Getting back in the saddle
Years of online gaming has taught me a thing or two. And if there's one thing that's becoming more and more clear to me now - it's to never gimp characters or accounts out that you leave behind :-)
Many in the community probably know what I'm talking about. You get fed up with the game, RL prevents you from dedicating time to it - or whatever the reason. So you decide to throw in the towel and leave. This always raises the issue (and about a thousand instances of the all too familiar question; "Can I have ur stuffs plz?") of what is to become of the massive wealth you have accumulated?
Fair being fair - many of us gain items through the help of friends or guildmates, and it would seem fair that the items of value be put back into circulation where they can be of use. But for anything else - I (now) say: "Hang onto it, for crying out loud" :-P
Now, am not being bitter or anything. When I last left Anarchy Online, I was absolutely certain I would never set my foot in there ever again (*g*... but I was... honest). So I pretty much gave away anything of real value - to whomever I felt deserved it. And this was never really an issue, until I (tadaa...) decided to return, a couple of weeks ago. The Alien Invasion expansion had been launched in the meanwhile - tonnes of new nifty equipment to be had - and people pretty much looking at me like I'm some ancient relic just because I'm still walking around in Bellum Badonis armor :P (hey! that was state of the art, a year ago! it was! :p)
But oh well... Nothing to do but just brush it off, and get back in the saddle. Upana is, fortunately, a very capable character - and by just investing time in him, I am fairly sure I can get decent earnings going again - and with a little luck the giggling will stop ;)
Actually already made a nifty catch yesterday. Team of us were SK farming up near Ithaki, and whattayaknow... he was packing a Syndicate Messenger Gun - and even better... I won the roll for it :-) Now I am all for a "need before greed" policy on such loot, but fact is - there was no fixers in the group - and noone had any particular claim for the piece. So all was well - and as expected it quickly sold on the forums - 175m in much needed cash. (ref)
In the true spirit of "easy comes...", I quickly rushed out and picked up a few goodies for Upana. Picked up a Viral Compiler (15m), a Viral Memory Storage Unit (5m - a bargain really), and a few assorted shotties for Divestoor. Poor fella is completely stripped of most of his basic gear - and they nerfed traders to kingdom come, on top of it :P Feels nice to have a bit of pocket change again :-)
Other than that, I bumped into Lucrezia, an old old old friend of mine from back in the day. It's nice to see so many familiar faces in the game still - and the number of people returning after trying out other worlds like SWG, WoW, CoH or whatever they've been up to.
Many in the community probably know what I'm talking about. You get fed up with the game, RL prevents you from dedicating time to it - or whatever the reason. So you decide to throw in the towel and leave. This always raises the issue (and about a thousand instances of the all too familiar question; "Can I have ur stuffs plz?") of what is to become of the massive wealth you have accumulated?
Fair being fair - many of us gain items through the help of friends or guildmates, and it would seem fair that the items of value be put back into circulation where they can be of use. But for anything else - I (now) say: "Hang onto it, for crying out loud" :-P
Now, am not being bitter or anything. When I last left Anarchy Online, I was absolutely certain I would never set my foot in there ever again (*g*... but I was... honest). So I pretty much gave away anything of real value - to whomever I felt deserved it. And this was never really an issue, until I (tadaa...) decided to return, a couple of weeks ago. The Alien Invasion expansion had been launched in the meanwhile - tonnes of new nifty equipment to be had - and people pretty much looking at me like I'm some ancient relic just because I'm still walking around in Bellum Badonis armor :P (hey! that was state of the art, a year ago! it was! :p)
But oh well... Nothing to do but just brush it off, and get back in the saddle. Upana is, fortunately, a very capable character - and by just investing time in him, I am fairly sure I can get decent earnings going again - and with a little luck the giggling will stop ;)
Actually already made a nifty catch yesterday. Team of us were SK farming up near Ithaki, and whattayaknow... he was packing a Syndicate Messenger Gun - and even better... I won the roll for it :-) Now I am all for a "need before greed" policy on such loot, but fact is - there was no fixers in the group - and noone had any particular claim for the piece. So all was well - and as expected it quickly sold on the forums - 175m in much needed cash. (ref)
In the true spirit of "easy comes...", I quickly rushed out and picked up a few goodies for Upana. Picked up a Viral Compiler (15m), a Viral Memory Storage Unit (5m - a bargain really), and a few assorted shotties for Divestoor. Poor fella is completely stripped of most of his basic gear - and they nerfed traders to kingdom come, on top of it :P Feels nice to have a bit of pocket change again :-)
Other than that, I bumped into Lucrezia, an old old old friend of mine from back in the day. It's nice to see so many familiar faces in the game still - and the number of people returning after trying out other worlds like SWG, WoW, CoH or whatever they've been up to.
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