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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Lobo2k6 has a new post!
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|||lobo's on a roll :O|||Just dont add new gear ON PVP PLS, if you guys add new geari will probably quit.|||
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whoo! he's finally back! been a few months
|||THIS IS WHAT WE WANT!!! MORE POSTS FROM YOU GUYS!!!!
P.S. You thought gearing up with epics was hard?
|||Gman,
Message received!
Ian
|||Do we have to pay for the skirmish hall?|||lobo's on a roll :O|||Just dont add new gear ON PVP PLS, if you guys add new geari will probably quit.|||
Skirmish will be 800 MS points. Civs are 1600. (or your regions pricing) Skirmish is a ton of gameplay. Civs are also huge, especially with Co-op, PvP, repeatables, and the new Legendary content which is our first step to more end-game content.
Keep in mind a current civ has about 3-4 times as much content, etc as older civs from prior Age games- the new ones are gigantic.
So with one civ and one booster like Skirmish, you're spoending about 30$ or 30 Euros...for many dozens if not hundreds of hours of gameplay.
That's a really good value for 30$, if you ask me. But we're expecting some people to not even buy a full civ, or maybe just buy a singlebooster for 10$, and that's cool with us too. Buy what you want. I think you guys are going to like Skirmish a lot. It's the most important thing we're creating right now, imo.
We've already played dozens of hours of Skirmish and it's really coming along.
|||Ian I know you are busy at the moment, but a reply to some of the PvP concerns regarding legendary gear would be fully appreciated. I am making a thread about it now.|||@Remember - It should now be blatantly obvious that they flat out do not care about making PVP the way all PVPers want it.
They are not trying and failing to make it balanced and quick to start, by releasing Legendary gear and not even giving a note about Recorded Games / Observer Mode / 3v3 or 4v4 / postgame stats / etc etc etc, it should be easy to see they are not considering going the direction with this game they we hoped and wished they would.
|||If this happens I think the game will die.|||the new Legendary content which is our first step to more end-game content.
The new content is absolutely great for end game PvE but why the new legendary gear so early in the games lifespan? The vast majority of players haven't even geared up with the current gear, it seems way to early to me. Unless the games lifespan is now being viewed much shorter then it originally was.
|||woot i didnt even gear up my 4th slot items to epic lvl 40's yet and now new gear is coming :((((|||
Boss,
It's tricky, since we have some amount who are at level 40 already, and others are taking more time.
Either way, in both cases, we want to get new end game content out sooner, since it will bea good challenge for current level 40-ers, and something to look forward to for players who are lower level.
So we think the lifespan is long, but some of you guys are really good and faster than we thought, haha.
-Ian
|||You are missing the point.Age of empires series was and is about 1v1 me and 80% of the players who played/play it (60% has already left) want to play the classical 1v1 pvp age of empires i dont want to farm for more gear everytime you guys want to extend the game i prefer to pay for my gear rather than spending 30-40 hours of my life to get 3 items and as soon as i get them you will put better ones.Legendary Gear, PvP, Sign Petition Here
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There are not tournaments on everyday. There are no chest/pvp rewards for playing organised pvp matches.|||Imagine how huge gold selling would get if thishappens!|||I actually like the concept of legendary gear. Something that will take a long time to get, looks cool and you get some solid bonus' :p I see it as a problem for PvP where you want to have the best of everything. Im not opposed to legendary gear but there needs to be something in place that will still make the level playing field in PvP possible. Perhaps something like a cap on how much you can use in your gear hall or something per civ. That could also work with focussed strategies IE you only equip the limited legendary gear you have on your towers for tower spam.
|||Perhapsit could bebalancedif only 3-5 pieces are allowed to beequipped, sort of likeadvisers. It could work that wayotherwise, worst idea ever.|||There is simply no logic in increasing the already very high barriers to PvP at the moment. It makes no sense for me logically.
For PvE it is a great idea, but there is still lots of us playing PvP'ing and by implementing this you are making the game near-impossible to enjoy pvp-wise.|||No legenday gear, its boring enough to get to lvl 40 and gear (actually lvl 30) to start decent pvp´s and then get that #$%& gear, start new civ is hard enough too...
|||Just make the gears suffer a 0.7x penalty in PvP so they would be worse than normal Epic gear there. Shouldn't be too hard.
