Are you one of those choosing side based on whoīs side has the best armors, huntinggrounds, weapons and so on and so on? Why choose side based on what you benefits the most from, making it easier to play? Are you afriad that you might stand infront of a challenge witch you canīt handle?
What Iīm getting at is this: Anarchy Online is a MMORPG - massive multiplayer ROLE PLAYING GAME ! ! !
Roleplaying being the keyword in this game.
Itīs sad to see ppl complaining on changes in the game that happens to make their prof or breed a bit less good is somewhat way (as you may seen at the official AO forum about the upcoming 14.2 patch). There you have proof that some ppl only keep one thing in mind when playing this game, and thatīs to have a uber maxed caracter they can brag with.
Also it is sad to see ppl ask what side is the best to play, in regards to best huntinggrounds, weapons armors and so on. To choose side based on this only show that you donīt care about the roleplaying part of the game.
So if you donīt care about the roleplaying part of the game then whatīs left to make the game worth playing?
Do missions and/or insane powerleveling until you have a totaly uber caracter... have you beaten the game then? and can move on with the next game?
Have you in some strange way got it in your head that you have completed the last "boss", the last "level"
so when someone asks: "hey man have you played AO?"
you can answer: "yea i reached lvl 170 or so then it wasnīt any fun no more.. now Iīm playing EQ again leveling up some new caracter. I might get back to AO when I get tired of EQ AGAIN"
Face it, the thing that make MMORPG games stand out from the rest of the PC games is the ability to interact with other real players, play a role in an artifical world created for the sole purpose of just this. A role that you choose, of course with some restrictions and rules just like in the real world though with better oppertunities to play out your fantasies and so.
If there were no rules, if everyone could pick their lvl and abilities and so on, then what fun would it be?
Ask a gardner if he would want plants that grow full over one night, guess what the answer should be, heck we know what the answer would be so then ask your self what the motives to the answer is.
I really like when I hear an omni explain why he hates the clanner and the other way around, when the clanner spits his guts over an omni telling some story about his family being killed by omni or something. At the same time thereīs some that desperate trying to get everyone to just getting along, or some thief or spy using others trust to benefit from it his or hers way.
I see ppl write stuff like: "damn FC you destroy our prof with the next patch"
Iīll say that, ok I can see you getting it a bit rougher but thatīs a challange to overcome.
Then they say: "who will want us in team now when you have taken away this ability and that ability from us?"
That is really sad because a team should form by a couple wanting to adventure together.. form the team and choose the mission/huntingground after the abillity of the whole team together.
All in all, the ones playing the Roleplaying part of the game, as itīs intended, have a great deal more fun than the person powerleveling cause he or she cannot sleep untill the caracter is uberadv. then most likely he or she will get tired of the game and stop playing, and so has wasted the time playing.
Play your caracter as a caracter and let the caracter grow naturally and have fun. Eventually you will get to the high levels but remember to play the game as it was intended.
The time will go alot faster when you donīt look at the watch.
If you want to meet ppl and be a part of a fantasy story with them or against them then play AO.
If you wanna finnish a game and tell ppl how great you are, then play some singleplayer game where it says "The End" when you slaughter the last boss, or compete with others in a multiplayer game thatīs intended for that purpose.
Ok, Iīm done I hope you get what I am trying to point out, even if you may find some text in here that you donīt agree with.
And donīt bother to complain or point out my spelling errors because I know... Iīm tired, sitting on my work and Iīm from sweden
I see all you roleplayers in RK-2 (Iīm Dhimoria)
and to everyone else, you can stay at these forums nagging about technical issues on how the next patch will destroy your caracter
PS. Iīm omni btw.. DEATH TO THE CLANNERS and the LEETS ! ! ! DS.
Too many people apparently don't know what the RP part of MMORPG means. Unfortunately, FC seems to be having problems with it as well. You have to gain experience to gain anything in this game, and the only way of getting experience is by killing stuff... its' actually quite sad.
