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Reactivation Question
Naoli
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Is there something where you can get a 7 day reactivation on your old account? I wouldn't mind seeing what DAoC is all about these days, I do miss the RvR. Thanks
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Nope, at least not that I'm aware of anyway.
There is 15 day trial period but it's only on a new trial account. Either that or resub for a month.
Amafi
They just started a Come back to Camelot, where your old accounts will get 10 free days when you reactivate. But I've been reading people are not getting their 10 days and are getting billed for the month, since you need a credit card to activate the 10 free days.
I just resubbed as its probably the best of the oldies and it was dead. That was 90 days ago. They are still trying to charge 14.99 a month for a game that is no longer being updated as it should or supported. I think the real reason is if they dropped the price everyone would run from wowhammer back.
Come back to Camelot requires an email. It just isn't you reactivate. So when people went back to reactivate their accounts for the trail, they were not on the free 10 day.
People keep saying the game is dead. I am not saying the game is full of people, but I just don't see it being as barren as people are posting. I started a new toon and went through the tutorial. There were people there with new toons. I have found people late at night leveling new toons in Mag Mell. This afternoon I was in a level 20-25 group. We had a full group and ran some dungeons together.
In TNN, there were plenty of people crafting and people asking for things to be crafted or SC. I even saw someone looking for an Alc to make some dyes.
It was on the Devon cluster which includes Igraine, Tristan, Kay, Lancelot, Morgan, and some other ones I forget. Outside of housing, they are all merged into one server so it does not matter which one you pick. I was playing Hib. I will say I ran out to the level 19 BG and there was a half group of Albs taking the CK. I died a couple of times and went to level.
In my experience recently, there seems to be a trend. There are a bunch of people who want groups, but no one putting them together. In NF, people start groups easily and people all group up. You ask for an invite and you get it. In the Battlegrounds, people run around solo or following each other. If someone asks for a group, there is no answer. This is because no one has started a group. I think PvE is just like this. If you want a group, someone needs to take initative. If you send out a message in the LFG channel or /advice channel saying you are putting a group together to do X and give the level range, it seems easy to put a group together. In fact, half of the group left at one point and 5 minutes later we were back to a full group.
After midnight eastern last night there were 48 Hibs in Thid. There were at least 3 groups of people leveling in the beginning part of DF. Each group had 3-5 members in it. A FG of 50's came back from doing something deeper in the dungeon.
By 1:30am there were still 25 Hibs in Thid (and most of them were moving so only a couple of bots). There was at least 1 FG of mids running around and 5 Albs in a group. Those were just the ones killing all the Hibs as they came out of HPK. Probably more around.
Just a tid bit for ya..........
Caemlotherald has stated they are working on merging all the servers into 1 aside from Mordred/Ghaeris.
I am an old DAOC vet and was thinking of comming back and reading this info at different sources seems like a great idea.
Only negative thing is I THINK it will be TOA based server. I know TOA was a major downfall for me and led me to leaving Daoc, but I wouldn't mind trying it again if it's all on one server. Higher population count makes RVR that much more fun.
Just haven't decided if I want to come back as I was a full time Andred/Mordred player. I am jaded to RVR as full time 24 hours a day pvp was the most excitement for me on those 2 servers I have ever experienced. That aside DAOC's RVR still holds up as one of the best if not the best. Never did SB or UO so can't make that claim myself.
Here is the deal. The servers without ToA are dead. I do not think they should have been launched to start with. The reason why is a couple months down the line, they fixed ToA. Once the novelty of the servers wore off, those who came back left and those from other DAOC servers quickly got bored and went back to their regular servers.
I guess it depends on your point of view, but ToA is nothing like what most people remember. Almost all ML steps can be done in solo or group. You can purchase ML step credits with bounty points. Scroll drops are very common. You can level artifacts anywhere and it takes no time at all. Spend a night out in NF and all of them will be level.
ToA is now what it should have been - a group based expansion, not a raid based expansion. While final details have not be released, to compensate those on the non ToA servers, they are going to make additional changes to ToA. It might include the ability to trade artifacts and ML credit.
It may turn out that you still hate ToA, and others might as well, but I just think it deserves a second chance. People should not be scared away from trying it again because they remember how bad it was playing ToA.
Ill try it too.
Hell to the NO to RMT!!
I couldn't agree with this more. The list of bugs in DAoC has gotten longer, and longer, and longer. I have not sene an honest attempt to correct any issues in this game in over 4 years. It's no wonder so many people have quit playing it. (The game is down from it's initial 250,000 or so subscribers to less than 3,000, not including people's bots.)
