LadyCrimson

Does anyone know what the max limit is to the mail inbox? I often use it to short-term store items (mail to another chr). Yeah, the drow chr. was appealing too. But they'll be releasing a draw class for "everyone" later, even if it's not the "renegade" drow. Spider mount is neat, but I haven't found much use for a mount yet (haven't even used those free rental icons). Not like I have to travel insane distances, ala WoW. The main thing for me is whether I feel like the game is repeatable. Love going through it once but is it still fun to make a highish lvl a 2nd time, etc. I've played it enough hours now tho, and am still playing, that I didn't mind the $30 at least. I think of it as a really big tip. Undecided about anything else, still. @Bok - I've wondered about the Honey Badger myself. I think they need more companion options, personally. Guess they added another human companion recently ... but I want more animal/non-human ones. Also, a healer companion that can get to companion-lvl 30. The limits are lame. Lesser companions should just do less dmg/have lesser abilities, not leveling limits.

Hubby snores loud enough to wake the dead (sleep apnea). It's not cute little snuffles, it's full bore, can hear through 2 shut doors buzzsawing that makes your ears ring. Which is yet another reason I'm often up late and sometimes I end up coming in here and sleeping on the daybed in this room. Love him madly, but I also like getting good sleep. Luckily, one doesn't have to always sleep with someone to have fun with someone. Not sure whether to try to see the Star Trek movie today, alone, or wait until Tues afternoon when hubs will likely be willing to go with me. Or both. I'd like to see it now, but I hate huge crowds....

It does make me wonder about the whole F2P w/micro-transactions thing tho, since that seems to be where much of the MMO is heading ... even if it starts out as subscription for a couple years. I mean, someone has to spend or F2P doesn't work. It doesn't seem to me that subscription-based is the way to remain, since most don't want to commit to that these days, but F2P isn't ideal either, depending how it's done. Ah well.

Leave me alone, stupid henchmen, I'm killin' your boss.

I spent $30 for 3000 Zen, to see how far that would go (and I didn't mind idly being a sucker by giving them that amount). Not very far. I got one 24 slot backpack for 1000 Zen, "sold" 500 Zen for around 177k diamonds, bought some of those lockbox keys for 125 Zen each (nothing awesome came out of the 4 or 5 I opened), and am left with 1000 Zen. Haven't spent any astral diamonds and see nothing I'd care to spend them on without having several million of them. I think character slots (if you don't feel like making multiple accounts) and bag space would be where I'd put micro-transactions. Those keys definitely aren't worth it unless you really want that horse ... but I had to try it a little. But yeah...it's pretty ridiculous how much money you could spend even if you only wanted inventory/bank space per chr. and extra chr. slots. ...still want the panther.

Social call finished, early prep for making dinner later finished...now I could play a game for a few hours, but I can't decide which one to play. ...maybe Grim Dawn.

@Volourn - the difference, in my mind at least, is that the human race is nowhere near any danger of extinction. Well, we might do something like invent the Matrix and have a problem one day, hardehar, or an asteroid might fall on us, but you know what I mean. I've never minded the hunting of animals per se - I simply don't like the aspect of humanity that can't control itself to the point where what is coveted is no longer available to anyone, at all, forever more. Course, I have trouble eating just one piece of beef jerky at a time so it's not like I don't understand "I want" and self-control issues.

I definitely agree with this. I like games where characters have a combat-stance and once a brief time has passed after combat is over, they go back to a relaxed/non-weapon stance...or something. It definitely has always felt a bit weird when a game has you walking up to people to have a convo while still pointing a sword/gun/laser/bow/whatever in their face.

Only evil and/or not-human characters are allowed to be topless, y'know. And tribal women in National Geographic.

I've turned into one of those people who takes lots of short vids and pics but then never gets around to "taking" them out of the camera/s.

Heh, congrats. I think I stayed subbed to WoW for almost two years after I stopped playing. It really had me in the "maybe I'll go back to it one day" grip a while.

@Keyrock - yeah, Grim Dawn seems to be one of those games where compressed screenshots don't really show what the game looks like. Gets easily pixelated even with low lvls of compression. :/

I keep telling hubby we should get rid of one of the couches and put treadmills in front of the TV but he's not going for it. Maybe if we had a bigger living room. But yeah ... sometimes I'll even slow-jog in place while I'm reading a book. I try to do that type of thing more and more, too. Not that I always succeed. It's much easier to whinge about how I need to do better than to actually do better.

