[Ater Eva]

When will we see official forum sections for 3 new servers (necessary for community to develop)?

And will there be another forum instead of current forums.eu.aiononline.com ?

[I<3Cookies]

nails, on 06 January 2012 - 02:47 PM, said:

I seriously don't want to read this entire thread. Is this for EU only? or do they plan to bring f2p to NA as well?

EU only so far.

I've got a question...

What happens to the items I've already bought from the NCSoft Store? Will I still have the ability to add them to all characters on my account?

[Jinxied]

Question: Give us more information about the new servers?... Will I be capable of playing with my in-game frands after the transfer?... Do you care to make a pvp wise server that is marked as PvP one?

[Spyrus]

No transfer allow. New Server will be for new characters... a fresh start.

[Jinxied]

By transfer I meant old chars to the new servers. Perento,Spatalos and Telemachus will be with new names or players will be moved regardless of their server to certain new server?

[Ater Eva]

Jinxied, on 06 January 2012 - 07:26 PM, said:

Question: Give us more information about the new servers?... Will I be capable of playing with my in-game frands after the transfer?

If you mean "transfering from existing servers -> to new 3 servers", possibly later but at least in start no (in order to prevent high geared people griefing up the new population...what would be just stupid thing to do -.-) for official info see:
http://aionfreetopla.../gamecontent_06

On side note, because the games "endgame content" is pretty bad pvp-wise, starting in the new servers may end up more fun than anything currently is.

Jinxied, on 06 January 2012 - 07:26 PM, said:

Do you care to make a pvp wise server that is marked as PvP one?

^I wish same, but my doubts are no, because after all Aion-EU is well kept in leash by Asian NCSoft leaders. So I don't think GameForce would have enough resources nor rights to make such server, even if it'd be just "making AP rates higher, or AP loss lower, or removing AP cap". I still though wish the same...such server would definately bring some more (new and old) people in game.

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Jinxied, on 06 January 2012 - 07:44 PM, said:

By transfer I meant old chars to the new servers. Perento,Spatalos and Telemachus will be with new names or players will be moved regardless of their server to certain new server?

If you mean the migration process, what "moves automatically" are only account infos from NCSoft's physical databases into GameForges databases, "your Aion account". You maybe misinterpret Account Servers for Game Servers?

See: http://aionfreetopla.../gamecontent_04

Old servers remain intact as far as I know, and there will be 3 new (international[?]) servers in addition.

This post has been edited by Ater Eva: 06 January 2012 - 08:00 PM

[Jinxied]

Example...

Character X is currently playing on Perento. Character Y is currently playing on Spatalos. (Two seperate accounts)

The 3 new servers are A,B and C. Will both characters, X and Y, be able to play on server B?... Or X will play on A and Y will play on C?

Will there be some sort of marking on which server you want to be moved?

[Ater Eva]

Jinxied, on 06 January 2012 - 07:59 PM, said:

Example...

Character X is currently playing on Perento. Character Y is currently playing on Spatalos. (Two seperate accounts)

The 3 new servers are A,B and C. Will both characters, X and Y, be able to play on server B?... Or X will play on A and Y will play on C?

Will there be some sort of marking on which server you want to be moved?

Character X would stay on Perento, and character Y would stay on Spatalos.

Both players could create new characters on A, B and C; but not transfer their old characters there (at least not yet...for obvious reasons).

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Old servers remain intact as far as I know, and there will be 3 new (international[?]) servers in addition.

[Jinxied]

oh...

[Milliardo]

Haider, I have a question:

I have heard a rumor that people can flag a Trial Account to gain Veteran Status, is that true?

[sfar]

Ater Eva, on 06 January 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

Character X would stay on Perento, and character Y would stay on Spatalos.

Both players could create new characters on A, B and C; but not transfer their old characters there (at least not yet...for obvious reasons).

The unanswered questions are:

• When (if at all) will transfers will be allowed from old servers to new servers
  
• When (if at all) will transfers will be allowed between old servers
  
• Will new players be allowed to create characters on old servers
  
• Will new players be encouraged to create characters on old servers, new servers or neither

I asked these questions about 3 weeks ago

[CMBlackVelvet]

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BlackVelvet -

To what extent will gameforge have control over game content and how it works? Can you edit quests for example? It would be a great benefit to the community in several ways if the content was made more appropriate for western play styles. Cutting a long story short will there be any changes to the L54 Extendable weapon quest which is currently littered with RNG and a requirement to capture asmo forts 60 times? The trend should continue as it is now, lower dmg slightly outdated extend weps vs up to date "bang bang" weps Baka n especially trir gonna suck harder than broke prossie in the red light district come 3.0 - PS Is there even a date for the announcement of the release of 3.0 yet? XD

We can't edit quests or content at our will. We (sadly) rely on development from Korea. The process on suggesting new stuff and changes however looks good. We got asked about opinions and suggestions of their content ideas and they asked for feedback a lot. Same goes for general atmosphere and how the community currently feels.
It will be hard to fully adjust the game to western play styles a.k.a. "Y U NO GRIND"-less content since majority is still Asian playstyle and their game in the end. But we are on it.

