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Amaranthar
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Sometimes funny things happen in MMORPGs.
Lag caused a funny one for me and another player once.
A group of us, 4 or 5, were told by our Guild Leader to follow him somewhere, and to hurry. That usually meant a PKer attack and we were called, as an Anti-PK guild, for help. This was always great fun, we saved the day, got more notoriety for our Guild, and it was a source of pride.
So our Leader takes off, and we all followed. As we ran, with UO's Isometric View, and with a little lag involved, our group spread out a little. When that happened, you just kept an eye on the guy ahead of you to follow.
Well, me and another guy kept getting caught up in a dance of sorts. UO had Blocking, but you could run through the first guy. That caused a slight loss of Stamina, and then you couldn't run through anyone until you Stamina came back to full.
I kept running through the other guy, then he'd overtake me again, and then he'd lag just enough that I ran into him again and got stopped. On and on. I knew what this was, caused by the sporadic lag.
And part of it was that you never saw the other Players, while moving, in the same spot as they saw themselves due to the connection speeds.
Then he stops and says "What's going on?"
I asked him what do you mean? He tells me that what was happening to me was happening to him. I knew that it was a lag issue but he didn't.
So I explained it.
The thing was, I never saw anyone else to follow, so I was following him, and when I was in the lead I just kept going straight, depending on his lag being better than mine enough for him to have seen someone else to follow.
Then I asked him, "How long has it been since you saw one of our friends?"
He says "Minutes. I was following you."
A few seconds passed, and it dawned on him too.
"We're lost, aren't we."
So much for our heroic adventure.
Lag caused a funny one for me and another player once.
A group of us, 4 or 5, were told by our Guild Leader to follow him somewhere, and to hurry. That usually meant a PKer attack and we were called, as an Anti-PK guild, for help. This was always great fun, we saved the day, got more notoriety for our Guild, and it was a source of pride.
So our Leader takes off, and we all followed. As we ran, with UO's Isometric View, and with a little lag involved, our group spread out a little. When that happened, you just kept an eye on the guy ahead of you to follow.
Well, me and another guy kept getting caught up in a dance of sorts. UO had Blocking, but you could run through the first guy. That caused a slight loss of Stamina, and then you couldn't run through anyone until you Stamina came back to full.
I kept running through the other guy, then he'd overtake me again, and then he'd lag just enough that I ran into him again and got stopped. On and on. I knew what this was, caused by the sporadic lag.
And part of it was that you never saw the other Players, while moving, in the same spot as they saw themselves due to the connection speeds.
Then he stops and says "What's going on?"
I asked him what do you mean? He tells me that what was happening to me was happening to him. I knew that it was a lag issue but he didn't.
So I explained it.
The thing was, I never saw anyone else to follow, so I was following him, and when I was in the lead I just kept going straight, depending on his lag being better than mine enough for him to have seen someone else to follow.
Then I asked him, "How long has it been since you saw one of our friends?"
He says "Minutes. I was following you."
A few seconds passed, and it dawned on him too.
"We're lost, aren't we."
So much for our heroic adventure.
Once upon a time....
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Now I have always disliked crafting, it bores me no end, resource gathering is a forte, as far as I am concerned that's meditating in a MMO. But crafting is a chore you could do without, but I had no other real officer duties, the sort of duties I had in our previous MMORPG were being done by other people and I did feel I was not pulling my weight. Down the line I got involved we all sorts, but until then I had been twiddling my officer thumbs.
So I accepted and before he left the last guy sent me an absolute ton of gear to my mule. So I get myself up to a reasonable level and then the questions started about what upgrades someone might want and what they would need to give me. Now bearing in mind I am being sent all sorts now from guild members to make all this gear it was only top end that needed to obtain stuff, but still I was loathe to make too much of anything. Why you ask? Well I had my eye on one of the officers from our old MMO who had not come over to WoW yet and was convincing her that Jewelry making was made for her.
Now in my defence she loved crafting and was already thinking of coming over to WoW and she was already an officer there, so she would be a shoe in as an officer for WoW. So when low level guildies asked about gems I was mindful of all the stuff she would need to level up quick and fobbed them off after a couple of requests, this included the alts of top level guys, "The new girl is coming, you can wait until then". This did produce some laughter, indeed one guy called me Feanor "as you never want to hand over a gem" or "don't ask (Scot) he is counting his gems", that sort of stuff.
She soon came over though and I dumped everything I had to her and as she was a real crafting sort the good name of Jewellery crafters was restored.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
We kept typing in chat for him to run or come back and we'll try to take care of the mass of mobs following him.
Suddenly way in the distance I see his figure come into view with a giant train of mobs as his chat bubble says "OMG HELP ME!" and he then ran up the ramp.
