{"id":887,"date":"2004-07-20T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=887"},"modified":"2004-07-20T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T16:42:00","slug":"did-i-choose-the-wrong-time-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=887","title":{"rendered":"Did I choose the wrong time sink?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have I chosen the wrong soul sucking pastime? Ought I be flying around in tights, freeing the world from evil doers, rather than running around, waving my tail, killing fictitious beasties and making fabulous meals and new outfits. Hmmm, tough call. =)<\/p>\n

Mostly, it’s the user base. I mean, it’s great to be able to play in the same little world with and , but there are other players out there in other parallel vanadiels that I can’t reach. =) Is CoH likewise split? All the cool kids seem to be playing it, but, I’ve yet to hear if all the cool kids are in one place. Also, I’m not sure about the fundamental mechanics of the game. FFXI is pretty clearly an economy game. Harvest items, kill monsters\/take their stuff, manufacture items from other items, sell them, give them to mission-granting types, etc. Pick and choose a class combo from 2,100 possible combinations. With a story arc for each of the major cities. Blah-dy-blah-dy-blah.<\/p>\n

What little I’ve seen\/heard on CoH makes me think it’s just one world, so you can play with or at least meet anyone else playing the game, in the game. There are no items or economy. The character creation and development system is more fine-grained and has fewer macro-options, but more micro-options (in ffxi, your main job, sub job, and race basically determine most of your meaningful stats). <\/p>\n

I will not sign up for two of these simultaneously. I plan on graduating. =)<\/p>\n

Then again, maybe it’s better I’ve chosen a game with fewer friends\/acquaintances on it. I’ll be more likely to get my ass away from the computer and to the gym\/cooperative\/skate trails, whatever. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have I chosen the wrong soul sucking pastime? Ought I be flying around in tights, freeing the world from evil doers, rather than running around, waving my tail, killing fictitious beasties and making fabulous meals and new outfits. Hmmm, tough call. =) Mostly, it’s the user base. I mean, it’s great to be able to … Continue reading “Did I choose the wrong time sink?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}