Hi

I am at a loss for next steps.

King of Pain kindly suggested that I could use his account while he slept to test the waters of this game.

I duly downloaded and logged in, created a new character to try to learn from the ground up, and started the tutorial. I messed around entirely too long learning to deal with the odd perspective shifts, and then trying to assign hot keys to the combat skills (thanks, Drasca, for stopping me from squandering more time on that), and then.....

I got an 'critical error' message. I filled in the form that came with it, sent it and found myself back on my desktop.

I tried to re-start the game and as soon as I see the "logging on to Arena.net' message, I was sent to desktop and no game is loading.

I re-downloaded the game and tried again. Same thing.

I removed the game. I re-downloaded the game. Same thing.

Any ideas?

I'm officially crazy, but I can't seem to stop playing moo in hopes of being up @ 2am local time to see what's new in the land of GW. Sad, Very Sad.

I was having fun reading Sirian's reports on MOO on his website. I've never been a big MOO player, but it was nice to see the old game in action again, and finding out how other people play the game and handle the opposition.

In Sirian's Imperium One report, on this page, he wonders about the game artist responsible for the designs of the various agents (soldier, scientist, spy) for all the races, and what that artist is doing now. I thought that was an interesting question, and decided to find out.

It turns out this artist's name is George Edward Purdy. MOO was the first game he worked on. He also worked on Master of Magic, and a few other games. Interestingly enough, Mr. Purdy's name is not in the credits for the original version of MOO. Compare the original version of MOO with v1.3 and look at the Artwork credits.

Mr. Purdy has a personal website, www.dragonsandmonkeys.com, where he features some of his art and talks about his work on MOO, MOM and other games. It's a nice read. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Keep up the good work on the MOO reports. I don't play the game, but I like reading them !

Cheers,
Gil.

Whilst waiting for the next Imperium to surface, would anyone out there be interested in a good old SG? I'm completely open to whatever setup the players would like. The team would consist of 4-6 players and follow the same sort of turn setup as SG2. The game would likely start sometime between saturday night and monday night. If interested, apply within and feel free to suggest a setup you would like.

-Maniac

This coming weekend is the first beta weekend, open only to buyers of the pre-order and their invited friends. It would be useful to organize a list of those RBers with the pre-order, so that we can figure out how to apportion the freebie invites.

So far:
KoP
Hawkmoon
Mephista
Occhidiangela (maybe)
SoulFlayer
AlanSHB
Drasca

Those in need of freebies (at least at the moment):
Sirian
Zed-F

Please post if you have bought the pre-order, or if you haven't and are in dire need of a freebie pass (and how much you're willing to bribe us for it! haha, j/k!!). I'll update the list as members respond.

Cheers,
Hawkmoon of the Organizing Zeal

Guild War Site?
I pre-ordered and will be in the Weekend Events. We cannot tell how much staying power GW will have but I am sure I will like it for a while to come, and especailly so with a bunch of likeminded folks to venture with.

There is this nagging question whether to WoW or GW. I cannot afford the time to play both games with my current RL commitments so I would have to pick just one. While I don't mind paying a monthly fee to play a GOOD game, and I have no idea how good WoW is, but it is a huge draw back against WoW - Not (just) to myself or anyone willing to pay to play, but more so, have to do with gaming behavior.

Even if GW turns out to be somewhat less than WoW (maybe we are comparing apples to oranges here, I don't know) but remains a good game, I see that GW will have more staying power than WoW for this community. And this is the KEY point - We eventually will get tired of any game.

We started with Classic Diablo the awesome originally and then moved onto D2 and LoD. Tho D2 does not measure up to CD but most of us stayed with D2, and some eventually moved on and not play Diablo at all. However, many come back to Diablo, and quit, and come back... Why, because it is a "good" game and there is a community behind it. This behavior I see with GW. WoW's monthly fee will prevent the causual WoWer from staying and going back.

I am going to buy GW based on the above, and taking the plunge preparing for a RBGW site and opening up a GW forum. I think we have enough folks interested in the game to get a good start and have a good time together. So lets gather some info/inputs:

There are other issues we want to deal with once we get a forum going, issues such as how competitive we are going to be in terms of world wide tournaments and events, which will in turn dictate how some of our characters will be build and team makeup, etc..


- I have with my preorder, a pass for one friend for one Weekend Beta Event for those who have not tried the game yet. Who else preordered and want to pass along their invitation?
BTW, a preorder cost from 5 to 10 bucks depending on where you shop. When I got mine from the local EB, the sales person made it sound like I didn't even have to pay for it.

- Who is planning to buy the game?

Hehe, I am one of those fashion nuts Sirian mentioned. I won't allow any of my characters to wear any form of a cap for this many years until recently I made a variant to wear one - Alley Baba with a (Harlequine Crest) Hardly Davidson cap ;p I was at first put off with the PINK but a touch of the brightness control tuned it down to magenta, and the rising sun and fading rays took a big junk off the pink. I havn't read anywhere yet custom logo is going to be a feature so we may be left with what GW supplies.

- If you have a color preference, what is it?

- Which stock logo? I will try to grab some screenies of logo this weekend.

- And the most important of all. I NEED help/contributors to keep the GW site fresh. I can't go at it alone to keep the site "fresh" and hope to log on decent game hours too. It need not be much work for the GW staff if we have a few willing souls.

I am planning to incorporate some kind of forum ware on the front page so contributors can easily update the site in the form of a post. All we need is news flash to share, update of events, links, etc. And of course writing stories and articles only if you want to. In the case when you need to include more material than appropriate for the front page, I will html and upload it to its proper place.

Come on people, lets see some hands

KoP

A small group of friends and I have got back into D1 trying ironman (I saw trying because we've yet to beat diablo) we usually play games with 2 of us (all that is ever on at once... (I'm on alot, they're not)) anyways.
I was wondering if anyone else would be intrested in playing a game or 37?
even if not, anyone who has played d1 ironman, ANY adviced is helpful (we're having alot of problems, but we haven't played much in the past few years ^^)

Video's of the interesting 'dance' emote in WoW. I thoguth these were funny. The "Dance Movie 2" should be viewed secondly.

Hope you enjoy it.

http://www.archive.org/movies/movieslist...at=JuniorX

A while back Occhi posted about a forthcoming game, Guild Wars, that is likely to be of interest to our RBD community. You can check out the website at http://www.guildwars.com, but basically it's an MMORPG, though without a monthly fee. From the comments that alpha/beta testers have made, it's supposed to *require* cooperation in order to make efficient progress through the game. And (we'll see if this pans out!) game balance is rumored to be good (!), and lag is supposedly non-existent due to the way they stream the game data.

Anyway, the big World Preview Event is this weekend - everyone can get online and try it out. All you need to do is download the small client program, available at the website. I'm planning on giving it a try, probably all of the weekend evenings - is anyone else interested in assembling a small test RBD team to check it out? If so, we can plan out character classes and times to meet.

Cheers,
Hawkmoon

Huckleberry the Fashion Slave and stubborn non-user of attribute points finally met his nemesis. Up until now, patience and more patience and careful placement of minions has sufficed to prevail.

But this morning, he met his match. He carefully skirted the edges of the Bloody Foothills and the Arreat Plateau seeking the entrance to the Crystalline Passage. (Since he kills so slowly, the point of the expedition was solely to find the Crystalline Passage waypoint before the family woke up.) At the entrance to the the Passage there were three Boss Packs.

He whittled away at the first pack (Snow Drifters - Amp Damage and LEB) but the next two moved in right away and nailed him. Demon Archers and Ghosts. After a stupidly large number of deaths, he gave up and quit the game.