On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:05:17 +0100, Sean Black
<sean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>>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 :-)
Damn, just missed you. logged into Ector, pootled around a bit whilst
doing a /who Asela /who Throt. Did a couple of quests. Dinged Wicci to
13 and logged from Ector around 10.25 to log onto Gareth for some
guild RvR fun.
>Still I've him up to level 10 now, so things are progressing a bit
>better.
Great. I'm no caster expert but have played a Sorc to level 20 plus,
and I have been killed lots by them so I can give you some good advice
to get you on your way :). Also Wicci my Heretic is level 13 now so we
are in good level range to group.
>>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?
Best explained in-game, would take a long post here to fully describe.
Remember though that once you select a trade skill it cannot ever be
changed. You can respec your character, respec RA'a (Realm Abilities)
etc. but you can never change your crafting profession so do not chose
one until you are certain.
>>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 thought the UK servers would have a more mature user base.
>>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.
Good to know, what server are you on in CoH?
>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.
Aye I noticed that, so I broke down and bought CoH UK version today
from play.com. I had hoped the combined box would be earlier than next
year. Not too bad though as NCSoft have made the shrewd decision to
let you play both for the one sub as you say. I ordered CoV too.
>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.
Aye, that's what I do.
DAoC is my main, and has been since I quit EQ for it four years ago.
I've taken breaks and tried other MMORPGs but always come back to
DAoC. I also like to keep a MMORPG light for times when I'm RvR
frazzled out, or guild politics are getting a bit silly ;).
CoH and WoW are both good fun games for some light relief.
>Also considered SW Galaxies, but not reading too much good stuff about
>it, apart from a few die-hards sticking up for it.
Good decision IMHO.
A wonderful concept that game, and it has some wonderful things in it
just that SOE screwed it right up much like they do with all their
games. It boggles me how they can take a game with the draw that Star
Wars had and bork it up. It boggles me more how they had a big
Hollywood movie budget for EQ2 and a ready fan base from EQ and borked
that right up as well.
I really can't see me playing any SOE game again as this is one
company that simply cannot seen to learn from its mistakes. They are
the greediest hogs in the MMORPG market as well, paying for every
small content patch in EQ2.....Adventure packs my arse.
/rant off
BB.
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