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http://forums.ageofempiresonline.com/forums/thread/103057.aspx
Legendary gear is incoming - and it is going to be even harder to acquire then epic gear (and even stronger). Everyone who wants to play PvP at a semi-competitive level will know what this means. The grind to play competitive PvP at the moment is VERY hard as it is - some of us have just BARELY been able to put up with it because this game has great PvP once you have reached 40 with some good lvl 40 epics.
When you introduce legendary gear the grind to be able to play competitive PvP will be insanely harder. You can see by looking at the forums that the large majority of PvP players just want to have a fair fight - by adding legendary gear you will make this basically impossible.
You will see the reactions about legendary gear over the coming weeks - these forums are about to get A LOT more whiney then they already are. I already know 5 people who are saying they will completely leave this game if legendary gear becomes usable in PvP and has better stats then epics (including me). This announcement was made about 20 mins, and already 5 people I know are going to completely quit the game if this goes through...and these are the most active people who play the game.
If you think finding a PvP match using matchmaker is hard at the moment, just wait till they add legendary gear. It will be twice as hard (if that) to find a match. And when you do find a match, it will be even more imbalanced.
The most simple fix for legendary gear and pvp balance would be:
A) The difference between legendary gear and epic gear is ONLY the looks and the skin. You could make lots of cool skins for legendary gear and it would still be awesome to have. Everyone would be happy to know that balance is being 100% destroyed and people would be happy to know there is better looking gear out there to get - its a win-win situation in my opinion.
B) Add PvE only bonuses to the items (stat description could write "PvE only" next to some of its extra stats). Or there could beseparatePvE and PvP stats for each legendary item. This fix sounds slightly more complex and tiring however.
Please post your thoughts here about legendary gear and its effect on PvP. This will really show if they care about PvP just a tinybit.
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Petition is to have legendary gear NOT effect PvP (stats-wise). It can have new skins or PvE bonuses only, but no PvP advantages over Epic Gear.
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NO LEGENDARY GEAR.
|||NO NO NO NO NO. Absolutely not!|||
The vendor gear costs 25000. I don't ever see myself getting that with my 30 empires points per win.
/signed. Rememberthis123 brings up some great replacements.
|||Guys, why can't we just eliminate legendary gear from tournaments all together...or something of that nature...to even the playing field or w/e...epic gear and lower...
Just like setting rules in old AoE days, like no siege or walls...etc?
There are not tournaments on everyday. There are no chest/pvp rewards for playing organised pvp matches.|||Imagine how huge gold selling would get if thishappens!|||I actually like the concept of legendary gear. Something that will take a long time to get, looks cool and you get some solid bonus' :p I see it as a problem for PvP where you want to have the best of everything. Im not opposed to legendary gear but there needs to be something in place that will still make the level playing field in PvP possible. Perhaps something like a cap on how much you can use in your gear hall or something per civ. That could also work with focussed strategies IE you only equip the limited legendary gear you have on your towers for tower spam.
|||Perhapsit could bebalancedif only 3-5 pieces are allowed to beequipped, sort of likeadvisers. It could work that wayotherwise, worst idea ever.|||There is simply no logic in increasing the already very high barriers to PvP at the moment. It makes no sense for me logically.
For PvE it is a great idea, but there is still lots of us playing PvP'ing and by implementing this you are making the game near-impossible to enjoy pvp-wise.|||No legenday gear, its boring enough to get to lvl 40 and gear (actually lvl 30) to start decent pvp´s and then get that #$%& gear, start new civ is hard enough too...
|||Just make the gears suffer a 0.7x penalty in PvP so they would be worse than normal Epic gear there. Shouldn't be too hard.
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I'd have to say no to legendary gear as well.
Before we start pushing the game ahead with stuff like that, I'd rather see more options for each slot under the current tiers, rather than introducing a new super-tier. It's perfectly possible to introduce new end-game content for PvE without introducing legendary gear. Simply adding more (balanced) variety in epic gear should be enough. Even if the difference between legendary and epic gear will be small, as indicated on the screenshot, it's still a tangible advantage that is likely to be disruptive to PvP play.
I like that they made an announcement to update a bit on the course of the game. The problem is, while the announcement showed that they're listening, they announced things that go precisely counter to some of the concerns that lots of players have raised. This is simply moving the goal post further in getting good, balanced games, which is already hard with the matchmaking matching vastly different levels of players and with gear differences, while increasing the amount of time necessary to invest in play before you can "start" playing PvP properly.
IMPORTANT: How to Avoid Trade Scammers
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We’ve been receiving an increasing number of reports that people are being scammed while conducting player-to-player trading. These scammers use various methods to acquire other player’s items for less than the value agreed upon during the negotiation process. Please take a look at the tips offered below to protect yourself against trade scammers and identify someone that may be trying to scam you during the trading process.
