All Posts by decadre

Originally posted by MikeyReign

I find Xfire to be the best place for information which can be represented as the closest to accurate.

 http://www.xfire.com/genre/mmo/massively_multiplayer_online/

This link in my opinion is how I can find out how popular and active a game still is. Closest to accurate ratings. Except....ignore most Free2Play games and Lineage II since they require players to stay online/AFK with their shops.

I don't know about that one...

SWG #55

EQ2 #73

I'm also in the group that thinks that RoK sucks big time. My toons are all on Najena, and it definetly feels like the server is a lot emptier than it used to be. Guild log in is really bad, with a lot of us "taking a break" Raiders in my guild have been left to join some quasi PuG/Alliance type of raiding organization.

Originally posted by Krayzjoel

You can try the necromancer class also. Ive havent had too many issues at all leveling.

I'd vote Necro too as well. 

Suggestiosns:

Concentrate on getting the highest level fighter pet spell books every tier. M1 if possible, otherwise Adept III.

Get the Tainted Heals AA ability (Necro -> Manipulations) Heals your pet for 18% health for every debuff spell you cast. There is no HP transfer from you to your pet with the standard Necro pet heal spell.

In the Summoner AA lines, there are some AA that also buff the defense and HPs of your pets too.

I can easily solo blue Heroics, and in the right situations white con Heroics, and I have a mid 50's Necro.

Thanks for the information. I should have my new PC by then, perhaps I will give it a try again. I miss my bofors.

I would say that it all depends on how active you are going to be in the end-game. If you are more of a casual minded player, go ahead and roll a SK. If you are looking to get into a hardcore raiding guild, then roll something else.

In my casual guild, two of our best tanks both play SKs, so it can be done and done very well with SKs. However, with that said, hardcore raiding guilds are going to already have their well equipped and played very well tanks, so you will have trouble finding a spot.

Originally posted by IronMan66

If a developer has stolen from a guild bank or asked for RL sexual favors than this would be something I would definitely have an issue about.  However, these claims dont pass the smell test for me.  Consider- developers have many tools for manipulating the data (any piece of data, literally) within the game.   Why would a developer 'steal' from an in-game guild bank when he could literally use tools to remove the items without any trace at all.  Thats stupid behavior and it doesnt pass muster.

My opinion, is that this all a bunch of crap from an overly dramatic website that relishes in conspiracy theories.  Further, I think that these people on eq2flames feel jilted because some developers play with certain guilds.  If they were on that guild, then you wouldnt hear a peep out of them.  And further for the admin to post any personal information about the developers is tantamount to thowing a virtual temper tantrum.  These children need to grow up.  The moderator of eq2flames (LFG) needs to really stop the drama and stop throwing hissy fits all the time when he doesnt get his way.

It was before he became a Dev, and that is why is surfaced after his original game names became linked to his current Dev name.

And while what you say can be true, the evidence presented in the posts that I read through over there, and the attitudes of the people associated with the accussed (like NPU posters) in my opinion seem to give some of these claims some legs.

While EQ2Flames can be quite bad at times, the "outing" threads over there do offer some rather covincing evidence of the transgressions to back up the circumstantial claims.

Additionally, the corruption list doesn't stop at giving privledged information to live server guilds, and maintaining suspect relations with those guilds.

It's been pointed out that one Dev before being hired as a Dev was apparently involved in the theft of an entire guild bank. (old forum posts are available to read, and now that the Devs characters name is known, it pretty much points right to him)

And a Dev has been accused of trading in-game favors for RL sexual favors. (pure vitirol really at this point)

This for old accounts, or new accounts???

Originally posted by robino

It seems your anti WW2OL agenda and attempts to enact revenge on the WW2OL community are not working Beatbox.

 

At least not on the people in this thread.

 

Keep going though, you'll get banned eventually.

(Just like you did from WW2OL)

However I really do miss the days of yore within WW2 Online that Beatbox talks about. I can't stand the game that it is now. But I'm not going to stand on a milk crate and get all preachy, and say you shouldn't play a game that you enjoy. S!

I have a lvl 52 alt Necro, who I've been solo leveling at a nice clip.

I typically use an Adept III tank pet, and can take solo even con ^^^'s rather easily. What makes it easy for me is going down the 3rd and 4th AA Lines in the summoner AA tree. Bunch of Passive AA's in there that increase pet HPs and skills(defense). Then I took the AA line in the Necro tree (forgot what it's called) that has a master Passive skill that heals your pet 18% for each debuff you cast on your target. It's a free pet heal in relation to the typical Necro heal, which siphons health from you to your pet. And Necro's have like 5 or 6 spells that can be used in this way, and they recycle rather quickly too! Also having the highest spell tier for the pet defensive skill possible (Adept III, M1, or M2) helps too.

