Aion Headstart: The first 8 hours

[Redh]

With over 400,000 people having pre-ordered Aion, we knew that the Aion headstart was going to present a few challenges. However, Cyrus has already got off to a great start, and we can be very proud of our first few hours achievements.

Our first objective was to secure our legion name, Cyrus, which meant getting someone to rank 10 as quickly as possible. The challenge was set, and we had several strong contenders racing to Sanctum to win the honour of creating our legion and being the first official Cyrus member. Some set out in teams, while others worked alone. And in a little over 2 hours, Breva (Giga) was the first into Sanctum, just narrowly beating Leofort and Ihq. Cyrus was born!

We were not the first legion to be established - we noticed two others had been created just a few minutes before us. However we did manage to beat our alliance partners Crimson Imperium Reborn to the punch, which after some suffering at their hands in Warhammer did feel good! To flaunt our small victory, we invited their guild leader, Antain, to our guild to rub it in!!


http://www.project-cyrus.com/code/hs_antain.gif

By this stage we had over 40 members on ventrilo, but only 30 legion spaces! So the next challenge was to upgrade our legion to rank 2. We assumed this would be done at some stage the following evening, however it seems a lot of members were happy to stay up long into the early hours of the morning to keep levelling. At 01:00 am, this is what our Ventrilo server looked like:


http://www.project-cyrus.com/code/hs_vent01am.gif


So on we went, and as more and more members reached rank 10 (our first legion tax point), the kinah started to roll in. By 01:30 am, a quick count showed that we were only 30,000 kinah away from the Legion Rank 2 upgrade cost of 121,000 kinah! Encouraged by this, the grind continued and the kinah flowed, until we had reached our target. At 01:50 am, Cyrus was upgraded to rank2. We even had enough left over to change the emblem and cloak colours, so we could show off our achievement to the rest of the server! We did not see any other rank 2 legions for several hours after this, although it could be that they reached rank 2 but didn't change their cloaks.


http://www.project-cyrus.com/code/hs_legion2cloak.gif


We are very happy with our achievements for the first few hours of headstart, and have gone well beyond what we expected. We will now be working hard to achieve legion rank 3 as soon as possible, and continue to have a lot of fun both in game and on Ventrilo.

After 8 hours of solid play, I finally logged off, leaving around 15 members still slogging away at it. Same again tommorow, everyone?! :D


http://www.project-cyrus.com/code/hs_8hours.gif

[Grump]

can always count on red to turn something ordinairy into a long newspost :D

as we speak there are still 5 lvl 12's and 2 lvl 13's on , although i deff will play tonight it will be short lasted ( till midnight or 1 am ) , got someone picking me up in like 1 hour 45 mins , so it will be straight from the aion all nighter into my day activities :D

( being in cyrus is hard work :salute: )

[Chevi]

It took me 3 hours to log in and I only had an hours playtime, reached lvl7 before I logged. Couldnt find anyone to group with although I was able to listen into vent but unable to talk due to a broken mic. When I get in game tonite I will send a tell to one of the guild officers to get an invite. Well done all and I must say once I did get in It ran as smooth as butter, I didnt experience any lag and only rubber banded once.
Great job all.

Who should I send a tell for an invite by the way if Gemm and Redh are not online?

[Akir]

must go...to ...school...must ...leave aion...*weeps*

Q_Q not in the vent shot, Ow well alas time to pretend to care about higher maths for afew hours Ciao a4.45 guys!

[Leibnitz]

Yes it was a great launch for those of us who got in and an agonising wait for those who were stuck in queues!

My own personal snapshot of glory was being one of the very first on the server - I must have timed it right because when I appeared, newly reborn for the very first time, there were only two other characters visible - must be logon problems I thought - but within miliseconds Channel 1 became a seething mass of new players wooting and wailing. I bugged out to Channel 9 which became my home for the evening - special thanks to Akir for his help with some of the quests and to Breva for securing our glorious Guild name.

Now - time to get back in there!

