I just ordered off of EAStore. Did I royally buck myself in the bum? It says that when you pre-order you will get to jump in early around the 8th. Is this true?
Also, is there any server differences with EU and US? Will I be able to play with all ye good Americans?
1) All preorders get to play in the open beta starting Sep. 7th. You will also get to play in the head-start on Sep. 15thish.
2) The US and Europe have different servers and never the twain shall meet. Basically if you want to play with Americans you'll need a Northamerican copy of the game.
I wish EB would give me my codes.
Apparently there is a Special Standard Edition, and a Collectors Edition. And Standard Edition.
I just ordered off of EAStore. Did I royally buck myself in the bum? It says that when you pre-order you will get to jump in early around the 8th. Is this true?
Also, is there any server differences with EU and US? Will I be able to play with all ye good Americans?
1) All preorders get to play in the open beta starting Sep. 7th. You will also get to play in the head-start on Sep. 15thish.
2) The US and Europe have different servers and never the twain shall meet. Basically if you want to play with Americans you'll need a Northamerican copy of the game.
I wish EB would give me my codes.
Apparently there is a Special Standard Edition, and a Collectors Edition. And Standard Edition.
No codes for me, even though I pre-ordered.
/sigh
Cancel and preorder at amazon, you should get your codes.
I just ordered off of EAStore. Did I royally buck myself in the bum? It says that when you pre-order you will get to jump in early around the 8th. Is this true?
Also, is there any server differences with EU and US? Will I be able to play with all ye good Americans?
1) All preorders get to play in the open beta starting Sep. 7th. You will also get to play in the head-start on Sep. 15thish.
2) The US and Europe have different servers and never the twain shall meet. Basically if you want to play with Americans you'll need a Northamerican copy of the game.
I wish EB would give me my codes.
Apparently there is a Special Standard Edition, and a Collectors Edition. And Standard Edition.
No codes for me, even though I pre-ordered.
/sigh
Cancel and preorder at amazon, you should get your codes.
Lack of a credit card that doesn't cost money to load = fail on my part.
I just ordered off of EAStore. Did I royally buck myself in the bum? It says that when you pre-order you will get to jump in early around the 8th. Is this true?
Also, is there any server differences with EU and US? Will I be able to play with all ye good Americans?
1) All preorders get to play in the open beta starting Sep. 7th. You will also get to play in the head-start on Sep. 15thish.
2) The US and Europe have different servers and never the twain shall meet. Basically if you want to play with Americans you'll need a Northamerican copy of the game.
I wish EB would give me my codes.
Apparently there is a Special Standard Edition, and a Collectors Edition. And Standard Edition.
No codes for me, even though I pre-ordered.
/sigh
Cancel and preorder at amazon, you should get your codes.
Lack of a credit card that doesn't cost money to load = fail on my part.
I just ordered off of EAStore. Did I royally buck myself in the bum? It says that when you pre-order you will get to jump in early around the 8th. Is this true?
Also, is there any server differences with EU and US? Will I be able to play with all ye good Americans?
1) All preorders get to play in the open beta starting Sep. 7th. You will also get to play in the head-start on Sep. 15thish.
2) The US and Europe have different servers and never the twain shall meet. Basically if you want to play with Americans you'll need a Northamerican copy of the game.
I wish EB would give me my codes.
Apparently there is a Special Standard Edition, and a Collectors Edition. And Standard Edition.
No codes for me, even though I pre-ordered.
/sigh
Cancel and preorder at amazon, you should get your codes.
Lack of a credit card that doesn't cost money to load = fail on my part.
lame, what about paypal?
From what I've heard takes for ever to go through if your in Canada.
I read the 4.1 notes (I think) and it seems that they made Engineer's more of a debuff ranged class.
fuck your steamtanks. fuck em right in their little, impossible to kill ears. I'm talking to you, most recent edition of the Empire Codex! I even started fielding light cannon with my bolt throwers, in all defiance of lore, just to see if I could deal with you!
