How was your first hour ingame?

[Excentric]

Mine was quite fun...

After logging in I entered the starting town, unsure what I was supposed to do I just walked around and after a while I came accross something that looked like the sewers so I entered it.

After walking around in there for 5-10mins I encountered my first mob, "goblo" or something, so I tried to kill it. I wasnt sure where my hp bar was, but from the chat I could clearly see it was owning me so I desperatly tried to run but somehow I failed to do that and I died.

Now I respawned in what I now know is called the "death realm". I wasnt sure what I was supposed to do in there but I just followed the only path I could follow and managed to get to a dead end without falling into the darkness.

Now I was like "wtf" a dead end? You can imagine I was getting a little irritated so I decided to walk into the void. I surely thought I was gonna die again but instead I saw my character kept trying to walk into a wall, I tried to press nearly every key on my keyboard but nothing worked, my character was still happily trying to walk into a wall.

I was getting a little bit angry but then I saw "help" button on chat interface, I explained my problem and someone told me to type "/unstick" so I did. Yay, I had no idea where I was now but I could move my character again!.. well thats what I thought.

In front of me I saw other players walking into a big opening so I decided to do the same and started moving forward but unfortunately I got stuck again. I have no idea why, there was nothing in front of me that could stop me from moving forward so the only option was "/unstick". I ended up on the same spot but I was still stuck so I typed "/unstick" again and again and again but it didnt work. Nothing seemed to work so I tried the help function again but no answer came...now I was getting really pissed and I kept spamming "/unstick" with the keyup+return combo. After like 30 times the game started running a bit slow and looked like it was about to crash so I stopped and came back to my senses. So I thought maybe logging off might help so I did, I also restarted my pc because my mouse had gone wild in the process.

I logged back into the game to find my character was still stuck, I asked for help again but no answer. Now I started to explore the ingame help function looking for something that could help me. After a few minutes I found out about a new command that could help me "/die" with the description "use this command if /unstick does not work".. . Ok cool, so I killed myself and I was back at the beginning of the death realm.

Ok I thought, im gonna try look for help from another player to get me out of here... like 10 players passed by me as I was asking for help but they didnt even stop. So I got the message and started walking to the dead end again where I saw players jumping off a bridge so I did too. Anyway to make it short I finally managed to get out of there after falling into thin air a dozen of times.

I ended up in the same town, went to the sewers again, attacked a smaller looking creature "rat" which killed me again and I logged out.

Is this game supposed to be like this or is it just me?

[Karyuu]

I'm sorry that you haven't begun with the best experience there.. :)

PlaneShift is a game in open development, only at version 0.3 at the moment. Features are incomplete and there are many things on our To-Do lists, so it can be quite the test of patience sometimes. That's why we have lots of guides and information both on the website and on this forum, which we recommend you take a look at before jumping in and trying to guess what button does what. Always try to read the manuals first, especially if a game is a work in progress.

Escaping through the Death Realm becomes easier after time - you'll reach a point where you could almost do it blindfolded ;) It's very simple once you know the way, although I do understand that it can be challenging if no one around you stops to guide you out. There's no problem with just following other players out.

Read through some of our guides, figure out the interface and controls, then give it a try again :) It will be better.

[Illysia]

It's very easy to die in game when you are new. If you made it to the sewers before dying you did better that I did at first. I died almost instantly (I fell of a ledge and died). However it gets better with time. You just need to learn what to avoid, give it time it will get better.

[Nurahk]

It's just you.

Aaaanyways, my first hour.

Let's see, I got online and shouted "I'm a newb, help me" somebody replied "Do you really want that to be the first thing you ever say?".

I went and talked to them, and they explained the basics, which, at the time, were right click crystal, left click hand icon with the optional left click crystal /greet before it.
The rest of the hour was just talking with them, then finding Nilaya trying to scale an absolutely flat wall (tower in the plaza) and chatting with her for a bit.

