Where did all the good people go?

Where did Foxee and Mouse go? Not that this is all the good people, and not to say I don't like all the new members; just wondering. I just feel we need them to curb to some degree all of our sarcasim and cheek

i think foxxee passed away. she had a nerve disease that was pretty bad. sort of like being alergic to your own nerves. i miss her

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Carl wrote: It sure has been quiet here lately - no Steve, rare Ahimsa, and even you Craig have been quiet with no new post in your thread

Probably the time of year. Summer does strange things to people. Like wow blue sky.. must go out.. Laters!

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Beliria wrote: Probably the time of year. Summer does strange things to people

winter here, good time to be inside

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Crapadilla wrote: Bad case of hayfever

Every year , some worse than others. Going it is fun, have to do a tissue check, as in make sure I have at least a pack of them on me .

Hello Foxxee, you don't know me, but had to say you have some really cool filters.

Will have a peek at your renderosity site when I am awake and can remember what I did with my account info.

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Foxxee wrote: no, I am not dead yet

Thats good news

Hi Beliria.
Thanks for the reply. Nope, you don't know me... yet
Nice to meet you, and thanks for the compliment on my filters.

Well, well, well... Kraelin (sorry for the misspell before )
Looks like you are the ONLY one happy to see me again... hehehe.

Thank you. I really do appreciate it. I know you were more aware of what was going on with my health issues than anyone else, so I can understand your coming to the conclusion you did. Thankfully that isn't the case though! It's been a very long hard walk through many unsure times for me but seems I'm going to survive

Yep, Two Worlds is another RPG game I discovered just a few days ago, has fantastic graphics... and freedom of movement throughout. You can play Single Player and Multi-player with this (for FREE). Strange thing is, Single Player forces us 'girls' to play a male character, where-as in the Multi-player version we can chose to play a girl... though sort of awkwardly in heavy plated armor

My login there is Phoxxee if you ever get the game and try it out?
No monthly fee like W.o.W. did. Actually, it was Steve's suggestion to try out W.o.W when we were all talking about gaming together that made me go check it out... and I got hooked on it. Though W.o.W. is hugely exciting (at first)there were just too many issues that made it not-fun for me. Last weekend I discovered this Two Words and had it picked up for me and installed. You enter a Lobby (town) where you can gear up and get some training and then start the several campaigns that reveal the entire world map. You can start private games with friends with a password or just jump into an open game that may be going, or make a private one for soloing in, which I've been doing .It also has 2 expansions which I have yet to get.

Forgive me, everyone else as well... it was not my intent to 'disappear' this long. RL took over and then my entire computer system died and sadly took (literally) everything with it, including any personal incoming emails
But that was a blessing, I now have a great New setup just for gaming and (viewing) graphics and media

Well, enough said on that. Glad you are happy to see me back. I will try to drop in now and then, typing still is a difficult and painful thing for me though. Moving the mouse isn't the same as using all your fingers at once... hehehe.

~Foxxee~

the others will show up in a bit, foxxee. we're not quite here and communicative as we were a while back when you were here. persidio hardly shows at all now and a couple others have dropped off, too. but steve and carl shld be along pretty soon

yes, i came to the conclusion because you simply disappeared without a word. so, that pretty much amounts to dying as far as i can tell glad you didnt

i'll have to look at Two Worlds a bit closer. only had a chance to quickly scan their site. last decent rpg's i played were Asheron's Call, multiplayer only, an online one and Morrowind, single player only and no online play. so, i'm kinda in the mood for a good one. but i'd prefer to stay away from the online pay-fors like WoW. i take it you have to buy the boxed version and expansion packs, so, i may have to make a run to town this weekend

very good to have you back

She's alive, welcome back - Bad Foxxee, very bad Foxxee glad your back will there be any new filters?

Hi Carl!
Thanks for the welcome back, though I'm not back to actually start making filters again (not yet) I'm glad to be able to come in and say "hi" to all of you guys again

After some much needed attention from my physical therapists, and having gotten into my addiction to role-playing games again I haven't actually thought of doing much of anything else. It was actually a very nice letter from a FF user who got me interested in peeking back in here a few days ago. That's when I saw RedCap's post. Seeing that I had died made me cry so I had to let you guys know otherwise

I have been in awe of some of the new talent that came along, such as ThreeDee, Genie, Sphinx, XYZpoint, KGtheway2B and Northernshadow. What great and inspiring additions to the FF family

I'm sorry I missed out on the new talent that has been ooming in, and never got to meet ScaryKitty who came back after I left... great contributions... love the 'artsy' effects! Though I haven't seen what's been going on lately I surely will get to checking them out when I can. And great job on your revamp of your Grunge Posterizer, Carl. I used that quite a bit for my Craftmans Kits at Renderosity.

