Originally posted by Alphamojo

Hah you like me, it's not so much having the money to spend, as much as it is the feeling of wasting the money you spent.

Yeah money isnt somethign i have alot of but i dont care about money its just the fact i feel liek i waste it by not gettign my monies worht or enjoying what i buy. i don't mind spending insane $$$ if i have fun.

Edit: and can pay my bills lol.

An hour after logging back in for the first time, crappy lvl 200+ lft and  memories of why i quit made me regret trying to  fall in love with the game again.

Atleast i had alittle fun (although not literally) doing an inf mission on my 201 crat before i got frustrated, hopefully i have fun these next 30 days so i feel i got my money's worth and not  feel like i should of been paid to play the game.

It's kind of funny i find myself missing ao so close to my 1 year aniversery of last time playing my paid account.

I figured what the heck, 14.99 is nothing considering i spent like $75 on dcuo a week before it went free to play

( i bought two copies for like 30$ each then like 15$ on a 30day game card)

I doubt i'll regrett resubbing to AO for 30 days as much as spending 75$ on dcuo or the 200$ i spent on Rappelz back in 2010 within 60 days. And it has been a year so can't feel to bad for resubbing this time.

Originally posted by Charas

I really would have liked to try this game again since the F2P but the stupid SOE launcher doesn't work...it keeps asking me to install flash player (which is already installed and up to date), so I can't install the freakin game (which I bought at release, mind you).

I'm sure I would have found a fix to the install bug if I'd searched but I just couldn't be bothered...

This is typical SOE nonsense, they can make some of the greatest games but their polishing skills are atrocious.

I think i had that problem months ago, when i had IE9, i reinstalled win7 since then and never updated IE8 to IE9 so i don't have that problem right now.

Anyway here is a link that might fix it, Fix 1 is what worked for me when i had IE9 Installed....

http://forums.station.sony.com/dcuopc/posts/list.m?topic_id=6029#top

The end of days is more likely to happen in 2012 than Engine/GFX upgrade for Anarchy Online.

Originally posted by andre369

So I got my parts, installed them and turning on computer does not work, i probably linked the cables for the power button etc wrong, but thats my not my biggest problem...

 

When I press the power button directly on the motherboard, everything starts except the HDD's... On my mother board there are  3 different colored slots where i can plug in HDD's/DVD player. 4 White, 4 brown, 4 Black. does it matter which of these I plug my HDD in? 

So you can get into the bios by pressing F2 or Delete? And when you get into the bios it shows no HDD or dvd drives installed?

Or are you saying you just see/hear the cpu and videocard fans running?

Also if you bought your parts seperate your motherboard might of came with a poster size pickture of the mobo wich shows what parts of the mobo are for CPU / IDE/ SATA / PCIE  etc or you can find that image online.

And when you think you got everything installed and are ready , check the HDD sata cords, they tend to come out easy , i thought my hdd was failing once but turned out the sata coord on the back of the HHD was loose to the point it would randomly get disconnected and windows would give me an error that made it seem like the hdd failed.

So now when i open my case i make sure the sata connections are in place.

I am happy for you brah. I'm not being sarcastic, it's been a very long time since i had fun or slightly enjoyed myself in a mmorpg so it's nice knowing others are having fun, i also likehearing people complain too though because years ago  it kind of seemed like i was one of the fewpeople complaining or offrering critisism about the games i played, but now it seems like all i read is how bad everything is.

Originally posted by Quizzical

A good SSD is a lot more likely to work right than a RAID 0 configuration.  RAID 0 means that if either drive fails, your data is gone.  It also creates more things that can go wrong, with the RAID controller needing to handle everything properly and keep the disks properly synchronized.

The early SSDs were problematic, but that was pretty much fixed around 2009.

Yeah i heard raid0 increases the chance of failure but i shruged it off since people seem to claim things fail all the time when it might just be  thier bad luck, like people who claim they bought a xbox 360 and it got the ring of death so they kept getting new ones and they keep failing. I've had bad luck with mobo's and video cards but never had any HDD problems.

And i know people who had thier HDD get curupted or just die but that never happened to me so i figured i might one day take my chances with two 250gb or two 500gb drives just for testing. maybe just keep games on the raid0 and have a storage drive for everything else.

But If SSD prices where reasonable for me yeah i'd try that before raid0.

I don't know though, you are probably right but i'd still try a cheap raid0 and take precautions before trying expensive SSD

Originally posted by andre369

Originally posted by skuly

Yeah thats my point, i recently added the video card and went from ddr2-ddr3 , i bought the mobo over a year ago, i tend to buy mobo that leave me room for upgrading.

I think its almost time for me to move away from LGA775, next time, but i haven't found a game i cant play on 1920x1080 on max or near max so i think im good with this setup for awhile.

I don't really care about high FPS though as long as i get 30fps i am fine, i think for most people they want the best FPS they can get and they notice the differeance.

But yeah your setup looks nice, but i am kind of biased since i tend to keep my bar really low on what is acceptable gfx quality and what is not. 

