[Rift] If your thinking of comming back...

[Pokot]

50/50 really. RIFT's engine isn't amazingly well optimised, but at the same time an i3 is a pretty low end CPU for gaming with. Great for internet and office work though. The newish i7's like a 2600k are roughly three times as powerful as yours, and GDX's i7 950 is about twice as beefy, just to give you an idea of where you are.

Well, compared to my cpu it's pretty weak. On tests with Crysis i7-950 scores almost the double scores compared to your cpu not to mention I've OC'd it aswell. Running i7-950, 6 gb ram & a geforce gtx 570.

Oh well, that's me sucking it up. The next time I build a PC I'm gonna try and invest more money into the CPU.

Good luck with the renderer.

It did help, thanks.

[Emrendil]

My Rift sub just ran out. Won't resubscribe for now, but I'm hoping to get back some day.

[irongar]

My Rift sub just ran out. Won't resubscribe for now, but I'm hoping to get back some day.

Why don't you resub again

[Tonystark]

I just signed up for a 12 month subscription, cheaper and I don't have to worry for a year. Working on my new 39 warrior (locked xp) as I already have 3 50's. I really like the game as it reminds me so much of TBC era.

[mavfin]

All MMO's are CPU bound for loading players on screen etc, so basically if you wanna play in busy area's for invasions/raids etc you really need a good 4ghz overclock same applies for swtor and no doubt gw2 if you want good fps with 200 people on screen in WvW.

I run a 2.67 GHz W3520, and just plow through it all. I have CPU to burn, w/o the overclock, and this is with a 3 year old CPU and vid card (ATI 4870 512 MB DDR5). So, no an overclock isn't 'necessary' in Rift, unless you've bottlenecked yourself somewhere else.

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Oh well, that's me sucking it up. The next time I build a PC I'm gonna try and invest more money into the CPU.

It did help, thanks.

Common rookie mistake, put it all into the vid card(s), then go cheap on the CPU, and end up with the awesome GPUs sitting there waiting for input because the CPU isn't beefy enough.

You'll know better next time.

[razzyL]

I may have to try the trial once again because the first time i tried it when game was released it was very repetitive and quite boring

[riftstalkerboss]

With mists of pandaria around the corner, most people will run back to WoW in short order. Let me tell you pandas are irresistible.

[Tarien]

I may have to try the trial once again because the first time i tried it when game was released it was very repetitive and quite boring

The trial won't show you what endgame is like, and that is where all the fun is. Levelling is not that great in RIFT, though it is better than launch after a year of tweaks and polish. The game can be bought often for £10/$15 or less and includes 30days, I would say it's worth it to buy, get to 50 and take a look at the endgame, see what all the fuss is about.

With mists of pandaria around the corner, most people will run back to WoW in short order. Let me tell you pandas are irresistible.

Funny I have no issue resisting them at all, in fact I find them ludicrous and a reason to stay away from WoW.

[irongar]

The trial won't show you what endgame is like, and that is where all the fun is. Levelling is not that great in RIFT, though it is better than launch after a year of tweaks and polish. The game can be bought often for £10/$15 or less and includes 30days, I would say it's worth it to buy, get to 50 and take a look at the endgame, see what all the fuss is about.


Funny I have no issue resisting them at all, in fact I find them ludicrous and a reason to stay away from WoW.

I couldn't care less about panda's. The time schedule Trion releases new content with huge improvements to the game is already the reason I won't be playing WoW anymore.

[Emrendil]

Why don't you resub again

I'd love to, but I'm playing Tera at the moment. And I'm also on a tight budget.

[Wik]

/Signed - the game is better than any current MMO. So much improvment over the last months. And a big update on test server

[Azuri]

With mists of pandaria around the corner, most people will run back to WoW in short order. Let me tell you pandas are irresistible.

It'll be a pass for me too. I've got no hate for the game I just lost interest in the game after so many years. There's tons of viable options now for other MMO's I don't need to be pigeon holed to the same one for 6+ years.

[dragothica]

So I bought game time for a month again to play Rift sometimes during the summer. I continued to play a little on my lvl 16 Cleric (Icewatch Guardians side). I kept wondering why it takes so long to kill mobs at this level. I'm in "tank spec" though because I like Paladins, so I chose to level as Justicar/Shaman/Druid with most points spent in Justicar soul. I can endure anything and never die but killing stuff seems to take ages. Or am I just too used to play WoW with endgame gear or heirlooms in which you'll two-shot everything?

