Decisions Decisions

Amarr Cruiser 5 will finish training in…oh, 30 minutes or so, and its decision time:

Long Range Targeting 5 (9d) – progresses Command Ships goal…

Med. Energy Turret 5 (14d) – lets me finally get into HAC/HIC vessels and upgrade my battlecruiser.

Weapon Upgrades 5 (9d) – a necessary utility skill for better fits

Hull Upgrades 5 (14d) – a necessary utility skill – especially for armor tank ships like my Amarr armada is.

Of course there are others, there always is, but those are probably the most central to what I’m doing right now.

In other decision news – I have to figure out by the end of day if I’m going to actually keep my DAoC sub beyond the free ten days.  I’m leaning to yes, but then, its the holidays, so – how much play time will I really get?  Especially with new things happening in EVE?  Either way, I have loved the game and enjoyed the play – even got my first PvP on some poor Midgard caster.  When I ran, he thought I was retreating, since I was two levels lower.  Little did he know about my buddy the bard, just around the corner…

Divine Intervention

By sheer happenstance, I scrolled through the monthly WAR newsletter and saw a piece that said “Allies of WAR: Dark Age of Camelot.” Intrigued, I scrolled down.

The word? 10 days of free play time for old players who want to check out the new server merge and game updates.

The hook: I’m technically an old player, since after my first free trial, I forgot to cancel the sub and ended up with a month of game time. Sadly I only realized it the last part of the month of game time and so I didn’t take advantage of it. But the good news is, I qualify for the 10 days.

So looks like I’ll be burning hard to try to make DAoC work for me. And if it doesn’t? Sony…you’ll be hearing from me.

I Can Haz Secret World?

I got a notice from FunCom that I have 2 weeks free of Conan (also heads up: a free week of LotRO starts tomorrow).  But that wasn’t the interesting part of the email:

Subscribe for 3 months and get guaranteed access to the closed beta test of The Secret World + the reward above*

Oh shame on your FunCom!  You tempt me to send you money for a best test…I’m wise to your ways.  But am I strong enough to resist?

Updates

Some quick updates:

Fallen Earth: I have about a week left on my trial key, and I’ll have a write up ready to shoot to you all with my take on the game.

Alganon: I’m not sure what kind of NDA I’m under for this game (not alot of good communication thus far, as you may have noticed). I believe the game releases Dec. 1, but whenever the NDA is lifted, I’ll have a write up on this one as well.

EVE Online: Coming Soon ™ a new post: Battleships…I was doin’ it wrong.

What Drives Gamers Nuts

Follow, if you will, the sequence of events here, especially those highlighted in RED:

SilverElf4,You have been added as part of the last wave of Alganon beta testers before its launch on October 31, 2009. Your MyAlganon account “SilverElf4″ has been upgraded to have immediate beta access. You don’t even need a beta key! Simply login to your MyAlganon.com account and click the “Beta” button to get instructions on how to download the client. Once you are finished downloading, installing and patching the beta client use your MyAlganon login account name and password to login and play the Alganon beta.

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Greetings,

 

I received my invitation to the last round of Beta testing before launch and was very excited.  I have downloaded the client from http://www.myalganon.com but when I run the client and put in my account name and password, it tells me that the information is invalid and will not download the installer.

 

I’m not sure what to do.  I used the same account name and password as I used to access the page with the beta client as supplied in the email.

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Hi, 
 
In regards to your issue of not being able to download the client, we’d like for you do try and manually re-enter your beta key again on MyAlganon. To do this go to you profile page, scroll over My Account and select Enter Key. Right now, this will take you to a purchase page, so you need to click the “Already Purchased Alganon? Click Here to enter your game key” link found just about the Billing Information section. Enter you key and try downloading the installer again. Let us know if this works for you, and if not let us know and we’ll go from there. 
 
Regards, 
 
[censored]
CSGM 
Alganon 

 

Yeah…so I forwarded that original email.  That was about 30 hours ago…still no response.   Contrast this with Fallen Earth, who hit me up with multiple emails back and forth within 24 hours.  My issue is now resolved and I played the game last night (more on that in a later post).   Meanwhile, Alganon, who issued me this invite on Saturday, has emailed me once in 4 days, and has not resolved my issue, and indeed seems to have revealed a deeper issue. 

My only real question is – how does this happen?  Is this a case of game developer specific “left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing” syndrome?  Different departments not talking to each other, etc?  Does that also explain the poor response time as well?

Betas Galore!

Just a quick note. I’m doing Fallen Earth now, which while its technically not beta…it basically still is. And I got an invite on Saturday to participate in the last round of Alganon Betas before its launch.

And I’m sad to say, despite having had the FE client for 4 days, I’ve yet to be able to play the game. But kudos to theirs support team for their timely responses and aid, even if there is no end in sight to the bugs I’ve encountered.

Alganon on the other hand, needs to get its stuff together. As of this morning, I still can’t even download the client. And I haven’t heard back from their support team *at all*.

More on EVE and the ultimately bizarre and yet awesome conclusion of our first war dec later on.

Gearing Up for War

We got War Dec’d this weekend by the local griefers club. I’ll do what I can to keep you updated on the war effort, but I don’t want to give any free press to the griefers, or give anything away in our own efforts.

To clarify, anyone, including the group that war dec’d us, is welcome to play the game anyway they want to. And that includes me and how I’m going to be playing in the weeks to come…

WWII History Fail

The Oddest Search Term Yet

“anti imagesize:1366×768″

Apparently there is a movement afoot to reduce image sizes, and I’m seen as an ally of this group.

I’m not one to complain about traffic so..uh…fight the good fight people! I’m with you all the way!

On a Business Trip

Back Friday…