Originally posted by Shastra

 

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Originally posted by nightbird305
 Aion > Champions
why? 
Maps arn't surrounded by giant globes, the game engine doesn't run like crap, there are EU servers for european servers (if you are not european, don't even thinki about playing champions online). Overall, champions online is an improved version of city of X, which bored me to tears. 
 
CO needs atleast a year before I'll try it again. 

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One world and one server is what makes games like CO and EVE online such unique games. For years gamers have been crying against separation of players on basis of territory. You sir are in a minority. I can log 24/7 into CO and always find people from around the world. And as far as 'if you are european don't even think about playing CO' is the most retarded comment i have ever read. I am EU player and i have no idea WTF you are talking about.

Alright I'll start from the top.
One world? Hm, don't think so :O. It's a world with a ton of dimensions aka instances. This is how CO differs from EVE ( A GAME I LIKE ), in that EVE doesn't use multiple instances of the SAME area,but rather it uses a seperate instance for each solar system, which is actually the same method that is implemented in WoW (forexample when going from Barrens to Orgrimmar), yet WoW's servers only allow 3000 people in (or something like that), and they are stricted by continents (Europe, Asia etc).
However, I never complainned about playing with people from other continents, but rather not being able to play properly because of their choice of server. CO traffic is being identified as malicious transfers (like illegal torrents etc, apparently because the servers are located in america) and are therefore being slowed/cut off by european ISPs. I should note, that not all european ISPs are blocking this traffic, and thus not everyone is experiencing this issue (YOU), YET this issue does exsist and so far the only solutions (suggested by the CO staff!!) is to switch ISPs or wait for the CO staff to talk with your ISP (ROFL ya right). Neither of these solutions are acceptable imo, and there's pretty much no way of knowing if you are going to be affected by this. Myself and many others would rather want to be able to actually PLAY the game on european servers, rather than having spent 50 euroes to play a rubberband game on an american server. Now I may have mispoken about european servers, but basically I want european instances, that is servers that are located in europe yet still connected to the CO network. Is that so hard to do?
Oh and just so that there's no confusion, http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?t=67332 there's an active 21 page thread on the CO boards with people constantly reporting this problem, and
guest what? Most of them want to play the game too, but can't because of the damned server. Minority? Hardly.
Btw being ignorant doesn't make you right.

 I just want to clear up that I don't hate CO, I love the character customization. I just feel that the guys behind CO made some poor choices such as the giant movement limiting bubbles.

Also with my spcs Corei7 950 3.0ghz and 295 gtx nvidia card, the game engine allows me to run the game at 20 FPS with max settings and 55 fps  with lowest. I mean, wtf?!

There's a lot more but because of this (and because of the connection that myself and many other europeans are experiencing) Aion > CO  IMO.  

I standby my statement of trying the game again in a year where hopefully they've fixed all these issues. 

Originally posted by nightbird305

 I just want to clear up that I don't hate CO, I love the character customization. I just feel that the guys behind CO made some poor choices such as the giant movement limiting bubbles.

Also with my spcs Corei7 950 3.0ghz and 295 gtx nvidia card, the game engine allows me to run the game at 20 FPS with max settings and 55 fps  with lowest. I mean, wtf?!

There's a lot more but because of this (and because of the connection that myself and many other europeans are experiencing) Aion > CO  IMO.  

I standby my statement of trying the game again in a year where hopefully they've fixed all these issues. 

There's something wrong with your system, then. I run a core i7 920 with a GF GTS 250 with max settings in CO and I average 70 FPS. How much ram do you have? I have 6 gigs, so maybe that's the difference?

Originally posted by nightbird305

 I just want to clear up that I don't hate CO, I love the character customization. I just feel that the guys behind CO made some poor choices such as the giant movement limiting bubbles.

Also with my spcs Corei7 950 3.0ghz and 295 gtx nvidia card, the game engine allows me to run the game at 20 FPS with max settings and 55 fps  with lowest. I mean, wtf?!

There's a lot more but because of this (and because of the connection that myself and many other europeans are experiencing) Aion > CO  IMO.  

I standby my statement of trying the game again in a year where hopefully they've fixed all these issues. 

what giant limited movement bubbles? Oooh You've never gotten out of the Crisis zone Scenarios..sad...really cause once you get past level 10 you have complete access to Canada, Desert, and MC and there are no giant bubbles...seriously sad to pass judgement in the starting story areas for those zones lol

If you like pvp and grinding Aion is for you..if you want customization and pve CO is better.     As for the instancing there's a reason EVE doesn't need it..its not every expensive to render blank space with some twinkling stars and the occasional planet.   Put a 100 or more EvE Ships in a zone and i gaurentee you'll be wishing they instanced off that section of the game.

Originally posted by Puuk

Originally posted by nightbird305

 I just want to clear up that I don't hate CO, I love the character customization. I just feel that the guys behind CO made some poor choices such as the giant movement limiting bubbles.

Also with my spcs Corei7 950 3.0ghz and 295 gtx nvidia card, the game engine allows me to run the game at 20 FPS with max settings and 55 fps  with lowest. I mean, wtf?!

There's a lot more but because of this (and because of the connection that myself and many other europeans are experiencing) Aion > CO  IMO.  

I standby my statement of trying the game again in a year where hopefully they've fixed all these issues. 

 

There's something wrong with your system, then. I run a core i7 920 with a GF GTS 250 with max settings in CO and I average 70 FPS. How much ram do you have? I have 6 gigs, so maybe that's the difference?

CPU: Core i7 950 3.0ghz OCed to 4ghz

GPU: Nvidia 295 GTX

Asus gene motherboard

Ram: 6 gigs kingston 1375 mhz

HD 7200rpm

850 Watt corsair power source

Samsung syncmaster 120 hz, 1680 x 1050 reso

All drivers up to date. 

So yeah, I think you're turning something down or using a lower resolution. 

Where do you live btw?