How to protect yourself while conducting player-to-player trades:
-Be very cautious when dealing with a level one account that is selling or attempting to acquire expensive items.
-Do NOT accept a trade immediately after posting your items or coin. Pause for a moment to see whether the other person does anything suspicious.
-Wait for the other person to accept the trade before clicking the accept button. This will prevent the other person from being able to change the terms of the trade at the last second.
-You can always request that the other person use the cash on delivery mail feature to trade items
Warning signs that someone is trying to scam you:
-They are removing items from the trade window after having posted the correct item up for trade.
-They are changing the coin totals in the trade window to less than the agreed upon price after posting the correct amount.
-They are making excuses to reopen the trade window several times before accepting the trade. This is often a way to make you hurry through the trade process instead of using caution.
-A level one account is trading away extremely valuable items or is attempting to acquire extremely valuable items. Often time’s scammers use alternative accounts in an attempt to hide their primary accounts.
Trade scamming other players out of their hard earned coin and items is something we take very seriously. We will be patching in changes to eliminate the opportunity for players to scam other users out of their hard earned items. Look for this in future patch updates. If you encounter a scammer, please report the issue to community@ageofempiresonline.com with a screenshot of the chat log and a description of what occurred during the transaction, we will investigate the issue from there.
Thanks,
--Cosy
Andy, we don't discuss moderator action taken with anyone but the effected parties.
That being said, I can assure you that are working vigorously to make sure we have a healthy and happy trade community.
TWO WORDS: Auction House
|||ingame mail COD.|||Good call. I'll add COD to the OP.|||I don't want to tell you guys how to do your job, but why didn't you just hotfix it today?
It takes 2 lines of code to reset the accepted status for both players whenever the entered items or gold are changed. It would effectively take you less time to do that than to write this entire guide, and you'd never hear of this problem again. Most MMO games use this system and you don't need to reinvent hot water here.
|||We will be implementing a fix that eliminates the describedmethods of trade scamming. Patch deployment is aunique process to every game studio.
Edit: The trade status is reset when a player changes the terms of the trade, that is not the problem at hand.
|||another reason that we need auction house fast|||
try to add durability to weapons and armor this way will improve the
trading in-game like after 10-15 matches this is for uncommon for rare
should be 20-30 and epic same but with possibility to repair them with
empire points or gold that will cost allot depends on lvl you will need
to get new weapons or armor only those that you use i mean if you build a
barracks if will drop the infantry armor and weapons after the match so
if you build barracks and siege weapons it will drop just the barracks
and siege weapons gear
this is just an idea to improve trading in-gmae
Or we could just fix the issue, which is the POORLY DESIGNED TRADE SYSTEM, by simply adding an additional confirmation window after both players accept in which they can review what is being traded and accept again.
...Or we can just make worthless threads about how to try to survive in a flawed system. There are a thousand simple valid ideas for fixing this simple problem.
I am drowning in poor programming.
|||Confirmation window is the best option to do. But please don't put the confirmation window over the items and coin bars :p|||wow, since you made thios thread, people tried to scam me even more often. i know how to avoid them, but still annoying|||
There's 4 main ways to sell/trade items.
1. A Fixed Price
2. Highest Bidder
3. Trade Goods/Barter
4. Give Away Free.
To be honest, the trade tab is pretty useless and is just being a showoff of what you have. I would change the Trade Tab to the following.
Make it easier to post. At least 10 times a day I see in chat "How do you link items to trade?". When you want to sell an item for a fixed price or highest bidder have it where you have a popup screen, you pick the item in your inventory and then either set a price or pick highest bidder. Once you hit OK or SELL the item is not available in your inventory anymore. On fixed prices it becomes first come, first served. With auction of highest bidder it becomes a timed based item. With no direct interaction there's less chance of fraud/theft.
With a trade barter this would be use at your own risk. Once both parties hit accept a second screen pops up that says <user> is trading <items> for <items> and give a choice to hit ok or cancel. So if someone switches at the last minute it can be caught. Limit the amount of trades a person can do (or cancel) in a 24 hour period. Free accounts, one trade every 24 hours, 3 cancels. Premium, 2 trades, 3 cancels. If you have to cancel trades more than 3 times a day then something is wrong!! Those who just want to waste the time of others and "see their gear" are now limited to 3 times a day.
