Originally posted by maniacfox

As a long time fan of space shooter games I secretly had high hopes for this game, but the videos that have just been released have really dampened my enthusiasm.

From what I could see you point your weapon at a red square, sit there shooting for a minute or so then move on to the next red square, rinse and reapeat. If this is their idea of fun PVE content then something obviously went wrong with the fun bit.

I  hope they do something to pull this back.

I had a look at some of the videos and it seems pretty decent , the graphics are nice but we are all still anxious to see what the content looks like. It would have been nice to have something similar to EvE but with no dice roll on the shooting, and also a nice balance between PvE and PvP. Hopefully I'll get a chance with beta to see if it is worth playing or not just to make sure I do not waste any money. Hermann Peterscheck doesn't inspire much confidence either nor a stroke of genius that you usually see in a new revolutionary production, all of his interviews are banal and so ridiculously scripted. Let's just hope the rest of the NetDevil team can pull this off. 

Originally posted by Alcuin

It seems that many of the games with 'better' graphics (EQ II, Vanguard, LoTRO) have this 'paper doll' feel to them.

Do you think it's a trade off between realism and verisimilitude?   Can we have both?  is there a game with both (I haven't tried WAR or AoC)?

 

 

You are more than right relating to the animation of the characters and the lack of persona they have. MMOs generally put everything in a “cycle” so your walk just repeats itself once the legs go through a complete turn. This usually makes everything very monotonous especially when you only have one style of walking and a possibility to jump every now and then. The facial animation and the other emotion tabs give some choice yet nothing that would differentiate one player from another that much. I would love it if the game had a simplistic animation tool in which you could create your own moods and emotions and be able to run them in-game. It wouldn’t be any harder than making music sheets for instruments.

Originally posted by teuchy

One of the paragraphs seems to imply that it's OK to abuse kinship members for the sake of profit.  Hmm...no parallels with the current economic crisis there.

In the guild I play with, if you take advantage of people in the guild for profit, you will be banned (e.g., taking UFG items or low priced items on the kinship AH and flipping them on the main AH for a profit).  Having someone craft items for you when they need the crafting tier points and you provide the mats is perfectly fine, however (you both gain in this situation - and I frequently do this - sacrificing the crits I could have achieved myself for the greater good of the guild).  This may have been what was intended in the article but, by mentioning that you can get items for free from your kin, the intention seemed to be more one of taking advantage of others.

It is quite rare that you will find someone who will craft a valued item for free, so most of the time you will need to provide the ingredients. I understand my wording was not the best in that sentence and I apologize for that, I am not supporting in any way a massive abuse of a kinship just for your profit.

Originally posted by Minsc

Originally posted by Lobotomist

Loved to play AH in LOTRO ... made some good gold too

Basically its all about putting item to maximum time, and than putting buyout slightly higher than bidding price.

Also when you sell crafting mats , sell them in smaller bunches.

Instead selling 50 hides, sell 5 sets of 10.

 

I'm sorry but that's a terrible way to sell. Crafters don't want to buyout 5 stacks of 10 they want them 50 at a time, not to mention it's a pain in the ass going through 10 pages of overpriced small stacks to look for decent 50 stacks. I NEVER buy anything less than a full stack of crafting material.

It very much depends on who you are appealing to. There have been many cases where I just needed a few materials in order to complete a recipe and pass a quest or just simply for making an item. I would say the market is pretty split concerning the demand of maximum amounts in any sort of ingredient. 

 http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/208-Eve-Online

 I am really curious to see how skills will be managed. I can say Eve was fun however waiting so long for your skills to be completed, especially if you gave the game a break became rather fustrating and much of a hassle. I had to wait for weeks on end to be able to do what I wanted and that seems to be unfair for people who are willing to put more game time than others. 

 Same here with you, WAR can not come even come close to matching the armory of WOW. The armor and weapon classes are very poorly distributed for the measly 40 levels you are given to waste.

WAR has been a huge disappointment so far and I am glad I already managed to give away the pre-order copy of the game to someone who might actually enjoy it. Besides the very amateur set up of the servers and gameplay EA Mythic can not even sort their customers right. Simply embarrassing...

In a way it is very unsatisfying but I trust EA mythic to add more complexity as the game evolves more and more. So far the engine itself has potential and can be further made better as we play along. Lets remember WAR is the first to introduce experience gain while PVP in battlegrounds. There is a gain already.

Does anyone know of any posted requirements as what the system should be equipped with? Does Huxley support SLI?

well what can I say, thank you for the information I managed to avoid buying a totally worthless game