#1 by BurnPilot on Tuesday, Jul 1 at 4:41 PM 
That's nice Krogue, don't play with the rest of us.  I see how you are :(
#2 by Kagato on Tuesday, Jul 1 at 7:53 PM 
I played long enough for them to do a server wipe - guess I made the wrong 
choice when I started. Took the game back - that'll pay for another 5 months of 
EQ for me ^_^.
#3 by BurnPilot on Wednesday, Jul 2 at 2:22 AM 
You must have just picked a bad server man.  I haven't heard of any COMPLETE 
wipes since the servers came up Friday morning (which is when I started 
playing).  I heard of a couple rollbacks but they were only an hour or 2.
#4 by Krogue on Wednesday, Jul 2 at 9:19 AM 
Yeah,  that sounds really odd.  Except for the snafus on Thursday and Friday 
with the log-in servers and registration servers being screwed up, it has been 
extremely smooth since Saturday.  Even the troubleshooting/bitch forums have 
become amazingly quiet for such a massive launch.  Obviously, there have been 
some small hardware issues and software issues, but that is going to happen 
anytime.  But, so far, I am still having a blast.

And, Burn, I will probably come and join you guys in the future, but I am still 
playing with Rick and Jason and the other guys I played with in Beta.  We would 
have played with the MwGL guys, but there was an issue (which I mentioned in 
an earlier forum post) that arose with people being in the MwGL Ventrilo Server, 
so we ended up having to set up our own Ventrilo server, and lost touch with 
what you guys were doing.  Once I get the hang of my character, and start to 
plateau on skills, I will definitely start another character on Gorath, and start 
playing there.  You know I love you guys.
#5 by BurnPilot on Wednesday, Jul 2 at 8:28 PM 
Ok, just let us know when you log on to Gorath.  I'm starting to get some 
connections set up so I'm pretty sure I can set you up with whatever you need :)
#6 by Freex of Nature on Friday, Jul 4 at 7:40 AM 
This game blows.  I wouldn't buy this piece of donkey dung even if Natalie 
Portman told me we'd have a love scene in the next Star Wars movie.  
Umm...maybe I'm being a little hasty.
#7 by Kagato on Monday, Jul 7 at 10:06 AM 
I'm kind of leaning with you Freex - there's nearly no content in the game - you 
HAVE to rely upon other players. Heaven forbid you should be able to just BUY 
things you need like medicine, weapons, dancers, etc. No no, that'd be too easy, 
you have to wait/find somebody trained in that field. You walk into a hospital full 
of doctors, but they're not there to heal you, only to teach you how to heal. And 
even then, they don't tell you how to do it once you're trained. You can't buy 
medicine, you have to make it. For all the things they had to cut back to get it out 
in time, I figured content wouldn't have been one of them.

Missions seem like they're a tad too high on skill level to start too - I think they're 
pushing folks towards groups. I had to kite mobs for nearly an hour with my 
blaster (marksman) before I finally blew up their little nesting to complete my 
mission. I found it easier, most of the time, just doing stuff for nobles in town to 
make some cash.
#8 by Krogue on Monday, Jul 7 at 12:45 PM 
Hmmm ... I guess I was expecting the world and game that I got.  From the get-go, 
the Developers said that it would be an entirely player-driven economy.  No NPC 
stores, no easily bought materials for item creation.  I have been so excited about 
how the economy is going.  I know that in order for my Scout to get that next cool 
gun, or next cool outfit, I have to find an weaponsmith or tailor, and work out a 
deal to get them materials, so they can make me what I need.  If they don't have 
the skills to do it yet, than we can go out together on raids, and I can help them 
level up, so they can provide me with what I need.

I find the content of the game immense.  Yes, I agree that it would have been nice 
to have the player-mounts/vehicles ready at launch, and the space travel as 
well, but I don't know what I would do with them yet anyway.  I have too much to 
do already, with perfecting my skills, and figuring out where I want to be in this 
galaxy.  As for the mobs being too tough ... I think that is the point.  They do want 
people to rely on each other, and to group up.  It makes more sense that if I want 
to take on creatures or NPC's that are more difficult than the greens and blues 
found right outside of town, that I should have to rely on others to take on the 
tougher ones.  It is amazing how much easier it is, if you only add one or two 
people to your hunting party.  Throw  a medic, a pistoleer, and a brawler into a 
group with a Scout and his rifle, and you have a group that can take on quite a 
lot.  You can make camps, get healed, take shots at long range, and then destroy 
them up close.  

Obviously, not every game is going to appeal to everyone, but for the right people 
(like me), I couldn't have asked for much more ...  Except maybe more free time to 
play it.
#9 by Kagato on Monday, Jul 7 at 1:13 PM 
Yeah, I suppose I probably should have followed development a tad more - didn't 
realize they had actually planned on it being a player-driven economy - makes 
sense, less work and bugs for them to sort out ^_^.

Still found these amusing though :
http://www.gucomics.com/archives/view.php?cdate=20030630
http://www.gucomics.com/archives/view.php?cdate=20030627
#10 by BurnPilot on Monday, Jul 7 at 2:16 PM 
 I love the player run economy.  In fact if there were npc vendors I probably 
wouldn't have all the cash I have right now.  I also have to agree with Krogue 
about the grouping.  While I can easily solo a bageraset or murra lair now 
(missions which usually net me 1600), grouping definitely adds to the strategic 
elements in my book.  Since I don't make the bulk of my money from missions I 
also wander around when I don't have a group and simply find people who look 
like they might be in trouble  and help them out.  I've met some nice people doing 
this.  All in all this game has exceeded my expectations.

Also just ignore Freex, he's in geek denial.