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Welcome back and I am glad you found AOU!Theotus wrote:Recently i returned to AO ...
To make credits in AO, and to be able to make a good amount you have to find whatever it is that makes credits that you can stick at.1. Money making, when i last played the best way to make cash (aside from a lucky drop), was to farm ingots from hecks and sell to shops, you could make decent cash doing this. whats the best way now? (i am not exactly poor but by todays standards i suspect i am fairly poor).
AO lookup shows you are in an organisation with 573 members -- thats not small on my account and with that many members surely you can organise something together I havent raided on a community run points bot for the last forever so I can't really give any input on that one.2. Raid bots / community tools, I am in a fairly small organisation; id like to tackel things like the beast (btw wtb HHAB lol) i have joined up with iraid, are there other good ways of organising this kinda of run? are there other bot networks (maybe something more freindly than a points based raid runner)? same for PvP and role play really, id like to get back in to some RP i was a big fan in AO's early days.
You can get tokens from missions at your level. Both RK and Alien Missions give tokens. RK you have to do it solo, AI you can be teamed.3. token boards, i assume that i cant get tokens from missioning anymore? (as i am over 200) and i dont yet have a 1k tokenboard lol. is it just the farming guns quests now for me? i also understand there are new boards i know about the one from hollow island, are there easyer and better options? (again i am in a small org - not sure about our ability to do raids anymore).
MMD has had its gas changed. I am pretty sure if you step into Borealis you will see some duels. Im not the best person to give any advice whatsoever about pvp.4. PvP - places like MMD, and other suppression gas zones, are they largely un populated now in faviour of the battle station ? i much prefer open world pvp , and i am guessing attacking a tower is about the best way to get it?
If your org has a city, use it. Otherwise, go and check out our Alien Invasion Knowledge section and the Booster Pack section. Arid Rift has good AXP opportunities.5. Alien points, i have the AI exansion but am only AI5, id love a group that is getting AI xp, again my guild might not be best place to do this i am not sure. are there organised ways to achive this? i hear the LE missions dont give much xp and are not really done anyhow thesedays? is this another Iraid thing really? any tips on getting AI xp? (or indeedy anyone doing the same thing thats willing to let me in on gangs?)
Yeah, ingots are gone...Theotus wrote:1. Money making, when i last played the best way to make cash (aside from a lucky drop), was to farm ingots from hecks and sell to shops, you could make decent cash doing this. whats the best way now? (i am not exactly poor but by todays standards i suspect i am fairly poor).
Don't get me started on points bots, I hate them...Theotus wrote:2. Raid bots / community tools, I am in a fairly small organisation; id like to tackel things like the beast (btw wtb HHAB lol) i have joined up with iraid, are there other good ways of organising this kinda of run? are there other bot networks (maybe something more freindly than a points based raid runner)? same for PvP and role play really, id like to get back in to some RP i was a big fan in AO's early days.
APF can give you a board called a Paragon 2500 tokens needed, and Xan can upgrade it into either an offensive or defensive varient.Theotus wrote:3. token boards, i assume that i cant get tokens from missioning anymore? (as i am over 200) and i dont yet have a 1k tokenboard lol. is it just the farming guns quests now for me? i also understand there are new boards i know about the one from hollow island, are there easyer and better options? (again i am in a small org - not sure about our ability to do raids anymore).
PvP, hate it, dunno lol.Theotus wrote:4. PvP - places like MMD, and other suppression gas zones, are they largely un populated now in faviour of the battle station ? i much prefer open world pvp , and i am guessing attacking a tower is about the best way to get it?
Get yourself into the Xan playfield, the alium side (I forget what it's called) has good AIxp, and now you'll be glad to hear that creat buffs work on AIxp too!Theotus wrote:5. Alien points, i have the AI exansion but am only AI5, id love a group that is getting AI xp, again my guild might not be best place to do this i am not sure. are there organised ways to achive this? i hear the LE missions dont give much xp and are not really done anyhow thesedays? is this another Iraid thing really? any tips on getting AI xp? (or indeedy anyone doing the same thing thats willing to let me in on gangs?)
Ukblizzard covered this one fairly well, but personally I used to go to the mercs camp and farm up some 201+ imps and clusters to sell. Though I kinda got fed up of it and nowadays I mostly just run by a few pocket boss dropping mobs that I know have some fairly decent symbs they drop and sell those instead.Theotus wrote:1. Money making, when i last played the best way to make cash (aside from a lucky drop), was to farm ingots from hecks and sell to shops, you could make decent cash doing this. whats the best way now? (i am not exactly poor but by todays standards i suspect i am fairly poor).
First of all, APF/Pande has been instanced these days (there's also an uninstanced version of Pande, but dunno how much people actually make use of it these days) so getting together a group of friends / org mates / etc on the weekend isn't exactly impossible. Does require a bit of experience to know what to do, but both APFs and Pandemonium is a fairly straight forward encounter. IRaid is an alternative too, though I was never a big fan of grinding raidbot points personallyTheotus wrote:2. Raid bots / community tools, I am in a fairly small organisation; id like to tackel things like the beast (btw wtb HHAB lol) i have joined up with iraid, are there other good ways of organising this kinda of run? are there other bot networks (maybe something more freindly than a points based raid runner)? same for PvP and role play really, id like to get back in to some RP i was a big fan in AO's early days.
I actually am not certain if you can get tokens from doing RK missions once you are over level 200.. Never tried because the missions become so incredibly huge at that point and farming token guns or doing battlestations or pvp quest was a much more effective way of getting tokens.Theotus wrote:3. token boards, i assume that i cant get tokens from missioning anymore? (as i am over 200) and i dont yet have a 1k tokenboard lol. is it just the farming guns quests now for me? i also understand there are new boards i know about the one from hollow island, are there easyer and better options? (again i am in a small org - not sure about our ability to do raids anymore).
Seeing as you are on RK1, you might want to have a glance at Borealis. I know that last week there was some big action there with a lot of flagged clams and omlettesTheotus wrote:4. PvP - places like MMD, and other suppression gas zones, are they largely un populated now in faviour of the battle station ? i much prefer open world pvp , and i am guessing attacking a tower is about the best way to get it?
If you have gotten Legacy of the Xan, get a group of org mates or friends (or both, since I would hope that you consider people in your org friends ) and head into Arid Rift. The AXP in there is sick, the HP bars aren't big and the quest you do (which eventually gives you the Beta ear of your choice) gives a lot of AXP in the rewards as well (SK too, though the SK does depend on your level, so personally I would wait a few more levels to do them so that you get more research and regular SK in one go since you will eventually want to stab yourself in the eye from all the inf missioning needed to be 220 and LE70 )Theotus wrote:5. Alien points, i have the AI exansion but am only AI5, id love a group that is getting AI xp, again my guild might not be best place to do this i am not sure. are there organised ways to achive this? i hear the LE missions dont give much xp and are not really done anyhow thesedays? is this another Iraid thing really? any tips on getting AI xp? (or indeedy anyone doing the same thing thats willing to let me in on gangs?)