wayfarer

One of the things I tend to do when I'm playing a MMO that I'm not sure I'm going to stay in or not, is to take up

as many harvesting professions as I can as quickly as possible. (at the earliest level) You never have to go far

out of your way to harvest while questing. I made a ton of money doing this in LoTRO gathering skins, timber, and ore.

This game sounds really interesting, and like you said, WoW did'nt have any end game raiding when they first came out. I will not be dropping

my WoW account, but I want to try this game to give me some variety during the day. The LoTRO storyline quests are really cool, so I'm thinking

the public quests are along the same lines.

I read in PC Gamer a little about instances in this game. They are all 6 man groups, nothing more. Some are open world,

some are actual instances. The public quests looks interesting, maybe similar to the storline quests in LoTRO? I think this

game is going to be all about the PvP, any PvE will be gravy.

It's about dam time!!!

Are you in there Kenger? how is it? Did you preorder online, or from a store?

Thoughts? Please elabotate.

Anyone in the open beta for this?

I posted this a while ago, but no one seemed

interested. The release date is fast approaching, and I have been really into WoW lately. This game does look really good, hopefully

it has some staying power.

Excellent article by Desslock in the Oct issue of PC Gamer.

Successful MMO's are the most lucrative PC games, but it's extremely difficult to attract and maintain a player base

that's sufficiently large and loyal enough to justify a MMO's development and operating costs. Giant companies like microsoft

and EA have repeatedly failed despite their tremendous resources, and most MMO projects have lost buckets of money.

Thought it was appropriate here.

That seemed to be a problem with Vanguard as well. Once people start believing the game has no future it's like

a death sentence for a MMO. I would be really tic'd off if I went all the way to 80 and could'nt get into that content.

No server transfers available? You could follow the server forums & see which one has a healthy population.

From what I can see there are at least 3 level 80 6 man instances and 5 level 80 24 man raids. You guys are telling me

you've cleared all of that? Taken from here

After playing AoC I get this weird feeling of non-accomplishment from other games (especially RPGs). It's like, why am I doing any of this if it's only single player?

 

Hopefully Too Human and beer will drive this devil idea out of my head.

I've got the same thing going on... only AoC doesn't help either. My character's crafting is maxed for armorsmithing/gemcutting, I'm sitting on over 160 gold, and there are no lowbies to protect. What else is there?

 

So last night I hopped on a UT2k4 server again and got accused of "admin hacking", since I spanked a player, and then they couldn't fire their weapon. That hit the spot.

Did you guys run any instances? Did you reach the level cap? Is there no end-game raids? Generally MMO's just begin when

the level cap is met, though I know Vanguard had no raids ready yet when I was playing. (that has since changed) But I thought

AoC had some raids ready to go at launch.

I've read on many occasions that MMO's are no walk in the park to create. I also heard WoW was terrible in the beggining, and Everquest too.

I think it's the nature of the beast and I think MMO's are a gamble not only to play, but to make as well.

What realm are you on? Tournament realms? People actually raid on this realms?

We're on Baelgun, a PvE server. Ebil for PvP you might want to look at this totem for resto

or this totem for dps.

As much fun as AoC was, I really don't have the time to play MMOs, I love too many types of games to stick with only one.

 

So if we're all leaving who do I give my stuff to?

When I left WoW for Vanguard, I gave all my stuff away. I did'nt think I was going to

come back. When I did I had nothing and that is a REAL pain in the butt. If you think there

is ever a chance you might return don't give all your stuff away. It will be there for you

when you come back. BTW I think Shep is right, Blizzard seems to have nailed the MMO

genere done to a science. Other games may look & sound better, but they are lacking

and people tend to lose interest eventually.

Wow, this is dying pretty fast. If no one from your guild is signing on then why not look for a new guild? Or maybe this is

just in time for an even more anticipated MMO, WaR? Mythic has anounced

Sept 18 as the release date. Did you guys get started on any end game content? Did you all reach the level cap (80 i think)

or get tired of the heavy grind in the later stages? Maybe MMO's are not your thing Mo, if thats the case I'm sure you must

be looking forward to Fallout 3 due out late fall 08.

