Initial impressions and notes:
1) I am still finding the wasd key set for movement frustrating. When you are clumsy to start with and have years of hitting the shift key to fire missiles, well......you die a lot in Hellgate. :mad:
2) The quests are buggy. I have missed / had to re-do some. The unlocking quest at the British Museum was particularly frustrating in that regard. And today, for an oddity, while partied with cb-13, he got credit for a quest that we did and I did not.
3) Loading times are slow for me, despite upgrading my RAM to 1 gb and my video card to 256 mb. Alt/tabbing in and out of the game is very slow too.
4) I really like the chat capability of X-fire. And that is despite the fact that I miss the first 'phone call' to be invited to one, because of the slow alt/tab.
5) Having to add each character of an account to the Buddy list is a minor annoyance. I hope that changes.
6) Despite all of the above, I think I will be playing this game for some time.
The only real problem I forsee in the short run is having to fight off the sons, who are also really enjoying it. 
Until I can subscribe, we have worked out a compromise wherein I have my three characters on the US server and they have one each on the European server. 
One last confusion: I do not understand anything of the in-game guild structure. Any links to how it works (or is supposed to work
)? At this point, I have received and accepted an in-game invitation from TPJ for a guild called TheBasin. But I have no clue what, if anything, that will mean, or if it will preclude any RBD in-game guild membership.
1) I am still finding the wasd key set for movement frustrating. When you are clumsy to start with and have years of hitting the shift key to fire missiles, well......you die a lot in Hellgate. :mad:
2) The quests are buggy. I have missed / had to re-do some. The unlocking quest at the British Museum was particularly frustrating in that regard. And today, for an oddity, while partied with cb-13, he got credit for a quest that we did and I did not.
3) Loading times are slow for me, despite upgrading my RAM to 1 gb and my video card to 256 mb. Alt/tabbing in and out of the game is very slow too.
4) I really like the chat capability of X-fire. And that is despite the fact that I miss the first 'phone call' to be invited to one, because of the slow alt/tab.
5) Having to add each character of an account to the Buddy list is a minor annoyance. I hope that changes.
6) Despite all of the above, I think I will be playing this game for some time.
The only real problem I forsee in the short run is having to fight off the sons, who are also really enjoying it. Until I can subscribe, we have worked out a compromise wherein I have my three characters on the US server and they have one each on the European server. One last confusion: I do not understand anything of the in-game guild structure. Any links to how it works (or is supposed to work
)? At this point, I have received and accepted an in-game invitation from TPJ for a guild called TheBasin. But I have no clue what, if anything, that will mean, or if it will preclude any RBD in-game guild membership.