Another Day ..

Fought with Process at Home a bit about their 'guaranteed refund' ..finally took sending email to the FBI Internet Fraud site and copying my email to all the spam emails I got from their reps, but I did finally get a refund, -evil grin-.

Think it would be more 'profitable' building characters in World of Warcraft for sale, LOL.

It was a learning thing.
'If it sounds to good to be true..it probably is' proved correct once more, as a friend reminded me. He went after his dream and flies commercial now, lucky dog!
(Hope it's CAVU for yas Yippee dood!)

Let's chat about online gaming.
Now .. I play World of Warcraft, just came back to it after awhile spent in Age of Conan online, and I was there in the early days of EverQuest when there were 120 nekkid woodelves in the Greater Fay woods. You had to work a bit to get your first pair of PANTS .. ok? -grin- ..it was a bit of fun.
The Dark Side has always been players who log on just to piss off other players. It's been that way from the beginning of social interaction online. Ultima Online catered to 'Greifers' ..a name they earned. It became so prevalent in UO that our Guild became one of many that hunted them like the dogs they were.

Nowadays in World of Warcaft and many other online adventures, you can filter out most of the jerks, entirely. You will never see what they say and all their attention getting behavior is curtailed ..they cant steal your kills, train mobs to you, kill you, or even bother you. The /ignore function is *Awesome* ..along with the other mechanics of play on a Player vs Environment (PVE) server.. thank you Blizzard :)

If you really want to run a character on a Player-vs-Player server, you can have at it. Get your butt handed to you on a regular basis ..or vice versa .. as you hunt and are hunted.

The interesting thing about them is, the Greifers dont go there. Oh noo .. they show up and act a jerk and they get hammered. ROFL. I mean .. it *is* the Old West ..if you're not polite and well mannered, you will get KILLED. Then and There. Greifers do not get 'into' that at all.
They just want to mess up someone elses game, cant stand it when bein a jerk just doesn't pan out for 'em.

I always tell the idiots that constantly want to /duel (and why is it they're always 10 levels higher than I am .. thinkin it's because they suck so badly they cannot win against their own levels? -BINGO-) ..anyway.. I tell 'em to go fly Aces High. You want PvP where skill is a huge part of the deciding factor, not 'gear' .. strap on a P-51 Mustang and go find a nice Me-109 below you, just above the clouds.
Get frosty, keep yer speed up, never pull more than 4G's unless it's life or death, and fight your fight. Work the vertical, and realize that timing really is everything.

There isn't anything in the world better than workin the bandit till he is slow, saddling up with them six fifties and just blowing that bandit right outta the sky.
As Han Solo said .. "good against drones is one thing, good against people .. "

It takes awhile to learn how to fight effectively in 3 dimensions, learn the good and the bad about your plane and all the others. I have come away from historical scenarios with my hands shaking and drenched from the concentration of fighting those FW-190's in my Mustang in the high air above 25k, trying to keep them off the B-17's as they punch thru to their target.
Ya .. PvP at it's finest.
Go ahead, try and be a Greifer there.
ROFL.
Wrap yourself around the concept of 'You have been SHOT DOWN'
..the term 'baby seal' applies.

One of the greatest draws of online gaming is the people you meet. They become life long friends, people you can go to for help, ..heck I even know some who married each other.
It's the other side of the coin from the Greifer types. You end up with a circle of friends with the same interests, talk the same talk, enjoy the same things, exchange ideas, learn from ..all of it.

Well .. I am off to World of Warcraft, Stormrage server.
Fuddthoo my mage is itchin to burn somethin up, he's a Gnome firebug for sure!

-Grayeagle, aka Frank