Farelands: Review

Jinx · #1 06-13-2002, 12:19 AM

Farelands.

There's an onlinestartlocal!

However, I don't think it's a very good onlinestartlocal compared to most. It's a small room that asks you to choose your class: Mage, Warrior, Wizard, Dark Wizard, Demon, or Paladin.
(What's the difference between Mage and Wizard?).

When you touch the NPC for a class, it says "Description here". It says that for all of the classes. And at least have different gifs for the different classes, they are all represented here by gray statue gifs.

After that you are warped to another room where you pick your nation, 5 possible nations. Again, none of them have descriptons for them.

Now I am out on the actual world. The playerworld is about 300 levels big. Only 4 or 5 of them have content in them. The rest are blank, created by the level generator.

However, the owner has explained this to me. He want's the players to create their own houses and buildings to go there.

This isn't enough though. More will still need to be done. Make a few towns on your own(The levels that the owner did make look pretty cool,), add a few quests. There will need to be some inside levels, and a quest or two, and some NPCs you can interact with.

The owner will at least need to add some tiling to the levels he want's to leave open for player creations. Add some trees to the levels, some grass tiles, etc.

Overall I think this server has some good potential, the few levels that were done, were done well. But the rest can't just be left blank to hope that players will fill it up with good quality levels.
If the staff keep working on it, I think it will soon have a good chance.

Farelands Status: Fail

-Jinx

Logo · #2 06-13-2002, 12:25 AM

GraalBR · #3 06-13-2002, 12:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jinx
Farelands.

There's an onlinestartlocal!

However, I don't think it's a very good onlinestartlocal compared to most. It's a small room that asks you to choose your class: Mage, Warrior, Wizard, Dark Wizard, Demon, or Paladin.
(What's the difference between Mage and Wizard?).

When you touch the NPC for a class, it says "Description here". It says that for all of the classes. And at least have different gifs for the different classes, they are all represented here by gray statue gifs.

After that you are warped to another room where you pick your nation, 5 possible nations. Again, none of them have descriptons for them.

Now I am out on the actual world. The playerworld is about 300 levels big. Only 4 or 5 of them have content in them. The rest are blank, created by the level generator.

However, the owner has explained this to me. He want's the players to create their own houses and buildings to go there.

This isn't enough though. More will still need to be done. Make a few towns on your own(The levels that the owner did make look pretty cool,), add a few quests. There will need to be some inside levels, and a quest or two, and some NPCs you can interact with.

The owner will at least need to add some tiling to the levels he want's to leave open for player creations. Add some trees to the levels, some grass tiles, etc.

Overall I think this server has some good potential, the few levels that were done, were done well. But the rest can't just be left blank to hope that players will fill it up with good quality levels.
If the staff keep working on it, I think it will soon have a good chance.

Farelands Status: Fail

-Jinx

I didnt expect that server to succeed :-\

Petey84 · #4 06-13-2002, 01:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by GraalBR

I didnt expect that server to succeed :-\

Can you tell me my future? :: hands him crystal ball::

GraalBR · #5 06-13-2002, 01:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Petey84

Can you tell me my future? :: hands him crystal ball::

::Rubs the Crystal Ball:: I see Fame and Fortune for you but also follows sudden death

Jinx · #6 06-13-2002, 01:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by GraalBR

::Rubs the Crystal Ball:: I see Fame and Fortune for you but also follows sudden death

Ooh! What about meh?

-Jinx

GraalBR · #7 06-13-2002, 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jinx

Ooh! What about meh?

-Jinx

::rubs crystal ball::
You will soon Receive a Special Forum PM from Stefan regarding the Ownership of the whole of graal.

You will also meet Psyker in Real life and Fight for the Head PW spot.

You will then go on to win the Lottery and become a Proffesional Bus Cleaner.

Yakuna2001 · #8 06-13-2002, 01:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by GraalBR

::rubs crystal ball::
You will soon Receive a Special Forum PM from Stefan regarding the Ownership of the whole of graal.

