Archive for October, 2008

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

An armitice has been reached with the Amazons of Hyboria

We’ve reached an armistice / non-agression treaty with the Amazons.  We’ve had a number of good interactions with them and they are similar to us in a number of ways so we’ve reached a political understanding (IC) and developed a real friendship (IC and OCC) with them.  So remember, as Marg Simpson would say, be nice to your sister(s).  Or the sisters in this case.

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

October 29th patch

The new patch arrives today and it is massive in terms of scope… the release notes are seven posts long.  (Details can be found here.)  With the game under new management there is a new philosophy behind putting out patches so hopefully they won’t be just putting ‘lipstick on a pig’ again.  The new PvP system is fully implemented and I believe combat has been redesigned to make it more streamlined and avoid DPS spikes for melee characters.  (I’m not sure if it has been released in this patch though.)  Lag spikes too are supposed to be a thing of the past.  With luck AoC will have finally turned a corner though only time will tell.  

Friday, October 24th, 2008

A changing of the guard.

Before the last patch (preliminary PvP / gem nerf patch) most of the Ignoble Order’s AoC members became disillusioned with how FunCom has handled the initial release of AoC and subsequent problems that arose with properly balancing the game at high levels.  As a consequence of this they decided to leave the game in protest.  This left only four ’senior’ IO members left to carry on.  But now we seem to have figured out a direction to take the guild and are seeing some very positive signs.  Our tier II city is nearing completion (only the wall sections remain) and we have found a number of new members with significant AoC experience that fit well into the vision of the guild.  There is still a lot to do but the future of the IO in AoC looks much more promising then even a couple of weeks ago.  That said if you have any comments or ideas on how the IO should proceed or that might help strengthen our place on RP Cimmeria please let the ‘remnant leadership’ (Thealen, Tsargoth or Zorik) know.  Thanks,

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