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So now that the sky is falling, what game should I be playing? [Locked] |
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1/1/00 12:00am
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So now that the sky is falling, what game should I be playing? |
Mezminister posted:
Spare yourself AC...they use a grossly flawed stat system that can make some characters simply unable to recover from "mistakes" you make at level 1...sad
Its also sort of a causual players fighter/magic user/healer healer fest. Kind of feels like Everyone is playing one of 10 shades of grey.
Peopel liekd it beucse at the tiem it was one of the few mainsteam mmorps you could solo well in ....
There are quests where you can reset skill and or specialized skill points, and so many guides to tell you what to train it is unimaginable that a 100+ IQ person could not figure it out.
As far as the "flawed stat system", it's one of the best, most customizable ever created.
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NeMeFieD said:"  ea I Ucmed for 12 days straight.."
njwCSUS posted:I'm homosexual, so really, its ongoing sexual attraction to my father, not my mother.
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jioss Posts: 17
Registered: 2005-10-2 23:18:10
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So now that the sky is falling, what game should I be playing? |
I hear Nethack is soon releasing their ascii based MMO.
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Arcilite_I  Title: VN's Most Wanted
Posts: 1,260
Registered: 2002-1-27 08:46:24
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So now that the sky is falling, what game should I be playing? |
Mezminister posted:
Spare yourself AC...they use a grossly flawed stat system that can make some characters simply unable to recover from "mistakes" you make at level 1...sad
Its also sort of a causual players fighter/magic user/healer healer fest. Kind of feels like Everyone is playing one of 10 shades of grey.
Peopel liekd it beucse at the tiem it was one of the few mainsteam mmorps you could solo well in ....
lol you're clueless
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The_Korrigan  Title: Scrub Buster
Posts: 955
Registered: 2001-7-17 03:51:32
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1/1/00 12:00am
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So now that the sky is falling, what game should I be playing? |
AC1's character development was flawed in the way that to increase ANY skill, you had to grind mobs to get XP (or be part of a XP chain). Want to level cooking? Go farm some tuskers. Want to level crafting? Grind more Olthois, my friend.
UO's character development was and still is WAY superior to AC1. At least in UO, pure crafting characters are viable on their own without having to be part of a lame XP chain. You can have a "real" cook, blacksmith, etc... a totally non-fighting character if you want to.
This said, AC1 remains a very good game I played for 6 years and that I still have very fond memories of.
I'm fully aware of its flaws too though. If you ask me if I want UO with modern graphics or AC1 with modern graphics, my choice is made without even thinking twice... give me UO. Would UO have had 3D graphics back then similar to AC1, I would possibly never have played AC1.
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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So now that the sky is falling, what game should I be playing? |
Korrigan,
There are "exp turn in items" that have been in the game for quite awhile that you can farm with your "main" and give to your "alt"....
Since all they require is to loot these "bosses" before they respawn, people kill the boss, port alts to the corpse, and effectively mass farm these items.
There is a daily limit (on collection, not turn in)..but the need to be in an exp chain, or farm with your crafter are pretty much gone.
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NeMeFieD said:" ea I Ucmed for 12 days straight.."
njwCSUS posted:I'm homosexual, so really, its ongoing sexual attraction to my father, not my mother. |
Arcilite_I Title: VN's Most Wanted
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Registered: 2002-1-27 08:46:24
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So now that the sky is falling, what game should I be playing? |
The_Korrigan posted:
AC1's character development was flawed in the way that to increase ANY skill, you had to grind mobs to get XP (or be part of a XP chain). Want to level cooking? Go farm some tuskers. Want to level crafting? Grind more Olthois, my friend.
I don't know what AC you played but I remember a social environment like nothing I had ever experienced. A game where friendship was rewarded in a manner that encouraged large groups of people to work together for mutual gain. I'm sorry you saw friendship as a grind, were the Olthoi at least good conversation? Did they teach you any recipes?
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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I cannot remember a single friend of mine that played UO, that did not craft in the following manner...
1. Turn on macro.
2. Go to sleep.
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Guttersludge
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NeMeFieD said:" ea I Ucmed for 12 days straight.."
njwCSUS posted:I'm homosexual, so really, its ongoing sexual attraction to my father, not my mother. |
Frog_King Posts: 15
Registered: 2001-12-24 12:06:21
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1/1/00 12:00am
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So now that the sky is falling, what game should I be playing? |
Arcilite_I posted:
The_Korrigan posted:
AC1's character development was flawed in the way that to increase ANY skill, you had to grind mobs to get XP (or be part of a XP chain). Want to level cooking? Go farm some tuskers. Want to level crafting? Grind more Olthois, my friend.
I don't know what AC you played but I remember a social environment like nothing I had ever experienced. A game where friendship was rewarded in a manner that encouraged large groups of people to work together for mutual gain. I'm sorry you saw friendship as a grind, were the Olthoi at least good conversation? Did they teach you any recipes?
I'm not following the train of thought here. Korrigan's complaint seems to be that in order to level a crafting skill, you needed to do non-crafting related activities to level them, not that 'friendship is a grind'.
You couldn't really create 300 pies to gain any points into your Cooking level, for instance. If you wanted a higher Cooking level, your only option was via : killing mobs for xp, vassal passup, or as Gutter mentioned, turn-in trophies from other characters.
For someone who truly wants a crafter only character (and one of my allegiance friends played exactly that kind of character as his main), that would easily be considered a 'flaw' and a valid critique.
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-Peo-  Title: Caveat Lector
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Registered: 2005-2-2 08:38:42
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Trig, it is extremely easy to make MMDs in AC. Just start picking up everything and salvaging it. Then sell the bags of salvage. I can make like 50 MMDs a night. More if I really try. Especially leather. When your salvage skill is about 150 you get a lot of salvage and it adds up FAST. I subbed again, started a new group of toons and played for 2 months, I had over 2k MMDs and that was with me actually using them now and then to buy stuff.
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Spookysheep Title: Lieker of Cheese
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Registered: 2002-1-9 06:49:19
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GutterSludge posted:
I cannot remember a single friend of mine that played UO, that did not craft in the following manner...
1. Turn on macro.
2. Go to sleep.
One of my toons was a 7X GM crafter using this exact method 
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