OT: Anarchy Online

[Alneyan]

I find those numbers to be quite high too, but I guess it might be the case, if older players stay on the shards because of their friends/guilds... I have found UO to be amazingly boring with the setup of the official shards, much more so than the other MMORPGs (and when you think about it, spending a lot of time raising stats is not exactly fun to begin with).

I do not see how they could count the free shards though. There are plenty of those, and very likely shards in other languages, and those would be harder to check out (do you speak Russian?). And since the free shards do not have paying customers, it would not be possible to have an accurate figure. Speaking of them, I believe the free shards are on the wane, at least in France: we have gone from ten shards or so with a strong community (and quite a few of smaller shards) to just a handful of shards, most of them with fewer players now.

[luke_slovakian]

NO suprise that World of Warcraft is doing well. I mean remember the diablo 2 and warcraft 3...great games. NOw think of it mixed...the onlyt thing that is stopping it from beging REALLY popular is that it cost SIX DOLLARS a month to play. I mean come on

[David E. Gervais]

I'm going to try and log in as many hours as possible this weekend. If you play AO just log into server 2 and look me up. My Character Name is Valorstar. (level 13 but should be at level 15 by the time the weekend comes around) I also have characters with the names Valorhand, Valorclaw.

I hope to do some 'team' missions on the weekend.

Cheers!

[Atrocities]

I downloaded it yestarday but was to busy to play it. I don't know what I will name my character yet, most likely "Friendly Fire" until I get the hang of the game.

[David E. Gervais]

A little note about character naming in AO,.. only the first letter is capitalized and no special characters like underscore dash or spaces are allowed. So your name would end up looking like 'Friendlyfire'.

So far my characters all have the prefix 'Valor' to the name..

Valorhawk, Valorclaw, Valorstar, Valorheart, and Valorsun (to become my main chatarcter eventually)

I hope to see you online, we'll have a blast.

Cheers!

[deccan]

Wow, snagged some new people!

Latest news from my front: Ran into my first tower battle last night. I was just transiting through the whompahs at 2 Holes when I noticed a largish group of Omnis near by. They were talking about team strategy and it was clear that they were planning to attack a Clan tower nearby. So I played the neutral observer and tagged along. One even invited me into one of their teams (thought I was Omni maybe?) but I declined.

It was a small tower patch, just one control tower and one assist tower, and it didn't take long for Clan to rush to defend. I was attacked by an Omni who took me down to half health. I retreated without counterattacking and sent a tell saying that I was a neutral observer. She apologized.

Clan won pretty handily. I notice that PvP in AO is kind of funny because there are level limits, so sometimes, the Omnis would be attacking the towers with impunity while high level Clanners just watched because they could not attack the Omnis due to level limits. When this happened, they just logged out and logged in again with appropriate level twinks to engage.

I've also been talking to Shattered Dreams, a neutral organization focused on role-playing, about joining up. We'll see how that goes.

P.S. I notice that Agentzero's Saraea went Omni. Interesting...

[deccan]

In the interests of coordination, my characters, all on Rimor, are:

Deccan, lvl 85 neutral Martial Artist
Yatima, lvl 27 Omni engineer
Omegared, lvl 5 Clam agent (still on newbie isle)

To see if another character is online, add him/her to your buddy list:

/cc addbuddy deccan

You can then open your friends window to see if anyone there is online.