Hello.
I'm planning to get this for Christmas (I'm saving my money for The Movies at the moment).
So I've a few questions.
1) Do people actually RP on RP servers or just fag about?
2) What servers do most 5punkers play on?
3) Is there any way we can unite on one server for a 5punk guild of some sort?
4) I'm planning on probably becoming a shadow priest or a druid for the Alliance. Is this possible/a good idea?
Newbie-to-be questions
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Okay, as a player who recently quit this game. Its good.
1. Higher levels seem to RP more on RP servers..
2. I played on "Earthen Ring" (It is RP)
3. Not really relevant to me as I quit?
4. My main character was horde.. but most people I know who played both sides say they found horde characters much more friendly and willing to help. I'd have to agree there were many helpful people on the horde side.. And if you're going alliance, the Paladins seem to become FUCKing invincible at high levels, lots of armour, and healing or something?
1. Higher levels seem to RP more on RP servers..
2. I played on "Earthen Ring" (It is RP)
3. Not really relevant to me as I quit?
4. My main character was horde.. but most people I know who played both sides say they found horde characters much more friendly and willing to help. I'd have to agree there were many helpful people on the horde side.. And if you're going alliance, the Paladins seem to become FUCKing invincible at high levels, lots of armour, and healing or something?
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Re: Newbie-to-be questions
1) While there are a lot of people who don't, even some quite high levels who were in a guild I was in. It's against the AUP to take the piss out of people who are roleplaying, and I haven't seen this happen much, but there is a lot of non-RP chat. I'm not that confortable with roleplaying, but have had a few good experiences with it - I general play RP servers as the people are a bit nicer on the whole.Easty wrote:Hello.
I'm planning to get this for Christmas (I'm saving my money for The Movies at the moment).
So I've a few questions.
1) Do people actually RP on RP servers or just fag about?
2) What servers do most 5punkers play on?
3) Is there any way we can unite on one server for a 5punk guild of some sort?
4) I'm planning on probably becoming a shadow priest or a druid for the Alliance. Is this possible/a good idea?
2) See the http://www.5punk.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=907 thread - which may out of date, all the RP characters are mine
3) We did start out some new characters together http://www.5punk.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=968 but there wasn't that much interest
4) Priests are always welcome in parties, and druids have flexibilty with magic and their beast form. Rangers are very strong, with ranged attacks and a beast companion as are Paladins with excellent damage, armour and healing - both classes can solo most instances around their level. On the Horde side, Shamans are the only real opposition to Paladins once they're able to stomp out powerful totems.
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Pfft.. Console games.. I have a PS2.. it currently sits on my shelf gathering dust, its not even connected to anything. I have grown to hate consoles. Especially as if they get broked, its unpossible to fix.. Because you can't format.. Difficult to replace parts.. They don't browse the internet goddammit! They just play games that *Cough.. Are always legal Cough*.. Cost tons.. Wheras PC games *Cough Always legal.. Cough* can be purchased at much cheaper "Prices".. *Cough*.. Hmm, I must have a really bad cold? ;-)
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These days I just want to play all of teh games, whatever they are on, but I wasn't always like that.
My schoolboy games were typically 1.99 efforts from Mastertronic and the like on the C64, but the MegaDrive's launch just happened to coincide with me getting paid work. I paid some astronomical sum for one on HP (which I've mentioned in another post somewhere around here) and all the add-ons (MegaCD) but after a while began to feel the pinch of games costing 20 times more than I was used to (and paying off the debt). I began feel ripped off, and began to fall behind. Began to dig through the bargain bins in second-hand game shops.
Next big buy was a £1000 486/66 PC from Tiny, (with a 17" monitor that lasted me nearly 7 years) - funded by a new job as a self-employed consultant. Unfortunately I hadn't quite grasped the fact you had to calculate you own tax and pay up at the end of the year, in addition to the fact that being self-employed didn't give you a lot of job security.
Back in solid employment, but now paying off a new mortgage, the next buy was a £1500 P166 from PC World on rather heavy terms. Most of the games I played on it would have brought about a coughing fit similar to the one you just displayed. I picked up a second-hand Sega Saturn, and played some entertaining updates of MegaDrive games on it, but Quake-based games were all I was really interested in.
Sony brought out the PS1, and everyone went mad for it. I was furious. I responded with a £500 bank loan for various upgrades including a mighty 12MB Voodoo 2 3dFX card.
All the PS1 had was some crappy driving game which could be done so much better on the PC.
Except it wasn't.
Nobody ever made a "Gran Turismo" for the PC. I had Pod, and Speedbusters, even a horse-feedback steering wheel. But it wasn't the same.
I waited the obligatory year and got Driver and Final Fantasy VII on PC, but they were scarcely improved, later I got Worms Armaggedon but none of them matched the fun experiences we'd had with the originals on my sister's lowly PS1.
I hated consoles.
Then the PS2 came out. I scoffed at its puny efforts to replicate FPS games compared to my further upgraded PC with Half Life and Unreal Tournament on a GeForce card. GTA3 did impress, but I knew it would be out on PC eventually.
