ArcheAge

Got extremely bored of it. Level 30 and just the same old missions.

XVII

I have been watching this thread from the very beginning, and finally I'm taking out my popcorn...

morgana

Deleted User wrote: »

Got extremely bored of it. Level 30 and just the same old missions.

Yea me too - logged in once for 10 minutes during the last beta. And crafting seems a lot of hanging around waiting for stuff to be ready - apart from from the labour points. I think I pass.

morgana

Archeage launch date announced for September 16! Open beta 4 - 8 September, head start 12- 16

salamanca22

morgana wrote: »

Archeage launch date announced for September 16! Open beta 4 - 8 September, head start 12- 16

Back to college the day before! So annoying :P

ShadowHearth

morgana wrote: »

Archeage launch date announced for September 16! Open beta 4 - 8 September, head start 12- 16

It's properly free to play on 16th?

ShaShaBear

ShadowHearth wrote: »

It's properly free to play on 16th?

Yeah, that's what I read. Figure if its free to play its worth a gander, but a few people said during the beta that it's not worth a mention unless you have the patron sub?

salamanca22

ShaShaBear wrote: »

Yeah, that's what I read. Figure if its free to play its worth a gander, but a few people said during the beta that it's not worth a mention unless you have the patron sub?

There is heavy enough restrictions on the f2p players alright. You cannot own land and you gain labor points slower which is used for crafting and such.

ShaShaBear

salamanca22 wrote: »

There is heavy enough restrictions on the f2p players alright. You cannot own land and you gain labor points slower which is used for crafting and such.

I really like the crafting and whatnot, really my style! I wouldn't mind paying the sub since I've cancelled WoW!

Sethanon

IRON is currently recruiting for Archeage

We are a international gaming community although most of us are from Ireland or the uk. While we play all aspects of games our main focus is PvP.

We are recruiting players of all levels of experience and ability... we prioritise irl over gaming as most of us have jobs and families.

Check us out at: www . iron-gaming.com

Our official Archeage thread:
http:// forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?37690-IRON-Gaming-Eu-East.-Cats.-Meow.-or-Asian-looking-guys.-Or-Cats.../page2
here is samples of us from GW2

www . youtube.com/watch?v=DvJMDR8NRjk

www . youtube.com/watch?v=9C02ALhHtrA

Any questions feel free to ask... I spend most of my day at work browsing here anyway

Sorry about the links.. new user

Seth

LuckyCharms

Sethanon wrote: »

IRON is currently recruiting for Archeage

We are a international gaming community although most of us are from Ireland or the uk. While we play all aspects of games our main focus is PvP.

We are recruiting players of all levels of experience and ability... we prioritise irl over gaming as most of us have jobs and families.

Check us out at: www . iron-gaming.com

Our official Archeage thread:
http:// forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?37690-IRON-Gaming-Eu-East.-Cats.-Meow.-or-Asian-looking-guys.-Or-Cats.../page2
here is samples of us from GW2

www . youtube.com/watch?v=DvJMDR8NRjk

www . youtube.com/watch?v=9C02ALhHtrA

Any questions feel free to ask... I spend most of my day at work browsing here anyway

Sorry about the links.. new user

Seth

Spoke with one of your members on Dahuta. Sounded like a good bunch.

How many people do ye guys have playing Archeage?

Sethanon

For Archeage, we have around 30-40 confirmed playing with a lot more undecided.

We are looking to have around 70 players for Archeage to ensure we can compete with all the other guilds.

LuckyCharms

Good stuff, my guild will also be rolling on Dahuta and we would be in a similar position to yourselves.

Let me know if ye guys would be interested in possibly forming an alliance.

Sethanon

Let me know your character name and i'll contact you in game.

We already have 2 guilds joining for an alliance from GW2. DsD and VCY.

Note: we have some prime enemies from GW2 as well, especially VOTF, CON and Slay

LuckyCharms

Sethanon wrote: »

Let me know your character name and i'll contact you in game.

We already have 2 guilds joining for an alliance from GW2. DsD and VCY.

Note: we have some prime enemies from GW2 as well, especially VOTF, CON and Slay

Cool,

What kinda numbers are they bringing?

Ideally we are looking to create a strong alliance in the game rather than just join up with one of the Zergs floating about.

We are Knightsofshadow.org. Some of ye might know the name, the guy I spoke to said he knew the guild in RF or lineage, cant remember which.

Ill be on TS after work, if your're free, hop on and we can chat about it.

Char name is Chojja btw.

Noxin

So whos playing and whatcha think?

I'm really enjoying it atm. Currently playing a Demonologist but only level 25. Have two small houses in Hellswamp suitably placed to allow expansion of my 8x8 farms to 16x16. Just about have another 50 Guilda Stars so will aim for clipper next as there doesn't seem to be any room left for a farm house.
Playing elf side on Dahuta. I think the majority are doing similar as myself and the guildies went to the far continent on a rumor of 100 illigal trees being guarded by around 5 people. We decided we'd kill em and steal. To my surprise, when we got over there, their housing plots were empty. Absolute tonne of space
In general I'm really enjoying the mix of crafting / questing / farming. Anyone else on Dahuta?

ShaShaBear

Noxin wrote: »

So whos playing and whatcha think?

I'm really enjoying it atm. Currently playing a Demonologist but only level 25. Have two small houses in Hellswamp suitably placed to allow expansion of my 8x8 farms to 16x16. Just about have another 50 Guilda Stars so will aim for clipper next as there doesn't seem to be any room left for a farm house.
Playing elf side on Dahuta. I think the majority are doing similar as myself and the guildies went to the far continent on a rumor of 100 illigal trees being guarded by around 5 people. We decided we'd kill em and steal. To my surprise, when we got over there, their housing plots were empty. Absolute tonne of space
In general I'm really enjoying the mix of crafting / questing / farming. Anyone else on Dahuta?

Founder? Or is it available to play yet?

Noxin

ShaShaBear wrote: »

Founder? Or is it available to play yet?

Founder

Darius.Tr

Hey, I finally got my internet sorted. Did anyone start playing yet and if so on what servers are you playing on? I'd be looking to join a guild or a small group of people to play with.

ShaShaBear

Darius.Tr wrote: »

Hey, I finally got my internet sorted. Did anyone start playing yet and if so on what servers are you playing on? I'd be looking to join a guild or a small group of people to play with.

Still offline here for me

Venom

Game going live is delayed for an hour.

http://www.archeagegame.com/en/news/2014/09/archeage-available-for-download-now-two-new-servers-added/

Roorah

So far is seems pretty awesome wouldnt mind joining up with a guild though. Seems like most of the really cool stuff is going to need a big group.

Also I saw a ship in the middle of the eastern continent last night. Harpoon travel eh?

Dcully

Game is constantly crashing for me,beta was fine but its unplayable now.
5 crashes in last 40 mins.

ShaShaBear

Dcully wrote: »

Game is constantly crashing for me,beta was fine but its unplayable now.
5 crashes in last 40 mins.

I had to sit in a queue for a total of 2 hours before I got disconnected. Guess I won't be playing tonight!

Dcully

This is by far the most unstable game release ive ever played.
I posted about my crashes on the support forum late lastnight.
Checking the thread just now its 32 pages deep :eek: literally countless issues with this game.

Nody

Dcully wrote: »

This is by far the most unstable game release ive ever played.
I posted about my crashes on the support forum late lastnight.
Checking the thread just now its 32 pages deep :eek: literally countless issues with this game.

Not overly surprised; apparently the head start was completely botched as well; some people got in 45 min earlier than the official starting time, others could only get in 45 min later etc. and the game was unplayable for half the time. It may come down as one of the worst MMO launches ever if they don't get things sorted out this week.

bruiserwicklow

havent had any problems at all except a few fps drops when there were a 100 odd people on the screen waiting to finish a quest.im mainly playing during the day though if that is making a difference.am enjoying it so far.

Venom

Apart from a slight delay in turning in quests, I'v had zero issues so far.

Dcully

Dropping down from dx11 to dx9 and going windowed mode seems to have helped crashing.
Shame really as my rig is well up to dx11.

Noxin

Dcully wrote: »

Dropping down from dx11 to dx9 and going windowed mode seems to have helped crashing.
Shame really as my rig is well up to dx11.

Not really had too many issues myself. The odd one or two but nothing game breaking.
The DX11 issue is known. Some people need to drop to 9 for stability. I play on 11 and it's fine for me. They know about it anyway.

@Nody. Head start went pretty well for me. Yea there was a queue but we had 3 less servers than there is now. Still didn't have to queue for long myself. 10 min I think. The servers stayed up the entire time which is a feat in itself as every other mmo launch I've tried had the servers down a couple of times in the first day or two.

All in all, still so far so good for me. There can indeed be queues but hopefully they'll release a few more servers to sort things out.

salamanca22

Have had no issues with the game running or crashing but I did have problems getting in during headstart and the plot I had picked out had already been taken when I got on.. Furious isn't the word as it's the only reason I got founder.

