tek Mining Outpost (Perpetual Wastelands - 3880 x 2745) -Abandoned Facilities (Biodomes) (Belial Forest & Southern Artery Valley) . A good team will have a mix of damage dealers, at least one good tank and one or more good healers, profs with calms, roots and snares are also helpful for crowd control. It's important that the team stays together and they should focus all attacks on one mob at a time with the tanks holding the agro of mobs. I've been in some really good teams but also some completely unorganized ones where everyone is running all over with some even fighting mobs other teams are already fighting and more than capable of killing on their own. If you get in a bad team either try to organize them fast or get out as you can be sure one of those idiots will draw agro from one or more things they can't handle then drag them over to you and others which could get you killed off. While bad teams can happen when teaming anywhere it is more likely on the planet with people below level 100 and in dungeons. -Keep your PF map window open (ctrl+6) and watch where those blue and white dots are going, those are people in your team. . C-21 How do I Jump Higher/Further? . C-22 How do I Open Locked Doors/Chests? . C-23 What do I do with Instruction Disks? . C-24 Why did that person reach enlightenment or receive the highest honorary rank? . C-25 Common AO short-forms and terms used in chat - 131 : the highest RK target wrangle adding 131 points to related skills . C-26 What is the difference between small/medium/large backpacks? . C-27 Who Buffs Computer Literacy? . C-28 Someone buffed me with something I don't want, what can I do? . C-29 What is This For? A Burnt Out Memory Chip, Circuit board, Copper Wire & Small Power Supply: Morphing Memory: Gift wrapped basket: Dog Tags: Sensitive Information, Strange Looking Bombs and other such things: Weapon Kits & Parts: Gems: Two RK gems, cold stones and soul fragments, can also be used to make some other things. Although they are only of use for those items when the cold stones are QL 145 or higher and soul fragments QL 190 and higher. SL gems can be made into buffing rings with no wear requirements but the hard part about them is getting the QL 201+ platinum/gold to make the ring base out of. If just getting them to sell don't cut them, that actually reduces their value last I checked but cutting can boost their buff value when made into rings. The ones really worth getting for creds are pearls, those are worth quite a bit, ambers aren't too bad though while ruby pearls are practically worthless. Jewelery and Ingots: . C-30 Can you Rest your Skills? To reset a skill you first must stip off everything from the three tabs in your wear window (ctrl + 1). Next open your skills window ("U"), click the "i" icon in the top left corner of that window, select "reset skill" from the menu that pops up then click on the skill you want to rest in the skills window. When you do that a button will show up towards the bottom of the window with the number of remaining IPR noted beside it, click the button to reset that skill. Map Nav can't be reset and abilities generally can't be reset properly since to raise a skill very much at all you need to increase the related abilities as well. After big game changes like expansions you may also get a single use "reset all skills" option as well which will reset everything including abilities but still not map nav (some abilities may not be fully reset if you have put some points in map nav). This is a limited time option FC gives us due to the changes that expansion brought us but you don't need that expansion to get the reset. Right now with LE it is possible they will offer another "reset all skills" reset later on (said they might do that before LE came out) but last I heard they have no plans to do so. . C-31 What does the Number in Brackets of a Weapons Damage Mean? . C-32 How do I get a Pet? In all cases you will need to use nanos to either summon or charm your pet. In the case of RK pet summons and charming nanos all of them can be rolled for, the only exceptions being the two MP ones from ToTW and IS. . C-33 How do I Rename my Pet? Where pet renaming really comes in handy is when you have multiple pets. Pet commands like /pet attack or /pet terminate allow you to specify which one you want the command to relate to (ex. /pet "pet name" attack). Especially now that we have the option of using multiple shortcut bars having these pet specific macros would be a really good idea. . C-34 How do I see what Buffs my Pet has? . C-35 How do I see my current map Coordinates and GS? . C-36 My Shortcut bar Disappeared, How do I get it Back? . C-37 Most of my GUI Disappeared, How do I get it Back? |
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More Advanced Stuff, Extra Tips, Suggestions and Notes . D-01 Don't Just run Missions/Quests all the Time If you have SL there is a series of quests you can do that allow you to go further into the Shadowlands. Then they've been adding batches of new quests to each SL zone since patch 16.2. These can keep you busy but still it's best to mix up where and what you're doing. Going down to the planet now and then can still be fun and/or useful. Clan and Omni players will want to get higher level token boards but doing missions when you're at a higher level gets you more tokens per mission. To make sure you get a token you need to kill all the enemies in a mission area before completing the tasks. You can get bravery tokens off of sided mobs of the opposite faction at times. When you're a high level you can also do what are commonly called token gun quests or runs which require you to kill level 150-200 guards at the related Clan (Wailing Wastes) or Omni (Avalon) bases for their guns (need twelve guns). Below is how many tokens you get from mission tokens for a given level range. Tokens gained - character level
