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I am considering buying Darkfall but have some questions!!!
busbydaniel
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Hi all, I have been playing WOW for sometime now ever since I left SWG due to the disastrous NGE. I was considering Darkfall but ever since the terrible reviews it had when it first launched I have steered clear of it. Now however I have heard some really positive things about it. I love player housing and RP within military guilds so I have the following questions:
- Is Darkfall much better than it was or was this just rumours?
- Is the player housing like SWG?
- Is there any RP in Darkfall? If there is are there RP Military guilds?
- Does the Darkfall server/s have a good population?
- Whats the crafting like? Better or worse than the master SWG?
Your help would be appreciated guys.
Thanks
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I believe it's come a long way, and is a very worthy game right now that provides great entertainment to people that want this kind of entertainment.
Player housing is not like SWG at all. Basically there are villages all over the map with new ones added with this expansion. Each village has plots for cottages, houses, villas, and large villas where a player may find a deed say in a random chaos chest in the world and place their house on it. Then you pay taxes at the rate of 10gp per hour due every 72 hours (720gp every 3 days). After that you have 8 days to pay the amount as it increases 10gp per hour. If you don't your house crumbles and someone else can take your plot with their own deed. Village control points are vulnerable every 6 hours and guilds can capture them for income on the taxes of the village which means guilds will fight for control of the village regardless of your standing with them. This expansion is adding more items, but right now most are decoration with a couple items like a garden or crafting station. Localized banking inside of houses is supposed to happen this expansion as well.
Population is great from what I can tell. I am always playing with a guild though in our guild city with at least 5-10 members on constantly, and upwards of 40 to 50 at peak times. It was also good when I came back in the human starting areas, but many people leave these places quickly to join their guilds in cities and hamlets. The population will increase after transfers as well. This is NA-1.
Crafting is basic, collect all mats, craft items. It is cool in that every item in the game pretty much is craftable. From little weak swords all the way to massive siege weapons and massive naval ships.
I am a big SWG Pre CU fan myself and a Darkfall fan.
An overall warning FFA full loot PvP is the dominating ruleset on Agon, you willhave to adapt to it.
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You obviously forgot SWG's '/harvest' command and its macroing
Also the famous unattended macro loops get you crafter profession masterys ?
What about unattented autoattack aggro mobs over night to get master in SWG, or the famous tumble / heal combo partnership and its macroing like sychronized swimming competition ?
Don't look down at DF..
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$OE - eternal enemy of online gaming
-We finally WON !!!! 2011 $OE accepted that they have been fired 2005 by the playerbase and closed down ridiculous NGE !!
"There was suppression of speech and all kinds of things between disturbing and fascistic." Raph Koster (parted $OE)
Thank you for your comments guys they are appreciated.
You obviously forgot SWG's '/harvest' command and its macroing
No i didn't forget that, but it's still totally different kind of macroing. In this you get a 3rd party macro program (you can choose not to, but be prepared for massive fingertip hemorrage if you decide to do these tasks manually), smack it in the backround, get to the harvest spot, click the macro on play and move to watching the TV
You obviously forgot SWG's '/harvest' command and its macroing
No i didn't forget that, but it's still totally different kind of macroing. In this you get a 3rd party macro program (you can choose not to, but be prepared for massive fingertip hemorrage if you decide to do these tasks manually), smack it in the backround, get to the harvest spot, click the macro on play and move to watching the TV
You didn't have to use third party softwarein SWG because SWG shiped with an macro language and all tools you needed off the bat
I loved SWG PRE CU but i take both games on their own merits and value them both.
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$OE - eternal enemy of online gaming
-We finally WON !!!! 2011 $OE accepted that they have been fired 2005 by the playerbase and closed down ridiculous NGE !!
"There was suppression of speech and all kinds of things between disturbing and fascistic." Raph Koster (parted $OE)
And a piece of advice for the OP, if your going to try DF, coming straight from WoW will be a helluwa bumpy ride, this game is really unforgivin in terms of hardcore FFA-pvp ruleset with full pvp-loot.
So thinking that starting this game will be anything of a smooth landing, it is not, you will lose your stuff over and over again and you just have to deal with it if you intend to stay for longer than the first 2 days. (don't get me wrong, i stayed for a little over 2 months, the game just didn't cut the cheese for me in the long run)
1. No it was supposed to be feature complete, and about 33% of those features made it in at 100%, and after 10 months still not even close to feature complete.
2. The house in darkfull sucks, there is no point to it, except to have a bindstone point, so you can travel to your house. All the stuff you get for your house is pratically worthless. SWG is 1000 times better.
3. RP? lol no, I would say maybe 1 guild of 10 people on each server(2 servers) are rp guilds. The rest are just PVPERS who like full loot.
4. No darkfall is dying, EU and NA servers are both very very horrible population, The servers were meant to have 7,500-10k concurrent people on it at a time(at least 5k), I would say it is closer to around 500-1000 tops concurrent people playing actively on it.
5. Crafting is horrible simple and tedious, Not even close to SWG, the gathering is even worse. you can not customize any weapons or have any options in crafting them, they give you 10 tiers of armor and you need to craft 1000 of level 1 teirs to get to level tier 2, and then vendor all the level teir 1 armor, because no one will buy it.
Also you can not really be a crafter in this game, trading sucks atm, alliances have at least1-5 alts that have 100 in every crafting tree. No skill cap on crafting skills make it very east to do this and worthless to be a crafter and try to make gold.
Any other questions? I played for 7 months and seen it all and Play A LOT of DFO.
Without going into details/excuses/justifications, you may want to wait for the next "expansion" and check back.
Probably not a lot of help, but those are my answers/opinions.
Good luck with whatever you decide.
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Definitely good advice that you should consider. So many good changes on the way it would be worth the wait.
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