Author Archives: Foton

QueueCraft

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Some of the Blackrock players (mostly guilds) were begging for server transfers to escape the queue-hell that has been their lives for these past six weeks. Naturally, I wanted to check it out myself. Naturally, I forgot to check it out until late at night.

The calculated wait time was 30 minutes. Err, when I had 700 – 800 player queues on another server, that translated to at least a two-hour wait, so not sure where they’re coming up with a 30-minute wait. Unless they figure it’s one in the morning, lots of people will be logging off soon.

(I checked again about 20 minutes later … queue = 740 players. So much for that people logging off idea.)

In any case, sucks to be them. There’s only so much hardware you can throw at a problem, although maybe purchasing time/space on the Supercomputer could be arranged.

Or, they could just ask for volunteers to be moved off Blackrock.

Questing for Torture

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The Warcrack quests seem to come in four flavors.

1. The basic “go deliver this and/or talk to this other NPC”. Many times the target NPC is just across the room or a few blocks away. WTF, the quest NPC can’t leave his post in the leatherworking shop to talk to the dude just outside the shop? Once I had a quest to ask a dwarf NPC in a farflung inn if he was familiar with some guy nicknamed “Slick” or something. He told me that he didn’t know anyone by that name but that other dude across the inn was a little TOO interested in our conversation, if ye know what I mean, Foton. *nudge nudge* The eavesdropper was named something like Bill “Slick” Smith. Gee, could this be the guy?

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The Noobs Are Breeding

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If you played Warcrack before Christmas and now after, you know already that fresh busloads of noobs have arrived … which you also know is annoying as fuck with a whole new batch of idiots asking in the public channel where the Jasperlode mines are.

Oh, I don’t know, maybe it’s IN YOUR FUCKING QUEST LOG?!?!?!

Jeezus, after the 46th time that question’s been asked, my patience wears thin. I’ve had to create an alt character to grind another crafting skill (Foton’s toon has needs, man!), so I’ve been hanging in the noob zone again. *shudder*

I’ve also helped out a few noobs — I have a heart, just not a very generous one — whacking their moles so they can finish quests, etc. Without exception, they go running into a swarm of mobs and expect to survive. You know, instead of pulling systematically, carefully, methodically, they just dive right in and expect me to save their sorry pixelated asses.

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