There was something about us looking through the door, seeing him way in the distance with that chat bubble and with the entire tower (not really but it looked that way) on his a$$ that made us lose it.
Really miss those times.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
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Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Unfortunately for some groups I lead in that role I was an overworked father of 3 children who never got more than 4-5 hrs sleep.
More than once I would nod off in my recliner and deadstick the group off a cliff into a pack of high level NPCs or straight into the withering fire or mezz from an enemy zerg.
I eventually transitioned to playing other roles such as healer or dps as they gave me more time to snap awake and react accordingly without wiping the entire group.
Then their was the time I nodded off and ran my character right into Onyxia in WOW only to hear the raid leader screaming into my headset, "Kyle, what the hell are you doing?"
Fortunately some healers managed to reach the exit to prevent a full wipe and rez everyone afterwards, but I still was given a -200 DKP penalty.
Which was much better than the -1000 DKP penalty I received for nodding off at the start of an assault on the final raid boss in BWL after the raid leader threatened everyone for going AFK on and off while trying to get started.
I did manage to negotiate the penalty down by 50% after pointing out that technically I wasn't AFK, but asleep instead.
I really don't miss not doing raids anymore and I'm sure my old raid leaders don't miss me so much either.
Cheers!
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Once upon a time....
I'm not sure how much can be dug up to put in a game. I'm gonna make a separate post about ideas for that.
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Never thought about that !
Healers, speeders, buff/debuffers, and of course in DAOC, the infamous mezzers were vital to forming a functional group and if any role was in short supply it mean gamers were standing around.
It worked both ways btw to as a Minstrel each group needed only one, and their were evenings I stood around as there was no groups in need of a 2'nd speeder.
The balance was tricky, other days people asked me to leave the group I was in, quite often my own guildmates who felt I owed it to be available at their beck and call.
Often I ignored such requests, even flagged myself as AFK or DND because I felt bad just dropping from my current group and leaving them in the lurch.
I got punted from a guild once for doing this but didn't care as overall I had a pretty good reputation in my server (sleep disorders aside) of being reliable so rarely had issues with getting invited to a pick up roam in the frontier.
So I think dependencies were scaled way back or even eliminated in order to help ensure there would be less standing around waiting on others.
For better and worse, as most decisions like this go.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Once upon a time....
You can mitigate what you said with group finders and sticking with a guild that realises that if you did not know they were going to group up and had put yourself forward you have no obligation to go. All that requires is the officers doing a bit of organising so the guild knows what they are doing, weekly raids, PvP and so on.
That's the sort of thing I used to do, I never got asked to craft again for some strange reason.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
One favorite of mine was how players helped each other out in UO, where MOBs would loot you, everything dropped on your corpse, and after a while your corpse and anything on it decayed and deleted.
That was a good way to meet decent people and start friendships. Guilds used it to help them recruit. People walked away feeling good. It was "win" in several ways.
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The mad squirrel on the rock has spoken !
One time our guild went to a bank in a small town, and as happenstance would have it, another PvP guild was there too. They were getting rather bothersome with their boasting and claims that they were better than we were.
We were a RP guild too, so we tried to stay in character all of the time.
UO didn't have many animations, but they had a button to push that wrapped your text in *s. So you could use that and Text your animations, like *Waves*.
We had this one guy in our guild that was a super nice guy and was loads of fun with his RP humor.
While the other guild was telling us how much better they were than us, our Guild Leader was issuing a challenge to them to fight it out on the spot. We were just outside of Guard Zone, next to the bank, so we could do it right there and settle it.
The other guild was reluctant though, saying they wanted to get prepared first.
So this guy in our guild, the fun guy, starts walking around, this way and that, going:
"Bwawwwk bwawk-bwawk-bwawk"
*bobs head forwards and back*
*scratches ground with feet*
"Bwawwwk bwawk-bwawk-bwawk"
Over and over again every time they said they wanted to get prepared.
We were laughing our little 1/4" butts off.
Just to finish the story.....
Finally they said "ok, lets do a one vs. one fight. But we want your champion to be that chicken-man."
That was a mistake.
Our guy used a crossbow, on horseback, and UO had just bumped up the damage. None of us knew how effecting it was after that bump.
So they lined up, facing each other and at a distance, and someone *drops flag* to set it off.
The first shot of the crossbow must have rolled high damage and the opponent was suddenly almost dead. He struggled to get a heal off.
But my friend kicked his horse into a short charge, pulled up short, and finished him with another shot. It was over before anyone could say a thing. Or even think.
It surprised us all.
The other guy got Resed, and while putting his armor back on says "I'm so embarrassed."
No one else knew what to say.
Once upon a time....