Your Voice - May

[Morteia]

Your Voice!

Welcome to our first issue of Age of Conan's “Your Voice”, a community forum get-together where you can ask questions of the developers, and we will then take them to get answered directly! Got a quandary about why a mob fights a certain way? Maybe you want to know the idea behind an NPC’s origin? Perhaps a character’s personality differs from the stories, and you want to know why? Ask away!

Now, before we get started, there are some guidelines to follow and some rules that we have to make clear.

On the first of the month, a new thread titled “Your Voice – Month” will be posted in the General Discussion section of both the subscriber and F2P forums. This thread will be open and the community can post questions they want asked of the developers.

You guys/gals/barbarians are able to submit questions from the 1st of the month until 16:00 GMT/12:00 EDT of the 15th of the month. At 16:00 GMT/12:00 EDT this thread will be closed, and 5 questions will be chosen. As much as we want to be able to bring all of the questions you have asked to the developers, they simply do not have the time to answer every question a player may have.

If we see a question that is being asked repeatedly, we will attempt to get it answered, but please understand that we can only answer so much about certain things!

Once the questions are chosen, we will be contacting the appropriate developers to get them answered! As we get answers we will post them accordingly between the 16th and the end of the month. Once the month has ended, the questions and answers will be moved to a separate thread for all to see and enjoy. Please be sure to visit that thread before you post, as your question may already have an answer!

On the first of the next month the old thread will be deleted, a new thread will be created, and the wonderful process will begin all over again!

Please remember that this is a thread where the only things you should be posting are questions that can be answered. While we love snark as much as the next person, we want to have a good pool of legitimate questions for our developers to answer. We mean it when we say we’re going to get these questions answered! We also mean it when we say no mercy to trolls. What you believe is legitimate and what we believe is legitimate may greatly differ, so troll at your own risk. Here’s an example:

Good Question: Hey guys! Can you talk about what’s coming in the next big content update yet?

Bad Question: When r u going to fix the game you n00bs?!?!

It’s pretty clear which questions we like and which we don’t.

We want this to be an enjoyable and connecting experience for our community and developers, but we can’t do it alone. We appreciate your cooperation and hope you enjoy getting answers to some of those burning questions about Age of Conan!

[Anubium]

Is the dragonspine sepulcher of wyrm encounter due to be fixed or at least when we will be told that it is 'working as intended'? Seems like the only ones who say they can do it also stated that its being done in a less than official manner.

And are you working on an extra ress pad between the t4 zodiac encounter and the Emperor? Or working on breaking up t4 into two different raid runs like you did for t3 (with only two instances: general to zodiac as one instance and emperor to entity as the other)?

[eliteknut]

Im interessed in when the HoX revamp is comming since this has been said. Is it gonna be released between the big content update?

[Kurt2013]

Ok, i will be copying over some questions from another thread, so i hope they will not be considered cross posting:

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Unchained PvE dungeons:
Will they be simply scaled like Amphi or will they include new updated quests and content? Are you intending to change the old low level instances as well as you did with Amphi?
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Tradeskill system:
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- How will existing recipes, done quests and resources be converted into the new system?
- Will charbound skills or such exist or will it be bound all on character amount and player knowledge?
- Will players be able to change existing items?
- Will there be some risk or tradeoff involved (e.g. cursed or broken items, some penalties you can work in to have a better chance of intended benefits)?
- Will you update the resource and bank space according to the new amount of resources (especially for f2p the situation atm is plainly annoying)?
- What about guild city decorations and guild city building?
- Will players be able to do and craft the same things they can now and just get a change of system with more depth and options...or will it be a complete relauch?
- Will there be craftable pvp items or the option to add pvp stats to pve items?
...

Another question considers the item shop:

- Will you lower prices for charbound items and introduce buying things accountwide and for "claim" for a slightly higher or the same price they are now?
(for example, someone with many chars might be tempted to buy the bank space expansion when it would be buyable accountwide for a reasonable price, but probably never charbound (no need for that if you have many chars for storage and too expensive for just one char))

Btw, nice initiative! hope it turns out well

[bastii]

Any news on a Vanity weapon slot?

[CrayC]

Now that the Unchained Minigames are coming, what will happen to PvP levels, gear and rewards in general? Will there be any form of personal progression in that regard?

[cins]

-How possible is it to get Secret World's appearance system over here?

-What are you going to do to stop the goldspammers?

[wisas62]

Are you going to adjust T3.5 to be easier or the rewards equal to the difficulty. Yes, I've completed it several times and it is too long (way toooooo much trash) and harder than T4. The guilds in the US haven't done it in months because the rewards in T4 are better and T3 is faster.

Are you going to make any adjustments to the current K6 dungeons that are more difficult than others? I've done them all with the right group but for the effort places like Pagoda/Coppice/Dugout/AI/Tian are not worth it. Why take the time to do AI when you can get more AAXP/Rares and finish a whole Yag loop faster.

[Elleanorr]

Are you going to consider implementing character appearance change? In form lets say to add an specific NPC who will be able to change your looks, the same way the character creation is based on.

[Vedmed]

Any plan to introduce something similar to TSW's chronicle (http://chronicle.thesecretworld.com/) for Age of Conan, where PVP and PVE statistic could be tracked?