Darius.Tr

Damn these queues.....looks like that in order to try the game I'll either have to do it early in the morning or late at night.

Solitaire

I. Am. Going. To. Kill.

SIX HOURS in the queue.

ONE HOUR working out why the hell the client is freaking out and making my monitors go crazy while merrily blackscreening.

FINALLY get past character creation and the intro movie thing plays.

Game starts loading...

Raptr Overlay pops up its little F11 applet thingy and immediately locks up the client.

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. F***ING. HELL. ARE. YOU. DOING. IN. A. GAME. WHERE. YOUR. S***TY. ASS. IS. ALREADY. F***ING. DISABLED??!?!?!?!?

Estimated reconnection time: >12hrs.

I am honestly confused over whether I should delete Archeage or Raptr first. ALL OF THE RAGE :mad::mad::mad::mad:




...in general though, this is making the Wildstar beta and launch look like a perfect game launch in comparison. Hell, its making Windows Millennium Edition look good right now. An utter botch, and the fact that after all the hype the server count for half a continent is still in the single digits and the count for one Asian country is over three times that implies that Trion have not done any of their homework at all. They're not even really attempting damage control at this point.

Darius.Tr

Solitaire wrote: »

I. Am. Going. To. Kill.

SIX HOURS in the queue.

ONE HOUR working out why the hell the client is freaking out and making my monitors go crazy while merrily blackscreening.

FINALLY get past character creation and the intro movie thing plays.

Game starts loading...

Raptr Overlay pops up its little F11 applet thingy and immediately locks up the client.

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. F***ING. HELL. ARE. YOU. DOING. IN. A. GAME. WHERE. YOUR. S***TY. ASS. IS. ALREADY. F***ING. DISABLED??!?!?!?!?

Estimated reconnection time: >12hrs.

I am honestly confused over whether I should delete Archeage or Raptr first. ALL OF THE RAGE :mad::mad::mad::mad:




...in general though, this is making the Wildstar beta and launch look like a perfect game launch in comparison. Hell, its making Windows Millennium Edition look good right now. An utter botch, and the fact that after all the hype the server count for half a continent is still in the single digits and the count for one Asian country is over three times that implies that Trion have not done any of their homework at all. They're not even really attempting damage control at this point.

These queues are just stupid....trion needs to add a ton of new servers, even now there's a 2000 people queue.

salamanca22

The problem with adding new servers to the game is diluting the playerbase. This game NEEDS heavily populated servers or it's no fun. You need to see people in the wild.

They add servers now and in a months time when 50%+ of the people leave they will be left with empty servers like so many other mmo's at launch.

The queues will die down or you can get patron and get in much faster. Not the best thing but if you really want to play it is worth getting it anyway.

Venom

Having too many servers at launch is a mistake that far to many MMO's make but in this case Trion really has to few. Making players wait over an hour to log into the game is not going to make them stick around.

Darius.Tr

You can always merge a few servers after a certain period of time after the hype dies out.

Roorah

So are there any guilds up on Dahuta recruiting atm?

Solitaire

Darius.Tr wrote: »

You can always merge a few servers after a certain period of time after the hype dies out.

This. Its not simple and for a queuebie MMO it results in short-term loss of profit as well as the cost of running the extra temp servers, but the emphasis is on "temporary". Get people in the door, give them shortish queues and then reshuffle the servers and give out free transfers to rebalance server populations as you move toward the intended permanent server setup.

These queues seem like a cheap cash grab at best and a sign of utter callousness and laziness at worst. Short-term profits will be grossly outweighed by pushing away half your potential playerbase at launch and turning what few servers you have into ghost towns a few months down the road, as people who wanted to give the game a spin before subbing or paying for stuff end up walking and not spending a penny.

salamanca22

The way the game works I don't see it workable to merge servers at all. What happens if someone has built a house on the same coordinates?

truedoom

went to play it last night

download took 1 hour
then 20 minutes verify
then 40 minutes to unpack

then got into the game. in a queue of about 4000 people....madness!

Noxin

I've heard the F2P queues are a bit nuts alright. I'd say hold off a week and test it then.
Most people who are getting annoyed at them (such as yourselves) will have left by then. Better to save the annoyance and try again a little later imo.

