Yah it tells my my Asus G73JH-A1 is 5.9

we're talking 2x500 GB hardrive Ati 5870 1g, 8 gigs of RAM and an i7 processor

These forums are becoming more and more like a police state, it was like this in the AOC section back at launch too

And too much time on their hands...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/regnorok/lol-1.jpg

I think yours is more random than mine.

that episode of the simpsons where homer gets fired from the power plant and joins the naval reserve. After another wacky adventure, Homer ends up saving his submarine from sinking by using bart's earring to plug a hole in the ship. Homer crawls out of the hatch after the emerges and finds himself complete surrounded by Battleships of other nations, and Homer's excuse that gets him off the hook for causing all that trouble was something along the lines of "its my first day". It ends with everyone laughing it off and sailing off ending happily. Adventurine reminds me of the penguins that jumps off their battleship and swims off.

lol no matter how bad a game is, the editors of this site never gives a negative review.

As it stands, That new pvp system is more carebearish than WoW. Atleast in WoW people

dont get penalised for pvp and ganking.

people with the 9800 serise cards still cant run the game smoothly. good luck.

Now dont get me wrong, ive been following Aoc since they first annonced it many years ago. Every step of the way i was watching and i was sooo excited to pre-order and play. The few months before it was released i started reading the leaked beta info trashing the game all over the internet and i started to worry.

Even with that, i still wanted to judge for myself. Once pre-order beta came around, i started to see a slipperly slope when they charged me 5 bucks to play the game for the earily release, which was advertised for those who pre ordered. I was a bit ticked off because they where basicly milking my excitement for every penny they can get.

5 bucks isn't much but its the principal. If someone robbed you of 1$ arn't you gonna be upset? If you say no, then either you're a liar or a coward.

I shook that off and was still excited to play (along with my guild) those earily release days we were suppose to get was cut short in half becuase of all the downtime that was caused by issues that SHOULD have been delt with before release. They didn't even compensate us for it! either give us a few days of play added on our time or give us back our money! again a few extra days isn't anything to me but its the business practise that ticked me off.

Before i quit the game, i was in one of the most populated pvp servers, it was one of the originals (before they opened more) so all the fanbois and preorder people crammed in there first to get that headstart. And i gotta tell you, at the time i quit, my guild of 80 unique players were all MIA. Last time i logged in at prime time and i was the only one on. I checked to see who was the last one on and it happened to be our GL who was last seen 10 days ago. Everyone esle was raking up 15+ days of inactivity.

People are dropping off like flies and any fanboi that tells you otherwise is a filty, dirty, liar.

funcom's attitude twords negative posts are just unprofessional. They banned my guild mate's forum privilages because he posted a screen shot of what the GM said to him when he had a valid complaint.

Basicly there was a  need/greed rolling bug that was JUST recently fixed. Sometimes when you roll need, you'll roll a 0 and if someone happen to roll greed, the greeder would get the item over the need. This happen to my party and a BOP item was given to the greed. We petitioned a GM to do something about it, whether its to transfer the item over or spawn it on him etc.   Instead the gm told us to simple "go farm for another one" and closed the petition.

We go angry at the poor customer service so we posted it in the forums to inform funcom.. they didn't take it too well.

Half of the "I quit" posts get deleted, how do i know this? because i book marked a few only to find them missing the next day.

They do this to protect the company (which i understand) but this is basicly fraud. They might aswell get a spin doctor and make up fake numbers to the share holders.

Since i got banned on the offical forums for posting this, ill post it here:

it's a comic strip found on this site's front page.

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Originally posted by 0over0

The word you want is:

linearity

 

I like to explore and I agree--it's a big deal. From what I"ve read, it's pretty open. But like many things in games these days--fully open worlds a la the original swg worlds are gone and not likely to return anytime soon.

you must be reading about a different game because from what i've seen and read, it will be linier, pathed, and each zone will be tiny.

Thanks for the info

I didn't want to download this 6gig file and find out that i need to have direct x10 in order to play it, so i had to make sure.

Im thinking of trying the trial out but im not sure weather to download the high resolution or low resolution client, i am not able to run dx10 but i stil want to run the high resolution if i can.

i wouldn't get an 8800 right now because not many games would use that amount of power at the moment. a 7850 gt would be more than enough to run the latest games on highest quality at a good resolution. Wait till you actually need the 8800 and by that time there will be something better out and prices would drop dramaticly by then. im running games like Two Worlds, World in conflict, and medal of honour airborne on highest settting at 1440x900 with max AA with no problems on my 7850.

the only draw back is you wont get dx10. if you got cash to burn go for it.

I was actually looking forward to AoC until a few months back when i watched the video and realized it was all smoke and mirrors. The combat is slow and clunky, i cant imagine what it would be like in pvp!

Also just to set the record straight, AoC isn't the first to introduce this type of combat style. there are smaller budget games that have done this. the only one i can think of atm is http://www.metin2.us/  i played this one for a bit and it was cool, you could run into a pack of mobs and swing widly hitting a few a time. The animation is wayyy better than AoC even though its a small-budget-no-name-grindfest. the avatar didn't slide, and his sword actually made contact with the mobs, and the mobs actually respond to it pretty well.

Now my point is if a game like metin2 can pull it off, why is AoC struggling? My guess is they realized this and pushed it back till march to redo the physics.

I saw this coming. They weren't even close to having a public closed beta let alone an open beta.

But to push this back all the way to march!? thats a bit much.

Originally posted by Airspell

  Cel-shaded grinding, thats new.

Even WoW has grinding in it, get over yourself.