(Karyuu, Illysia, look at thread title.  Please, try to stay ontopic )

[steuben]

* steuben wishes he could remeber his first hour in game.

but i think most of it involved trying to find my way out of the caves under the temple.

[miadon]

my first hour was me exploring Hydlaa and the dungeons.

[Illysia]

My first hour was spent wandering along the bottom of the death realm and looking up to see if I could find some stairs that went up. Not to mention marveling at the Carkarass stuck in one of the bases of the structure. It was fighting me from behind stone and it was winning! 

 (Happy now Nurahk  )

[Nurahk]

(Happy now Nurahk  )

Always happy, have everything I want <.<

But yes, you have satisfied my need for ontopicness

Steuben: I loved the caves there, so many fun times **pokes somebody to remind them**.

[Raleigh]

I just wandered there in confusion, felt from a ledge and my first(now forgotten even by me) character died, as I thought that the "Death Realm" was a place from where there was no turning back(both in game and Settings-wise), I deleted this character, uninstalled Planeshift due to frustation and went back to Neverwinter Nights and FPSes. 1 month later(not so sure anymore, perhaps more... I remember a weird day last year when character models were turned into monsters a little after the time I created my account. I thought it was a server-side bug instead of an event due to Halloween ) I returned and created a new character(a dermorian), making money was tough, I deleted him and made another with mining skills due to it(a klyros). I got bored from the  fighting and mining systems a long time ago, now I just roleplay and none of my characters has reason to pick up people to fight as well, so I just push their relationships, and I am looking forward for the time when soon^tm from certain features comes.

[Garon]

I ran around for a bit, found my way to oja road (which was where the BD road is now...).

Fell, died.

Fell in the death realm, found 2 others wandering around down there, one of whom had been stuck for a week, apparently.

Eventually figured out the "help" tag, /died, found sewers, killed rats with bare hands.

[zanzibar]

I can't remember very much.  I can't remember any of it, actually.  But the music from the character creation screen still has this weird effect on me, and it was definately a part of my first hour with the game.

I remember dying and not being able to see because I still had my old monitor.  My solution to the death realm was to remake my character a few times.  Then I found my first guild leader, and he taught me how to mine for platinum... but it was mostly exploring, and the music.

[neko kyouran]

If I recall right, my first hour was spent with Drey in Oja killing rats for golden falchions. I think i still have set of those somewhere.  Unless they got wiped at some point.

[Myriel]

My first hour went quite good I think.
I chose an Enki character and started in Ojaveda. I ran arond a bit and explored the town, then I tried to talk to some NPCs and that was a bit strange, cause they didn't answer (I didn't figure out how to use the NPC tab). Then I found a rat and was quite happy killing it some times with bare hands. When it got boring again, I ran around and then found the first player in game, Meowkun. He was also new and we talked a bit (OOC, of course, about the game and so on) and I showed him how to kill rats. After some time, we met another player (can't remember her name), who showed us where to sell our hides. Then they both had to log off and I was alone again. I found a hammer on the ground (for crafting) and decided to use it as a weapon (which makes no sense, what I know now, but later I got two daggers for it) I left town and saw a rouge. I tried to talk to him and he sent me to death realm wit one strike. I got stuck in DR and gave up after a while, but the next time I luckily found a friendly player who showed me the way.
Well, probably that was my first 3 hours, I think

[Socius Rockus]

  Aahh! My first hour, I remember it sooo clearly:
I said "Hi" to a fellow player, I had my first conversation (about a month later I fund out people call those 'OOC') after he was gone I attacked my first rat!
I felt glorious, the way I defeated him with bare hands! But I got too cocky and attacked a rogue... Blackness, the next 15 minutes I spent trying to kill the Death guardian. I called him names and got my first warning (looking back I feel ashamed  ) I got back by following a lizard and the next lot of days I spent killing rats, rats, rats and doing 2 quests. I handled myself pretty good I think 

[Asalya]

My first hour was wondering how to get out of East Hydlaa    I ended up following a fellow diaboli out.