Str0ngStyle
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CcrooK said:
Honestly, any of them. I just logged off to walk my dogs and I have 1 plat and like 8-9 gold. Just getting the basic mount is gonna take forever
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Rift: Planes of Telara |OT|
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Honestly, any of them. I just logged off to walk my dogs and I have 1 plat and like 8-9 gold. Just getting the basic mount is gonna take forever
Wow, this thread threw up on itself.
1) You can not blame people for wanting a free trial of sorts at any point in the title's life. Just because there hasn't been a trial for a new MMO in the past, doesn't mean there shouldn't be in the future. A week long, limited trial going up with launch (if the MMO is good) would be an interesting idea and could prove very fruitful...
2) That being said, I'm moving on from Rift. I was hacked, the first time I've been hacked in a MMO ever, and they still did not restore what was stolen. I will not stand for such poor customer service. That's not the only reason (Looking st their next patch adjustments, they seem to want to balance around PvP, the Soul system begins to shrink by the time you hit cap, and Trion is already in the habit of double speak, crafting appears to be pointless compared to any drops or quests) but it is the significant reason.
Lotus Cross is awesome and if you enjoy the game and enjoy good company, you'll be happy. =D
1) You can not blame people for wanting a free trial of sorts at any point in the title's life. Just because there hasn't been a trial for a new MMO in the past, doesn't mean there shouldn't be in the future. A week long, limited trial going up with launch (if the MMO is good) would be an interesting idea and could prove very fruitful...
2) That being said, I'm moving on from Rift. I was hacked, the first time I've been hacked in a MMO ever, and they still did not restore what was stolen. I will not stand for such poor customer service. That's not the only reason (Looking st their next patch adjustments, they seem to want to balance around PvP, the Soul system begins to shrink by the time you hit cap, and Trion is already in the habit of double speak, crafting appears to be pointless compared to any drops or quests) but it is the significant reason.
Lotus Cross is awesome and if you enjoy the game and enjoy good company, you'll be happy. =D
spandexmonkey
Banned
If you continue to do the quests/rift you'll end up with the cash. I think I paid for my first mount at about level 17. Now that I'm 37 I've bought mounts for three alts and I'm still sitting at about 15p. I'm also lazy and vendor my crap instead of using the AH.
Crafting has been helpful if you wear the gear at the level it becomes available. Usually it fills in gaps or replaces the occasional slot that you just haven't had upgraded in a while. The occasional blue recipe usually makes something really worthwhile (at least for the level). Runeforging has always been useful to us.
I was also hacked and it took about a week to finally get my stuff restored. The rolled me back a little further than I'd like, but I've since recovered.
Crafting has been helpful if you wear the gear at the level it becomes available. Usually it fills in gaps or replaces the occasional slot that you just haven't had upgraded in a while. The occasional blue recipe usually makes something really worthwhile (at least for the level). Runeforging has always been useful to us.
I was also hacked and it took about a week to finally get my stuff restored. The rolled me back a little further than I'd like, but I've since recovered.
The easiest way to get hacked is to use the same PW on Rift that you do on message boards/forums/etc. Not everybody takes care and secures their shit. I use a unique PW for my MMOs/Steam/etc.
Also, FFS, run either Malwarebytes or Norton Internet Security. I've had billions of intrusion attempts from ads on sites like wowwiki.
Also, FFS, run either Malwarebytes or Norton Internet Security. I've had billions of intrusion attempts from ads on sites like wowwiki.
It seems like this may finally be an MMO I have some real interest in given all of the highly positive buzz floating around the net. However, should my computer be able to run this game (fairly) well? How optimized is the engine? Here is what I'm rockin':
ATI 5650 1gb
4gb DDR3
Core i7 720qm
Windows 7 64 bit
ATI 5650 1gb
4gb DDR3
Core i7 720qm
Windows 7 64 bit
Cheech said:I think you are looking at medium settings vsync'ed with those specs. It's not going to be playable in its full glory at Ultra settings, but owning a gaming laptop, you should be used to that by now.
