Промоакции для игроков не только в шутерах — воспользуйся промокодом Vavada от наших партнеров и получи бонусы, которые подарят азарт и атмосферу, сравнимую с игровыми победами.
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No snark handy, let’ go straight to the links of hatred: Lum, Mu, Tweety, Arkenor, Tipa, Ken, and Bruce (with more condensed hatred links in his comments). I tried it, and it remains a Travian clone with RMT annoyances. I won, by any list of goals I might have had, so you’re welcome to my stuff if there is a way to give it away.
: Zubon
Here at the conference, our bus route is 5 Gold. I found that surprising, because even the most expensive horse routes are 35 silver.
: Zubon
For many MMO fans, a large part of the hobby comes from communication outside of the actual game. Fansites and their forums are one of the best places to get the latest news, interact with devs, and discuss the game down to its base mechanics. Inde is the site administrator of Guild Wars Guru, which has one of the most active Guild Wars forums. She, along with a cadre of other moderators, keeps the site and community in good condition. Inde agreed to let me ask her a few questions on running an MMO fansite with an active community.
While many are still splashing the ripples from the Twixt or Myers or whoever’s attempt to explain sociological emergence in a one-sided, four-colored narrative, Orion – one of the developers for Lord of the Rings Online – put up an excellent post discussing emergent gameplay on his blog. He discusses how all exploits start with emergent gameplay and uses the Mines of Moria instance, the Grand Stair as an example. It’s well worth a read.
–Ravious
first principles, clarice. simplicity
EDIT: Linked to Orion’s post as originally intended, not my comment.
My kinship wanted to do the turtle raid. We didn’t have enough people to do it without inviting people from outside the kin. One of the people we picked up was a guardian. The first thing we noticed about this guardian was his health pool. My squishy little runekeeper had the same amount of health as he did. An inspection of his traits revealed that he had terrible equipment. Many of the things he was wearing were quest rewards in dire need of replacement. His virtues had such gems as “Charity 9” and “Wisdom 4”. He also didn’t have his traits set up to hold agro.
My kin-mates were complaining about the guy on our teamspeak server before we started, but we went with him anyway. During the battle he had the attention of the turtle for about half the time. He just couldn’t hold agro. When the turtle was down to about 50k health, we wiped. I’ve seen turtle raids before, and if you wipe when it has 50k left, you’re in trouble.
30. I hear that the last ten levels take as long as all the ones that came before, but I have also heard that it just feels that way.
: Zubon
It would have been a better read if he decided to roleplay the Pied Piper in Everquest 1 to rid the region of invaders by training the mobs of that zone. I do like how Myers tried to distance himself from Twixt’s actions by writing as if Twixt was the one acting. Hopefully Myer’s peers that reviewed his paper are not themselves new to online gaming. Hat tip: Broken Toys.
–Ravious
we have no future because our present is too volatile
I have given my thoughts on Twitter, and my fervor is beginning to erode. I even camped out a name. No, I didn’t get Ravious. Some impostor has squatted on my namesake. I did get my “real” name though, which depends on who you ask: my mom or Magneto. Recently, an add-on for World of Warcraft was made that allows people to tweet in-game. This (and the fact that nearby taco trucks tweet location) brings me from doubtful to enlightened in my view of the micro-blogging application.
I like signing on and checking my guild page to see where people are adventuring. That small amount of information can be helpful, but rarely has it helped me group up with guildmates. Most of the time I have grouped up in guild chat where pertinent information can be exchanged. Sure, it helps to know that they are in the Lonelands, but they might just be passing through.
A simple tweet could change that if it is used as some active status report. I always feel guilty when a guildmate expends will and energy to let his band of brothers and sisters know that he will be farming trolls for the next hour. Would any of us like to join him? Now, instead of guilt-tripping some hobbit healer to be turned into troll foot-jelly, the guild member can just update his playstyle on Twitter. It’s brilliant! Sign on and scroll through meaningful information immediately. Hey, you say, Bobthefarmer is working on Yak rep, I will join him. It becomes your choice rather than a reaction to a plea for help.
Stupid Turbine’s add-on policy.
–Ravious
wanderers wandering all round the town
Today I joined a pickup group for the Forges with my Runekeeper. It was a pretty good group. We all kept re-doing the instance so that each person in the group could get the desired item at the end. Most of the time, the person who just won the roll says “thanks for the group” and leaves. So I felt pretty good about the group.
One of our members was a Lore-master who would always switch to their level 48 Captain for the last chest. They had asked if this was OK before starting, and our leader had told him it was fine. It was on our fourth run that a second age Captain’s weapon dropped. The leader of the group gave it to the level 60 Captain in the group without putting it up for a roll.
He said, “I think you’ll agree that this should go to the other Captain, because you can’t use it yet.”
I could hardly believe my eyes. The whole point of our Lore-master attending was so that he could bring his level 48 into the group and roll for the equipment. He was getting his equipment ahead of time so that he’d already have good gear when he reached a higher level. The level 48 Captain just said that he couldn’t argue with a group leader, and left the group. Then he logged off.
Yesterday, the gods of Team Fortress 2 felt the need to bestow upon me a glorious moment for my birthday. The payload was in a trench, and just then someone threw a jarate at the bomb cart. This lowly pyro did jump into the fray pushing the cart thereupon critting down two heavies, a medic, an enemy pyro, and some other hapless being before succumbing to enemy fire. The moment was epic. I just had to share. Allow me this one small indulgence.
I, as well as Zubon, have been playing a lot of Team Fortress 2. I really enjoy the chaotic style of play that public servers are ripe with. One can usually find me amidst the Lotus servers. Now back to regularly scheduled Kill Ten Rats thoughts: