Your "Top 10" Favorite things about Shattered.

[IorakeWarhammer]

Post your "Top 10" favorite things about shattered / or clips of what happened already..

My #1 fav: The fact that no items exist or older players to help people along..

[Kitsun]

Captainpicard with his phaser, phaser holster, uniform and U.S.S. Enterprise is goddamn epic.
The whole collection of insanely bad names all cropping up at once.

[Sam]

1. I'm not playing..
2. Hopefully it won't be a total novelty and some people will actually quit prime and sell some good shit that otherwise would never move.
3. I expect more very humorous logs to come

[thefarmer]

2. Hopefully it won't be a total novelty and some people will actually quit prime and sell some good shit that otherwise would never move.


Since their prime account would still be active, I doubt this will happen.

[Sam]

Since their prime account would still be active, I doubt this will happen.

Yeah... Maybe once some sort of economy is established and higher end items show up in Shattered and people decide they want some cash to buy shit there, and use their prime gear to get said cash..

[SpiffyJr]

2. Hopefully it won't be a total novelty and some people will actually quit prime and sell some good shit that otherwise would never move.

Hopefully they quit Shattered and go back to Prime.

[Geshron]

Hopefully they quit Shattered and go back to Prime.

This

[Tilnam]

I think i saw 80 people at most last night. The thing with these types of servers is they get a lot at the start. Everyone wants to try out a brand new pvp server. But the population ALWAYS dies down. I can't see how fun it can be playing a pvp gemstone that has such a HUGE level range and with such few people..


That being said, I think one major flaw they had was splitting up the spawning area on a server that is such low population. I was pissed to find out i was forced to spawn in EN. There was maybe 3 other people in that area whereas everyone else who was having fun (including the GMs) were in the landing. This may have contributed to me quitting so early because my play time is limited as it is and I didn't want to spend 30+ minutes just to get to the area I want to play.

I really don't think they will pull in as many old players as they think. Maybe because charging an extra $5 to try and get old players to return isn't such a good idea.

[Inspire]

I think i saw 80 people at most last night. The thing with these types of servers is they get a lot at the start. Everyone wants to try out a brand new pvp server. But the population ALWAYS dies down. I can't see how fun it can be playing a pvp gemstone that has such a HUGE level range and with such few people..


That being said, I think one major flaw they had was splitting up the spawning area on a server that is such low population. I was pissed to find out i was forced to spawn in EN. There was maybe 3 other people in that area whereas everyone else who was having fun (including the GMs) were in the landing. This may have contributed to me quitting so early because my play time is limited as it is and I didn't want to spend 30+ minutes just to get to the area I want to play.

I really don't think they will pull in as many old players as they think. Maybe because charging an extra $5 to try and get old players to return isn't such a good idea.

Reroll and you'll be born in hopefully another city.

[Sam]

Hopefully they quit Shattered and go back to Prime.

Well yeah, that would be ideal, but I was trying to stay on topic.

[Tilnam]

Reroll and you'll be born in hopefully another city.

Tried that 4 times. I don't know if elves are forced to start in EN or not since i've never made a pure elf before, but thats where it placed me everytime. Oh well I probably don't play enough anyways to stay competitive with levels in shattered :P

[Drunken Durfin]

Since their prime account would still be active, I doubt this will happen.

I am keeping Durfin, and will continue to play in prime. But, I am going to be liquidating the last of my goodies now that Shattered is running.

[SpiffyJr]

Tried that 4 times. I don't know if elves are forced to start in EN or not since i've never made a pure elf before, but thats where it placed me everytime. Oh well I probably don't play enough anyways to stay competitive with levels in shattered :P

Racials play a large role in where you start. Halflings in Icemule, Elves in Vaalor, Humans in the Landing, etc.

[thefarmer]

I am keeping Durfin, and will continue to play in prime. But, I am going to be liquidating the last of my goodies now that Shattered is running.

