definitly something melee. defensive fighter or healer...not sure yet, cause things are still in the move...

i didnt come across any such announcement. still to come, i assume...

in general, i love the idea of having boats. i played vanguard and was also very exited about that. however, it came to alternative ways of transport such as riftways (teleporters) and the boat- thing got killed with that. there are still boats, but there's no reason to use them. (remember, it costs a hell of money or work, to get one...)

so just for the chill, i doubt it would be a nice feature. there has to be something to it - islands to reach only via boats or whatever...

i'm also thinking of resubbing. so i took the buddy key of my retail and created a new account to have a look. now, after 30 hours and 15gb of downloading its still not ready. so who thinks, i'll be still patient? me not. thats unacceptable. the freaking launch pad is damn slow and it stops the download from time to time. no improvement here since beta. looks like a good start to get veterans back to the game...

maybe it will be the new audi. however, they started to mess around a little with classes, prestige classes and so more things. seeing things like this happen close to launch, i feel strongly reminded to other betas, where the crowds were poisoned by WoW players and the dev's listening to them willingly poisoned their games. its a sad fact that whining on the forums seems to come through very often.

lets just hope, that they dont start over with an underpowered engine, when it comes to the start. and i'm not talking about grafics, cause they're pretty cool :D .

all in all the biggest fault is to do an ah in the game. some may say, it isnt an ah, cause you dont bid. but thats not the core of it. the core is, that you dont have to contact a player, to get your things. and contact a player is all about rp. so again the next game not realizing that.

latest news are also disappointing: possibility of taking prestige classes out of the game. they limit your choice of crafting, yes. but they are strong rp- elements and its great if not everyone can do everything. class- choice, prestige-class and crafter-class choice are the core of character building in aoc. maybe that's been for the logest time.

my pledge is, not to do the same mistakes as many others again and listen to all the WoW- whiners who do beta and disappear latest after 3 months after launch leaving a destroyed game behind...

i've seen enough of it... so AOC, PLEASE BE AN ALTERNATIVE!!!

Originally posted by Sidoxs

Go ahead and think what you want. Think about it. lets say 100,000 people get the max level and get the pvp gear,  think they will be able to compete with the people who spend hours raiding? theres no way funcom will be able to cater to both and make them balanced. The people who raid will outnumber those who pvp and complain that they are spending hours raiding for gear that is equal. Then funcom will have to upgrade the raid gear or decrease pvp gear. The people who raid will not raid all day, they will still pvp.....

i think its a good idea to have a lots of possible things to do when highlvl. and here we have pve- raids, pvp, noncombat, drunken-pvp and so on... sounds pretty cool after all. :D

report 1-3 shows promising facts. i agree that raid looks pretty much the easy way to get some high-end-content into the game. it is too sad, noone comes up with something really new. i followed the market since about a year and everything thrown out has some dust of old-school with it. some smell just bad, some smell like WoW and some are just not ready. what in the world should one play, if one can think more than 2 minutes ahead?

taking raids out and assumeing the game will be ready at launch, it looks worth a try to me.

i did. however, nothing senseful. i dont care. anyone can copy&paste.

Originally posted by Tnice

There are a lot of good games coming out and already out such as PoTBS, EQ2, WoW, and even GuildWars that people can spend their time and money on.

 

LOL. only saying the word "WoW" in that context prooves your ignorance. vg is one of the best games after swg (pre nge). it just is not finished. however, it will be finished sometime. new games? so what do we have there:

- warhammer. wow- clone with daoc pvp. another cartoon- mmorpg. no mam.

- tabula rasa. a game without any noncombat features. no mam.

to take just 2 examples of the biggest recent outcomings.  the whole mmorpg world is a mess at the moment and vg is one of the exceptions of that.

see here: http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/152704/page/3

how the f* do one create a url here? "[url][/url]" didnt work.

yes, it does. great. thank you for those quick answers. it seems to me, its still not wasted to believe in this game. i had lotro after that and i'm currently testing tabula rasa. however, none of them can compete even with the vg in former times. so i think i'm going to try it again sometime soon.

i'm really taking into concern playing vanguard again. i already played it in beta and after release until the servers gone quiet. what wonders me is not only the question of performance today. as far as i read this thread correctly, it has improved a lot. i would be glad if someone could put an answer to some questions that rumor my mind about vg, which could bring me closer to a decision. and of course i would like to have someone first hand and still - or again - playing.

- what about the goldselling- cancer? is it under control? is the ig market working properly again?

- what about housing problems? can you place all items in there now? (when i left they sometimes showed up in the form of a potatoe or something, where i wanted to see my weapon on the shelf.)

- what about chunk crosses? do they work properly now or do you still loose your mount from time to time?

- what about the balancing issues, especially concerning pvp?

- what about the server populations? is it possible to group within - say - 10 minutes? or do you still have to call for members for about 1- 2 hours only to start the dungeon and quit right away, because your first m8's have to leave?

- what about the npc- living, especially inside the cities? still thoughts "am i alone on earth?" coming up?

- what about cast/ abbility animations - did they improve?

- what about bugged missions - is it playable now? (e.g. for a long time one of the unicorns was invis)

- what about the crafting - is it still endless clicky grinding? is there finally ep for real items?

- what about the usefullness of crafted items - are there still similar items dropping? so in other words - is crafting still useless unless you do furniture or stuff like that?

thanks in advance. i hope, someone can give me a second glance at that.