Aion Update

Game live! 300 newbies in village selling rusted broken crappy armor they looted off of bugs. Already gold spammers there set up to buy gold online. Off to a craptastic newbish start. Supposedly the most presales and preorders of any mmo this year. But I think half of that are for account sellers and gold farmers. Gotta see how this progresses.

Star Wars Galaxies Update

Wasn't it just the other day I was complaining about my vendors being randomly deleted for no reason? Even the non trader vendors that were for decoration. Well, SOE is at it again. This time we've been forced off our server. They're closing random servers (clearly random since some of the original servers are goin down while newer ones stay opened). Had to pick up entire city, street lamps, city hall, guild hall, statues, gardens, fountains, banners, braziers, items from one toon that were in another toons house, houses, factories, harvesters, shops, tents, cantina, medical center, garage, castle, warehouse, everything! And of course, to get money back from city treasury before I go will take a week and a half just in itself. Only the mayor can withdraw, one withdrawl per day, max of 150k per withdrawal. So that's some crap right there. Anyhow, attempting to move myself, alts and hopefully friends from Lowca to Shadowfire cause it won after a name elimination process lol. We'll have to see what's left of the city and guild after the move. Gonna lose a lot of items on this one. Items that no longer exist in game that once picked up poof completely.

Aion Update

Beta ended. Spent four hours making toon with the crazy amount of options and then less than one hour playing before it ended. Pretty game, runs well, no real issues I could find. At lower levels it's exactly like any other mmo. The UI is like a clone of LotRO or EQ2 or even Guild Wars. Which is good, takes only seconds to get comfortable with controls and grab a few quests and kill some rodent looking creatures. Only got to level three but that likely has to do with the amount of time I spent redoing keymapping. Didn't need to change that many keys actually, the default is pretty much the same as any other mmo. Was just a couple keys I moved around. Anyhow, can't wait for this to go live on the 22nd. I was just getting into it when they were like "Logout now! Servers coming down in 30 seconds for end of beta." I was like damn, I just got here. lol

Game Updates

EverQuest

Finally got invited to officially app. to Fates Unbroken. After a month of guest raiding to app to be an app. Yeah anyhow, was truly heartwrenching, tear jerking feeling to deguild from Stasis. Hope this all works out.

EverQuest II

Logged in expecting to get server discovery for this months EQ2 LoN scenario reward and for the second time now someone beat me to it and I finished in under five mins. from it's launch. So, not sure how this keep happening. Will try to track down if it's been the same person both times when I get up the willpower to deal with the eq2players site from hell.

Legends of Norrath

Think I may finally have found a workaround for the priest light quest deck vs. cloud elemental issue. More on this as it develops.

City of Heroes / City of Villains

Haven't done much here in months. Every 21 days I was logging in my toons to get their day job badges, temp powers and accolades then moving them to a new spot for next day job. But I even got too lazy to do that and it's been probably two months or so now. Still one of the best games ever but I just haven't had the time or motivation lately with recent events in other games.

Lord of the Rings Online

Getting bored finally. Was so hooked for some time. Then those that I know that play became bored and either quit playing or just play and are as bored as me lol. Main toon maxed on level, available gear, all 3 crafting things in her vocatiion. Alt. fun to play but content not so fun second time through. So that's kinda a pita. And all my toons are like prema broke. I barely have the silver for rent, repairs, and transportation like ever.

Star Wars Galaxies

I'm just about as done with this game as I'll ever be at this point. I kept the guild and city alive for years holding the same area of land on Naboo. Logged in the other day for my monthly vendor restock and they deleted ALL my vendors, all items on them too including some rare can't even get in game anymore items. Not to mention more than 10 full factory runs of synth cloth crates. I respec'd trader from tailor to engineer so can't even make more schematics for those. And the worst part is the many HOURS I spent creating deleting and recreating vendors till I got ones that looked how I wanted them. AND, they had on old pre nerf'd Imperial uniforms that you use to get from faction vendors that don't exist anymore either. That's just about the last straw. I don't know why they keep updating this game so massively. Adding dozens of new droids and droid parts, and all new buildings with windows you can actually see out of to see friends approaching on their speeders... err that would be IF ANYONE STILL PLAYED THE GAME! Wake up SOE! They get rid of the Matrix online yet they keep SWG and Vanguard and Pirates of the Burning Crap? ooook

Aion

Purchased pre-order of Aion on Steam cause mesa like Steam more than disks that take up space get lost and are basically tangible breakable things destined to become an issue at some point while digital media takes up no physical space and can be reaquired within a few hours no muss no fuss (usually heh). Hello... run on sentence. Anyhow, hope game doesn't suck lol. I just want to fight while in flight.

Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic

Finally got off my lazy ass and bought this classic game. Odd for such a Star Wars fan to go so long without one of the best rated Star Wars games of all time when I have so many other Star Wars games. Anyhow, yeah downloading it now.

General Update

Changed name of "UPDATE NOTES & NEWS" to "UPDATES, NEWS, & RECENT EVENTS"

Attempting to make text easier to read with bullets, indents, bold, and underline...it's not working.

Changing many of the links to individual pages to link now offsite to actual game profiles or character pages instead so that I do not have to update 20 or more pages all the time and can just update this one page. This not really feesible for most SOE games as the sites really don't list all my toons from all accounts in one place like NCSoft games or even Magelo.

Adding dynamic or what I call semi-dynamic sigs for various non-newbie toons to bottom of page, probably below news unless that looks tacky then might move it above news. This remains to be seen. dynamic sigs are ones that either update automatically as you play your toons or are updated through an application such as magelo or titan network tracker glycerine, or the like. What I call semi-dynamic are ones that have updated info but aren't done automatically, they have to be recreated manually by me when changes take place. These are mostly limited to Lord of the Rings Online at this time thank goodness.

Huge amount of news today since this is mostly my first entry am clarifying my position in several games at this point in time.

I've only decided to add all this info to this page because apparently I've made more of a name for myself across the mmo world(s) than I thought as I see one blog that simply says I don't do blogs has 140something views and it's like one sentence. And a couple other things I've had up have also received vies and visits in the several hundred. So, on that note, I've come to the conclusion that someone somewhere seems to find what I'm doing, which is mostly nothing, interesting. Hence the section YOU are now reading.

General Update

Added new section "UPDATE NOTES & NEWS"!

Removed old section "Krystae's Top 100 Games" for two reasons. One, I never got past 22. And two, the top ten changed every couple days with my mood. This section to be readded at a later date...a much later date.