Avian Gamers Network

Well hello there everyone: old faces and new,

It's been quite a while since I've been around. I'm glad to see Avian thriving and still going. I now wish I would have hung on and stayed around.

SWG was a great disappointment to me, and I let that disappointment sour in all my SWG relationships. It was also a very trying time in my life. There were employment issues, still pretty newly married, I think Grace was on the way at the time I dropped off.

I did very little computer gaming for a while. I got involved with Runescape for a bit. It's a game I could play from anywhere without having to install game files (just a java app).

Spiff Antilles contacted TASP at some point and then contacted me. I ended up working with him on designing crafting for a game he was doing, but dropped out of that after a few months due to my work schedule (and having two toddlers). During that time, I played some Horizons to see how they were doing crafting, and got hooked on that game. There are a lot of flaws in Horizons, but the community at large is very mature and it was/is a very enjoyable game.

I'm still playing Horizons. I had planned on doing crafting only when I first started, but got the adventure bug and now have a pretty decent set of adventuring skills. I'm also very wealthy from some ludicrous business deals.

I hope that this is a resurgence of my presence in Avian. I'm really glad that you guys are still here.
I really didn't expect Avian to expand past SWG or survive after it. I'm happy to see that I was wrong.

Now to figure out where I can fit in.

See you all around soon,
Reng Kole

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Reng Kole
Former Section 8 Director
First President of Avian Technology and Trade

Welcome back.

Avian is still alive, but adrift at this point as no signle game has really captured our attention. we had a strong showing in WOW for some time, though that has come to a stand-still as the group demographics is geared more towards casual play and not the raid-centric design of the laterstages (read end game content) in WOW.

We're still looking for a good crafting game. Any recommendations on a good one that is current (or still enjoyable) and cane be done with a reasonable group of people (meaning not 40+ people required).

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Dalaran: Arindel - Frost Mage (Mining/Alchemy)
Dalaran: Roran - Paladin (Weaponsmith/Blacksmith)
Dalaran: Baine - Rogue

I love Horizons.
Everything can be player crafted. You can solo almost everthing in the game (just a couple mobs that you can't). I love the multi-school aspect for adventuring.

The company went through a lot of hard times, but was recently bought by some former employees and now updates and bug fixes are going on.

As with all games, there can be a grind.

However, with mostly soloing and very little grouping, I have the following under my belt:

Warrior 100 / Cleric 100 / Druid 100 / Mage 100 / Beserker 85 / Spiritist 85 / Healer 49 / Paladin 0 (that's going to be my final and base school)

For crafting:
Jeweler 100 / Fitter 100 / Weaponsmith 97 / Armorsmith 95
and a few crafting schools ranging from 30 to 70.

I have a decent sized plot with nice structures:
a beginner Jewelry shop, beginner Blacksmith shop, Saris Medium House, Saris Small Hut, 20? Tier 2 silos, 1 Tier 3 silo, 8? Tier 4 silos, and 3 Tier 5 silos.

Most of my silos are probably empty, but I do have a storage of about 30,000 T5 gems in a few.

Plot reclamations (reclaiming plots from inactive accounts) are going to happen soon for the first time in about 2 years. I have my eye set on a large plot, so hope to be moving soon.

The economy is basically non-existent. Potions and food sell decently well, but a lot of crafting is done for free or donations.

I think that within a year, Horizons will see new life and new content.

Regarding soloing, with the proper equipment, I can solo three named mobs at the same time: two named leaders of their mob type (Flamentus and Lorgus) and a boss type mob (Surtheid). However, wearing the same equipment, another nearby named mob (Ravager) can take me out in one hit.

I LOVE playing around and creating blighted equipment: jewelry and armor. Although blighted weapons is what originally started me into crafting blighted items, I don't bother with weapons anymore. It's rare to create a blighted weapon that can match a good socketed weapon.

Well, I have to get back to work right now. I'll check in later.

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Reng Kole
Former Section 8 Director
First President of Avian Technology and Trade

Reng, welcome back! The guys had a RP sentence game that featured your name just a few weeks ago.

