I have been floating around the various DC boards for a long time, and to my knowlage I have not visited here before.

So I finally decided to drop in for a visit and have a look around.

I noticed that the SA clan/guild is in a few games,but I am sad to say that I am not active in any of them,EverQuest player here,and have been for over 4 years.Used to be active in DC but I am long since retired from there and role play writing in general,what little RPing that I do is in game in EQ...but anyway,that is about it for me here.....very good looking site!!

Ahh, an EQ'ist, a bred I know all to well.... I live part time with one, and once he starts playing, the whole world stops for a month, lol.

Welcome to our little corner of the world. feel free to visit at any time... While many of us still require our dose of games in our day to day lives, there are still a few of us who wil take a break from the virtual world to come have a drink and chat it up.

I will admit that EverQuest can be very time consuming,but it is an interesting game to say the least...raiding is alot of fun...it is my way of reducing the stress of everyday life....

and thanks,I might just hang out for a while

lol, time consuming. that qualifies as an understatement in my books, LMAO.... before he blew the MOBO on his pc EQ was a Winter downtime passion for my friend. It would run strait through 3 months as he didn't have much else during the slow winter months.... he could start a raid at 10 at night, I would go to bed a little while later, and when I got up in the morning he still would not have moved from the desk.... If the ISP would get their butts in gear and fix a routing issue from hell, he would prob be on right now....

Hard core player LOL....I am not that bad but I do enjoy what time I do get to be in game.....but oh well enough of that

I have taken a look at a couple of the games you all are in just for kicks..Fallen Sword and Trybal World,they seem interesting enough.....might have to dig a bit deeper into the games or maybe tell my wife about them and she might have a look.

My wife has been looking at a few free online games here and there...Last Chaos and Shaiya are two she and I have been looking at..and they are very interesting...multi player,real time chat..area,group and guild/clan.... and all free to download and play,if you are on dial up the download would take a very long time....on DSL it took me I think a couple of hours to download each game

mmm. sounds interesting, I'll have to take a look into those myself.... unfortunately most of us long term members, find that RL takes up so much of our time, that a lot of our gaming has eased off into the past, but most of us are wiling to try a new game if it entertains.

a few hours on dsl???? hrmm might have to wait a bit on that then.... lost our T1 lines due to a major ISP screw up, so only have DSL in my location now... and the roomie hates it when I start pulling in the bandwidth... mayhap I'll try while he is at work, lol...

If there is a specific type of game you both like, let us know, since many of us go singly on many games, its entirely possible someone may know of a game you would love, and we just haven't though of posting it yet.

I have the top tier dsl set up here( for my junkie IP) and even with my wife doing stuff online it really didnt effect the download time to any great extent.

My wife does play EverQuest 2 from time to time....her and I could be in game at the same time with no problems to either of us as far as games getting laggy or disconnecting.... Cable, a sat uplink or a T1 is very nice,dsl isnt all bad

all depends on where you are, lol. when I was near the city, my cable line was perfect, when I moved here, the cable was bad, but the t1 made life so nice. now that we have no choice but DSL, its a Pain. their lines out here are shoddy at best, and bandwidth depending on time of day is non existent. its really sad. Maybe one day the will sent a tech down here that has at least somewhat of an understanding of how everything works, in stead of calling up the local company and getting the answer, "well the line is plugged in so it should be working" lmao

is really bad when half the cities net goes down and you call asking if its just your area, or if everyone is down, and their reply is " oh, so-and-so just went to clean up the cables in the back, I hope he didn't unplug anything important?"

I could go on abut the stupidity of our local systems, but I'm sure you get the idea, lol.... needles to say the best net around here, is a wireless notebook and a drive to the next city over.

Haha...yea I know the feeling all to well.Where I live at is just outside a small town of about 2000 ,we signed up for dsl here and were on a 3 year wait list.The DSL lines here had not been run when we signed up so it was a sit and wait thing.

We would go pay our bill and ask have those lines run yet? Their reply would be not yet....so we finally(after 3 years) asked one time and the front desk said not yet...so I said loud enough for the abck offices to hear that we were gonna start looking at Hughes Net and drop them for phone and internet...a person from back came out and we asked her,she looked at our bill and said there had been dsl on our line for 3 or 4 months....so after going round and round with them we got the installation and equipment for free...sometimes you just have to butt heads with them to get anywhere

and a few calls to the Bettrer Business Beaeru dont hurt either

lmao, hadn't though of that, My idea was to go there and demand they hire me, since I used to work for the local cable company in my home town and actually know how to fix their systems so the net ...how do you put it?...WORKS! but when I walked into the office and saw the slack jawed yokels that they have working there, I realized I would fail their mandatory negative IQ ratings...... hehe

perhaps I should go down and at least try to knock some sense into them, the net issues around here are ridiculous.

Hiah Lazarid !

Glad to see you stop by. I'm not here often but try to slide on up to the bar every month or so for some ale and a chat or two to whomever is around.

As for online gaming, I'm still addicted to Guild Wars and actually still log in to DC to keep me and the clan name alive in the game if for nothing else but the history.

For freebee MMO's I've tried Runes of Magic and Perfect World. Both are basically WoW clones that allow real money trading but it's not necessary to pay to play (but I'm told it helps lol).

Draceena!! *hugs* Havent seen you in a long time !! I tried Guild Wars for a while,didnt like it at all. The one thing that really got under my skin was the choke points where you had no choice but to fight your way through .....another was getting a group in game,I can say honestly that in the 3 months that I did play I never did find a group nor did I find a guild that was willing to help a player out.I gave away my account and all discs after that three months


Runes of Magic and Perfect World...I have never heard of them but I will have to take a look one of these days soon...My EQ account is up for renew early next month and there is a new expanion that just came out...so I am wondering if getting the new expansion and the monthly fee will be worth it..55$ for both.... I have been debating if I want to do that or not...

*hugs back*

Ya, I'd say a big bonus to GW is having a good guild and alliance who are there to help you through the tough spots and it makes the game much more enjoyable.

Oooof, ya $55 is not small pocket change and having to pay monthly can be a drag I'm sure. Of the 2 MMO's I mentioned, I seemed to get further and enjoy the Perfect world more than the Runes game but if you have the time to download both it don't hurt any to give both a whirl.

The new expension has been out a couple of months now and I am hearing the content is pretty nice,and for once not to many bugs in the programming for a change,usually there are alot of snafu's in the new expansions,the expansion is 40$ to download.Sony dont make the discs anymore to buy at the stores
...But 15$ a month to play isnt to bad , the graphics are pretty good and the spell graphics are really nice,alot better than GW and even EQ2

But anyway!! It is 630 AM,I am gonna go grab a bite to eat....Catch you next post !

Ya, if you don't mind the $15/month then I don't see any reason not to enjoy it. It's a bit too rich for my blood but we all have our 'vices' to spend our money on and if this works for you then go for it!