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> I am in The Beta for Jump to lightspeed and I was not at fan fest.
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> yay
>
>

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> Superman wrote:
> I too, and I found it extremely buggy. And on my galaxy forum someone with
> a new account for an alt, also got an invite. Feeling special now? heh

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>I am just happy. I have never been part of a beta for anything.
>
> I have tried for almost every game out there to get into beta.
>
> The force must be with me for this one :0
>
> I was mad because I am on the other side of the country and could not
> attend Fan fest.
>
>
> "baegucb" <user@example.net> wrote in message
> news:41517aaf$1_3@newspeer2.tds.net...
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>

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>Superman wrote:
>I too, and I found it extremely buggy. And on my galaxy forum someone
>with a new account for an alt, also got an invite. Feeling special now? heh

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> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:11:53 -0500, baegucb <user@example.net> wrote:
>
>
> Well of course it is buggy.... if it weren't, you would have paid your
> $30 and be playing in a live game.
>
> And Yeah. I do feel special. ANd I feel lucky. Seeing that which only
> a few of the total number of players get to see and be part of
> developing.
>
>

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> Beta is Awesome.

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> "Superman" <:30@ptd.net> wrote in message
> news:Y56cncv-PKxmg8XcUSdV9g@ptd.net...
>
> I thought it sucked and uninstalled it after just a couple days.
>
> /shrug
>
> Glad to see people are enjoying it, maybe there will be a game around
> that they can fix all the bugs in after its release.
>
> - Oalan
>
>

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> It changed since last week. I would try it again.

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> news:fKecnVp85bbU9sXcUSdV9g@ptd.net...
>
>
> Hmmm... I might have to reinstall and check it out again. One of the
> problems I've noticed right away is that my friends aren't in it, so the
> whole reason I didn't drop the game a long time ago was because of them.
> It does make it easier to find and report the bugs though, since they
> seem to piss me off a lot quicker when I don't have anything else to do
> ;)
>
> - Oalan
>
>

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> And Yeah. I do feel special. ANd I feel lucky. Seeing that which only
> a few of the total number of players get to see and be part of
> developing.

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> Skinner1@hotmail.com wrote in message

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> Both of my accounts have an invite and all of my freinds got invited.
>
> Beggining to think they're giving everyone a chance to play before

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>Skinner1@hotmail.com wrote in message news:<g0a5l0p43420mccaehnhkv6ket09tutb1j@4ax.com>...
>
>
>Both of my accounts have an invite and all of my freinds got invited.
>
>Beggining to think they're giving everyone a chance to play before release.

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>I talked with one of my friends from SWG last night for the first time
>in ages. He said the JTL forums were full of people saying they only
>played 30mins and then quit playing it forever. If thats the case, it
>might've been a bad idea to invite everybody

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>
> That might make it sound like it is bad. Folks tell me there is
> nothing wrong with JTL, the problem is they just can't figure out how
> it applies to the game as a whole. It's like a game unto itself but
> how does it advance defending a ground faction base, increasing the
> size of your player city, resource harvesting, or how about the
> general storyline of this MMOG in general.
>
> Seems like all they will do is drain away some of the ground game
> folks to the space game. We lost a base because we had few defenders
> on evening; they were all off beta flying. The first few weeks of live
> JTL ought to be very interesting as it applies to player habits.
>
> On the bright side; it sounds as if the Earth and Beyond people will
> have a new home.:P

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> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:10:43 GMT, "Oalan" <Spam_Sucks@I.hate.it> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> That might make it sound like it is bad. Folks tell me there is
> nothing wrong with JTL, the problem is they just can't figure out how
> it applies to the game as a whole. It's like a game unto itself but
> how does it advance defending a ground faction base, increasing the
> size of your player city, resource harvesting, or how about the
> general storyline of this MMOG in general.
>
> Seems like all they will do is drain away some of the ground game
> folks to the space game. We lost a base because we had few defenders
> on evening; they were all off beta flying. The first few weeks of live
> JTL ought to be very interesting as it applies to player habits.
>
> On the bright side; it sounds as if the Earth and Beyond people will
> have a new home.:P

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> Shane wrote:
>
>
> Don't forget that it still requires ground resources to build and maintain
> your ships, that should help keep people in the ground game.
>
> nib

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>Shane wrote:
>odd. I looked at
>http://www.earthandbeyond.ea.com/ho...x_marketing.jsp awhile ago,
>just out of curiousity, and it said they were shutting down. And that
>link says they already have,

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>Don't forget that it still requires ground resources to build and
>maintain your ships, that should help keep people in the ground game.
>
>nib

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> On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:09:39 -0500, baegucb <user@example.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> I beta tested that game. A fine game, nothing really wrong with it,
> but it was all spaceship stuff.Playing a vehicle has it's limits for
> me. I enjoy characters that interact face to face. I was the sort of
> guy who during my paper and pencil RPG moment hated Battle tech. I
> felt it focused on giant robots over characters leaving one to feeling
> like they were playing a board strategy game and not an RPG. Earth and
> beyond had the same effect on me and from what my friends tell me, JTL
> sounds exactly like it. I won't be getting the expansion, Ill use that
> money for EQ2.

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>I don't know that I would get into EQ2. I came to despise what happened to
>the first one enough. I am not sure that I will do the JTL, I have my hands
>full working on the FS branches, regardless of whether I decide to go Jedi
>or not. The main thing I like about this game over EQ or others similar is
>with my profession I don't HAVE to group if I don't want to, although SOE
>seems bound and determined to dictate that I will need to at some point.
>This is not to say that I dislike groups, but I am selective and I'd rather
>get myself killed only by my OWN stupidity instead of someone else who is
>watchin the boob tube or something on a "solo" group. What is that by the
>way?

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> On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 20:37:00 -0700, "Shirley Kincaid"
> <tinyperson@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> EQ2 won't be like EQ1. Yes for some things you will need groups.But it
> will be solo and casual player friendly. You'll have item rot and best
> items are player made as opposed to the need to camp the "good stuff".
> Best I can describe the class system is a hybrid between SWG and old
> EQ; still level dependent, but class begin in a broad area and only
> focus into your final "class" at the upper levels.
>
> I loved EQ but after 5 years, been there done that. It is a limited
> game and it really showed at the end where the uber guilds pretty much
> set the agenda to the point that some dungeons just couldn't be done
> by may high mid level guild. I remember when a bunch of uber guilds on
> a server pulled down "The Sleeper" who was a Death Touch MoB never
> meant to be "killed". They did it and it was that kind of power the
> devs based their dungeon,drop, game design on and that made it party
> dependent for anything nice and also raised the frustration level as
> small guilds tried to cobble enough people together to attempt some of
> the content with mixed results.
>
> SWG has some content problems IMO, but I do like how I was able to get
> nice armor, a house, mount in a relatively short time. Unlike EQ where
> you can spend months saving for a single piece of armor and even
> adventure with other no matter what level you are.
>
> From what I read, Ill be giving EQ2 a chance, but I have always been
> partial to the fantasy setting and all the others out ATM just don't
> do it for me like EQ did. It will be interesting to see if EQ2 can
> give me that same feeling again or if it was nothing more then the
> right game at the right time...

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> release.
>
> I talked with one of my friends from SWG last night for the first time
> in ages. He said the JTL forums were full of people saying they only
> played 30mins and then quit playing it forever. If thats the case, it
> might've been a bad idea to invite everybody
>