is it ok to come back now?

[Youwill]

After almost a year with world of waiting(warcraft), i was looking back at this game, how is the game atm? input please


Daoc pvp > WOW pvp

 

[Roalith]

I've just come back from a more-or-less two year absence from DAOC, and have to say I'm enjoying myself immensely on the 'classic' (Alternative ruleset - no TOA, no buffbots) server. I've levelled a paladin to 40.5 in about 2 and a half days /played - over the last 3 weeks. Levelling is soooooo much easier nowadays.

Can't say much what the situation is like PVP wise, but certainly the PVE side of things is a lot more fun than it used to be.

 

[WiZe^]

dont comfuse daoc PvP whit daoc RvR

 

[Naffets]

If your coming back, make a fresh start on US servers imo. GOA servers are just crap in comparison. toa on US servers is a hell of a lot quicker and easier, the pvp is more active and the servers are more reliable etc. etc.

 

[Flimgoblin]

If your coming back, make a fresh start on US servers imo. GOA servers are just crap in comparison. toa on US servers is a hell of a lot quicker and easier, the pvp is more active and the servers are more reliable etc. etc.

they also have GM modified grass to make it greener!

ToA is faster on the US servers at the moment - however we'll get 1.81 here soon enough and it's nice to get the (usually) fixed versions of patches.

PvP more active? maybe since everyone is currently doing their CLs.

Servers are reliable over here just the european backbone seems to have issues - the US one does too but given you'll be playing off peak you won't see them as much

Of course when everything is going well (which is most of the time) your ping to the US servers will be higher.

 

[Heta]

they also have GM modified grass to make it greener!

ToA is faster on the US servers at the moment - however we'll get 1.81 here soon enough and it's nice to get the (usually) fixed versions of patches.

only reason to actualy play on EU is the people you play with and the characters you already have built up, if fresh start I would recomend US to anyone tbh.

off peak on US is more active then prime time on EU

 

[Simemir]

off peak on US is more active then prime time on EU

Just not true

 

[Gamah]

...And playing with people in the same timezone? thats another good reason..unless your like your peaktime play to be 2am GMT

 

[Karl]

I keep saying this...

The problem with amercian servers.... you have to play with Yanks!!! I cant stand it, the whole player base here in europe is a lot nicer.

Besides that 50% of US population use hacks/cheats... Stick with EU you'll be better of in the long run!

Never worth it IMO.

 

[Chronictank]

Servers are reliable over here just the european backbone seems to have issues - the US one does too but given you'll be playing off peak you won't see them as much

Yes you lag on EU servers worse than you ever will on US ones when Open Transit goes balls up (which is very often).

If your rolling a new account go US

 

[Tualatin]

Just give it a try..

 

[Karl]

Yes you lag on EU servers worse than you ever will on US ones when Open Transit goes balls up (which is very often).

If your rolling a new account go US

NONONO NO!!!

 

[Naffets]

Just not true

2900 on our cluster yesterday at like 9gmt

You were saying?

 

[Naffets]

they also have GM modified grass to make it greener!

ToA is faster on the US servers at the moment - however we'll get 1.81 here soon enough and it's nice to get the (usually) fixed versions of patches.

PvP more active? maybe since everyone is currently doing their CLs.

Servers are reliable over here just the european backbone seems to have issues - the US one does too but given you'll be playing off peak you won't see them as much

Of course when everything is going well (which is most of the time) your ping to the US servers will be higher.

Yes there are some teething problems with patches on US when they first come in, but there are on goa servers too and since goa most of the time have to wait for patches from mythic, usually its quicker for mythic to patch their own servers.

PvP more active? Yes, as i said, much more people in rvr on US servers, even off peak.

We've played US servers prime time (2-3gmt) and i've noticed no problems with the servers other than scheduled downtime that mythic made us well aware of.

I honestly would recommend US servers over goa server strongly, for a number of reasons. I've had two rr6 chars there thus far and so i speak from experience

Working on a second toa'd char there now.

 

[cHodAX]

Purely because of the terrible lag in recent weeks I would have to say either wait or go to the US servers, at times the game is beyond playable for many people. I am not directly blaming GOA for that as I am not entirely sure where the problem is but the simple fact is that Opentransit is a millstone around GOA's neck and has been for 4 years.

 

[Heta]

Purely because of the terrible lag in recent weeks

each time I have activated my EU accounts again there have been terrible lag, and even when I am not playing on EU there are whine all the time about terrible lags, so saying recent weeks is a bit off imo

 

[Alan]

Purely because of the terrible lag in recent weeks I would have to say either wait or go to the US servers, at times the game is beyond playable for many people. I am not directly blaming GOA for that as I am not entirely sure where the problem is but the simple fact is that Opentransit is a millstone around GOA's neck and has been for 4 years.

I'd strongly agree with Chodax here, however GoA have shown amazing commitment to the game spending hundreds of hours clearing up a server DB that mythic would just have deleted but the lag is just too much of a problem now. If I was returning I'd go US too, rather have a green/yellow ping connection than a red one.

 

[Karl]

See i just cant relate,

I live in the UK, south about a 50 min drive from London...
ISP is BT broadband 2meg, nothing amazing.

I never experience lag like everyone else seems to, the occasional lag spike and maybe 5-10 minuites of laggieness once every couple of nights. Most of the time its fine...

Saying that a month or so ago when there was that big problem with Open Transit i got the lagg bad then!

 

[Flimgoblin]

each time I have activated my EU accounts again there have been terrible lag, and even when I am not playing on EU there are whine all the time about terrible lags, so saying recent weeks is a bit off imo

stop waiting for the "omgz lag" whines on FH before you activate

There has been occasionally a week or so of "evil OT lag" where you get 5-10 second lag spikes at peak times, but they are months and months apart.

Butter side down phenomena - you only remember the bad things.

Lack of lag isn't something worthy of notice so you don't log after a good night thinking "wow, no lag!".
However, if you have to log due to bad lag - that sticks in your brain.