One Thing I’d Like To See In Rift

I’m still playing Rift, and enjoying it. My Pyro/Elem Mage, Vroomfondel, is slowly running through the content having just entered the Moonshade Highlands.

The reason my progress has been so slow is that I’m spending a lot of time working on my business these days, and actually feel a little guilty when I put aside any time for gaming. So I tend to limit gaming to the weekend.

Rift tends to lend itself to solo play, even with other players around. I often find myself in a situation where I’ve grouped up and once the goal has been completed, I leave the group and head on to the next challenge. The rift and invasion systems invite this kind of play.

Consquently, I’ve found myself outleveling some of the content, and going back later to complete some quests and acheivements. Unfortunately, by the time I do that, the quests and mobs are often gray and provide no experience or challenge.

It occurred to me last weekend when I was in Freemarch, that I’d love to see the mentoring system that Everquest 2 so cleverly implemented.

EQ2 allows players to match a lower level player’s level. This allows the high level player to adventure with lower level players in  a group without simply overwhelming the other players.

Players can also visit a Chronomage and pay some gold to drop their levels for a while to some desired level. The game then scales the players gear and skills down to the appropriate level. Taking into account AA’s and other factors, the character is still pretty powerful, but not massively overpowered.

This is great for exactly the situation I am in with Rift, it allows the player to experience the area as intended, and in the case of Rift some of the daily quests actually require a kill that gives experience. This feature would allow players to go back and build up their reputation after they’ve already grown out of a zone.

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Dumbasses Of The Day

I get a lot of spam email. In that boat I’m not alone, I’m sure you guys get a lot too. Most of the time I don’t read it and just junk it, but sometimes there is a gem.

Today I received one of the Western Union scams, it didn’t have the malware attachment so I scanned it and came across this bit of convincing verbiage.

Note : That this is not one of those internet scams that all they are after is to ripe you off your money and at the end you will not receive your funds, but note that this is no scam and is directly from the Management of Western Union Money Transfer Benin Republic Head Office and our Motto is To SERVE YOU BETTER. we will be sending you $5,000 United State Dollars every day because to transfer the total money to your account will cost you big money for the transfering.

It’s such a problem that my money is just never ripe enough.  But I’m sad I won’t receive my funds at the end. End of what? The World? Perhaps they’re talking about the endgame. Good thing this isn’t a scam, eh?

Note to scammers. If you want to be at least 1% believable, get your spelling and grammar right. Dumbass.

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So Where Do I Sign?

I know there’s a lot of discussion on the good and bad of SWTOR’s approach to storytelling and MMORPGs, but man, do they know how to make a cinematic.

Sigh… just take my money Bioware.

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