It was about this time of year in 2002 when a number of things occured which meant I suddenly had a lot more time and desire to play games, and there weren't enough PC titles to keep me satisfied. I looked at the back-catalogue of PS1 games and decided I'd been missing out, and it was time to catch up.
I asked around at work if anyone had a PS1 they didn't use any more - I ended up with 3 PS1s and a DreamCast.
While they may have been outdated, I pretty much spent the next year playing games for them (my home PC was a bit outdated by this time). The Gran Turismo series is just the most playable set of driving games ever made, Driver2 was good practice for GTA3 and there were some great Japanese RPGs, too - not least the awesome Shenmue games and the original Phantasy Star Online (don't be fooled kids, it's still just the DC game)
As it goes the only game machine I ever had break was one of the PS1s - but obviously I had that covered. (Unless you count the ZX81 I stamped on after a particularly frustrating game of 3D Monster Maze)
I'd missed out for too long.
A pay-rise came in December 2003, so so did a PS2 for Christmas along with every "big" game that came out since, plus every RPG and an xBox in April 2004.
Now, I have too many games - I lent something like 7 games to my brother this weekend and I'd be hard-pressed to name any of them, while he was incredulous that I "didn't play them much anymore"
Thing is, I want my free time to be filled, absolutely stuffed, with things to do. I watch like an hour of TV a week, but I've got every channel - just so there *is* something to watch when I want to. Same thing with games, I don't *always* want to play, but when I do I want something I'm not bored of.
I want all teh games.
My schoolboy games were typically 1.99 efforts from Mastertronic and the like on the C64, but the MegaDrive's launch just happened to coincide with me getting paid work. I paid some astronomical sum for one on HP (which I've mentioned in another post somewhere around here) and all the add-ons (MegaCD) but after a while began to feel the pinch of games costing 20 times more than I was used to (and paying off the debt). I began feel ripped off, and began to fall behind. Began to dig through the bargain bins in second-hand game shops.
Next big buy was a £1000 486/66 PC from Tiny, (with a 17" monitor that lasted me nearly 7 years) - funded by a new job as a self-employed consultant. Unfortunately I hadn't quite grasped the fact you had to calculate you own tax and pay up at the end of the year, in addition to the fact that being self-employed didn't give you a lot of job security.
Back in solid employment, but now paying off a new mortgage, the next buy was a £1500 P166 from PC World on rather heavy terms. Most of the games I played on it would have brought about a coughing fit similar to the one you just displayed. I picked up a second-hand Sega Saturn, and played some entertaining updates of MegaDrive games on it, but Quake-based games were all I was really interested in.
Sony brought out the PS1, and everyone went mad for it. I was furious. I responded with a £500 bank loan for various upgrades including a mighty 12MB Voodoo 2 3dFX card.
All the PS1 had was some crappy driving game which could be done so much better on the PC.
Except it wasn't.
Nobody ever made a "Gran Turismo" for the PC. I had Pod, and Speedbusters, even a horse-feedback steering wheel. But it wasn't the same.
I waited the obligatory year and got Driver and Final Fantasy VII on PC, but they were scarcely improved, later I got Worms Armaggedon but none of them matched the fun experiences we'd had with the originals on my sister's lowly PS1.
I hated consoles.
Then the PS2 came out. I scoffed at its puny efforts to replicate FPS games compared to my further upgraded PC with Half Life and Unreal Tournament on a GeForce card. GTA3 did impress, but I knew it would be out on PC eventually.
It was about this time of year in 2002 when a number of things occured which meant I suddenly had a lot more time and desire to play games, and there weren't enough PC titles to keep me satisfied. I looked at the back-catalogue of PS1 games and decided I'd been missing out, and it was time to catch up.
I asked around at work if anyone had a PS1 they didn't use any more - I ended up with 3 PS1s and a DreamCast.
While they may have been outdated, I pretty much spent the next year playing games for them (my home PC was a bit outdated by this time). The Gran Turismo series is just the most playable set of driving games ever made, Driver2 was good practice for GTA3 and there were some great Japanese RPGs, too - not least the awesome Shenmue games and the original Phantasy Star Online (don't be fooled kids, it's still just the DC game)
As it goes the only game machine I ever had break was one of the PS1s - but obviously I had that covered. (Unless you count the ZX81 I stamped on after a particularly frustrating game of 3D Monster Maze)
I'd missed out for too long.
A pay-rise came in December 2003, so so did a PS2 for Christmas along with every "big" game that came out since, plus every RPG and an xBox in April 2004.
Now, I have too many games - I lent something like 7 games to my brother this weekend and I'd be hard-pressed to name any of them, while he was incredulous that I "didn't play them much anymore"
Thing is, I want my free time to be filled, absolutely stuffed, with things to do. I watch like an hour of TV a week, but I've got every channel - just so there *is* something to watch when I want to. Same thing with games, I don't *always* want to play, but when I do I want something I'm not bored of.
I want all teh games.