::coughs and twitches::
Hmm. At least every time a class gets nerfed/buffed we can refer to it as a "Codex change" and keep a running count on what edition the Blork codex is on, etc. Mors, anytime we're leading into major class changes in a patch, you need to repeatedly talk about how awesome it's going to be, and possibly design posters/events around making people interested in the old version of the class.
I'll teach painting.
3.3rd edition Black Orcs were totally grittier than 4.1.
Ugh, staggering renown gear across ranks is a little irritating. Having everyone in your group holding you up to buy gear all of the time is going to get old.
...but you do have to remember which channels are in-character and which aren't, or risk getting yapped at by the RP'ers. I can see why many would stay away.
Hmm. At least every time a class gets nerfed/buffed we can refer to it as a "Codex change" and keep a running count on what edition the Blork codex is on, etc. Mors, anytime we're leading into major class changes in a patch, you need to repeatedly talk about how awesome it's going to be, and possibly design posters/events around making people interested in the old version of the class.
...but you do have to remember which channels are in-character and which aren't, or risk getting yapped at by the RP'ers. I can see why many would stay away.
Which would be retarded. Warhammer stories don't use period specific speech. Except orcs. And that's more place-and-favorite-sport-specific.
...but you do have to remember which channels are in-character and which aren't, or risk getting yapped at by the RP'ers. I can see why many would stay away.
This isn't the case at all. As long as you aren't talking real world politics or sports in /general you are fine. No one enforces RPing in groups or local but it is encouraged. You might be asked to stop talking about your job at Walmart by group members but if it is game related no one cares. Also, of course, the guild chat won't be incharacter at all.
But from a population standpoint I could understand being worried that Order will have tons of players. It may not be as bad as most MMOs, though, just because of how many people will want to RP greenskins.
It's just like what was said about "you don't have to roleplay if you don't want to," but in reverse. I might actually roleplay some, on the normal server, because that entertains me. And it might not be as risky in this game as it has been in others. However, WAR will rely on the server having a stable, strong population to be fun, and traditionally RP servers are lower population than other servers. That's not a risk worth taking.
Not even general. /say is the only place you'd need to worry about being in character. No group chat or chat channel is going to be in character. It really seems like the people worried about RP ruleset have never played on an RP server.
Not even general. /say is the only place you'd need to worry about being in character. No group chat or chat channel is going to be in character. It really seems like the people worried about RP ruleset have never played on an RP server.
Fewer stupid names, a few people throwing thees and thous in general chat.
But from a population standpoint I could understand being worried that Order will have tons of players. It may not be as bad as most MMOs, though, just because of how many people will want to RP poncy barely clothed druggy elves.
Not even general. /say is the only place you'd need to worry about being in character. No group chat or chat channel is going to be in character. It really seems like the people worried about RP ruleset have never played on an RP server.
In my case, I do plenty of role-playing in table top and PbP games. When I fire up my MMO of choice, I don't want to RP. I want to shoot the shit with people, and then go shoot some shit with people. RP tends to be a distraction, more than anything, and if I'm on an RP server I always feel vaguely guilty about ignoring the guy who's /say'ing in character at whatever point I happen to be idling.
In short, since I have no desire to role-play beyond the lite style that a lot of people adopt on an MMO (occasionally throwing comments out in-character for kicks), the notion of rolling on an RP server just seems counter to my goals.
That's my choice, and there's really nothing wrong with it. I'm not afraid of role-playing, or unfamiliar with the rulesets that typically govern an RP server. I just don't want to play on one.
Edit: Also, on RP servers, it can be hard to keep my eyes from gluing themselves to a full-blown literary assault, done in a style that blends Terry Brooks with Loverboy and apparently written using a keyboard that only permits the use of punctuation in dire emergencies. Seriously, that shit is annoying. And it can just ambush you, while you're trying to buy some vittles or whatnot. One second you're checking your bag space, the next second oh god my eyes they burn my brain my brain.
In my case, I do plenty of role-playing in table top and PbP games. When I fire up my MMO of choice, I don't want to RP. I want to shoot the shit with people, and then go shoot some shit with people.
