All Posts by frkhot97

You have to consider the server design too. In a year or so, we will not see 9 instances of the newbie area like today but 1 or 2. That will make it easier to find a team mate, naturally. Love or hate the instancing in TR, but it affect the gameplay in many ways.

I also play(ed) Ryzom, a skillbased game where a highlevel character can choose a lowlevel skill to team up with new people. The result was a very friendly place for new people. The cloning could work like this in some ways - work on one of your lowbie clones to recruit new clan members.

Being a dad to a baby boy, a game that is as playable both with or without a team comes is a great thing. Teaming is hard when the kid suddenly need your attention. Playing group centric games like FFXI just isn't possible. I actually thought my MMO days were over before Tabula Rasa came.

And being able to get into action in a matter of minutes isn't bad either.

Some of the sandboxy games would do as well, but it's nice to actually achieve something when you can only play a short while at the time.

The game is up, I just tried logging in. Very empty though.
I'm also waiting and hoping for a new publisher. Something better than the shady people at Gameforge this time, please.

What then is the benefits of being in a PVP clan?

I tried yesterday, the characters of one account can't be in separate clans. What's the point of such limitations?

And
anyone knows the year? Are our characters supposed to be born on earth or do Tabula Rasa take place this several generations later?

Hello everyone, I have two questions about Tabula rasa.

1) What is the ingame year?
2) Looks like clones can't create clans if the original character is in a clan. Highly annoying as we want to be a mainly PVE clan but occasionally PVP as well. Can 2 characters of the same account be in different clans at all?

I can play the game with

Intel dual core 1,66mhz
2gb RAM
Nvidia Geforce Go 7400

With lowest possible settings in the game and Nvidia control panel set to performance I get approx 20-24 FPS. Thanks to the sticky tagetting I don't feel gimped by the computer. The game looks much better with a real gaming computer but IMHO the graphics degrade gracefully (unlike Vanguard that look(ed) awful below medium settings).

Good luck, too bad you missed the beta. Maybe there's a trial coming up soon, so you can see for yourself.

I'm not opposed to companies taking business decisions. But you could handle it better than Gameforge. If you do have a choice between two hosts for a game, don't choose the lesser one.

I think the CEO of Gameforge usually breaks up from relationships by stop calling the girl. That's how he handled Ryzom.

If so, I suggest you play the http://www.metin2.us version and stay away from http://www.metin-2.com

After what the publisher did to Ryzom, I'd be scared to play it. Gameforge clearly doesn't care about their customers, expect them to drop it without a word.

I don't find it sad that good MMOs are X years old. A good MMO (should) last years in my opinion.

That said, I don't think WoW is worth playing for 3 years...

And apparently you can join a brothel as well. Is that such a good idea for a family friendly MMORPG? What age group are they aiming at?

I'm also sceptical to these pre-designed organisations. I hope they will have player run guilds too.

Other than that, I'm excited. Something new and fresh on the horizon!

Yeah, it's a nice little gem. But both Dwarf Fortress and Oblivion feels so lonely when you're used to online multiplayer.

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Originally posted by wolfmann

Yees... It's all about teh bling isnt it?

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Speaking of worldlike game and bling. Take a look at this singleplayer game in ASCII:

Review page 1and page 2 from Games for Windows
Download here

As for Vanguard, I did try it. The game obviously have bugs, but I have some other issues with it as well:

1) The world feels very static, mobs are just standing there until you attack them. The reputation system is nice but apart from that the game isn't a living breathing world (yet?).

2) It's a bit too level/group dependant for me. When you reached the first tier in Ryzom you could basically group with because high-level people could always choose a low level skill. In VG and similar class based games I'd be stressed to keep up with my friends.

But there's still hope for Ryzom. Gameforge just didn't give it a chance...

Well EVE doesn't really do it for me. I recently got half a dozen newsletters from CCP reminding me how many trials I quit.

(Grass under my feet and a sun that colour the sky pinkish is more important than I thought. I know EVE is a great game for its target audience)

This might be the last weeks I see of Ryzom. I want a new game if it goes under.

So, here goes...

I need a living, breathing gameworld. Mobs that aren't just put there for players to kill them, but also interacting with each other. I need to grass under my (toon's) feet. I want
graphics that make me want to log back in, I'm really a sunset addict in MMOs.
And I want a game with other stuff than just action-action-action, like a complex harvesting/crafting system or diplomacy, etc.
I want a game that make you feel you are controlling how your character develop, preferably a skillbased system and a sandbox type of game.

What should I choose?

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Originally posted by paulscott
hmmm looks like more people are going to retreat to WurmOnline and EvE-Online.

edit> and maybe something like horizons from what I glanced at it they had a few decent systems that might be close enough for some people.

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Maybe those have systems similar to Ryzom's -- but as far as I've seen none are even close to the feeling of a living breathing world.

The new patch (1.10) fixed some stuff. The camera isn't in the way anymore and the controls works much better. Plus I can play it (on lowest settings) well enough on my laptop.

Remember that it took a while for NWN1 to get what it is today (or was at its peak).

Hi BobRoss
The game haven't been sold in stores for quite some time now. When the billing issue is cleared you will just have to pay the sub to play the full game. I'm not completely sure, but I think you must have downloaded the entire game to play on Silan (or maybe you need to dl some additional files through the launcher).