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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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1:25 pm - where am i?
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i've started playing a new private server, check it out at www.dlirk.com. it's run by dep's famous "smoocher" dlirk who is an old friend of mine. the population is currently low but faithful and there is quite a bit of attention to detail from gm dlirk: goblin king drop/ morph/ boss event (last week and upcoming part 2), level 70+ area and unique items.
and i have to tell you, i am sooo over nc's "live" servers. except for maybe checking out eps. 6 in the canonical form when it's finally released i have no interest in playing their fucked up game.
and furthermore, i think within 2 years lineage 1 as designed by nc will be dead, maybe just in north america but maybe even globally.
why?
because nothing is more fun than lineage as designed by a real fan. fans know what other fans want! they don't want it to be too easy, just FUN!
meanwhile nc thinks people want to grind away for 100 hours just get a single level up, or hundreds of hours for some useless, nerfed quest item. lineage isn't a job, it's just a game.
if you've been thinking about playing a private server but weren't sure where to go then check out dlirk's ps. my characters are named "pockets" (mage) and "stickers" (dark elf).
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| Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
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5:32 pm - the laughs never end
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| Sunday, August 24th, 2008
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5:08 pm - lineage is dead. long live lineage.
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i'm checking out of lineage. again. at least i will when my account runs out next month. i might come back to check out eps. 6, probably not, because there's really no reason to anymore.
if i play again with any seriousness it will probably be on a private server. why would i do that? because private servers are overwhelmingly better:
- free.
- GMs who care.
- no bots.
- decent drop rates.
- fun events.
- unique quests and new rewards.
- aggressive bug fixing.
private servers are lineage by and for people who just love the game and want to give themselves and others the gaming experience we all remember fondly, but with new content. how can ncsoft compare? lineage should not be a job and nc seems to think that it should be. i think lineage as it was is dead. lineage as it will be on private servers will live forever.
i should explain my comment about "there's really no reason to anymore." part of why i have kept playing lineage was so that i could get stronger and experience more of the game: the weapons, spells and hunting grounds. until the invention of the private server the only way for me to feed that addiction was to play according to nc's ruleset.
but just for fun i made my own private server this weekend.
first i made a character identical to my existing mage - same items, stats and so on. but since i had access to the database, i could modify my stats and items. (please do not ask me for step by step instructions, i don't have time to give technical support). i was to curious to resist...
to start i gave myself 1000 n-dai and a 100 +6 dama swords and tried to make a +10. fail! then i blew up a bunch of bapho staffs, which was kind of a laugh. i don't think i will ever be able to afford a bapho staff on dep, let alone blow up a few dozen! what a riot!
of course, the outcome of all that over enchanting is of no consequence since i can just go into the database and not only create items but change the enchant value on any item giving myself all my dream items, you know, +11 staff of mana, +9 lich robe, stuff like that. using my new dream items and hunting in the usual way was easy but i still could not solo 100f or pheonix. it was a revelation to see that even with all the items i'd ever wanted i would never be the all-powerful mage i thought i would be.
so i upped my stats, giving myself max. int, wis and con (which is 25 on our servers) and then doubling my HP to 2400 and my MP to 3600, which is way beyond anything reasonable, probably double the existing HP and MP cap on live servers... but i still could not solo 100f or pheonix. but it was fun!
so i went further and ended up at just the most ridiculous conclusion: level 99 mage with +127 staff of mana and +127 lich robe and 127 intelligence and wisdom.
now i was all-powerful! i could kill lesser dragons with 2 cone of cold. phoenix exploded under my magical barrage in less than 30 seconds. my MP regen rate was over 400MP/tick. it was hilarious!! and quite satisfying.
there is a saying about game design: given the choice, most people will choose god mode. having experienced god mode with lineage and realizing that is impossible to ever achieve that on a live server i have to say i'm alot less interested in bothering with the whole thing. if i am going to bother then i want everyone to be on the same level playing field and that is impossible to have with nc's lineage. almost a decade of bots and cheaters have seen to that.
so it's time for me to go. good luck everyone, in whatever version of lineage you find yourself in. *swak*!
