MMORPG's?

[tnturner]

Any of you guys playing any MMORPGs at the moment? I just quit WOW at the end of last year. Picked up dabbling in Ultima Online again. Just curious if you guys were into that genre or just the FPS / Console variety.

[Ben Rimes]

I used to play Star Wars Galaxies when it first came out (a brilliant game for the first few years). I played a Wookiee Engineer (go figure), but also dabbled a bit in the politician skills and eventually was mayor of a small city on Naboo outside of Keren.

I played for two years, but after the baby came my wife and I both stopped playing since we didn't really have time to put into it. That and when it was basic wide-spread knowledge on how to unlock your "force sensitive" character, the whole game just turned into a lame, Jedi-infested griefer fest and pretty much ruined any role-playing, Star Wars continuinity the game had left.

It was a great game though. I loved doing all the missions for Jaba and speeding across Tatooine in my landcruiser. Spent a lot of good time just cruising around the pretty planets with other people, but ultimately the jedi-kiddies ruined it for a lot of role-playing people like myself and most of the peoplethat lived in my city. :(

[tnturner]

Isn't always the 'kiddies', or as my guildmaster calls them, 'fat fingered kiddies', who ruin the games for everyone. I know that UO has always had a problem with duping and speed hacking. The guys over at UO though have been VERY good at catching and banning the offenders though. After almost 10 years they are releasing a new client that supposedly will remove all of that possibility from the lands of Brittania...we shall see :)

[elevatedfly]

I play Earth 2025 and Ogame online currently - both being browser-based games. They don't take a lot of time (with a wife and kids - a MUST!) and they are enjoyable enough to be worth doing on a daily basis.

I've not really ever had the time to put into true MMORPGs, but the new Lord of the Rings world might draw me in - time constraints or not.

[Ben Rimes]

I played a game very similar to earth 2025 way back in the early mids 90s on one of the BBS sites I visited. It was a sci-fi space based empire building game. Rather than start with your own country, you started with your own planet and then had to build your fleet, mine asteroid fields, build up an economy, etc.

I always sucked at it, and every time I dialed back into the system I found that some neighboring armada had come and completely destroyed my planet and it's measly fleet :(

[elevatedfly]

I played that game...Trade Wars!!!!

Then my buddy got another version of it called Pimp Wars. It was a lot more fun ;)

[Aaron Smith]

I don't know if you'd call it a game (some do, some don't), but I'm an on-again-off-again Second Life player. I also played a lot of "Legend of the Red Dragon" when I was in college, and went so far as to install an open source version of L.O.R.D. on my current web site's server.

[tnturner]

Not sure if I would classify Second Life as a game just yet Aaron. If you have read Tom Clancy's Net Force Series of books, that is what I view Second Life as. I think Second Life will be a spring board to seeing VR implemented on a wide scale basis as a follow up to this at some point.

[Aaron Smith]

What about Legend of the Green Dragon? It's more a type of MUD than some fancy 3D environment, but I always liked it. This installation of mine hasn't had a lot of activity in a while, but it still works and I'm in the process of editing an offline copy to make it applicable for my students. (Not just age-appropriate, but content-appropriate as well.)