*Awefense* Posted Oct 3, 2011, 12:25 pm	Hi folks. I have been playing DW for about 3 weeks now and am having a blast. I played and still have the Car Wars and the Sunday Drivers games in the plastic mini packs. Those games were awesome. That was back in 1983. I Played for many years until I dicovered MMORPG's. I spent 4 years playing EQ and another 6 playing WOW. I have been looking for something new for about 3 months and have tried EQ2, Age of Conan, D&D Online, Lord of the Rings. I tried out Morrowind: Obliveon and FallOut3. All are decent games, but I just needed something different. I did a search for car wars online and found Darkwind! It is Car Wars in everything but name! My gang has gone through many highs and lows in a short time. I have won a race and an arena combat. So far deathraces are living up to their name. I have had 5 gangers killed in events. I have 4 in the hospital at the moment. Life expectancy is low, even as I try not to get my gangers killed. I had a car. for one day. Lost it on its second courier run. Now I have a guy in the Gladiator Pits in Firelight. I'm thinking it may be a very long time before he gets home. What a blast this game is. I sure didn't expect my guy to end up in a Gladiator Pit. Life is tough in Evan, but it sure is a rush!
Stingray191 Posted Oct 3, 2011, 12:29 pm	Glad to have you around. This game is crazy addictive. How does WOW and EQ compare?
*Bastille* Posted Oct 3, 2011, 1:05 pm	Welcome new guy. I hope you have no life, as its now gone for sure. Sam now owns your soul.
*JeeTeeOh* Posted Oct 3, 2011, 3:04 pm	*Bastille* said: Welcome new guy. I hope you have no life, as its now gone for sure.  Sam now owns your soul. Yep. That's pretty much the long and short of it!
Gryff Posted Oct 3, 2011, 3:32 pm	Awefense said: I have won a race and an arena combat. So far deathraces are living up to their name. Hi Awefense, I must have started about the same time as you, and most of your post could have been mine. However I have found the combats and deathraces safer than the normal races, though that could be partially down to my driving style. In death races you need to pay more attention to the Death rather than Race. If you get up front you die, so stay at the back until the herd is thinned out then move past the survivers. Or shoot them, both work.
*Bastille* Posted Oct 3, 2011, 3:39 pm	Real men drive at the front of the pack ...and usually die
Gryff Posted Oct 3, 2011, 3:47 pm	I would rather be a mouse in a car than a man in a coffin
Juris Posted Oct 3, 2011, 6:11 pm	Welcome - read the Top Ten Scouting Tips on the Wiki when you are ready to start solo scouting - that's where the money is at (and it's way more dangerous)
*JD_Basher* jd.basher@charter.net Posted Oct 3, 2011, 10:54 pm	Juris said: Welcome - read the Top Ten Scouting Tips on the Wiki when you are ready to start solo scouting - that's where the money is at (and it's way more dangerous)  GREAT advice!..... The wiki has a LOT of info that you can only find out the VERY hard way... By playing and losing cars and gangers. Welcome to Darkwind to both of you new posters.... (read: fresh meat for the grinder!) If you have a significant other, they are now "Darkwind-Widows" You'll also notice that you refer to other people IRL on the road next to you in the DW sense... "That guy in the Chomper just cut me off!" The community here is mature (compared to other forums... The Marshals do their best to keep it that way.) and very helpful to new players. Have fun, and the only dumb questions are the ones you should have asked before getting your ride shot out from under you and ending up in the Gladiator Arena! (Just kidding!) Glad to have you with us! Hope you last as long as I have.. hehehe JD (The Voice of Darkwind)
*Awefense* Posted Oct 3, 2011, 11:04 pm	Stingray191 said: Glad to have you around. This game is crazy addictive. How does WOW and EQ compare? In most MMORPG's you play a single avatar at a time, EQ and WoW fall into this category. You spend most of your time improving your toon by levelling him and finding new and better gear to equip on him. It's all 3d and a very immersive world....but it can get very grindy (boring) doing the same thing over and over and over and over again. In these games, your toon never truly dies. In EQ, you would lose some experience and you had to run back to your corpse. WoW basically had no death penalty. The penalties were so small they really didn't affect anything. I have tried a bunch of other MMORPG's over the years and they all play basically the same. DW is significantly different. 1st  -- You run a gang of multiple characters, each one with stats that really make us number crunchers happy. Instead of levelling just one guy, you can work on managing and playing your whole gang! Awesome! 2cd, and the biggest...Permadeath! When a gang member dies, well, he becomes a name in your gang's history book. I actually feel a little sad when my gangers get killed, especially if it is because I did something stupid. There are other differences, but those two are the biggest for me. The setting is important too. After 20 years of fantasy and dragons, a post apocalyptic setting is refreshing. Was really enjoying Fallout 3 until I found DW.
*Awefense* Posted Oct 3, 2011, 11:19 pm	*Bastille* said: Welcome new guy. I hope you have no life, as its now gone for sure.  Sam now owns your soul. Thank you. I am ready. Just finished my summer gig, which frees up about 20 hours per week.