Those who wish to gift an item could pick "gift" and the username. You then can set limits on how many items a user can gift and receive in a day. This will cut down 3rd account fraud transfers. They can only send 1 gift a day or receive 1 gift a day.
Lastly, I would setup the trade like pvp. You must be level 5 or 6 before you can trade. This slows down people from making fake accounts in an attempt to rip off others and send the goods to their primary account Then when they can only make 1 trade every 24 hours, they'll soon realize it's easier to just play legit than rip people off.
Bill
The Age of Empires Online Fansite List
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Unofficial Age of Empires Online Strategy Guide
|||Here is a German Fan Site with some guides especially for beginners: http://www.ageofempires-online.de/
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Do you run a fansite, external forum, clan/guild/alliance, channel, or stream with content about Age of Empires Online? This thread can be considered a comprehensive list of external communities. If you would like your site to be featured on this list, please post a link along with a brief description. All sites must contain up-to-date content or have active discussions occurring. Addition to this list will be at our discretion.
Age of Empires Online Communities and Fansites
Age of Empires Community (AgeComm)
Age of Empires Live
Age of Empires Online Hints (Blog)
Age of Empires Sage (Blog)
Age of Empires Online Wiki
Age of Empires Online Wikia
Age of Empires Village
BSB Network
CoDAddicts.com forum
Gas Powered Games forums
Heaven Games
N3O Clan
OoTClan.com
Phatphish.nl
Remember Ensemble (blog)
RTS Sanctuary
International Fansites
Age4Greeks (Greek)
Age-Community.net (German)
Age of Empires Online Forums xooit (French)
ageofempiresonline.cba.pl
AgeofEmpires-Online.de (German)
Age of Empires Hungary
Age of Empires Online Wiki (German)
AOEHispano.es (Spanish)
Age of Empires Online Italy
AOETurkey.com (Turkish)
AoEonline.co (Spanish)AOEO.it (Italy)
Aoeo.luna-atra.fr (French)
AoEOnline.eu (Czech-Slovak)
Arena of Empires (Portugese)
Communidad Española (Spanish)
El Agora (Spanish)
Forums du Réseau Jeux-Stratégie.com (French)
Jeuxvideo.com forums (French)
Jeuxvideo.fr forums (French)
Le Forum Age of Empires Online (French)
Videos, Streams, and Guides
Augustas channel
AikaTears channel
EmpireBaron's channel
IamSoldier's channel
IBubbleI (stream)
iLoveAOEonline's channel
JeeSports with LoveWithOlessia (stream)
Maffia01's channel
MasterGBerry's channel
Noc154's channel (stream)
TheMista (stream)
TotalBiscuit’s “What is Age of Empires Online?”
Miscellaneous
Dejavunl88's UnofficialAge of Empires Online IRC chat channel
The Unofficial Age of Empires Online Web Auction House
Maffia01's Beginner's Guide to Age of Empires Online
Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to contribute to the Age of Empires community!
--Cosy
|||Here is a German Fan Site with some guides especially for beginners: http://www.ageofempires-online.de/
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Site looks nice, Tunda.
Added AgeofEmpires-Online.de and EmpireBaron's YouTube channel.
--Cosy
|||TotalBiscuit streaming aoeo should be some good publicity :)|||Hungary: aoe.rts.hu|||Would love a Dutch fansite|||Kenanus - I don't know of any Dutch fansites. You'll have to create one. ;)
List is up-to-datewith some additions I've received throughPM's.
--Cosy
|||i wish i could m8, i wish i could :)
lets hope someone does.
|||PhatFishNL's site used to be a dutch fansite as far as I know.
@Cosy, does an IRC chat channel qualify as an online community on your list?
streaming atm, for the persons who are interested in some pvp gameplay (:
justin.tv/oot_bubbles
|||The Greek Age Of Empires Community site, for all the games of the "Age of" Series, is www.age4greeks.gr
I hope you will add our siteto the list :)
|||Hi,
Ive just recently reorganized my channel on youtube, and am aiming for high quality Age of Empires Online gameplay videos, pvp 1v1,2v2, will be covering interesting tips, walkthroughsand other fun stuff related to AoEO.
http://www.youtube/satasjr
Have a nice day,
Augustas
German Age of Empires Online Wiki
www.aoewiki.de
Age of Empires Online: The Empire Handbook
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This link will take you to the Empire Handbook, your one stop spot for all thing Age of Empires Online!
http://www.ageofempiresonline.com/empirehandbook
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