Rift me back!

Im currently playing the Rift beta and it seems I fell down into a rabbit hole...

I was out swimming, doing a mission, when suddenly I got fatigue loss. Since I hadn't seen any form of fatigue measurement before this sort of took me by surprise, I went up to the surface to breathe thinking that had anything to do with it by no. Fatigue went down even when breathing fine and just bobbing in the water without swimming, so I soon found myself dead.

And far, far away. Being a newcomer, I resurrected on spot. I figured I had been teleported to the nearest Defiant resurrection near the newcomer town (for level 6-10 newbs) since thats where I died but no such luck.

Let me show you on a map:



What the HELL?

On the way down to where I died I quickly realized that something was really wrong. I tried to stick to the road but level 14 creatures kept killing me. And there's a level 19 rift right by the ressurect. Yay.

Now you see on number 4 on the map now.. I tried to swim over the pass there as a ghost. Those dotted lines? Serverborders of course. Invisible wall. You should see the way I need to walk to attempt to actually get back to the newb city. There's no way for a level 9 Defiant to get around that path.

Pushing "Stuck" only sends me back to the ressurection on number 2.
So, now Im waiting for GM help to move me back to the newbie playground.

Edit: And Im out! Many thanks to GM Primarch who got me out of there and revived me. It took about 1 hr 20 mins from making the inquiry to getting help, which I assume is a alright time considering they have let the whole darn world betatest this weekend.

Dude, I totally have a friend who plays WoW.

It occurred to me today as it has several times lately, that my siblings really think I loathe WoW-players.

The first time I remember this coming up for discussion was when my sister had her at-the-time boyfriend over for a visit. We were talking games, and he had barely gotten to "World of Wa.." when my little sister told him to shut up unless he wanted her sister to claw his eyes out.

This have come up to discussion several times, and I was painfully reminded of this crude and unforgiving vision my siblings have of me today... When my little brother talked about macro'ing, and said he used it while playing WoW, but before I had even opened my Steam Chat-Window he had quickly followed up with "NOOOOOO I dont play often!!!" I don't know where this terrible misconception have come from. Man, I know a lot of WoW Players. Some of them are even my friends!

One of them is even a GM! Dude, its okay to play WoW. It just so happen that I don't, but that doesn't mean its bad or anything. We're different. We're BORN different. That's life, you just gotta roll with it. There's no reason to be ashamed. You're okay by me, kid. I like you just the way you are!

I mean how can you not respect this?

Beta News!

Mortal Online will start giving out invites for their first closed beta phase soon. I hope!

Yesterday brought a newsletter with many interesting elements. Find it HERE and download the powerpoint presentation!

My favorite elements: 
* Blood Mix
* Hit Boxes
* Crafting System
* "Bosses" having a impact on the world. 

I would love to defend a "Half-god", create lore and and religion around it, battle other races by taking on their beliefs and gods.

There were some new races introduced aswell. And since there will be a bloodmix system, I think Ill go with a Sarducaan mother and Kallard daddy. 

Virtual Court

Recently two dutch youths were convicted for virtual theft after scamming a younger boy in Runescape (people acctually still play that!?) according to msnbc.

Thats great news for all gamers, specially for us in entropia where the big bucks is!
Well I suppose its great news for all gamers except for the scamming kind.. 

Its one step forward in making the virtual world safer. 

Personally Ive never experienced getting scammed first hand, but I have experienced being stalked, harassed and threatened, and often these people find it smart to not take the threats (which is a reason to ban) to the game to avoid being hit by the ban-hammer.

I wonder if we some day will see virtual restraining orders?

- You're inside my radar! F*CK OFF!!