I think the more and more that companies make player statistics available on the web, and publicly too boot, that these MMORPG population stat sites will start reporting quite fairly accurate numbers.

For instance, you could simply go to http://csr.wwiionline.com/ to get a lot of stats for this campaign. For instance, going through the current top 100 sorties player list shows that the top 100 players account for 66,000 sorties out of the entire 741,000 sorties so far this campaign. That's what 11%?

I think you could get a fairly accurate log-in count by unique accounts by writing a web site scrapping program that first got the top 100 killers. Search through each of their sortie lists, and record the names of any people they kill and who kills them. Make sure you keep this list on a unique basis, meaning once a name makes the  list, you don't add it again.

Once you go through the top 100 list, go through the list of thier kills and killers. Record any unique names you come across again. Keep repeating the process, until you get no new names. It's probably overkill, but I guess you could also add the top 100 sorties list to this process too.

About the only people who will be missed by this I think would be the odd person who logs in once or twice, never makes a kill, and is killed once by another person who logs in once or twice and only makes that one kill, and is never killed himself.

Originally posted by Sparre

You and your buddies should come and test the game now when TOE is in. The active forces is luric about the gameplay now when the equipment is tied to each brigade and not the CP. Attriation really means something now.

You can't look back to 2002 when unlimited equipment eventually was ditched. WWIIOL moves forward. Try it out, you too might find it irresistable if you are unlucky.

CRS plans for TOE is to have several setups for the brigades, like Motorized Infantry Brigades, Mechanized Brigades and Armour Brigades.

Yea, that's not going to happen on a mass level. First off, we were an air squad for the most part. A lot of the more successfull Axis pilots for one reason or another filtered in and out through our ranks.

The old guard is just way too nostalic as well as burnt out on Doc. More than a few know him on a personal level from the Airwarrior days (I think that's the game).

Additionnally, all of us don't like the idea of HCs based on what happened to us with the whole channel 94/93 thing and the HCs & CRS. That fact that it happened again in a similiar fashion to others once the channel 94/93 guys switched to Allies to get away from Shilling is a telling matter in giving the amount of control to players over other players, and not letting players have a choice in not letting them be controlles at all by other players.

Then of course, making Shilling a Dev was the final kick in the you know where for a lot of people in our squad and who knew a lot of us.

With that said, there are a handful trying to carry on the banner (mostly they weren't around in 02-03), and some of us pop in game on a couple of... cough cough... gold accounts that a bunch of us have access to... cough cough.

In my case, I like to pop in every now and then to break up air camps with my old trusty bofors.

Originally posted by Destroyeron

 

Originally posted by MrBI

well as I do know fredrick1 and know hi is not CRS employed, just supporter for the game + forum mod end of story.

we do have lodes of bloody damned gamers in and unsubbed, and i say it again:

you can't be CRS, forums MODs, Axis and post positive replies for you have lost the credible. even if you tell the truth end of story. and fredrick1 do not lying hi is ok! but I do understand your point ppl. the game need positive PR from the gamers for a long time I believe ;)

still the best game in the business!

 

Can someone translate the above post into legible English please?

Reminds me of a "Deadlock" post back from the "Channel 94" days

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Originally posted by Sparre

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It happens, sometimes you need to get away from this game at times. And then there is that last time you step away and never come back. I still have fond memories of WW2OL, and pop-in now and again with my squads generic account to get that once a month rush. However for a lot of us players that played years ago, it is a vastly different game (good or bad) that just doesn't cut it anymore. GL whereever you go, but don't forget about the good times, and perhaps try it out again from time to time.

Oh yea almost forgot, you are so right, Allies are the only ones that cheat

That sapper thing might actually bring me back into the fold... Sappers are my #1 pet peeve

Originally posted by Dundee

Originally posted by iskareot

To be blunt:  I think you guys assumed to much.   Or worse, thought that is what needed to be fixed or worked on.

Funny, I don't remember seeing ANY posts about us complaing about the old UI, pre-CU .... I do remember however seeing "PLEASE FIX THIS: etc..."...

You guys seemed to work on what we liked and neglected what needed to be addressed most of the time.

Are you suggesting that the NGE wasn't designed for you?

But hey.... what do I know... I mean, the battle fields would have never have gone over if working right........ right??? lololol...

Argh, those freaking things.

Hmm, lets see Jeff. Are we suggesting that the NGE wasn't designed for us? Let's see...

there was a mass exodus from the game, no???????????????????????????????

I so would've resubbed for SPAA, guess I'm not now

Old timer as well here.

I would have to say your opinion on whether or not this game is dying totally depends on when you played, when you played the most, and when you stopped playing.

There are a lot of very dedicated players playing the game at the moment, and there are fights to be found.

However, it's nothing like it was several years ago.