[Maggeus]

Already ? I knew I shouldn't be working now. I need to reach level 10 tonight.
And to be taxed.

...

Ahem. Maybe I shouldn't reach lvl 10 so fast. :D

[Eilan]

Congratulations :)
I managed to log in at 00.30 but I was too tired to log in ventrilo. Today will be easier, I hope ^^

[Gemm]

I had a wonderful night last night or rather this morning :)

The game was busy but i had no lag and no problems!

Seeing the the guild up and running in its permenant form was a happy moment and so fast was amazing ! and to then achieve rank 2 wow

But for me the best thing is having the members all together old and new. I will miss some of the guy we lost along the way but we have a great group now and hopefully wont loose anymore!

Finnaly A big thank you to Redh for setting this all up and putting in so much effort it good to be back together in the same guild :)

[Chevi]

Hi Gemm not had a guild invite in game yet, who would I tell if you and Redh are not online?

[Erish]

I logged in 3 minutes after the servers where started and 1 minute later than I heard first "IM IN!" from vent. I set myself the goal of leaving poeta behind during first day and archieved it after 6 hours.

For those that didnt get in in first few hours: You lost few hours of waiting or grinding.

- There was 2-3 people standing and waiting for one grain sack to pop. Each grain sack had their own 2-3 people.
- I had to turn camera to view from up to down when I wanted to talk to quest givers.
- By the lake cliona there was more players then monsters. Every other moster kill was damage race. I saw monsters spawning and still half transparent and corpse of them in next frame.
- I had to kill 12 monsters in mines at somepoint. I managed to get two and just gave up and came back later.

By the sound of it our damage dealer classes teamed and kept moving in to harder areas ahead of the wave. As templar with low damage outburst I came 2 levels behind them and settled on killing what others didnt want. I whent back to finish the grain sack and wine barrel quests at level 6 and the area was free by then.

[Antain]

Where is the fossil?!?

[Chevi]

DO we have a procedure in place to gather people up in game? I.E who do we contact or is there anywhere we need to go to get an invite to the Legion? My mic is broken so I unfortunatly cant communicate via Vent. Cheers :)

[Redh]

DO we have a procedure in place to gather people up in game? I.E who do we contact or is there anywhere we need to go to get an invite to the Legion? My mic is broken so I unfortunatly cant communicate via Vent. Cheers :)

Add me or Gemm to your friends list - I do keep checking for you too, so we'll cross paths soon I'm sure :D

[Chevi]

Add me or Gemm to your friends list - I do keep checking for you too, so we'll cross paths soon I'm sure :D


No probs mate thanks very much for getting back to me I know you have been busy, will add you and Gemm to friends when I get on tonite. As soon as I figure out how to add people to friends that is :D

[Moonalluil]

Where is the fossil?!?

i know i know thx to leibnitz of course ^^
but i guess you already know by now

[Gemm]

chevi if you come on vent we will soon get you sorted if you are not sure about doing a search :)

[Gemm]

antain its opposite entrance to verteron on left of the path half way up the cliff :)

[Antain]

aha sorry was meant to be a joke 90% of /1 is that question :p

Best question so far... How do I kill the fossil?

[Chevi]

chevi if you come on vent we will soon get you sorted if you are not sure about doing a search :)


I would Gemm but my mics busted so its listen in only im afraid till I get a new one some time this week, that if I ever get in the game of course :(

[Antain]

Sooo how many Abyss points do you guys have? 0?

Cyrus 1 - 1 CIR

:worship:

[Swinger]

Uuuuh. Not feeling too well now. Just ended 16.5 hours straigth run. Biggest break was 30min. I made the food. :) Then I played and ate at the same time :)

Yesterday I had bad luck and after queueing 1 hour I quit and went to sleep. I put the alarm clock on at time 6:30 :D

I just quit the server. It doesnt matter if I cant get in tomorrow. Maybe I could do something useful tomorrow then. I am 30 years old and I dont remember playing as much continuosly than about 10 years ago. Unreal tournament (1999) is a record holder for 18 hours playing with only short breaks for eating. It was 10 years ago :) I guess I am still in good shape ;)

So 16,5 hours of playing and leveled up from 1 to 17. 18 is pretty near. :)

We made also many boss runs with IhQ so we werent mainly leveling up. Tried to farm loot and make some money for the guild too. Now we just have to wait that ppl level up and can buy our precious staff from the broker. ;)

Gnights folk!