There is no estimation for 3.0 yet since we need to get the f2p changeover on the way. Add up some monitoring weeks and months to adjust the game and the technical aspects of it. But we got 3.0 on our huge ToDo list as one of the high prioritized tasks.

About the rest, I need to ask >.>.

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I seriously don't want to read this entire thread. Is this for EU only? or do they plan to bring f2p to NA as well?

This is for EU only. I have no information about NA, so I dunno.

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When will we see official forum sections for 3 new servers (necessary for community to develop)?
And will there be another forum instead of current forums.eu.aiononline.com ?

We are setting up new forums at the moment. And yes, there will be server related sections.
We probably also take the old forums as they are right now and put it as archive so no posts are lost. Especially not the guides, videos, fanarts, etc.

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What happens to the items I've already bought from the NCSoft Store? Will I still have the ability to add them to all characters on my account?

I need to ask around. I could guess right now but that is not helping at all ^^.
So you gotta wait until I got the answers. Weekends suck at some point.

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Question: Give us more information about the new servers?... Will I be capable of playing with my in-game frands after the transfer?... Do you care to make a pvp wise server that is marked as PvP one?

What do you mean with "playing with your ingame friends"? Basically everything should stay the same as it is. If they are all playing and flagged their account, then there shouldn't be any problems.
About a PvP dedicated server (and thus PvE dedicated servers)...
Well suggestions were made from a lot of players from various parts of the communities (all of them). The suggestions are forwarded. Depending on the technical side of the rifting system as well as the "buff weeks" and so on, it might be possible that we can arrange something without help from devs. But that's a thing being thrown into the "idea pool" which requires a full concept, an outlook and as well a proper outlook on long terms.

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Character X is currently playing on Perento. Character Y is currently playing on Spatalos. (Two seperate accounts)
The 3 new servers are A,B and C. Will both characters, X and Y, be able to play on server B?... Or X will play on A and Y will play on C?
Will there be some sort of marking on which server you want to be moved?

When your characters are on seperate accounts, your characters will stay seperate. There will be no changes concerning servers or where your characters are.
Imagine it this way: You got 3 servers and you give it to someone as it is right now. Nothing changes except location, electrical source maybe and the hardware due to upgrades and adjustment plus some binary changes thanks to the changeover. The database as it is stays intact.
To put it even more simple: You take 3 apples out of a bowl and put the apples in a new bowl. Nothing changes except the bowl. That's it in the end.

In words of Patrick (sorry, was too lazy for the outline around the font):

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I have heard a rumor that people can flag a Trial Account to gain Veteran Status, is that true?

Huh? o.o
Not that I know of. If you paid atleast once and bought the game to play Aion currently, you are able to opt-in your account and be a Veteran later. A trial account shouldn't be able to opt-in.
However we are offering Starters to be Vets in future but they of course need to fulfill a certain requirement list (call it "achievements").

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The unanswered questions are:

When (if at all) will transfers will be allowed from old servers to new servers
When (if at all) will transfers will be allowed between old servers
Will new players be allowed to create characters on old servers
Will new players be encouraged to create characters on old servers, new servers or neither

No estimation yet about a transfer possibility. When transfers are open, you will be informed in time.
The other questions I can't answer yet. Saturday and such and getting a hand on colleagues is hard at this time :P.
But my mail is sent and I will poke someone until he bleeds to get the answers.

This post has been edited by CMBlackVelvet: 07 January 2012 - 02:06 PM

[Daemion]

Will the dates for 3.0 be in line with NA/NCSoft's implementation of 3.0, so as to maintain as much parity as possible?

3.0 is a /big/ bee in the bonnet for a lot of F2P nay-sayers, and I hate to give them ammunition, but if we have to wait longer for 3.0 while NA gets it at NCSoft's discretion, there will more likely than not be a major revolt of Vets/Gold players.

PS: Did Zoe get my email?

[SethGod]

holy ....mother of walls

[Ecto]

SethGod, on 07 January 2012 - 02:48 PM, said:

holy ....mother of walls

A lot better than leaving tings unanswered ^^

PS - Thanks for the reply, lets hopes its "weeks" rather than "months" though

[SkaarKH]

CMBlackVelvet, on 07 January 2012 - 02:05 PM, said:

The process on suggesting new stuff and changes however looks good. We got asked about opinions and suggestions of their content ideas and they asked for feedback a lot. Same goes for general atmosphere and how the community currently feels.