Ok...is it just me...or has that joke really just run it's course?

Completely run its course.

It was funny the first time?

No one said anything about funny. Just that it had run it's course.

Ok...is it just me...or has that joke really just run it's course?

Completely run its course.

I don't think that's anywhere near where Mo lives.

What ISP will keep giving you e·mail service after you cancel?

Totally understand this position.

So trust me, I will never have both in the same location again. period.

This is mostly for the Canadians that surf these forums as I don't think Rogers operates in the U.S (I could be wrong tho)

After 3 years of internet service from rogers I decided to return to sympatico (Bell) by buying a wireless

card and hooking up with my sister. This would give me a savings of roughly $50.00 per month. As part of the deal

with rogers when I signed up I was offered a "free" email address that would be powered by yahoo.ca the domain

however would be rogers.com No less than 2 hours after terminating my internet connection my access to my email

was severed. Funny how a "free" email address was suddenly cut off when I stopped paying. After several hours of

heated debate, in which I did little to hide my impressions of rogers or their policies, the only outcome I got was that I purchase

another months' internet to reaquire my email address, or find someone willing to transfer that email address to their account

so I can access it. I don't know anyone else that uses Rogers, and I can see why now. Seeing as Rogers will not get another

dime out me come hell or high water, neither of these options are applicable. After speaking to one superior and told this

can not be done, I was given the name of another superior who is not present but will return my call regarding this situation

later this week.

Email addresses are free from a number of different domains, when I switched from hotmail to rogers email, I did so

strictly because my hotmail account was getting too much spam. Had I known this was the stance rogers was going to

take with their offer of "free" email service, I would have gone someplace else. So now you have fair warning, if you

have a rogers.com email, you should ensure that it is not your primary email source if any at all.

Funny that this should come up. Yesterday I decided to cancel my rogers internet and go back to sympatico. (Canadians reading this will recognize the IP's)

It never dawned upon me that by doing this my @rogers.com email address might be in jepardy. Sure enough, I try to access my

email last night, and find my access to my own email has been revoked. No warnings, nothing. Everything I had in there, all my receits,

kept emails, and address are in there. I am going to try to get access today to get all my info transfered to another email. I am totally appalled

by this to say the least. I know I should have been a little more intuitive about this, but no warning, & no access to retrieve personal information

is just vindictiveness. If any Canadaians are reading this and have a @rogers.com email address, I recommend you change to something else

at your earliest convienience. So, I'm guesssing most people use gmail? (thats google right?) I had a hotmail address, I'm thinking of going

back to that.

So does anyone play here? My co-workers have been playing for about 2+ years, they tried to get me into it way back, but I never had time. So I've been playing for a few weeks and have alot of help from those guys. I must say the PvP rules are much better for this game, I also like how the skill system works. You don't have to be logged in to train.

I did the free trial for that game about a year ago, but just could'nt get into it. Graphics were nice tho

Apparently it was terrible, or at least that's what the reviews said.

Yeah, I read it was terrible too, in PC gamer. Though they gave Sins of a Solar Empire an incredibly

good review, despite the fact the game was a complete rip off of Homeworld and had no single player storyline.

I WISH it was a complete rip-off of Homeworld. Homeworld doesn't work on Vista and is so much better than Sins of a Solar Empire.

The style of some of the ships & what they say in response to your commands are word for word

exactly the same as in homeworld. (the TEC faction anyway) I could not believe it when I played

it. Several letters were sent in to PC Gamer from people venting their frustration with the review, but

they defended themselves as if those people did'nt know what they were talking about. I stopped buying

the magazine, guess I'll get my info online now. Know any good sites?

Apparently it was terrible, or at least that's what the reviews said.

Yeah, I read it was terrible too, in PC gamer. Though they gave Sins of a Solar Empire an incredibly

good review, despite the fact the game was a complete rip off of Homeworld and had no single player storyline.