Server is irelevant. All are prety much populated and you als don't want an alltime busy server because of lag, do you? Avoid Argos then...

Regarding starter main... It's irelevant imo but the axeman ist best imo for starters. After you get to 50-60 you can still restart with another main to see how everyone feels like. And it's easy because you can get really fast to 50 in AO (under 1 week if you know what to do and have average time for gaming).

ROFLMAO!!!!!

@xSagemanx

That's the most pathetic post i've ever seen! Typical for crazy amis who sue everything that they don't like or don't understand (i generalize now but really that's the way many of the europeans see the americans)...

At least i had a good laugh. Tnx for that.

It has a main quest chain, yes, but i wouldn't say it's linear. You can do and redo many of the recruitment quests and the non-main quest chain quests (which are more and more as higher you go). In this game you don't have to grind till level 95+(even then you don't NEED to grind). There are always enough quests to level you and your mercs. 

15. Hope they reduce it in the german version to that level too. Now it's 10% here. Write also about the dayly price reducings in the market of ~6%.

9. That was available starting with level 20 when i was a newbie... Has it changed? That would mean much, much sooner teleporting near Rome than it was originaly intended...

If you're Amidala from ONRPG.com, hi there! ( http://www.onrpg.com/boards/152601.html#post2135365 )

If you're not, at least edit your post and give her credits for the post.

@Unrealdj

You need a Artilerist (lv 30 D class merc) and not a canoneer (lv 87 C class merc) to see the opponents health. And most people don't take the artilerist because of this part of the skill but for the very heavy defense decrease that this skill does to the enemy. You can kill enemies twice as fast if you cast deep insight on them.

Originally posted by Phry

Reputations, good ones at least, are hard to earn in the MMO industry, bad ones, unfortunately seem to be very easy to acquire, and probably one of the reasons why Atlantica isnt perhaps as popular as they, and apparently, you, would like, is that quite often, the bad reputations are easier to believe than the good ones. You only have to read some of the other postings on this forum to see where this is coming from unfortunately.

Agreed.

But this game is more popular than you might think. Even the german version with with it's two servers (atm) is having a busy status on both servers most of the time.  And take into consideration that the German version is not (as i hoped it to be) for Europeans but only for german speaking/reading players and even many of those prefer to play on the us version.

ANY build can be beaten.

"Originally posted by redjohn22

This game will crash and give you BSOD no matter what type comp you have... "

I have a Barton 2500+ (old Athlon type CPU), 1 GB RAM, 6600GT graphics card and i can say this game never crashed to me, unless i did something i should do (running many highly demanding aplications toghether with the game). My pc was mid range in 2005, now it's a very low end pc...

OT: are you the 9Dragons tihoa?

That shadow dungeon is the first with the fame req. All shadow dungeons from now on will have it (higher and higher). Just buy the merc and do the quest later (when you have fame and you're high enough to do it alone). in the end you'll sell the marble for much more than when you bought it (prices have a tendency to rise over the months).

no bug. You just need 25 fame, that's all...

You can get fame by participating in the Free League. ~2 victories or 4-5 losses and you have the 25 fame. fame/battle points can be seen when you go in My Info->caracter->combat record (not sure about the last name but it's the second tab).

Because everyone starts from scratch, because you have the chance to get the chain saw merc with all the others, because you can pay the item mall stuff in EURO, because you don't need the updated version  (except for those who loved musicians and now don't get it from the start) for the first 95 levels of the game, because lag will be near to 0 (yes! i had lag even if i'm in a country in which the general internet connection is in the top10 in the world according to a survey last week), because you (i especialy) have the chance to exercise your german language skills, because i wanted to start over and needed a reason :p .

You'll right if you thought "what? atlantica online in europe?". It's the lauch of the european atlantica online. Much better ping BUT it's in German. NDOORS said that they'll try for the future to make more clients for different languages but for now it seems it's the only one in Europe. Your NODDORS usernames work in germany too but you must activate them on their website. Start of the open beta is the 21st of October at 6PM (CET). it's a different client (older than the USA version) and on the official site there was no mention of the Janisary nor the B class mercs.

off topic: why do you use the search license in FL or on bosses? I really don't understand... I mane, that bot is actually helping your opponent by taking the loot for you. You give them a free space to move to. By bosses i use to kill the mid line and not loot so that the boss helpers can't get in front of the boss protecting it. In FL it's the same but every free spot is a blessing for the opponent.

" thinking they will get very far for "free"..."

define "far"

I said this on this forum and  on others too: if you want it fast, fast, fast PAY FOR IT! If you can chill and enjoy every aspect of the game you can relax and you don't have to pay at all or really really little... But i guess this kind of patience  (and wisdom) comes with the age and the free time one has... I have very little free time so when i can play i relax at it and don't stress myself with things that don't really matter.

Please restrain yourself if you don't know of what you're talking about. AO is a great game as it is and the OP laments about the politics of the developers.

@OP

i'm just lv.91 and yesterday had only a few minutes to patch the game and check the new things in the market... I don't know at which level you can get the new guitar merc but i know that every merc is ment to be used from a certain level BUT the recruitment quest forces you to be a much higher level to get that particular merc. The quests for every other merc forces you to enter the shadw dungeons and party up OR wait some more levels to be able to fight your way through. The oracle finnal boss is 17 levels higher (93) than the reccomended oracle level (76). I, most of the times bought the merc when i could first use it and made the recruitment quests later.

And why don't you just buy them from the market? Patrol license 1 day (why do you need more than 1 day patrol anyway???)  is one of the cheapest licenses on the market... And 250-300 mil (Sik) for the BL is not much either for a 100+. But if you wanna buy them with real money, you're free to do it...