You will also meet Psyker in Real life and Fight for the Head PW spot.

You will then go on to win the Lottery and become a Proffesional Bus Cleaner.

konidias · #9 06-13-2002, 01:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jinx
Farelands.

There's an onlinestartlocal!

However, I don't think it's a very good onlinestartlocal compared to most. It's a small room that asks you to choose your class: Mage, Warrior, Wizard, Dark Wizard, Demon, or Paladin.
(What's the difference between Mage and Wizard?).

When you touch the NPC for a class, it says "Description here". It says that for all of the classes. And at least have different gifs for the different classes, they are all represented here by gray statue gifs.

After that you are warped to another room where you pick your nation, 5 possible nations. Again, none of them have descriptons for them.

Now I am out on the actual world. The playerworld is about 300 levels big. Only 4 or 5 of them have content in them. The rest are blank, created by the level generator.

However, the owner has explained this to me. He want's the players to create their own houses and buildings to go there.

This isn't enough though. More will still need to be done. Make a few towns on your own(The levels that the owner did make look pretty cool,), add a few quests. There will need to be some inside levels, and a quest or two, and some NPCs you can interact with.

The owner will at least need to add some tiling to the levels he want's to leave open for player creations. Add some trees to the levels, some grass tiles, etc.

Overall I think this server has some good potential, the few levels that were done, were done well. But the rest can't just be left blank to hope that players will fill it up with good quality levels.
If the staff keep working on it, I think it will soon have a good chance.

Farelands Status: Fail

-Jinx

A wizard and a mage are pretty much the same. Although if you want to get techinical, you could probably group mages into a different class by saying mages use more offense magic while wizards use more defense magic, but still, in reality, the definition for a wizard, and the defintion for a mage, is practically one and the same.

AlkarenHyralt · #10 06-13-2002, 02:23 AM

Fine, don't say thanks

xxRamzaxx · #11 06-13-2002, 02:33 AM

Jinx, your a good reviewer but I think your too nice. I dont know if you just want people not to hate you, are just a really nice guy, etc but I think you should just...hit em with it. But your reviews are good and I like reading them

Jinx · #12 06-13-2002, 03:30 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by AlkarenHyralt
Fine, don't say thanks

For stickying it? I was planning on it, but I didn't know for sure if it was you that stickied it. Thanks =)

Quote:

Jinx, your a good reviewer but I think your too nice. I dont know if you just want people not to hate you, are just a really nice guy, etc but I think you should just...hit em with it. But your reviews are good and I like reading them

*shrug* I guess being nice is my one flaw.

-Jinx

zrpgp2p · #13 06-13-2002, 03:45 AM

Keep it up Jinx

Petey84 · #14 06-13-2002, 05:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jinx

For stickying it? I was planning on it, but I didn't know for sure if it was you that stickied it. Thanks =)

*shrug* I guess being nice is my one flaw.

-Jinx

Being nice isn't a flaw.

Zolrieg · #15 06-13-2002, 06:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Petey84

Being nice isn't a flaw.

unless you're Kasuagi.

Falcor · #16 06-13-2002, 07:45 AM

Nice reviews but don't comment on the graphics too much becasue they might be temporary =\. Also, Why must a server have quests to get online? 2k2 has none, yet they can get online! (j/k). Maybe you should have a talk with the creator while you are reviewing their world, you could ask questions with him about WHY this is this way and WHY this is that way.

Not that I am saying this server should have passed, but the content of the review does not infact reflect any real content of the server (PRehaps their was none tho)

Tom84710 · #17 06-13-2002, 11:22 AM

A mage is a summoner, and summons mosts of it's defenses, while wizards use direct damage spells.

ParadiseAdmin3 · #18 06-13-2002, 12:06 PM

Aren't there enough playerworlds with classes?

screen_name · #19 06-13-2002, 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ParadiseAdmin3
Aren't there enough playerworlds with classes?

TheFrozenFiend · #20 06-14-2002, 04:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tom84710
A mage is a summoner, and summons mosts of it's defenses, while wizards use direct damage spells.