ok, i've learned a few of the mechanics, how to sword fight, shoot a bow, cast some minor magic and find herbs, sell/buy things, and chew bubblegum and walk at the same time it's actually pretty intuitive, though i had to stop a few times to look things up in the keyboard settings. but it's not all that different from morrowind or never winter nights. pretty close, actually. i do like the jump command. that's handy.

but, how do you aim magic missles? just hold the right mouse down for distance and then just sort of guess on the aiming? that part i havent gotten yet, so i'm mostly using standard weapons, sword, staff, bow.

also, i have a staff that says it has magic fire or something. how is that activated? is it automatic when i hit something, random when i hit something or do i need to do something to invoke that part of it?

cant play multi with the demo i was going to try to tag up with you a bit, foxxee, but i'll have to get the full version before i can do that.

i also had to trim down the video settings quite a bit; my pc was lagging out on the default settings it gave me.

oh, and this thing uses hdri! that's pretty cool. but i had to turn it off due to a lagging system.

so, to start and get used to things, i've not really done any of the quest stuff yet. i'm just out hunting wolves, boars and the occasional grom. cute stuff

i can see why you like it, foxxee. the landscape/terrain rendering is pretty darn good. very fluid and you do get the feeling of almost being in real terrain. i cant even imagine what a quad core rig with a great graphics card would be seeing if i'm seeing what i'm seeing with the graphics capabilities cut way down.

anyways, it's kinda fun so far and i may have to go out and get the full version, along with a new vid card, motherboard, sound card, dvd... hehe, only kidding on the hardware

hehe, got my horse. took a while to figure out there was more than one bandit camp. i'm about lvl 5 now and have a fairly nice, nasty looking stave with big bludgeoning amount and a spirit damage hit. so, i can even fight ghosts...sort of

still having trouble aiming magic missles

i havent taken any screenies yet. i took a lot in never winter's night 2, but so far, none here. i did go for a swim, though

ok, how do you get the teleporter quest done? i've gone through the thing several times, both ways and the guy still wont acknowledge it.

yes, i do kind of like it. the alchemy bit is pretty clever. the fighting is simple and most stuff works like you'd think it shld. just dont make the mistake of putting back an item you just got from the merchant. there are no 'take-backs' there. he simply assumes you're selling something and pays accordingly.

and yes, i prefer a straight skill system rather than xp + lvls = skill points. just never made sense to me that i could fight with a sword for a lvl or two and then increase my bow skill from that.

i wish i still had my MUD. i designed an entire system of magic, fighting, mind-body-spirit system. it was clever as hell

ah well

ok, this one has me mystified; where do the screenshots get saved to? and, where do the saved games get saved to? i've looked all through docs and settings and just cant find them.

ah! it's not in docs and settings; it's in my documents! ok. got it

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ok, this one has me mystified; where do the screenshots get saved to? and, where do the saved games get saved to? i've looked all through docs and settings and just cant find them. ah! it's not in docs and settings; it's in my documents! ok. got it

I had the same problem, it was giving me a headache trying to find where they stored the screenshots too. I've noticed that XP or higher has our personal files in our My Docs now, but sometimes I forget and waist a lot of time looking for them in the program's folders.

BTW, Craig, that horse you have... is it the one you got as a reward for getting rid of those bandits the rancher needed your help with? There's an even better horse out there that is easier to control, the Groms have him in their camp just east of Teleport from your starting town. And that old mage wants you to go activate a particular teleport elsewhere, just call up your big map and hover your pointer over the different 'BLUE' glowing dots, it will tell you if that's the teleport you need to activate. The 'RED' glowing dots are enemies and the 'Green' ones are your finished quest givers

And, nice pic! Isn't that world just lovely!?!?

What level have you reached with the demo, Craig?

I think I got up to level 14 before I completely uncovered the fog-of-war from the demo map. Actually, there is another horse who's somewhere west or northwest in another camp full of bandits. I ended up with this one, and you may be right, I kept giving myself levels in riding.

In the multi-game version I think the creeps are suppose to respawn, but that did bother me too... it's no fun if you wipe everything out and have nothing left to do. I'll have to go read their web site on that again, I may be wrong... hope not though. I've finished all the maps to be opened up with the first game so now I'm wondering whether or not the entire world will be open to my lvl 33 Ranger next time I pop in for another multi-game. If that isn't the case I'll be further disappointed because I really don't like having boundaries and restrictions placed on my character. I want to be able to go where I want when I want and know that something is going to be there for me again and again when I revisit places I've already gone through. Otherwise I'll have to stoop to killing bunnies and doe-doe birds