D-02 Making Money One common means of making credits is by selling blood plasma from refining monster parts or cutting gems and making rings which require a good bit of skill in pharmalogical tech or mechanical engineering. So having an trader, engineer or doctor in your character list can help. Having a higher level trader helps to squeeze every cred you can out as trader shops give more on sales and traders are the only ones with comp lit buffs (self only). Traders are just one of the harder characters to work with solo, but are useful in a team when used correctly. They are not good characters for a newbie though. Be aware though that it is not good to stick points into trade skills (other than computer literacy) till about level 100-150 as you will need the points elsewhere more and IP will be very tight till then. So money through trade skilling is more a means for a higher level char. Although you can collect bags of them and ask a higher level tradeskiller to process the items for you. There are various buffing weapons people will do missions for to get at specific QLs. Items will give specific bonuses for a series of QLs so for buffing items it's best to get them at the lowest QL in that range so they're easier to equip (ex. QL 10 Concrete Cushions are worth much more than QL 11-159 ones). Check the item database sites given earlier to search for good buffing items, pay attention to what people are looking for or selling in the market channels and look at the list of ability buffing items at AO Mainframe. To make getting specific item rewards from missions much easier and faster get Click Saver from halorn.com, you will need to be at certain levels to roll the items at those ideal QLs though. What those seeking mission rewards typically do is blitz them. Blitzing is when you do a mission as fast as you can for just the mission reward. You don't want to stop to kill anything just run like hell so repair or find mob missions are the best mission types. The best blitzers will then be fixers what with their high run speed bonuses, evades, grid transfers and the fixer grid to get them there and back quickly. Fixers aren't that great when trying to roll an item at a specific QL though as they get a bonus to the reward item QL. You can use the info from the mission settings info post on the AO forums to help get the types you want. Good Money Making Methods for Low Level Characters: Making money at Higher Levels: . D-03 Some Notes on Twinking That said the first and most important thing to do is plan. Make sure you know exactly what you need to do to get what you want. If it's a long process write it down step by step, make sure you have all the required items then go from there. You do not want to be figuring it all out while the buffs you begged others for are running out, figure it all out first. When it comes to finding things for twinking the search options of AO Mainfraim will be your best friend. Then AO Mainframe also has a list of ability buffing items which is rather handy. It's important that you have enough NCU for all those buffs (at least at the time you get them, you can safely pull NCU and NCU bonus items out after you get the buffs), a number of good +ability implants and gear plus treatment items like an Omni-Med Suit will also be crucial (a physician helmet or Biomech helmet plus a Biomech cloak are good for completing your treatment set, higher QL Biomech boots and helmets will give better bonuses). If you really want to get in the best stuff have a series of ability and skill implants at increasing QLs so you can keep swapping lower QL ones for better ones. The two abilities you can buff up the most at earlier levels with various things will be stamina and agility so building your implants so they use either of those will make it easier to get better ones in sooner (strength is also easy to buff but not as useful to all profs so some may let it slide to save on IP). You will also find the first step may be in working out how to get those good buffing items equipped. So if you're doing some serious twinking first you need to wedge in and on all your buffing items then you can move to cramming the things you actually want in/on. With weapons you can first equip a weapon that increases the skill you need to equip a different one then replace the buffing one with the one you want in one action. With armour and implants though that does not work so you need to plan with that in mind. . D-04 Tips on Getting Buffs and Services 0. No one is required to give you anything. Not a rule to help you get it, just something that needs to be understood. While many will be willing to buff you or what not if they can they don't have to if they don't want to. 1. Be polite. Please should not be a side thought if they don't hop up and buff or agree right away, it should be there in the initial request. Also if someone is building your implants for you or doing other trade skilling be patient, it can take a while. Complaining to them a minute or so after you handed a pack more more of them to the person (or most any length of time after really) that they are taking too long is a very bad idea. 2. Don't pester the person. This goes with the be polite rule but I thought I'd split it off. Some will ask over and over and over again for several minutes, jump around the person, dance and so on, don't. Ask politely, wait a bit then move on as they may either not be interested, be away from their computer, dual logged or other things. If they come back and see the request and are willing they'll send you a tell. Annoying the person could get you added to their ignore list then not only will you not get help this time you won't in the future either. 