Post by NostromoPost by XocyllYou have to remember one thing, usenet replies aren't real-time usually
while MMO chatting is.
You may have noticed that sometimes I take several days to reply to some
posts - as I know I want to reply but just can't phrase it right at the
moment, so I just flag the message as unread and move on to get back to
it later, sometimes never.
Can't really do that in a real time environment.
Soloing while at the same time chatting with someone can be difficult,
ditto teaming as someone is busy typing something while you're fighting
and thus isn't attacking the baddie and/or healing you.
To be sure, but I've played mmos with you & the 'quality' of the
conversations is quite different to Usenet, for sure, but that doesn't
mean you're unable or incompetent at having a simple conversation/chat
online. Hell, I'm the worst IT professional typist I've ever met! ;)
In any case, I find the style of conversations you have in mmos entirely
different from here, shorter, simpler, quicker, & generally less
inflammatory. Ppl actually don't behave like fuckwits when they know the
other ppl & there's the appearance of them being right there, not at the
other end of a Usenet 'chainmail' system, hours/days & thousands of KMs
away. ;)
Heck I don't type at all in the conventional sense, it's all hunt and
poke while looking at the keys, although I do use more than two fingers.
Post by NostromoPost by XocyllPost by Nostromo;-p Are you just a self-confessed soloer/hermit or don't
really like anyone here and/or think they're worthy of your gamesmanship...?
Post by Michael Cecil8^P No, don't answer that - let it be a mystery we will all ponder for
years to come ;). (if it's just ME you don't want to play with, rest
assured, you're unlikely to, what with my TZ and RL schedule *sigh*).
The other thing to remember is that there are multiple MMO
"personalities" - the never team people, the always team people, and the
sometimes team people.
Fair enough. I guess I'm the always chatty, sometimes team, lots of
downtime, slowpoke kinda player then :). Explains why I'm spending more
time crafting & in the auction house in lotro than adventuring lol!
Oh I don't have a problem with chatting and I'm often chatty online, but
I don't like sitting around while someone who is supposed to be an
active part of the group is chatting instead of playing.
Post by NostromoPost by XocyllI've never understood the "always team" mentality, especially as they
whine about sitting around waiting to get in a team.
Yeah.
Baffles me, as much as the "healer" types baffle me - can't understand
the attraction of playing a class that's only real role is support for
other players and can't do much else.
Post by NostromoPost by XocyllSome of us just want to log on and get going and aren't really
enthusiastic about the amount of sitting around that comes with all but
the best teams. [Wait for mana to regen, wait for Bob who just got
called by his wife, wait as Sam checks on the kids, wait as Jim finishes
typing so that he'll be able to do his job in the next fight ... ]
The other great thing about lotro is that it has a really good inbuilt
voice chat system for teams ('fellowships') which doesn't impact the
latency or packet loss in the rest of game at all, as far as I can tell.
Not sure how that would work over dialup though, plus were I using a
mic, you'd all get hit by my music too since I always have something
going while playing.
Post by NostromoPost by XocyllI'm not anti-team, but I play games to PLAY them, not stand around
waiting for someone else to get their ass in gear.
My mate from work is kinda like that - while the rest of us are still
cashin in quests, buying/selling, etc, he's outside the gates killin
shit. Never stops he he.
I was seriously like that with my first high level char in CoH. As a
/regen I never had to take a break for endurance, so I never wanted to
sit around.
The difference between me and the ADD types is I wouldn't attack a group
of something I had no hope of defeating and then flee back to the group
(who are all resting for mana.) I fought what I could defeat and if I
got in over my head I'd stay and die rather than risking a team wipe.
Sudden flashback to a team that went badly wrong fighting the kraken
trial (a leader who was a total fuckwit, got 60% of the group killed and
then left.) While they were busy recruiting more members I was down by
the kraken killing off one of the newly hatched ones - I could _just_
survive the hits, but it beat sitting around doing nothing.
Xocyll
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