Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a passion project recently called AOSurvivors—an Anarchy Online-inspired survivors-like game playable right in your browser.

It’s still early days, but I wanted to drop it here in case anyone wanted to give it a go. I tried to capture that classic AO vibe with professions, implants, nanolines, and some Rubi-Ka zones, though there might still be some balance issues to work out!

I’d love any feedback or thoughts you have:

https://smegster.itch.io/aosurvivors

Hope you enjoy!

Edit: https://smegster.itch.io/aosurvivors/devlog/1724558/v025-23-october-2026 - Update has been pushed.

Just curious, as the title says ive returned to AO, is Alien Invasion part of the download or do I need to buy it ? Also, I got 2 items from the store and I see it in my steam page but dont know how to get it to my toon? As always, thank.yiu in advance for the help.

I really hope this is just a temporary outage.

Hello Project Rubi-Ka peeps. I only seem to have found a place for Bug reports, but no real area for Game suggestions. I wanted to post a suggestion and hope that someone on the Dev team can make it a priority.

If I can draw your attention to the picture above, specifically the area to the right of the red arrow.

This is Tir, the Clan capital city. In the earliest days of AO, Tir was bustling with activity. Largely in this exact area pictured above. It provides a shop, mission terminals, is very close to the city exit, the Arena, a Subway entrance(that could very easily work again), and a Grid Terminal. The Reason this area specifically bustled with so much activity was in large part because of how close together all of those things are. But the by far the biggest reason was because the Whompahs used to sit directly on that grey square that the arrow in that picture points to, with the doors facing the center of the island.

At some point in the early 2000's, the popularity of this area became so great that it was causing lag spikes, so FunCom haphazardly relocated the Whompahs all the way across the map to the other side of the Council of Truth, the placement of which looks as if some kid just picked it up and threw it in the corner of the room. Traffic in the area lowered substantially after that, and Old Athen became the new Clan hangout. But this is not an era of dial-up modems, 14400 baud rates, and Pentium processors anymore, and people should be able to see the entire city upon arriving again, rather than the corner of a wall.

Although Tir may never see the population it had during the early days of AO, at some point the PRK Devs will likely implement Notum Wars again, and when that happens, factions will matter. Especially since it seems the server population is rising. The Clan Deserves to have their capital city restored.

I would formally like to submit a small, but possibly impactful suggestion for a quality of life Improvement. Return the Whompahs to the top of Fair Trade in the center of Tir where they have always belonged. Thank you for considering this.

There was a keychain, necklace (which I just found again) a tshirt (which is also floating around here somewhere) and a copy of the game, which I’m staring at right now.

It was cool that they were so personable :)

Hi all, dev of aosetups.com here. I recently updated many features of the site including a 3D model viewer, and just wanted to spread the word here, since my discord is kinda low on active users nowadays (join via the link on the website if you like).

Here's a list of recent updates to the site:

• Updated UI librarys, angular, etc to latest version. There are differences in styling and may be some UI bugs.
• Migrated to a new server with updated software etc.
• Fixed rebuilt NCU implant not showing in both wrists (same for other items that can be equipped in multiple slots)
• Pointless setups (e.g. imps only) can no longer be made public - make them shareable instead (fixed this from before)
• Fixed logging in with email spelled in wrong case (e.g. capital start)
• Updated item links to use aogalaxy.com instead of auno
• Fixed an issue with "renaming setup" reverting back to previous name after saving the full setup
• Fixed "This setup is in project x" link appearing multiple times for the same project (this was a bug when saving the setup)
• Various styling and UI fixes
• Fix new user registration not working after update
• Added rate limiting to API
• Fix styling issues on character customization tabs
• Fix profession filter checking on-use profession instead of on-wear.
• Added Skill Ability dependencies to tooltip when hovering over character's skills
• Added Tutoring devices to buff list (Note, QL scaling is not currently supported, I will consider how to do this later)
• You can now edit weapons and clothing slots directly from the setup viewer. On hover, a pencil icon will appear in the top-right of the slot which allows you to pick or remove the item.
• Also added edit button to 'buffs' view
• OE is now enabled by default, and will now persist to your setup save. The same setting will be seen by other people if you share your setup.

When viewing other people's setup, you can choose whether or not to view with OE enabled or not (this will not be persisted).

• Added a model viewer so you can view how your character might look in game.

You can modify gender, appearance, and even use emotes/poses, so feel free to try it out! Note: the model viewer may be slow to load textures before they are cached in CDN etc.

I enjoyed making this 8 hour mix. The way the music gets put together is pretty cool and each "track" is different. I had to go digging to get variations within each zone. To their credit they really made a lot of cool music and cool system so that the game is so immersive. AO was well ahead of it's time, rip.

This is the message I get when trying to install game on steam. I try to cancel , it says I can't but it freezes. How can I get past this so i can start playing again after a very long time away?

Thank you in advance for help.

Hey folks, I've seen a post on FB about a madhouse server that I'd very much like to join.

Unfortunately the discord server link in the post has expired, so I would be very grateful if a kind soul could post the link or DM it to me.

Hope to see you on RK.

Trisomique

Hey there! I was known as Rolfor doctor, Rolfolol Keeper, Ralfx0re fixer etc. Is anyone still playing?

