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Dummy, is Snorre back around yet?

The other server I have toons on is Flamehammer...which will be merged with Hilsbury if/when the servers merge. It'll be kinda nice to be able to pull out my healer if needed.

Im playing over on Anetheron with <The Fifth Star>. they are currantly raiding Kara and have downed Gruul.

I havent logged in to SC in a LONG time....

WAR*

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Yup, leave it to Ioph to cut to the quick of all that BS and point out the hypocrisy.

As for me name, well I think we can all agree 'Gitslayer' is a ******* name. I keep it because it is what I have always been named here. I certainly wouldn't name a character that now.

What were the main complaints regarding Vanguard? I hung out quite a bit on their forums while it was being developed, not sure what the major problems would've been though. My big complaints is that they seemed to want to make aspects of it as irritating as in EQ, re: pain-in-the-*** of deaths, travel, inventory.

Ironically I couldn't hold out for launch and starting playing WoW, and pretty much forgot about Vanguard.

And me, alliance side. I'm in a semi-raiding guild, whoda thunk it.

Shadowrelm liked it. Kiss of death for an MMORPG.

Oh let me count the ways...(at least up till I stopped playing)

8 bag slots

maximum 10-slot bags

8 bank slots (didn't get expanded to 16 until...sometime after PoP I believe and you had to buy expansion pack to get those extra 8 slots)

Encumberance due to weight, including coin

The only cheap 10-slot bags were vendor bags for the bazaar, which weighed 100 stone each...it was always fun to forget you had your vendor bags on you, leave the bazaar and realize you couldn't move

Weight-reduction bags (leatherfoot haversacks) cost a mint and required eons of foraging to make. I know this because I made hundreds of thousands of plat selling them and spent countless hours foraging dire wolf fur tufts rather than buying them from the botters in the bazaar.

Alternatively if you had a GM tradeskill trophy you could summon 100% WR bags that you couldn't give away, which were no-rent so God help you if you forgot you were carrying them and logged (or the servers went down.)

WR bags didn't address the issue of coin weight...nothing did.

It wasn't that bad unless you were a tradeskiller...I had all 7 tradeskills maxed, however, and it hurt.

(Typing one-handed as I'm holding baby in other arm, excuse typos and missing caps and punctuation and whatnot...)

Major towns have what's known as a "Fell Pool" which looks like a basin/fountain filled with red water (or very fake looking blood). There's one in Bree in the poorer district of town (and it should show on the map when you're in town). At lvl 10+, you can click on it to enter "Monster Play" as an Orc, Warg or Spider in the Ettenmoors. You can also enter the Ettenmoors at lvl 40+ as a regular PC.

The Ettenmoors is where the PvP takes place -- "Creeps" (monsters) against "Freeps" (Free People) fighting for control of five fortifications in the zone. I won't bore the forum with all the details but, if you're interested, here's a couple threads off the official forums to get you started.

What is Monster Play? (Article by Turbine)
Monster Player Starter Guide (Tips to get started)
Black Book of the Ettenmoors (Quest Walkthoughs, etc)

"Keep flipping" is when you get a bunch of Freeps to all log onto monster characters, they overthrow all the fortifications (and earn Destiny Points) then all go back onto their Freeps and roll the fortifications again to earn tokens for gear. A lot of "full time" monster players are asking for some sort of timer to prevent flipping between Freep/Creep so quickly or some other solution.

All members of freerepublic.com.

What were the main complaints regarding Vanguard? I hung out quite a bit on their forums while it was being developed, not sure what the major problems would've been though. My big complaints is that they seemed to want to make aspects of it as irritating as in EQ, re: pain-in-the-*** of deaths, travel, inventory.
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the game died when all the powergamers blasted pastthe low and mid level game and the grouping came to a screeching halt.

no grouping in a game designed fo grouping = EQ and EQ2. a dead low and mid level game with a very low population of high end toons to keep paying the bills.

only Vanguard didnt have a high level game built yet. so, no low level game+no high level game = mass exodus by both the casual and power gamers. they went from 200,000 acounts to less than 20,000 accounts in less than 3 months. most of it happeining in the last month adn a half.

its a ghoste town now like EQ1 and EQ2 is in the low and mid level game. unfortunatly, unlike EQ1 and EQ2, there was no top end game to pay the bills while they fix it.

fubar. thats what you get for banking on grouping content. and empty game. better have some raids ready to go if you want an income because the casual players justare not going to stick it out anymore. they dont have to.

"I've lost the bleeps, I've lost the sweeps, and I've lost the creeps!"
"The what..."
"The what..."
"And the what?"

The coin thing was great! you could /split a thousand coppers with your group and totally piSS off the mOnk.