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Very good list

  Good job. thanks my friend.

Ok so here goes my first post.  You seem like a man who knows online games.  Heres my story i hope you can help.  27 female from uk.  Popped my cherry with SWG pre cu.  I loved the game then and the people i played with.  I stuck with it through the CU and then the nge and played for about a year after that and it all got a bit ruined because i could never find the magic it once had.  All my friends left and i was left with great game knoledge loads of gear 3 accounts and noone to share it with.  I then went to wow again met a few nice people but i didnt find wow very chalenging it was just about leveling up and gettig good gear so you could raid as i am in the uk and my freinds are state side it was difficult to level then accomplish what wow seems to be designd for in server quiet times.  So befor i bore you with my tales of boo hoo ive got no freinds, i will get to the point i want to find a game that ticks these boxes.

1.  Interesting story / quests not just kill 10 go back kill 10 go back run round for 3 hours getting lost and kill 10 more go back. 

2.  Good group activitys for when i can play with my friends but also enoughf to keep me interested when im all alone jimmy no mates.

3. An oppertuninty to do more than just fight.

4. Avatars i like being a girl not  a space ship.  If it had houses / place to put things would be great but i know that is a bit of an ask.

5. Not too cartoony.

Is there a game out there that can give me what i need ?  Lol high maintenance huh ? 

I look forward to your responces thanks again ./blowkisses  

Sorry being retarded i belive i forget a post i made some time ago looking for old freinds.  If any of you see this please feel free to mail me or any new ones :) 

I agree with all the previous people speaking on behalf of FFXI taking much much longer than 35 days played to get to max level

Also it is IMPOSSIBLE to solo on FFXI in any way shape or form unless you are a beast master or a black mage and you like dying a lot.

The game is MADE for grouping, and with the level breaker quests and the time it takes to seek to find a party.

there is NO WAY to estimate how long it takes to get to max level (75)

it is ENTIRELY based off if you can find a party and that party doesn't suck.

I have over 200 days played on that game and only two 75 jobs, now I wasn't exactly "hardcore" leveling all the jobs up to 75 but I know of no one who has a character at 75 in less than several months of work.

I've played UO, EQ, DAoC, Lineage, Shadow Bane, SWG, and WoW just to name a few game

the hardest of all of these to get to max level?
FFXI

No contest

Two pieces of info. that might be useful to someone looking for a MMO is maximum level and world size. The 'grind' probably is just as useful but it would be nice to know exact numbers on max lvl. I would want to know how big the world is just to know how much you can explore. Maybe that's not important to most people. Also, what does "sandbox" mean? :)

Originally posted by Vizara

Also, what does "sandbox" mean? :)

"Sandbox" is an acronym to virtual world simulator. When referred to MMOs, people use the word to describe games which offer almost unlimited variety of choices on many levels, starting from customisation of your avatar, rich player driven economy , emphasis on socialisation etc. Usually a sanbox game would be the opposite to quest driven games like WoW or Lotro. Some would add to the sandbox definition that it should be skill based game, unlike level/class restricted RPGs.

Runescape no longer has full loot PvP.

Yeah I played it...what?

Nothing wrong to play Runescape but have reached highest level and now I'm bored of playing that game, try something new like Rohan or Neo Steam ^^

that list=

i hope you can keep it updated with the new releases.  AoC fits in to the solo section, the PvE section, not so sure about endgame but it has grouped instances and raids (i think) and if you go on a pvp server its 100% FFA with no factions (in some cases thats a tad unfortunate)

I am new here so maybe have not noticed all the threads, but I think too it might be interesting to see which games have guilds that spread across several different games.  EG I know someone who has a guild that he uses in loads of online and even some off line games (D &D for example).  So that if someone was going to play several different games but wanted some continuity in friendships across the games they could look for a guild that existed in more than one game.