All Posts by brian72282

Yes, there's a server dedicated for PvP. Crafted items are generally the best as well, provided you take the time to learn the crafting system, raise the proper skills, and then build what you want. Their forums will tell you which server is PvP and such, as well as give you some crafting tips. I also highly recommend you join a guild once you reach between 5 and 10, so you can get more advice and tips from experienced players.

Rubies of Eventide is technically a shareware game now. You can play it for free as long as you want, but those who pay a fee get to skip the queues that are frequent as well as some magic items, including a ring to take you to an island where you can buy cheap crafting supplies. EVERY type of crafting material is there too.

Now about EvE. Well, it's a sci-fi game where everything takes place with you being in a ship. You can mine ores from asteroids, fight pirate ships and salvage parts from them, and the main focus of the game, the PvP. Corporations (guilds/clans) and frequently alliances of corporations are fighting for controls of solar systems. It's fairly slow to get started however, and the 14 day trial they offer will just barely scratch the tip of the iceberg of what you can do. It's worth it if you don't mind paying for games and have a LOT of time to dedicate to it.

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Originally posted by Blue3000
I've played WoW and frankly I didn't like and have said so in these forums. But, even though I think the game sucks I feel WoW is correct in banning these type guilds or behavior.
This is an on-line game, a game. This isn't the place for this type thing nor is it for politics. While I admit gays have come a long way they still haven't come far enough to do this. Not only will many complaints come about but they'll be ridiculed as they usually are in these instances.
Besides, why a guild thats self described as "gay friendly"? Gay friendly? What exactly is the message here? That the players in this guild won't ridicule gays therefore its ok? C'mon, this is BS. The players in it or at least the ones who started it are most likely gay and want to recruit their own. But they want to disguise it with the term "gay friendly", yeah right, like if people won't notice or know.
Again, this is NOT the place for this, this is a game and this stuff needs to left out where it belongs.

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Umm every other major MMO (EQ, EQ2, SWG [pre-nge], DAoC) has them, and there's no issues. Those who harrass them get ignored. They start causing serious issues, and the GMs step in with the ban stick. Blizzard knows that there's so many kids playing (which is stupid as the EULA says 18+ only) who have bible thumping parents that would be like "OMG A HOMOSEXUAL/TRANSEXUAL GUILD?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?! I'M SUING BLIZZARD!". But the thing is, they'd lose, as it's Blizzard's property and they could make it nothing but pure sex and violence, and if the parents allow their kids to play, well, then it's their fault.

From what I read on their forums, they still add content on a fairly regular basis.

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Originally posted by Senden
It's honestly a very good debate and i personally think that blizzard deserve a lawsuite on their hands for being descriminative to homosexuals. If someone wants to make a gay friendly guild, who are they to stop them? To simply say that half their subscribers couldn't handle that, that is their problem to rightly punish the people who are descriminating the homosexuals. Saying we cant allow this because the kids who put money in our pockets would flame you, is ludacris and with all the fuss going on with gay rights and such, is subject to much controversy.

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Umm, actually, it's their game, their property (intellectual, as well as the server hardware and software). They ALLOW people to play their game by THEIR rules. If you don't like it, don't play or pay them.

I'm all for gay friendly guilds, as I have several relatives who are gay, but in all honesty, there's pretty much nothing that can be done. Since it IS their game, they can choose to do what they want. Honestly though, if they spent more time censoring or banning the damn kids who run around and scream "gay" "ghey" "fag" "Faggot" "butt pirate" etc. and less time shooting down gay-friendly guilds, well, it'd be a friendlier place.

But then again, if they started banning people who said that, or even censoring it, well, the kiddies wouldn't play anymore, and Blizzard would lose like 50% of it's accounts.

Hmm, well, Eve Online might be your best bet then if you don't like fantasy. If you'll try fantasy, give Rubies of Eventide a try, as they have a pretty open crafting system like SWG. Other than that you're kind of stuck.