What i'd probably like best about your system would be gameplay recording, that is the only problem i had with my system but i over came that with on the fly compression so it's not even an issues for me anymore. And recordign at 1600x900 vs 1980x1080 makes a huge differance and i don't really notice a big differance.

My screen is only 1600x1050 so is it even a point in running games on higher resolution than that? I also hope that I can record videos/stream with this new setup, but it shoudnt be a big problem. But dude, how do you deal with 30fps? It's so laggy.. I'm not a guy that needs 200fps either, but atleast a static 50-60. 

Got any tips on a game that I can try out my graphics on? I'm currently not playing any games that require too much, but would like to test out one and see how good it can do. Although I've got Skyrim to test it on. 

 

I'm a first timer at putting the parts into the computer myself, hehe. Is there any tips you have so I don't screw up? 

BAM, saw you'r signature so just had to beat you^^

Well back in the day i used to run games at 30 FPS while everyone else was boasting about 60+ but now my FPS are good.

Well the only game i can think of that i have to lower settings to play right now is Saints row 3, i mean it looks really good to me on the settings i got it on i just had problems with the reflections and stuff so i had to play with the settings.

well i went from crt to a 21' 1920x1080 lcd monitor but i think a 1600x1050 monitor isn't bad, it's jsut that you need to run your games at your monitors native resolution or games aren't that sharp.

But yeah i never used any lcd monitor for gaming under 1920x1080 so i don't know how much better games look on 1600x1050 vs 1920x1080, im guessign it's not too much of a differance.

From what i read raid0 gives pretty good read times compared to a single HDD but same or longer writes, SSD gives better write and read than normal HDD's.

So Raid0 seemed like it would be good enough for me until SSD become worth it, i also heard people had problems with SSD drives so i'd probably try a raid0 before trying SSD.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Does-RAID0-Really-Increase-Disk-Performance/394/6

Edit: but yeah everywhere i looked it seemed like raid0 would be fine for me.

SSD drives are expensive still, as a person on a budget i'd go with raid0.

I was thinking about ssd a few months ago so i did some reading and from what i found there is a caching thing with ssd drives and windows that seemed problamatic to me not to mention the price per gb of ssd vs a normal HDD in raid0.

Raid0 seemed a better choice on a budget.

Edit:

Well HDD prices have went up a lot since the Japan TSUNAMI  but i thinks a raid0 harddisk setup would still be cheaper than ssd

Yeah thats my point (Overkill is good when it comes to computers aslong as you don't  keep upgrading every few months or yearly unless you need too, unfortunatley i can't afford to), i recently added the video card and went from ddr2-ddr3 , i bought the mobo over a year ago, i tend to buy mobo that leave me room for upgrading.

I think its almost time for me to move away from LGA775, next time, but i haven't found a game i cant play on 1920x1080 on max or near max so i think im good with this setup for awhile.

I don't really care about high FPS though as long as i get 30fps i am fine, i think for most people they want the best FPS they can get and they notice the differeance.

But yeah your setup looks nice, but i am kind of biased since i tend to keep my bar really low on what is acceptable gfx quality and what is not. 

What i'd probably like best about your system would be gameplay recording, that is the only problem i had with my system but i over came that with on the fly compression so it's not even an issues for me anymore. And recordign at 1600x900 vs 1980x1080 makes a huge differance and i don't really notice a big differance.

I am pretty sure that is overkill but if you got the money overkill is great because you wont "need" to upgrade for awhile.

I am pretty sure my setup is crap compared to yours and i am pretty sure i will be able to play GW2 on max settings at 1920x1080 i bet.

I'd be surprised if you where not way past reccommended requirements, and yeah i would be surprised if you couldnt max everything.

My Specs:

GA-G41M-Combo-LGA775

"Haters gunna hate"

"You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not please all of the people all of the time." 

We all like different things, some won't like a game, everyone knows that is going to happen when a game comes out, most people just shake it off, but other people feel they got screwed and go around bashing the game anywhere they can to anyone who will listen, then there are people who like drama and trolling.

That is just the way it is.

But sometimes a game is really crappy or broken and people are really just trying to warn people to wait and that is a good thing, because first impressions often matter, If people try a newly released game that is broken (like anarchy online was) and get pissed they are likely to stay away from the game even when it turns into a game that they might actually like.

Sometimes though a game really is crap and/or broken, it is usually pretty easy to tell if someone is just out to bash a game or if they are just trying to let people know to stay away.

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." 

I am staying away from SWTOR till there is a trial or the price drops a lot, because i've learned my lesson, seems every new game is just a clone of other games in the genre or a hybrid of multiple genres i got tired of wasting money. Not to mention after what they did to galaxies with nge i'm hessitent to play another starwars or sony game that i have to pay a monthly fee for.

I got a weekend beta invite for SWTOR but i was busy with my GF and by the time i checked my email it was over and the code they sent me was useless, So i only seen gameplay videos and from what i can tell it seems to be too story based and rpg'ish for me, i haven't looked into how good the healing classes are though and group content so i really can't be sure if i'd liek it or not i'm just going to wait and see what peoplr are sayign about the game in 6 months.

