hey everyone,
i've made a handful of characters in cities over the past few rl years (this is a temp one) and would like to make a 'permanent' character now. i've been thinking about what i'm looking for quite a bit and was wondering if anyone could provide some advice as to which city may suit me best
here's what i'm looking for:
1) activity. i'm located in gmt-8 (gmt-7 now for dst) and would like people to be around in the evenings (5-12 or so) when i'm free! over the years i've seen cities where it gets super dead and nobody is around at all. i really like interacting with people!
2) rp availability. i would prefer for people to not be borderline (or entirely) ooc around the city. it gets really distracting and i'd like to build an actual fleshed out character here -- something i've had trouble doing in the past.
3) combat opportunities. i'd like to really dive deep into combat and be involved in raids, city disputes and the like once i get some experience.
looking for any at all advice, even if it's just to vouch for the city you're in now. i have no idea which class i'm going to be yet, either...but that's probably another post.
thanks!
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But yeah, Eleusis has decent combat opportunity nowadays. RP will, er, vary depending on who you speak with. Vary a lot, even (and rule #1 is avoid Atop). It's a bit time-zone specific, but generally has a decent number of people around in most timezones except for evenings of mine (GMT +10).
- With sharp, crackling tones, Kyrra tells you, "The ladies must love you immensely."
- (Eleusian Ranger Techs): Savira says, "Most of the hard stuff seem to have this built in code like: If adventurer_hitting_me = "Sarathai" then send("terminate and selfdestruct")."
- Makarios says, "Serve well and perish."
- Xaden says, "Xaden confirmed scrub 2017."
Eleusis does seem to be the most populated!
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Not sure what's going on in Mhaldor, but Targossas has a lot of really active people willing to RP and combat, and several that do both. Having active Divine is a big difference in the cities, right now, as well.
Good luck choosing!
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On wanting cities with 'big populations': the irony of this is that if everyone goes to the big populated city then said city will just get more populous while the already small cities (no matter how great their premise) will just get smaller. Admittedly it sucks when you're all alone in the city, and I sympathise, but realistically at the moment, we more or less peak at an average of 150 players at the most active and there are times when nearly every city's just gonna be flat out nearly empty.
You will however, have plenty of opportunity for actual combat action in Targossas, Mhaldor and Eleusis though.
There are some very obvious OOC people in Targossas that I've heard people complain about. Of those three Eleusis and Targossas definitely have an RP, fervent identity of what they fight for, where Hashan is more free to believe in what you want.
Eleusis defends a ton, but only has a specific core of raiders, but they aren't super willing to allow new people to join in on from what I see, it's always the same raiders.
In Targ anyone can raid and does (including their novices which I find awesome), where in Hashan I'm working on getting a solid group of raiders, but we defend our face off.
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