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Thread: Frid...*ahem* Saturday with Means - June 13th, 2009 - I'm not dead.

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    Funcom employee Frid...*ahem* Saturday with Means - June 13th, 2009 - I'm not dead.

    Sorry for missing Friday completely. I was sick as a dog yesterday and accomplished nothing but holding down the couch/bed for many consecutive hours. This timing was less than perfect and I missed the company summer party...as well as the annual presentation of AO to the rest of the company. I anticipate being made fun of uver this for at least 6 months. This was a short week for me as I was away in Stockholm until Wednesday and did not make it in on Friday. Good thing the rest of the team is working hard.

    Metaing was in town this week for meetings concerning the rebalancing of specials, perks, healing etc with Genele. I was horrified when meeting them on Wednesday to see their ideas all making sense. None of these changes will be coming in the next update. ..so we will get a chance to discuss them. No reason for panic. A side benefit of him being here this week was also that he got to attend the summer party...and make an appearance at the Ark event in Oslo this weekend. Yep..the guy from Copenhagen made it to the summer party....the guy who could hear it from his house missed it. /fail

    Work continued this week on getting the heart of the new instanced cities, instanced pande and the apartments working. There was supposed to be a new version on testlive for the weekend...I'm hoping it made it there.

    Server Stability:

    I'm truly sorry it took us as long as it did to figure out how some players were managing to casuse absurd lag through the use of bots. The German dimension was completely unplayable for an unnacceptable period of time. It is easy to forget that there are idiots out there who want to hurt us...a video game...staffed by players like themselves. I imagine it was too tempting with us running a reevaluation to let the returning players enjoy the new servers and the improved performance they have been delivering for the last few weeks. The timing was not coincidence and was done in the manner that would hurt us the most. It is honestly getting to the point where the next time this sort of childish behaviour happens I am going to make use of law enforcement and all other means available to me to ensure the perpetrator receives more than a meaningless ban for their efforts. This kind of thing hurts us financially and by extension hurts our ability to fund new development for our players. I am an exceptionally patient man...but I have my limits....and I will stop at nothing to destroy the next person who does this. I no longer care if this was a "childhood indescretion" that will cripple your future or not. This warning is much more courtesy and forgiveness than last weekend's offenders deserve....and it will be the last warning. At heart I am a vindictive, heartless, ruthless bastard and behaving in any other way is an effort for me. Moving in the video game industry made me more relaxed as the day-to-day activities were lighthearted and fun...if continued activity like this forces me to be serious someone will regret it.

    Sorry to be all "doom and gloom" this week but I'm hoping this message gets where it needs to go and that we can all just go back to enjoying the game we love. People like this rarely take the second chance they are offered...but we can always hope.

    Have a great weekend.
    Colin Cragg
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    first lololol iceness is gimp

    everyone who posts below me owes me 100m


    also I would imagine means will read this post because its the first one so

    means , you're the father of my baby

    also, please implement more 'classical AO' style content,
    http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...d.php?t=555006



    PS : you are doing a great job
    Last edited by Ninj00; Jun 13th, 2009 at 08:39:52.

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    third lOLOLOLOL


    btw , I hax ur server

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ninj00 View Post
    third lOLOLOLOL


    btw , I hax ur server
    I hit a lag spike in my connection, it won't happen again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iceness1 View Post
    I ate a dog once and then cried myself to sleep
    you need help

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    It's your ISP™

    I'll grab some pitchforks and rally the masses.
    Last edited by Vhaxx; Jun 13th, 2009 at 08:17:23.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Means View Post
    I am an exceptionally patient man...but I have my limits....and I will stop at nothing to destroy the next person who does this. I no longer care if this was a "childhood indescretion" that will cripple your future or not. This warning is much more courtesy and forgiveness than last weekend's offenders deserve....and it will be the last warning. At heart I am a vindictive, heartless, ruthless bastard and behaving in any other way is an effort for me. Moving in the video game industry made me more relaxed as the day-to-day activities were lighthearted and fun...if continued activity like this forces me to be serious someone will regret it.
    Go get 'em Means!

    And Ninj00, I r p00r n0 cr3dz f0r jo0

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    Quote Originally Posted by Means View Post
    It is easy to forget that there are idiots out there who want to hurt us...a video game...staffed by players like themselves.
    Companies that run mmorpg or any kind of online games should share a blacklist of players/mails/credit cards numbers to remove those people from all gaming communities.

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    send them bitches to jail means!

    and mail them a cake with a grenade in it.... minus the pin..... tho i dont think it would make it that far.....

    but i like that dark side of you!
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    Fake Friday with Means, and it worked!

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    I reactivated my accounts and every time either of my toons gets onto BS, I'm immediately hit with a massive lagwall that almost always results in LD. Only happens at Battlestation though. Is this ddos attack something to do with that? I can run normally everywhere else on RK
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    Means, if the criminal is in the states, gimme the address, I will claim temporary insanity after the murder, trust me, the 8+ years of playing AO will come in handy in my defense, who in their right mind plays an MMO that long?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Windguaerd View Post
    Means, if the criminal is in the states, gimme the address, I will claim temporary insanity after the murder, trust me, the 8+ years of playing AO will come in handy in my defense, who in their right mind plays an MMO that long?
    How can you claim it's Temporary?

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    Ya what's this temporary thing you speak of; you still playing

    And hope you feel better fast Means, you probably use a lot of strength holding back that vindictive rage from swinging the nerf bat at all of us
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    Quote Originally Posted by Windguaerd View Post
    Means, if the criminal is in the states, gimme the address, I will claim temporary insanity after the murder, trust me, the 8+ years of playing AO will come in handy in my defense, who in their right mind plays an MMO that long?
    I support this.

    Love to see you getting the crackdown on the perpetrators, Means.

    Also, I have a .22 in my home. It'd come in handy when I gotta hunt them down, though I don't have any bullets..

    Hell, I think we still have a blow gun, though.

    If it comes down to it, my mom just got a new set of kitchen knives that are very, very, very sharp.
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    Yow, people deliberatly screwing AO with bot attacks? thats pretty pathetic and i for one totally support the idea of you calling the law on them next time it happens...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neista View Post
    Yow, people deliberatly screwing AO with bot attacks? thats pretty pathetic and i for one totally support the idea of you calling the law on them next time it happens...
    Yep. I wonder if someone I know can track their ISPs..
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    WooHoo you go girl!!! Do ya tang!!! ;D;D
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    when is my name gonna be fixed?

    http://forums.anarchyonline.com/showthread.php?t=554848

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