Many of us have similar stories: work, children, weddings, and games that could have been better. Several of us played EVE and WoW. We beta tested WoW, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Roma Victor, and many other games.

The gang is eagerly watching the development of a few games. I am working in Djibouti Africa, long hours and satellite connections do not complement gaming. I haven’t been following the development of anything, but I am relying on the guys here at Avian to scout them out, and get me on the right track when I come back home.

hey wb Reng!

can we get a site for horizons in case people are interested?

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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"

Welcome back

I heard some good and some bad things about Horizons, crafting being one of the good things. Didn't the payment system get totally fubar'ed? or am I thinking of another game?

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"For over 2 years, the Veteran Community were the guardians of peace and justice in the Pre CU. Before the dark times, before the NGE."

Wow, talk about a blast from the past.

Welcome back.

Glad to see you around again.

Wow I did a double take when I saw this post! Welcome back!
The lizard man himself.

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Moge

test this test

Course it can.

Welcome back

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~Ravage™
~I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
~The problem with facts, is that sometimes they don't support your opinion.

The real me again. I reset my email address and the account was disabled until I could click the link for activation. The email was lost for awhile, but I found it. The spam filter on my mail server was the culprit.

www.istaria.com
community.istaria.com

There is a 14 day free trial.

Lots of game info at horizons.gamersinfo.net
Check out horizons.gamersinfo.net/schools/schools.php for the different schools.

I'd post a screenshot of my plot, but I don't have a place to put it right now.

Yes, Horizons did have some major billing (and other) problems under different ownership. All that and more has been straightened out and done better within a couple months of the new company taking over.

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Reng Kole
Former Section 8 Director
First President of Avian Technology and Trade

Are you sure you're not thinking about Vor?

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Dalaran: Arindel - Frost Mage (Mining/Alchemy)
Dalaran: Roran - Paladin (Weaponsmith/Blacksmith)
Dalaran: Baine - Rogue

Hooray! Someone with some sense again!

Help us Reng Kole. You're our only hope.

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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

Welcome back Reng.
I remember Spiff looking for some contact info for you a while back. I think I only had an old MSN contact for Tasp I could give him. So glad he managed to get you.

Wow! Welcome back, Reng!

I'm one of the few still sucked in by World of Warcraft, though over the past week, I've been playing more Call of Duty 4 MP than anything else.

I'd heard of Horizons but passed it over because of that (apparently initial) bad press. I will definitely check out the 14-day trial.

Other games that I'm watching include Conan and Darkfall Online, though Darkfall is losing it's appeal to me on a regular basis since very little real information is released about it. Conan, on the other hand, is pretty exciting. I think most of the game, for me, will hinge on this new combat system they're using. Crafting doesn't seem particularly in-depth or elegant but then again, I've seen little real videos of it.

Great to see you again!

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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.

Reng check out IJasonT's screenshot host... a lot of us use that when the need arises. The linky is in his sig

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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"

Major blast from the past.

Nice to hear from you again Reng.

Galem Thawn's plot in Desert's Edge.
It's not pretty, but it works.
If you look closely, you can see me on top of the silo closest to the bottom.



Galem Thawn buried under Giant Ice Beetles.
Notice that my health is barely touched.
Showing that soloing in Horizons is very doable.

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Reng Kole
Former Section 8 Director
First President of Avian Technology and Trade

BTW do you still have the "Art of Crafting"? I think some guys down in Game Design Ideas forumns would really love to get their hands on it.

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1st Feb 2008

I played Horizons but quit due to the fact that the laptop I had at the time could barely keep up, I might have to look at it again, I had some friends over there that I dont know if they are still playing or not.

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Section 6

[dark forboding voice]Finally! My old master has returned. Now we can once again Rule the Galaxy![/dfv]

Just kidding (or was I).

Welcome back.

