Nice video!
Can't wait till I can play it


Quote Originally Posted by Hestern_Nestern View Post
Helping this precarious conversation along to the Tangent Lands...

I have made friends in monster-slaying grinding parties. I have made friends in quest-slaying parties. But the only reason I ever did was because I bothered to do so. I engaged the other players in dialogue and became friends with them -- often times I wasn't talking to them about what we were currently doing - but whatever my silly brain could think of to say.

And I've made even more friends in towns or walking along in some zone. I just see people passing by or doing something and I wave - I start emoting, sometimes roleplaying - I compliment people's appearances or I follow people around because I want to figure out what nefarious deeds they are up to (they are usually doing something innocent like buying or crafting stuff and wondering why this little guy is following them around). I make a lot of friends by being helplessly lost despite a map (navigational issues, me).

But the point is...I make friends because I make friends. Sure, certain systems might facilitate friendships more, but inevitably it all comes down to me. Do I speak? Am I friendly wherever I go? Do I explore the world and the people in it? We must use whatever system we are given to our advantage to make friends to grind or quest with. We can't expect some magical string of code that will do it for us.

Yeah.

/speech
So true. I couldn't have said it better myself

Also in a silent party you can feel more alone, then when you solo.

In Ultima Online I played 90% of the time solo, but I have met with so many people on my way. Somehow I talk with more people when I am just walking around alone. Now that I think about it, in FFXI I also have met most of my friends when I was playing solo.

Playing with other people doesn't have to mean you need to be in a party together.
However it mostly does end up in a party together

I really like it more that way then shouting for a party.