A Vanguard RP

[Polrena]

Wasn't sure where to put this. Links? Adventure Journals? OOC?

In the end, it IS outside Azeroth, so I'm putting this here.

I've been dinking around Vanguard again, enjoying the crafting and diplomat aspects. Being a diplomat, there is a lot of lore that I get to read, and some of the lore sort of combined in my head with some of the game limitations to produce the story in the link below. If you've played Vanguard, it may even be amusing. If not, well, I still wanted to link it to show you guys I haven't given up on all writing just yet!

forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m?topic_id=34396

[Celera]

That's really fun to read, Pol! I'm glad you are writing something.

I really liked the crafting and diplomacy ideas in Vanguard also, but there were so many flaws in the implementation, and they seemed to be a much lower priority than the more traditional game components. Are there many people still playing? It seemed like the population was continuing to drop off.

[Polrena]

Yay, now I know at least one person has read it, lol. That makes it all worth it =)

There ARE a lot of flaws still in crafting, even more in diplomacy, and SOE is still focusing primarily on their bread-and-butter of adventuring, its true. The graphics hitch, the quests are buggy, and customer support is a joke.

They do throw the other two spheres bones every once in a while, and it is a lot better than it was- even if it's not as good as they swear its going to be in the future.

It's a pretty huge huge playing world, and even though I've started my third alt, I still haven't been able to play in all the dungeons or see all the play areas, which is kind of neat.

Its not as bad as all that, of course. It IS fun or I wouldn't keep playing. As for the dwindling playerbase, this month is "free" of something, so we're seeing a huge influx of players. There's a "trial island" coming at the end of summer, too, which is where all the dev attention is right now. After that, we've been promised diplo attention. =)