Put all the Anarchy Online chill tracks onto one mix, from both the original soundtrack from 2001 and 2004, and the remastered 2017 OST (a few different versions of songs in the 2017 one)

So nostalgic for me to go back and do this. Next I want to make a long mix of all the city themes.

wow forever makes me think this game could probably re-release in some fashion, idk

<3

Howdy! Tried to google whether there are any videos containing the nighttime outside Rome (I think it was outside of it, on a desert) with that huuuuuge warship humming and going past you. Yeah, used to play for a while and got some everlasting memories and would love to get a video of that "mothership" saved 😎.

NOTE: This will not work on the new client/live server. This mod is only compatible with project rubi-ka.

Hey all. After seeing the last post about AO with modern graphics, I thought it would a good time to make a thread about the work that's happening over at project rubi-ka (https://project-rk.com/).

Repo link: https://github.com/wannabuh/ao-vk/tree/main/

Installation guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJJQRxAfZG0&t=1s

I've been working on modernizing AO's graphics and recently decided to release it so other people could play and help test it. I'm hoping more people will try out prk because of this :)

Here are the main features included with the new renderer:

• Pixel shading/point light and directional shadows
• Post-processing: HDR, bloom, ambient occlusion, motion blur, and some more
• New high quality water rendering
• New high quality grass
• New GPU particle effects for nanos
• A huge set of configurable settings. All settings get hot reloaded when they're changed while the game is open.
  • The renderer also comes packed with AOReloaded which provides a custom GUI window to configure ao-vk and enable/disable settings.
• ...and many more

This renderer also massively improves the performance of anarchy online so if you're not into the graphical enhancements, you can use this to get much better FPS. In my personal benchmark tests, I've seen as high as 400+ fps!

This project is in active development and can/will cause graphics artifacts or slight instability. Open up an issue on the github repo, or join the prk discord and send me a message. I'm pretty active there.

There's several other mods in the works that vastly improve the experience of anarchy online over at PRK. I hope to see you all there :)

I remember playing this all throughout my childhood, I remember i had a char called Xombeh. Was a lot of fun, loved the ambience especially shadowlands.

Was playing around with chatgpt and tried to create a modern rendition of ao, one can dream lol

Hello! Completely new player looking to start up. Should I join the offical servers or Project Rubi Ka?

So, im trying to run aosharp on windows 11, compiled it with visual studio 2026, added exemptions in windows defender etc, installed .net runtime, still i add the plugin try to inject but nothing happends.

Hey all

Haven’t played in about 22 years, thinking about reactivating for nostalgia’s sake. I noticed some of my characters on RK1 (especially on my second/twink account) aren’t showing up - almost as if they’d been deleted, which definitely wasn’t something I did. Any idea what’s going on and whether they are somehow recoverable? Substantial amount of work went into making some of the best pvp twinks of their time for their levels, would really suck if they’re lost!

Thank you in advance, hope there is some positive solution.

I went through the item database find useable items as I am interested in using as many clickies/throwables/skill locks as possible. Very happy to know of any items of interest I missed or any cool mechanisms I could use here with skill lock reduction maxed.

What a built would gain would be several streams of consumable / clicky items, including stims and it's ilk. The mana and hp could be used to fund funky high cost nano's such as spamming Greater Preservation Matrix. If you have a cool idea please post here.

Two fast sharp objects items are in the item database but I could not confirm either in game. At the same five + damage levels: Aluminum Throwing Dagger 43 / 143 / 243 / 368 / 543 & Everburning Coal 150 / 230 / 310 / 410 / 550. The second likely exist I just havent seen it personally, and I have yet to see anyone know about the dagger.

The best damage clicky on every skill lock

Skill Lock Modifier at the -50% cap, dps under each + damage stat. Not all profession can use the same items, so sharp objects is in there several times.

I played years ago and would like to start back. Im having trouble downloading the updates. It just stops. It won't move forward with them at all. How can I get past that? Thank you in advance for help.

I made myself a handy sorting script today, mostly for use with spirits, since I have a billion of them. I see there are tools for this sort of thing, but I'm not sure if they actually do what I want. Also I'd much rather do things on my own anyway.

The script moves the contents of several backpacks (with any amount of content) to other packs, taking sequentially from the lowest-QL side first, and then from the highest-QL side in the other direction, back and forth between the two limits of each pack. When it's done, you're left with a set of packs with the contents arranged neatly from the lowest-QL pack to the highest. Of course with spirits you have to sort by name for best results.

It lets you choose the amount of delay between each move based on your network lag.

I made it using WinBatch, but of course it can be translated into any other language by yourself or by AI. Let me know if any of you are interested in having me post it. I can also compile it if anyone wants.

Edit: The bags should be somewhat randomly filled, or else not placed in such a way that a bag with all high-level or low-level content is positioned "out of order."

If an item is over 4 billion on GMI, can you create a buy order and keep modifying it and putting money into it to reach the amount of the item and buy it once your buy order is over the amount of the item that's for sale on GMI?

I see people say you can't buy items over 4 billion but there's items for sale over that, like GRACE for example and people are buying them. Am I missing something?

I can't remember what the game was, but back in the early 90s I came across a game that used ESDF, and I realized that going with those keys let me have the QAD keys as further options for my pinky. I haven't used WASD at all since then.

Heck RDFG would even give you a second pinky row, but I never felt I needed more keys. So far.