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I'm somehwat of a noob

Post by Odyssey420 » Sun Jan 25, 2009 6:49 am

I have had two runs on AO before this, the first was about two years ago I had a MA and i made it to ToTw then a year ago I played for two weeks while i was home sick and my comp got fried I'm coming back now and honestly I dont remember much any tips would be greatly appreciated

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Post by Ukblizzard » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:51 am

Hi and welcome back to AO! Are you starting from scratch or picking up where you left off?

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Post by Niodemus » Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:48 pm

There is a lot of startup help in the gameplay guides, you'll find them if you click on Classic AO on the left menu bar under Knowledge.

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Post by Odyssey420 » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:05 pm

I'm starting from scratch, already lvl 43 ADV, how do i dual log accounts? i have another set up just no idea how to open multiple clients

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Post by Ukblizzard » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:10 pm

Log in completely to one account, then launch the client again and click that you do wish to run a second account.

(( Assuming you really do mean that you have two separate accounts and not just two separate characters :) ))

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Post by Snakebite » Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:57 pm

Yup, just open the second exactly like you would do the first (it's generaly better if you're in windowed mode, I'm assuming that since you're wondering how to do this is because you're in fullscreen mode).

You can open as many clients as your computer is capable of running, my nice new shiney computer will run 5 instances in full effects & will run 6 if I dumb the effects down a little.

What you have to remember about dual logging is to minimise all the windows that you're NOT using at the time, only have ONE window maximised at a time, if you don't it causes mouse lag & a Felix the Cat effect...

You can NOT dual log 2 characters on the same account, UNLESS they are on different servers (but why you'd want to do that I'm not sure lol), dual logged characters have to be on seperate accounts...
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Post by Casorinth » Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:07 pm

I think that logging in two characters from the same account is against the eula...

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Post by Uragon » Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:15 pm

It is, but logging two characters from different accounts in at the same time isn't.

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Post by Casorinth » Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:23 pm

yeah seperate accounts is fine, just making sure odyssey knows :)

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Post by Scene » Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:29 am

I dual log in fullscreen and have no troubles at all, I have heard of people having troubles alt-tabbing out of AO to desktop though.

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Post by Snakebite » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:31 pm

Casorinth wrote:I think that logging in two characters from the same account is against the eula...
NOT if they're on different servers...
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Post by Uragon » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:50 am

As far as I know, it is even across servers.

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Post by Snakebite » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:01 pm

No, the servers work independantly...

For example, TRY to log two chars in from the same account on the same server, it won't let you...
Now log two chars in from the same account on different servers, works normaly...
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Post by Uragon » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:20 pm

What you said is that it's possible to dual log between servers. What I'm saying is that I think it's not allowed to dual log between servers. Slight difference. :wink:

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Post by Snakebite » Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:22 pm

I asked ARK quite some time ago...
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