Questions From a Paying Noob Hypnotized by AO
Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 2:48 pm
Hi all,
I have started to play AO a few days ago and I am completely hypnotized by this great MMORPG. I went ahead and bought all the expansions pretty quickly because I wanted to support Funcom and its efforts in my own little way. (Even if I quit tomorrow and never enjoy my expansions, it will have been money well spent to me.)
Anyway, I have some questions I needed to ask since I can't seem to register properly on the official AO forums:
a) Could anyone point me to a guide to help me decide whether to go Clan, Neutral, or Omni? I'm not looking for guild offerings, just a hard look at what are the disadvantages/advantages of taking a side or going Neutral for a while. (For instance, does filling up a token board early have any advantages?)
b) Since I have the expansions, could anyone tell me more about Alien XP and what it can do for the player? I couldn't find anything about either this or research (see below) in the AO online game manual since it only covers Notum Wars and Shadowlands.
c) Can anyone tell me if research can push your skills beyond the natural maximum for breed and profession without the expansions? If this is so, wouldn't it be more of an advantage to wait until lvl 200+ to start any research at all?
EXAMPLE - Let's say I'm an Opifex engineer with a natural limit to Stamina of 480 (not sure of the exact number here) with all possible IP's spent on the attribute. If I study the "Serendipity #1" research line at a very high lvl and get +5 stamina...could this make my base stamina go to 485? If it does, would studying this earlier "lose" that extra potential 5 points of potential stamina? Hope I asked these questions in a non-confusing way...
Thanks for any help or insight. AO sure is a fun game!
~Benford
I have started to play AO a few days ago and I am completely hypnotized by this great MMORPG. I went ahead and bought all the expansions pretty quickly because I wanted to support Funcom and its efforts in my own little way. (Even if I quit tomorrow and never enjoy my expansions, it will have been money well spent to me.)
Anyway, I have some questions I needed to ask since I can't seem to register properly on the official AO forums:
a) Could anyone point me to a guide to help me decide whether to go Clan, Neutral, or Omni? I'm not looking for guild offerings, just a hard look at what are the disadvantages/advantages of taking a side or going Neutral for a while. (For instance, does filling up a token board early have any advantages?)
b) Since I have the expansions, could anyone tell me more about Alien XP and what it can do for the player? I couldn't find anything about either this or research (see below) in the AO online game manual since it only covers Notum Wars and Shadowlands.
c) Can anyone tell me if research can push your skills beyond the natural maximum for breed and profession without the expansions? If this is so, wouldn't it be more of an advantage to wait until lvl 200+ to start any research at all?
EXAMPLE - Let's say I'm an Opifex engineer with a natural limit to Stamina of 480 (not sure of the exact number here) with all possible IP's spent on the attribute. If I study the "Serendipity #1" research line at a very high lvl and get +5 stamina...could this make my base stamina go to 485? If it does, would studying this earlier "lose" that extra potential 5 points of potential stamina? Hope I asked these questions in a non-confusing way...
Thanks for any help or insight. AO sure is a fun game!
~Benford