Anarchy Online: The Notum Wars Preview
The upcoming "booster pack" for Anarchy Online will let players build lucrative resource mines--and defend them to the death.
Norwegian developer Funcom had already made something of a name for itself with the outstanding graphical adventure game The Longest Journey in 2000, but the developer had high hopes of becoming a game industry heavyweight with its futuristic online role-playing game, Anarchy Online, which was launched last year. Unfortunately, Anarchy Online launched with a lot of problems, including technical issues that proved to be frustrating for its users. It was unfortunate, because the game was the first futuristic sci-fi online RPG, and it had good graphics, great music, a distinctive sense of style, and a complex and intriguing background story. Since the game's problematic launch, the developer has dedicated itself to reworking the game and went so far as to
If you're reading this, there's a good chance you know what phrases like "14.6 patch" and "online RPG" refer to. Anarchy Online, like most online RPGs, is a game that lets you create a single character from a particular race and profession, then adventure in a huge online world with other players, and games like Anarchy Online get regular updates and fixes with incremental patches that get automatically downloaded each time you play. But you may not be familiar with Anarchy Online's futuristic story, which takes place on the remote mining colony Rubi-Ka in deep space. Three major Rubi-Ka factions have been vying for control--the huge and sinister Omni-Tek corporation, the rebel clans, and the neutral independents--though in Notum Wars, a new ordinance is passed on Rubi-Ka, one that lets anyone from any faction build mines to harvest the planet's most precious resource, notum, which powers all of the advanced nanotechnology on the planet.
Considering that nanotechnology powers everything on Rubi-Ka, including pretty much all of your character's abilities, discovering a notum vein can help greedy adventurers become wealthy and powerful, provided they have the right tools. In order to mine notum, you will need to spend lots of time and effort on craftsmen, particularly engineer characters, to erect controllers--huge towers that pump notum out of the ground and grant powerful bonuses to their owners. Since most controllers will be expensive and difficult to make, the most lucrative notum deposits will have to be mined by the largest, wealthiest player groups (known as "organizations"), and all the new contested notum areas will appear in the wilderness outside of city walls. That's not to say that only high-level players will be able to build or afford controllers, because some notum deposits can be mined by players of as low a level as 10.
Still, notum controllers can be significant assets, whether they're controlled by organizations of powerful characters or a group of friends casually squabbling over turf. The player that builds a notum controller will be designated as the "lord" of that area--the game's map will even give you a message to that effect when you enter it. Owning a notum controller gives significant bonuses to any members of your organization and gives further bonuses to you--and it also assigns generic bonuses to any players of your faction (Omni-Tek, clan, or independent) that happen to be in the area. So if, for instance, you happen to be affiliated with Omni-Tek, and you're wandering through the notum fields and see an Omni-Tek controller under attack, you may want to jump in and help defend it, even if you're not specifically affiliated with the owners, because the controller gives you generic bonuses that you'll lose if the controller is lost.
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