3. Be specific. I see things like "I need someone to make something for me" or "I need a wrangle" a lot, neither provide much info so will limit the number of people that can help you. If you want a wrangle (trader buff that adds to your basic attack skills and nano skills) indicate the amount of skill you require from the wrangle. With RK wrangles they range from 3-132, the SL ones can go up to 153 (but have lvl requirements) so just saying I need a wrangle isn't as useful as listing the amount you need from the wrangle. If you're looking for something to be crafted for you list the required skills and how much is required or the type of item and the highest QL that needs to be crafted. Although when looking for crafters don't specify any one prof as there is more than one trade skilling prof in AO. Traders and engineers are your better all around trade skillers but other profs have their specialties. 4. Remember to say thank-you. The person didn't have to help you but did anyhow, it's only right you thank them for that. 5. Just ask. If you want to ask for something, ask. Some will start by just saying "hi" like if they were trying to strike up a conversation or with "can you help me?" Just politely ask for what you want. Understanding and following those rules will help you get what you want while breaking them can have the opposite effect. Now for some tips. 1. You could start with the OOC channel in major sided cities, all cities that have their own zone for a side are grouped so chat in one is heard in others (Neutral: Borealis, Newland City - Clan: Old Athens, West Athens, Tir - Omni: Rome (all parts), Omni-Trade, Omni-Entertainment). A lot of people have OOC off in favour of their org chat though so if you can't get someone in your org to help I find actually running around and looking for someone in a city works better than asking in OOC most of the time. Doesn't hurt to try though. 2. Use /list to help you, "/list doc" for instance will list the doctors in your current zone. /list shows the name, prof, side and level of those characters, although people can use /anon and then will not be shown by /list. 3. Check out common gathering locations in cities like around grid terminals, GMS terminals (the AI shop search things) and in front of some shops. 4. Tells generally will work better than asking in vicinity. Tells is one thing most would never turn off, vicinity, OOC and others they may. 5. Tips usually don't matter. Some think unless you offer a tip people won't do it, usually it's just a matter of finding someone willing, the tip didn't do a thing. It's one thing if you're talking about a craft that takes a lot of trade skill as unlike nano skills improving your trade skills are largely optional. Many feel that charging for buffs is pretty sad, if you want to tip that's nice but most would do it for free as they needed the nano for themselves anyhow. . D-05 Notes on Doing Missions: Tips on getting what you want from a mission: The five basic types: . D-06 "Nano Crystal" and "NanoCrystal" "NanoCrystal": "Nano Crystal": The SL nanos you can buy in gardens or sanctuaries generally are not rollable, although if also found in RK/Jobe nano shops they may be rollable. Not all SL nanos are buyable in gardens or sanctuaries though, a number of the shade and keeper ones are rollable for instance. The MP nanos to make crystals for PBs you could buy from the Ely garden as one or more random ones tend to show up there, you can also get at least most of them from hecks as random drops. Other SL nanos buyable in gardens / sanctuaries can also show up as random loot from various SL mobs. The LE "Nano Crystal" nanos are buyable with VP but of course not rollable, same with the vet shop nanos. Anarchy Online ClickSaver Rollability Facts is a good source for info on whether or not a nano or item is rollable, I think I have seen the odd error or bit of missing info but even so it's quite useful. . D-07 Macros /macro assist /assist /macro Tassist /assist %t /macro makeAss /macro Tassist /assist %t /macro tell /tell %t
