[The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar] Some sort of announcement was made at PAX the other day from the folks at Turbine. I have not been able to confirm this, but it has promise. This is something I would love to try out myself. (Note to Turbine: the game’s name isn’t long enough – please add more words.)
Author: Ethic
I own this little MMO gaming blog but I hardly ever write on it any more. I'm more of a bloglord or something. Thankfully I have several minions to keep things rolling along.
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I did some upgrades this morning. If all went well, you shouldn’t notice anything different. Let me know if things appear slow or if something doesn’t work right.
– Ethic
The Move Is On
[EVE Online] The last few weeks have been interesting to say the least. Our corporation (Ars Caelestis) had another corp we highly respected merge into ours. Shortly after that there was an election for the HUZZAH Federation president. The leader of the corp that merged into ours decided to run and one other player in another corp also decided to run. The election was close but a winner was chosen.
Everything changed for us after the election. It became clear that our corporation’s direction and goals did not really match up with those of our alliance any more. We discussed it at length and decided to leave the alliance so we gave our official notice. Not long after that the corp that merged into ours announced they wanted to go their own way as well and left our corporation and the alliance. My time with HUZZAH was very enjoyable and exciting and I won’t soon forget all the fun we have had.
The Log In Trap
[EVE Online] Let’s see if we can solve this problem, the “log in trap”. Basically, this is a situation in EVE (but it could happen in most MMOs) where the enemy gathers in an area and then logs off. Waiting for your group to show up in some way (using an alt to observe the area), they all log in at one time and wipe out your side. There is no way to know how many of them are logged off so you can’t prepare (even if you are lucky enough to get intel that they logged off there in the first place). Most of the time you are completely suprised and wiped out.
Sounds like an exploit doesn’t it? It’s certainly a weak tactic. Metagaming I suppose.
Auto Assault Servers Merge
[Auto Assault] It appears that Auto Assault is already planning a server merger. How serious is this? Well, how does combining all servers into ONE server sound to you? It sounds bad to me.
For some time now our player base has been clamoring to merge all of the servers and offer one, unified Auto Assault® experience. And now you’re going to have it: on July 13, we’ll be merging all of the AA servers (US and Europe) into the new combined server, Nexus.
It isn’t looking good for AA.
Hat tip to VirginWorlds on this one.
– Ethic
Solo Priest is Sad Priest
[World of Warcraft] When I last left my guildmates, the group I was in continued to play together that night and it appears they got to level 9. I logged out at level 6.
Therefore, I’ve been playing a little catch up by fighting solo. I managed to get to level 8 over the past few days, but it is not fun by myself. I really prefer a group. I have a few quests that I can’t solo. I wish WoW had the LFG tool that DDO has. It is pretty sweet really. You go into your quest panel and find a quest you want to do. In that panel is a looking for group toggle. Basically it tries to find a group that wants to do the same quest you do. WoW could really use this. Instead you need to spam the chat channels or stand around near the quest area and hope someone comes along.
Level 8 and no PvP combat yet. Although a high level gnome was following me around for a while.
– Ethic
Vacation Cut Short, Film at 11
[World of Warcraft] I caught wind of Kwip and the gang over at NeenerNeener.Net rerolling on a PVP server in WoW and I thought I’d give it a shot too. I came home from work and logged in only to find my account had expired today. So I reactivated (gasp!).
I managed to grab my name (Ethic) and rolled up an undead priest. Since Kwip was trying a tauren, I ran my ghostly form (dead undead?) over to the tauren beginner area and paid my dues to the spirit resurrection thing-a-ma-creature. I soon joined up with the gang and we created a guild. A party of 4 was formed and off we went.
Ethical Holiday
Heya, this is Ethic just letting everyone know that a few things have dragged me away from the gaming world lately and guess what? I’m not finding myself wishing I was playing an MMO very much anymore. There is nothing to draw me back right now. You could say that real life has grown more interesting lately. Anyway, this site will continue as there are several other wonderful writers here – you just won’t hear from me that often for a while.
I’ve grown disenchanted by the state of MMOs right now and have cancelled all my active accounts. As always, you can still reach me via email – and feel free to do so. I’m just going to sit back and read some of the other guys here and spend more time with my family right now. See you all around!
– Ethic
EVE China Sets World Record
[EVE Online] I just read this over on the EVE forums. In just one day (granted it is open beta) China surpassed all previous concurrent records for EVE Online. The previous record was around 26,000 people playing in a single gameworld.
CCP Games, the game’s Icelandic developer, today announced that more than 30,000 users were concurrently playing in a single gameworld, which it claims is a new world record. In the first day, more than 200,000 people registered for the game. The Chinese version of the game is run by Optic Communications and runs independently of the Western edition of EVE Online.
June 14 Update: 33,000 PCU (Peak Concurrent Users) and now up to more than 360,000 registrations.
– Ethic
Guild Grows By 400%!
[Guild Wars] Our guild in Guild Wars is growing at Blizzard-like speeds, 400% in just a week. Fine, we have 4 people now. If you want to join us, in Prophecies or Factions, send me an email telling me your character name and I will invite you, or leave it in the comments if you prefer. You do not need to be online in order to be invited.
We have characters in many levels and in both games. If you just want to goof off and aren’t concerned about levels, come join us. We only want to have fun and don’t care about XP or who wins a PvP battle. We will be buying a cape soon and when we can afford it we will get a hall too.
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– Ethic