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[rells]

The site is now online but still is a work in progress. All members of Agony Empire in Eve Online, including members previously with Agony Empire but left in good standing, are invited to sign up at http://darkfall.agony-empire.com/. Please keep in mind that the site is still undergoing construction and so things might change underneath you. Within the day I will have the main member forums up and running and a lot of the functionality configured.

I am looking forward to seeing you all in the site.

[Sever Aldaria]

Can't wait.

EDIT: Inserts shameless plug for Darkfall Online:

Darkfall 18 minute trailer
Big download but worth it. Yeah, long trailer
Compiled list of known features in Darkfall
Skill based system with over 1,000 skills and spells. Like EVE but increase skill through use instead of time. New skills bought from npcs or learned from other players.
*Wearing armor affects running and swimming speed and casting time. Non-reflective clothing or clothing that blends in makes you harder to see at distance
*Sufficient climbing skill allows you to climb up into trees or scale up cliffs or boulders to attack from above or traverse terrain difficult terrain that others may not be able to
*Real time combat (first person when shooting or casting, 3rd person when using a melee weapon). Mounted combat, underwater combat, naval ship battles, castle-city sieges.
*Player driven economy. Player controlled territories. Player built cities. Player driven world.
*Vast world including moutains thousands of feet high, rolling hills, plains, deserts, swamps, glaciers and artic regions, forests, jungles, canyons, miles of underworld and caves, dimensional planes, underwater caves and cities, hundreds of islands, One large continent and 4 smaller continents all hand crafted by artists with tactical use of terrain in pvp in mind
*Can attack anyone anywhere (like EVE) but with consequences. Death = drop your stuff to be looted
*A lot more Quick fact answers to common troll questions
Awesome locations to build clan cities such as on top of a glacier, have a waterfall hiding its entrance, be built on several levels on the side and in caverns inside a mountain, have secret underwater entrances, on a remote island...that kind of thing.
*Polymorph, change self, and other disguise abilities
*Can cut off players heads and keep them as trophies
*Other stuff Beta registration
Sign up! Darkfall screenshot gallery
Shinies! Darkfall FAQs (combat, rules of the world, cities, skills, ect.)
Manual aiming, friendly fire, real-time fighting, real physics
*Takes 8 hours to run from one side of the world to the other (yeah, its that big)
*Mobs spawn dynamically and not in the exact same place. If one area of mobs goes unattended for too long then the mobs there start to grow in force and power requiring players to "police" the mobs in their territories if they want to prevent them from growing too strong.
*Clan cities can choose to allow different kinds of players to respawn at their city, allow npc guards to attack certain players, tell npc guards to go out on patrols ect. Visual and Auditory queues (OMG you'll actually want to have the sound on!)
No radar, no floating names above players, and no highlighting of players requires you to rely on visual and audio queues such as the glimmer of steal from a player's weapon, smoke from a recent battle, dust kicked up recently by horses or other mounts, rumbling of mounted players approaching, rustling of grass of a player sneaking up on you PVP tactics in Darkfall (They did a good job combating "blobs")
Friendly fire allows a small group of coordinated players to fight a larger group
*Using terrain and weather to your advantage
*Advancing in formations with your front line guarding with shields for those behind. Clans in Darkfall
Declaring war on other clans, diplomacy tools, clan management tools, built-in clan url and message boards Player killing and alignment
Killing a player of your race or race allied with your decreases your alignment (like EVE sec status) with that race/your race unless your clan is at war with his clan.
*Killing a player of an enemy race or a player of your own race with negative alignment (like security status) increases your alignment If alignment is decreased too much, npcs of your race/allied races will attack you effectively locking you out of npc cities and trade hubs though its possible to live on your own and you can always live in your clan's city if it has one.

Lots of good stuff. I've only been doing a little bit of reading on it /sarcasm

[Phobos]

Same here i cant wait

[vissuddha]

Cool, been looking for a game that incorporated my first love which is FPS =)

[Ecatherina W]

All members of Agony Empire in Eve Online, including members previously with Agony Empire but left in good standing, are invited to sign up at http://darkfall.agony-empire.com/.

What is good standings? I thought Agony did not do standings? !lol !lol !lol


Kath

[rells]

hehe I mean left friendly. I approved all former members of agony and their sign ups. I will keep early sign up for agony members through next friday.

[Trista DeMonste]

That game looks incredible. I think it's going to be like when I first played EverQuest for me... Absolutely breath taking and life-stealing lol.

[Cerias Shadows]

I can only hope... My faith in MMO's pretty much rests on Darkfall. Going to sign up now.

