Aion (Open Beta, Launch Day Info too!)

[Threash]

People will complain about everything.  I dunno why but using this weekend to level up crafting for half the cost rather than exping.

[Shatter]

Currently able to get about 15 mil xp per hour or so.  Considering level 48 is 112mil to 49 this means it will take me about 7 to 8 hours rather then 14 to 16.  Basically Ill hit 50 about a week sooner then I planned lol

[Threash]

Well the double exp isn't permanent just the next three weekends.

[Setanta]

Have they fixed the bug where if you are mouse-looking while turning and hitting a bound key your curser stops working and your bindings are screwed until you fceroll the mouse/keyboard to fix it?

I put in a petition on it and was told they'd look into it - but I'm not touching Aion again until it's fixed. Grinding is one thing, grinding and dying to a flaw in the game - not going to happen.

[Chimpy]

Have they fixed the bug where if you are mouse-looking while turning and hitting a bound key your curser stops working and your bindings are screwed until you fceroll the mouse/keyboard to fix it?

I put in a petition on it and was told they'd look into it - but I'm not touching Aion again until it's fixed. Grinding is one thing, grinding and dying to a flaw in the game - not going to happen.

I have never ever had that problem and I mouselook all the time while kiting. I do occasionally have auto-attack lock up and have to deselect and reselect the mob to get it started again (seems to be caused by starting a special right at the beginning of your first auto attack animation), but nothing that locks up my cursor. Sounds like you might have a problem isolated to your machine/mouse/kb.

Well the double exp isn't permanent just the next three weekends.

They did announce they plan on putting them in one or two times every month going forward until they make the permanent coding changes to smooth out the levelling curve overall. Oh, dying takes double experience as well....so soul heals will cost more O.o.

[01101010]

Oh, dying takes double experience as well....so soul heals will cost more O.o.

 

[Setanta]

I have never ever had that problem and I mouselook all the time while kiting. I do occasionally have auto-attack lock up and have to deselect and reselect the mob to get it started again (seems to be caused by starting a special right at the beginning of your first auto attack animation), but nothing that locks up my cursor. Sounds like you might have a problem isolated to your machine/mouse/kb.

Just because you don't experience the problem, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

http://www.aionforums.com/showthread.php?t=2009
http://aionstuff.com/technical-support/aion-mouse-bug/
http://aionstuff.com/questions-and-answers/disappearing-mouse-icon/
http://aionstuff.com/aion-discussion/my-biggest-complaint-mouse-dissapearing-bug/
etc etc

I guess it isn't my hardware/machine/mouse because it happens on both my PC and my Laptop as well as having discussed this others who experience it within the group of gamers I played with. We've tried a lot of options in order to resolve it to no avail. As I said: I put in a petition; they know the bug is there, it came about when they westernised the mouselook controls (according to the GM I spoke with) and they don't know how to fix it but are looking into it (again from the GM). It affects rangers the most because of specials in jump shots when you rotate the camera while turning with the mouse and hitting hotkeys resulting in the cursor disappearing and hotkeys failing until you cobo them back. It's often linked to modifiers but not always.

But thanks for your input, I'm glad you don't experience the issue.

[Threash]

Oh, dying takes double experience as well....so soul heals will cost more O.o.

That is incorrect.

[Chimpy]

Oh, dying takes double experience as well....so soul heals will cost more O.o.

That is incorrect.

Our cleric died in Steel Rake and said that she lost twice what she normally would for a death. I have not died in a few days outside of PvP so I was just going on information I was given.

[Threash]

It was actually lowered slightly in the patch, i died several times yesterday and i noticed i was paying a little less and losing less than 1% total.

[Falconeer]

Ok.

Double rate for the weekend, plus 40% rest bonus and another 20% from lodas amulet is cool. 160% xp bonus? Yes please!

Now, leave it like that, dammit!

[Draegan]

If they had done this when I was still subbed I probably would of kept playing.

[Threash]

If they had done this when I was still subbed I probably would of kept playing.

Until monday when you go back to getting 30k a kill instead of 105k.  I guess i'll be doing some quests until next friday.

[Shatter]

If they had done this when I was still subbed I probably would of kept playing.

Until monday when you go back to getting 30k a kill instead of 105k.  I guess i'll be doing some quests until next friday.

Yeah going back to normal is sucking hardcore enough I deciided to play my alt until next Friday lol.  Got my cleric to 49 with the xp bonus and blew threw level 48. 

[Chimpy]

Got to 50 a little while ago. Turned 49 before the double XP kicked in on friday night.

I think that the pace of kill XP should be around 1.5 of what it is now without the bonus and that would make things flow better.

Now that I am 50, I still have a ton of stuff leftover I never got around to doing in the 40s, some of which I need to finish to be able to get into Dark Poeta.

Last night I came to the realization that the big thing that needs to change is bosses need to have guaranteed drops, even if it is just some semi-crappy green or blue item. Killed the last boss in both Steel Rake and Theobomos Lab last night and between the two of them we got a paltry amount of cash and 1 major elemental stone.

[Threash]

Got to 50 a little while ago. Turned 49 before the double XP kicked in on friday night.

I think that the pace of kill XP should be around 1.5 of what it is now without the bonus and that would make things flow better.

Now that I am 50, I still have a ton of stuff leftover I never got around to doing in the 40s, some of which I need to finish to be able to get into Dark Poeta.

Last night I came to the realization that the big thing that needs to change is bosses need to have guaranteed drops, even if it is just some semi-crappy green or blue item. Killed the last boss in both Steel Rake and Theobomos Lab last night and between the two of them we got a paltry amount of cash and 1 major elemental stone.

Yeah, mayor beef with named mobs not dropping shit.  I am fine with them having some really good rare ass drops but give me SOMETHING everytime i kill them.

[Threash]

The exp to level in this game is very random.  My last few levels have been 52mil, 60mil, 66mil, 70mil, 73mil, 84mil.  Sometimes it barely increases then jumps up a whole lot.

[01101010]

The exp to level in this game is very random.  My last few levels have been 52mil, 60mil, 66mil, 70mil, 73mil, 84mil.  Sometimes it barely increases then jumps up a whole lot.

That happens when you have to start using an abacus

[Shatter]

Funyn story from yesterday.  Azphel server some people got over 30 trillion kinah from a reward glitch.  So these people then began to send cash to other players and the problem grew like wildfire.  People also got banned instantly as apparently they have something in the software that bans accounts that do large in game kinah transfers.  End of story, they shut the server down last night, its still down and being rolled back to yesterday morning. 

http://na.aiononline.com/forums/server/view?articleID=15199&serverID=12

However they are giving 5 XP amulets to people in return on the server and they did take action against the problem, but with something like this I guess the only alternative is to roll back. 

[Threash]

Sucks for max level chars unless those work on AP.

[Chimpy]

Sucks for max level chars unless those work on AP.

They only work on XP. They are nice for making the final level XP bar full, but since the "recoverable" XP just slides off the screen and never fills up unless you soul heal that is not a great use either.

Oh, yeah. If you are max level and just want to see what your 20million XP soul heal will cost, make sure not to even breathe on your KB until you have clicked the cancel button. I spent 1million inadvertently last night. But I guess not having 4mins of rez sickness until my next DP run is worth it.

[Shatter]

NCSoft 4Q 2009 earnings came out Feb 9. There is an adobe file you have to open to see them.  In summary they are definitely making money.  Interestingly enough, L1 and L2 showed growth as well. 

http://www.ncsoft.net/global/ir/overview.aspx

Also, according to Ayase the Aion 2.0 should be live in NA the first half of this year.

[Draegan]

What's Aion 2.0 again?

[Shatter]

What's Aion 2.0 again?

Well 2.0 is the next bit patch basically that includes the following(not confirmed by NCSoft yet)
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Level Cap will be lvl 55;
Talent System (New): From lvl50, players can get one point per level;
New weapons and corresponding skills, each class will have about 3 new skills;
New Guild Skill for Guild Leader only;
New Maps for Elyos and Asmodians;
New Abyss map on the ground;
New lvl 60 Manastone;
New Instance: Alatr in the Water(Translated from Chinese)
New 24 people Guild Raid

Some of this is from the Vision trailer.

[Draegan]

So no help with xp?

[Shatter]

They supposedly will have the XP thing worked out before this, although they cant for some reason provide timing or how much they plan to change the XP curve yet they can flip a switch every other weekend and double it..go figure. 

[Draegan]

NCSoft.

[Shatter]

Also added today, gender change, name change, legion name changes, etc.  Course this is all paid stuff they have been talking about for a while + Valentines day packages which are sad except the Red dye looks pretty cool

https://secure.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/Store.pl?dnv=5249860645&action=toggleCategory&category=14

[Tarami]

Those item packs are the most overpriced crap I've ever seen.

[Evildrider]

Those item packs are the most overpriced crap I've ever seen.

They aren't any worse then 10 bucks for a pet, that does nothing, in WoW.

[Nebu]

They aren't any worse then 10 bucks for a pet, that does nothing, in WoW.

Except Blizzard gives some of the proceeds to charity... that's a wee bit different, albeit not much.

[Shatter]

They aren't any worse then 10 bucks for a pet, that does nothing, in WoW.

Except Blizzard gives some of the proceeds to charity... that's a wee bit different, albeit not much.

People dont buy that shit because they know a portion is going to charity :P

[Evildrider]

They aren't any worse then 10 bucks for a pet, that does nothing, in WoW.

Except Blizzard gives some of the proceeds to charity... that's a wee bit different, albeit not much.

It doesn't go to charity anymore, it was only over the Christmas time.  Although i do give them some props for the charity thing.

[Shatter]

I always loved Black Dye and Scorched Brown Dye in WAR, I might buy this for the red dye since NCSoft doesnt charge for content or xpac's. 

[Threash]

I seriously doubt there would be a level increase outside of a paid expansion.  Current top level items do say they take up to level 60 manastones which don't currently exist so that part is probably true.