Weren't you liquidating anyway though? Even before Shattered? Or was that someone else.

Either way, I guess I didn't count on the few people that don't care about the few extra bucks will go that route to stick around GS.

[Fallen]

Weren't you liquidating anyway though? Even before Shattered? Or was that someone else.

Either way, I guess I didn't count on the few people that don't care about the few extra bucks will go that route to stick around GS.

I think he was liquidating in anticipation of Shattered. No sense in waiting for everyone to do it all at once.

[Asha]

I sympathise with not playing Shattered because of the characters with leet levelling scripts or uber amounts of time to play, leaving you fucked at a low level.
Although it's not the reason I am not playing.

[Fallen]

I sympathise with not playing Shattered because of the characters with leet levelling scripts or uber amounts of time to play, leaving you fucked at a low level.
Although it's not the reason I am not playing.

The people that are script hunting will probably stay script hunting for a long time.

[SpiffyJr]

Weren't you liquidating anyway though? Even before Shattered? Or was that someone else.

Either way, I guess I didn't count on the few people that don't care about the few extra bucks will go that route to stick around GS.

I liquidated.

[Asha]

Yes definitely. They'll still have a clear overall advantage in the end though.
To be fair I think you'd be missing the point of shattered if you didn't script hunt to cap and then kick the living shit out of everyone in a single player or team invasion.

[Fallen]

Yes definitely. They'll still have a clear overall advantage in the end though.
To be fair I think you'd be missing the point of shattered if you didn't script hunt to cap and then kick the living shit out of everyone in a single player or team invasion.

Other than for scripting nuts, or for those that want a good laugh opening month, yeah, I don't think there is much point in Shattered.

[Ryvicke]

Other than for scripting nuts, or for those that want a good laugh opening month, yeah, I don't think there is much point in Shattered.

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[Eoghain]

Evarin, you should be seeing this opening week hilarity. it's PRICELESS.

[Senglent]

Ehh I have a Plat account as does Jay and a few others, So it's not like it costs me anymore a month.

Mostly I wanted to see all the hub-bub and have that feel of everyone being pretty much on par from the start.

It had me laughing this morning and afternoon while I was in today, the crap the GM's are pulling and doing to mess with the scripters. All the goofball alters that never get allowed. So far it's just funny I can see about half of the people quiting by the end of the month though.

[Drinin]

Not sure how long I'll keep the account open, but I'm having fun.

[Kitsun]

For five bucks I may just keep my one prem account live with Shattered just to screw around with as Deadpool.

[Tea & Strumpets]

It sounds a lot like the test servers that they had when they switched to GS4, with all the goofy alterations, etc. Most of the logs seem pretty stupid to me. I think if I rolled up a new character called "Penisface", I would be hailed as a comedic genius in Shattered.

[Drew]

For five bucks I may just keep my one prem account live with Shattered just to screw around with as Deadpool.

Ahh so you were deadpool.

[Drew]

It sounds a lot like the test servers that they had when they switched to GS4, with all the goofy alterations, etc. Most of the logs seem pretty stupid to me. I think if I rolled up a new character called "Penisface", I would be hailed as a comedic genius in Shattered.

You sound like the kind of person who thinks rapping is just talking over a beat.

[Back]

It sounds a lot like the test servers that they had when they switched to GS4, with all the goofy alterations, etc. Most of the logs seem pretty stupid to me. I think if I rolled up a new character called "Penisface", I would be hailed as a comedic genius in Shattered.

I dunno... thats a little highbrow for this crowd.

[IorakeWarhammer]

anyone hit level 10 yet?

[TheEschaton]

I dunno... thats a little highbrow for this crowd.

Says the douche in a scarf.

[Fallen]

Honestly, Shattered made a lot of people happy. In my book, that's a plus. I don't think it will draw away any hardcore roleplayers. It WILL shrink the prime pop, but it is mostly drawing people who are just sort of in the background, either because they are scripters, or they don't like constantly trying to hunt down interaction. In Shattered, they will be able to socialize freely, and hang out with their friends on their own terms. I think that's pretty neat.

