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  • Starting to ‘Get It’ in Repopulation

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    Learning a new game is always fun and challenging. There are things that seem to be pretty easy to pickup and things that are more unique and require a bit more work to learn. I’m finding this out with Repopulation.

    Basic combat is pretty easy and at the moment, because I’m not very far along, pretty easy to do. The crafting
    system itself, while involved and robust in appearance isn’t too bad, however, there tends to be a bit of a catch
    with the tutorials. It helps if you keep whatever materials you might make for one tutorial as the next may use
    it to build upon. Not a bad idea for the system, just a bad decision on my part.

    I did the next crafting tutorial to make some metal bars with certain attributes. And then I turned them in for a
    request for the city. Then I decided to do the next crafting tutorial and found I needed them. Hrmph. I spent a
    very long time trying to either purchase the equivalent or find the ingredients to make it. I succeeded for one
    item and went to turn it in and found I needed the other bar. I still haven’t found a replacement or made one.

    With that particular frustration hanging on I decided to do some assignments. I took mostly courier type of
    assignments right in the city. I did take one to help out with the Setlang population that has been getting out
    of control and attacking people. I also got to die for the first time in the game. I had been shooting an adult
    Setlang and didn’t pay attention to my health when a juvenile started attacking me. A little baby one. I
    remembered I could tame it and have it as a pet but I couldn’t find where I put my taming button and while I was looking for it the little monster killed me. Ok, it really was my fault. I admit it. Still.

    While I was running around the city picking up and delivering things I noticed that some of the NPC’s I was
    dealing with had the option to ‘shop’ as well as deal with the assignment. So I started checking out what they
    were selling and what their profession was and all. I was able to pick up some recipes this way. I had to
    purchase them of course. But at least I am starting to get some things I can use. I’m not sure what I’m goint to
    end up specializing in yet. So I’m probably just throwing coin away at the moment but I’ve tried to get basic
    things that I might want for a variety of professions.

    I also used the Trade system or Auction House as many know it. I can’t say that I’m an expert. It’s going to take some time for that. But I did manage to purchase some items. I even managed to filter so I wasn’t spending forever reading what was available. I also managed to post something for sale. Though I haven’t been back on to see if it sold. The trade system appears to be set up for you to create and manage your own store. I seem to recall reading something about that being a feature, but it has been a long time since I read that. And it does not yet appear to be fully functional. Or because I am in the NPC capital city I am unable to use it. I’m not sure. But I look forward to it being available. That should be fun.

    So that’s where I’m at. I’m starting to get the hang of things better and I do enjoy the game. I’m finding a lot
    of things that I’ve seen something similar in other games, but that’s for another post.


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  • A Little More Repopulation

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    I had decided that I wanted to spend those training chits I had on some additional weapon training for when I went out into the wider world. I did that. But in the process, I got one more training than I intended because I didn’t read carefully and clicked the wrong option.

    I had to paid close attention but when you speak to a trainer, you are give the choices to use a chit, pay money, or pass. It seems to me that the pay money and pass options might not always be in the same order. While it sounds like a complaint and a problem, to me it is not.This would only be a problem if I wanted to mindlessly click through things. And as I have played a few things that let me do that, this is a bad habit. You assume you are selecting what you want based on where that selection was in the list from a previous encounter. I sort of see this as a feature because it encourages me to pay attention. That is a good thing.

    I got my training and headed out to the capital city for my faction. For this toon I chose OWN. I figured I would first try playing what looks like might be the more privileged faction. Appearances can be deceiving and I have no doubt I will find the constraints of the faction culture soon enough.

    I did a few assignments. They come in the form of email. I had a whole list of them available and I opened a few and read them. There were a couple that I just closed out. I didn’t accept or decline them. Mostly because I’m still not sure what I want to do with them. There were several courier type of assignments that I did do. Some were a little frustrating as the pickup target or the end target seemed to wander around quite a bit and the map indicator had me running around in circles at times. I only had one that I failed at and it was more of an optional thing not something I actively accepted.

    There was an assignment to provide lilac to someone as the city needed it. I found some lilac, I couldn’t find the person to deliver it to. She seemed to move all over. Then she left so I failed. However, now that I have read about lilac I know I could have probably gone right to the medical facility and found her there instead of trying to follow the arrows.

    The thing with the arrows and the mini map might be something that needs to be fixed. Again, I still like things that make me think and so I don’t mind now that I know I need to put a little more thought into what I am doing. But, if it is a feature that is going to be available in the game, it should probably work properly. Who knows, maybe it was because the target was moving all over, then again, I had one that seemed to come and go on the map like he was being rezzed and de-rezzed.

    I spent a little over an hour playing and made a bit of coin. I even managed to learn more crafting. I also got outside the city and ran around a bit that allowed me to practice harvesting as well as a bit of combat. There are vultures and another hostile creature lurking just outside the city that attack when you get too close and so defending yourself is a requirement. As the looting process is not quite like other games, this is something that tends to need a little practice as well. You have to remember to select the corpse and use the corpse extraction function.

    Most of the time when I play games I use the built in tool bars and do a lot of just clicking with the mouse. I don’t usually bother with macros or even the hot-keys. Though if I’m fishing I use the hot-key. It’s just easier. However, I can see with this game where more efficient button mashing will be required. I think I will get tired of trying to find my abilities and will want an easier way. According to my macro mad friends this will be good. It will change my habits. Yeah, we’ll see.


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