First Impressions

Vinnen · **Joined:** Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:07 pm **Posts:** 362

My best suggestion would be this, if you can find the inn, which ever country you start in, someone is more then likely going to go through there "specially certain cities" and they'll more then likely look at you, ask who you are or introduce themselves, that's when you reel them in and ask them non-stop questions until they run away in horror because they can't answer them, or answer your questions :drunk:

Whinston · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:25 am

Travorn wrote:

Ayamao has some of the best starting gear, as well, which you don't even have to pay for.

The Wastes have some pretty outstanding newbie gear as well, and while the Empire's Kytar University probably needs some work, the weapons sold there are great for a low level character. I've used them well into J-Man.

Don

Kin · **Joined:** Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:42 pm **Posts:** 944

I can second what Whinston said. The Waste has some truly absurd gear. The starting steel's AC is equivalent to tanso..

ninja_ardith · **Joined:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:21 pm **Posts:** 4452

Kin wrote:

I can second what Whinston said. The Waste has some truly absurd gear. The starting steel's AC is equivalent to tanso..

Wow, who'd have thought that steel and tanso steel would have the same protective values. It's almost like steel is steel. Wow. How profound.

Kin · **Joined:** Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:42 pm **Posts:** 944

ninja_ardith wrote:

Kin wrote:

I can second what Whinston said. The Waste has some truly absurd gear. The starting steel's AC is equivalent to tanso..

Wow, who'd have thought that steel and tanso steel would have the same protective values. It's almost like steel is steel. Wow. How profound.

You seriously just need to learn to stfu ardith. Get off my back already.

mundufisen · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2012 3:16 am

ninja_ardith wrote:

Kin wrote:

I can second what Whinston said. The Waste has some truly absurd gear. The starting steel's AC is equivalent to tanso..

Wow, who'd have thought that steel and tanso steel would have the same protective values. It's almost like steel is steel. Wow. How profound.

hahaha

Spooky · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2012 10:15 am

cheesekk wrote:

--Pyrathia! The world itself feels and looks great. The crazy use of color was something that struck me as a bit garish at first, but now I'm used to it and appreciate it. The kingdoms and cities I've been to have been large, sprawling and interesting. I haven't been to many areas outside of newbie areas yet, but I have high hopes.

I'm glad to hear someone else say this. The beautifully colorful, and fairly well-written areas in this game are one of the things that keeps me coming back. I know, I'm such a [REDACTED].

Quote:

--Quite a lot of information in the game is obscured and hush-hush on the forums. I completely understand keeping game secrets such as quests, but the very basic starting information should be there... perhaps in the aforementioned helpfiles? For example, if I have a class in mind, I would really like to know if some races are a better choice than others and what the general layout of racial stats is. I don't want to make a half-elven sorcerer (in CF Helf Wizards get 24 Int) and find out that 1) I will get no more than 21 Int and 2) 21 Int is a joke. Posting and asking "Does Human Sorcerer sound OK?" on the forums and getting a lot of blank stares was frustrating. Can anyone tell me what races have a decent xxx stat? "Sorry, we can't talk about it."

And for god's sake, this. I was just complaining about this the other day; help newbies help themselves!

cheesekk · **Joined:** Tue Nov 06, 2012 1:41 pm **Posts:** 136

Some more things that I like:

--The skills and training system. I haven't played any MUDs with the same system as SK and I find it quite interesting! I'm now at the point where I'm having trouble finding people who can train my new spells and skills. This is annoying in a fun way.

Everytime I say a likely NPC I'm wondering, "Hey, maybe this one can teach me..."
--The position/formation system. Some interesting strategy options here.
--The ability to abbreviate most anything. Instead of shortsword I can type sho. Nice. Of course, there's the type I hit my horse instead of a NPC because they both started with co, but I'll just be more careful next time.
--A bug was fixed within hours of my reporting it.

the_me · **Posted:** Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:04 am

cheesekk wrote:

--The skills and training system. I haven't played any MUDs with the same system as SK and I find it quite interesting! I'm now at the point where I'm having trouble finding people who can train my new spells and skills. This is annoying in a fun way.

Everytime I say a likely NPC I'm wondering, "Hey, maybe this one can teach me..."

I like this too! I constantly forget where to train things, and it causes me to re-explore to find trainers.

That said, I find "alias tt train" a useful shortcut to find trainers, haha.

Banhammer · **Joined:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:34 am **Posts:** 151

I think Ardith reminds me of the game developer from Grandma's Boy. Only we can't see his Matrix cloak.

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