It’s been a while but…

Yeah, been busy with new friends and classes (and missing them. whoops.)

Anyways, Bleach 186 was released yesterday. Twas a damn good episode too I might add. Nice little twist at the end that I wasn’t expecting….ok so I sorta was but I was actually hoping for the end of this arc since I like the *real* show better. meh.

Soul Eater 22, taking forever to get subbed as usual, was…uneventful. OOOOO you fought an illusion! Good for you for being so unobservant. Hopefully 23 will be better.

In other news, I quit AoC. Got tired of the GMs’ lack of being able to actually do crap and the horrible PvP system for lowbies. I started up Ryzom again though, great game.

(Cireus-Anime to download the anime!)

AoC Gold Farmers Suck

Aye, anyone else get annoyed by the /tell spams and the message box spam? I know I do. Here’s a little ditty I composed (sorta, I mean….I just changed the lyrics).

Gold Farmin’ Machine
(Killing Machine by Judas Priest)

I never give no answers, I never /tell no lies
I never walk a straight line so I never get surprised
I don’t ask no credit cards so I won’t get abused
I learned to farm when I was young
So I’m never ever gonna lose

They pay me the money and I’ll do the job
I got a contract for you
I got a contract, for you

I never send no resources, I never use my gold
I always found /t spamming helps to keep me and my kind alive
I take care of business, It takes care of me
I look after myself and do it well
’cause some GM’s always looking for me

They pay me the money and I’ll do the job
I got a contract for you
I got a contract for you

What manner of farmer am I?
A coin purse, lump sum and then I move on
What manner of buyer are you?
Stab a friend’s back to jump a queue

I do what I do ‘cos I can’t do nothing better
You do what you do, just buyin’ my gold

‘cos you ain’t got nothin’ better to do

I got no guild, no name, I’m just a gold farming machine
I kept the gold grindin down, if you know what I mean
I never stop in one place, I move about the regions
Got expensive tastes, but I hasten to add that
I’m the best that there is

They pay me the money and I’ll do the job
I got a contract for you
I got a contract for you

I got a contract for you
I got a contract for you

Characters

So far in AoC I’ve played

Necromancer – my main, I love the squish caster high DPS. my favorite
Assassin – I’m gonna wait until they balance the male/female damage a bit.
Herald of Xotli – looove this class. currently taking a break due to it being yet another caster
Guardian – not my cup of tea. not enough cool combos. sure, you get full plate and mega HP but blah class to me
Bear Shaman – fun. very fun. haven’t gone far because I wanted to try Dark Templar.
Dark Templar – haven’t stopped playing it since I started (except for guild events). great magic/melee combo. the polar opposite of the HoX in terms of spell/combo types.

Ebonlore is gone

Yes that’s right. Ebonwh–Ebonlore is gone…from Age of Conan at least. It seems someone hacked their site and their officers’ AoC accounts. Their guild was disbanded, officers lost all their gear and money, and their Guild City and Battle Keep are up for grabs. Oh, and there are some screenshots out confirming Ebonlore’s hacking. Pretty nifty stuff. I’m glad they’re gone though, that guild ruins games.

The Truth Behind Kane’s Wrath

An article written by my buddy Blbpaws over at Generals World about who really developed Kane’s Wrath and why the game has as many problems as it does. The answer is not EALA, it’s BreakAway Games.

Approx. $732 Later…

Give or take some change of course. I just bought an Xbox 360 Elite, extra controller (black), Dead Rising, Halo 3, and Lego Starwars The Complete Series or whatever. I’ve played all the games at my friends houses and they all are great. That was $701. The remaining $30 I spent on 2 books to appease my mother. I can now proudly say (when she returns from vacation) that I bought some books as well. Maybe I won’t get yelled at as much

Kane’s Wrath Status on Mods

I see many inviduals searching for Kane’s Wrath mods. I hate to break it to you, but there aren’t any…and if EA does not release a Mod SDK, software used to more easily mod the game, there is a very high chance that there will never be any mods for Kane’s Wrath. Why? Without a Mod SDK modders must decompile Kane’s Wrath, which I must say, will not be easy. Why is there no Mod SDK? EA handed the development of Kane’s Wrath to a 3rd party company. The reason for no Mod SDK happens to be the same reason we, the players, suffered though a bugged game for three months before the 1.01 patch. So look no further for Kane’s Wrath mods, they do not exist.