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Originally posted by Teala
I am a female gamer and I like some of the outfits that we could dress our characters up in in L2. ::shrugs:: I dunno...I do not see anything wrong with most of the outfits in the games. Then again I use to be a cage dancer in real life so maybe I'm a bit more desensitized to that sort of thing. I do not care for the size of breast in L2 that dark elve females have and I was one of the first to say something regarding that way back in L2's beta. They didn't change it.
Take a look at games like Eq2 and their lack of clothing options and how stodgy looking some of it is. ::rolls her eyes:: The wizard robes in EQ2 are a prime example of "stodginess and prudishness" in a game. OMG...nuns wouldn't even be caught wearing rags like that! We're talking clothing that looks like it was made from burlap sacks!
SWG had a huge selection of clothing options and that was awesome. My character had so much cloths I had to get a house to use a storage for them all. :D I shopped in game as much as I shopped out of game! LOL!

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Yea. DE women looked like they had grapefruits for breasts. Kinda silly if you ask me. And don't get me started on both sexes wearing nothing but thongs, and having to run up the seemingly endless staircase at the beginning either :P

Umm, I got a few suggestions, but most I'm sure you won't like:

Everquest
Everquest 2
Eve Online
TS Online (phillipines version is still free http://mbsoft.ph/ )
Rubies of Eventide

There's 1 other I know, but it's a mod of an existing game, so I can't mention it on the boards. Feel free to PM me however if those others don't pan out, and I'll dig deeper into my bag of tricks.

Most game companies heavily moderate their boards for things they don't want discussed; be it bad gameplay, crappy GMs, or whatever. It's THEIR property, not federal/state/local property that's public, so NO game company owes you the right to free speach. EVERY EULA clearly says they can terminate your account for ANY REASON at ANY TIME.

PE isn't the only game that bans accounts for putting someone up in a forum that they didn't like. Blizzard has banned people for that, and so has SOE. It's hardly suprising.

No hellos and goodbyes is a bit weird, but hey, it's their boards, they'll run them how they want.

It's still illegal. Can a mod lock this please?

Yes...I HIGHLY recommend http://www.knightonlineworld.com rather than the e-games version.

For the love of god! Stop begging and double posting. No, I won't help because of the fact that using a KSSN other than your own is illegal, and NO ONE here will help you with that.

quit making multiple posts.

Do you people NOT check the first page of threads before you post? This is the third damn topic already!

Umm, if you looked up mir3 or "qualitygo" on these forums, you'd see there's already a discussion on it.

Well...

(dons flame-proof suit)

You could try Knight Online. There are sieges once or twice a week for control of the neutral island, and the controller sets the tax rate. Also sets the tax rate to enter the open PvP area, where you get items to turn in for random rare items.

Also, there's a level helping system, where people get rewarded for powerleveling newbies up to level 30. Then to reach 40 is pretty quick, once you reach 45 it slows down a lot. Once you reach 50 is grinds to a near halt. But still, it's face paced and fun, while at the same time having all that you wanted.

Also, once per week, there's a massive PvP battle on a battlefield that allows only 100 (or 200?) people on either side (orc/human) to battle it out. The side that wins gets to use the other side's teleportation gates and basically tear up the home city of the enemy.

MMM, well, there's several, but the names elude me at the moment. One of the best series of books for programming is the "teach yourself ______ in 30 days". There's C and C++, also I think they have a C# now, and a few others.

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Originally posted by Nerf09
WoW is the last MMO im going to buy. Im tired of this crap.
I read your reviews, thought maybe you were all just a bunch grumpy old PvP'ers, after all how can they have millions of subscribers if its just some crappy Everquest clone, right. Well it is another crappy everquest clone, you were all right. Should have listened to you.

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No no no. It's not a crappy EQ clone...it's a nicely polished EQ piece of crap ;)

If Blizzard made it, you at least know it'll be polished ;)

So? What's the issue with a stargate MMO? I think it lends itself nicely to the genre. Modern times technology in the middle, high technology on one end (ancients/atlanteans), low-end technology on the other (system lords/Goa'uld). PvP being heavy for control of planets, what's not to like? Lets hope the gameplay is good.

As for the second part of your statement, they aren't even beginning to touch every major franchise out there. Look at it this way, one of the most popular RPGs ever still doesn't have an MMO, and it would lend itself to the genre quite well. I speak of Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross.

Time travelling, high technology, stone age technology, everything inbetween, double combos with teammates, triple combos, etc. Lots of material there. Get to it SquareEnix!

And you couldn't post this in the other 2 threads about ERose...why?

I've gone through pretty much every game in the free list at the top to review on my site. Does anyone know of any others that aren't listed up there yet? Besides Silkroad.