Beacon Blog

Welcome Back happy blog readers,

I'm here with the conclusion to our Beacon Mission.

There were 7 of us that were able to make it today.
Sly... was the right man for the first floor.
Neo.. felt good taking the 2nd floor.
Jambon is our Master of the Maze and I helped with the easy to get to boxes on the 3rd floor.
Leo...was eager to take on the 4th floor.
Dpulse... was the lucky man on the 5th floor.
Pooh...was prepared for the boss level.

All was going smoothly until we hit the maze, Dpulse disconnected... Shortly after Pooh got disconnected on the 4th floor. We thought for sure she was booted from the mission We were happy she remained on the ship and was able to join us on the 5th floor even after staying off long enough to get booted from the team and relogging

Finally the Boss level!! Last time we all got this far and we all got booted... Not today!
Pooh scoped out where her boxes were... She waited by the first one while DPulse finished off the bots and the team waited eagerly by the TP. The alarm is triggered and it was full speed ahead!!

Jambon crunched a few numbers and figured that @ 50% of the boxes came up Empty... We all met up at Fort Troy and I was given all of the loot to TT/ sell in auction and divide amongst the team. All in all it wasn't all bad...Our grand total at the end.........*drum roll*...... $362.08 not including the fees for the items in auction... In the end each member received 51.00 ped each Not too shabby....

Seems we all had a bit of ammo burning a hole in our pockets... and a soc hunt sounded like a good idea... since we were all on and in the same area after all...
Jambon thought a nice Spider hunt.... even if we managed to take out 1 maybe 2, we could at least say we did!!!... The guys all went ahead and I stayed behind to help Pooh... She's still grasping the way the TP chip and cord work.... Jambon found the spiders all right... many deaths/ revivals in 5 minutes. Same with Leo... Spiders were a good idea... maybe not the best option for us

We meet up at Fort Troy..... and plan our next adventure.....Next on the list... hunting Falxangius near Genisis... Sounded good, good loot potential, do-able with 7 players, close to a revival... Again the guys went ahead, I ran Pooh from New Oxford to Genisis.... As we were approaching the TP she gets disconected... reconnects... takes a few steps and disconnects... reconnects... follows me to the TP since her avi ran passed and I get booted....some message about an error with windows... and I can't use the task manager to end the EU program... I shut the computer off, reboot, sign back in and all chats are bugged... But I know where the group is and figure as long as I find them and get invited back to the team I should be able to use the team chat...
At this point Pooh is feeling frustrated, being a newer player and feeling like she is having a hard time keeping up, and not having all of the tp's and having some trouble using her tp chip... I let her know that even after 2+ years there are some members that don't have ALL the tp's yet... the guys in Europe were probably tired since it was after midnight for them, some have to get up early and were eager to get out there and hunt... As for Jambon... he let his frustration known... I told Pooh that it's that "time of the month" for him It's a bit tough to get everyone on the same page when the team is as big as it is... and a few of us keep disconnecting.... some of us are a bit cranky...and she should not take any of this personally... She did a great job!!

We all have to start somewhere...
I remember my first few month in EU and my super slow computer.. Not a fun experience... more frustrating than anything... In fact the first society I was in... some of us went on a spider hunt North of Orthos... I didn't even have a TP chip... I must have died a dozen times and kept running back... I've always hated mountians in this game since... But I remember feeling.... completely out of place, hunting something I had no business hunting... But like Pooh, I was part of a team and I was trying to contribute and follow directions as best as I could. She gets an A+ for effort in my book I completely understand her frustrations... I think most of us can relate.

So, yeah... That's what happened over a course of 7 hours in EU today... That and I ran Pooh from East Scylla to Fort Troy an hour or so before we all met up at 19:00MA....

The lesson for today... Try not to take your frustrations out on your n00b soc/team mates... I'm willing to bet that they are feeling a bit frustrated too...Somethings are NOT there fault...

That's all for tonight.....