About a month ago 
When it was first released, ArcheAge was going to be my 'one' MMO.
It was beautiful, sandboxxy, had an interesting trade system, an amazing character creator, pirates, ships, large-scale pvp, same-faction murder, crime and jail system, crafting, housing, farming.......... I'm sure it had more things. This was years ago now and I barely remember what happened last week.Anyway.
I tried it. I liked it. But I hated the labor point system.
That alone killed the game for me. I'm the type of person who can spend hours, days, weeks just roaming around at my own pace, harvesting everything I see, but in this... that cost labor points. Even killing an enemy and opening a bag of coins I found on their body would cost labor points. It was ridiculous. And then the intense cash shop and pay-to-win aspect. Ohmygod.Although the pay-to-win is gone from Unchained, apparently the labor point system will still be a thing... I'm just hoping that after so many years and so much discussion over it, that it's much more reasonable.
I guess I'll soon find out!!
Name reservation and early character creation drops on October 1st, ready for an October 15th launch... and it's all I've wanted to do for the past week. I just want to reserve my two names and make my beautiful characters. Now. 😁
So, in the meantime, I've been slowly passing time by playing Minecraft.
The last server I joined died a month or so ago. Disappointingly. It was one of the very few Australian servers that was vanilla and not a part of those Top 25 sites. I spent a couple of days searching around, hoping to find a new Australian server... but alas, there were none.
So I joined an American one instead. And waited for the horrible pings to hit. To my surprise latency hasn't been an issue! The last American server I joined I couldn't even log on after 6pm and if by some miracle I managed to get in, a mere step through a portal would render me unable to connect again.
Haven't had those troubles on this server yet! In fact, according to the scoreboard I've spent 1600 minutes in the server so far and my village is coming along nicely.
I travelled across vast oceans and several deserts before at last finding a suitable place to call my home, and quickly got to work terraforming.
First came ye olde blacksmith...
... and the inside with a collection of heads starting!
Then came a fancy library...
And then these bastards spawned inside my storage building. I survived, they did not, and hopefully they never spawn in there again considering that's supposed to be my treasury. 😛 Pillagers be pillaging.
So that's what I've been doing to try and pass time while waiting for the one thing I actually want to do. 😅 I'm not a crazy builder who can create brilliant, mountainous wonders and I can't use redstone for the life of me, but I do like making little villages.
I'm currently in the middle of making a little Alchemy shoppe and then I need a house so I can at last stop living in a hole in the mountain. Then shall come my City Beautification Project where trees and flowers and ponds and great lakes will flourish over my vast lands!
I like to think that all of this Minecraft-ing will tide me over until the 15th of October... but we'll see how it goes.😊
Anyone else looking forward to Non-Pay-to-Win ArcheAge?
I'm probably going to be rolling my characters on the Wynn server since it seems Tyrenos is going to be overpopulated by youtubers and their sycophants. I love a populated server but not -that- populated. Would also be happy to group up with some other Steemians who might be playing!! 😁
, and are from the game: Minecraft