World of Warcraft

Originally Posted by northwind

Blue, since you've got nearly as much cash as me, the only donation I feel like making is a big bagfull of railgun shots I bet you 10p that you've bought a ship you don't have the skills to drive, incidentally...

No-no ... I didn't go daft, bought a ship I could fly

What I did do mind is buy a weapon for it that required more power than the ship could supply

To be honest I think it is a fab game (I love space/future stuff ) …. I can see how it could suck you in ... as today has proven, it will absorb ALL of your life if you let it ... there is just so much to do I reckon I could spend 24/7 for 6 months and still have plenty to do ... I have been playing it on and off all day and I know I have barely scratched the surface!! Its really cool to see a game has that much potential … the ‘shoot-em-up’ or car racing type games never ‘keep’ me for very long!

So although I have thoroughly enjoyed playing it ... I don't think I will allow myself to get fully sucked in ... I could see that you could spend thousands of hours on it … not only am I scared I’ll spend every available hour on it, but I just don't have the patients for that sort of immersion these days really …

ethariel I didn’t get too carried away and its actually hard to spend serious cash at my chars level of training and when you are feeling your way around the game … I still have 19.5 million left … I’ll give that back to you at some point … thanks for the lend Oh … after I give northy back his 250,000 that he slung in too

Do either of you want to blow me up in my 300,000 ship??

[northwind]

Fly to Vaere and I'll blow you up, if you insist...

It's potentially a very addictive game... You only have to look at the amount of work people put into the corporations. I already have a job though I think the skills system does help to avoid me getting too sucked in, since you don't need to be constantly grinding away to gain XP, it just happens all the time- strange at first, but it makes sense after a while

just done the tutorial....pretty hefty couple of hours! got a load of cash to buy first decent ship....what's good?!?

[ethariel]

Prolly a Probe to start, you can go the mission route or miner to start.

Colin

nope, id rather live my life in reality than live my life online

the graphics are far superior.

[northwind]

Any decent frigate will get you through most level 1 missions, emcf. Can't be bothered with mining meself...

Originally Posted by Warren

nope, id rather live my life in reality than live my life online

the graphics are far superior.

Can you fly through galaxies in real life then?!?!? ... no?!!?? ... well that is where a virtual world where anything is possible is fun But where the virtual world can be so much more interesting than the real world it is always a struggle to keep perspective on it ... i.e. you don't become that dude in the South Park vid

There are things in the real world that the virtual world can't give you, but you have to accept there are things that the virtual world has to offer too

[northwind]

Originally Posted by Warren

the graphics are far superior.

Get a better graphics card

Neverwinter Nights is the online world's unsung hero.

(no subscription charges )

MMORPGs scare me. I'm weak and easily hooked on "harmless fun". So I do my best to steer clear.

I prefer to waste my time playing a little known online racing simulation known as : www.liveforspeed.net .

It's class, great physics, not arcadey at all, only features cars at the mo' but the main dev is a bikerer so who knows. Anyway, free online demo (excuse the *****s that haunt it though), so give it a try. Works with mouse-keyboard or a game pad, but a wheel is better.