It's barely a $9.99 value nowadays.
There are at least 15000-25000 player left worldwide, you keep forgetting in EU there are still 2 Cluster alive and in US the clusters have at any time people on. So, don't say there are only 3000 people left...that's not correct.
No, actually, I'm not. The stats are right there on the Camelot Herald. Let's look at how many people are logged in at this very moment:
North America 1,061
GOA Europe 0
Worldwide 1,061
If what you said was true, with even 150,000 people left, that number would be remarkably higher, even for such an odd hour as this. And the EU number would list at least 1 person. But they aren't, and it doesn't. (Granted, it's not prime time, but still, come on, EU doesn't even have 1 person playing.) And even at prime time, you won't see more than 3-4,000 people playing worldwide. And no, there's no way anyone can convince me that the missing 146,000-246,000 people are subscribing to DAoC and just not playing the game.
DAoC is so freakishly close to dead, it's amazing that it hasn't been completely shut down.
And, as a matter of fact, this is actually when a lot of east coast players are waking up and logging in to DAoC to kick some people's arses before going to work or school. So the number online should have gone up, but since my last post, it's gone down to 1036.
(And still not a soul in EU.)
Just because it isn't listed doesn't mean there are no players. Fact is GOA changed their xms code, the result is on Camelot-Herald there are no longer any numbers listed. We have to PT around 2600-3000 player added to US-Numbers which are pretty similar just not only to PT for US but to PT for EU as well makes a round about 15000-25000 players left.
As a matter of fact I play on EU Servers...I should know.
Edit:
Nobody speaks of 150000 players. There are most likely arround 15000-25000 players left. How do I get this numbers? If we followed your argumentation there are 24/7 the same people on US-Clusters....anybody knows that's not logical. People log in when they can log in means if 4000 log in to pt, you can add at least 4000 who log in at a different time or once in a while. Same goes for EU.
He did say 15,000 not 150,000. If you assume that the same ration of players exists between the number of people on during peak hours and total subscription numbers when DAOC had 250k players, then the 15k-25k range would be correct. It would be around 18k just for the US servers
None of this matters. It isn't how many people subscribe, but how many people are on when a person is playing. What is more important is how much you enjoy the game.
Is DAOC community perfect? No. Is it worse than it was before? Yes. Is it worse than other games? No, it is better. Sometimes things do not get answered in the advice channel and something there will be a dickish comment, but these are the exceptions not the general way things are.
I will give you a clue. In other newer games, people go and attack mobs you pull. If you are dying, they let you die. If you need a rez, they walk by. They will steal you camp, or use you to clear a path so they can get to the NPC boss you are trying to kill first and make you wait for a respawn. Global chat is filled with people talking about WoW, talking about sex, and being asses to each other.
In DAOC, that does not really happen. I was in DF a few days ago and about to die. A ranger killed the target. He then apologized if he stole the kill, but was worried I was about the die. I died later on, and asked for a rez and got one. The chat was mostly empty, but when it was it was telling people about some Mids and where they were at to warn people.
People respected each other's camps. Someone new to the game that was in a group came and stole me kill. The other members of his group yelled at him. He apologized and the group to make it up to me gave me buffs from their druid.
I prefer that behavior over the crap that is in other games.
If you're going to troll, at least pay attention. I specifically said 250,000 1 post before you showed up. Trolls don't read that far back or what?
And really, f^&* GOA. Every single person that I've met on the US servers that came over from GOA has been an arrogant SOB. So arrogant, in fact, that even players from Mordred (who practically invented egotism in DAoC) looked humble by comparison. With as many of them as I've met on the US servers, I don't buy that there are over 3,000 to 4,000 or more of them left in the game over there.
Log directly into any realm, and type "/who all". I would bet every coin on every single one of my characters (and I'm LGM everything on Bossiney, LGM on 4 crafts on Devon, so I've got boatloads of platinum) that the /who all doesn't return a result of more than 1,000 people for any single realm at any time of the day. Someone was even talking about that on the VN forums the other day, how Albion (or whatever) had something like 832 people online, (insert their realm here) had 64, during a relic raid.
The fact remains. Nowadays, you will never see more than 3,000 to 4,000 people (buff bots not included) online in DAoC, and they sure as hell aren't all on the same cluster. (And speaking of buffbots, I should have noted in my earlier post that of that 1061, probably 30% of the 900+ that were on Devon were buffbots, which brings the number of people online even lower.)
Yep. There it is. I like how you said I "keep forgetting", too, as if we've had this discussion before. I had a good rofl over that one.