Indeed. That be me too. I like to roleplay, but I play in two D&D sessions a week. Enough for me.
Cancel and preorder at amazon, you should get your codes.
Amazon has apparently been very strange lately. People (including a friend of mine), just arn't getting their codes.
To sum it up, on a RP server you don't HAVE to RP, but you can if you want to.
On a non-RP server, you don't HAVE to RP, but you can if you want to.
So why the hard-on to play on a RP server?
On a non-RP server, there's not really anyone else to RP with?
It's not really a solo exercise.
But if you wanna roll with non-RPers, you would be doing it solo anyhow.
I can see why people WOULD want to RP, it is fun in its own right, but getting a big group of people to join one of these servers with the idea that 'well you dont HAVE to RP on this RP server'...
Alot of people won't be comfortable with it. I know I'd rather have a more populated server, with the chance to have a decent Order guild as a nemesis, maybe some good steady competition.
On WarCraft, the fifth most populous server is an RP server, and the seventh most populous is also an RP server.
Keep in mind that only a pretty small fraction of WoW servers are RP servers, as well (16 US RP servers, out of I don't even know how many but more than one hundred.)
Actually gentlemen, Role-playing in a RP server, in my experience, has been less than satisfactory.
Mainly because I am roleplaying a valiant hero, a defender of the weak and oppressed, a slayer of dragons and necromancers. I venture into dark dungeons with a band of brave adventurers and face evil which we thought only existed in the darkest recesses of our imaginations.
But everytime, in guild chat, people were roleplaying crafting and their professions and sitting around a pub talking about nothing at all.
Yes, they were roleplaying their characters chatting small talk.
Roleplaying is nerdy by nature, but that took it to an ever deeper level.
Seems because people expect there to be less obvious assholes with dumb names and a larger order population.
On a related note did Morsk ever decide what kind of server we are playing on?
The voting on the forums looks like Core so far.
And yes, I'm sure some of the most populated servers in WoW are some of the RP ones, since all of the RPers have such a limited selection to choose from.
But it's going to be tough to get people who don't want to RP to start up on a RP server... I wouldn't mind trying to RP a Marauder but I'd rather focus on gameplay and doing the best I can RvR-wise than trying to learn the lore and figure out who's gonna freak out if I speak frankly.
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Honestly, I don't RP terribly much myself, either, but it's an environment I like because it generally means you're surrounded by people who take the setting as seriously as they take the game itself.
It also means you don't have to deal with as many people with stupid puns in their names and idiots are more readily ostracized.
@Hillean: That's not something you have to do if you don't want to. It's not like RP servers are populated by people who don't want to play the game.
On WarCraft, the fifth most populous server is an RP server, and the seventh most populous is also an RP server.
Keep in mind that only a pretty small fraction of WoW servers are RP servers, as well (16 US RP servers, out of I don't even know how many but more than one hundred.)
I always take WoW server pops with a grain of salt due to the huge amount of subscribers. Most other games the RP servers are less populated (not saying it will be the same in WAR but its a general trend having played on RP servers in LOTRO WoW and CoX) which would suck balls for a PvP oriented game.
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INeedNoSaltwith blood on my teethRegistered Userregular
On WarCraft, the fifth most populous server is an RP server, and the seventh most populous is also an RP server.
Keep in mind that only a pretty small fraction of WoW servers are RP servers, as well (16 US RP servers, out of I don't even know how many but more than one hundred.)
I always take WoW server pops with a grain of salt due to the huge amount of subscribers. Most other games the RP servers are less populated (not saying it will be the same in WAR but its a general trend having played on RP servers in LOTRO WoW and CoX) which would suck balls for a PvP oriented game.
City of Heroes doesn't even have official RP servers and the unofficial RP server is the most heavily populated.
Didn't we have this conversation like 10 pages ago? And probably 10 pages before that.... and...
