Yeah i'd definitely go priest. From great healing to great damage, you'll be loved in instances.

Front page, you spelled Evolution wrong. It shows as "Evoltuion". Just a FYI to fix, its fine in the post, but on the little thing that highlights new editor articles it is spelled wrong.

If you want a big waste of time, totally play this game. Its graphics are on par with...a flaming turd. But hey, if you find long long long leveling time, a horrible transportation system, clunky controls, a very immature player base fun, then go for it. You also must be at least 70% masochist to get past lvl 10.

Originally posted by charlizd

I thought i would give this game a go can any 1 suggest a good class that is easy to adapt to.

Why ask for advice now when you're ignoring the best advice available: stay away from SWG until it is purified

Another bump for vets and fresh blood alike

Originally posted by -Jaguar-

It's an old problem. IP banning does nothing since most people's IP are not static.

Anyways, played all of today and didn't run into any hackers. Come join us! 150-man CTF games are quite enjoyable.

Haha yeah, nothing like being about to win and having 5000 plasma shots fly everywhere. S'all good, I read they're planning on starting IP banning as well as an automatic banning system. Kinda like in WoW where if you move too fast it d/cs you...or in this case, shoot too fast.

Yap, been about....4 or 5 years since it went P2P? Well, its finally free again. No more 30-min guest crap. They are also in the process of putting out a map editor so players can make their own maps and submit them to be voted on and hosted. To those of you who remember the good ol' days of this game...they're back. Minus our lovely Twin Peaks map sadly. Personally, I'm hoping that someone makes a new TP map w/ the editor.

To those of you who have never experienced Infantry, i'll give ya a little background info on it. To begin with, its a top-down shooter. You log in, pick your class (Infiltrator, Infantry, Sci-Ops, Heavy Weapons, Bio Chem, Medic, Engineer or Squad Leader) and begin to pwn. The game began in 1998 with the Infantry Alpha version ran by Harmless Games. From there it enjoyed about 4 years of prosperity. Then in 2002 I believe, SOE bought it from HG and made it P2P. While this is a great game, paying to play it just wasn't worth it, especially when they got rid of the Twin Peaks map. It will be rough starting at first as you need to learn the basics and definitely how to circle strafe.

The most popular map ATM is Extreme CTF. It maxes out at 150 players per arena. It is basically a giant game of CTF. Players can form their own teams and try to capture all 4 of the flags scattered about the map. For those who don't have a team to play with, the game has default teams that are made up of those who didnt choose a custom team. Once you get a flag, you then find a good place to set up your base. Hopefully you'll have an engineer to set up turrets and a SL/Medic to summon. After that its all about defending your flag while trying to send people out to capture the rest. The first team to hold all 4 flags for 60 seconds wins the round and is awarded a nice bit of cash and experience.

In any case, I hope some of you who haven't played come and try it out. Be sure to give it a chance, it can be a bit tough before you learn the ropes, but once you get the hang of it you'll have a blast. As for those of you who used to play before P2P...welcome back =).

You can find the game here http://infantry.station.sony.com/en/main.jsp.

Knowing SOE I'm surprised they haven't rolled back the game to Pre-CU for a month, let everyone sign up/buy again, and then put the NGE/CU back in.

Originally posted by RonnyRulz

You all act like the loss of Pre-Cu is the end of the world.

If that's the case, and you really loved it that much, then why don't you play Pre-Cu?

There are several private servers that are Pre-Cu. Do you all not know that? Your "dream" is being played right now as we speak.

Meh, the private Pre-CU servers are all running off the test info put out by SWGEmu. It is very incomplete....basically you can just log on and run around and /duel. Not that we should be talking about private servers at all.

Boobs:1

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Originally posted by Eatten
why do people want pvp looting so bad you cant go get the item yourself?

Why do people steal? Sure they could go out and work ages to get what they want, or they could go the easier yet more risky route of taking it from someone else.  Now you have the item and the person who worked for it doesn't. You are now a wanted criminal. Have fun running about trying not to get tossed in jail.

The same idea should apply to open pvp. If you murder a random person and take their stuff then you are now wanted. Any place with a guard will get you arrested, thrown in jail, and the item you stole or cash value of it taken away and returned to the original owner. I personally would love to have open pvp with item looting. Just make it so that the risk is worth the reward.

Player A works to complete a quest and get a nice item. Player B murders Player A in cold blood and loots said item. Player A reports Player B to the nearest guard and has a warrant put out for his arrest. Player B can no longer go into cities with guards for a set period of time. Player C checks wanted poster and goes in search of Player B. Player C finds Player B and engages him/her in combat. Player C kills Player B and removes the stolen item + a few of Player B's items. Player C returns the stolen item to a guard and it is mailed to Player A. Player C may receive a reward, although I would prefer to see the reward as the items taken from Player B. If Player B had been able to avoid being caught/killed for a set period of time his warrant would go away. Say two or three PLAYED days. Timer doesn't go down when logged off.

That'd be my ideal game setting right there. Sure you can murder someone and take their stuff; just dont expect it to be easy.

Originally posted by Hoobley
16 classes seems plenty to me.

It gives them the opportunity to work on new classes for expansions.

I think that if The Burning Crusade had added 2 new classes instead of 2 new races (or both) to WoW it would have been much more successful.

Originally posted by ronan32

Originally posted by r0hn

worst class - Rogue

best class - Paladin

paladin has to be the most boring class to play.

Its all personal opinion. You may find paladin boring, but my buddy has played a holy spec pally from 10-70 and is still loving it. I personally think hunters are the most fun. I have a 70 Be hunter that is sexily decked out and I haven't found a class that I enjoy playing more. I also have a 70 gnome warlock, and while he is EZmode, I like my hunter better.

As for best, it all depends on how you play. I go into every fight w/ my hunter expecting to win. Most of the time I do, other times I'm outplayed. Try every class to at least 25 and see how you like it.

Originally posted by clesven
Hey there! I'm also in your position except for the fact that I just got my first experience of Everquest 2 a few days ago and I quit DAOC when I reached about level 20 yeaaars ago when there was only one expansion when I was a kid.

I've been thinking of starting a new character on WoW and perma-partying with somebody.. but even more then that I would like to find a new game.

I have a trial key for COH/COV and videos of its PVP and gameplay look AWESOME. Only reason I haven't tried out COH/COV is because I can't find a download for it. I would like to start whatever game you do though because you seem to have the same likings as me, please contact me on aim @ Deliberate Fall

Cya bro!

Go to your PlayNC account and click add game. Put your trial key in. It should say game added. Then go back to your main account page, click on the "Information" button on the CoH trial you put in, and it should give you a link to their direct download.

Originally posted by Nightshade44
As I understand it, most games don't take advantage of the new generation of multi-core processors, and most current games don't even go as far as to support them either... correct me if I'm wrong. Secondly, if you're talking solely about gaming, I don't see how a multi-core processor is going to do you any better than a high-end single core processor. From what I understand, multi-core processors are meant to handle multiple processing tasks, for instance... if you were watching a movie, rendering a 3D image, surfing the net and writing an essay all at the same time... where as, if you're just gaming, how can running one program take advantage of multi-core?

Yeah you lost me at "As I understand it"

Thanks for all the replies, I'm much more confident in buying it now. As I said previously, I have to go through best buy since that is where my only CC is. I also figured it was costly...but seeing as how I can't build a PC through best buy, I guess i'll have to end up paying more.