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| Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
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4:09 pm - a ghost appears
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i know some people still check my blog so to address my recent appearance in the game, yes i've been in the game since late april. i'm trying to bring foreverahmda up to whatever the current fashion in spells, weapons and armor is for mages and maybe get to level 55. foreverahmda was level 52 and ahmda was level 53 when i quit in 2006.
i've upgraded my mp regeneration set with some new king items and a sema cap and finally bought advance spirit and blizzard, as well as a few other spells that i was missing. i've also blown up a lot of items, even a couple +9 weapons and several +7 nk gloves, boots and scrolls. but i try not to focus on my losses.
since i've been back lots of other old players have also popped into the game to see what's changed and it's been really nice to chat with some old friends. time has a way of making friends out of people who were just acquaintances before, which is kind of neat. ^_^
but i'm not staying. i'm playing casually and on my own terms, when and where i feel like it. but after hanging out for two months i've remembered all the reasons why i quit and really don't need a game like lineage in my life.
so the last word on the matter is that i'm not staying. there's some good stuff going on in real life that i don't want to miss.
i'm sure no one cares but here's my comments on a few of my recent lineage experiences. of course, bots figure prominently in these stories but not for reasons you might expect:
life as a newbie: i recently made a new elf and decided to level it up under it's own finances, just like a newbie. i hunted from level 15-30 with a +0 hunter's bow in orc town and owl, after getting kicked out of singing island.
i was practically the only player hunting these areas and i saw almost no bots, certainly no 24/7 bots. as everyone knows, in april the largest concentration of bots on depardieu was in skt4, not owl or orc town. but every 20 or 30 minutes someone came by to see if i was a bot. the nice people would ask me if i was a bot. but most people (especially people from this thread who have bitched about bots on the official forums) would just attack my little newbie elf and say "sorry, i thought you were a bot" when i escaped and/or complained. i don't know why they just didn't go to sk4 if they were so hungry for some confrontation with bots... no idea.
life as a pledgeless dk: not having a pledge affiliation is like wearing a sign that says "i must be a cheater!" i've been attacked dozens times and told "you're a bot, that's why i hit you. bot." and when people find out that there's a real person behind the keyboard they ask why they haven't seen me leveling and are surprised when i tell them that foreverahmda was created in 2001 and has been inactive for 1 and a half years. some people are just grumpy i guess.
i used to be a one of the biggest complainers about bots. i earned alot of enemies, even real-life enemies, because of it. i also stirred up a lot of trouble on the official forums. but imo the biggest kill-joys in lineage right now aren't the bots but the petty, little, people who are bullying everyone they come in contact with because they are so sure that everyone but themselves are cheating. i know what i'm talking about because i was once one of those petty people.
but i've made my peace with lineage and the injustice that we play under. i remember ant caves and many of the players who were botting ant caves in 2006 who i reported over and over are still in the game. i remember all the bots farming iron and orc wizards, with their bad english and protector characters. ahmda had a pk count of over 500 when it was reset to 0 under the loa ruleset. that 500 was all bots.
i wouldn't give any advice that i'm not willing to take myself: if lineage isn't fun for you *as it is now* then you need to get out. go on, do something else and enjoy it. constantly witch hunting and eyeing every other player with suspician gets old fast. that's my advice.
i'll probably make one more post when i check out of the game again next month. until then have fun and i wish everyone great luck. *swak*
ahmda
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| Friday, December 8th, 2006
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4:07 pm - r.i.p. ahmda
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don't come here looking for me, i've left.
i'm done playing games that have no end. i'm done wasting my life.
it started as entertainment, then became a distraction and finally ended as an obsession. that was before i came to my senses, broke out of it's spell and wrestled myself free from it's cold grasp. we are not meant to live with some idle distraction to fill every single spare second of our lives and that's what lineage was for me: every second that i could play it, but wasn't, was lost progress. but empty progress, progress earned through the brute application of time instead of smarts, instead of skill. the rewards intangible and unsatisfying. empty. nothing like real life. it took me over 2 years of trying to quit lineage. when it ended i had traded my dreams and ambitions for a couple high level mages and 5 years of wasted life.
if the 1000s of hours that i spent playing lineage had been spent on just about anything else my life would more closely match my ambitions. i believe this without doubt and that thought has been a great motivator to make some life changes.
it's been about 3 months now. i've quit for longer before but this time i don't miss the game. i know i've quit for good. when i think about lineage i immediately think about the things i want to do in real life. i've finally put away this childish thing, i'm just glad i didn't lose my family over this. as it is i have drifted away from many of my friends, some of whom have died. the lost time with them can never be replaced.
no matter what you are born into your life is a blank canvas which will be filled with the product of your decisions. i want to fill my canvas with beauty and truth. i want to live intentionally, and pursue my dreams. i'm not going to sleep walk through life, i'm living life like i mean it.
if you're addicted to this game, or some other game, or to t.v., or mindless web surfing, or any other life-killer then i want to tell you that life can be exciting, vibrant and enjoyable. i want to tell that you can experience the lasting fulfillment and happiness that you haven't found. you don't have to sedate yourself with these things - there's a real, wonderful life that you can have. it may not be perfect, but you can make it a little better every day.
think about what you really, really want out of life. think about the times in your life when you have been truly happy. think about your purpose for being on this planet, or think about how you'd like to discover your purpose for being on this planet... you can make it happen. and i hope you do.
forever,
ahmda
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