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...and am looking for a new game. I'm not teaching this semster, and am taking a break from the PhD.

WoW obviously has too much drama. A non-mMO might be best... preferably PC.

Any suggestions?

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--The Hermit

We could build a Neverwinter Nights world...it's not MMO, but can be a persistent world if someone has a machine they don't mind leaving on.

Or Freelancer is always fun...kind of like EVE but water'd down. Plus it's easy to modify the code and there's already a huge amount of modifications done for it.

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The Cord
Occasional Caretaker of the Horde Maelstrom Guild
Ex-Section 3 Director

Call of Juarez (FPS - Wild West) first real good western game if ur just looking for a quick fix the demo is out and is fun... other then that at the moment I've played a little Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare and all i can say is its pretty hardcore not a relaxing game...

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Ryric Krael
Former Vice President AGN
Former Director, Section 6
Former Head of Department of the Treasury
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"Gone Section Five"

Call of Juarez *does* look very cool. I'll need to check out the demo - didn't know about that. I really enjoyed Deadwood and when I read CoJ was loosely based on that, I knew I'd have to check it out.

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Liro
"The english language is not a wedding gown, it doesn't get better the more lace you add. It is instead a thong. Less is more." From /.
I need to remind myself of this regularly.

In the Avian spirit of not going to look it up myself...

Is it a MMOFPS like Planetside or a multiplayer game like Battlefield or Battlefront?

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Deak
SWTOR - Spicerunner Legacy - Smuggler - RETIRED
Rift - Decipher - Paragon - RETIRED | WAR - Frenzyof Energy - Shaman - RETIRED
WoW - Fire Mage - RETIRED | SWG - Weaponsmith - RETIRED
MMOGGLER™ for online gamers

I'm considering getting back into Toontown, anybody game?

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ARCHITECH (Peace to GG)

FPS , singleplayer story driven.... not sure if there is multiplayer off the top of my head

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Ryric Krael
Former Vice President AGN
Former Director, Section 6
Former Head of Department of the Treasury
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Ask not what your PA can do for you, but what you can do for your PA
"Gone Section Five"

BAH!, Wow doesn't have ENOUGH drama....


I kick Tonamok out of the guild at least once a night and All i get is a "hur hur"

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I heard "the Mogian Colon Prophecies" is an amazing RTS.

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Moge

There are so many people playing with that already...

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--The Hermit

I still find a good round of Rome: Total War or Galciv 2 keeps me entertained when I take a break from EVE. I haven't played much CIV4 since it came out, but that's a possibility as well.

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I fried my graphics card about a week ago. I'm really struggling here. This morning I reinstalled Alpha Centauri. It's the only game I could find that would work. By the time I found THAT one, my hands were shaking so bad I could hardly get the disc in the drive.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Yeah, I love Alpha Centauri... for some reason, it won't work on my new processor... I keep getting an error about incompatibilities with AMD.

I could always use a different machine, I guess.... but something like AC would be great. Maybe I'll take a look at GalCiv 2.

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--The Hermit

Thanks, I just picked up Galactice Civilizations II: Dread Lords. Will start that now.

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--The Hermit

let me know what you think...reminds of the days back in the early / mid 90's when I'd sequester myself in my room and play MOO.

There are a few patches to download, don't forget those

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lol... I just bought MOO3 again (after trading it in years ago), for 3 bucks.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Yak, there's a SMAC XP patch that should get it working on newer systems.

Sweet on the AC patch! I'll try that.

Yeah, I was up 'till two last night... taking that "one last turn".

Neat on GalCiv, It's a good mix of some AC and CIV ideas. The thing I loved about AC was the damn good story that went along with playing.. and how all the tech played along to that story. The pace/inventions were perfect.

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--The Hermit

SMAC is one of my favorite games. It's just too bad the graphics haven't aged well. I still catch myself trying to find the Alien Crossfire expansion for it though. The story, technologies, the ability to fully customize units, and an "alive" landscape make it a good one.

I've got the AC:AC expansion, though never got it to work. I'll try to get them up and running and make it available if it works.

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--The Hermit