My mouse is Logitech 518, I have assinged the keystroke on several buttons on the mouse as action bar 1, 2....up to 6. It works on every game except games from gputo, which I think most of the Chinese making games have their own standard. That's why their action bars are usually do not responding to the mouse. Some games still using action bar as CRTL 1, 2.... which is even more difficult to play with.

Anyway, if I initiated the attack with right click then the game will be responded to the mouse button. It is like if you used to drive on the left side and all of a sudden you started to drive on right side then you may have great problem to backward with left side drive. Some people has no problem with that but not me. That's why I quit to get accustom to the right button mouse click attack. I used to have Lofitech 610 mouse so I changed the left click to right click when I was playing Lotro even on website browsing, my left click was your right click and right click was your left click. Believe me, it took me a long time to get used to the default so I have to looking for a mouse with function to swap left/right mouse button.  

Most of the small/medium games only able to use mass transportation system, other games with large/huge maps have both.

I quit Lotro a few months ago but I still think Lotro is one of the best game on the market. After Lotro I have played Aion, AOC, Warhammer and such, none of the other game able to compare with Lotro.

Among these games, Lotro gives me longer fun, then Warhammer was extremely fun but ended fast, AOC is so so, the worst and the most boring game was Aion.

Rading the website about nations and classes then downloaded the game and uninstalled the game all about 10 minutes. The graphics is as poor as any other game like gputo such as Last Chaos. The UI is aweful. I havent check if I need to setup for mouse click, but it is a bit weird. Usually left click is to attack, right click is to move or control direction and camera, but the function in Aika is opposite, left click to move and right click to attack. Besides, the action bar with 1,2,3,4....does not responding to mouse.

As I remembered, this news has been out for least a year ago.

There is not even one IQ or AI in this game, it is another typical China time sink game. I also suspect that some people are hired to play this game because one account could play aat any server. This game is not even a strategy game.

It might be easier to play 2 accounts, however, it is even bored to play Aion with one account.

As I can see that Aion is still rating as 7.77 by so far. Don't think the rating will go up or down in the future. However, imo a good game should have least 8.0+

I think Aion would be good for you since you never play P2P before. You will be familiar with Aion within a short time because Aion is a typical F2P game core like any other F2P you've played before, the only difference between those F2Ps and Aion is that you need to pay to play a F2P like Aion. 

The hardcore gamers in P2P are mostly gold famers that you wont see hardcore gamers in F2P.

Aion is a good grinding mmo on the market. 

Normally, I had 56-85 ms. Since server updates, my ping getting up to 436-850 ms, if there was Abyss fort fighting, it went to 1036 up to 1350 ms. Therefore, it is impossible for me to play Abyss with such lag.

My PC is a bit old but I use it only to play game and I have reformatted hard drive, reinstall Windows XP, update drivers etc a couple days ago and fine tune the entire PC for best performance to play game.

Core 2 Quad, Q6600 2.4GHz CPU, DDR2 8MB memory, Nvidea 8800GS 1MB, SATA2 HDD, Asus P5K motherboard, frontbus 1066MB. I have another PC Core 2 Dual E7500 2.9GHz, Nvidea GTX240, had same lag. And no one using the internet except me. No other background application running. No spayware, no malware etc to drag down the internet speed.

As said before, whenever there was Asmos come closer to me, I could sense there was strange lag spike all of a sudden. The lag spike is different from the server lag. I was grinding in Heiron 2 nights ago, all of a sudden I sensed such lag, so I stop a while and looking around, the lag spike definitely is true. I didnt see any asmos, and keep grinding then a Asmos rogue appeared, I guess lv40, I am lv44 Sor, the rogue has plenty time to prepare to ambush me from outside of the screen, stun first, then......aether strike .....to place you in the air then when I was released from the air. I am as good as dead. Didnt even make one strike.

Some skills are 0.5 second so if the game is so laggy, it will lose any fun.

Since I reformatted my hard drive in these days so I was reinstalling Aion again, and then the same old nightmare comes back again. I remembered it took me long time to figure out how to make the necessary changes to AionEU file. And now, it was just another same old deficiency from Aion.  

And why and why such profitable game like Aion still can't make it right or easier for EU players?

Or is it possible that my account was hacked? How will I know the difference between unsuccessful installation and account hacked?

Since both are not able to log in.

When you click M to bring map on, you will see the map looks like big enough. But actually, it is a small map. For example, the starting area, Poeta on Elyos side, it takes about 5 minutes by foot from southend to northend, however, it maybe large enough for 5 minutes. The map is much smaller than any map in Lotro, and maybe smaller than AOC.

The higher level maps are fully scattered by mobs on every inch. Make it very difficult to run through, this effect is to make you difficult to reach your destination so you would feel it's a large map.

The Abyss looks larger but actually it could be the same size because it is vertical zone and there are connection between each layer.

If you included the vertical space as part of the map then the WOW map would be universe, and Lotro map would be the entire solar system, and Aion is one of the planet in the solar system.

Crafting in Aion is unreasonable design because crafting will receive not only crafting EXP but also player's EXP due to poor EXP system in the game which is included PVP EXP. It's one system for all.

Everyone doing crafting mainly for one initial reason, craft something for themselves. But the fact is that when you are able to craft something for yourself, your level already need better stuffs than you could craft. So I can say Aion wants you to play multiple classes to extend your game time, for the sake of their profit only. 

To be an expert crafter, you must have one lv50 to collect the materials and flux, and I also doubted that the higher level has better chance for critical craft result.

I have a few low level crafters only doing crafting for my other alts and support each other. But Ncsoft has blocked this in the coming 1.9 patch. Your character must reach certain level to be able to advance your crafting level. So the purpose of Ncsoft is even more apparent, Ncsoft forced you to play not only one character. They don't consider if it would be fun to repeate all of this.

Remeber that, any game uses crafting to lure player for time sink, and almost every game has better stuffs obtained from questing, the best from big raid. Another best is combined crafting and big raid which is another time sink.

If you are only thinking about crafting could make you some armors, yes, up to middle level, after lv40 or 45, the crafting become more and more difficult and mostly are impossible to solo again.  

And remember, when you spent all time to get better result from crafting, the next expansion will obsoleted everything you have. 

I was trying to put it on the list of what I dislike but it went to more than 6 pages already, so I will summarize them in short.

Why people don't like F2P game? Is it worthy to describe a F2P about what you like and what you don't like? 

Aion is just like a F2P game but a paid to play advanced F2P. The contents are all spirit and quality of a F2P, very limited P2P contents and quality. For example, only one chat channel is server wide, and still need cold down. Another example, armors are traditional F2P armors, totaly a mess, you could find 20th century costumes and ancient or armors uses by all F2P games. The feature of F2P armors is to make female dress as little as possbile and to look sexy. But I'd play Leisure Suit Larry if I want to see the avatar looks sexy.

I have had fun or greater fun when I played WOW, Lotro, FFXI (less fun), Pirates of Carribean Online, AC2, DDO, Warhammer. But playing Aion just same as I was playing those F2P mmorpgs like Cable Online, 9Dragons, Last Chaos, Shaira, 4Story or P2P like AOC. 

So in short, Aion is not a game with fun. Because the game is made up by extreme grinding then   became the core of the game. That's why people don't like to play F2P mmorpg. And it is why I said Aion is an advanced F2P mmo because they have added some P2P values in it but they didn't have ability to develop the game with fun.

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Sonoko

I don't understand how anybody has trouble making money in Aion.  While leveling to 50 I never had an issue affording skill books, and I hardly ever died so soul healing was a non issue.  I hardly ever went out of my way to farm kinah, unless you count how I made sure to get my aether and vitality extraction to 399, since there were quite a few quests that required high level materials, and sell all my gathers on the broker.  I play a Templar, and as such while leveling up I was chugging health pots both in and outside of groups.  And I never made my own potions, I always bought them.  I never actually took up a profession until level 50.

Aside from buying cheapo green weapons, I primarily used quest rewards and drops I found until my low 40s, where I had enough money to afford blue gear for every slot and got the quested Betoni's weapon at 43 which I used up until my platinum coin greatsword and then Fenris one hander.

I was never lucky with drops before I had full blues either, meaning absolutely no blue/gold world drops or godstones by that point.  Perhaps I was stingy with absolutely never enchanting my gear and only using white manastones, but I was always sitting on a very comfortable stack of kinah.

Then at 50 it's been absolutely trivial to make, having to put forth virtually no effort to buy at least half the coins for my 2k coin greatsword, afford my entire Fenris set, put full Attack +5 and Crit +15 stones in it (200k+ each on my server), and even a gold shield for 20 mil.

And it's like, I'm clearly not some special case since I know of people who have over 100 million kinah, which seems perfectly reasonable to me for someone who actually tried to make money either from a profession or farming extensively.

What exactly are you doing that you "struggle" to afford stuff?  Like Soul Healing, I remember that costing what, 50k for one death in the 40s?  Christ, a vendor trash drop by then is easily 150k+

 

I have to agree with you, I'm a bit more past 45 and though I'm not rich by any means, I really haven't had any issues with money. Having said that I'm not sure if it's the crafting that is bankrupting people.

Just don't know.

