Trying to get back online

[gothwalk]

I've been offline, communication-wise, for a couple of weeks now. I have not the slightest idea why; the urge to communicate that I normally have in such large amounts just dried up. This is having unpleasant effects elsewhere, effectively making me grouchier, snappier, and more distant than usual. Or perhaps that's the cause, and the offlineness the effect. So this is an attempt to get back to actually communicating.

Dark Age of Camelot

I've been playing DAoC quite a lot since the European discs arrived. It's an excellent game - I wrote an article about it on Duke Street before communications shut down, and all of that is still true. inannajones is happy to watch the game as well, which makes it a hellofalot more attractive than any other MMORPG I've encountered before. I have one 7th level character, who's reserved for multiplayer when mr_wombat is online, and one 9th level character - just short of name level at 10th - who I've been playing in my own time. Madoine has just become a member of a guild, Mystical Warriors. The generosity of players in this game never ceases to amaze me; the guy who gave me the guild invite also gave me about 30 gold in coin and goods, and I understand there're chests in the guildhouse from which you can get stuff for free.

Comment Spam

Speaking of Duke Street, comment spam there has reached a ludicrous high - up to ten new comments a day, many of them linking to non-existant sites, which makes no sense at all. I'm going to have to do something about that - I'd like to still have comments enabled, but the spam is too much of a nuisance.

Google Ads

There are ads by google on Duke Street, which fascinate me. The system responds so fast it's scary - when I put up the article on DAoC, there were relevant ads showing by the time I viewed the page. And they're almost always interesting. It's advertising that works on me, to a rather frightening degree. The ads aren't really making money yet, but I'd imagine that as I slowly add more content, they will.

Rearranging

We spent some of the weekend rearranging furniture in the house. This has resulted in a new set of shelves (or at least a rebuilt set of shelves) for olethros, the dining table moving to inannajones' and my bedroom, and the dining room being turned into a guest room. So we now have a room there, with a real bed, for people who come to stay. So you've no excuse now. Next on that subject is a cleaning of my study and perhaps the purchase of a desk, or more shelves, now that the parts of the bed are out of that room.

SCA

There was the demo at P-Con, which went very well, and a practice just this weekend gone, which went even better, from my point of view, in that I realised a few things I've been doing wrong and can now correct - with immediate effect, such that I was able, for perhaps the first time ever, to leave my shield arm to operate on instinct, and think about offensive moves myself.

Right. That looks like communication.

Comments

[bookslacker.livejournal.com]

I played DAOC for about a year. I really liked it. (Well, maybe there was too much running.) I had a Mercenary in Albion, but I also brought characters up to level 8 or so in the two other realms.

The thing that made DAOC unique to online gaming, at least on my server, was how polite and cooperative people were. Just like real life, if people are cool you will want to hang around them.

I got to about level 30 and finally tired of the game. My friend and I gave all our equipment and money away to random newbies and disappeared.