P.S. Bright Wizard tattoos = win
P.S. #2 to above: Landroval, the LOTRO server is the 2nd highest population (at least in common thought; I don't think Turbine has ever released exact numbers)
On WarCraft, the fifth most populous server is an RP server, and the seventh most populous is also an RP server.
Keep in mind that only a pretty small fraction of WoW servers are RP servers, as well (16 US RP servers, out of I don't even know how many but more than one hundred.)
I always take WoW server pops with a grain of salt due to the huge amount of subscribers. Most other games the RP servers are less populated (not saying it will be the same in WAR but its a general trend having played on RP servers in LOTRO WoW and CoX) which would suck balls for a PvP oriented game.
City of Heroes doesn't even have official RP servers and the unofficial RP server is the most heavily populated.
Didn't mean to say it wasn't was just listing games I'd played RP servers in. Hell I think I ended up on two seperate RP servers in WoW at various points.
EDIT: I dunno about it being the second highest since I'd played on it since the start of the game and it was never that populated. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if it was since alot of people are into the story and such so.
City of Heroes doesn't even have official RP servers and the unofficial RP server is the most heavily populated.
For one, Unofficial comes to mind, and being it's not labeled anyone starting out could choose it as well as any other server... two, CoH has 1 single server for people who want to RP heroes and villians--a pretty simple task, being there's no real lore or cockney to learn to be able to do it and do it well.
Not to mention alot of people just picked that server, and it just so happens its also the Unofficial RP server... when I started up SWG on launch, I apparently chose the Unofficial French server, so when it started getting late, it was tougher and tougher to know what's going on... but stuck with it anyhow, because its the server I started with.
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I wish EB would give me my codes.
Apparently there is a Special Standard Edition, and a Collectors Edition. And Standard Edition.
No codes for me, even though I pre-ordered.
/sigh
Lack of a credit card that doesn't cost money to load = fail on my part.
From what I've heard takes for ever to go through if your in Canada.
I read the 4.1 notes (I think) and it seems that they made Engineer's more of a debuff ranged class.
Which is fine by me, I can not wait.
3.3rd edition Black Orcs were totally grittier than 4.1.
I really should get around to pre-ordering.
Yes. You get items you can use from it as mats for making Talismans
But Talisman Making isn't in the game yet
Please no.
The Candymancers will not be rolling on an RP server to avoid any possible population concerns.
ALAS, I will have to go elsewhere, then.
I love you so much right now.
You can RP on the normal server, it's just that everyone's gonna ignore you when you do.
Which would be retarded. Warhammer stories don't use period specific speech. Except orcs. And that's more place-and-favorite-sport-specific.
This isn't the case at all. As long as you aren't talking real world politics or sports in /general you are fine. No one enforces RPing in groups or local but it is encouraged. You might be asked to stop talking about your job at Walmart by group members but if it is game related no one cares. Also, of course, the guild chat won't be incharacter at all.
But from a population standpoint I could understand being worried that Order will have tons of players. It may not be as bad as most MMOs, though, just because of how many people will want to RP greenskins.
Fewer stupid names, a few people throwing thees and thous in general chat.
More like it.
In my case, I do plenty of role-playing in table top and PbP games. When I fire up my MMO of choice, I don't want to RP. I want to shoot the shit with people, and then go shoot some shit with people. RP tends to be a distraction, more than anything, and if I'm on an RP server I always feel vaguely guilty about ignoring the guy who's /say'ing in character at whatever point I happen to be idling.
In short, since I have no desire to role-play beyond the lite style that a lot of people adopt on an MMO (occasionally throwing comments out in-character for kicks), the notion of rolling on an RP server just seems counter to my goals.
That's my choice, and there's really nothing wrong with it. I'm not afraid of role-playing, or unfamiliar with the rulesets that typically govern an RP server. I just don't want to play on one.
Edit: Also, on RP servers, it can be hard to keep my eyes from gluing themselves to a full-blown literary assault, done in a style that blends Terry Brooks with Loverboy and apparently written using a keyboard that only permits the use of punctuation in dire emergencies. Seriously, that shit is annoying. And it can just ambush you, while you're trying to buy some vittles or whatnot. One second you're checking your bag space, the next second oh god my eyes they burn my brain my brain.
