OT: Anarchy Online

deccan · #1 June 6th, 2005, 07:46 AM

In case anyone is interested in in-game events here's the latest issue of the ARK prepared TAG magazine:

http://ark.anarchy-online.com/tag/tag5.pdf

The interesting part is an invitation to all neutral characters to attend a meeting at Neuters R Us on 25th June.

Anyway, my main "Deccan" has just been recruited into Shattered Dreams. I've been trying to get a hold of their guy in charge during Australasian time zones since last week, but had bad luck getting online at the same time as him, finally, their org president fhinn made a point of staying online specifically to wait for me.

We had a short interview in Newland City and then I got accepted in the org. Then fhinn took me on a tour to their city in Newland Desert. It's really cool, and I got bonuses to all nanoskills and some other stuff like run speed from the org's city buildings and notum towers.

They have special org only shops where they provide a variety of good stuff for practically free to org members. In their hq building is a workshop that boosted all my tradeskills to 200+ even though I never spent an IP on them, and they have a silo that effectively acts as a private arena to do friendly practise pvp fights. And oh yeah, their bar is way cool and is decorated with real carborich rocks. Some went up to ql 200+!

I notice too that their org channel gives additional information on notum tower fights. Normally players only get notification of outcomes of tower fights, but the org channel also gives information on tower fights starting, which I presume is to give org people the chance to rush to defend.

I'll see if I can into some org based activities today.

Phoenix-D · #2 June 6th, 2005, 04:12 PM

"Neuters R U"

I'd be, er, a bit wary of going anywhere with THAT name.

AgentZero · #3 June 7th, 2005, 04:40 PM

deccan, any suggestions on where to sell the stuff we import from Newbie Island? I've been trying but no one seems interested in forking out the kind of money you mentioned.

Also, since you mentioned you were playing an Agent, can you suggest a good Rifle for me?

deccan · #4 June 7th, 2005, 06:25 PM

I sold Yatima's sunglasses in Rome. I wouldn't suggest actually sitting down and hawking them. If you post a WTS message, you'd likely get lower prices. What I did was simply pay attention to the shopping channels for a WTB Omnitek Sunglasses. Running around the Rome area, I don't see one everyday, but I do get one maybe every two to three days as Yatima when running around subway / doing missions etc.

As for the Agent, I don't really intend to play Omegared anymore (agents don't work well in teams), so I'm not sure which rifles are good, but the ones with "counter-sniper" in their names seem to be popular.

Edit: The sunglasses are a vanity item without great stats, so, yes, you do have to be patient to sell them. If you really want to make money, mission for concrete cushions. Get QL 10 concrete cushions and sell them for about 300k a pair. Other good items to mission for are low QL Second-Hand Old English Trading Co., which I once sold for 150k, and one of the Windchaser rifles that buff treatment, I forget which one. That should sell for about 150k as well. Or you could hit level 20-ish and kill mobs at Temple of Three Winds. They drop maybe 500+ credits per mob, and respawn fast.

Yatima already has one QL 11 concrete cushion, so if you want to mission for a QL10-11 one for deccan, and help me transfer stuff from my alts, I'll pay you 200k.

Money is still tight for me at my level though. I have maybe 5.8 million cash, and can get about 100k per mission on Rubi-Ka, but I need to save for a yalm (about 5 million) and a full suit of Jobe armor (about 15 million).

deccan · #5 June 8th, 2005, 04:04 AM

AgentZero, try this:

Cheap Yatamutchy X-3 Counter-Sniper Rifle

This is what one of the seniors in my org is using for his agent twink.

David E. Gervais · #6 June 9th, 2005, 07:02 PM

Deccan, in case you can get 'perks' for getting people to subscribe, well, I'm hooked and have paid for a full year plus the Alien Invasion expansion. So much for my summer budget.

And Don't worry people, this in no way affects SE5 dev. My part of the work is all but done. I'm basically providing stuff as Aaron sees a new need open up. I usually give Aaron 'same-day' turn around on the artwork request he throws at me.

Cheers!

P.S. What does the AI Exp give you? I started a new Character "Hetch" and have seen some wierd things like when my AI XP got to 1500/1500 it stayed there for a long time. I was not getting any more AI XP for killing spiders. Then I killed a Big Alien Robot thing at the end of the spider pier and the AI level topped off and I started getting AI XP again. I wish they gave more info on AI than "look here this is great buy it!" look at the faq!, which tells people nothing.

Anyway, I'll see you online.

AgentZero · #7 June 12th, 2005, 07:21 AM

Arg... Very annoyed today. Went and upgraded to Shadowlands to get my hands on a Keeper. Was having a great old time last night, levelling away merilly (got up to L8 in 2hrs!), then I wake up this morning to find that, despite having paid the thing off weeks ago, my credit card's been declined and my account frozen. Worst part is, it's Sunday, so I can't even yell at my bank. Grrr...