The Golden Ratio

Seems that Aion has been a pretty successful start. At least if you can measure success in queue length. When I got home from work yesterday I was greeted by the follow message:

Almost 3000 people waiting to log on?! I thought the old World of Warcraft queues where bad when I had to wait an hour. At least the queue times give me plenty of time to get others things done at home.

The times I have managed to log onto Aion I’ve figured out part of the problem with the strange steering while flying. In China and Korea they seem to use mouse-clicking to move, so Aion was coded for that to begin with. When they released it for the Western markets they added the option to have the mouse change the view- and movement-direction similar to how it is done in World of Warcraft and Age of Conan. But there still seems to be some bugs around this. One of them being the awkward steering while flying. The reason for the bug is that you cannot pan the camera when the mouse is hovering over the sky! Once I figured that out it all worked a bit better, since I just kept the mouse focused on my character which solved the problem. It isn’t the best solution, but it makes flying a lot easier until they fix the bug.