On a non-RP server, you don't HAVE to RP, but you can if you want to.
So why the hard-on to play on a RP server?
On a non-RP server, there's not really anyone else to RP with?
It's not really a solo exercise.
So you can say "Aye, lets go kill thy orcs!" and try to make yourself feel less gay.
Though it doesn't help.
Who are you going to role play with? The other side? you can't.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Cykstfc
Allegedly a nicer community with less jerkwads. I only say allegedly because I don't know for sure.
The server population might end up being low though.
Indeed. That be me too. I like to roleplay, but I play in two D&D sessions a week. Enough for me.
Amazon has apparently been very strange lately. People (including a friend of mine), just arn't getting their codes.
On a related note did Morsk ever decide what kind of server we are playing on?
But if you wanna roll with non-RPers, you would be doing it solo anyhow.
I can see why people WOULD want to RP, it is fun in its own right, but getting a big group of people to join one of these servers with the idea that 'well you dont HAVE to RP on this RP server'...
Alot of people won't be comfortable with it. I know I'd rather have a more populated server, with the chance to have a decent Order guild as a nemesis, maybe some good steady competition.
I really can't RP well normally though. It just feels weird and I just end up saying nothing.
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On WarCraft, the fifth most populous server is an RP server, and the seventh most populous is also an RP server.
Keep in mind that only a pretty small fraction of WoW servers are RP servers, as well (16 US RP servers, out of I don't even know how many but more than one hundred.)
Mainly because I am roleplaying a valiant hero, a defender of the weak and oppressed, a slayer of dragons and necromancers. I venture into dark dungeons with a band of brave adventurers and face evil which we thought only existed in the darkest recesses of our imaginations.
But everytime, in guild chat, people were roleplaying crafting and their professions and sitting around a pub talking about nothing at all.
Yes, they were roleplaying their characters chatting small talk.
Roleplaying is nerdy by nature, but that took it to an ever deeper level.
The voting on the forums looks like Core so far.
And yes, I'm sure some of the most populated servers in WoW are some of the RP ones, since all of the RPers have such a limited selection to choose from.
But it's going to be tough to get people who don't want to RP to start up on a RP server... I wouldn't mind trying to RP a Marauder but I'd rather focus on gameplay and doing the best I can RvR-wise than trying to learn the lore and figure out who's gonna freak out if I speak frankly.
It also means you don't have to deal with as many people with stupid puns in their names and idiots are more readily ostracized.
@Hillean: That's not something you have to do if you don't want to. It's not like RP servers are populated by people who don't want to play the game.
I always take WoW server pops with a grain of salt due to the huge amount of subscribers. Most other games the RP servers are less populated (not saying it will be the same in WAR but its a general trend having played on RP servers in LOTRO WoW and CoX) which would suck balls for a PvP oriented game.
City of Heroes doesn't even have official RP servers and the unofficial RP server is the most heavily populated.
P.S. Bright Wizard tattoos = win
P.S. #2 to above: Landroval, the LOTRO server is the 2nd highest population (at least in common thought; I don't think Turbine has ever released exact numbers)
Didn't mean to say it wasn't was just listing games I'd played RP servers in. Hell I think I ended up on two seperate RP servers in WoW at various points.
EDIT: I dunno about it being the second highest since I'd played on it since the start of the game and it was never that populated. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if it was since alot of people are into the story and such so.
For one, Unofficial comes to mind, and being it's not labeled anyone starting out could choose it as well as any other server... two, CoH has 1 single server for people who want to RP heroes and villians--a pretty simple task, being there's no real lore or cockney to learn to be able to do it and do it well.
Not to mention alot of people just picked that server, and it just so happens its also the Unofficial RP server... when I started up SWG on launch, I apparently chose the Unofficial French server, so when it started getting late, it was tougher and tougher to know what's going on... but stuck with it anyhow, because its the server I started with.