day 2 I played around asking people (IC) about healing after about an hour I got a response and desided to try to get the healing spell...about an hour later I had it (had to get the question right to the NPC I guess) ended up doing 2 quests for him (a thought might be to italic or bold trigger words to help people like me...just a thought).

After getting the spell I thought why not get some chainmail armor...beef up the defence a bit, so I ran to the arena...but she only sold shields, oh well. while running out I saw someone in non-leather asking as politly as I could I asked him where I could get some and he told me to head out to a different city (he gave me directions, even the name of his favorite dealer). I head out to this new town, and 15 min later realize that I am woefully short on funds. not being daunted (heck it's only 5-6K more than I have) I type /die to save me a return trip (I know not RP...I'm trying but that run/sit/run was a little tedious).

I notice that people are selling gold ore for quite a bit. I bought mining skill w/ my remaining PP and a pickaxe w/ almost the rest of my cash. One thing I found in life is that Miners are very secretive of they're mining locations ( I know I could have asked but this one I felt like RPing IG), so I deftly stalked a miner (easy to ID carrying his pick through town) and after running all over town following him, he finally led me to the spot (he actually asked me why I was following him, after I told him he laughed and led me there). mining is something I have done in every game I've played it seems...after an hour and a half I had a full pack and I was ready to train to lvl 2 in mining, so I headed back to town got 5Kish off that load not too shabby. Trained up to L2 mining and headed out to get the remaining 3K I needed for a full set of chainmail. 1 1/4hr later I was skilled up, met a new buddy and had a pack full of gold. after selling I ran back to the other town strait away bought my full set of chainmail and found out I wasted about 2K because I had to sell it back, I'm too weak...but I have 2 points in Med Armor...ok this really ticked me off I just spent over 3.5hrs getting up the cash running around to find out I'm too weak...and it's not like I can just pack it in the bank or stuff it in my locker. I understand the RP thing "stat req" posted on the item...but a "you must be able to lift X amount to wear this" or "this looks too heavy to use right now" would have been nice (by lifting X amount I mean how much in inventory you can carry as that would not give you the str# needed but a more realistic figure).

ok well I deside to train up some in daggers 30 min later I run to wher I trained them on day 2 and found...she switched skills to train....great....

Logged off

to sum up:

Achived 1 thing that bugged me on day 1 ... Healing - about 2 hrs
Started making good cash flow - 3 hrs
Was annoyed at not being able to wear something my char is trained to wear - 1hr
Was further annoyed by my trainers choice in "switching professions" 45min

As you can see the day was a mixed bag good in the begining worse later on

Quick question would it be possible to add a trainers list w/ city and name and list there skills they train....I'd pay good Tria for that, possibly sold at the Library?

let me start by saying I've tried to play about 4 or 5 times (downloading and installing) over the last year or so, but ended up giving up due to no clue as to how to play. Now I got bored last night and thought what the heck I'll read the manual and figure out how it works right...well kinda. here is the experience I had last night.

After figuring out the whole creation process and uploading my char I just wanted to get into a fight with some small critter, I hit M on the keyboard to bring up a map, but instead got kicked into a different view mode. I then looked up the controls and found out there is no map at all so I ran around for an hour ...Lost....and didn't find one critter, so I did a search for some maps online and found out in the process that map are considered a "cheat/spoiler"...that kinda seemed odd to me. but after checking the map asking people around the blacksmithing trees I found the place. Cool now on to the fun stuff lets kill something and save up for a weapon...only my char has like 0 ability in unarmed so this rat kicks the snot out of me in all the different stances I tried.