Dcully

OK so ive sorted my crashing out [i think]
Got my toon up to lvl 14,played to 10 in beta and im still hugely underwhelmed.
I really really want to love this game, mmos are my favourite genre but the genre has let me down so often over the last 5 years or so with pretty much every mmo not worth playing past a month or two with the exception of wow.
The class/skills system is very robust i will admit,the combat is okay i suppose but other than that everyone is saying the game is more about crafting than anything else.
Since im not a fan of crafting can i get by without it?
If anything i find it even more tedious in this game than others.
I plan to play some more,i normally atleast max out a toon and sample whatever endgame is available before passing judgement on an mmo.

Im on Aier server btw, name Cully :P

Venom

salamanca22 wrote: »

The way the game works I don't see it workable to merge servers at all. What happens if someone has built a house on the same coordinates?

Bingo. Unlike other MMO's, even those with player housing, Archeage's non instanced housing plots will cause a lot of problems with a server merge. New servers with first preference given to players without homes/farms is the only real solution.

Noxin

Dcully wrote: »

OK so ive sorted my crashing out [i think]
Got my toon up to lvl 14,played to 10 in beta and im still hugely underwhelmed.
I really really want to love this game, mmos are my favourite genre but the genre has let me down so often over the last 5 years or so with pretty much every mmo not worth playing past a month or two with the exception of wow.
The class/skills system is very robust i will admit,the combat is okay i suppose but other than that everyone is saying the game is more about crafting than anything else.
Since im not a fan of crafting can i get by without it?
If anything i find it even more tedious in this game than others.
I plan to play some more,i normally atleast max out a toon and sample whatever endgame is available before passing judgement on an mmo.

Im on Aier server btw, name Cully :P

Have you got into PVP yet? That's what this game is really about. Ship wars etc.. Keep going and jump into some pvp. It's good fun.
Also the general trolling of people with illegal farms is fun too.

As for what I said earlier about queues. I take it back. Queue for patrons is a bit nuts atm. 1600 when I tried to connect

Ahh well, sit in queue and off to do some housework for an hour.

Solitaire

salamanca22 wrote: »

The way the game works I don't see it workable to merge servers at all. What happens if someone has built a house on the same coordinates?

Server merges are really just mass-transfers, and any transfer in Archeage would involve giving the transferee lots of free BoP/BoA building supplies/crafting mats/IoUs for deeds/licenses equivalent to their current holdings and give them a pat on the back and a "glhf finding plot lol"

Dcully wrote: »

The class/skills system is very robust i will admit,the combat is okay i suppose but other than that everyone is saying the game is more about crafting than anything else.
Since im not a fan of crafting can i get by without it?
If anything i find it even more tedious in this game than others.
I plan to play some more,i normally atleast max out a toon and sample whatever endgame is available before passing judgement on an mmo.

AFAIK this isn't really an MMORPG as much as the MMODC lovechild of Titan Quest and Epoch with a bit of Minecraft thrown in. It really should have a warning sign on the door saying "if you're allergic to DayZ and don't find the idea of being available 24/7 to scavenge or steal mats or protect your team's plot pole fun then you might not like this very much"

Dcully

No pvp as of yet.

How long is the dungeon CD?
I got a quest to get 3 necklaces in the first dungeon, but once you down the last boss you only get 1 necklace.
Off i go and repeat it and i get a second necklace, get another group and intend to do my third run for the last necklace and im greeted to you have played this dungeon too many times please try again later.
How idiotic is that?
They give you a quest to repeat a dungeon 3 times yet dont allow you run it 3 times ffs.

Dave_The_Sheep

Dcully wrote: »

you have played this dungeon too many times please try again later.
How idiotic is that?
They give you a quest to repeat a dungeon 3 times yet dont allow you run it 3 times ffs.

Are you a patron? (I'm not, just curious to see if it's one of those annoying limits they might try and get you to spend money on to get around).

Dcully

Not yet, thought id try it out before subbing.
Quite enjoying it though, its different for sure.

Trying to do the first trade quest but my plants and animals keep getting nicked, ill try again on a public farm.
No problems puttign shicks on public farm but where can i put grapevine trees to grow safely?
Quest says stuff has to be made is Solzeed or whatever the zone is called.

Noxin

Dcully wrote: »

Not yet, thought id try it out before subbing.
Quite enjoying it though, its different for sure.

Trying to do the first trade quest but my plants and animals keep getting nicked, ill try again on a public farm.
No problems puttign shicks on public farm but where can i put grapevine trees to grow safely?
Quest says stuff has to be made is Solzeed or whatever the zone is called.

I think you need to go to White Ardin (not sure of spelling) to plant trees. There's a tree nursery there north of crossroads. It's always packed but I always manage to find spots for much bigger trees than that.
And don't worry about the level of mobs while getting there. It's an easy run.