I am crafting in Aion. If you want to be a crafter, you will be very poor for sure and when you want to be an expert crafter, all of your kinah will be gone. And the only way to refill Kinah is grinding again. I have 6 crafting professions. And it will suck least 10 millions+ if you want to be an expert crafter in one profession.  

If you are not a crafter, you woould have few millions kinah if you don't buy too many stuffs from auction house. The cost to train new skills are ridiculous in this game as well as other stuffs.

But if you ever played F2P mmorpg before, you wil find any item sold for 20 millions are quite normal. Since the core of Aion is based on F2P so as the item price then you won't see anything wrong to view from F2P player's position. Just forget you have paid monthly fee to play Aion may it makes you feel better.

I have played some group quest in PVE. At lv25, NTC, it was boring enough, I can't stay for more than 30 minutes. At lv37, Kaiden and grinding for molars, if you want to get +20% run speed boots, you need only 100 molars, if you want to have a piece of bodyarmor, you need another 150 molars. Normally, in a six man group with robin loot, you will get 1 molar every 6-10 minutes, because you can loot only when it's your turn. The loot rule is in turn but sometimes, some people loot more often than others. You also can buy molar from auction house. But the thing is that there are too many things you need to buy from auction house, and every kinah you spent means you need to grind more mobs. So, it basically grind = money, money = grind.

I have finally got the +20% run speed boots until lv42, because everytime I arrived Kaiden outpost, I got bored immediately after a few kills. I go Steel Rake instance, it is the same boredom, there is no fun at all for such grind especially those mobs have unintelligent AI. I feel I am hitting dummies.

If you are used to play F2P before and for a long time, you may like Aion because you will be familiar with many things in common, in addition, Aion is better than other F2P on the market.

I think most people will tell you that if you like you like, if you dont like you dont like.

But I could try to answer your 5 questions:

1. I have been playing like 4 months, total 8 characters, 13, 21, 22, 23, 27, 30, 32, 44. Total PVP kills is 4 opponents. That was 1 kill every month.

2. The mini map is really difficult to use because too many red dots on the map. I have never seen opponent display in the mini map before. BUT, I getting used to notice one thing is that when there is any opponent getting closer to my spot, I will lagged at once, but I dont know if anyone else same like me. It is kinda good warning tho. 

3. I never doing Abyss fort since I playing Aion, and that was the place I hate to go. So I cant give you more information. 

4. The storyline about Aion is, after the King died, the kingdom fell into 2 sides, and each side need to grind forever and ever.

5. There is no server is unbalanced in worldwide, if there is any you may report it. Ncsoft will make it balance again, or Asmos will negotiate with Elyos to make it balance.

That was all I know, hope it is helpful to you.

If a mmorpg built to play with all different characters and classes and with too many quests to extending the gameplay lifetime, in a long run, it will be very difficult to find group, you might see very clearly about this problem after first expansion released then getting worse each day.

That said, the community will cut down function as a guild. Because most guilds will focus on new contents instead of keep playing aging contents.

Lotro has the best community in any mmorpg not just because the matured players but, they have common end game contents, The Rift. And then the game going down slowly after MoM, but it still kept for a while until MoM is done then keeps sliding.

The community of Aion and AOC, at least in Europe, I think both are similar sux. Because there are too many common goals to achieve.

Warhammer does not required a good community because everyone has common goal to PVP the opponents and capturing the castle. And player enjoyed with the fun to participate in any group.

Aion will not release expansion too soon, if they did, they will pushing Aion to the dead end too early. So, just now, you still can find group for most popular quests, but I think it will be more difficult afterwards just like any other mmorpgs.

Instance is a must have in mmorpg, but Aion instances never able to compare with WOW, LOTRO. It is basically to place a large group of stupid AI controlled mobs in a area and they called it instance and drop off certain rewards you can only find from here. 

The Abyss occupation is aweful in Aion, as though it is secrely under control by few persons, because each server is limited population, and you need a large group to do it. In the end, Elyos negotiate with Asmos or vice versa, there are unseen hands to make the fort owned by Asmos or Elyos. Since the most benefits goes to guild, therefore, the others become minor. Aion totally lost the PVP fun.

Originally posted by reetin

 Two reasons why Aion might be the best game out there today!

1. SWTOR is not out.

2. FFXIV is not out.

Total agree!

I have played AC2, EQ2, FFXI(2 accounts), WOW(2 accounts), DDO, Pirates of Burning Sea, Pirates of Carribean Online, Last Chaos, 9 Dragon, 4Story, Talisman Online, Cable Online, Lotro up to MoM (2 accounts), AOC, Warhammer, DDO Unlimited in these years.

Although some of the games are fun to play but people are mmo jumpers, and I am one of the game jumpers like to change for new gaming experiences.

Aion is grind fest thats why it best to kill time lifeless and meaningless and watching it play by itself most of the time.