So now I'm in the death plane a little frustrated but liking the atmosphere of this place, so I desided to explore it a bit and then showed up at the start again due to falling into blackness after a very short run up a flight of stairs. That continued in 1 fashion or another for about 30 min till I asked to be led to the exit (by the first person I saw down here) who was kind enough to ablidge me. (I really wish I remembered your name...thanks to all those that help ppl out of that place)

after 5 min of searching I find the hole into the sewer again and tried using defensive stance...it worked the rat died before me. cool time to loot. Cool I got an eyeball and a tail I'll have a dagger in no time...but my life is at 25%...and I can't figure out how to heal myself so I sit down IG and IRL go make myself a sandwich come back and now I'm at 50%hp hmm ok I'll ask this rock guy....no responce, maybe the elf chick nope, the guy in the helm? Yes, but he doesn't tell me, he does however sit there for about a min and cast this thing that seems to be healing me. Then he asks me if I have trias, I reply no so he helps me kill a few rats by effectivly becoming a heal bot for me...nice but I kinda want to have a healing kit or some such then he asks me if I have animal parts...OMG yes I do...like 10 of them, he takes me to Arena to show me where to sell them...(LONG trek to unload some junk) then takes me into the halls of the arena to find me a weapon...20 min later I'm a sword swinging fool all thanks to the Nice guy in the horned helm. so back to the rats kill some more and I get a progress point cool a level I think, nope a point to place in a skill so I head up and over to the sword trainer I found earlier, I buy a point worth figuring that is enough to go from 0>1....nope so back down to the rats. I look at my skills w/ a glance and notice I have 4 in daggers....so I go and sell the equipment the nice helmed guy gave me and grab 2 daggers...they worked great when I got back down there.

after about 20 min I look at my stats page and find out I'm a leatherworking armor repairing herb gatherer...ok off to find a needle and thread to make me a suit of rat hide...after an hour found out that rat hide is worthless so I should sell it...made 80 tria cool....never did find out where or how to make a suit of armor...but whatever found the dagger trainer so that was a plus and I finally found a quest....some guy wants his Abacus back from some dwarf....cool, lets look for him, hours later asking a few ppl no luck...I gave up and deside to buy some armor...and found out that I was a woefull 1600 tria short of the full set and 200 short of buying the gloves...hmm this could take a while...4 1/2 hrs in fact. after I got my armor I called it a night.

after 8 hours I had (with alot of help) 2 daggers and a full suit of armor, had spent about 2K tria on skills was broke and found out the minimum basics that I would have known in 10min if I had an in game map, the rudamentery basics of "leveling" were undestood, still had no way to heal(still don't know where to begin on that one).

so I know it's a long time in coming but the summery:

No maps...not even a sign post and no NPCs answering questions like "where is a leatherworker/tanner/healer/my quest NPC"
No Compass....
no basic starting equipment... even a farmboy has a butter knife (when I was a farmboy I had a wide assortment of very painful tools at my disposal aka pitchfork, scythe ect)
because of the "no spoiler" rule the forums might as well be "read the manual again"...as for basic "where can I find X"...useless do to "RP" rules(in D&D your GM will tell you where the X shop is)
besides a 1 shot potion, no way to heal (those things are expensive)(again as a farmboy I had a first aid kit, simple but effective...they have had bandages from the ancient egyptian times so it won't break your RP environment)
I read the manual and in theory know it might be possible to craft something though I have no Idea about the how/where/what I need of it

Another thing that kinda puzzled me...the RP thing that the Developers want so badly seems to be broken by their own design, sewers w/ pipes and all didn't come into effect untill late 1800's, internal plumbing was the same. sure the romans used hot springs and pipes and an aquiduct system not to mention concrete but I swear I ran through the same sewers in Anarchy Online and Neocron...just an observation

the Crashes, cumbersome controls, lack of sound, lack of animation, buggy targeting, AI issues, lack of monsters, graphical glitches, getting stuck, I can forgive after all it is free and in alpha (though I haven't seen a difference in the game from a year ago...then again I didn't play for too long any of the other times)

anyways once you get past all it's flaws it seems like it has great potential...I just hope it gets the attn to the playability that it has gotten to the story line so far