Sunday, March 22, 2009

For Pony!


My guild, Hunters on the Argos server, gifted me with a couple of surprises recently. The first is pictured above. There's several ways to score this particular mount but the most common way is by spending some real cash on the Item Mall for a Mount Box. For around $10, you can buy the box for a chance at a rare mount. The vast majority of the time, however, you will end up getting this pictured mount which comes with no stats and a 10% movement bonus. Like most Item Mall purchases, the mount can then be sold or traded ingame as desired. Currently, this particular mount is going for around 20 million gold on our server.

Now I had enough gold to throw away on this mount and, ordinarily, I would've paid the market price for the convenience as in other games. But Atlantica Online isn't like other games in that it comes with the highly convenient auto-move feature which takes much of the drudgery away of traveling from place to place. Drudgery that mounts with increased movement speeds used to alleviate. Happily, there are other reasons to get mounts in this game aside from aesthetics; most will come with stats that will increase you main character's survivability immensely. So I was saving up my gold for one such mount when my guild leader surprised me by giving me this one bought with our guild funds. Many thanks for the fine gift and now I don't have to look like a complete noob running around everywhere on foot.

The other surprise was their announcement that I had been promoted to guild officer. I was a little surprised in that I had only been playing this game for a few months and still considered myself an AO noob. But I guess my attitude and regular playing schedule impressed the ones who had to make the decision. Either that or there was nobody else that wanted the job. Since I am now on the cusp of level 87 and the AO endgame, I decided to accept to have some influence over upcoming decisions on how to move our guild into the endgame.

4 comments:

  1. +2 points for the title reference

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  2. That's great and congratulations on both ends. You're fun to play with, helpful and consistent. Little achiever nut that you are, I'm happy that you've fallen into another game to enjoy and found a good home too.

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  3. Congratulations on the promotion. :) I've been thinking of Atlantica Online again these past few days. I tried it out a few months ago ... not sure when, exactly ... and then I reformatted and reinstalled my OS so kind of 'lost' the game and didn't really miss it, though that might have been because I played only until I was level 10.

    In any case, I'm hankering for it now, especially after reading about crafting in AO in one of your posts, and am downloading it again. Too bad I have to pop off to lunch with the in-laws, but hopefully I'll be able to get into the game when I come back.

    I'll have to read back through your blog for some juicy info, hehe. :)

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  4. I did the same thing. Tried it up to level 10 and didn't really think much of it. Then I went off to Wizard 101. After reading about some of the neat features I didn't even know existed on Syncaine's blog, Hardcore Casual, I gave it another try. Been hooked ever since.

    I think you really need to get to level 20 before you start uncovering the juicier aspects of the game.

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