Hahhh, what a laugh...
So I hosted the first Guild event. It was a level 1 foot race... with most of the details TBA.
I had worked out most of the details to minimize cheating now and for future attempts to repeate the event.
In the end, there were 2 guildees on for the race and one said, "what's vent"... that was pretty much expected, people never read the rules or anything on the calendar or guild info... ehhh, but then if you dont know what it is... either way, it was just really slow to type it out... the plan was to make a Tauren, and the name had to have "râ¢è" in the name... well, ¢ did not take on the creation screen so deadrâcèr, and râcèrx were born and in the Tauren starting area... woot... invite to guild invite to group.... preventing any grouping with friends for some speed boost...
Alright... from here to Eversong woods... at the gates of silvermoon... so, it was going to be 2 zeplin rides, and use of the orb of translocation... I mentioned this to both racers, and then said go...
NOW I STARED AT THE SCREEN IN DISBELIEF BEFORE I STARTED LAUGHING....
Seemed simple enough... I expected the guys to head north, and follow both of them... but I was faced with opening my map to track them both and picking one to follow... on headed east and the other south. No idea what was going through their head. Really at timing would have it, the zeplins choked the racer route to really only be a race off the zeplin in Tirisfal Glades and to the gates of Silvermoon City in eversong.
It was far mor fun for me and I was able to give away 1500 gold. It was fun. The winner was Pandorum, the pally who is tanking on the way up and has leveled 1-50 in about a week. I have taken to leveling the hunter again with quests. Its good guild xp this way, and he is at a level where its decent for the time and bordom of the grind... I am however only on my second Horde toon in Northrend... So some is still fresh and new. I leveled through Howling Fjord before, and this time I am in Borean turndra. Also working out to go for the faction rep and pick up some of the recipie for more gold making oportunities... yep..
kinda dreading the kulak grind. no way to really speed it up...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Buildings... Mountains... Ecosystems...
Hmmm, this a random thoughts post, just airing out some ideas abou the community of WoW in all of its subtelties and variations.
WoW is the and will continue to be the game all others will be measured against. No idea when it will be "toppled" but not any time soon. They were there and fortuitously did the things at perfect timing with the culture that did not exist but was born out of the times they were in.
WHAT!!!
Okay. Warcraft, Warcraft II, and Warcraft III. Still great RTS games. In their time, MMO and on-line games were in the first generation past MUDs. (by my account, and for my argument anyway) However they were console games for PCs. I dont believe there is anywhere near the market for that type of game anymore. And those games brought an enormous player base to the World of Warcraft. and it grew... Certain elements and foundations were developed from the begining and in the infancy of the MMO world. They built on the philosophy of principles that it had to be right to release. And by right they also had firm ideas that have been built upon for the engaging aspect of the game, the quests and such, there are also the goals and the e-sports environment that were built upon and devleoped over time to current raiding and PVP environments.
Now that said, the Building of WOW was on a firm foundation, at least now looking backwards it seems it was. It has of its own accord and that of the push of the community grown to become a living mountain.. wide at the bottom, and cold, lonely, presitgous at the top. Few can and will get there, and finding others who can, will and do commit their schedules to be there, make the elite... truely elite... Paragon and other of that community made the world first kills months ago... when did you get yours? have you? I know I would like to just be a part of maybe a server first, but then, no, I am not willing to commit to that level of play for the hours and times to a group. I prefer to be casual and dream about the top of the mountain when it comes to raiding.
Why is that important... and what does it have to do with the title...
The Mountain is an eco system. WoW is fed by the gold sellers, the gold buyers, that casuals, the elitists, those that are more interested in the wardrobe than the quest, those more interested in the stats than the wardrobe accent, those who are loremaster by title, but are really just an achievement whore, and those that are really a "loremaster" and know all the lore of all the tribes, factions, races, leaders, key figures, etc. etc. etc. The PVPers, the raiders, the farmers, the "insert nationality here" farmers, the crafters, AH elitists... they all play a part in the game..
Now step outside the game... the game is the building.. the initial, construction... built well and in a time that can not be replayed, on priciples that have found them ahead of other games repeatedly.
Look at the Blogger community, the elitistjerks.com community, the wowhead.com, fansites, PVP, class, spec, theory crafting, fun, silly directed, random, and more... the rate my gear sites, the pimp my gear sites, the addon community, and on and on.. the guild communities, and their own websites...
That is the mountain each one of the elements parts of ecosystems... with out the whole unit and all its parts, their begins erosion...