If I were amongst the Shattered community, I would DEFINITELY push for portals.

[Tea & Strumpets]

You sound like the kind of person who thinks rapping is just talking over a beat.

Yeah, well you're ugly.

[IorakeWarhammer]

Honestly, Shattered made a lot of people happy. In my book, that's a plus. I don't think it will draw away any hardcore roleplayers. It WILL shrink the prime pop, but it is mostly drawing people who are just sort of in the background, either because they are scripters, or they don't like constantly trying to hunt down interaction. In Shattered, they will be able to socialize freely, and hang out with their friends on their own terms. I think that's pretty neat.

If I were amongst the Shattered community, I would DEFINITELY push for portals.

i agree. also people wil be drawn to shattered because there are no older players with millions of coins to seed their newbies. it will be more like the old school GS

[Fallen]

i agree. also people wil be drawn to shattered because there are no older players with millions of coins to seed their newbies. it will be more like the old school GS

Eh. With Lich/Psinet and the proliferation of MAing, I don't see it being long before you have serious powerbases like you do in GS.

[HJFudge]

Thats one of the main reasons I am liking shattered.

My top ten:

1. The ability to have a Fresh Start and explore a Brave New World
2. The ability to script things whilst I sleep that I dont wanna sit there and stare at the screen for hours to do (Im lookin at you, Forging)
3. The ability to roleplay exactly how I feel my character should, without worrying about REPORT or WARN INTERACTION or whatever. I can just DO it and not worry about the out of game consequences of my actions.
4. The ability to establish new 'cred from scratch and to become involved in the community. Because my time was so...sparse and spastic in Prime (and when I played Platinum) I made only a few real friends I RPed with (they are gone now). So, hopefully, I will meet like minded RPers here. We'll see :)
5. The ability to just 'go wild'. I havent started any real RPing yet because the first couple weeks is going to be a whoooole lotta Letting off of Steam. So I am just having fun with weird and crazy shit.
6. Someone annoying you? Deal with it. Permanently. With a lance to their face.
7. Since this will be a lower pop server, more chance for neat things like Alters/actual merchant stuff/etc. Now, this all depends on if the GM's, after having fun, are willing to actually do some cool shit for us. I think there will be at least one that will.
8. Any name I want? You got it.
9. Killing fictional characters. Hermoine is going to die.
10. I think this is important enough to list again: Fresh Start.

Once again, I do plan on doing some serious RPing with my serious character. I have a fun character (Mohammed) for when I wanna dick around.

[Corli]

i agree. also people wil be drawn to shattered because there are no older players with millions of coins to seed their newbies. it will be more like the old school GS

For now, anyway.... :P

[Sam]

For now, anyway.... :P

Exactly.. I've seen that as a lot people's reason for wanting to play..

In a few months, there will be MA scripting crews in their 50's at least, and if treasure mechanics stay the same, all the higher end folks will be getting great loot since their hunting areas will be very underhunted.

The wealth/power gap is going to expand very quickly.

edit: I do see the appeal of having a fresh start, and getting the chance to be one of those on the top tier... I just don't think I could compete and would end up in the same boat I'm in now, except with less money.

[SpiffyJr]

Exactly.. I've seen that as a lot people's reason for wanting to play..

In a few months, there will be MA scripting crews in their 50's at least, and if treasure mechanics stay the same, all the higher end folks will be getting great loot since their hunting areas will be very underhunted.

The wealth/power gap is going to expand very quickly.

edit: I do see the appeal of having a fresh start, and getting the chance to be one of those on the top tier... I just don't think I could compete and would end up in the same boat I'm in now, except with less money.

Still, there's 20 years of wealth spread out in GS Prime. It's going to take a long time for anyone to catch up to that in Shat.

[Asha]

lol Shat

[Parkbandit]

Thats one of the main reasons I am liking shattered.

