Well I was desperate for a bit of exploring, so I tried this one, and sure enough exploring is what I got.
The problem I'm finding is a lot of the game systems are pretty complex and rather unforgiving if you got them wrong, for example I bought a handaxe rather than a lumber axe to chop wood and if it wasn't for one particularly kind player I'd have had a good few more wilderness trips than I wanted. I do like the need to prepare for journies and the idea of getting skills by what you do is good, also the wilderness is certainly my thing, although the game isn't exactly forgiving, I got killed by a coyote after making the mistake of assuming that training in staffs meant I could take something on, also it took me a while to work out camp fires and I've not yet managed to carve anything halfway decent or lucrative, (actually I am wondering what the heck all those branches are for when I fell trees sinse it seems the only practical good you get is making fires, particularly sinse it seems to be easier to find little wild herbs in the forest than firewood which is very odd), indeed I was just trying to cook the first thing I managed to kill (a fox), when a brigand suddenly walked in, womped me in the chest with his mace and killed me stone dead in one go! Actually the combat commands arne't something I've fully got yet, sinse at first it seemed unless I actively typed "kill" or "battle" I wasn't actually attacking at all. I also wonder how the herbalism knolidge skill goes, sinse I've been doing loads of foraging for herbs and firewood, but not seeing any sort of skill increase. The game is good, it reminds me of when I started playing wayfare with it's complex wildenress and crafting, and also slower over all combat, though I suspect it won't have the problem wayfare ran into, namely that once you'd setup your colony and were starting to build vehicles and full on sapceships the game became a lot less interesting (or at least it did for me). I'm darklenna on there if anyone wants to say hi, though the rp seems very casual thus far. All the best, Dark. There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even the archmaesters of the citadel can dream. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