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"Loose with Dignity"
Robert
Second President, Avian Gamers

DDO - Cannith - AlistairItor - Rogue/Ranger (5/3) - Main
DDO - Cannith - Guijanitor - Paladin/Rogue (4/1)
DDO - Cannith - RicochetItor - Rogue (5)

I play Horizons on a HP Pavillion dv2000 laptop. 1GB RAM, 128 MB Video RAM, dual core 1.5Ghz processor.

I keep my graphic detail set low (which isn't that bad) and it works fine. The two problems that I have is satellite Internet at house (loading is a little slower) and after being logged in for a few hours (and the more porting that I do) the computer tends to run slower.

There has been a lot of recent work on how the graphics load and those changes should be coming to live servers soon.

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Reng Kole
Former Section 8 Director
First President of Avian Technology and Trade

Hey Master Gui-Jan,
Good to see you still around and taking care of things. Looking forward to many days of Galaxy Ruling ahead.

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Reng Kole
Former Section 8 Director
First President of Avian Technology and Trade

Ok, who used the forbidden summoning scrolls this time ?

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Sluggy Dev'lya-Master Smuggler-Politician
Former Mayor of Avian City

Welcome back Reng.

I, like others here, have cut back the WoW tiem considerably due to real life. Just got back from my honeymoon this morning actually. Me and a few others play exclusively Horde characters on a PvP server (Maelstrom). If you haven't played WoW yet, by all means give it a try. Think there is a free 14-day trial out there.

Awsome to see you around again and hopefully there will be a game soon where the whole Avian community gets together again.

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"I built me a bomb and dropped it on every MFer who got in my way!"

Welcome back, and don't mind the sentence story, we're all glad to have you back, even if we don't show it like Heath Ledger's ghost.

Vor's around. Plays WoW with me on my server.

Let's get Dumin and Daedalus back next, kay?

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:: Orbital :: Section Three ::

Official Avian Mascot - Sock Puppet
Board of Directors - Ex-Chairman

/backhand slap

PS - what server do you play on?

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"I built me a bomb and dropped it on every MFer who got in my way!"

Tell us! TELL US NOW!

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"Loose with Dignity"
Robert
Second President, Avian Gamers

DDO - Cannith - AlistairItor - Rogue/Ranger (5/3) - Main
DDO - Cannith - Guijanitor - Paladin/Rogue (4/1)
DDO - Cannith - RicochetItor - Rogue (5)

Truer words have never been spoken.

Obo I think our user accounts have been hacked.

I haven’t seen these Avatars in a long long time.

have to second that cyrex.

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1st Feb 2008

Great to see you back Reng! If you're still interested in discussing crafting systems it would be great if you could go comment on this thread: http://www.avian-gamers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18491
I cobbled together a few ideas that people have been throwing in over the years.

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X2-PB

Pathfinder Kingmaker Campaign:
Gednan Malithanar - Wizard (1)
Dukin Thunderstrike - Ranger (1)

Star Citizen: - https://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/
AntanKarmola on their forums

Star Wars: The Old Republic: - Not really playing
Antare Karmola - Jedi Guardian (32)
Antan Karmola - Jedi Shadow (21)
Arianae Karmola - Gunslinger (20)

A blast from the WAY BACK past!

Does everyone remember that Reng was Avian's very first President? He's on the Avian $1 bill.

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Romsuiag (Brad)
Former and Third President of Avian

Wasn't the monetary unit the credit?

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Dalaran: Arindel - Frost Mage (Mining/Alchemy)
Dalaran: Roran - Paladin (Weaponsmith/Blacksmith)
Dalaran: Baine - Rogue

Nah, I'm sure it's the Earthit...

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X2-PB

Pathfinder Kingmaker Campaign:
Gednan Malithanar - Wizard (1)
Dukin Thunderstrike - Ranger (1)

Star Citizen: - https://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/
AntanKarmola on their forums

Star Wars: The Old Republic: - Not really playing
Antare Karmola - Jedi Guardian (32)
Antan Karmola - Jedi Shadow (21)
Arianae Karmola - Gunslinger (20)

Earthen Ring.

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:: Orbital :: Section Three ::

Official Avian Mascot - Sock Puppet
Board of Directors - Ex-Chairman