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AoC Bug Penalizes Female Characters?
Massively is reporting that there may be an unintended (according to FunCom) bug in the new MMO Age of Conan that would cause female characters to do significantly less damage over time. It seems that as the initial "shiny factor" wears off for the new darling MMO, the bugs and complaints just continue to pile up resulting in a fair bit of buyer's remorse. "In the meantime, some ingenious players have provided fixes along the lines of the 'unsheath your weapon to fix your mount speed' trick. Poster Dnotice even provides evidence that variation in listed attack speed may be down to the gender of the first character you log in when starting AoC, and not the gender of the character you may be playing at the time. Curiouser and curiouser: although the listed speed can be altered by changing the first character's gender, the actual animation speed apparently can't."
Obviously this is because the female characters are off-balance due to their breasts shrinking.
Some people pay good money to see bugs penalize female characters.
Has anyone checked to see if there is a gender bonus for female characters who have tailoring or cooking professions?
The women do a tremendous amount of psychological damage over time.
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This was probably just a side effect of bad communication. The graphics devs probably didn't know to make the attack animation the same speed as the males. The variable attack speed based upon animation speed is a good idea, they just executed it poorly. Just like most of the stuff in the game thus far. It'll probably be fixed very shortly. inb4 sexism lawsuits
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Perhaps these bugs are by design
"unsheath your weapon to fix your mount speed"
That's what she said.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the female characters.
you are a masochist and you deserve everything you get.
Yah, but FFXI was one of the worst grinding games out there. With the proposed system, you could get to 'average' level / power in a matter of days, not in a matter of years like with FFXI. Plus, there would have to be some skill involved -- I remember playing FFXI a few years ago and literally falling asleep at my computer while our group pulled stuff in some desert or another. I woke up a half hour later with my group congratulating me on how well I did.
We had all gone up half a level.
We had spent four hours there.