My top ten:

1. The ability to have a Fresh Start and explore a Brave New World
2. The ability to script things whilst I sleep that I dont wanna sit there and stare at the screen for hours to do (Im lookin at you, Forging)
3. The ability to roleplay exactly how I feel my character should, without worrying about REPORT or WARN INTERACTION or whatever. I can just DO it and not worry about the out of game consequences of my actions.
4. The ability to establish new 'cred from scratch and to become involved in the community. Because my time was so...sparse and spastic in Prime (and when I played Platinum) I made only a few real friends I RPed with (they are gone now). So, hopefully, I will meet like minded RPers here. We'll see :)
5. The ability to just 'go wild'. I havent started any real RPing yet because the first couple weeks is going to be a whoooole lotta Letting off of Steam. So I am just having fun with weird and crazy shit.
6. Someone annoying you? Deal with it. Permanently. With a lance to their face.
7. Since this will be a lower pop server, more chance for neat things like Alters/actual merchant stuff/etc. Now, this all depends on if the GM's, after having fun, are willing to actually do some cool shit for us. I think there will be at least one that will.
8. Any name I want? You got it.
9. Killing fictional characters. Hermoine is going to die.
10. I think this is important enough to list again: Fresh Start.

Once again, I do plan on doing some serious RPing with my serious character. I have a fun character (Mohammed) for when I wanna dick around.

:rofl:

So you are going to do some serious roleplaying with Goatse, Pedobear, Cunt and Nigger? Have you ever tried to roleplay with people that have no interest in roleplaying?

[HJFudge]

:rofl:

So you are going to do some serious roleplaying with Goatse, Pedobear, Cunt and Nigger? Have you ever tried to roleplay with people that have no interest in roleplaying?

I wont be roleplaying with them.

And yes I have. Thats like...90% of Prime.

[Parkbandit]

I wont be roleplaying with them.

And yes I have. Thats like...90% of Prime.

And 99% of Shattered.

Well, make sure you post the logs of these roleplays..

[Asha]

EH? You say clearly you want to find friends to RP with..
Then you say to PB I won't be roleplaying with them?

[fenrus]

EH? You say clearly you want to find friends to RP with..
Then you say to PB I won't be roleplaying with them?

I don't think Goatse, Pedobear, Cunt and Nigger are his friends

Some people are actually RPing their gimmick characters

Anyways, its the same people from prime -- it isn't like SIMU went out and got a bunch of new customers for Shattered. Clearly they have some interest in RP or GS to stick around for 15 years

[HJFudge]

EH? You say clearly you want to find friends to RP with..
Then you say to PB I won't be roleplaying with them?

Pedobear, Cunt, Nigger and such? No. I probably wont. I will have fun with them with my joke characters, sure. But when I want to RP? They wont be the people Im looking up.

Is this like...hard to understand for people? Really? Sometimes I think PB (PB makes him sound like a sandwich, and that makes me hungry) and the like are...FAKING ignorance just to mess with folks. Because its very hard to believe anyone could be so dense.

[Asha]

lol so ok you're RP serious shit away from Pedobear like you said, then Pedocuntlobster walks in and says he wants to frig your girlfriend off with his rubber claws. It's gonna be tough.

[HJFudge]

lol so ok you're RP serious shit away from Pedobear like you said, then Pedocuntlobster walks in and says he wants to frig your girlfriend off with his rubber claws. It's gonna be tough.

That might happen, sure.

But what happens in prime is this:

Nehor sits on Town Square (or North Market when he's in Solhaven) having a nonchalant discussion on faith with a couple bards and a wizard. Wizard gets upset because I mock his faith. He leaves.

All fine so far.

A minute later, UBER LVL 100 comes in and wastes me. "I HERD U WERE TALKIN BOUT FIATH BAD! I KILL U FOR IT IN CHARACTER CAUSE IM RELIGUS!!! HARRRRRR

In your example, I can ignore the interactions I dont wanna deal with (or kill him even just cause he annoys me). In my example, im dead. Hard to ignore dead.

