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Both. You pay the upgrade fee and then, depending on how long you wish to pay at one time (1 month, 3 months, 6 months or a year) you pay X dollars/euros a monthkraizer793 wrote:1. As far as the expansions are concerned. are they a 1 time payment or a subscription-type deal?
You can join and/or create organizations regardless of if you have expansions or not.kraizer793 wrote:2. I hear a lot about "Orgs" which I assume is short for "Organization". Either way, do i need the expansion packs to create/join these "Orgs"?
To get XP you have to kill mobs that do not register as "grey" to you (you can tell from the color of their HP bar when you select them)kraizer793 wrote:3. XP, how do i get XP? I know, I know, I'm new to the whole MMORPG scene, yet, I have tried killing various things, no XP.
Those are mobs attacking you I presume. You might want to consider teaming or getting in a few implants and armor as well as weapons to be able to fight them off more efficiently.kraizer793 wrote:4. In athens, what is the subway supposed to be? I go down there, to where the shops are, and I can barely stay in there for like 30 seconds. Then some jackass comes and picks a fight....that I can't win
Nano Program is the "magic" of Anarchy Online, to put it bluntly. Most nanos are only available to one or a few professions, such as the best heals in game are of course only available to doctors and the best aggro management nano programs are only available to enforcers.kraizer793 wrote:5. Nano, can SOMEONE PLEASE! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! explain:
-Nano
-Pets
-NCU
-Programs
And how to use them.
Grey = Mob has a level quite a bit below your own. You will not get XP from these.kraizer793 wrote:So what color are mobs' health bars? And, what do the different colored HP bars of other people/NPC's/mobs mean? is there a certain color for each?
That would, I assume, be the PvP score bars. You can customize which bars you wish to view via the I in the top left corner of the stats window.kraizer793 wrote:In my stats menu, on the right, I have my HP bar, my Nano bar, and 2 other bars that aren't even filled up. what are they for?
Your credits are stored on your person, I believe they are displayed in the lower left of your GUI (might be lower right, I forget )kraizer793 wrote:Do the "Insurance Devices" and/or "bank" terminals save my credits? I know I can deposit items in the bank, yet, what about my credits?
To create an organization you need:kraizer793 wrote:Orgs, I'm real interested in these. I play a lot of "faction vs faction" style games. So, how, exactly, do I Join/create/and leave orgs? and I also hear about "org cities"....These are...?
Team = A team of between 2-6 people that do a task together (usually leveling or quests/missions)kraizer793 wrote:What's the difference in a raid, a team, a squad, and a org?
Organization cities are located all around Rubi-Ka's open playfields. These are extremely expensive (we're talking 3 billion (with a B ) plus) They are essential for being able to make use of the Alien Invasion content (City raids) and they also give benefits to each player depending on which buildings are on the city plot. A notum mining facility will for instance give each member of the organization that has Alien Invasion a boost to all 6 nano skills.kraizer793 wrote:I hear of several "Org Cities" or towns. I dont see any of these really. Maybe due to the fact that I am in Athens still. What ARE these org cities, and how do I get one once and if I create an org?
There are some benefits, yes. When in an organization you can make use of Notum Wars towers if you organization has a Tower Site, note that this means having to deal with PvP whenever the tower site is open for attack and someone attacks it (this section gets into more detail about the Notum Wars booster pack which froobs also can take part in and get benefits from)kraizer793 wrote:Are there any benefits from being in an org? and how do you "manage" it after you've created it?
Right-click the person and a trade window will open, put any items you want to give this person into the window (make sure the other person has enough inventory spots open) and then click "Accept". Once he has clicked accept a confirmation box will pop up that you answer yes to if you wish to go through with the trade.kraizer793 wrote:How do I give another player an item? I have a ton of stuff that I have. I'd like to give a friend of mine whom I invited to join AO (which he did, needed someone to hang out with in there )
Aaah, implants.. The, imo, best part of AO. Implants can be customized and built to suit your character to the last detail.kraizer793 wrote:What do the "surgical centres" do? I have a basic eye implant I scored off of a mob, yet, I can't "insall" it.do i need a certain skill/level to install it?
To split items that are stacked, ctrl-left click it and then drag your mouse right to increase the number you wish to split and drag left to reduce the number. Note that this does not work for all items that have multiples (boxes of ammo for instance)kraizer793 wrote:how do I stack\split items?
Indeed. This is known as "Tradeskilling" and creating custom implants as mentioned above is perhaps one of the most usual tradeskills.kraizer793 wrote:is there a way to combine items? Like if I had item 1, and item 2, can I put them together to get item 3? A better example would be if I had a string, and a piece of wood, can I make a bow? I know that's not an actual combination, I hope, yet I think it gets the point across.
Pistols will automatically reload when they are empty, the reload process takes as long as the recharge of a gun is. So if your gun has a 1.5 second attack speed and a 2.3 second recharge speed, it will always take 2.3 second to reload.kraizer793 wrote:I have a pair of pistols, they were out o fbullets. I bought 2 cases of bullets, (made sure they were the right kind, pistols use bullets) so how do I "reload" the pistols?
A long forgotten set of tradeskillable weapons that are, frankly, useless compared to other weapons Just "shopfood" them to the nearest terminal I'd saykraizer793 wrote:I see these basic ranged weapon upgrades, like auto trgeting things, etc. how do I use these? I don't want to buy them and not know how to use them.
Hehe, we were all in your spot once. God knows it took me ages to learn the game, and there's still much I don't know about either But that's part of the fun for mekraizer793 wrote:I REALLY appreciate your help. or else a poor ole sod like me would probably have given up on this by now
It has its own bank yes. Most of the orgs I've been in have had it be on a "donation" basis, if we are low on the bank account we usually chip in a few credits each and we can pay our upkeep (the monthly "tax" for having an org city)kraizer793 wrote:So, just wondering, for the clan cities, and alien invasion. So, does the org have it's own cred balance? or does it take x% from all users' incomes? like a tax? and, how exactly does the aliens attack? do you lose money? please explain.
Indeed. In the trade window I explained in the last post, where you right-click the person, there is also a field at the bottom, just above the "Accept" and "Decline" button where you can enter the amount of credits you wish to transfer to the person.kraizer793 wrote:Is there a way to transfer credits? like if I didn't want to trade one of my items, can I just pay the person in credits?
Nope. The only thing you lose is the XP you gained since you last saved. (Note that it does cost a bit to save, if I'm not totally mistaken it is [Your Level] x 10, so at level 10 you pay 100 credits to save your XP. You can Not lose levels, so only the XP you earned since you last leveled is lost.)kraizer793 wrote:if/when I die, do I lose X ammount o fcredits?
Indeed there is. Along with the somewhat limited Planetmap that comes with the game, Funcom also included a 3rd party map that was made quite a few years back.kraizer793 wrote:is there an alternate map? the topography just doesn't cut it in ide open areas.
Depends on how many months you pay for in advance..kraizer793 wrote:If I were to get an expansion. how much is it per month (all expansions, I'm lovin this game so far)
Are you certain? I am almost positive that I always pay my level and at least one (possibly two) extra zeros at the end *shrug*Casorinth wrote: The cost of saving is entirely dependent on the machine, some machines are cheap others are expensive, its mission rolling that is 10x your level in credits