Well, good morning and Happy Monday.
You know, I could be on the game at home playing, but instead, I am here at the cafe about to write about 'Clone Wars Adventures'.
I just had a session, and so many things happen, that it is very difficult to describe to people what is going on. It is hard to explain it to myself.
One of the compounding problems is the challenge of communication. The chat box sucks, basically, we all know that. The English language is slaughtered with that thing. Add to young people who speak primarily in 'chatspeak' and you got a problem. They often don't understand a sentence when they read one. So, there is user error with language, and there is epic mechanical failure with the chat box.
In 'Lord of The Rings Online' and other games, they have speech capability if you are in a group. I don't think they will have that in 'Clone Wars' anytime soon, but it would sure help to communicate ideas.
Anyway, I will put up the video today to advertise this blog on youtube. Not much will happen for a while. Things take time, but who knows? Over time, I may find some people who want to read what I write and think about 'Clone Wars Adventures'.
It can get really confusing with four or five people talking at me at once when I am in the Umbara battle zone and with my brother in a gmail chat box. If I talk too much in the Umbara war zone, I will die. It's happened many times already.
So, basically, the main reason to be on Umbara is to collect beacons to obtain the Shadow armor. It takes a long time. I still have more beacons to get after days of collecting. There are a lot to get. If you can find a beacon within ten minutes of looking, count yourself as lucky. Some people are really good at finding them. I am not one of those people yet.
Also, the new dynamic is that people will try and steal the beacon you just found. They follow you around and scan the landscape while you engage in battle, and they take your freakin' treasure, the little bastards! Anyway, that happens, so just be aware. At first, I thought they were following me because I thought they liked me. I didn't even know about the beacons at first. I always get my information on the game second hand because I don't have the time or the desire to keep up to date in the forums. I don't gravitate towards forums of any kind. The worst feeling is being lost in forum, and navigating around in there trying to find something.
Anyway, the new Umbara battle zone is a big success. People really like it.
There is a rancor to kill, and pirates, and the zone solves the claustrophobia problem that the game has had for a long time, with only having the jedi temple to run around in, it's been pretty sucktastic.
The AT-RT is worth the four bucks, because the Umbara zone is pretty big, and the AT-RT allows you to run through all the enemies so you can find the beacons. To do it on foot is possible, but it becomes 'Not Fun' really fast. Also, the AT-RT allows you to find beacons in the airfield. On foot, you get blasted to hell pretty fast.
It's sick, but I am just getting started, too.
I'm going to stand outside and take a break, brb.
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I just had a 'shoot the s***t' session with my friend Marco. You see, we play 'Magic The Gathering' every Sunday night, and if the only thing that comes out of it is idea generation, then it is a real useful thing. We both like Monty Python, and talking about stuff that goes on in the world. Our dialogues are seasoned with talk about rock and roll, hard rock, heavy metal, and death metal, as well as film and movies.
Anyway, back to Clone Wars. Well, the game has suddenly become better with the Umbara battle zone, and with the collections.
I hung out in the Officer's Club today for an hour, and I was able to get enough beacons in there to get the new Orange Tree. That is awesome. Just the fact that there is a new reason to even be in the Officer's Club is really great besides just being there to avoid non-members.
There is no point to play the game unless you are a member. The game doesn't offer much to non-members. All you are as a non-member is to be an extra in a movie or to stand there like a prop. It isn't much fun.
So, the communication is rough in the game. The people are a pain at times. But you know what? The game is a lot of fun, regardless of everything.
The other dynamic is the relationship between Clone Wars and youtube. That is a whole other subject which I could talk about at length, when I gather some more ideas about it. Youtube is basically how a lot of people got to know me. Besides them watching my videos of what I do in the game, the comments section allows people to express themselves. That is a good thing, since, as I mentioned, it is hard to express yourself in the game, where there are tons of misunderstandings.
Some kid called me a prick because I didn't feel like making a video of him, so I put him on the Ignore list right away. I didn't like him at all. I have found that to be a friendd with someone like that is only going to get worse, so it is better just to banish them to The Phantom Zone, and be done with it.
I like putting people on the Ignore list if they give me a reason, they will go there right away. They can stay there until next Life Day. Once a year, I remove everyone from the Ignore list, and give people another chance.
A year is a good amount of time. A lot can happen in a year.
Anyway, that is all I got to say about Clone Wars right now, but more will come later.
( The Orange Tree is part of the Jedi Meditation Tree Collection? Okay. How many different trees will they have? I don't know. )
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