16-03-2005 20:24									#61
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I've had no problems finding parties at 3am, or 8am when I've done it before.

	16-03-2005 20:58									#62
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I can't speak for any given game, as i've only played 3, but FFXI compared to Everquest, I had a much easier time making parties very late in the night than in EQ. (Ryzom beta was my third, and that was too small to compare.)

In EQ, you could find some parties, but I often found that they were made up of poor skill combinations and/or poor ... skill. And even once you made one, at 3am, half the party was about to go to bed anyway; in FF, you could find lots of parties of people just getting started, at any time.

	17-03-2005 00:17									#63
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quote: Originally posted by Asmodean Unfortunately I can't join you. As a European, I can only play on the EU servers Maybe if we get enough Euros, we can start a Euro 'poly guild. Asmodean

I'm in, later.

	17-03-2005 02:46									#64
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okay I'm about to leave the house and get this game. It better be good or I'm comeing back to get you guys.

	17-03-2005 05:19									#65
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okay I got it, I should be playing instead of posting here. I want to read the manual first, but it is so huge. I have no patience to read manuals like I used to. I read the entire civ2 manual before I even played the game. But I'm anxious to play, so I don't think I'll read the entire manual.

	17-03-2005 05:21									#66
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident okay I got it, I should be playing instead of posting here. I want to read the manual first, but it is so huge. I have no patience to read manuals like I used to. I read the entire civ2 manual before I even played the game. But I'm anxious to play, so I don't think I'll read the entire manual.

that's impressive - that was a HUGE manual ...

	17-03-2005 05:50									#67
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downloading updates right now

I enjoyed the opening movie. That was badass. The graphics were impressive. Blizzard has always been good a movies, but these put the diablo2 ones to shame. Possibly the best opening movie I have ever seen in a game.

	17-03-2005 05:54									#68
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident downloading updates right now I enjoyed the opening movie. That was badass. The graphics were impressive. Blizzard has always been good a movies, but these put the diablo2 ones to shame. Possibly the best opening movie I have ever seen in a game.

Okay, not to toot the same horn over again, but have you seen the FFXI opening movie?

	17-03-2005 05:57									#69
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quote: Originally posted by snoopy369 Okay, not to toot the same horn over again, but have you seen the FFXI opening movie?

nope. that's for consoles right? I have never played a console game (except ones on the PC such as Morrowind and Kotor).

and I admit I usually play older games, or older styled games. And not any shooters. Doom3 is the only shooter I bought, I didn't care for it that much.

	17-03-2005 06:05									#70
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FFXI is on PC (I've never owned a console...) It's a MMORPG, but also playable on the PS2.

	17-03-2005 06:06									#71
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hmm, the downloader doesn't like my Zone Alarm firewall. I diabled it, but I'm till only getting about 16 KB/sec. This could take a while. I hope the game itself doesn't have any problems with zonealarm. In the pro version they say you can open up specific ports for specific programs, but it doesn't appear I can do that in the basic free version.

	17-03-2005 06:15									#72
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I've seen the FFXI video, and I still like WoW's much better.

Diss: The problem is likely with the router...if you have one.

Try disabling P2P in the updater.

The in-game WoW graphics aren't doing much special technically, but the art direction is superb. WoW looks better than EQ2 (which looks bland and washed out IMO) and certainly better than FFXI.

	17-03-2005 06:35									#73
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That's it, I'm going to get this. It looks too good to ignore...

	17-03-2005 16:36									#74
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Just got done playing many hours of this.

Overall it's defeinately better than Everquest 2. Everquest 2 is behind the times. Their loading screens is the best example of this. And the loading screens of EQ2 caused major slowdowns for my computer as I was talking about earlier in this thread.

WoW has no loading screens (except for instance dungeons and travelling to a different continent). This is how it should be. the graphics are pretty good, not as good as morrowind, but at least most comuters can run them.

No crashes in 12 hours of play. No major slowdowns. the installation took forevr though. These companies need to start putting out DVD's instead of CD's for installation. Get with the times people.

I'm playing a undead warrior on a roleplay server btw. I quickly figured out that even on non pvp servers there is pvp.

Some gnome was messing around with our town. I tried to take him on, but it doesn't show what level he is. He took me out in 2 shots with his gun. He took me out again later too. He must have been a pretty high level. I was only level 9 at the time.

It's not a bad game, I probably wouldn't play it if I wasn't bored of all my other games. It still can't compare to Morrowind or Neverwinter Nights. But it's still a fun game.

	17-03-2005 16:53									#75
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Look into getting a UI mod too. This will help with things like extra toolbars (as a hunter I need at least 3!), making map notes and showing you the levels of enemies that are way too high for you. Cosmos is probably the most popular.

	17-03-2005 20:05									#76
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WoW has guns?

Wow!

	17-03-2005 20:07									#77
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There is still PvP on the non-PvP servers, it's just optional. You can't be attacked unless you set your PvP flag by attacking someone already in combat (red name I believe), or typing /pvp.

Also, you can "duel" players by typing /duel (name) or right clicking on their portrait and selecting duel. There's a flag that gets planted between you guys, and there's a 300yd(?) radius that you can fight in. You don't die, you lose the duel at 1hp and it broadcasts to the area that (soandso) defeated (soandso) in a duel. If you leave the 300yd radius, it says you fled.

