My Synthetic World

Random thoughts and opinions as inspiration strikes.

Author: mklinic

Introduction:

Today is going to be a short update. I only had about an hour to play around, but had a few notable experiences in that time.

The Experience:

I logged in this evening to see two fully armored players not far from my position. I wasn't in a town and I haven't looked much into the flagging system, so I figured it would be a good idea to steer clear of them until I was more educated. A moment later, I was taking damage from behind. I saw one of the armored players as I strafed in the direction of town. Knowing I wasn't going to be much of a match, I just kept running and he eventually gave up the attack or found another target.

I rested a bit and set off to kill some more pigs. I was having much more success this evening and killed a few pigs and weasels. After doing so, my health was pretty low and I wasn't too far from town so I figured I would rest real quick and go sell the loot I had acquired. Not three seconds later, what appeared to be another noob was beating the crap out of me. By the time I got out of the resting position, which was an automatic transition, I was in mercy mode. A second later I was dead. This returned me to penniless noob status.

Since I had tried the suicide thing a couple nights ago, I was already aware I had to find a priest and I set off in the direction of one of the glowing pillars. When I got there, there was no priest to interact with. I waited a moment to see if it needed to respawn. I also searched the surrounding area to make sure I wasn't just overlooking it. When I was satisfied that I was not able to locate the priest at this location, I set off for the next glowing pillar on the horizon.

The rest of the evening was a bit uneventful. I ran around exploring and swimming a bit. I saw some ruined structures, what looked like a farm, and a lot of rolling plains.

My Opinion:

I knew this was a PvP game when I downloaded it so getting attacked and killed wasn't a bother. I was a bit irritated that the guy who killed me found me at low health, but that's the breaks. Had it been EvE, I would have exploited the situation in much the same way.

The priest things was a bit weird to me and I noticed a trend when I finally did return to the land of the living. Both times that I have died and been rezzed, someone was sitting there punching the priest or otherwise assaulting them. I imagine this is for skill gain, but that seems like a poor design. I could see the priests were not at full health, so I imagine the priest I headed to first this evening must have been killed.

Exploring, while uneventful, reminded me a bit of my days in (Pre-CU) Star Wars Galaxies. I had flashbacks of traveling across Naboo, along the lakes and rivers, looking for a place to put my house. I also noticed that it seems you have quite a view distance in this game which seems kind of nice.

While traveling, I noticed a few new creatures. Namely, I saw a razorback and some wolves, as well as more pigs and weasels. I would like to see more variety of creatures, but not a real big deal.

All in all, while I didn't get to check out skill books this evening (being broke again :P), I did get to check out a few other things I wanted to see and was pretty happy with my playtime as a whole. At this point, I'm not really sure if I can be very successful in this game due to some of my time constraints, but I'm going to stick it out the rest of the week and see how things develop.