have you tried dungeons and dragons online? thats another turbine one. im just downloading it now, free to play.  dont really know anything about it though lol.

ouu that  sucks mate.

mikeydredlox said:

a captain would be good if we dont have a dedicated healer, alternatively I could go minstrel and you could try tanking with guardian or champ maybe

I already have a lev 14 minstrel I could use

 

and cagedthunder – I was online last night at the same time as you, keep an eye on your IMS tab in the chat window as I was trying to message you – I sent you an ingame email explaining it so check your mailbox next time you log on

Sorry I didn't see anything but then again I would have expected to see something flash up on the screen.  I do remember it mentioning something about mail last night but I thought that was something game related and not someone trying to contact me.  Should really read up on the chat system. 

ah I didnt realise the free trial had restrictions – if I remember correctly the f2p version will allow you to read emails but not send them –

what I was saying was the IMS tab on your chat window will show an asterix when you receive a new message, and you will hear a ding sound – it should also show up in the general chat window

you can add more tabs to the chat window by right clicking on a tab, and rename them to your liking – I usually have separate tabs for kinship (guild) and fellowship (group)

No worries I'll keep my eye on that, it probably dinged when I was away, I had my headphones on and off like a fiddlers elbow.

it would be great to have you along craigieh

I agree that mmo's can be dangerously addicitve, I have played them on and off ever since Dark Ages Of Camelot, and have seen a lot of friends burnt out by overdoing them

i like to think the free to play system will help players feel comfortable only playing a handful of hours a week, without thinking they are not getting value for their monthly fee – hence the title of this thread aiming for a fixed once a week group

I've got a full time job and three young kids, plus most of my gaming time is taken up by starcraft2 at the moment in any case

when people level faster than their mates the group inevitably splits as the level gap becomes too wide

so its very early days this, but if you are interested let us have your character name and I'll add it to the list above, cheers

Thanks for the heads up on Aion Uncle Fista, I would definitely like to take up your offer of a free trial – I'm very much into the idea of playing an mmo 1 or at most 2 days a week. I'm not sure if anyone listens to the van hemlock podacst, but they are a couple of gamers much like your good selves, and the format is very similar to your show, with a mix of console gaming and pc – but they come from a mmo background, and play 3 mmo's each week on set days with static groups – they play eve, warhammer online and DDO at the moment and have just retired from LOTRO

I personally think playing an mmo with a regular group is so much more rewarding than grinding out the hours solo or joining random PUG's, and this way you avoid get too hooked and then rage quitting when you realise it's getting out of hand

Thanks for the compliment about the thread – I have wanted to get involved in something like this for a while, and think it would be quite exciting to start up at least one MLG guild somewhere, who knows where this may lead if there is enough interest – I will probably start a Lotro thread when things are more firmly in place, cheers

Come in in mate the dungeon is cold and inviting…

Burglar would be really helpful, or even a runey if you are planning on resubbing

I reckon at this rate though we may well have over 6 – the more we have the less class choice matters as we will be able to mix and match easier, although obviously we would need to split into more than one group

I played for an afternoon yesterday and am a level 7 hunter.

Havent got it installed on my home PC yet (as my internet is only 2 meg), but I'm gonna be back on tomorrow day to try and get to level 10, and assess this character class.

oh another thing I meant to mention – if you look in your quest logs there is something called the epic quest line, which is the main quest storyline running though the game

at early levels this will be called the epic prologue – it is race specific, and fairly straight forward to do solo and finishes around lev 10-11 – it would be nice if everyone could get the prologue done and then when we start grouping we can all start doing the main epic quest books together

more info here

I'm at lv10 with my hunter, so I think I will try a different class to see how that rolls, I'll check the up on the quest aswell.

I've not done that but I think I might be close. I maybe at lv11 when I've done that.

Post edited 23:50 – Aug 31st 2010 by mixindave

mikeydredlox said:

looking good, so far we have 6 interested – if anyone feels strongly about Mondays then we can try another day, Tolkien Tuesday perhaps or Fellowship Friday?

 

mikeydredlox – Dredlin, Guardian

Cagedthunder – Vagel, Hunter

altered_ego – Deanen, Hunter

craigieh – Sparco, Minstrel

anceint gamer – Vixana, Burglar

duggydarko

mixindave

oldroo

just resubbed.  gonna start with a captain, ive added your character "dredlin" as a friend.

*update* started with a captain. doing my thing in archet.