Arbiter_Shade

I have to add some things that some people have brought up recently. I agree that this game needs to start adding "weight" to the content to make some thing required. A vast majority of the game gets ignored by a large portion of the player base because it doesn't yield the "zomg best xps evar!" It is almost impossible to get a SF going Red Side and not just because the population is so small. Hell even grouping is hard to do because for the most part the benefit for grouping isn't great enough to make people want to put the effort into getting a team together. I have to disagree with people who say we don't need more teaming content because we have so much solo content I believe it is time for some REAL community building content for us to tackle.

I am going to start off by saying I love this game, if I didn't I would leave. But just because I love this game does NOT mean I think it is God's gift to MMOs, it has flaws just like everything else in life.

1. My number one biggest complaint for this game actually has nothing at all to do with the Devs and it is hardly something they can fix. But the point of this thread is to ask what the biggest problems are, right? The community. I will start this by basically giving my histroy in the game that lead me to feel this way. I started on Liberty with my friend in real life who got me into this game and I feel in love. I spent my first few months in it playing around figuring out what character I wanted to play and once I did I got into what used to be the best part of the game for me, PvP. I started off as a lolzone PvPer and started to learn the ropes from the big names that started there such as Whirligig and Bedlam. Eventually I joined up with Bedlam and finally had a chance to get a small taste of organized PvP. When server transfers opend Bedlam moved to Freedom and became Renegades and of course I followed them, everything was still good. But I grew tired of PvP after about two years and decided to give some other stuff a try, so I rolled some toons on Virtue to RP. I know a RPing PvPer is unheard of right? Well along came i13 and with it my entire global friends list quit the game in the span of one week and most everyone I knew from Renegades left. So I went full time to Virtue which was nice enough at the time but of course I was a little jaded seeing as I just lost my entire friend base in the game.

This is where I feel the game started to loose a lot of its player base, not BECAUSE of i13 but because people were just getting bored or taking breaks. I still see this trend as I see less and less people on everyday as they cancel as they wait for GR. So it was really hard to find anyone to play with much less make new friends on the game. I joined a couple of RP VGs and SGs on Virtue but they were all either dead by the next week or so insulated that I felt as though I were an outsider looking in and that didn't appeal to me at all. The more people left the more insulated the game began to seem, everyone had their group of friends and hardly went outside them. Then of course everytime I did find a relativly decent group the second they found out I was a PvPer and from Freedom of all places I was kicked out! I have been kicked from teams, SGs, even a Mothership raid BECAUSE I used to PvP.

Finally just look at this thread and the way that people treat each other for merely suggesting that the game isn't perfect. Does anyone honestly believe we have a great LFG system? It is perfectly useable but compared to others it is pretty bad.

2. PvP. Yeah most everyone else has covered this but relating back to number one how many times do you see someone say, "I don't like PvP and hope that it doesn't get any attention. I hope it dies." Or something along those lines? I just wish that the Devs would admit they were wrong with i13 and realise it just made things worse.

3. Content updates. I am with most people when I say that this game does need new maps. At the same time I completly agree we do not need more zones! I think we need to see more Faultline like revamps of older zones to make them more enjoyable for all. I don't really mind the static world though...if it was ever changing then a lot of people would feel left behind if they couldn't keep up.

I mean I could go on and on but I still love this game and I KNOW that someone will probably just tell me, "If you don't love it, leave!" Or some other useless BS. It seems like the "core players" of this game don't want new players and don't want anyone who wants the game to change in any small way.

So the only two ATs I have not taken to 40+ being tankers and blasters I have decided to give tankers a chance. I made a Inv/Fire tank and I like him but it just feels a little to tank and spank. I want something a little more active and after playing around on my girlfriends Ice/EM tanker for a bit I found I really liked Ice. I decided on DM because the -tohit seemed like it would go well with it and I have never really tried DM before. So I guess my question is this, what do I need to know going in knowing nothing about tankers and what are the key abilities of Ice and DM?

I would definatly go back to pre-I13 PvP, I would resub my second account if they did that. I gave up on PvP at I13 because it just stopped being fun and I see it as the wrong direction for this game to take. If they made PvP more meaningful, actually commited time to caring about PvPers, and for once took feed back from the more articulate PvPers I think this games PvP could be great. Of course there are elitist PvErs who want PvP in all forms to die because how dare anyone play a game different from them, but as long as PvP isn't madatory then so what?

On the note of people who say that PvPers have a poor attitude...I have been treated worse than RPers on Virtue than I ever was by PvPers on Freedom. I have played on Liberty, Freedom, and Virtue and to be honest the most friends I ever made were on Freedom. Virtue I have meet some quality people but for the most part people live in a circle that excludes everyone else and if you try to step into that circle they viciously attack you. Then if you set up another circle to close to them they viciously attack you. I could go on and on but the point is, there are jerks everywhere and people need to learn to just ignore them. Yes I know they can attack you but meh, that is what can happen in PvP learn to ignore it. I still manage to enjoy my time on Virtue despite the fact I have met some truely terrible people there.

I would love to help and all but I have no desire to learn/support post I13 PvP. But more power to you all for trying to rekindle that flame!

Are you ready for this? I used this name long before I came to CoX, shocking right? I actually started using this on Starcraft when I was in middle school. I was taking a latin class and I loved it, Arbiter translates to judge so it was Judge Shade. Shade just because I was a teen dark things were cool! But now I really have grown to like the name.

