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Baby’s First Goldseller Spam

Oh honey look! Poopie is taking his first steps – at trying to sucker money out of me. Don’t buy gold people, don’t buy kinah either. With any game (especially a new one) you’re going to get the bottom feeders trying to push their own agenda.

I’ll tell you one thing though, they might be a little successful in Aion. A lot of us playing Aion came from WoW, and as you will soon find out; everything is more “expensive” in Aion. We’re a bunch of spoiled babies because of WoW. Aion is a game where good money management is going to be very crucial to your gameplay experience. Flight paths cost kinah, teleports to different zones cost kinah, spirit healing costs kinah, professions and training skills, the list goes on.

A lot of players have been sideswiped by the illusion of cost, when you see something like a 3,400 kinah price tag to start a profession it can be a little scary. Same for 605 kinah flight paths and teleports. Don’t panic though, kinah is actually pretty damn easy to make. You get some greens you don’t need, sell them on the AH Broker. If you get quest rewards you don’t want or need, shard them and sell the stone. Gather crafting materials like crazy and sell them in bulk at the AH. Don’t spend kinah on stupid shit and don’t take multiple professions at the same time.

Kinah will always come easily over time through vendor trash, playing the AH Broker, and sometimes through Private Stores you can setup in choice locations. Don’t buy kinah, don’t buy gold, if you really want to get rid of your money that easily I’ll put up a PayPal link on this site and you can give it to me.

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Aion Head-start: Butt-hurt and Blasphemy

Cliche time, they say a picture is worth a thousand words. These here might just be a few hundred. Enjoy~

First you have to wait. I got into the server in about 20 seconds in the early afternoon, then I had to log off for a bit. Big mistake.

These 3 images are from me and Nycterra (my beautiful wife) showing just how packed the starting area was at first. Keep in mind there were 10 instanced “channels” just as packed if not more.

Then came the lag and rubber banding. Rubber banding is when you run off, then suddenly you teleport back to where you just came from. Quotes of the night:

• I WILL CROSS THIS BRIDGE DAMMIT!
• Hey the lag is gone…

You’re reading that right, over 9 million latency – from less than 100 in about 20 seconds. THAT is a lag spike, none of that pussy shit we’re used to. It evened out pretty smooth after that spike, apparently our server (Azphel) was suffering some funkiness and it was fixed.

And with lag, comes death… lots of death. Death where you can’t even release and you sit there eating the dirt looking angry… very angry. But recovery comes, and then you get to vent all that frustration on the local wildlife.

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