All Posts by Elnator

Originally posted by blackcat35

Originally posted by Taram

Originally posted by Strycker
I liked this game, more then likely due to my love of SCI-FI and space battles. I got past the learning curve, or I believe I did, and hey - the game was fun. Thing is; I logged on, and found myself with NOTHING to do. I had a Merlin, nicely outfitted, etc - I was ages away from getting anything better then a Merlin (Not due to isk, due to training times) so my motivation level dropped like a rock and I quit.

I couldn't stand a chance in PvP. Missions were too easy. The game was just going nowhere quick, and I felt like no matter how much I played in one day, I was going to progress at the same speed no matter what.

If I come back, am I going to be faced with this exact same issue once again? Or have they done something to the game where time played actually equals progression in one way or the other.

Ok I'm going to ignore all the folks who decided to insult you or flame you for whatever reasons. 
Some basic questions:
What is it that you were training for that made you think you were "ages" away from getting anything better?  Once you are in a merlin you already have frigates 3.. which means in 30 minutes you can be flying a cormorant (Caldari Destroyer).  It means that in just over 1 day (training time for frigates 4) you can be flying a cruiser.....

What was it that you were training?  Have you checked out EVEMon:  http://evemon.battleclinic.com and used it to perhaps figure out what you want to fly next and it will tell you exactly what skills you need to train, how long they will take, and even suggest some learning skills to speed up the process. 

What is it you want to do?  At the point your character is at there is NOTHING that will take 'ages' to train.  At most a day or so....
Also: Are you making sure that you always have something in training?  If you aren't then you're just hurting yourself.

just because you can fly a ship doesn't mean you can fly it well.  cruisers are meant to fire heavy weapons, and all ships need electronics and engineering....  It takes several weeks to fly a cruiser well or even a destroyer....

Its best not to just fly a ship because you can because its a death trap until you can fly it well..........

really you should get the basic skills to fly a destroyer and do level 1 missions while you work on learning skills and stat skills, then when you have enough isk from missioning, buy the adv stat skills....then move on to cruisers on up.....    missioning isn't the only way to build isk, but IMHO, its the least boring....even pirating is kind of boring...I remember taking my ibis into 0.0, and getting blown to bits from bored pirates in 0.0, just hoping I'm an envoy of a bigger group trying to take over their space, cause they are bored stiff without a fight....

Bragnor is created, Dwarf Champion
I also signed up on the guildportal site.

Let me know which server you choose.  I'll start Elnator (elf hunter) on it and join ya.

WOOPS :)  Missed the part about "All dwarf"
I'll start Bragnor (my typical dwarf) Not sure what he'll be yet.

I think the world is about to end.

Someone actually referred to EverQuest as a 'smaller MMORPG'.

It only took what?  9 years :)

MMMM
I'll wag a guess here:
1) It's stable
2) It runs smoothly even at "minimum requirements"
3) It's pretty much bug-free
4) Excellent attention to detail within the game
And, most importantly:
5) It's FUN (well for most anyway)

And where you come off saying the graphics aren't top notch I don't know.  They're equal to or better than anything else on the market as is the sound. 

If you don't like it, that's cool.  But the game is highly rated because it's a solid title that gives exactly what it promised to give.

Originally posted by healz4u
Greetings!


In the past few years of gaming and forming and managing Guilds, I have come across what I believe is a change in the attitudes people have toward their Guilds.  When I played Everquest full-time, it was common for a person who joined a Guild to remain in that one Guild for the person's lifetime of gaming.  The only reason why some one would leave a Guild (typically but not always) was because the Guild merged with a  Guild or because the individual stopped playing.

I would also be interested to know, if you would like to share, why do you join a Guild?  What do you look for in a Guild when you join?  What features are important to you as a gamer when selecting a Guild to join?

And furthermore, when the Guild is under pressure, or failing to achieve its goals, do you remain loyal?  If you remain loyal do you undertake measures to contribute to the success of the Guild when it is struggling to accomplish its goals?

Thank you!

Originally posted by undiesusa
For true FFA the only place to look is Darkfall. Sorry.

Originally posted by Rekindle

Man.....

I appreciate that its easier to communicate with people using voice chat. I apprecaite the benefits it presents to player run organizations and for the social aspect.  With all that in mind I personally hate it.  The rise of VOIP communications as a gaming component has the potential to ruin MMORPG games for me.

My PC is in a common area of the house. I'm a father of a 10 year old and a 7 week old and my wife and I share a room with a TV and said computer.  There are lots of times where its practical for me to do a quest or run an Eve mission but in those same  times it may not necessairly be as practical to have a headset on.

I know im a dieing breed of gamer and that everyone likes chatting but is there anyone else that shares my sentiment?  On top of all of these issues sometimes the last thing I want to do at teh end of the day is talk more.  Am I alone?  It seems to me that the future of player run orgs in MMO gaming is directly tied with VOIP chat. Although I fully appreciate the benefits this presents in accomplishing tasks as a group I ask myself is there any other way?