... but it's also true that sometimes, one should/may need to visit or live in a place before making their full judgements/decisions about a place as a whole. If one wants to experience/learn more of the world 1st hand, at least. Not to mention, sometimes if one did want to try to change things, you can't always do it while standing outside. Anyway ... I have no advice for Walsh myself, since I haven't been there. I would have liked to see some more places, when I was a lot younger, but at this point it's not likely in the cards until I'm much older. Isn't that the way it works sometimes...

@obyknven - do you think maybe we could focus a little less on political/bashing articles/vids in a thread where the OP (Walsh) just wanted some basic thoughts re: maybe living somewhere for a few years? This isn't really the thread for such debate, I think.

Re: Offline mode After Steam decided to update itself (fairly big, hadn't gone online in a while) today, I ran into that "can't connect" offline-mode issue for the first time. Where it gives you that message then doesn't load. So I went back into online mode and unchecked the "Enable Steam Community In-Game" setting and tried again - worked fine that way. I think the only reason I had it checked was there was a FNV mod that wanted it once. So current version of Steam launcher now gives me this lame issue, but at least it still works with that setting off (I did not need that setting off, personally, before).

I think it depends a bit on how much you're zoomed in/out, and whether you're in a dark area or a lighter area and what colors an area is using. I feel like it kinda varied a bit as I went through the starter quest, and I felt like AF might make it look a bit worse.

Downloading now. Took me a minute to figure out how/where to download the darn thing. All these service sites all connecting together these days... Also realized Borderlands 2 had put out the level-cap increase patch/DLC, which seems included with the Season Pass I bought, and the new character Psycho class, which is not included. I'm not sure I'm interested in spending $10 just for Psycho-man...don't tend to like BL-melee. Anyone try him yet? I guess I hadn't gone online w/Steam in a few months or more...it went all crazy updating all kinds of things on me. Haha. And starting to get more into Neverwinter Online too, even tho I still don't have the panther. Definitely seems to shine more once you're lvl 20+. And I still have the next alpha build of Planet Explorers late this month or maybe early June if they fall a bit behind. Too many games I have to find time for, all of a sudden!! Halp!

Ohhhh....cool. How's it playing for you so far? I've been waiting for that one for so long...

... at least I don't have any lawn-cat statues. Yet.

I'm trying to level up more so I can see if I think I'd even play the game more than another week or two, but I obviously have a discipline weakness for kittah related things ... which is why I had 9 cats once. Apparently it still applies when they're made out of pixels ...

I figured the items made via professions wouldn't sell for that much, considering anyone who levels them can make them. Maybe at first but if it's anything like WoW, that won't last too long. I haven't been terribly impressed with the Auction House listings I've seen. I just realized that the $200 Founder's Pack panther companion is the actual one that I wanted ... the "cat" for the 1million astral diamonds is a tiny non-combat pet with passive bonuses. Which is cute too, but it's not the big black panther. Also gives you 3 more chr. slots. This is why I don't like/usually avoid pay-for-cool-stuff MMO's in general. I'm an obsessive type (yes, sometimes even when I'm not really 100% "into" something) so I'll end up wanting something, start thinking about spending too much money, then have to slap myself repeatedly in the face to try to prevent myself from actually doing it. My cheeks are getting pretty red this noontime.

I've thought it might be latency, but it happens at 3am + the rest of the game actions don't feel "behind". The Cleric hesitates a half second before she goes into that weird postured slide of hers. The shield/sword fighter drove me crazy because you end up either blocking constantly but not being able to attack effectively, or just being like the 2H fighter (eg no point in using block at all) Btw, is there any point/advantage in raising a profession if you can't wear the results?

I liked the Kobold one enough to give the creator a 50 diamond tip, first time I did that. Light fun. I should look at the Foundry tools ... maybe if you design a fun quest or three you'd make a little currency over time.

Anyone else have trouble with the dodging mechanic? I get the double-tap idea and/or the shift key, but it doesn't work reliably. Half the time you double press or press shift+movement key, there's this long hesitation before you slide out of the way ... or if you're blocking, there's this long hesitation between taking your finger off the block key and being able to swing a sword again. And by long, I mean a second or two, which in combat is really long. It's highly annoying and equals one using a lot more potions as you're knocked down over and over and over instead of dodging out of the red circles. Which is why I don't think I'd do well with the rogue class, who has to be nimble? The cleric is definitely the best for me so far. Tho if they fixed the dodging I might like one of the fighters ok.