Monday, March 29, 2004
Just 3 servers? Come on!
Now I don't really like to complain about betas very often because they're free and all. But NCSoft America only put up 3 servers to start off the Open Beta. It has been so over populated it's unbelievable. It's not really indicative of the experience you're supposed to have. At least it hasn't been the same as in closed beta. It feels like you're constantly competing for kills. I wish we could see some data on how populated the servers are, especially the population of Talking Island on Bartz.
So as I said I tried to start playing again yesterday at 5pm, but I didn't get in the server until 6:40pm and that was constant trying too. The delay wasn't so bad though because I was able to watch the Duke game. Whohoo I've got another one of my final four picks right. But I digress. Most of the time once you get past the login, then the daily message I get stuck at the server selection. Now in the discription it does say Net Congestion, but that's not helping me get in. Now I guess i could pick another server but they don't look anymore stable right now.
I started hunting werewolves and orcs. I gained another level in there somewhere soon after I logged on which was cool. But i then proceeded to die twice about a half hour from each other which stunk. Normally I don't mind dieing at all because you lose experience points but not skill points. So dieing enables me to get more skills quickly. I found that if you just level straight through you won't quite be able to get all the skills when you want to. But since I was trying to level to get off of Talking Island I wasn't all that happy about dieing. But it wasn't too long after that I got another level. Then it was really turning around and I got the Wood set. That's a Wooden Helmet, Wooden Breastplate and Wooden Gaitors(pants). Wearing all 3 of those gives a +2 to defense and a +41 in Hit Points. I could always use the HP. Then still slowly hunting Werewolves, Orcs and goblins till midnight when I decided to call it a night.
So as you can see that first prize is out of my sight. There's no way I can be the first to 40 now, but I'll still try to get it done before open beta ends. I'll still be telling you all how my Lineage 2 experience is going too. So now that I'm not trying anything crazy like the first to 40 where I thought I might get hunted and killed I'll tell everyone my name in the game. I play as Barrs on Bartz server. I won't be telling you my level anymore though. But I will tell you I'm over level 10 and it took 9 hours and 32 minutes to get to level 10.
Till next time. ¶ 9:33:00 AM
Now I don't really like to complain about betas very often because they're free and all. But NCSoft America only put up 3 servers to start off the Open Beta. It has been so over populated it's unbelievable. It's not really indicative of the experience you're supposed to have. At least it hasn't been the same as in closed beta. It feels like you're constantly competing for kills. I wish we could see some data on how populated the servers are, especially the population of Talking Island on Bartz.
So as I said I tried to start playing again yesterday at 5pm, but I didn't get in the server until 6:40pm and that was constant trying too. The delay wasn't so bad though because I was able to watch the Duke game. Whohoo I've got another one of my final four picks right. But I digress. Most of the time once you get past the login, then the daily message I get stuck at the server selection. Now in the discription it does say Net Congestion, but that's not helping me get in. Now I guess i could pick another server but they don't look anymore stable right now.
I started hunting werewolves and orcs. I gained another level in there somewhere soon after I logged on which was cool. But i then proceeded to die twice about a half hour from each other which stunk. Normally I don't mind dieing at all because you lose experience points but not skill points. So dieing enables me to get more skills quickly. I found that if you just level straight through you won't quite be able to get all the skills when you want to. But since I was trying to level to get off of Talking Island I wasn't all that happy about dieing. But it wasn't too long after that I got another level. Then it was really turning around and I got the Wood set. That's a Wooden Helmet, Wooden Breastplate and Wooden Gaitors(pants). Wearing all 3 of those gives a +2 to defense and a +41 in Hit Points. I could always use the HP. Then still slowly hunting Werewolves, Orcs and goblins till midnight when I decided to call it a night.
So as you can see that first prize is out of my sight. There's no way I can be the first to 40 now, but I'll still try to get it done before open beta ends. I'll still be telling you all how my Lineage 2 experience is going too. So now that I'm not trying anything crazy like the first to 40 where I thought I might get hunted and killed I'll tell everyone my name in the game. I play as Barrs on Bartz server. I won't be telling you my level anymore though. But I will tell you I'm over level 10 and it took 9 hours and 32 minutes to get to level 10.
Till next time. ¶ 9:33:00 AM