Blizzard needs gold farmers and gold sellers and gold botters... They dont want them, but there is a symbiosis there... they have acounts and pay to do some of their activities. there is a portion of the community that exist because they can buy gold... if they could not they would not be here.
As long as it seems better at the top, and there is the dream among the community to get to the top... to be a part of a server first, or server top 10 guild or whatever your goals are... WoW will reign. The elusiveness of the top spots that everyone wants and thinks they can get, or whatever e-peen they can attract attention to themselves with... keeps them around. /2 chuck norris ... for example... a failed raider? that needs attention? I would like to think it is sometimes.
Blizzard is the only one that can kill WoW right now. No other new game or title can do what they did, times have changes, the opportunities they build on with the original warcraft games do not exist like they did before. no other new game or title can build the community like WOW... how long did it take for addons to become what they are now... a couple years really before they started to take off...
WoW is the and will continue to be the game all others will be measured against. No idea when it will be "toppled" but not any time soon. They were there and fortuitously did the things at perfect timing with the culture that did not exist but was born out of the times they were in.
WHAT!!!
Okay. Warcraft, Warcraft II, and Warcraft III. Still great RTS games. In their time, MMO and on-line games were in the first generation past MUDs. (by my account, and for my argument anyway) However they were console games for PCs. I dont believe there is anywhere near the market for that type of game anymore. And those games brought an enormous player base to the World of Warcraft. and it grew... Certain elements and foundations were developed from the begining and in the infancy of the MMO world. They built on the philosophy of principles that it had to be right to release. And by right they also had firm ideas that have been built upon for the engaging aspect of the game, the quests and such, there are also the goals and the e-sports environment that were built upon and devleoped over time to current raiding and PVP environments.
Now that said, the Building of WOW was on a firm foundation, at least now looking backwards it seems it was. It has of its own accord and that of the push of the community grown to become a living mountain.. wide at the bottom, and cold, lonely, presitgous at the top. Few can and will get there, and finding others who can, will and do commit their schedules to be there, make the elite... truely elite... Paragon and other of that community made the world first kills months ago... when did you get yours? have you? I know I would like to just be a part of maybe a server first, but then, no, I am not willing to commit to that level of play for the hours and times to a group. I prefer to be casual and dream about the top of the mountain when it comes to raiding.
Why is that important... and what does it have to do with the title...
The Mountain is an eco system. WoW is fed by the gold sellers, the gold buyers, that casuals, the elitists, those that are more interested in the wardrobe than the quest, those more interested in the stats than the wardrobe accent, those who are loremaster by title, but are really just an achievement whore, and those that are really a "loremaster" and know all the lore of all the tribes, factions, races, leaders, key figures, etc. etc. etc. The PVPers, the raiders, the farmers, the "insert nationality here" farmers, the crafters, AH elitists... they all play a part in the game..
Now step outside the game... the game is the building.. the initial, construction... built well and in a time that can not be replayed, on priciples that have found them ahead of other games repeatedly.
Look at the Blogger community, the elitistjerks.com community, the wowhead.com, fansites, PVP, class, spec, theory crafting, fun, silly directed, random, and more... the rate my gear sites, the pimp my gear sites, the addon community, and on and on.. the guild communities, and their own websites...
That is the mountain each one of the elements parts of ecosystems... with out the whole unit and all its parts, their begins erosion...
Blizzard needs gold farmers and gold sellers and gold botters... They dont want them, but there is a symbiosis there... they have acounts and pay to do some of their activities. there is a portion of the community that exist because they can buy gold... if they could not they would not be here.
As long as it seems better at the top, and there is the dream among the community to get to the top... to be a part of a server first, or server top 10 guild or whatever your goals are... WoW will reign. The elusiveness of the top spots that everyone wants and thinks they can get, or whatever e-peen they can attract attention to themselves with... keeps them around. /2 chuck norris ... for example... a failed raider? that needs attention? I would like to think it is sometimes.
Blizzard is the only one that can kill WoW right now. No other new game or title can do what they did, times have changes, the opportunities they build on with the original warcraft games do not exist like they did before. no other new game or title can build the community like WOW... how long did it take for addons to become what they are now... a couple years really before they started to take off...
Monday, April 4, 2011
Regret at the end of a weekend?