Sure, I could go tattle to the GMs but that goes against my nature.

[Ryvicke]

lol so ok you're RP serious shit away from Pedobear like you said, then Pedocuntlobster walks in and says he wants to frig your girlfriend off with his rubber claws. It's gonna be tough.

This. Clawfucker is probably going to be 2x your level cause he scripting while you're busy act ::'ing and he's going to make you look silly for even trying.

Don't get me wrong--RP'ing in a brand new instance of gemstone sounds fucking fantastic but somehow I'm doubting that this is the one that's going to be great for that. I could be wrong though--maybe the RP'ers could just take over Teras or RR and have high enough level chars to enforce the obedience of all the various cunts and lobsters.

[Kithus]

How long before Clawfucker and the rest get bored? I'd like to think that at some point acting like a retard is going to get old. People are "going nuts" now because of the novelty of the new, rules free instance. Eventually these gimmick characters are going to become so much background noise and they'll fade away as they stop receiving the attention that their parents obviously didn't give them enough of as children.

Then again it's quickly become obvious that the maturity level on staff these days has fallen to an all time low. With Solomon leading the way I'm not surprised.

[Fallen]

Some people will be able to seriously roleplay in the face of blatant, often grief-based OOC behavior. Some people wont. I don't envy the task of actually attempting to do so.

[grossm]

On the subject of merchants doing ridiculous shit in Shattered, I was just wondering ...

Has it occurred to anyone to hit up a GM for like 40 points of weighting on a dagger or are we so accustomed to the no-weighting mentality that it didn't even cross anyone's mind to ask?

I don't see balance being of any particular concern over there ...

[Ryvicke]

On the subject of merchants doing ridiculous shit in Shattered, I was just wondering ...

Has it occurred to anyone to hit up a GM for like 40 points of weighting on a dagger or are we so accustomed to the no-weighting mentality that it didn't even cross anyone's mind to ask?

I don't see balance being of any particular concern over there ...

The first day I was there Auchand was offering 1 point of crit padding for every 10k you gave him. I don't know if it was serious cause I only hung out for about 20 mins. but I definitely saw some people rushing out for silvers.

Did this actually happen?

[Drinin]

10. I think this is important enough to list again: Fresh Start.



This is what's making it fun for me. Being on a somewhat (since I don't really know how to script) level playing field with everyone else. I'm having fun just leveling back up.

[fenrus]

The first day I was there Auchand was offering 1 point of crit padding for every 10k you gave him. I don't know if it was serious cause I only hung out for about 20 mins. but I definitely saw some people rushing out for silvers.

Did this actually happen?

That was within like an hour of the instance opening. Noone had 10k

[Marl]

The first day I was there Auchand was offering 1 point of crit padding for every 10k you gave him. I don't know if it was serious cause I only hung out for about 20 mins. but I definitely saw some people rushing out for silvers.

Did this actually happen?

he also put a golvern maul and a krodera claidhmore on the bench that no one could pick up...

[IorakeWarhammer]

thats hilarious.

I saw a hill troll walking around last night with a faenor-tipped steel claidhmore. I died 10 times trying to kill the troll (I can get my AS to around 200 now with a blue crystal) but then someone told me that the claid would be 0x so i gave up ROFL

I bought a bunch of weapons from Tykels thinking he might drop the claid and pick the other one up, but my STUPID neighbor came and interrupted so I died which sucked

[Parkbandit]

How long before Clawfucker and the rest get bored? I'd like to think that at some point acting like a retard is going to get old. People are "going nuts" now because of the novelty of the new, rules free instance. Eventually these gimmick characters are going to become so much background noise and they'll fade away as they stop receiving the attention that their parents obviously didn't give them enough of as children.