Originally posted by Chase05
From what I here from friends who played lotr, it is not that great
not sure about vanguard

Originally posted by Rattrap
What happened people?

Since when this community turned so bitter and agressive ?
Is there no possibility to write even a most simple post on this forums withouth being attacked with no reason at all ?



Since when this forums turned into bunch of people that post here just to insult everyone and everything.
I mean i can understand bashing a game you dont like , or even criticising a certain playstyle or guild, or company.

But today it seem people just go into various forum posts and write hateful angry messages unrelated to anything.

I have respect for many of posters on this site...but it seems most of them have given up. There is just to much random hate ...

I really hope this is not the end of mmorpg.com community

Originally posted by Nicoli

Originally posted by jmpreiss
LeJohn certainly gave a good representation of what to expect. It takes time to become truly competitive on the market. Do not let that discourage you though. While you are training the skills you need to become nicely competitive, you can do one of two things. You can stockpile all of the ore that you mine which will give you a nice surplus when you finally start doing mass production, or you can sell of the majority of what you mine, giving you a pretty stable income.

Even though you might not be directly creating ships/mods/ammo to sell on the market, supplying ore and minerals is certainly a nice foot in the door.

I'd also agree in general with what LeJohn says. I will disagree with the time. Basic Manufacturing and transport can be accomplished with in a month from your starting character. This will set you up with Industry 4-5, Production efficency 4, racial Indy 3 or 4. This consists of the vast majority of skills you need. After that go for the learnings mixed with additional industrial skills.

Long time MU*er myself.

Helped write:
Diku 1
Anarchy
Renegades Outpost
Arctic
Battletech MUSE 3025

Battletech MUSE 3050


Also played on:
MUME IV (Multi Users in Middle Earth)
Battletech Arena
Battletech MUSE 3028
Battletech MUSE 3030

Actually I still occasionally log into a battletech MUX :)

Originally posted by Agricola1

To clear somethings up, BoD has many alt hauler corps that do their hauling (as do other large 0.0 alliances). We wardeced all of them and they started crying because they couldn't get their complex loot (you know the ones that spawn every hour?) to market.

We have over 200 wardecs presently, we did this as a protest to the change. I've been in Privateers since the begining of this year, about 3-4 months.

I used to PvP in 0.0 for over a year, it was a boring lag fest. Sitting on bubbles all day = boring, blob warfare = boring/lag fest, PoS warfare = boring/lag fest. These are my personal opinions on 0.0 warfare and it is the reason Privateers exist, ex 0.0 PvPers bored s***less by it.

I think CCP should've concentrated on making 0.0 PvP more attractive and accessible to the playerbase, rather than making empire wars less. As it stands 80-90% of the playerbase aren't into 0.0, because it just doesn't deliver. If 0.0 was fun we'd be there fighting and saving cash, but it isn't. It would've been better for the game all round to make 0.0 more fun and more practical for the average player, rather than nerfing their fun to force them into a BoD lag fest/blob/node crash.

In the end I play EVE for fun, if they make 0.0 more fun I'll be there doing the same as I did in empire. As it stands 0.0 doesn't have enough traffic, fleet warfare doesn't work as most of us don't enjoy slideshows. Also the game is balanced in favour of alliances like BoD as they have DEVs playing with them, why bother to fight them since we know for a fact all alliances with DEVs use them to their advantage? So for now I'll be going back to mission running in empire once the wars end, it's just more fun than 0.0 at the moment!

Nope
They were working on a thin-client for WM5 PDA's/Smartphones but have yet to release them.

yes
have a 2nd ship.  I use a Hurricane with 5 cargo expanders in the lows and a afterburner, 2 tractors and 6 salvagers in the highs.  Mids stick whatever you want, it really doesn't matter.

After you run the mission go back in the salvaging/loot ship.
Have a ball scooping up all the loot.  And watch the isk just ROLL in when you sell the salvage (or you could keep it to make your own rigs, nice thing about missions is after a while you have ever component you need for just about any rig).

Originally posted by piquet

Originally posted by Elnator
Sure BioWare puts out decent games (though the release of NWN 2 was kind of a huge letdown for most of us out here)

BioWare had nothing to do with NWN 2, it was made by the company Obsidian Entertainment (who made KOTOR 2 as well) and published by Atari.

I kinda liked NWN 2 once I got used to the wierd camera/controls, and honestly I don't understand why everybody else seem to hate it, but then again I've always been accused of having bad taste in pretty much everything.

Originally posted by LordSlater

So how is vanguard now? Its been out for almost 6 months im betting there has been some majour improvement bug wise.

 

And i would like to know as i am looking for a good fantasy MMO to play.