Lost newbie !!!
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:18 pm
So I started playing SHK (or re-started I should say since i played for 2-3 weeks with a friend last spring). I naturally went for the latest world and with it being only 35 days old I felt very (still do, sortve...) comfortable. I started on EU2, as I have on every other MMORTS, without any restraints or deep questioning of the game environment/mechanics/past history, planning to learn as I go like always. So I logged on, chose to place my 1rst city manually, in a less occupied/empty part of the map........
Little did I know that on EU2 ppl really settled according to their land of origin....! I just looked at the map as I did any other game thinking it's gonna be cool to play on the europeen map.
Now I'm deep in russian territory using google translate to "barely" be able to simply greet my neighbors. After 8 days i FINALLY spoke with 1 dude last night in Shakespeares language, he was really cool! Telling me how lucky I am cause hes probly the only guy in his faction/house who speaks english....
My problem; i steamrolled my way through the early stages, making SQUIRE this morning!!! (8 days, no help), uncountable great towers in both my castles, climbing the ranks as effectivly I can!
..... It was suggested to me to restart and relocate in a more accomodating area. "You can re-grow just aswell as u just did" Aye, that's agreed but the perspective of having to go back through the first VERY BORING days of a server makes me wanna vomit !!!!! And besides, who's to say the new spot will be better when i don't even know exactly what this one will have to offer... i DO know that the if i make the move it might aswell be now rather than wait another 8 days!
Having played for many years evony, Lord of Ultima, Illyriad etc... i know that this is a marathon and not at all a sprint. So 8 days is NOTHING in reality.... But part of me wants to duke it out over here with my google translate always close and maybe new perspectives, MOST IMPORTANTLY, stand my ground!!.... but then again HOW CAN U PLAY A TEAM GAME IF YOU CANT COMMUNICATE PROPERLY?!?!
So many contradictions.........
Any thoughts??
Little did I know that on EU2 ppl really settled according to their land of origin....! I just looked at the map as I did any other game thinking it's gonna be cool to play on the europeen map.
Now I'm deep in russian territory using google translate to "barely" be able to simply greet my neighbors. After 8 days i FINALLY spoke with 1 dude last night in Shakespeares language, he was really cool! Telling me how lucky I am cause hes probly the only guy in his faction/house who speaks english....
My problem; i steamrolled my way through the early stages, making SQUIRE this morning!!! (8 days, no help), uncountable great towers in both my castles, climbing the ranks as effectivly I can!
..... It was suggested to me to restart and relocate in a more accomodating area. "You can re-grow just aswell as u just did" Aye, that's agreed but the perspective of having to go back through the first VERY BORING days of a server makes me wanna vomit !!!!! And besides, who's to say the new spot will be better when i don't even know exactly what this one will have to offer... i DO know that the if i make the move it might aswell be now rather than wait another 8 days!
Having played for many years evony, Lord of Ultima, Illyriad etc... i know that this is a marathon and not at all a sprint. So 8 days is NOTHING in reality.... But part of me wants to duke it out over here with my google translate always close and maybe new perspectives, MOST IMPORTANTLY, stand my ground!!.... but then again HOW CAN U PLAY A TEAM GAME IF YOU CANT COMMUNICATE PROPERLY?!?!
So many contradictions.........
Any thoughts??