Well technically a Mage doesnt summon. Thats a conjurer, which is a type of Mage.
-----

You shouldnt use both Mage and Wizard. You should use Sorceror and Mage.

Different magic classes (according to offical AD&D rules):

Cleric (Priest)
Druid (Priest)
Monk (Priest)
Sorceror (Wizard)
Mage (Wizard)

Or if you want to be super advanced and have 20 odd classes you can go into things like

Shapeshifter (Druid)
and
Conjurer (Mage)

ParadiseAdmin3 · #21 06-14-2002, 04:28 AM

A lot of servers has plenty of classes like old Delteria. I think they'll get the classes back up again I think but I don't even play there :P. Use big words if you want classes!!!! like: Bombast

thesaiyan · #22 06-14-2002, 08:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by TheFrozenFiend

Well technically a Mage doesnt summon. Thats a conjurer, which is a type of Mage.
-----

You shouldnt use both Mage and Wizard. You should use Sorceror and Mage.

Different magic classes (according to offical AD&D rules):

Cleric (Priest)
Druid (Priest)
Monk (Priest)
Sorceror (Wizard)
Mage (Wizard)

Or if you want to be super advanced and have 20 odd classes you can go into things like

Shapeshifter (Druid)
and
Conjurer (Mage)

Ok how would you know? Mages or Wizards aren't real. So you can't say "technically." Lol.

TheFrozenFiend · #23 06-14-2002, 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by thesaiyan

Ok how would you know? Mages or Wizards aren't real. So you can't say "technically." Lol.

I said according to official AD&D rules.

Besides....how do you know they arent real?

Petey84 · #24 06-14-2002, 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by thesaiyan

Ok how would you know? Mages or Wizards aren't real. So you can't say "technically." Lol.

NOOOOOO!! THEY R REAL SHADDAP!!!!!!!!

!!

Milkdude99 · #25 06-15-2002, 01:58 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jinx
Farelands.

There's an onlinestartlocal!

However, I don't think it's a very good onlinestartlocal compared to most. It's a small room that asks you to choose your class: Mage, Warrior, Wizard, Dark Wizard, Demon, or Paladin.
(What's the difference between Mage and Wizard?).

When you touch the NPC for a class, it says "Description here". It says that for all of the classes. And at least have different gifs for the different classes, they are all represented here by gray statue gifs.

After that you are warped to another room where you pick your nation, 5 possible nations. Again, none of them have descriptons for them.

Now I am out on the actual world. The playerworld is about 300 levels big. Only 4 or 5 of them have content in them. The rest are blank, created by the level generator.

However, the owner has explained this to me. He want's the players to create their own houses and buildings to go there.

This isn't enough though. More will still need to be done. Make a few towns on your own(The levels that the owner did make look pretty cool,), add a few quests. There will need to be some inside levels, and a quest or two, and some NPCs you can interact with.

The owner will at least need to add some tiling to the levels he want's to leave open for player creations. Add some trees to the levels, some grass tiles, etc.

Overall I think this server has some good potential, the few levels that were done, were done well. But the rest can't just be left blank to hope that players will fill it up with good quality levels.
If the staff keep working on it, I think it will soon have a good chance.

Farelands Status: Fail

-Jinx

not to be picky Jinx but there are no "Owners" any longer

only Managers

SinNetherwind · #26 06-15-2002, 03:36 AM

PEOPLE NEED TO READ THE DANG PW GUIDELINES BEFORE SUBMITTING A SERVER!!!! THEN THEY COULD HAVE ALL REQUIRED FIELDS AND NOT FAIL! SHEEEEEEESH

VikingBladeII · #27 06-15-2002, 05:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by SinNetherwind
PEOPLE NEED TO READ THE DANG PW GUIDELINES BEFORE SUBMITTING A SERVER!!!! THEN THEY COULD HAVE ALL REQUIRED FIELDS AND NOT FAIL! SHEEEEEEESH

Well that is part of judgement. If you aren't going to bother to see if there are any Playerworld guidelines, you probably aren't going to be dedicated enough to keep it running.