I wonder why I have skills to build up Conviction but no other skills to unleash it as damage (only healing)?

Also, what exactly is Ember Isle? Is it like Wintergrasp in WoW (PvP area with daily quests and stuff)? Am I forced to PvP there even on PvE servers?

[Fencers]

Or am I just too used to play WoW with endgame gear or heirlooms in which you'll two-shot everything?

Yup, that's it entirely.

I wonder why I have skills to build up Conviction but no other skills to unleash it as damage (only healing)?

Convictions are also used to tank, as Justicar is a tanking soul. The more points you spend in Justicar, the more of a tank you become.

Also, what exactly is Ember Isle? Is it like Wintergrasp in WoW (PvP area with daily quests and stuff)? Am I forced to PvP there even on PvE servers?

It's not a PVP zone. Just an elite level 50 zone with different rift mechanics and new quest lines. You still level post 50. Ember is the place to do it.

[darkb]

Hi everybody , i recently came back to rift again after getting tierd of bli$$ard scamming people with stupid shiny pets and mounts anyway, I came back and first thing i saw was my shard (Bloodiron) was kinda one of most popular shards and now it kinda looks empty.

So now i convinced like 4-5 of my WoW real life mates to come with me to Rift and have fun , which shard would you suggest to transfer ?
(by the way we're all defiants , royal servants of horde, power of the horde!) would be nice of you to suggest any good looking populated defiant shard for me and my friends to join.

[Tarien]

Funny story. I did want to come back. I got 3 days free game time when I logged it without even having to sub for a month (btw, bad idea, Trion Worlds, with this thingie, you'll see why).

My characters were on Whitefall, a very large server when I left about a year ago. 1st thing I noticed were a couple of tumbleweeds rolling nearby so I quickly logged out to see what's the actual population status of the server. It was prime time btw, I think about 18:00 o'clock. All servers were tagged "Low" in the server. I logged out laughing and deleted the game.

I mean seriously and without trolling, even now this game is not f2p ?!? Who the hell are the devs working for, 100 guys still playing the game ?!?

First of all, Whitefall doesn't exist. Secondly a fairly quick look at one of the tracking sites shows that many servers are hitting medium or high and that a number of them are listed as medium right now, some time before peak hours (for US shards).

Nice try, jog on

[Fencers]

Funny story. I did want to come back. I got 3 days free game time when I logged it without even having to sub for a month (btw, bad idea, Trion Worlds, with this thingie, you'll see why).

My characters were on Whitefall, a very large server when I left about a year ago. 1st thing I noticed were a couple of tumbleweeds rolling nearby so I quickly logged out to see what's the actual population status of the server. It was prime time btw, I think about 18:00 o'clock. All servers were tagged "Low" in the server. I logged out laughing and deleted the game.

I mean seriously and without trolling, even now this game is not f2p ?!? Who the hell are the devs working for, 100 guys still playing the game ?!?

Or you just happened to log in when not a lot was going on?

It's 4pm on a holiday and only a handful of US servers were low pop as of 7 minutes ago.




MMOs don't need "10 million" players to be profitable and last years. Rift has fans, they support the game, Trion supports the game. Trion makes profit. Rift customers are enjoying themselves.

If comparing Rift to WOW's population density, than it'll never measure up. SWTOR, doesn't, Aion doesn't, Tera doesn't, etc. Yet those are all sustainable games w/o "WOW numbers".

There was ~100 people /who on Rift's Wolfbane this morning.

There was 87 people on the fleet this afternoon in TOR.

Yea, I'd say Rift is holding it's own quite well here.

[Fencers]

The game is not as popular in the EU. Those shards are always underpop'd compared to US afaik.

Whitefall is closed, dude.

[Tarien]

The game is not as popular in the EU. Those shards are always underpop'd compared to US afaik.

If Whitefall had been a US server I might think maybe Whitefall was converted to a trial shard, and Randomster was seeing a list of trial shards, but it's an EU one and there are no EU trial shards for some reason. Trials end up on the main servers, and he would have been asked which server he wanted to move to. Definitely wouldn't be logging in, that's how I knew it was a load of tosh.

Also, there are 3-4 servers that are pretty much always medium on the EU side, would have had to be logging in very early morning to see all low population, definitely not during peak.

[Azuri]

Ya be trollin, mon

http://forums.riftgame.com/shard-for...pvp/whitefall/

Whitefall has been a trial shard since January of this year according to the link you provided.