MMO Spring Cleaning

From a quick cruise around some of my favorite gaming blogs, it looks like a lot of folks are shuffling around their MMO game regime trying to find something to tide them over unitl Warhammer comes out. Just recently I cancelled my LOTRO and AoC accounts and re-subscribed to CoX and DAoC.  I’ll probably dump my EVE account as well, for now.  I’m pretty sure I won’t be going back into AoC, but I may check back with LoTRO someday, and for some reason I always go back to EVE eventually. I’m … Continue reading

Skype! Uh, WTVR… NoTHX

So I’ve been gaming with some new buds over in City of Heroes/Villains, but they prefer Skype as their Voice SW of choice…  So I dl’d the latest version and got it up and running… sort of…  They could hear me fine, but no sound was coming out of my side.  (Yes I set the in/out options correctly to be the headset – at least Skype saw that there was a headset, and had the correct ID).  This is a “Skype only” problem, since this same USB headset from Datel … Continue reading

4th of July wrap-up

Well I didn’t do anything particularly 4th’ish this year.  Mainly due to the fact that it was raining most of the day and evening here, so instead I played City of Villains and did some flying around in FSX.  I did get my assault bot in CoV, and then my gaming buds talked me into trying a “Radiation Defender” trio over on the Hero side.  Wow! Three RadDefs do some sick damage.  We were owning things 5-10 levels above us with no problems at all.  The trick is in the … Continue reading

Flights of Fancy

I spent the weekend mainly flying around in FSX or in CoV.  In FSX I’ve been flying over the San Rafael Reef/Swell and Waterpocket Fold to get the tileproxy scenery loaded in preparation for making another FSX Movie with some more canyonlands barnstorming – definitely my style of flight.  I would really like to download or learn how to re-skin some of those airplanes though.  Yet another project to look into… In City of Villains, I got my MasterMind up to level 23 I believe, so I will get my … Continue reading

The weekend report

Well I didn’t get a whole lot done this weekend.  I did some running around in City of Villains and in Conan.  I’m enjoying CoV more though, so I spent more time there.  Probably the biggest turn off I had on Conan this weekend is that I’m supposedly on a “care-bear” PvE server, but as soon as I ventured forth from Tortage I was summarily ganked by a Necro 12+levels higher than myself for no apparent reason other than I was running the opposite direction as he was.  I think … Continue reading