LordOrion Speaks about some changes

Edit* They made a sticky of all his responses: http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=78108

Thread is here: http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=77845&page=16

Hes not listed as a dev so dev tracker doesnt work. Here is one of his answers to questions.

Quote:
Originally Posted by ruktuim
I think a few questions we all would like answered are:

Questions:
1: Do you plain to implement a "Jail system" to AoC.

2: Can you give us any details on the specifics of the PvP system and what it entails?

3: Is crafting going to be revamped?

4: Are Feat problems being worked on?

5: Will quests be added for 60 - 80 level range?

6: Can I have candy?
Answers:
1. There are no plans for a jail system.

2. No, this will be revealed on Friday.

3. We will be enhancing it, yes.

4. We are working on all problems.

5. Yes, actually quite soon.

6. Age of Conan is candy.

Page 1. Has a picture


Quote:
Originally Posted by LordOrion
Psst... I'm not supposed to show you this until Friday, but hey.

Just don't tell anyone.

Page 8. This is about why there are no sieges.


Quote:
Originally Posted by LordOrion
Ah, but that's such a boring answer. In short: soon. There is nothing preventing a siege taking place now, it's just that no one has built a tier 3 city yet. Once that happens you will start seeing battlekeeps pop up, and that means sieging will start soon after.

Page 9. Regarding why we can't get t3 crafting.


Quote:
Originally Posted by LordOrion
That is correct, there is a bug that prevents you from building a tier three city right now. However, I just talked to the designer working on this and the fix for this should be in the next patch or the one after that.

No promises, but that's what we aim for.

Page 11. Has a picture of ranger epic tier gear. Quite sexy picture.


Quote:
Originally Posted by LordOrion
Do you want fries with that?

http://forums.ageofconan.com/attachm...1&d=1213196326

Page 14. Regarding how life is at Funcom.


Quote:
Originally Posted by LordOrion
There are over one hundred thousand posts every week on the forum, and our community team is unfortunately extremely overworked just maintaining it. They too answer questions and talk to you all, but the unfortunate fact is that it's not nearly enough due to the very high number of people here.

I do not work with community, but I do check the forums from time to time and I quite enjoy communication with you when I can. However, my job is also extremely busy so I can really only do it once in a while -- and I will!

Now, our aim is to have one large announcement every month (newsletter, basically) where we tell you about what is going to happen in the future. We will also try and answer some questions on a weekly basis once we get settled a bit and this first month after launch is over.

Trust me -- we really want to keep you as close as we can!

Page 14. Will Orion marry you?


Quote:
Originally Posted by LordOrion
If you're hot. And female.

Page 16. Answers the following questions.

1: Do you plain to implement a "Jail system" to AoC.

2: Can you give us any details on the specifics of the PvP system and what it entails?

3: Is crafting going to be revamped?

4: Are Feat problems being worked on?

5: Will quests be added for 60 - 80 level range?

6: Can I have candy?



Quote:
Originally Posted by LordOrion
1. There are no plans for a jail system.

2. No, this will be revealed on Friday.

3. We will be enhancing it, yes.

4. We are working on all problems.

5. Yes, actually quite soon.

6. Age of Conan is candy.

Page 19. Orion answers the following.


Quote:
Originally Posted by frogs99
1. Hmmm..the jail system for high levels repeatly ganking grey players was announced before and the subject of much debate here on the boards. Will another system be taking its place eventually?

2. LordOrion - For some reason your posts here are not showing up in the dev-tracker. Any way you could yell at someone there so you get added to list of people who's posts show up in the Dev Tracker and get the mighty "FC" Icon added to treads you start / post in?? You are sharing great info and it would make it much easier for players to find if it showed up in dev-tracker & had the FC icon on the thread.



Quote:
Originally Posted by LordOrion
1. Yes, there is a system taking its place. Keep you eyes open for more info very soon on that. VERY soon.

2. I hope they fix that soon.


Page 20. Will female toons get sexy armor?


Quote:
Originally Posted by msbunny2u
Originally Posted by msbunny2u
Scuse me, Mister Funcom Product Manager,

do you have a second to answer a question for me, please.

Alls I wanna know is *giggle
Can we expect *giggle
Well can we have some sexier armor for female characters *giggle
sometime soon *teehee



Quote:
Originally Posted by LordOrion
... yes. :-)

And now I'm off!

Yay for "soon!". Blizzard has taught them well.

Seriously though, cool to see they are addressing everything, cannot wait to see the results.

Kaza

see this is what we need, carrots and sticks, not blinders

this is enough info to keep me going for months or till i eat the carrot

evilash wrote:see this is what we need, carrots and sticks, not blinders

this is enough info to keep me going for months or till i eat the carrot

as long as they arent cooked carrots, much better raw.

The problem is that there are known knowns, and there and known unknowns. But there are also unknown unknowns: things we don't know that we don't know.

Dao Jones wrote:The problem is that there are known knowns, and there and known unknowns. But there are also unknown unknowns: things we don't know that we don't know.

Oh gods, the consultant firm for one of our weeklong trainings said something almost identical to that.

"You know what you know. You know what you don't know. But you don't know what you don't know. So therefor ask others if they know what you don't know."

I almost died laughing.

Kaza

That's a quote from Donald Rumsfeld. And as a consultant myself, I would eat razor blades before I ever seriously said that to a client.

Dao Jones wrote:That's a quote from Donald Rumsfeld. And as a consultant myself, I would eat razor blades before I ever seriously said that to a client.

Yeah the consultant who fed us this garbage was quickly dispatched after the "annonymous reviews" went out. We have a nice new consultant that has this "experience" thing, so we like him better. (^_^)

Kaza

Kazadun wrote:

Dao Jones wrote:The problem is that there are known knowns, and there and known unknowns. But there are also unknown unknowns: things we don't know that we don't know.

Oh gods, the consultant firm for one of our weeklong trainings said something almost identical to that.

"You know what you know. You know what you don't know. But you don't know what you don't know. So therefor ask others if they know what you don't know."

I almost died laughing.

Kaza

Question. How could you ask someone about something you dont know if you dont know what you dont know? unless its one of the known unknowns and then you can usually find it out for yourself.

Dantos wrote:Question. How could you ask someone about something you dont know if you dont know what you dont know? unless its one of the known unknowns and then you can usually find it out for yourself.

That would be a case of "idiot consultant trying to sound smarter than he is". I hope this guy isn't developing core business strategy for you guys....

No, he was trying to coach us on finding diversity suppliers to better flesh out our Minority and Woman owned businesses. Which is rather hilarious since some areas like Blood, Pharmacy, Capitol Equipment have no chance of such things. The ones that do, Services, Maitenance, etc... normally have diversity databases online anyways. It seemed really goofy and as such he was dumped along with his firm shotrly after.

Yay for brutal reviews!

Kaza

Good stuff, thanks for posting this. I love a Dev with a sense of humor.

Tethis
Jester of Mitra