Neonight · #28 06-15-2002, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jinx
However, I don't think it's a very good onlinestartlocal compared to most. It's a small room that asks you to choose your class: Mage, Warrior, Wizard, Dark Wizard, Demon, or Paladin.
(What's the difference between Mage and Wizard?).

Might be better if the same classes weren't on every single server.

Timpan3 · #29 06-15-2002, 08:19 PM

like farelands had a chance

Dark-Dragoon · #30 06-15-2002, 10:19 PM

In the idea that i was going to have on my server (Which isnt really doing anything) i was gonna have classes. Dragoon......Mage Knight...some others that are unoriginal but......meh

albus777 · #31 06-17-2002, 05:40 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ParadiseAdmin3
Aren't there enough playerworlds with classes?

No way! Classes can make a server a lot more fun

haunter · #32 06-17-2002, 05:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by thesaiyan

Ok how would you know? Mages or Wizards aren't real. So you can't say "technically." Lol.

Harry pOtter rawks.

HoudiniMan · #33 06-18-2002, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jinx
Farelands.

There's an onlinestartlocal!

However, I don't think it's a very good onlinestartlocal compared to most. It's a small room that asks you to choose your class: Mage, Warrior, Wizard, Dark Wizard, Demon, or Paladin.
(What's the difference between Mage and Wizard?).

When you touch the NPC for a class, it says "Description here". It says that for all of the classes. And at least have different gifs for the different classes, they are all represented here by gray statue gifs.

After that you are warped to another room where you pick your nation, 5 possible nations. Again, none of them have descriptons for them.

Now I am out on the actual world. The playerworld is about 300 levels big. Only 4 or 5 of them have content in them. The rest are blank, created by the level generator.

However, the owner has explained this to me. He want's the players to create their own houses and buildings to go there.

This isn't enough though. More will still need to be done. Make a few towns on your own(The levels that the owner did make look pretty cool,), add a few quests. There will need to be some inside levels, and a quest or two, and some NPCs you can interact with.

The owner will at least need to add some tiling to the levels he want's to leave open for player creations. Add some trees to the levels, some grass tiles, etc.

Overall I think this server has some good potential, the few levels that were done, were done well. But the rest can't just be left blank to hope that players will fill it up with good quality levels.
If the staff keep working on it, I think it will soon have a good chance.

Farelands Status: Fail

-Jinx

ROFLMAO

I made that class and nation selection room for them and told them "You didn't give me descriptions of any kind so you'll have to put them in your self..." I even put "Description here" in the code to make it really really simple and they still goofed it up... Btw that was thier test for me to be NAT admin... i quit a couple days later

<EDIT>
No, i didn't make the crappy level they're in either

that was one of thier LATs cause i was lazy and just did the script
</EDIT>

Jinx · #34 06-18-2002, 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Milkdude99
not to be picky Jinx but there are no "Owners" any longer only Managers

Gah, sorry. =P

I don't really get it though, nobody explains anything to meh =(

Why are there no Owner's anymore?

-Jinx

Petey84 · #35 06-19-2002, 04:24 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jinx

Gah, sorry. =P

I don't really get it though, nobody explains anything to meh =(

Why are there no Owner's anymore?

-Jinx

Nishoku:

Because Stefan's greedy and whenever you submit something to him it becomes graalonlines property, no longer yours. So you no longer "own" that property.

magicbud3344 · #36 06-19-2002, 08:28 AM

well thats lame =/ so if you make a badass PW he can just fire you =/

Crono · #37 06-20-2002, 04:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by GraalBR

::rubs crystal ball::
You will soon Receive a Special Forum PM from Stefan regarding the Ownership of the whole of graal.

You will also meet Psyker in Real life and Fight for the Head PW spot.

You will then go on to win the Lottery and become a Proffesional Bus Cleaner.

LMAO THATS REALLY FUNNY

!!!!!! heh, what bout my life O.o??

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