Indeed. I'm glad you got the manual, but we already have one topic about the R09, I'd rather just have your gothador related thoughts here please.

Hi Jayde.

I've got a confession to make, isnse I signed up and then waited for the Gothador mail to get through my mail account's Spam filters, both mails arrived together and my first thought was "Oh damnation! this game's spamming me!" And thus I deleted the mail.

Mega Ooopse!

Anyway, I think the turn system in Gothador is rather harsh, particularly the way that each combat round is one turn. thus, four misses = two hours apless. Ditto when it comes to traveling. though if the tutorial is right and you can reduce the Ap recovery time to five or ten minutes, this might cease to be a problem, especially as I said, given the slower navigation with a screen reader.

If anyone wants to contact me in Gothador, my name there is Darkempathy (no space), as "dark" was already in use.

I'll probably register on the Gothador forum as well at some point.

Please don't ask me for too much help though, as I said, I've only just started with the game myself.

Andy Smith:
Read it again. Dark said when he received two emails when it was confirming his email he thought it was spamming him by mistake. Good grief.

I always find I can understand myself perfectly!

In this case, I mistakenly deleted the 14 day free trial E-mailfrom Gothador, because I thought it was spam, and thus missed out on my 14 days getting all the perks of payed subscription for nothing!

I repeat: Mega! Ooopse!

Onto important stuff, sorry about the miner absence here, my university network decided to explode on Tuesday, thus denuding me entirely of E-mail and the Internet. The thoughtful people at I.t. Services sent round an E-mail to apologise and explain ;D.

then of course, getting back onto the network couldn't be easy, it of course required re-registration, which, given the density of density at the I.t. services, has me repeating my I.P. address down the phone to them (they couldn't understand Hal for some reason, even when I went through it character by characterr!). Honestly! where do they imploy these people!

anyway, that's why I haven't been around. To get back on track here, I have located a couple of gothador resources which might help people trying to play the game.

This guide here is a fairly streight tutorial explanation of everything on the display and what does what. Unfortunately, it's written by an in game guild (in gothador their called cults), so is a tad biased, but is stil rather good for info content.

for something more general, with item and quest lists etc, there's The gothador book of wisdom 

Looking at these though, it does seem that, as Jayde says, stats have slightly taken over in this game. However, as is my usual practice with a game that's interested me enough to actually bother signing up (many haven't!), i won't make a final judgement about Gothador until I've atleast finished the tutorial quest and done a litle exploring.

Thanks for the Ap tips Jayde. Thus far, I've been leveling Attack and defence (in particular Defence), but when I get a couple more levels I'll have a go at leveling speed as well.

Given network explosions Jayde, and the fact that I've got to dash off home for a while next week, I'd probably not have made much out of the 14 day trial anyhow.

the "book of Wisdom" I mentioned above is also the guild of wisdom site, however Wikipedia listed it as the book not the guild, weerd! Stil, I'm slightly reluctant to check that sinse discovery and exploration are both fairly big things in games for me. In the same way, I'm not going to check the various KoL resources unless I get really amazingly stuck (not something that's happened thus far, and I'm lvl six, though given the game's puzles it well might).

As I said Jayde, I'll give Gothador it's due time though, I'm highly interested in the many, many quests! especially as new ones come out so frequently.

It's one of the reasons that I'm so jealous of my brothers world of Warcraft playing, that very large new game areas and quests come out in weekly updates. I know KoL updates, but reading the news, it seems to be more new features, items and multi-player stuff rather than quests and areas.

Btw, Andy smith, I'm glad you liked my Podcast. I'm using Hal v6.53, with the in built Dolphin Orphius synthesisor (version 2), and the Uk English voice alan.

As to understandibility, for one thing, Alan is speaking Uk English, and for another, I will admit I like my voice at a slightly faster speed, and some people do have difficulty with it. i suppose I should slow it down for Pod casts, but for some reason a slower synth voice always sound extremely wrong.

I'll warn people, I might be a litle erratic in posting, the networks been doing some very strange things yesterday, and I'm going home for the weekend.

Indeed Andy Smith, the chance of anything malicious happening to Durham's network is incredibly small indeed!

this is, as Cx2 says though matched by a more than equal amount of paranoyer among the I.T. staff.

In fairness, a couple of years ago, a virus did get onto the network, though ironically, I actually found the virus caused less trouble than the solution, sinse they stuck Mcaffi onto the network with pre-defined settings that could not be changed. One of these was to auto scan the entire comp at startup, which conflicted with hal starting up and wonderfully crashed my laptop!

Anyway, as I say in another topic, I've been having more fun with the network sinse I've got back (hence the lag in posting), and the uselessness of I.t. staff hasn't helped in the least.

Hopefully things are fixed now though.

while i do appreciate the security thing, I rather think that what the network enforces is rather like using an h-bomb to clear a bees nest.

well to bring things back to Gothador, I got back to find an E-mail telling me that I haven't played for a while. I just hope they haven't closed my account after not even two weeks, that would be exessively mean!

It doesn't matter if they have of course, sinse I wasn't all that far through the game, but stil, it'd be annoying, especially as I sometimes have very long periods of offlinitude when I'm at home.

It's free! you only need to pay a subscription if you want access to the various subscriber only areas of the game, ----- and you get a 14 day free trial anyhow (though I don't thanks to slightly overzealous deleting on my part).

Andy smith, could you please not multiple post, sinse it makes topics annoyingly long and makes what you've written quite a pain to read. there are many forums where this is regarded as spam, and where double posting is disabled, and you'll get in trouble if you try it.

If you want to say more in your original post, please use the "eddit" link (that's what it's for).

to answer your question, as I said originally, the game is free. Subscribing only gives you access to more game areas than the initial realm, and allows your character to do the quests where he/she can change class. thus there's quite a lot more stuff to do if your a subscriber.

You get 14 days free subscription when you sign up, ----- provided your not as dim as me and delete the "14 day free trial" E-mail by mistake.

but as I can certainly confirm, playing the game for free is perfectly fine, in fact, I'll probably only subscribe when I've run out of free stuff to do, ---- assuming of course that I decide to continue playing the game for an extended period of time.

I'd certainly recommend giving Gothador a try though, but be sure to read the tutorial sinse it'll help a lot. Also, the Gothador screen is rather complicated the first time you come across it, so I would advise going to your profile and disabling as much stuff as possible to minimize the amount of random rammel on screen.

also, make sure you read your screen carefully, this is one game where hammering through the tabs just will not work!