MO...what to do?

[Luf]

Hey all,

I just played my first 2 hours of the beta this morning, and I wanted to ask about your experiences thus far.

The scenery looked nice, but I found myself with nothing to do. I understand the concept of a sandbox MMO, and I really like it. I'm trying not to judge this aspect too much, since I'm sure it'll be better once the world is more populated.

So... What do you guys do when you log in? I explored around for a bit, in hopes of finding a cavern with some NPCs to kill, or anything to kill for that matter. Maybe I just need to run more? We'll see.

[Tais]

Depends on what you want to do really. Build houses/keeps, get your character leveled up... aquiring better armour, weapons... if you are a mage then you are always looking to stockpile weapons. Explore, socialise, defend your home.

[Luf]

cool, cool.

It got better once I spent a little more time. For some reason, I found myself running for 10+ minutes without a single thing to attack!

I can tell it's going to be fun though, especially with pals like Taz calling guards on you. =]

*shakes fist*

[Avienda]

In the end it makes you a better player because your trying to get good enough just to kill him.
Basically though I end up mining, logging, killing beasts to make weapons or armor then dodge people trying to kill you until you get better at killing them. I haven't gotten there yet though.

[fly]

heheh avieneda sounds like a similiar line to what we did in DF, What day this week does the game go live ?
hey Luf train with Taz he will teach you a lot and is a exceptionally good pvper even if you just practice with him his moves will deffinetly keep you on your toes.

[Kheiron]

The politics is the fun part, from my perspective.

Quest drivens like WoW line up a lot for you to do and scale it with your progression (though most of it tends to be "I need some random shit from this random mob, keep killing them until they magically drop enough something-or-other which, realistically, you should get enough of with a single kill...like "I need to make a bear skin handkerchief so go collect me about 15 kodiak bear pelts but you'll soon find only 1 bear in 5 actually HAS a pelt...you see how I'm giving you more to do without actually giving you MORE to do?")

Sandboxes, while still possessing of quests...usually, tend to rely more on the player on player dynamic to spawn fluid events of interest. Guild A wants to forge an empire, gathers the materials of war and assaults Guild B. Guild B retaliates and so on and so forth...and that shit just doesn't tend to happen or, ultimately, mean anything in beta so for the most part sandbox MMO betas are shit boring once you've figured out the basics.

You could always do what everyone else does though. Make a character under a random name and grief/gank people. It's not like any meaningful retaliation is possible.
It's also a good idea to run through the various archetypes/skill sets to find something that is not only competitive in it's field but also fun to play. Some people like to do the Mathcrafting to min/max character attributes and all that bullshit to give them the greatest statistical advantage and that's fine if your sole enjoyment stems from the e-peen strokage but personally I'm more for the well rounded, immersive type of character with realistic abilities and motivation...but that's me being an RPer.
I do things like tame creatures simply cause they look cool/different, name them things like 'Boris' and send them solo against Rebel heavy cannon emplacements.

...I miss my giant crystal snake...

[Azure Twilight]

What day this week does the game go live ?
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Wednesday I believe. June 9th.

[Tais]

http://www.mortalonline.com/MO_portal.php

[TaZ]

cool, cool.

It got better once I spent a little more time. For some reason, I found myself running for 10+ minutes without a single thing to attack!

I can tell it's going to be fun though, especially with pals like Taz calling guards on you. =]

*shakes fist*

not my fault you happend to be grey in a guardzone in the middle of nowhere, and a grey beaver came by to kill me! ..

[Mal'nael]

Wednesday I believe. June 9th.

It's wednesday, it's business time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU