Public servers for minecraft, ew *shudder*. I play with a couple of friends of mine usually, otherwise I faff about solo and go off exploring or trying to build something weird and random. Will likely do a post that's Minecraft-shaped in the very near future.
Eve PvE has a lot more to it than it used to but it's not necessarily obvious. Have you run a new character through the new player thingy then the various newbie missions yet? Using probes to find tasty hidden stuff is nice. Scan down a hacking site, get phats. Missions are mostly tedious, though they have been trying to add more than give you choices about what to do to complete them, or that are fun and silly (the level 1 Air Show mission chain, for example).
As for the recent CCP farce... well that's worthy of a post or 6 of it's own, it really is. Real *facepalm* stuff.
AO has better methods of gaining XP these days, such as daily missions with high rewards and the various quest chains (e.g. garden keys, bronto burger etc) now give decent rewards as well. The biggest trouble at the moment is hardly anyone around to team with unless you have friends/org. I'm not playing it at present.
Rift surprised me by being a fantasy-genre WoW clone that I didn't instantly loathe. FF14 looked terrible fromt he get go so I've kept away. If they do a free trial I'll give it a look out of curiosity though. Aion I did attempt to try, but after a 13Gb DL and install it wouldn't accept my account details. I faffed with it for ages trying to get it to work before giving up.
it's funny you mention level-restricted PvP because AO has exactly that andwhilst the actual level ranges need a serious kick up the arse, it's nice not to have 220s camping and ganking TL1 lowbies.
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Date: 2011-06-30 12:04 am (UTC)Eve PvE has a lot more to it than it used to but it's not necessarily obvious. Have you run a new character through the new player thingy then the various newbie missions yet? Using probes to find tasty hidden stuff is nice. Scan down a hacking site, get phats. Missions are mostly tedious, though they have been trying to add more than give you choices about what to do to complete them, or that are fun and silly (the level 1 Air Show mission chain, for example).
As for the recent CCP farce... well that's worthy of a post or 6 of it's own, it really is. Real *facepalm* stuff.
AO has better methods of gaining XP these days, such as daily missions with high rewards and the various quest chains (e.g. garden keys, bronto burger etc) now give decent rewards as well. The biggest trouble at the moment is hardly anyone around to team with unless you have friends/org. I'm not playing it at present.
Rift surprised me by being a fantasy-genre WoW clone that I didn't instantly loathe. FF14 looked terrible fromt he get go so I've kept away. If they do a free trial I'll give it a look out of curiosity though. Aion I did attempt to try, but after a 13Gb DL and install it wouldn't accept my account details. I faffed with it for ages trying to get it to work before giving up.
it's funny you mention level-restricted PvP because AO has exactly that andwhilst the actual level ranges need a serious kick up the arse, it's nice not to have 220s camping and ganking TL1 lowbies.