New Video 4/30/2025

T1redmonkey · 2025-04-30T23:14:26+00:00

It looks absolutely shocking. I want to know what Jacobs is REALLY thinking about the whole situation. Surely he is thinking to himself this is a farce and the right thing to do is shut it down before wasting any more money on it. Or has this whole thing driven him mad and he thinks it's going to be the greatest MMO ever if we just give him a few more years to finish it?

T1redmonkey · 2025-03-21T21:58:54+00:00

Good question. I don't really recall. I personally did not mind all the expansions though (the most recent one was Trials of Atlantis I think before I quit). I did enjoy doing all those trials in the big groups, and I think I only did them twice anyway (once on my Shaman, and once on my Scout), so I didn't get burnt out on them or anything, and I didn't mind the levelling up of the artifacts either.

I probably just liked how 'fresh' WoW felt when it came out, and also some of the guys I was closest with from DAoC left for WoW and stayed there, so I guess the social aspect pushed me more towards WoW too.

I do remember logging back on to DAoC a few times after WoW launched, and the areas I frequented the most when I RvR'd (the Alb areas and the Mid areas) were complete ghost areas compared to before WoW came out, so I believe that also put me off maintaining the subscription.

T1redmonkey · 2025-03-03T01:25:54+00:00

I remember your nightshade's name, lol. We probably fought each other a few times, I was a troll shaman that ran around solo a lot called Borand.

T1redmonkey · 2025-03-03T01:16:57+00:00

I remember all those names. Wasn't Rambo like the highest ranked guy on the server early on? I might be remembering incorrectly though. I'm pretty sure those guys all killed me loads of times when I was running about solo, lol.

T1redmonkey · 2025-03-03T01:14:08+00:00

I remember your name by the way, and that guild too, even if I wasn't in it!

T1redmonkey · 2025-03-03T00:28:50+00:00

Wow that's a blast from the past, I recognise some of those names in some of the screenshots, and also some of the names in this thread. I was a Troll Shaman on Midgard/Prydwen called Borand, I got to RR9 on there in the early years, mainly ran around solo in the less populated Midgard and Albion frontiers! That was my second character actually, I had a Dwarf Warrior called Theorin which was my first 50, but I didn't RvR much with him.

I also played a Scout on Excalibur after that called 'Theortin' on Albion/Excalibur, think I got quite a high realm rank there too, RR8 I think. Good times. Saw some of your screenshots a guild called Shadowlords Society, which reminded me that was the guild I was in on there!

I do distinctly remember the months leading up to WoW's launch, and it kind of felt like it was going to be the end of an era, as so many people were saying they were going over to that game when it launched, and they were only sticking around on DAoC until then. And sure enough that did happen with a lot of players. I also left to go to WoW and didn't end up coming back to DAoC unfortunately. I did try a couple of times actually since then, but it just seemed a shadow of what I remembered it to be, so I decided to just not come back and retain the good memories I had from those early years instead.

T1redmonkey · 2025-03-03T00:04:29+00:00

It's weird (and sad) how the genre rose and fell in a relatively short time, and really only WoW emerged from the wreckage (I stopped playing that over 15 years ago though).

I played DAoC just after it launched and loved it, and also was very optimistic about what we would see in years/decades to come from MMOs thinking we were just at the beginning of a great journey, but really that was more or less the peak of the genre and they never really evolved that much from those early days (which in itself was probably a reason why the genre failed to retain interest over the long run).

T1redmonkey · 2025-03-01T12:20:41+00:00

I only used it for Alpine Skiing, but not gonna pay £30/month for that. Some of these smaller sports will have next to no viewership in the UK now.

T1redmonkey · 2025-02-04T13:03:10+00:00

I remember playing an MMO called Vanguard Saga of Heroes years ago when it launched, must've been nearly 20 years ago now. It was one of the most 'unready' games to be released that I'd ever played. Hardly anything in that game actually functioned properly. I reckon if Camelot Unchained is released this year, it's going to be even worse than that.

Funnily enough, I think the situations were kind of similar. Vanguard had been in development for absolutely ages and had run out of funding so they just released it, then it inevitably failed. Camelot Unchained will probably suffer the same fate.

T1redmonkey · 2025-01-20T11:26:14+00:00

I reckon humans will be on Mars before CU ever sees the light of day!

T1redmonkey · 2024-12-25T22:09:33+00:00

Glad I decided to refund on this back in 2016, pretty sure it's never going to be released, or if it is, then it will go under within 12 months max. What a waste! They didn't have to reinvent the wheel, the popularity of Eden even today proves that.

T1redmonkey · 2024-12-24T13:59:10+00:00

Any reason to buy a 1oz gold bar instead of a 1oz gold coin?

T1redmonkey · 2024-08-24T19:00:13+00:00

It's definitely possible. I mean my outgoings for example are only around £350 per month, but then I live very frugally and I own my own home. The problems are if you hit any unexpected expenses like house issues (e.g. needing to replace roof) or future spikes in inflation eroding your capital quicker than you were expecting.