Well, I was not able to get the Guild rep on the main via raiding to get all the way to honored, BUT I got to honored over the weekend. Still pretty jaded at the guild I rolled to be a part of. I have completed almost every quest in Cata, (still need to talk to Bran somewhere in the dungeon to finish) So my only reasonable option to geting guild rep is Cata Dailys. the ones in TB are the best for it too, however at this point, I hate dailies... doing dailies just for guild rep... gahhh... but I made myself go do them a couple times... Once last week, to make sure that This week I was within reach of honored. A few boss kills and raiding for the week over, I still needed about 2 days of dailies, 24 dailies one day, and then just the TB dailys. and dingo, Guild honored... That is expensive...
I mean have you looked at the cost of one each of everything available at the vendor when you are honored... ((O)).((O)) Yeah, about 15K... I did not get one each of everything either. Cauldron... yeah got that one... for the raider... then the rest... I did get one each of every heirloom cape and hat... and 2 each of the Agi and the Int capes... so, 11 more heirlooms... I think before I had... 26??? All this is so I can play another toon on my wifes account without heirlooms... because its on another account. Rolled a tank, I figure getting more heirlooms for her that way will be easiest, and I enjoy playing a warrior tank. now, I have my littl rogue pimped out, I have the not so little hunter, pimped out, the little caster druid is pimped, and the warlock too. The only things I dont have enough of to go around is the trinkets. Otherwise, every one of those toons has their own full set of heirlooms, decked out, weapons included, and I have a full set of plate in the Bank. Why? not really sure, but it amuses me. and I enjoy leveling alts.
But Looking at my addons, and seing my weeks gold not going up. that hurts... and motivates... time to go do some more things to make more gold in more ways more gooderur, and fasterur..
Are you stockpiling pyrite ore? Decided I can afford to, It will always have value, and right now, its getting pretty cheap. I am buying under 3G each... or about 60/stack.. I figure, I could have unloaded the titanium I had the day the patch hit for more that I made prospecting it to gems. My guess gems will start out at 300-500gold uncut, that makes a stack of ore worth 500G or so... By my guessing around, 4 32 slot bags of pyrite ore... thats 128 stacks at 60G (max) each = 7680, 128 sold at 500 =64,000, yeah, thats 56Kish for sitting on the ore and losing the storage I was not useing anyway.... Add another 800gold to cost if you want to, since that is what another 2 mamoth mining bags ate 400g each ran me... kinda thinking... I may make more space and stockpile more ore... those numbers are just rediculous...... I really dont think ore will ever really go below 3G each much either... not sure, but that seems like its pretty close to the floor prices you could vendor gems at... for a profit
I mean have you looked at the cost of one each of everything available at the vendor when you are honored... ((O)).((O)) Yeah, about 15K... I did not get one each of everything either. Cauldron... yeah got that one... for the raider... then the rest... I did get one each of every heirloom cape and hat... and 2 each of the Agi and the Int capes... so, 11 more heirlooms... I think before I had... 26??? All this is so I can play another toon on my wifes account without heirlooms... because its on another account. Rolled a tank, I figure getting more heirlooms for her that way will be easiest, and I enjoy playing a warrior tank. now, I have my littl rogue pimped out, I have the not so little hunter, pimped out, the little caster druid is pimped, and the warlock too. The only things I dont have enough of to go around is the trinkets. Otherwise, every one of those toons has their own full set of heirlooms, decked out, weapons included, and I have a full set of plate in the Bank. Why? not really sure, but it amuses me. and I enjoy leveling alts.
But Looking at my addons, and seing my weeks gold not going up. that hurts... and motivates... time to go do some more things to make more gold in more ways more gooderur, and fasterur..
Are you stockpiling pyrite ore? Decided I can afford to, It will always have value, and right now, its getting pretty cheap. I am buying under 3G each... or about 60/stack.. I figure, I could have unloaded the titanium I had the day the patch hit for more that I made prospecting it to gems. My guess gems will start out at 300-500gold uncut, that makes a stack of ore worth 500G or so... By my guessing around, 4 32 slot bags of pyrite ore... thats 128 stacks at 60G (max) each = 7680, 128 sold at 500 =64,000, yeah, thats 56Kish for sitting on the ore and losing the storage I was not useing anyway.... Add another 800gold to cost if you want to, since that is what another 2 mamoth mining bags ate 400g each ran me... kinda thinking... I may make more space and stockpile more ore... those numbers are just rediculous...... I really dont think ore will ever really go below 3G each much either... not sure, but that seems like its pretty close to the floor prices you could vendor gems at... for a profit
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