In message <t048l150ci3gejeteuncf1t0qjqnl1lthj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Barnacle Bill
<away@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>Hi Sean,
>
>On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:57:00 +0100, Sean Black
><sean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>In message <7f76l1tsbioo7b96h54ub4r30ta3c9boq2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Barnacle Bill
>><away@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>>
>>>I've been looking for you lately with the Heretic I created on Ector
>>>but haven't seen you this week. I'll keep looking in during the late
>>>evenings. Post your new character name here if you roll another.
>>>
>>New character is called Throt, half-ogre armsman. Progressing a lot
>>faster and finding it much easier with him. I even found the two people
>>in the aquaducts that I couldn't find with the sorcerer, so I may go
>>back with him now I know where to look.
>
>Aye, really best to keep it simple at the start. You are embarking on
>a quite an undertaking as a complete newbie to MMORPGs, so best to
>stick to the straight forward cl***** until you get to grips with all
>the other things you need to learn. Very few, if any, folks stick to
>the first few characters they roll anyway. Even if you are a seasoned
>MMORPG player you still need to get the feel for a new game so initial
>toons are usually rerolled once you have more experience in that game
>world.
>
>>>My name is Wicci but I will only be popping onto Albion Ector before
>>>the RvR gets going on Gareth to see if I can help you along.
>>>
>>>BB.
>>
>>Thanks, I'll look out for you.
>
>It's about 10pm, so I'll log into Ector now and see if you are on. If
>not I'll check evenings around 10pm as that is when you said you
>usually play.
>
Was on last night, playing my sorcerer from about 10.30pm for what was
supposed to be a quick half-hour that turned into two hours :-)
Still I've him up to level 10 now, so things are progressing a bit
better.
How do you see who's online? I think I found the slash command somewhere
but I can't remember what it was, should have written it down somewhere.
Also, how do you put someone on the friends list?
>>What level do you have to be before you choose a profession? Do you have
>>to at all? Any recommendations, I think my armsman can either be a
>>weapon or an armour crafter?
>
>Leave that for now. Get a feel for crafting through basic crafting.
>Don't specialise yet until you learn more about the game.
>
How does the whole crafting thing work anyway?
>>I've got the MMO bug now I've got a taste for it :-) Picket up CoH at
>>the weekend as it was cheap and CoV is out soon. Finding it fun if a
>>little shallow compared to DAOC, it seems easier to get invited to join
>>a group, probably because I'm seeing more people about. So dividing my
>>time between CoH and DAOC.
>
>CoH is a really fun game but, as you say, nowhere near as deep as
>DAoC. I still play from time to time. I have a US CoH account though
>and the one downside of CoH US is that the maturity level of the
>community is not high. Far lower than WoW even in my opinion. That has
>to be expected though given the super hero thing and US kids. One of
>the things I hate when I reactivate my US CoH account is the constant
>group invite spamming, especially when I'm on four tough mobs and some
>daft kid keeps spamming the invite.
>
Maybe it's the EU servers, but it all seems quite civilised so far,
haven't run into hordes of l33t doodz or whatever they call themselves
(bit old to understand all that, lol).
>I take it that the UK version has specific UK servers, and not just
>the same ones as the US? If so I'll probably buy CoV/CoH UK combined
>box that will no doubt be out and the community will probably be more
>mature than on the US servers.
>
There seems to be two English servers and two or three others, the one
I've been on always seem to be well populated but not overrun with kids.
Easy to get into a group if you want to, and people do seem to work
together in groups most of the time with some sort of strategy in mind
instead of everyone piling in and every man for themselves, maybe I've
just been lucky.
I think the CoV/CoH box is out in January. Managed to get Heroes for
about £14 and I've got Villains pre-ordered for £18, so I thought I'd
give it a shot, especially when I learned you don't need a separate sub
for Villains.
How long they'll hold my attention, I'm not sure. I can see them being
quite handy for light relief a quick blast for whenever DAoC gets too
heavy and I need a short break. For the minute though I'm really
enjoying both, which can't be bad.
Also considered SW Galaxies, but not reading too much good stuff about
it, apart from a few die-hards sticking up for it.
--
Sean Black
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