	17-03-2005 20:17									#78
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quote: Originally posted by Sir Ralph WoW has guns? Wow!

Yeah, Dwarves have a racial ability of +5 gun skill as well.

There's also engineering. You can make Gnomish Battle Chickens (summons an armored chicken to fight for you), Goblin Jumper Cables (resurrects a dead player), Gnomish Rocket Boots (increases your speed when used...can seriously harm you/kill you if it misfires, which is awesome to watch), Gnomish Universal Remote (lets you control a mechanical target), etc.

	17-03-2005 20:19									#79
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I also appreciate the subtle humour and references throughtout the game. The master engineer named Scooty (who teleports you to a guy named Spook)...NPC right outside a cave with oodles of colorful crystals named Spraggle Frock, the quests like "Chasing A-Me", etc.

	17-03-2005 20:27									#80
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And I disagree with Busted about the water in the game. I think it looks great:


Overall I find it to be a very good looking game. I was not a fan of Morrowind's graphics, also -- horribly implemented with poor art direction.

	17-03-2005 21:50									#81
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Does anybody know of a site with some good WoW AAR's. I would like to read some, while I wait for my game.

Asmodean

	17-03-2005 23:28									#82
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AAR?

	17-03-2005 23:37									#83
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quote: Originally posted by Asher AAR?

AAR = After action report.

Not a story. Just an account of what you did, why you did it, and who you teamed up with etc.

Asmodean

	18-03-2005 00:15									#84
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There are just forums where you read people's thoughts on a wide range of topics. Check out the European Blizzard WoW forums.

	18-03-2005 01:28									#85
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quote: Originally posted by Asher There is still PvP on the non-PvP servers, it's just optional. You can't be attacked unless you set your PvP flag by attacking someone already in combat (red name I believe), or typing /pvp. Also, you can "duel" players by typing /duel (name) or right clicking on their portrait and selecting duel. There's a flag that gets planted between you guys, and there's a 300yd(?) radius that you can fight in. You don't die, you lose the duel at 1hp and it broadcasts to the area that (soandso) defeated (soandso) in a duel. If you leave the 300yd radius, it says you fled.

this was a roleplay server so maybe it's different.

I get the message that my town is under attack. I actually did attack the gnome first, and then realized I couldn't do anything to him. He then killed me as I was running away.

But even after I retrieved my body he killed me. and I was running away again. We weren't dueling.

It's not a big deal. He's the first aliance character I have seen on our side of the world. You'd have to be a pretty high level to brave that trip I guess.

As you can see, I'm not real big on pvp. I talked about killing greifers earilier, but usually I'm not tough enough to do so. Most of those guys have awesome builds and I can't touch them.

	18-03-2005 01:33									#86
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one more question.

should I go with 2 handed or 1 handed swords?

	18-03-2005 01:42									#87
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident this was a roleplay server so maybe it's different. I get the message that my town is under attack. I actually did attack the gnome first, and then realized I couldn't do anything to him. He then killed me as I was running away. But even after I retrieved my body he killed me. and I was running away again. We weren't dueling. It's not a big deal. He's the first aliance character I have seen on our side of the world. You'd have to be a pretty high level to brave that trip I guess. As you can see, I'm not real big on pvp. I talked about killing greifers earilier, but usually I'm not tough enough to do so. Most of those guys have awesome builds and I can't touch them.

The way I understand it is, that there is only PvP if you allow it. You "enabled" PvP by attacking him, but he hadn't allowed your attack, so for him it was still PvE. However, by attacking him, you were now in PvP mode, so he could afterwards attack you.

I'm not sure, though. Maybe somebody who has the game can correct me.

Asmodean

	18-03-2005 02:45									#88
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident this was a roleplay server so maybe it's different. I get the message that my town is under attack. I actually did attack the gnome first, and then realized I couldn't do anything to him. He then killed me as I was running away. But even after I retrieved my body he killed me. and I was running away again. We weren't dueling. It's not a big deal. He's the first aliance character I have seen on our side of the world. You'd have to be a pretty high level to brave that trip I guess. As you can see, I'm not real big on pvp. I talked about killing greifers earilier, but usually I'm not tough enough to do so. Most of those guys have awesome builds and I can't touch them.

I think you picked PvP by accident. Or you enabled PvP.

	18-03-2005 02:47									#89
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Your PvP flag stays for 5 minutes(?) after your last combat thing.

When you ressed, you still had the PvP flag on.

	18-03-2005 03:20									#90
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident It's not a big deal. He's the first aliance character I have seen on our side of the world. You'd have to be a pretty high level to brave that trip I guess.

In beta I took my level 20 undead warrior all the way to the dwarf/gnome newbie ground. I did it partly to show people how horrible the RP server mechanics are for RPing... nothing like spawning a new dwarf character to see an undead hanging out with dwarves.

Then I flipped my PvP flag on, and it being a roleplay server, people started to attack me even though they where only level 3. Eventually search parties where formed to hunt me down and groups of 20 or so low levels headed by a couple higher levels (there wheren;t many people level 20+ at this time, so most of the high level characters they rounded up couldn't kill me alone either) it was pretty fun. I spent a good few days haunting the dwarven lands.