You are kidding, right? It's like you want to pretend the past 15 years of Gemstone didn't happen and that THIS instance of the game will be different.

[EricosIV]

yes

[fenrus]

he also put a golvern maul and a krodera claidhmore on the bench that no one could pick up...

and a 10x mithril claidh on the ground which I also promptly disintegrated.

[Asha]

Didn't Simu say there'd be fuck all GM involvement?

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Didn't Simu say there'd be fuck all GM involvement?

No, they said there'd be no GM involvement to enforce any rules, and basically if GMs want to come to Shattered and fuck around with people, they can. It's totally up to them- if you don't like it, you're SOL, basically.

[fenrus]

Didn't Simu say there'd be fuck all GM involvement?

No, they said there would be no GM support and rules. They said all along GMs can fuck around in shattered if they feel like it (on their free time)

[Asha]

That actually sounds fucking awesome though. I always preferred involvement that was not merchants but fun

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

That actually sounds fucking awesome though. I always preferred involvement that was not merchants but fun
They merchant but it's nothing like what you'd find in Prime or Plat- there's really no rhyme or reason to who and how they pick, they may not even tell you they're doing anything and just do it (i.e. they gave Asspounder a title and a feature alteration that he has a tail without telling him). And of course, Godzilla invasions, etc.

[Drew]

That actually sounds fucking awesome though. I always preferred involvement that was not merchants but fun

It has been actually. That's been the best part so far.

[Asha]

Hmm I wonder if those with GM friends can get pretty much anything they want compared to when you had GM pals in GS4 they weren't allowed without top brass go ahead.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Hmm I wonder if those with GM friends can get pretty much anything they want compared to when you had GM pals in GS4 they weren't allowed without top brass go ahead.
I don't see why not.

Conversely, if a GM hates you there's nothing to stop them from tormenting the shit out of you every step of the way.

[fenrus]

Hmm I wonder if those with GM friends can get pretty much anything they want compared to when you had GM pals in GS4 they weren't allowed without top brass go ahead.

Someone asked about that on the forums before it launched and Solomon said it wasn't allowed but I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen

[Celephais]

lol at them actually making shattered more fun than prime. Siphon, and abandon.

[Iamnaeth]

those weapons still on the bench?

[Deathravin]

Announcement: Congratulations to MW for being the first character in Shattered to gain 100,000 experience! Now everyone go get him! First person to kill him gets an alteration or feature alteration!
Announcement: ...he's in <somewhere>!

That's saddening...
Poor guy working so hard, probably not even at the keyboard, or at work or something.

[Marl]

wow so no one has gotten to level 10 yet..figured there would be a handful around 12-13 by now

[Jayvn]

basing this off 33 exp per minute..plus gift.. 33 being FRIED OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND...

17820 for the first 3 hours
11880 for the next 3 hours
35640 for the res of day 1
so 65340 for the first 24 hours....
47520 for the next 24 hours

[Deathravin]

unfortunately you have to leave 33 xp per minute land several times a day.

[Inspire]

You also have to deal with Merchant starting invasions to kill you.

[IorakeWarhammer]

Ya merchant is annoying. Poop altered my claid so im happy

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

You see Bender.
He appears to be a Robot.
He is average height and appears to be very young. He has large steel grey eyes and sallow skin. He has a bald head. He has a broad face and a metal ass.

[Celephais]

You see Bender.
He appears to be a Robot.
He is average height and appears to be very young. He has large steel grey eyes and sallow skin. He has a bald head. He has a broad face and a metal ass.

You need to get "Hecho En Mexico" tattooed inside your chest.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

You need to get "Hecho En Mexico" tattooed inside your chest.

You see Bender.
He appears to be a Robot.
He is average height and appears to be very young. He has large steel grey eyes and shiny metal skin. He has a bald head. He has a broad face and a metal ass.
He is in good shape.
He is holding a green appletini in his right hand and a fresh hand-rolled cigar in his left hand.
He is wearing a LoBrau beer case.