My best advice to anyone looking for a new name, go over two words. Most people try and get a short and sweet name usually two words and for the less creative those two words pretain to their primary and secondary. Awhile back I wanted to make a DM/Nin stalker and when it got time for the name I threw out the first thing that came to mind and got Hour of Darkness. I was suprised that wasn't taken and now I always try for three word names.

Problem I have had with that approach is that there are a lot of dead groups on VirtueVerse. So even if I find a group chances are they are long gone.

With a correctly spelled title.

So in my previous post I asked a couple of questions pertaining to the state of the game and about RP on the server. Things didn't end that well in that respect...

I guess the point of this secound post is to ask if there is any up and coming SG or VG recruitment drive coming up like there once was. Or even as simply to ask if there are any RP VGs/SGs recruiting out there and where is a good place to find them. Is there a good channel I should tune into? Or is my best luck to just ask around IG? I am really hankering for some good RP that I can rely on, not something sporadic or once weekly.

So are there any more groups out there like this? What is the best way to find a group if not?

*Cough*

...Well as things in RL have begun sorting themselves out and I have cooled off a bit after certain transgressions in the past I have decided not to let my account lapse.

I have also decided that I am going to put RP on the back burnner until I can find a group that I can feel as though I am apart of and can feel welcomed in...So I guess I just wont talk PvP with anyone ever again. Plus I still have my WAR account to get my fix every once in awhile...

So I guess my point is that I am still looking for a decent RP group, maybe a static group because the idea interest me and seems like a good way to meet new people on common ground.

Well as of tonight my account has been unsubbed. For now I think I am done with MMOs in general and I heartily thank everyone who attempted to help me but really I feel unwelcome by the community at this point being a PvPer and I can't seem to fit into any other group. This is the end for Arbiter Shade/Dark Xeno/Heretic. Good luck everyone I hope you have fun. =)

Yeah I think I am taking the first step out the door at this point....

I joined the Supreme Society and I appreciate them taking me in but...I have yet to see more than one person other than myself ever logged on at one time. I don't know if it is a time zone difference or what have you but I guess it just isn't working out.

This game has become to stagnent for me in terms of content to keep me around and RP was really my last chance. But it seems that I can not find a RP group that has similar time zones with me. I16 really doesn't appeal to me all that much and I am really not looking forward to it, so I think that I will be driven to canceling my account. I think I might come back for Going Rogue but I really don't know. I might just give up on MMOs all together now....

I am not sure yet and I am still going to look but as stands I think this is the begining of the end of my three year experience.

Anyone else still having problems getting in? I am still being told that the log-in server is down.

Yeah we really have been missing each other. I was on almost all of Monday but I guess I went and made dinner at the wrong time or something. I will REALLY try and get ahold of someone soon because my work schedule for this week is...well...a whole lot of long hours.

Hey Jag. We put the Hideout down because really, niether Gelle nor I had the time to be on every night. Plus the fact that we would take week long vacations everyonce in awhile without a stable officer to keep things going when we were gone didn't help...

Then school started up for Gelle and we just decided that it wasn't ment to be.

Well I filled out an application after reading the SG's theme. I like it. I hope that my character will fit in though...

Thank you for the kind words and you don't have to do anything like that for me. =)

I recently re-made a character that I plan on playing a lot. So if there are any groups out there who could use a somewhat immortal Nazi scientist give me a shout at my global or on the forums, same name. Characters name is Organ Reaper.

I did attempt my own SG for awhile and it ended horribly. Every person who would join would log on once and then never again. Plus, now, it is harder than ever to find new people to play with. I really hate doing AE farms and as I said I can never find a team outside of it. I know plenty of people will come in telling me I am doing it wrong but I use global channels, I use the search tool, I make my own teams. But even with all that I rarely get on a team.

I know that not everyone on the forums is an RPer but I figured this might be a way to find something, anything, that could get me back in the game.

I have played this game for nearly three years and made so many friends. Problem is they were all PvPers who left with the advent of I13....So then I came here to Virtue and it has been so hard to find a solid group of people I could rely on for game time.

I am finding it harder and harder these days to log into the game. I have tried and tried to find an RP VG or SG that remains active for longer than three weeks before everyone alts out and stops playing. I have also tried to find just regular people to RP with and really now with AE dominating teams it is hard to find people to RP with outside of the D. On that matter even using global channels and the search tools I am finding it hard to make teams that last more than one mission.

So I guess my plea is this. Are there any RP VGs out there right now that are active and RP commited? That team together and actually do things with each other rather than just using memebers as prestige monkies?

I am really bothered by the fact the only way to really team efficiently is to use AE farms or hope that someone out there is willing to run normal content. The last bit of advice I have been given was to find an active VG and that is why I am here.

I have plenty of characters across the range of levels and I am completly willing to roll a new character to fit into a theme. I am really desperate to find something that will bring back the joy I once had in this game.

EDIT: Just realised I totally failed at the title....

I agree that this movie is completly worth seeing. I will also agree that for a sci-fi movie, the action really does detract from the over all movie.

To give you some refernece, something about this movie really got to me. I left this movie in awe more or less because the message it sent was so good and so well done. Of course seeing it on a Friday night there were a ton of high school students who, suprise suprise, didn't get it! That really bothers me and makes me think that most people who see this movie will only see the action the obvious statements about racism. While missing out of some of the more important messages about humanity.

I repeat, I STRONGLY suggest seeing this movie to anyone. I know it just came out but I would seriously rate it as one of my top favorite movies of all time, possibly my favorite.....

Sorry Repo, you got knocked down. =(