7/24/08: http://whitestreak.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/cc-community-petitions/
Be sure to read my new post here ^^^ about the current status on the Mod SDK

Ryzom Returns?

I believe the phoenix has finally risen from the ashes. The Ryzom main page says “Ryzom will be back soon!” in English, French, and German. Always good to see a game reborn, espeicially Ryzom .

Age of Conan

I love this game. There’s no other way for me to describe how much I enjoy playing it. Sure you’ve got your guilds like Ebonwh–Ebonlore who make the game less fun because of hacking, exploiting, zerging, and whining to GMs, but then you’ve also got the expert PvPers like Unforgiven who gank you after moving an inch. The guild I’ve stuck with for more than two years is The Exodus Gaming Syndicate. We were the first to Tier 1 and Tier 2 Guild City Keeps and the 3rd to Tier 3 and a Battle keep on the Tyrrany Server. I love my guild, they’re all great individuals. Many call us a zerg guild because we have members. Personally, I believe y’all are just jealous that we can get members. Though, our numbers don’t even stand up to Ebonlore, damn talk about a zerg guild… I don’t prefer PvP servers (my guild went there so I followed) BUT what are you going to do if someone starts killing your mobs on a PvE server? Bitch to a GM? Have a staring contest? No. You can’t do jack. I’ve been in AoC since February Beta, some aspects of the game that were changed, I liked. Yet most of the content that was changed, was for the better. The current Shield of Risen is horrible though. Casters can’t buff themselves or summon pets until the shield wears off. Talk about the ultimate gank, unbuffed casters. For the most part, Funcom has done it right and by the book. I mean, they took an extra 7 hours for a patch on the last “free day” from the free month MMO companies give you with the game. So what did they do? Gave us an extra day. That was great! I got an extra day to play and without any effort at all.

I do have a problem with Funcom’s crafting system. Talk about a POS system. It’s a joke. Anyone can craft high level gear after only a few hours of leveling their crafting skills. No difficulty involved. The only exceptions are Alchemy (gotta find all the mats or have a TON of money) and Architecture (need $$$ to buy plans). Ryzom (may it rest in peace) had a much better crafting system. In fact, it’s the best I’ve ever seen. Though I haven’t been in MMOs for very long, a guildmate of mine, Kalindra, often comments on how Ryzom was the hardest crafting system around. I can’t even fathom how much time she put into crafting in that game…..it was insane.

Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and Kane’s Wrath

Thought I’d make this a bulk post, I mean, I’m lazy. Too much clicking involved to make two posts that could be posted in tandem right? I hope so.

Anyways…Tiberium Wars is a great game now that EALA released the patches for it. But damn was the game glitched at 1.00, kinda sad. A buddy of mine, Blbpaws (he’s the PR guy and the “boss” of the project), at Generals World recently announced his second mod, The Forgotten. His first mod, All-Stars, which was for Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour, used up too much bandwidth on download day that Generals World’s host brought the site down for a day. If only EA would release a Mod SDK for Kane’s Wrath (which was finally patched after over 3 months of horrible bugs and disconnects)…I know for a fact Blbpaws would transfer the mod over to Kane’s Wrath. Alas, he and I do not believe there will be a Mod SDK for Kane’s Wrath since it took so long for the first patch and because Red Alert 3 is under development.

For those of you who know the storyline behind the Tiberium branch of C&C, The Forgotten are the mutants who appear and play a major role in the earlier games yet are all but pushed out of the picture (they make their appearance as Mutant Marauders with their capturable Mutant Hovel) in Tiberium Wars and Kane’s Wrath. From what forum posts say at Generals World, Blbpaws and his team are bringing back a couple of old NOD and GDI units (some are modified) as scavenged vehicles. I guess The Forgotten are going to be  mainly old-school tech…with an ion storm power of some sort. Looks promising in my eyes and I wish them the best of luck.