Arrived In Sydney
Just a quick note to let you know I have arrived in Sydney.
I arrived yesterday afternoon a little earlier than I expected. I’m staying with friends until Tuesday morning when I head off on to Coffs Harbour. That’s likely to be my longest driving day with a google maps prediction of eight hours. If experience shows anything, that estimate is likely to be low.
My friends are currently out and I’m here home alone. Hence the chance to write this. I’ve also been doing a bit of blog catching up.
I’ve been taking a few photos too. I’ll put a few up when I get home. During my travels, I did notice many fields with Taurean and many polymorphs. I shouted “For the Horde” a few times, …
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AoC Schizophrenia
It’s a little worrying.
I’ve been reading some of the first impressions and reviews of the Age of Conan beta. Tobold has posted his, and Keen has added some more to his impressive repertoire of AoC articles.
AoC is shaping up to be a find game. That much is clear. By all reports the PvE is excellent
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Running Around Like A Headless Chook
It’s midnight and I’m still getting things ready for the trip tomorrow morning.
I really ought to have learnt by now that it’s important to get things done reasonably well in advance of the departure date. Oh Well.
I’ll be taking my notebook with me. If I find myself in a hotel with internet, and I get the time I’ll try and put up a post or two. I’ll see how it goes.
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Stroppy Video - The Ballad of the Noob
The moral of this ballad. Ex wives will sometimes cost you more than just alimony.
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The April Poll - Extended
Just a quick note.
Since the games release is nigh upon us, I’ve decided to keep the April Poll going until Age of Conan Hyborean Adventures servers actually go live.
As I mentioned previously, this will be the last poll I do on the front page of Stropp’s World for a while. I will still keep putting polls up, but they’ll be in the forums. The
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EA Land Enters the MMO Deadpool
That didn’t last long.
Back in February Electronic Arts announced that they would be re-badging The Sims Online as EA Land, making it free with a subscription required for additional content, and allowing players to make all sorts of goodies, sort of like Second Life. The idea was to revitalize TSO and (I believe) break into the lucrative kiddies market.
Well, it looks like the kiddies
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GP Timing
What timing.
I’d just posted an article on game politics and what does Game Politics the blog do?
They report on a rant by Richard Bartle in the UK Newspaper, The Guardian.
Bartle, love him or hate him, is the co-creator of the MUD, the text based predecessor of our beloved MMORPG. He’s also a great voice out there for the gamer generation and he
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Ikariam Update
A few weeks ago I started playing Ikariam, a web browser based MMO in the style of the Civilization games. I figured it was about time I gave you an update.
I now have two towns on the go. There’s Stropptopia (pictured) and Stropptown on another island. Each island provides only
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Game Politics
One of the many (too many) blogs that I have in my RSS feedreader is Game Politics. It’s a fairly recent addition, even though I visit the site occassionally, and an important addition. It keeps a fairly up to date, though gamer biased, perspective on the social and political issues surrounding our favorite hobby.
If you’re a regular reader of Stropp’s World, you may have noticed that I occassionally get
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