It’s another DDoS attack which is affecting all Trion games…. this is also coming just before ArcheAge’s Maelstrom 4.0 update tomorrow… which I haven’t bothered to post my thoughts on since a lot of it doesn’t apply to me given how I play that game as a free roaming nomad (i.e. Patron free). If anything, some of the gem changes might free up some of my nearly full warehouse.
Speaking of ArcheAge, I’ve been royally slacking to even get my first Ancestral level… am at 93% on my XP bar and have been stuck there for the past 3 months given that I’ve been rarely actually doing anything in the game to earn XP. It’s one of those lull periods that I go through with some games.
I usually get most of my XP in ArcheAge when they run triple everything events (so if they run one for this 4.0 update, I will probably do more than just login to click the login tracker).
Going off on a further tangent, that is actually a bad habit I have where I login to just get credit and whatever rewards associated with them and then logout for a bunch of MMO’s that I’m not actively playing. And in some crazy way, those accrued rewards add up over time where during those periods where I do end up resuming to play a bit more, ends up being a nice bonus.
ArcheAge again is a perfect example. Last time I did that was months before the server merges where I had a secret farm of lemon trees that I had been harvesting for over 3 months; I had tons of 1000 labor pots I could blow since I would also go all around Villanelle cutting down every mature maple tree or the occasional thuja tree (since these gave better XP per labor point spent).
I also have these occasional exploration urges and as I’ve mentioned before, ArcheAge is one of those very rare open world MMO’s where you can get to most any place if you try using all available avenues (I’ve only managed to crawl most of the mountainous regions on the western half of Haranya so far and need to do the same on the eastern side). The game has a bunch of achievements for getting to some weird places.
Given how Trion’s games have been affected recently by these ongoing DDoS attacks, it makes staying connected to ArcheAge a crapshoot because it doesn’t seem as tolerant/resilient as Devilian when it comes to the client/server connection staying alive.
