MMORPG

[Andria]

I made a new villain cause my other kinda sucked



meet Fireycrotch 

[wawi]

I mean I had friends who played for when I was too lazy to make a real account. Also I don't remember when. About a year ago, I reckon.

Well I think one of the major appeals of EVE Online is your growth. You start off as a lone player, who can't fly any good ships. You can do anything you want to do. As time goes on, you become better and better. You make more friends and begin to grasp the ropes. Eventually, you can start your own corp, and then even an alliance. You go from a nobody to someone who if they wanted, could totally flip the whole player driven game. If you're using an account, it's not the same experience.

With an in-game scam revealed early today, the character "Dentara Rast" made off with a reported 700bn in ISK and assets. He apparently embezzled the money from the EVE Intergalactic Bank, which he previously managed. Some estimate this amount to be valued as high as $130,000 USD. (Note that per CCP's EULA, scams of this type are permitted)

In April 2005, with a daring act of corporate espionage, a gang of ruthless and cunning mercenaries infiltrated one of EVE Online’s player run corporations and conducted a lightning campaign of destruction, robbery and killing that brought it to its knees.

Several months previously the Guiding Hand Social Club, a mercenary guild specialising in warfare and contract killing, were hired to target and destroy a player called Mirial who was leader of the powerful player corporation Ubiqua Seraph. Rather than simply go on the attack, instead the GHSC members executed a cunning plan with the aim of inflicting damage not only to Mirial but to her* entire operation.

Their first step was to infiltrate Ubiqua Seraph, which they did â€" several of their operatives joined the corporation and then, over a period of several months, manoeuvred themselves into positions of responsibility at every level of their target corp.  They even put on mock skirmishes and other events to help them gain favour and standing with Ubiqua Seraph’s ruling elite.

After seven months of careful advancement they were in a position ready to strike: They had access to all the corp’s hangers and banks and other assets.  The only thing left to do was swoop in for the kill.

And on April 18th they did just that.  The first part of the attack was directed personally against Mirial.  A GHSC operative who had become close to her persuaded her in to a rendezvous with him in her most expensive ship.  When she turned up she found a team of GHSC assassins waiting for her.  They made quick work of her ship, and then also destroyed her escape pod â€" taking her corpse as a prize.

At the same time a code word was sent to other GHSS players poised for action across the universe. They then swung in to action: Emptying Ubiqua Seraph banks, stealing equipment and destroying what they couldn’t rip off.

Then just as quickly as it had started, the raid was over. All of the GHSC operatives involved had disappeared, heading off to gloat on the forums.

All said and done, the cost of the raid was awesome.  Counting up all the destroyed equipment and stolen cash and assets the grand total ran to roughly 30 billion ISK â€" The equivalent of $16,500 in real money at the conversion rates of the time.  When it happened this made it the biggest event of its kind in EVE history, and it still stands as arguably one of the most audacious!

These are just two examples. Another was an alliance leader was paid to turn on his alliance. He stole billions worth of in game money through blueprints and other items. The alliance ended up going bankrupt and losing all of it's sovereignty, sending other alliances into a rush to grab the unclaimed space.

Also the reason I asked the time you played is because they used to have learning skills that you'd have to train. Essentially, you'd have to train skills to train other skills faster. Now they're gone, thankfully.

[me003]

The only MMO that I will still play is maplestory. But they like redesigned the whole game now, and my account closed from inactivity and I emailed em to get it back, but they want a photocopy of my license and shit and I'm like no. I had some bad ass shiz. Couple maple weopons including a maple shield and I was like lvl 43.

[Dullahan]

Diablo II was the main MMO for me. But I haven't played that since I was in like, grade 7.

I need a better processor for any upcoming MMOs that are gonna be good.

[wawi]

anyone else get into the star wars: the old republic beta?

[wawi]

also, dem 38 gigabytes   

[snoorkel]

There was a period of my life (like 7th-9th grade) where my life was basically dictated by MMORPGs, I probably put over 9000 hours into Guild Wars.

Fun shit, not sure I could get into one now though.

[wawi]

did anyone get in the old republic beta?
i did