Alright, great. As long as it's smooth and at least decent looking, I'm fine with it. Now, to decide whether or not I want to drop $50...
ACE 1991 said:
Don't drop $50. Drop $39.99, with a $15 Amazon gift card.
So yeah, half price, assuming you don't mind using Amazon's DD service and are American.
spandexmonkey
Banned
ACE 1991 said:
I'm running the same machine and it works fine, had to drop a few features but otherwise still looks great. During some of the major invasions with 20+ players and 30+ monsters with full spell effects you'll chug, but it's playable.
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Deleted member 17706
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Kintaro said:
Not even considering the business side of things, it's still a terrible idea and always will be as long as server capacities are as low as they are.
If, at launch, with just people that were willing to spend $40 - $60 on the box, the servers were clogged to the point that people had to wait in multi-hour long queues and the developer had to rapidly open up more servers to accommodate everyone, what do you think would happen if they suddenly allowed anyone in the world to play the game for free?
WDFHaldimath44
Member
Just curious if it's the same as with Black Garden, but do the Defiants get destroyed in almost every BG in the higher lvl ones too, or do we start to get better??
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
WDFHaldimath44 said:
Nope! Don't bother switching to the Guardians or rolling on a different server, either! The faction you play will always suck no matter what faction, server or MMORPG you play.
The grass is always greener on the other side.
WDFHaldimath44
Member
Zefah said:
Lol, it wasn't my intention, but I was hoping there would be good things for the future, because we are absolutely awful in Black Garden. I have played maybe 15 games and won twice.
Good thing I don't play for PVP...
Broadbandito
Member
Cheech said:
where is this free 15 dollar gift card?
Ah, I got my first piece of tier 2 armor tonight (the boots). Felt good. I also, finally, after running IT forever, got the Bonechipped Pants off the Bonelord (epic rogue tanking pants). They're a bit of an upgrade over the tier 1 pants, so overall a good night.
It would be marvelous, however, if one of these bosses in one of these dungeons would drop a epic dagger so I can get rid of the blue one I have. No such luck as of yet ;_;
Oh and I'm going to be rebuilding the guild website later this week. Got a lot of work to do on it and I'm working the next two days so I'll just do it on Thursday which is my next day off. It sucks that all the posts were lost. I've taken steps to rectify this in the future, and have offsite backups, but it won't replace all the info that was previously on there =\
It would be marvelous, however, if one of these bosses in one of these dungeons would drop a epic dagger so I can get rid of the blue one I have. No such luck as of yet ;_;
Oh and I'm going to be rebuilding the guild website later this week. Got a lot of work to do on it and I'm working the next two days so I'll just do it on Thursday which is my next day off. It sucks that all the posts were lost. I've taken steps to rectify this in the future, and have offsite backups, but it won't replace all the info that was previously on there =\
SUPARSTARX
Member
I bought this game for $40 from gamestop, no gift cards or anything. I didn't know it was $50 retail lol.
Hit level 18 through Iron Tomb. No wipes. My heals are superb!
Hit level 18 through Iron Tomb. No wipes. My heals are superb!
Subterranean
Member
New patch 1.1 trailer. Shows Alsbeth talking smack and some scenes from boss fights it looks like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GElqVKVFdzE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GElqVKVFdzE
spandexmonkey
Banned
Nice trailer. I need to finish leveling so I can start raiding, then my wow friends would stop bugging me.
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BrettWeir said:
PlayerAuctions? But in a game that only takes around 100 hours to reach max level, why would anyone even want to take a huge risk by buying an account only to likely have it stolen back at a later date?
Yeah, I think it is probably better for me given my play style.wfries said:
I got this sick 2H polearm out of Greenscale the other night:
http://rift.zam.com/en/item/8DCEC3BB0201010101/Hunter's-Pursuit
Str0ngStyle said:
I had no trouble raising enough cash for my level 40 mount just selling all the junk I picked up to vendors. What level are you?
The only things I really auctioned off were duplicate artifacts. I probably made a couple plat doing that, but money is pretty easy to raise.
