I had been away from the game for over a year do to things outside the game getting in the way but since i have been back i have made 2 characters on the Isle of dawn, out of all the start areas in the game the isle is set up with everything you need to get to 10th in all 3 spheres, and the changes to the death penalty LOL it used to start at 6th lvl and low level characters didn’t start seeing soulbound items till after 10th lvl so trying to get your corpse back without equipment is now a thing of the past.

The elevator problem mentioned i didn’t experience but did ride it up and down several times to help someone that couldn’t figure the elevator out or had the parachutte effect on them , not sure as we did get her down eventually, but did notice what happened when i took the hit me express from the mission to tentrees (the guy standing on the roof of the mission) i landed in the middle of the river once because i had the parachutte effect active it really slows down movement.

As far as a there not being a story line, most the quest are story lines, you have a world made up of many races and cultures all story lines are going to be localized for the most part in the form of quest.

the use of /ooc hmmm didn’t think there was a RP server so use of /ooc is a personal choice rather than a server requirement as far as i know they are open game format or normal format.

My main is a bard goes around high speed invisible with cloud walk on most the time when solo, stairs can be a trip, you slip side to side on stairs, ramps no pproblem stairs pretty much force you to turn that type of effect off lol and the tree city of cael brae is a hazzard to speedy people lol

I love the complexity of the game, easy games get boring too fast, went back on WoW to get my guy there from 70th to 80th had it in less than a week got bored pretty soon after that got a new video card and came back to vanguard. Plus all the inane chatter on the general channels in wow is enough to turn a person off to that game.

In any case, I’m glad you found the people to be friendly – I agree with you there for the most part (and I always try to be helpful myself in game, when I can). There are always griefers in any game, but I’ve seen very few while playing VG – generally the worst I get from people is being ignored (and there are lots of potential reasons for that… so I don’t take it personally). I’m also sorry that you’re having crash problems. I can’t remember having had any crash problems in the game itself for quite some time. For a while I did crash whenever I was trying to /camp back to the character selection screen – but that seems to be related to another software program I had installed – namely OpenOffice (because once I uninstalled it that recurring crash disappeared).

The VG *players* are fantastic, I would never say differently.

The problem with the elevator was while going up, I would get stuck in some bars, and the constant up force of the elevator would prevent me from moving in any direction. Also, I was having some lag, so it would appear that I was hardly moving at all, then suddenly be trapped in the bars again. Going down wasn’t usually a problem.

I’m not familiar with the parachute buff, but that character has left the island now and hopefully won’t encounter the problem in the wider game.

For example, I think the main problem with the elevators in the Temple is that after you dismount from your pegasus you automatically get a “parachute” buff (which works like feather fall). This is coded in so that if your mount timer runs out while you’re in mid-flight you don’t go splat on the ground hundreds of meters below. Anyway, with the parachute buff on, your vertical movement (both up AND down) is slowed… and if something is trying to push you vertically faster than the buff wants you to go… (whether an elevator floor/ceiling, or even a staircase, for example) you will get shoved to one side or the other. The easiest way to avoid this in the Temple is to turn off the parachute buff as soon as you land and go inside.

Some/many of your other issues may also have solutions like this, as well. Anyway, I liked the writeup and hope you (and/or others) give VG another chance some day.