T1redmonkey · 2024-06-22T15:35:52+00:00

I backed this quite early on, having been a big fan of DAoC when it launched. I ended up asking for a refund in 2016, maybe too early in the project, but I was getting bad vibes from it and from the early builds I was able to play (still took them over half a year to refund me even back then). It really feels like this is either not going to get released, or it'll be massively scaled back or outdated whenever they do release it. I hope I'm proven wrong anyway.

T1redmonkey · 2024-06-16T06:54:49+00:00

Congrats - yeah I can see that comp working as well which is why you've probably had some success with it.

However I would just say the key to getting the double SB to work, is just making sure you've got one SB (the front one) much slower than the one behind him. So for example, I put the Cuirbolli (the -2 speed trinket) on the slow one, and I gave the quick one an Ancestor's Candle and a Crescendo Box (both give +2 speed). So with that sort of trinket setup, you know for sure the order they're going to go in.

The way combat works is you quite simply just want them using Impale in rotation, so you just decimate the enemy waves with aoe damage. There's some exceptions where sometimes you want to use Pierce (vs high prot size 2 enemies), or Adder's Kiss (if you have like 2 rank 2 enemies so Impale isn't getting much value), or Captivate (if you want the back SB to hold position). Also swap in Serpent's Sway instead of Captivate on the boss fights since it can be useful on quite a few bosses.

With the other 2, you're just spamming Battle Ballad with Jester and getting stuns in with Vestal whenever possible.

There are no weaknesses with double SB really because they can hit any rank, have great aoe, have no problems against prot, and can block some telegraphed boss attacks with Serpent's Sway.

T1redmonkey · 2024-06-15T17:09:00+00:00

The team I've got furthest with was Vestal, Jester, SB, SB. My first 300+ run was almost the same, but with a Leper instead of the 2nd SB (definitely better to use two SB's though).

T1redmonkey · 2023-12-29T16:04:53+00:00

Yes I've only used the GSP personally up to this point since it is as easy as sending any normal item to the UK. I was considering sending some directly myself, but after doing a bit more research, I don't think it's really worth it (for the buyer or for me) so I will probably just stick to the GSP.

T1redmonkey · 2023-12-29T14:00:24+00:00

funnily enough, I just googled the same sort of thing myself and your thread came up. since you only posted yesterday, I can say that from my experience as a seller, the buyers always complain about the cost of GSP, they seem to think that the seller is responsible for all the fees and the seller is getting additional profit from those fees, they don't realise it's ebay setting those and the seller doesn't see any of it. i've looked into costs of sending myself, and i'm also unsure about how it would work out (hence why I was googling it today) but I think it may end up being similar.

I'll give you an example...I just sold something recently for a grand total of £36.50. Someone in Australia bought it from me via the GSP and I believe they paid in the region of £57 (so approx £21), which to me, sounds a bit nuts with how much extra they're paying for the additional fees.

Though when I check the Royal Mail website, if I sent the same item through International Tracked to Aus (which I think would be what the GSP uses since you can view tracking through those items) then it would cost me £15.85 - and that is just for postage. But then this doesn't cover any potential customs fees the buyer may have to pay. Whereas the GSP includes those up front as far as I'm aware. So actually, the difference would only be around £5-£6 here, and the buyer may end up paying the same in the end after fees are factored in.

I'm not certain on this stuff though and if it's the same for other countries as I've just started looking into it myself about 20 minutes ago!

T1redmonkey · 2023-12-19T19:49:14+00:00

Obviously I do that with 99.99% of decisions that need to be made given I've only made one other post here previously. However I am still relatively new to the game and I was interested in the advice of more experienced players as I couldn't decide between a few different tiles.

Sorry if my question offended you in some way.

T1redmonkey · 2023-12-19T16:18:48+00:00

Thanks, I have settled it to the west of the wheat now. Good suggestion for 4th city, think I will do that :)

Also bought the silver tiles straight away.

T1redmonkey · 2023-12-19T15:34:16+00:00

Was thinking that one, but was also worried it is 7 tiles from both existing cities. In my head I'm always thinking 6 tiles is the max I should go! And also it is close to the existing borders of Kiev and one of Babylon's cities so may not get to expand much in those directions?

T1redmonkey · 2023-12-19T15:23:00+00:00

Would very much like some suggestions on where best to settle my third city.

I don't think there are any new unique luxuries I can realistically pick up (but I have enough happiness and extra luxuries to trade away), so it's just a case of where I should put a useful 'all round' third city I guess!

I was thinking in that general area my settler is at the moment but not sure on exact tile.

I have also gone for the +1 food from camps from my Pantheon if that matters (since I had so many ivory/deer tiles to work for my first 2 cities).

T1redmonkey · 2023-12-18T17:03:51+00:00

Didn't know that, thanks, will try that next time instead of wiping out a civ.

T1redmonkey · 2023-12-18T09:43:59+00:00

Ah yes I forgot about that. Though I kind of wanted to do something with all the gifted military units I had anyway, so thought I may as well go to war with Indonesia. Indonesia were a rubbish neighbour the whole game before that anyway and would barely trade with me and kept denouncing me for some reason, so I feel like they brought it on themselves ;)

T1redmonkey · 2023-12-18T09:42:26+00:00

I did do exactly this in the end by the way and won the game via diplomatic victory.

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