Dreamwriter
Member
You must be playing a different game than meKintaro said:
When I craft armor pieces, they are better than most quest items and drops. Unless maybe you aren't using the armor when you first can, after a couple levels better stuff does start popping up...of course, soon after that we reach another point where we can use crafted armor again.
spandexmonkey
Banned
Looks like they just added authenticators. Downloaded mine on Android and connected it to my account.
Subterranean
Member
Cheech said:
Awesome news to both. Too bad I can't test out the new drivers since there is a 4 hour downtime right now for patch 1.1.
ACE 1991 said:
Well, we're about to find out. I can tell you that we have some people MIA in our guild as is to be expected (still active with 15 - 25 people on at peek times though).
I honestly think this game is going to last. It's got a lot of end-game content already and as of today we now have two end-game raids - most people haven't even gotten to the first one yet!
I'm really excited about the future of Rift. We've got a pretty tight community (for the most part, exceptions do apply) on Belmont.
GhostRidah
Member
Very nice, cant wait to test that, in the meantime check out my RE5 mage JillvalentineCheech said:
2011-03-29_123424 by BionicSalt
BrettWeir said:
All we know so far is that there's going to be two horses (one usable by all levels and one only by level 50's) and an ability that lets you turn yourself into an undead. There will also be event merchants who will be selling goodies that you can only obtain by participating in the event and then purchasing them from these vendors. Once these vendors are gone the items are also gone forever.
BrettWeir
Member
Interesting. For the mounts, do you know if you are forced to do the instance to obtain it? Like plaque accumulation for gear?
I mainly just want some daggers/bow. At the moment, mine are trash (under 20 dps), and have less than a plat......
Reason I ask about instance, is I have yet to do a single one, as the guild I'm in is slow as hell leveling. Getting a pug is like pulling teeth.
I mainly just want some daggers/bow. At the moment, mine are trash (under 20 dps), and have less than a plat......
Reason I ask about instance, is I have yet to do a single one, as the guild I'm in is slow as hell leveling. Getting a pug is like pulling teeth.
BrettWeir said:
Below are the issues fixed. If the "goodness" you speak of is the APP OpenCL runtime support, then yes, the "goodness" is contained therein.
I have no idea, honestly. I included the full features list below for the fun of it.
Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 11.3 Windows release includes:
New Features:
Seamless GPU Compute support
The AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) OpenCL runtime is now enabled by default within AMD Catalyst. Applications that leverage OpenCL for GPU based compute tasks will automatically benefit from the significant performance boost that this provides.
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 11.3 software suite for Windows 7. These include:
3D BluRay playback no longer displays random frame loss.
The 8x Anti-Aliasing is now correctly listed in some OpenGL applications.
System no longer shows laggy performance when playing 720P WMV video files.
Tearing is no longer randomly observed when playing Bioshock with Vsync and MLAA enabled.
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 11.3 software suite for Windows Vista. These include:
3DMark 2011 no longer hangs on a quad crossfire HD6990 system.
World of Warcraft no longer fails to respond when alt-tabbing out and into the game when running on the AMD HD6990.
Mpeg2 Video playback now correctly uses hardware acceleration when played with Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center.
Youtube HD Flash video now renders correctly.
Enabling Anti-Aliasing no longer causes figure to have a bright outline in Medal Of Honor Single Player mode.
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
Need for Speed Shift no longer randomly crashes during gameplay.
The Youtube feature is pretty neat. Almost level 40 now, got side tracked with another game and work, but now I'm set to get to end game.
Anyone have full details on this world event to gloss over? I can't find anything other than summarizations. If I missed it in this thread, I'm sorry.
I really have to give Trion credit though, they're putting a lot of effort forward, and they actually seem to enjoy their own game lol.
Anyone have full details on this world event to gloss over? I can't find anything other than summarizations. If I missed it in this thread, I'm sorry.
I really have to give Trion credit though, they're putting a lot of effort forward, and they actually seem to enjoy their own game lol.