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Any MMO players amongst you?

digsbe said:
I like MMOs but I haven't found any good free ones lately, any suggestions?

I used to play RF online, but I just got bored with it.
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DDO is FTP now, and those who like it, really really like it. I struggle to get into it though, and for the complexity there is a lack of good information.

Eve Online is not free, but you can buy game time with ingame money, so once you reach a certain point, it's not too hard to play it as a free game. I can make enough in a week to pay for a months playtime. If a Scifi based MMO sounds at all appealing, I strongly suggest trying the trial.
 
Binary_Digit said:
Too right, especially the bold part. Brad's strength is his creativity; he shouldn't be let anywhere near the actual code.

This tweak helped my performance a lot, and the graphics were still very good afterward:

VN Boards - vgclient.ini game tweaks for performance boosts
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It's not just the code, it's the detailed portion of game play. He just can never get it right. EQ at release was great, but you had wildly divergent levels of power between classes. When things would be brought up, he dismissed it as being part of "the vision".
 
rivrrat said:
Nothing but the bolded part made any sense to me, but that's all that matters. ;)
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You can play Eve as a strictly solo game. However, much of the stuff you will not be able to do solo. Large areas of space are simply going to be off limits playing solo. There is a fair amount you can do solo, but the core of the game is PvP, and solo content gets overeasy after awhile. A corp is the Eve version of a guild. Every one is in one, with new players starting in a NPC run guild. I think that NPC corps now have a tax, which means there is a real benefit to getting into a real corp. If you do start to play and want to get out of the tax(if it is there), I have a small corp that is just my two boxes right now that you would be welcome to join.
 
rivrrat said:
YOU!!! You're the one!! I HATE YOU!!!

LOL Actually, YEARS ago when I was a total noob I remember getting ganked in Redridge. There I was, minding my own business in Lakeshire when some poor gal drops dead at my feet. I couldn't figure out why, but I was a priesty so I rezzed her. Being the good Samaritan that I am. Little did I know that she was flagged and that by rezzing her, I was flagged. Hell, I didn't even know what "flagged" meant. But the next thing I knew I was slaughtered by some ****ing shammy in ghost wolf form. So I "WTF?" rezzed in the graveyard and was summarily killed again. And again. So, I logged off and cried.
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Aw, sorry sweetie. Actually that couldn't have been me because Redridge is contested, which means that in PvP I wouldn't have had to wait for you to flag yourself. I only do PvP servers. The second you step into Redridge from the zone with Stormwind in it, you're fair game. Sounds like you were on a normal realm. Hell with that. I play for blood.

Now if you were on a PvP realm and standing outside Lakeshire wondering what a level skull orc warlock was doing throwing 2500 damage shadow bolts at you, it may have been me. Those were the best times by far with me. When my friend who is also hardcore PvP played with me at release, we both got 60 reasonably fast and while he kept hanging around and trying to run Blackrock Spire for blues (Molten Core and BoP epics didn't exist at that time), I went straight for Redridge and made every low-level Alliance character absolutely miserable. It only took him a couple days of me telling him my exploits before he gave up his futile search for blues and join me in the fun.

Those were the best times, when guards couldn't swim. And since we were both warlocks, we could breathe underwater forever. I'd bring him with me to the bottom of that river in the town, waiting for low levels to get/turn in quests and sell their packs. Then we'd run up, dot them, they'd die, guards would run after us, we'd go back underwater while the guards stood there. Back then, guards didn't swim. Rinse, lather, repeat.

Quite possibly the most fun you can have on the computer without porn being involved.
 
I played 'Pong' a time or two....good times.
 
Redress said:
You can play Eve as a strictly solo game. However, much of the stuff you will not be able to do solo. Large areas of space are simply going to be off limits playing solo. There is a fair amount you can do solo, but the core of the game is PvP, and solo content gets overeasy after awhile. A corp is the Eve version of a guild. Every one is in one, with new players starting in a NPC run guild. I think that NPC corps now have a tax, which means there is a real benefit to getting into a real corp. If you do start to play and want to get out of the tax(if it is there), I have a small corp that is just my two boxes right now that you would be welcome to join.
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You can do null sec and wh's solo.
It's pretty damn exciting too.

Or were you referring to something else?
 
Umm... yeah, EVE isn't my type of game. I didn't realize it was a space thing. I downloaded it, created a character, got about halfway through the tutorial and said, "**** this ****."
 
Redress said:
DDO is FTP now, and those who like it, really really like it. I struggle to get into it though, and for the complexity there is a lack of good information.

Eve Online is not free, but you can buy game time with ingame money, so once you reach a certain point, it's not too hard to play it as a free game. I can make enough in a week to pay for a months playtime. If a Scifi based MMO sounds at all appealing, I strongly suggest trying the trial.
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Thanks for the info, I'll look into EVE and DDO. I recently downloaded RF again, it's somewhat of a sci-fi fantasy mixed type game. Do you play anything?
 
rivrrat said:
Umm... yeah, EVE isn't my type of game. I didn't realize it was a space thing. I downloaded it, created a character, got about halfway through the tutorial and said, "**** this ****."
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If you like comic books and superheroes, give City of Heroes/City of Villains a try. It's very solo friendly (all zones are open to solo characters, all loot can be gotten by solo characters, and only about 10% of the content is limited to teams [and even that can be run solo if you're good enough, and you get some teammates to pad the team count to start off]) and also very friendly to casual players. If you decide to check it out, let me know, my wife and I are pretty active players on the Freedom server.
 
molten_dragon said:
If you like comic books and superheroes, give City of Heroes/City of Villains a try. It's very solo friendly (all zones are open to solo characters, all loot can be gotten by solo characters, and only about 10% of the content is limited to teams [and even that can be run solo if you're good enough, and you get some teammates to pad the team count to start off]) and also very friendly to casual players. If you decide to check it out, let me know, my wife and I are pretty active players on the Freedom server.
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Thanks! I would love to play an MMO that isn't either a PVP Grindfest or a Group Raid Grindfest at the upper levels.
 
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