And i have been gaming almost 30 years now,i think i am finally losing interest, but yeah read what people are saying and if they are just haters or trolls ignore them is what i suggest.

"Don't feed the Trolls"

It can be hard as hell to get companies to help you even recover your passwords. I Lost so many games on steam and MMORPG companies and only companies that ever eventually gave me my accounts back where blizzard and NCSoft ( 5 months of run around via email, finnally decided to try phone support and got help right away)

FYI Seems like NCsoft is one of the few companies that actually helps you via phone, unfortunately thier email support is useless like everyone elses i delt with. I never had to call blizzard though since they actually helped  me via email when my account got stolen twice and when my dial -in auth phone number got disabled they helped me right away via email.

So yeah i am kind of hesitent  to keep all my eggs in one basket if you know what i mean.

Originally posted by Fendel84M

This game used to be awesome, but the constant need for twinking yourself with implants to the point where if you weren't effectively 10-20 levels stronger than you should be got really annoying. I did not enjoy this aspect at all, is that still there?

as paid player with expansion content you never really had to twink hard, you could half ass it,  like just focus on getting on a great weapon or a few specific class nano's and it was just about having a decent tank and doc in the team.

As a free player though yeah you probably want to stay twinked more often.

Right now though the population is so low and most people playing have multiple 220's, i got a 220 doc and enf myself i jsut got tired of havign to pay for multiple accounts to level and even then not being able to find enough people to form a team when i want. I think the way it is now with the low population, you will feel the need to twink even more than when the population was better, unless you got a pocket account.

Originally posted by rpgalon

the only thing that made me stop with AoC was the population.

I'm back and enjoying it now, but like others said, you have to see for yourself.

That is how i have been with Anarchy online since 2006, i never really liked aoc, and i was in the beta years ago and gave up on it then till the godslayer expansion, i was still bored but i pushed myself and ended hating the questing and dying while questing over and over, just hated everything about aoc basically, i was naive to think f2p would change anything, especially since funcom kinda of made it clear they wheren't going to be making any drastic gameplay changes.

Edit: I'm kind of biased though when it comes to mmorpg's, they have to be really good to keep my attention if they aren't sci-fi, and the healing classes have to be fun, aoc healing classes where not fun to me and all i play is healer.

I'd rather waste my times trying to find a team in anarchy online then play Age of Conan, thats if i had to choose.

But yeah i had hoped AOC would be more fun or i'd atleast want to play it occassionally once it went f2p, the truth is though, that just like champions online and lotr, if they wheren't fun when they where p2p, and the money wasn't an issue but the gameplay was boring or frustrating, then as f2p they probably still aren't going to be worth your time. But you have to find out for yourself.

Edit: it only took me like 10 mins in AOC:unchained before i remembered why i don't like the game, same thing with runes of magic, i go back to Rom every few months and right away get reminded why i hate the game. Lucky thign is that eventually it sinks in and you stay away for a logn time, i spent 45$ on wow payign 15$ for a month of game time every few months and only playing 1-4 days before i was bored again, so wasted 45$ for 3 months and now i just remember that every time i think about goign back to wow. Same with Anarchy online, but i wasted way more then 45$ on Anarchy online, tryign to get back into it.

Sigh, i still think about ferentus often.

Originally posted by Triadninja

I've played Anarchy Online since 2005, and its a great MMO if you have the time and patience to get into it. (Though i'm probably really biased for it because it was my first MMO.) The game currently is unbalanced, the graphics are old and the community is small. However, what it lacks in those categories it makes up for in a great and very friendly community, devs who know and understand the players

LOL, The Community is crap, yeah the dev team of 6 people know their paying customers are a bunch of veteran elitist with a lot of time on their hands who like to grind the same content over and over and pay for 2 or more accounts a month or more so they can feel special and call anyone who isn't as special as them a cry baby. So yeah the dev team just does what it can to keep the paid players feeling like they are elite, with expansions that take away from what the core game was all about and turns the game into just another cookie cutter mmorpg.

The game used to be great but right now all the expansions turned the game into just a grind fest, if people think the player base is good now then they probably haven't been playing since 2003 or 2004 they probably only started after the lost eden expansion that made the game more like was, and to me lost eden almost ruined ao like NGE ruined swg.

Free version of AO is vanilla AO, before the game turned into just about grinding for multiple types of experience and took away your choices to make your toon unique instead it's just about getting that specific endgame item for your "class" like every other game.

Free version kind of sucks right now though since the population is low, but since you're not spending cash all you risk losing is your time spent. And people might decide to upgrade and go a year or more before they realize they wasted their time and money, at least you had that year, i don't regret the 6 months i spent in wotlk even though i'll probably never play wow again at least i had those 6 months.

And the GFX ain't that bad on a hd monitor 1920x1080 with max settings, back in 2005 my pc was so bad the game really looked like crap and i couldn't even do raids unless i used script commands to lower my settings even more, and i wasn't the only one, wasn't until like 2007 or 2008 i had a good enough pc to turn everything to max, i went dual core in 2008 and the game was fully playable. So maybe since i played the game for years where it looked like crap i am biased.