[Braedan]

I have been looking forward to DF for a long time. Signed up. (I have every intention to continuing to play EVE though as well)

[Henry Jennings]

Exciting stuff. Would be great to get in on the ground floor of a new game for a change.

[Dranearian]

I sadly don't see a bright future for darkfall. Keeping my own opinion of the game out of it, I look around and see next to nothing about darkfall. Ive been apart of a few MMO-following-crazy-insane-lunatic communities for the last 10 years, ever since Dark Age of Camelot was released. Not since the first few "canceled" notices has a word been spoken about the game in any of these communities. While they do not encompass "everything", they do usually have at least one person hyped up about any single game released making posts/relaying information. It could always pull an Eve of course.. But frankly, with how many times the game had been shelved due to lack of funding, im not sure they will be able to pour money into the game for as long as CCP did before it starts to turn a profit. We will see though. Hopefully I am wrong, (even though I have no intention of picking up another MMO). Always good to know friends are having fun Even Penny-Arcade is on.. what.. page 3 on a thread started in October despite their strict "one thread for everything" posting rules. Just based on the traffic PA gets.. it is kind of disheartening to see a game a month away from release that they have absolutely no discussions on... Hell some japanses anime MMO has more activity than the darkfall thread

[Henry Jennings]

Well, from what I've seen they've been pouring money into it for a long time now. First hopeful sign I've seen in a long time for a real replacement for my beloved EQ lol

[Dranearian]

There is a difference between paying in development, and paying to run something that isn't turning a profit. I mean.. look at TR.. they are closing their servers down/have closed them down. Along with Hell Gate London.. (HGL was an incredibly hyped game too)

[Simon Weston]

I can see a future for Hellgate London. All these tourists coming to London for the Olympics in 2012. What better than a 3d environment to help them learn the map of the tube...

[Arkole Blake]

Cool, been looking for a game that incorporated my first love which is FPS =)

Unfortunatly (for me) this is almost exactly the opposite reaction I had when I saw the demo.


FPS and/or 'twitchy' style combat just doesnt lend itself properly to the perpetual MMO style world IMO.

Meh, could just be that Im old, slow, and have no desire to try to compete in a world domanated by 15 yr old kids able to play 15 hours a day on $8K machines hooked to mommy and daddys t1 line.


Hope you guys have fun with it tho....

[Kaiman]

Meh, could just be that Im old, slow, and have no desire to try to compete in a world domanated by 15 yr old kids able to play 15 hours a day on $8K machines hooked to mommy and daddys t1 line.


Hope you guys have fun with it tho....

Exactly my thoughts.

[vissuddha]

I feel ya Arkole. Whenever a new game hits the scene I never am the first to go out & get it. I usually wait at least 2-3 months to see what the general reaction is & let some of the bugs work themselves out before I even consider the game. I'm about to reinstall BF2 to get my FPS fix, so def. not going to rush into this game.

[Sever Aldaria]

have no desire to try to compete in a world domanated by 15 yr old kids able to play 15 hours a day on $8K machines hooked to mommy and daddys t1 line.


Hope you guys have fun with it tho....

Darkfall will not have a lot of 15 yr old kids playing it for long. Why? Because of the death penalty causing you to drop all your equipment when you die. The same penalty that keeps kids and timid adults away from EVE. Yes Darkfall will have avatars and be an action game, but Darkfall is going to be a hard and brutal game that the youngsters won't have as much fun with as say TF2, CS, or BF2.

[Dranearian]

eve has plenty of kids based on the average message in local chat

[Sever Aldaria]

eve has plenty of kids based on the average message in local chat

You'd think so would you !lol

[rells]

I think it isn't so much kids playing as people that are immature playing. You can be 56 and still act like a 13 year old dork.

[Arkole Blake]

I think it isn't so much kids playing as people that are immature playing. You can be 56 and still act like a 13 year old dork.

My point actually has little to do with attitude, its about the fact that youth and a superior interface make far too much difference in a game based on 'twitchy' combat.

Yes you can be old and still act 13, but in this type of enviroment at 42 with failing eyesight, almost half a centurys wear and tear on the body, a family, and a comp perpetually 6 to 12 or more months behind the tech curve , the odds of {me} finding enjoyment are slim.

Dont get me wrong, I'm not trying to say its a bad game, just that most people I know my age, simply dont have the hand/eye coordination, equipment and/or time investment required to be competitive in such an enviroment, so for me its disapointing that they went with this style of combat because the rest of the game looks very interesting.

[Dranearian]

THe whole combat actually reminds me of Oblivion 3rd person combat... I don't know if anyone tried to play that game 3rd person or not...