*Awefense* Posted Oct 3, 2011, 11:27 pm	Gryff said: Awefense said: I have won a race and an arena combat. So far deathraces are living up to their name. Hi Awefense, I must have started about the same time as you, and most of your post could have been mine. However I have found the combats and deathraces safer than the normal races, though that could be partially down to my driving style. In death races you need to pay more attention to the Death rather than Race. If you get up front you die, so stay at the back until the herd is thinned out then move past the survivers. Or shoot them, both work. Hi Gryff! I have seen you in a couple of events. The normal races are deadly at first. Four of my 5 dead gangers died racing. I had a bad habit of going into corners way too hard. The normal races just take too long. Arenas are over in just a few minutes and deathraces are shorter too, due to me getting my car all shot up way too early. I have tried hanging back. Somehow I always find myself mid pack after a corner, then weapons go live, and I get caught up in the chaos.
*Awefense* Posted Oct 3, 2011, 11:32 pm	Juris said: Welcome - read the Top Ten Scouting Tips on the Wiki when you are ready to start solo scouting - that's where the money is at (and it's way more dangerous)  I need a lot more Wilderness experience. I'll be looking for some group scouts for sure. I'll rent a rig.
*Awefense* Posted Oct 3, 2011, 11:43 pm	*JD_Basher* said: Juris said: Welcome - read the Top Ten Scouting Tips on the Wiki when you are ready to start solo scouting - that's where the money is at (and it's way more dangerous)  GREAT advice!..... The wiki has a LOT of info that you can only find out the VERY hard way... By playing and losing cars and gangers. Welcome to Darkwind to both of you new posters.... (read: fresh meat for the grinder!) If you have a significant other, they are now "Darkwind-Widows" You'll also notice that you refer to other people IRL on the road next to you in the DW sense... "That guy in the Chomper just cut me off!" The community here is mature (compared to other forums... The Marshals do their best to keep it that way.) and very helpful to new players. Have fun, and the only dumb questions are the ones you should have asked before getting your ride shot out from under you and ending up in the Gladiator Arena! (Just kidding!) Glad to have you with us! Hope you last as long as I have.. hehehe JD (The Voice of Darkwind) JD Basher! Wow! I listened to the podcasts the other night...from 2007. I was mad that I hadn't found DW earlier! I have read everything I can find about DW. I have watched several videos. I have read over and over that if you surrender your car, you get to walk back to town and fight some critters along the way. I have seen no mention that my ganger, poor Bernard "Gravedigger" Graves, would be sold to an arena and would have to earn his freedom. After it happened, I found a Wiki page that told me how Gravedigger could earn his freedom but I saw no mention that those bums would send my guy to Rome! Why am I here answering these posts? I am getting ready to try out my 1st, and hopefully not my last, Gladiator fight! Wish me luck!
*JD_Basher* jd.basher@charter.net Posted Oct 4, 2011, 12:07 am	Well....... The Firelight "slavers" who find you in the wilderness and sell you to the arena is a relatively new addition to the game... The critters, less new but no less dangerous because you will be facing any number of them in the arena anyway! In the arena (like any other combat) concentrate on one enemy till it's dead. Rinse-Repeat. Once you gain enough points for your ganger in the arena, you will be freed.......... NO, you are NOT freed if you win just ONE arena combat..... The arena owners like to keep good killers alive as long as possible and make you EARN them money as well as your freedom! If in doubt... RUN for cover, turn and shoot!... Oh yeah.. The weapons you will be given are random in any event... No two events will give you the same weapon usually.... Just PRAY you don't get a HAMMER as a weapon. GOOD LUCK! JD
*Awefense* Posted Oct 4, 2011, 3:11 am	Well, I went out on my 1st Scout tonight. I am glad I tagged along with a vet. Tango showed up with the RV of Annihilation. I was still spinning around in the sand and he had killed every bad guy around. Though I didn't do very much, I learned a lot. Can't wait to do my next one. Then I got into a Gladiator fight. If it weren't for Darkfaith, old Gravedigger would be spider food. I had to hit timeout to ask for info. I definitely was not prepared for that. We did win, and Gravedigger lives to fight again. I think he gained 420 arena fame from that fight. Maybe he will be free should he survive the next fight. Good times, Darkwind rules!
*JD_Basher* jd.basher@charter.net Posted Oct 4, 2011, 3:21 am	Josey Wales: "Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."
*JD_Basher* jd.basher@charter.net Posted Oct 4, 2011, 3:34 am	Tango is a good leader to be a wingman for.... I taught him all he knows!... LOL... Not really ..... He learned like you and I did..... Making the other guy DIE for his gang! By the way...... Get Ventrillo. EXCELLENT voip... (Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol) Get it here: http://www.darkwindwiki.com/index.php?title=Ventrilo Even if you have no headset, you can still hear others that do..... You just have to type in the event chat and they will read it.... and reply. You can get a "plug-in-and-play" Logitech headset for 30$.... No set up needed. You may need to set your comp to use the headset though in your preferences. After that, just start DW and let it load then start Vent and have fun talking and listening to all of us!..... Oh yeah... "Did you remember re-loads?"