Gelion said:
Eve Online is not really my thing. I'd like to be able to see myself in the world I am playing
Also I love being a merchant and a crafter producing and selling things. So after some consideration I thinkEve is not what I want to do.
Can you talk more about your WoW experience? How does Race vs Race work? How profitable and interesting is mining, smithing, tailoring? How much time does it take to level up in production skills? What items can be made etc?
UO is the best MMORPG from my POV fromt the ones I haven't played. can you elaborate on the gameplay and the like?
Eve has detailed and complex mining and crafting system. Though the system is "broken" as its impossible for new players as big "corps" (guilds) have pretty much glutted the market with items. There are auctions, factory slots, automated macros for mass producing items, as well as LOTs of travel an trading of commodeities NPC and PCs, Aquiring "blueprints" from mobs is fun (for a while)
Wow played a rogue, warlock and a lot of mage.. Gameplay is extremely polished, make sure you have friends or get some CFC wow to "tinker" you as money is hard to come by at the start. Graphically also very well made, easy to get into, combat is relatively fast. By mid 30s - 40 it becomes an ugly boring repeative grind.
Crafting tried my hand at all of them (except engineer) mining is like runscape, Ditto with herbalist. initial was hugely fun to collect items, mine and craft amour, smith swords and so on. But It didnt take me long to realise time far FAR better spent Leveling instead of crafting. I never became a "high" level where people say large profits can be made.
Grouping is fun. The larger the group the more diverse the better, huge dungeon trawels and big fights are memerable.
As for UO I would suggest a "Free" server to play on. Please
buy the game client (I've seen people sell them for a few dollars these days)
Uo is extremelly slow to start, Painfully slow, I remember being killed by a RAT. (for shame for shame) Loot and monsters are plentiful, dungeons are Huge. Combat is simple, even when using magic. Uo has the best teleportation travel system.
Everything is player driven, Market for items is huge (when u die you drop all your items). Grouping is as fun as ever and very nesscary as PKing is rampant. UO has everything WOW has, pets, mounts, crafting galore, tons of loot. plus houses, player owned boats,
Uo also has lagg, bugs and crashes Just imagine runescape2 x100
. I've sent in suggestions before, and got an e-mail back from the dev team asking me to explain the idea in further detail. From my understanding, it happens quite often.
