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General => Off Topic => Topic started by: PurpleYouko on April 01, 2008, 07:18:52 PM
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I found EricL hanging out in my MMORPG server a few minutes ago.
Here is what he really looks like.
I don't really have hair that color. The bunny hood hat is a prize I got for collecting Easter Eggs
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Nice. I don't really have that hair color either. In fact, I don't really have hair anymore period...
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So how is ROSE? I remember seeing it along time ago, but the monthly fee made me not want to play it.
Also, somehow I always knew EricL would like like that, though I had suspected blue hair....
EDIT: Dang, I need to type faster.
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Hmm... looks like a newb to me.
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So how is ROSE? I remember seeing it along time ago, but the monthly fee made me not want to play it.
Also, somehow I always knew EricL would like like that, though I had suspected blue hair....
EDIT: Dang, I need to type faster.
Rose is fun.
I've been playing it for about 3 years now.
And there is no fee at all on my server.
Just go to Kuro-tejina.com forums and download our custom client then play for free.
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I was thinking of making a mmo myself but I had to give up
namely there are very few free ones the only free one I could find had computer clooging goodness and took up about 200mb of my 240 mb memory stick
also I coudn't get it to work
also (again) where is it? I coudnt find the download anywhere
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It's in the Downloads section of the forums.
Also in the Announcements section
Here is a direct link to the installer
http://webfilehosting.com/9PAWNFHAHK6E/KTRose_Installer.zip (http://webfilehosting.com/9PAWNFHAHK6E/KTRose_Installer.zip)
This is WAY bigger than 200 meg though.
The entire installation will take up about 1.2 gig so if space is an issue this may not be the game for you.
Having said that, it easily fits onto the 2 GIG memory stick that I bought at Walmart for 19 bucks.
If you choose to give it a shot, you can either go to our actual game website to register an account http://ktrose.no-ip.org/index.php?a=3 (http://ktrose.no-ip.org/index.php?a=3)
or just create an account at the login screen. Just type your chosen username and password. It will tell you that the account does not exist but as soon as you retype your details it will instantly create it and let you in.
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I may check this out sometime, but my personal experience of MMORPG's is that you're just some character hanging around chatting with people. You may have heard of Second Life, a very promising game. I saw a lecture on YouTube about all the cool things you could do. Still I could only stand it for a day. Maybe it's just me.
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My favorite MMO of all time was Ultima Online. Most other games I play for at most a month, and get bored, and never play again. I played Ultima online, though, for probably a year all totalled, all at different times over the years. I wish newer MMOs had followed that train of thought instead of Everquests'.
Another good MMO: Starport GE (http://www.starportgame.com/) (plus it's free). And last, A Tale in the Desert (http://www.atitd.com/), which isn't free but it's very good.
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Hmm. By any chance, does starport ge use the subspace engine?
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My favorite MMO of all time was Ultima Online. Most other games I play for at most a month, and get bored, and never play again. I played Ultima online, though, for probably a year all totalled, all at different times over the years. I wish newer MMOs had followed that train of thought instead of Everquests'.
If you like Ultima you might want to check out Darkfall (http://www.darkfallonline.com/), if it ever comes out at least.
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Most other games I play for at most a month, and get bored, and never play again
one question
what other games have you played?
Having said that, it easily fits onto the 2 GIG memory stick that I bought at Walmart for 19 bucks.
problems with that
1. there is no walmart in england but walmart owns asda
2. there are no asdas anywhere near me
3. the cheapest 2 gig memory stick there is is £25 (not sure how many dollars but must be near 50)
well its not the game for me then
but theres always another game somewhere some game thats in a browser! no stupid donloads and not browser based!
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I played WoW for the two week trial, and it was fun enough, but not fun enough for me to plunk down $15 a month or whatever it was. Played Eve Online for exactly one month. Couldn't get in to it. (It's pretty though). Played Dark Age of Camelot for maybe two months. A couple web MMOs for maybe a month or two. (Travian comes to mind).
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right now runescape appears to work for me
no downloads only pay if you want to. not browzer based.
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Its obvious from Ericl's Avatar, that he is indeed a ex-Nazi German Shepphard in disguise as a boxer to infilitrate the French. Quite usefull in disguising the fact that Irish based on the dog's preference of beer. Although from the resolution it looks to be either a Heiniken, or a Bittbu:rger (cant do ummlout)
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My favorite massive multiplayer online game is CosmicRift. Although you have to play as guest unless you subscribe, and it's kinda easy to get hacked... The plus side is its very simple: Just kill enemy spaceships, catch powerups and pods and dont get killed.
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Is it anything like Starport GE (http://www.starportgame.com/)?
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sorry Nums...
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Yeah, that game makes me crazy, too
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I don't play any MMO's, MMORG's or MMRPG's(if this one exists) Does this make me stupid?
problems with that
1. there is no walmart in england but walmart owns asda
2. there are no asdas anywhere near me
3. the cheapest 2 gig memory stick there is is £25 (not sure how many dollars but must be near 50)
well its not the game for me then
but theres always another game somewhere some game thats in a browser! no stupid donloads and not browser based!
Why, would you wanna shop at walmart?
Wow, £25!!, that is expensive, I bought my 1gig USB stick just for 10 euri, the smallest one around, where would you need that amount of space for anyway, I haven't even putted up more then 100megs.
Eh, you download whenever you play a browser-game. In the loading screen it often is just downloading the full game to your harddisk.
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I don't play any MMO's, MMORG's or MMRPG's(if this one exists) Does this make me stupid?
Yes, yes it does
Well, unless you find the idea of grinding endlessly through tasks that are only hollowly fun borring, then maybe not. But c'mon, who doesn't like the fast paced action of clicking once on an enemy to start combat
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I've never tryed a realy good MMORPG, and half the games that claim to be are just places where you can show off your loot...
Last descent MMORPG I played was UO... grafics where nothing to get exited about, and the combat system sucked, but atleast there was a real world with people trading and small roleplaying comunities that formed towns and what not...
It was far from perfect, but it was still the best I've seen so far... looking forward to seeing age of conan though, although I remain sceptic.
And theres nothing strange about not finding MMORPG's interesting, especialy considering the recent tendency to focus on simple unoriginal quests and grinding and ofcourse big dungeons you can repeat to the point where you can do it in your sleep...
There's an article wich refers to WoW as a good example of methods to prevent a "negative vibe" from developing in the game world.
Basicaly their theory is : "Normal person" + "Anonymity" = "A-Hole"
And the way to prevent people from harrassing eachother is by a profanity filter and preventing people from talking with eachother or depend on eachother in any way.
I personaly disagree with a lot of what blizzard does... I like their RTS games and diablo was fun for killing time, but this is a genre where I personaly need to be part of a comunity of people that I like, I need this world to contain life and for people to interact. I just don't think a guild should be about repeating some huge dungeon untill you finaly aquire the items you need to get all the way through. I liked PvP in WoW because Blizzard are so damn good at balancing interesting abilities, but there was 3 PvP maps and it took them 1 year to make 1 more map, and trying to PvP on the world map just involved killing people that where fighting spawn. There where some big world map raids early on, but it quickly went out of style because the only gain was fun... there was no loot... (Besides the server had 25-30% horde, even the largest raids where never large enough)
Just saying WoW looked far more promissing at first, but as usual Blizzard went for the sure thing, keep people grinding for new gear and they'll keep paying...
So I guess most people want different things from a MMORPG, but WoW is just a MMOG IMO...
I think that by preventing people from talking or interacting you don't just prevent boored teenagers from harrassing people you also prevent everyone else from establishing a good comunity, and if you depend on others in a world and recieve help you may be more inclined to help others. UO had a learning curve that was way to steep, you where just tossed into it and had no clue, not saying this is a good thing, but it ment people needed to ask someone how to play, you where taught how to survive by random strangers and this made you want to help others... so because people needed eachother they where nice to eachother. (I know it may sound cynicle, but I don't realy think it is)
In WoW every man is his own island, noone cares about anyone because noone needs them and they don't need anybody, you're more isolated in WoW than in certain single player games.
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My favorite massive multiplayer online game is CosmicRift
Now I know cosmicrift DOES use the subspace game engine. As does infantry (which Sony also runs).
There is a free game called continuum, which is just subspace renamed.
From what I've read of starport GE, they are very similar.
Re:Moonfisher
Have you tried Guild Wars? All of the RPG missions require a group of people and the AIs you can use as replacements are useless enough that you eventually need to do them with other people. There are some similarities to WoW, but the creator's philosophy is very strongly anti-grind.
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Num, " expand your galactic empire." is StarPort GE. In c.r. you play as one unit.
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Starport GE you play as one unit as well.
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I mean as one space ship, or 1 to 3 people controlling the weapon systems of one space ship while 1 "drives" it .
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Again I say: Startport GE is entirely played with one character on one ship.
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Ok, I'll down-load it and check it out...
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My favorite MMO of all time was Ultima Online. Most other games I play for at most a month, and get bored, and never play again. I played Ultima online, though, for probably a year all totalled, all at different times over the years. I wish newer MMOs had followed that train of thought instead of Everquests'.
Another good MMO: Starport GE (http://www.starportgame.com/) (plus it's free). And last, A Tale in the Desert (http://www.atitd.com/), which isn't free but it's very good.
Hah sorry to drudge up an old post, but I just saw this.
Hell yes, UO was my favourite MMO of all time I went through a phase of playing each new MMO trying to re-live my UO days but none came close, I have to admit everquest did eventually hold my interest for a few months but it took a while to get into after UO, and Eve Online got about 6 months subs from me spread over a number of years. But I played UO solidly for about 3 years, and made some very good friends. I no longer even try any of the new MMO’s they have all gone totally off track as far as I am concerned.
If I ever won the lottery, such that I could give up work, I would work on writing my own MMO and let people play for free and it would be very heavily influenced by UO and slightly by ATITD too.
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So you've played ATiTD? I actually really liked what they had going on. It held my interest for about a month, which doesn't seem long but WoW held by interest barely for 7 of my 10 day trial. Eve Online for about 7 days, too (I actually played when it first came out. And double actually, I interviewed with their NA branch in Atlanta that's working on a MMO based on dark fantasy themes) Sims Online was a few days, Dark age of camelot was maybe a month (my first taste of everquest clones).
UO, as I said, was closer to a year. They just had (and have) a depth of playability that isn't matched in other games.
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Heh, oh yeah Camelot was another one I tried, and Anarchy online, EQ2, Asheron's call, AC2 and Horizons. Went though a few, looking for something that held my attention like UO did. It could have been that UO was just my first MMO and it was all new I suppose but I think it was also that it had a lot more depth to it, They tried to create a virtual world and then build a game inside that, even with little things like the GM’s being portrayed as other powerful characters in the game, rather than outside it. And ok I never exactly went around harvesting wheat and baking bread, or sheering sheep and knitting clothing but the knowing the fact you could if you wanted too, still added something. Also not having come from a pen & paper background I liked the skill based approach added to the fact they didn’t expose the workings of the system, nothing had numbers on apart from your own skills, items or the evaluation of other players skills where qualified and quantified with textural descriptions.
Yeah, I really liked some of the ideas in ATITD2, only played the second one. I think going into that kind of detail would make a good bases for a crafting system in a more fully fleshed out MMO. I kept getting annoyed with the UI though.
Hah and same with WoW, I think I was just board with MMO’s at that point. In fact I think I only lasted 3 days of my trial.
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I had a great time in UO playing a miner and blacksmith, maybe more so than my mage. And with the super inflated housing prices earning gold had meaning beyond just getting more leet loot.
Those are my feelings with ATiTD, too. UI a little weak, and it would be a great game if counterpointed with some combat and destruction