%m %f %t A macro can also be used to send a small message to a specified chat channel but the max length of a macro is rather small. To send a message of any real length or with things like colours or custom info windows you'll need to use a script. Another handy thing you can use a macro for is to call on a script. /macro {macro name} /script {script name} . D-08 Basic AO Scripting Scripts and macros pretty much go hand in hand so if you want to make some scripts you should also read over the above macro section. . . You will notice a number of the things listed below are the same as HTML tags but AO chat only allows for a small number of those tags. The thing you need to be careful about when using HTML tags in scrips though is the " and ' characters used to inclose different parts. The " of a tag inside another tag will close the " of the first one causing the whole script to be buggered up. Unfortunately you can't just add a \ to avoid that problem then if you want to add a " in the text (not in a tag) use "e. The first example below will fail but the second will work. . /delay {number; 1000 = 1 second} /r {message} /g "{chat channel name}" {message} <BR> <FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF"></FONT> <U></U> <I></I> <CENTER></CENTER> Note: <A HREF="chatcmd://"></A> <A HREF="itemref://lowid/highid/ql">Item Name</A> <A HREF="text://"></A> <IMG SRC="rdb://itemImgeID"> . /played . D-09 Personal Help Files All these help files are really are text files you can use some HTML tags in that will open in an info window like you get when shift clicking an item. To open a file use "/showfile <file name>" but remember to add the related file extention (ex. .txt or .html). The location it will look in for the specified file from the AO main folder is "/cd_image/text/help/". . ------------------------
<A HREF="file://MainMenu.html">Main Menu</A> . D-10 Setting up the Options and GUI of a New Character in a Hurry What I did a ways back was I set-up everything the way I wanted on a new character including the basic non-character specific set-up of my short-cut bars then logged out. Then I just copied the characer folder of that character and pasted a copy of it somewhere else, renamed it something like "new character prefs" and I was all set for future characters. Now when I make a new char right after making it I log out, delete the contents of the new charcter's pref folder, copy paste in the files I saved in that "new character prefs" folder and I'm done. So instead of taking about thirty minutes to set all that up on a new character it takes me about three minutes instead. Another option to speed things up is to make a new char, log it out, delete the contents of its pref folder then copy paste in the pref files of an old char you already have set up the way you want. Next log in your new char and remove all the nanos and such in your shortcut bars specific to that other char (learned nanos are recorded on the servers, not the pref files), log out then copy paste the new char's pref folder somewhere else and rename that. The plus side of doing that is it will save you some time, the down side it will include some useless info like that regarding packs on your old char. Note: Where to find the files: . D-11 Quests - Handing things into NPCs . D-12 Attack Speed, Attack Rating, Defence Rating, AC and Damage Taken, Agg/Deff and Crits -Every 10 points of a related AC reduces the damage inflicted on you by 1 but the damage done can never be lower than the attacks min damage plus damage bonuses. -Every 300 points in the related weapon initiative lowers the attack time by 0.5 seconds and recharge time by 1 second. Neither can be below one second. Agg/Def Slider Attack Time Affects: -Due to the affect of dual weilding you lose about 33% the attack time for both weapons so you do about 66% the number of attacks with either weapons that you'd be doing if you single weilded them. If you had two with the same attack & recharge rates the number of attacks made with both weapons combined though works out to about a 33% boost of what it would be if single wielded either. . D-13 Regarding Temple of Three Winds Any rate, I'll just rhyme off most of the ToTW items in three lists, "Worth Getting", "Good but Far too Rare" and "Not Worth Getting." While the "Worth Getting" items are nice you won't want to get all of them as some are prof specific or of little to no use to some profs. The "Good but Far too Rare" items are just that, items that would be nice to get but can be so absurdly rare they're not really worth the time to get. If you really want them then go for it but expect to be camping for them a long time. "Not Worth Getting" items aren't really even worth picking up actually. I did make this at first to indicate the type of item each were, who dropped them, drop rate and extra notes for some but it made this section far larger than I wanted so I just chopped that extra info out. . Dark Memories . Memory Loops . Nematet's Inner Eye |
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Riotgirl
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6/11/06 5:33:11 PM#7
Why in hell isn't this stickied? Mods! Sticky this STAT, please :) Regards, "If you think I'm plucky and scrappy and all I need is love, you're in way over your head. I don't have a heart of gold or get nice. There are a lot nicer people coming up. We call them losers." |
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6/14/06 7:01:33 AM#8
OMG this sthoud be a sticky
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Riotgirl
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Joined: 6/14/03
Dating Asian women is a longer camp than the Cleric Epic in EverQuest! |
7/02/06 7:36:09 AM#9
Bumpage. "If you think I'm plucky and scrappy and all I need is love, you're in way over your head. I don't have a heart of gold or get nice. There are a lot nicer people coming up. We call them losers." |
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8/04/06 1:39:59 AM#10
STICKY THIS A.S.A.P.!!!
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Boozek
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Joined: 12/31/04
Forum trolls and crap sandwiches. no matter how much mustard it''s still crap |
8/05/06 4:43:20 PM#11
quite the amazing guide but I almost think it's normal to see someone from the community taking time out to help newbies. One of the reasons I love Ao and have two pay accts. I never would have stuck with the game if it wasnt for all the help I received from vets during my inital period. It's a demanding game with a high learning curve, and things for someone completely new to it can be a bit overwhelming. Someone always answered my questions no matter how dumb I felt asking them in ooc. it Kept me from just quiting. (which would have been a shame because once that baby MP you made has a title like Diety you look back on the journey and ask yourself how the fuxor did I mange this) a few notes as an adittion tho. when rolling those concrete cusions and low level treatm,ent riffles and int pistols, remember before you level out of range to get yourself a set. dont think purely money. If high lvl people wantr these things might it not be wise to get yourself a set? :) |
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Sure but it's easier and faster to just look it up in something like this you may have on hand than to ask and wait for an answer. Also with chat being divided by region while you should get an answer if you're in someplace like a city if you're out in the field somewhere there's less people to provide help.
Of course but that section was about making money, not what you should get for your chars. |
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11/03/06 12:12:54 PM#13
Thanks for posting this it really helped me figure out how to get started.
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11/03/06 12:28:58 PM#14
One thing that needs added to is ports to open. I can't remember now, but there were extra ports added awhile back. Hmmm, can't find the article yet. Maybe you do have them all. I'll double check to make sure. Ah, you were right. 7500-7600 were the ones added |
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11/03/06 12:44:28 PM#15
Oh, and for you ATI users out there (god why) ATI for AO |
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12/10/06 10:09:53 AM#16
Sticky!
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12/28/06 6:37:41 PM#17
Thanks MMORPG for Stickying!
 Now Noobs will have information to the game! |
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Dakro1
Apprentice Member
Joined: 12/28/06
"Life is shaped by the people you meet every day" |
12/29/06 10:31:33 PM#18
I was just taking note of your comment about AO. Its seems like a game I want to get involved in but I might need as much help as you did so I have a couple questions and if you could answer them that would be awesome!
1. Is it free to play? 2. Whats your name in the game/server your character is in? (Maybe you could help me out) 3. What would you say is the step-by step in downloading the game? (I've always had problems with torrent and all that so whats the easiest way to do it?) Hope thats not too much but if you could help me out I'd really appreciate it.  I rock.... |
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12/30/06 12:32:45 PM#19
Maybe you actually need to read the FAQ. Its in there.
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First off, it's been stickied, heh, didn't actually think it would happen and never asked but I guess they took note of it and thought it was worth jabbing a pin in. .
Where'd you get the idea I needed a lot of help? Took a few messed up chars to get the hang of building my chars when I started but other than that I found most things quite straight forward. AO is not complicated, it has a number of little things to get used to but no one aspect of it is hard or confusing. See "A-02 Is it Complicated?" 1. See "A-01 Is it Really Free?" 2. RK2 (Rimor) and I have about ten chars so the reverse would be easier as I bounce around between them a fair bit. 3. See "A-03 Getting Started (Downloading & Patching)" It would seem you didn't even look at the FAQ. |
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