you are -5 GMT smeagol.

it would be hard for you to get in because with my approx calculations, you would have to get up 4am in the saterday morning for you to play.

unless everyone is willing to shift times....

im not so good with time zones i guess, anyoen know what pst is in relation to gmt? i imagine i will be ok for any time set, but ill try to figure out what time it is... so we are working on 8 or 9 am gmt on fridays?

ok just to clarify what has happened so far:
We will use 3 mods mentioned above
We will allow NPC's into our party
We are playing all the way through till the end of TOB

Who will be the baahl spawn?
How is loot divided?

where is oregon BlackPeter? Is that in US? (sorry not familiar with geography)

[ 03-09-2005, 04:04 AM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]

Oregon is immediately north of California (if you know where it is), another costal state; so times there would also be GMT -8. Sticking to 8-9GMT would, as you posted earlier, put us at 12-1AM (3 of us, I believe?)

Also, the Balthazar change is Ascension.

[ 03-09-2005, 06:24 AM: Message edited by: silencer ]

that is cool. 3 of you guys would be on the -8 or -9 gmt. you guys can go together and would be pretty easy to meet up

so we got 6 in the group now.

Q- london - fighter/necro or cleric
me (harky :D ) - blade
tim - swash?
blackpeter - mage/cleric
silencer (are you interested in joining us?) - thief
Elven Beserk- beserk dualled to cleric or conjurer or wizard slayer

edit: i just noticed we got more than we can chew.. 2 extra which is smeagol and dynamite.. bummer

smeagol - ranger/cleric
dynamite - ... dunno

edit 2:
times..

EB, silencer, blackpeter and dynamite are -8, -9 GMT
Smeagol- GMT -5
Q - GMT 0
TIm and me (harks) - +10

i think we may have to form two groups i guess [img]tongue.gif[/img] . two groups of 4 since we are 8 in total

edit 3:
I do suggest since 4 of you guys are in the same timezone of -8 and -9 you guys can link up..

BUT it would be easier for at least one of you guys (-8 and -9) to join me, Q, and tim while you can get smeagol since he is easier to handle with his timezone being -5

[ 03-09-2005, 06:27 AM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]

Sure [img]smile.gif[/img]

I can fill in [fighter/]thief.

On a (unrelated) side note, I just thought of a 6-person party consisting entirely of thieves. That would strike fear into just about anything :D

i was thinking of splitting the group

- me -(blade) or another class if lacking but i do love my blade :(
- Q -cleric or fighter/necro
- tim -swash
- silencer - thief

and the other group with EB being in charge

EB - wizard slayer
smeagol- ranger / cleric
blackpeter - cleric/mage
dynamite - dunno (i guess thief would be good here)

sounds like a good divide.. because remember, that you have 2 slots for two NPC to compliment the group and have additional quest.

I'd prefere not to play under EOU, or other simmilar mods because of how they alter the ballence to the detriment to the game..

Ascention is about the only mod I'd play with..

Maybe unfinished busness as well, but ease of use is well simply put cheating IMHO..

Same goes for item upgrade, spell 50 and the XP cap removers.

hey...if no one else knows how i can set somethign quick up but why dont we get our own IRC chat room so we can talk directly...if not that you all can use my Direct Connect hub for the chat. itd be easier to set stuff up if ur actualy talking to someone rather than posting and waiting for a reply, i usualy play as a vampire hunter or an assassin

[ 03-09-2005, 10:24 AM: Message edited by: dynimite ]

so its gonna be 12-1 am on friday morning or saturday? also i dont nessecarily want cleric, just didnt see any mentioned, so if ranger cleric is in group id probly be better off with mage/thief, either multi or dual. id probly go multi for multi player game. and which 3 mods? i see ascension mentioned a few times other than that i dunno. i like tactics for one, but there arent many other mods that i havent had problems with.

for you BP it is friday midnight.. since you are in the -8 (-9) region

is everyone ok for a group split? but those who are not interested do back out now so we can fix the times.

[ 03-09-2005, 06:25 PM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]

we can debate on some things like spell 50 (since I consider mages to be overpowering in the first place and works both against and for the enemies)

tactics mod may be abit tricky and may cause countless grief for the group reloading all the time (which is pretty annoying). i dont mind tactics included but only in TOB or later stages in the game where the group is already strong enough to handle itself.

Tactics is an anti cheese mod, now cheese is dead easy when your single player, your able to use your whole party to do exactly what you want..

Online it's a bit diffrent, you won't get people doing what you want when you want it unless you pause every few seconds.

I am realy aganst Ease of Use, item upgrade and mods of that vien. They change some fundimentals of gameplay which for people who don't play them can be shocking, or in some cases deadly..

Now unless each partys going to cheat a rod of resurection I'd suggest core rules, UB because it's not OTT..

