Can we realistically defend terrible features such as notoriety, water poisoning, dirt accumulation and tanning, armor breaking and fall damage? Is there an actual good reason for them to be present and not that vetex wanted to make ao more immersive to an extent, like did he ACTUALLY think through …

ohhh yeah and it’d be even worse if said solution cost 24,99USD$, that’d be sooo bad since that’s basically buying a game for said feature, thank god he never created the quick solution and priced it that!

I get that hectare essence is really hard to get and all but you really don’t need to pay to change your magic thankfully, and we, the players, should be pushing for Vetex to make changing magic more accessible for players, without paying.

[image] Head_of_Tomato: we, the players, should be pushing for Vetex to make changing magic more accessible for players, without paying. Not happening, he was really pissed adding the feature in the first place, there’s little to no chance for it to be changed to be easier.

[image] LightingmAIn: Can we realistically defend terrible features such as notoriety, water poisoning, dirt accumulation and tanning, armor breaking and fall damage? Is there an actual good reason for them to be present Oh hey, I am qualified to talk about this! Notoriety: I don’t see this …

[image] LightingmAIn: tanning In that same suggestion, I sped up the tanning vanishing, so it goes away very fast when exiting the hot area. I didn’t see it as that outrageous of a problem. [image] LightingmAIn: armor breaking This one shouldn’t have happened. We knew from the start h…

[image] delta_000: water poisoning needs a rework asap, maybe with the new puddles rework it could have a meter or sum, and it would raise if you were in uncovered places from the rain or standing in the puddles for a bit too long [image] Alternative solutions to Water…

you either pay for magic reset or pay to progress an entire slot to level 100 or you waste hours of your life

[image] BiologLOL: Notoriety: I don’t see this one as a problem. i get that for most of you notoriety and bounty aren’t huge deals but you have no idea how unbearably annoying it is to free your friends from executions during ganks then you get 4 notoriety stars and suddenly you’re getting su…

[image] LightingmAIn: how unbearably annoying it is to free your friends from executions during ganks If you are the one ganking somebody as a squad, you deserve the execution. If you are getting ganked as a criminal by a hero… Yeah, it’s kinda unfair you have to go through the unskippable cu…

[image] LightingmAIn: evil blitz technique that has a 1 in 10 chance to deal fall damage to the user for some reason This is a bug, not the feature’s fault [image] LightingmAIn: @cheems made an entire post dedicated to explaining why jail time is such a terrible and garbage feature Ca…

Are AO'S bad game design features actually defendable

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