[Grump]

im going to bed now , been pulling it since sunday 11am

[Chevi]

I have only had 1 hr of playtime yesterday on our server, reached 7 couldnt play more than an hour after waiting 3 hours to get in. Couldnt get in today as it was a 5 hour q time, didnt want to stare at the server screen for that long so rolled an Asmo on Cantor for something to do. Only had to wait 3 mins to get in. Reached 8 on him. Will try to get in again tomm but if its the same wait time as it was today im just gonna play the Asmo some more and hope that it calms down in the next few days. Its really frustrating because I really want to get on and start contributing but I just dont have the time to wait about to get on. I can do 5 hours playtime in the evening but if 99% of that is waiting to get in then its a wasted evening.To be honest it feels like im getting left further and further behind, the are people in the guild who are 16-18 already and im not even officially in the guild yet.

Here's hoping it gets better.

[Redh]

Chevi, we all share your frustrations, and hope the situation improves. But don't worry about falling behind - we'll help you catch up as best we can. Also, we have a few members on holiday now, including Klad, so we'll have several starting from the earlier levels :)

[Svou]

Dont worry Chevi!!you ll be able to catch up with us :)
I for example i take my time and gathering and make money and staff!!
Theres a lot of ppl in the guild which they dont rush to much to lvl up so dont worry we are here to help :)
Cya in Aion

[Redh]

Sooo how many Abyss points do you guys have? 0?

Cyrus 1 - 1 CIR

Current Standings:

Crimson Imperium Contribution Points - 64
Cyrus Contribution Points - 159

Cuyrus 2 - 1 CIR

:jerry:

[Dreadlord]

yes when u reach lvl 12+ and need a punching bag im ur man :)

[Breva]

i did a few mistakes while lvling, like going for the westen mine (the one with abyss gate in) before ive done the campain for the easten mine ;)

so if i had done it right ive could have been there 5min earlyer

[Elinor]

At least i managed to get level 10 and pay my taxes before queue washed me away for good T.T

Still 4 hours to go, yay!

[Grump]

5 hours 30 fudging minutes ....

also love Ayase's answers on all of this :

disabling private shops ? " we might do it , we might not "

setting up extra servers ? " we might , we might not , we are looking into the legion/members thing on how we would transfer those people afterwards "

" i understand your frustrations , but Queues are normal at launch , we will investigate this further after the Release launch tomorrow in the US "

Q Q

[Caliga]

yeah, Ayase`s comments are tilting me really. Keeps saying this will be better, but nothing about what they wanna do, or at least what possible sollutions they came up with..

Also 9 hours is just unbelievable. I happily could accept a hour queue, as I see they want to balance the servers, which is good in the long run, but 9 hours is way too much imho...

and 25/09 is comming...

[Chevi]

9 hours is the worse q I have ever seen in a new MMO, and I have played a few. WoW q's wernt this bad at launch, the servers were borked and the lag was unreal but at least you could get on. NCsofts attitude stinks tbh, I truly believe that they are deliberatly keeping the q's high on our server to force people to roll on the other servers, from what I have seen it is working we have already lost a guildy to Castor and to be honest Im on the verge of calling it quits and rolling there. The only thing that is giving me any hope is that I want to join this legion.
I really didnt want to roll another server and have to start alone before a guild notices me and picks me up but if this goes on for much longer NCsoft may not leave me with any other choice :(

[Caliga]

I played in NA WoW at release, after 30 mins the servers crashed and went offline for 48 hours :)

What I can`t understand is that WoW was a brand new game, but AION is already running for around a year now, so they should`ve done better then this i think