Spell 50 is just crazy, some spell's are meant to cap out at 10th level, others are meant to cap at 20th but it's a crazy mod that scales all spells that can scale.. Which is why I don't like it..

Sorcerers are overpowered, Mages can become very powerfull when under the effects of defensive spells and they have a good selection..

A party mage is diffrent from a power mage, a party mage can make a whole party strong enough to win an encouter, a power mage will ignore the plight of his party and kick everyones butt, then complain when everyone else in the party gets badly wounded..


Same goes for clerics and druids, to a lesser degree on the power side.. If you ignore the rest of the party your realy quite powerfull, but your better for everyone if you utalise buff spells..


I'd suggest not having a pure fighter as the bhaalspawn, reloading can be such a drag, you can take upto 8 level's of fighter, 10 of theif and still reach the level cap for mage..

i suggest the best for bhallspawn is the one who can hide or be in the back lines like either a mage or thief... or archer

thats cool indeed [img]smile.gif[/img] . i dont mind playing core rules with acension. tactics well it has to be a group decision.
im now thinking of playing wild mage to be honest [img]tongue.gif[/img] oh thats going to be fun

how about adding other classes? it would be interesting as long as they are balanced and of course with group decision once again.

[ 03-09-2005, 07:06 PM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]

I've yet to see any kits that are truly as well ballenced as the standard ones, they either tend to be overpowered totaly (shapshifter reballencing? Archer fighter kit?)

Or have weaknesses that have to be made up by the rest of the party (Sharpshooter thief?)


There are some realy crazy kits and races out there (Vampire? Half Vampire? Liche? anyone..)


So how's about just default stuff to start with, because we don't know what sort of players we're getting lumped with (I might be a mad power gamer for all you know), after the first session if the individual groups want to add mods then that'd be the time to do it. (though I've completed SoA in less than six hours)


cross them bridges when we come to them.

the only mod i use is the darkest day, new faces, makes everything harder, i tried the big picture mod but did nothin but screw everything up. and the team split is cool with me. ive never played on teh net so everything is new to me

K, so when do we play? 12-1 am? What time is that in -05?

no EB, i made sure that you get to play at 12-1am (since you are in -8 (-9) GMT right?) friday night while me, Q and Tim get to play in different times.

and -05 GMT would mean around 6am in the morning i think

[ 03-10-2005, 06:48 PM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]

k, whatever.

hi, guys.. been reading your thread. Just a suggestion: Why don't you guys start over with new threads stating what timezone you want the game to be in. It seems like there should be plenty of people interested in playing MP, but the time difference is going to cause problems.

Having said that, I live on the east coast, USA, and I'd like to get in on a game sometime if there's room for me. I'm not too IT savy, so I'd need to piggyback on some of you more knowledgable folks to get things set up.

I'll keep a heads up to see if there's an opening in this timezone.. I have kids and a joby-job to deal with, so I wouldn't have the freedom that some of you guys seem to have (how jealose am i?).

thanks for taking initiative, guys..
Scarab

Wow, looks like you have a good party getting started here.

I've played multiplayer on Gamespy quite a lot. But it is hard to keep the same group together. The most I've had the same group of 4 or more people, lasted for maybe 2 weeks (which was 3 or 4 gaming sessions). If you can keep it together, more power to you. I advise you to take it somewhat like "real world" where party members may unexpectedly arrive and depart, in case someone shows up late so it doesn't ruin everyone's session.

Allow the leader (host of the game) to keep the latest copy of every character.

If you have an extra character slot, I would play sometime. I have not tried the new Gamespy 2.0 but it should work the same.

See the link in my sig if you have problems connecting (firewall/port-forwarding issues).

alright so when do we start?

i am proposing end of march so everyone has enough time to schedule and stuff :D .

ive checked the calendar.. the best time for all of us would be friday/saterday march 25 (for -8, -9gmt) & 26 (for +10gmt)

everyone ok with it?

somebody can take my place, as i dont think i have the time any more, exams are comming up and i need to study

alright im down with that. something im uncealr on... we making brand new characters right? or we are importing a low level favorite? either way i guess ill make a new one. so im gonna do mage thief multi i spose. what should i focus thief skills in for group? ill probly do long sword shwort bow for weapons. i usually pick spells that arent found in early game as loot... so we are gonna use gamespy? if so how do we recognize what game to join? i dont remmeber my gamespy name, i guess i will make a new one. its been a couple computers since i last used it. thats all my questions i can think of atm...

okay BP..

some rules we will follow
- new characters
- some mods included like acension and dialogue fix pack to make things easier and interesting (of course game patch included)
- we will use gamespy to make things easy for all
- weapons and stuff can be decided later

i want a roll call who wants to join on march 25-26.