Ya well....now that NC stands in a B2B-colab with the west they suddenly care *cough*

Same with Innova...NC always treated them better than their own NCWest-branch....

[delacroix]

I'm curious as to how far GF's powers ingame go. As you guys have mentioned GF baught the rights from ncsoft, wouldn't that mean the game isn't theirs now? And that future patches for aion, GF would buy the patch from them?

If so then Aion eu could be in a very special situation whereby the publishers can ACTUALLY mod certain contents ie:

PvP events?
global pk? including own faction? >
PvP tournies outside the bounds of AoC and AoD?

If it's answered nvm ignore me, the previous replies were just tl;dr

[Ater Eva]

delacroix, on 07 January 2012 - 03:51 PM, said:

I'm curious as to how far GF's powers ingame go. As you guys have mentioned GF baught the rights from ncsoft, wouldn't that mean the game isn't theirs now? And that future patches for aion, GF would buy the patch from them?

CMBlackVelvet, on 07 January 2012 - 02:05 PM, said:

We can't edit quests or content at our will. We (sadly) rely on development from Korea. The process on suggesting new stuff and changes however looks good. We got asked about opinions and suggestions of their content ideas and they asked for feedback a lot. Same goes for general atmosphere and how the community currently feels.
It will be hard to fully adjust the game to western play styles a.k.a. "Y U NO GRIND"-less content since majority is still Asian playstyle and their game in the end. But we are on it.

Still in leash of NCSofts asian HQ.

[Raiya]

Let me throw a bone out here and see if we could get any idea on what can be done.

With the changeover and all is it possible for GF to deal with the big 3 Problems atm that seem to be severely crippling the growth of the game

1)RNG (RandomNumberGenerator aka RandomBullnyerkGenerator). This has been a problem for along time but it SEVERELY affects the likes of Enchanting and Manasocketing. These 2 alone have caused alot of people to get fedup and quit because their hard earned money dissapears due to pathetic BS mechanics and the only solution so far has been suppliments (which effectively means pay to buypass a "broken mechanic"). Would it be possible to make a change to say change Manasocketing so that if Green Manastones fail then only that Stone is lost, Rather than losing every single stone thats slotted? This would be fairer since even if you lose alot of stones your progress would not be lost. The same could also be said of Enchanting. Could it be possible to change this as well to eliminate loss of Enchant level below lvl10 if a stone fails? Even making these fixes would please alot of people and solve the ragequitting from loss of progress.

2) Magic Resist (aka MR abusers). This mechanic is one of the most over abused, Overused and Broken Mechanics in the game, noone can say its "working as inteneded" when high MR basically allows you to exist in god mode and resist every debuff, DoT, Magic attack and CC. Evasion donesnt allow more than 30% or so Evasion so could this be fixed so that Magic cant be resist any more than Physical Evasion or that MR reduces Damage and Debuff/CC durnation? This I can understand is something of a harder thing to change but even the new Magic Cancellation Stat with 3.0 doesnt change the fact that MR is a broken mechanic.

3) Lack of Real pvp (Zergs r bad k?) Atm Endgame consists of nothing more than zerg zerg zerg due to the fact thatthere is so little room to pvp. (Too many Guards and patrols in key choke points and agressive mobs everywhere) Would it be possible to get several mobs families around zones 3 and 2 changed from aggressive to passive (Exceptions being balaur and some mob types) and also have Omega and Ragnarock change to passive mobs (due to their inability to spawm properly half the time and dodgy aggro range) or just moved out of the way. In addition would it be possible to just leave direct TP's to Silentera open rather than require the forts to get through to silentera? (Silentera is actually a perfect pvp zone but because both forts from each side are required to enter this has led to a situation where noone wants to attack the other factions fort because they lose access to Besh/PvP if they lose even one fort.

Edit: Theres also the small fact that we got 2 tickets at 2.7 launch and this was nerfed even tho the community was furious at this and did not want it would this be reversed or fixed?

This post has been edited by Raiya: 07 January 2012 - 04:35 PM

[Jubilee-]

@CMBlackValvet I sent an email to your support and i asked if the trial account can be flagged(and it can be) and get the veteran status.The answer i got was YES, we get the veteran status if we played the trial.I am not the only one who sent an email with this question, the others got the same answer as mine.Next time much comunication between you and the rest of your team.
Have a nice day.

This post has been edited by Puddi: 08 January 2012 - 03:48 AM