I hate xp groups
Aug. 11th, 2005 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothSeriously, they are NOT FUN. Well, that's not fair -- they can be fun if they go into an area with monsters that give decent xp and roam around killing stuff; they're not fun if they sit in one place and fight the same spawns over and over. Or if half the group is too cheap to use anything better than summoned food and water, so 3/4th of the time is waiting for their mana to recharge. Or if the place they decide to camp is right on top of a pop, which consistently pops up during battle, killing multiple people who regen back at the docks and spend a half hour running back to join the group.
God, it sucked. So I went home. Where I found that nothing on the broker had sold, because when I thought 'they already fixed the problem and the brokers are working again' it was really 'they hadn't disabled the brokers in freeport yet'. And now they have.
I bought a portable chem table to try to do some tradeskilling in my inn room while selling, but results from that are capped at crude. Which makes it utterly useless unless I want to burn huge amounts of raw materials and time for miniscule xp gain and give up on the idea of making anything useful.
Which I don't, so I logged off.
I went on taps, and got accosted by Effsey, who is not interested in the things I go to taps for. I explained this to him at length, and he seemed to understand it, which put him one up on Speckles. }:) But ruined my mood and wasted all my time anyway.
So, I decided to try to salvage the night by trying out the new nippon ichi game. Disgaea was the first (and best) of theirs that I've played -- I played all the way through it twice. La Pucelle seemed about as good, until I got to a part I literally couldn't get past even after multiple tries and looking for help online and everything -- you weren't allowed to kill any of the enemies, and they were completely blocking your path. Phantom Brave was really neat until I found out about 'failure fusion' -- I was unable to resist using this exploit to uberize my items to the point where all my characters would use up all their turns before the enemy got to move. I call this the 'Morrowind' game death, since Morrowind was the first game it happened to me in.
Just started playing the latest (I wish I could remember its name), and I haven't run into its game-breaking flaw yet. Maybe it'll actually be good!
God, it sucked. So I went home. Where I found that nothing on the broker had sold, because when I thought 'they already fixed the problem and the brokers are working again' it was really 'they hadn't disabled the brokers in freeport yet'. And now they have.
I bought a portable chem table to try to do some tradeskilling in my inn room while selling, but results from that are capped at crude. Which makes it utterly useless unless I want to burn huge amounts of raw materials and time for miniscule xp gain and give up on the idea of making anything useful.
Which I don't, so I logged off.
I went on taps, and got accosted by Effsey, who is not interested in the things I go to taps for. I explained this to him at length, and he seemed to understand it, which put him one up on Speckles. }:) But ruined my mood and wasted all my time anyway.
So, I decided to try to salvage the night by trying out the new nippon ichi game. Disgaea was the first (and best) of theirs that I've played -- I played all the way through it twice. La Pucelle seemed about as good, until I got to a part I literally couldn't get past even after multiple tries and looking for help online and everything -- you weren't allowed to kill any of the enemies, and they were completely blocking your path. Phantom Brave was really neat until I found out about 'failure fusion' -- I was unable to resist using this exploit to uberize my items to the point where all my characters would use up all their turns before the enemy got to move. I call this the 'Morrowind' game death, since Morrowind was the first game it happened to me in.
Just started playing the latest (I wish I could remember its name), and I haven't run into its game-breaking flaw yet. Maybe it'll actually be good!