To be honest, I wish I could go back to W.o.W, there is so much more you can do there... not as visually exciting, but so much more than just hack-and-slash. I had a career there and was making great money selling at the auction house after a day of adventuring. I liked the point-n-click interface for using your choice of weapons too... something this game and the Elder Scroll games don't give you. Initially I had to sign up with a credit card, but when my subscription started I purchased a time-card of 2 months and used that and then canceled my credit card sub. That way, though I haven't been there for a few weeks, even if my time expires they keep your character forever and you can show up again when you feel like playing and have your character still waiting there for you

I just got bored of the sort of players there, most of them are 14-20 year old and at my age I just felt sort of odd one out. So playing solo was more fun for me. Though I did join a nice guild there of "older and more mature" people (all around or near my age) I just couldn't get into the party raids and instances with the group. Just got too nervous with everyone throwing fireball and arrows and clashing sword all around. I'm just not a real fighter I guess

Oh well... I'm torn between the two. Wish someone would come up with all the best parts of these rpgs and roll them out into one fantastic game world!

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Hey Foxxee, glad to see you back!!! Quote Foxxee wrote: Oh, and I've been spending the last several months playing W.o.W. (World of Warcraft) Cool!!! I always wanted to try that out myself..... Steve

Steve!!!
Hello to you too, and thanks so much for welcoming me back
Yes, because I left for part of the reasons I shared with you privately, and got extremely bored while away it was because you suggested W.o.W. that I wanted to check that and others out, and well they were giving away 14 days of free game play so I wasn't going to turn that down. Hehehe, they are smart, I was hooked in less than 3 days, and decided to go ahead and buy it, especially since they lowered their monthly payment

As you can see above, I'm playing Two Worlds right now, but I have made a few filters since I've been away and decided (because Carl asked if I would) to submit some of them... for now. I owe it Filter Forge and those that use my filters so much that I've gotten all the HUs that I have

I read somewhere that someone was suggesting some sort of contest and awarding the winner with HU's??? I'd love to donate some of my HU's for this if Vlad decides to maybe create some sort of Filter Forge Promotional Contest! But I don't want to twist anyone's arm... just would like to help somehow.

Oh, since I'm thinking about it, my Craftmans page over at Renderosity is not the link I gave... sorry about that guys... it's: http://www.renderosity.com/homepage.php?userid=532917

Carl, if you check this out you'll see that I used your "Grandma's Buttons" filter. People love those... hehehe.

And Craig, yep, you do have to have a membership to view the Free Stuff, but it's FREE to register anyway

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i went to the Craftsman photobucket site and used PicLens to view the images. nice

Glad you like, Craig... they are really for Scrappers and Web Designers. But anyone can use the backgrounds and elements for whatever they want them for

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Foxxee wrote: thanks so much for welcoming me back

Hey, I've missed you.....along with everyone else here!!!

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Foxxee wrote: it was because you suggested W.o.W.

Yeah, I remember trying to get a group of us to try it out together and form our own guild.....thought it would be nice for us to get to know each other better by talking to each other in real-time while we destroyed the barbarian hordes..... LOL....

The "Two Worlds" looks cool.....is it as addictive as WOW???

Hmmm, well what Craig said is pretty much the way I feel about it. I am honestly, though, getting tired of just the hack and slash without much else to do. It's fun, but you want to have more than just that to do, unless you like things like Doom and Diablo where that's all you do

Anyways, I'm also frustrated with the online portion of the game because so far I have finished 4 or 5 map portions now and what's starting to irritate me is that I keep getting the same old requests from the town folks each and every time. "Oh please, mercenary, there are terrible monsters out there that have the taint. I'm afraid to leave town... could you please get rid of them? You will be well paid, of course" or "Those awful Groms (or Orcs) attacked our shipment of supplies. Can you believe they just left the food and took everything else? Please, mercenary, could you go retrieve our food for us before we all starve?"

Seriously, I got those 2 requests last night 3 different times in 3 different towns

I will tell you what I hated about W.o.W. you have to pay but 14.95 a month is still bearable for me, and the graphics are not as exciting as TW. In fact, if you are aware of your graphic environment like we would be you'll notice that quite a bit of the environment is not 3D at all, but 2D. The branches on trees, the plants you pick for alchemy and some other decorations are flat 2 dimensional things stacked together the way you would stack playing cards to make a house of cards. That got to me a lot.

But, what I love about W.o.W is the huge variety of things you can do and places you can go and quests you can finish when you want or when you are able. You build a reputation with the different factions (and there are something like 20 different ones in the game world). The Night Hunters, the guild my character belongs to, is super nice, mature and very helpful. If you need help in getting your mount (ridable Tigers, Snow Leopards, etc.. for the elves, Horses for the humans, Elephants for the Draenei, Goats for Dwarves, Mechanical Ostridges for Gnomes)They have a bank vault (as do most Guilds) but they really take care of all the goodies they and other members donate from finds. If you see something you would like to have or need you just request it and will usually have it sent to you. You have your post box, your own bank account to store other items. And yes, you learn your skills by using them... fighting with your choice of weapon, mining, engineering, leather working, tailoring, blacksmithing. And you can turn around and sell what you make or find at the big auction houses around the world. Good money can be made there

Oh yeah, you can swim and fish and pearl dive if you want, or just hunt for treasures besides make things with your chosen professions. You get 2 choices, but you can all take up fishing, first aid and cooking as well.

Here's my Armory Profile if you're interested in taking a peek at my characters Stats and Skills and equipment. The icon isn't a pic of her though, that's just a generic representation of the Night Elf:

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sh...ak&n=Shiya

Ok... I'm done, and now I wish I could go back there but I really was getting quite bored, didn't know anyone really very well.

I checked it out.....and looks pretty cool....

I've gotta check it out one of these days when I have the time.....too many things going on right now.....

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Kraellin wrote: i made myself several very powerful characters. one was a flying thief with incredible thieving abilities. lol. that was so funny. i'd pick a lock, rip off some shopkeep and fly away even if i got caught. it was hilarious

Hmmmmmm.....I'm going to have to remember that about you if we ever play together..... J/K..... LMAO.....

Wow! I never knew there was this side of you, Craig... sound like you can be pretty Now for me, I'm just an

Yes, I loved playing Morrowwind because you could do some fantastic things in there. I trained my character to jump from very high places to escape being caught by monsters who would have otherwise smashed me with one whack, like our Cyclops friend at the tower in TW I also practiced till I couldn't hit the jump key any more to learn how to scale nearly shear sides of mountains so I could go that direction in case there were no roofs or cliffs to jump off of... lol That was fun about the Elder Scrolls! Some things, like the flying bit, they removed from their sequel through... that was really disappointing

Ok, well I caved in at all my raving about W.o.W last night and re-installed the game so I could pick up where my Hunter left off. Good thing her Ghost Saber didn't get hungry waiting for 2 weeks to get back into the game. But I'm still determined to keep playing TW... though it is getting a bit boring with the same quests in each map I have to reveal to move on to the next. The environment is so fantastic, the 3d detail and the armor/weapons are great looking and so widely varied. They have tons of great stuff.

Oh, btw Craig, did you know that if you buy (eventually) the whole set of a particular armor you get some very nice booster bonuses? Also, you can stack your weapons and armor on what you are already wearing to add additional specs and stats to it... it's almost never ending! My lvl 33 in the multi-game has pieces of armor or weapons that have been stacked some 20 times over and are super powerful now with all kinds of added goodies to them

Just make sure that when you are looking through the merchant's shop and you hover your pointer over something that is similar that the item you want to add it to turns a very bright green, or they are not compatible for some reason and you end up wasting your money... I know, I found out too many times till I was broke

I don't think there are any alchemists in this game... which is strange as that is one thing you can actually create your own formulas, which I find pretty exciting

In W.o.W. there are Alchemists and Herbalists, Skinners/Tanners and Leather Workers, Mining and Blacksmithing, Jewelry Making and Enchanting, Tailoring and Engineering trainers, buyers and sellers of equipment, material and patterns/recipes for these professions as well.

BTW, Craig and/or Steve, I do have a couple of invitation cards with codes if either of you would like to try W.o.W. out for 10 free days? Just let me know and I can email you the codes for that.

Also, Craig... the Realm I'm playing in is a 'Normal' realm, not a PvP realm. I hated that too about UO. I was literally trapped in town because there were players that waited for you to step beyond the city walls and guards so they could kill you and steal your stuff. But in the realm I'm playing in no one can Kill-Steal, if you hit first it's tagged as yours, even in groups everything is fair.

They have Normal realms for those of us who want to actually explore and play the game quests and story line, PvP realms for those that want to kill their fellow players of like mindedness, and Role-Playing realms where those that want to act out their parts as the Orc or Elf characters they create. No modern chatting or references allowed there... you play as if you were actually acting out a character in that fantasy world with no knowledge of any RL outside of those games. I also enjoy that sort of game playing. And yes, I loved all the text type of games and the simple ascii graphic to depict your world. I started out with P&P (pencil and paper) rpgs when they were out of a book and you sat around a table and kept maps and notes of your travels... loved that!

Kraellin said:

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and thanks for the offer on the WoW invites, but i'm guessing i'd like WoW too much and i'd better stay away for now

Ok, I really do understand that statement... because that's what happened to me too
So, if you still want to get TW let me know and we can check it out online together, ok Craig? I still like it and I'm still playing, but I'm thinking I need to have some others there too to make it all worth while for me... or at least tell me what you think of the online version's setup. I can't understand why they've made it the way they did, it feels very restrictive chopping up the map and allowing you to only play portions at a time (and same quests, no real story like the single player has.)