A Tale In The Desert

Quaunaut · August 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">Open Beta!</div> The Open Beta for <a href='http://www.atitd.com/' target='_blank'>A Tale in the Desert 2</a> begins [edit]<span style='color:red'>Sunday THE 15TH</span>[/edit]. This is a dynamic MMOG based upon crafting.

Being that FP subscribers get in early(today), I got in today, and I must say: If you like MMOs, you'll love this. But if you don't like the tedium of them(even with the character advancement), you probably won't like this. But the character advancement is TONS of fun, with tons of different things to do, all of which surround the idea of building your own society. I hope to see you there!

<a href='http://www.fileplanet.com/betacenter/taleinthedesert/' target='_blank'>SIGN UP HERE FOR ATITD 2 OPEN BETA(or if FP or FC sub, get into the 3 day closed)</a>

Edit: The day of the open beta has changed. The main server is having trouble handling the load, and the new hardware is coming Sunday, thus, thats when the beta goes open.

Vahn_Paktu · August 2004

I beta tested the 1st one and I enjoyed it. I can't wait to see how the new one is.

Edit:Fixed pointing out a mistake that was fixed.

Ratonetwothreetwoone · August 2004

tale, not tail
dont you feel like an idiot, you put it in the link AND the title

jk jk anybodys mistake

Thansal · August 2004

sounds nifty <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

signed up, and I will take a look at it.

Can you give us more info? (or links to some ACTUAL info on the game?)

preferably mechanics of the game and such <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Arawn · August 2004

I'm assuming it's pretty close to the first one: <a href='http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/taleinthedesert/' target='_blank'>http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/taleinthedesert/</a>

Sounds pretty good, I use my friends FilePlanet account and have already signed up/downloading the client. I'm a little confused about the first one though...Gamespot has screenshots that look pretty bad, but the shots of it on the site look pretty decent; I thought those were shots of the second one at first but it keeps mentioning A Tale in the Desert 1.

Thansal · August 2004

hehe

Rat and Vahn are seeing things I think <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Liku · August 2004

Aww, who fixed it?

Ratonetwothreetwoone · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Aug 10 2004, 11:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> hehe

Rat and Vahn are seeing things I think <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
welp... my **** is officially kicked

Thansal · August 2004

*chuckle*

hehe, they didn't even sign their work <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Quaunaut · August 2004

Okay, basically its you in a MMO environment building the perfect society. At first when your a peasant, you just gotta get your bearings by planing wood and making bricks.

After that point, it all opens up- you can choose any of the 7 disciplines to go into, though its reccommended to get initiate in all of them then master a few. I don't know them all, but I myself want to do Religion, Arts, and Architecture, and there are many more. Its really hard to explain gameplay for this, but I assure you, its addictive <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Arawn · August 2004

Seems pretty cool so far...I spent almost all of my time customizing my colors :p I hope your model/skin changes sometime during the game...I know there are 2 others you can choose from but if you ask me your model/skin should reflect your station/mastery of a discipline. Also, this sounds great so far, but there isn't ANY fighting at all? I generally don't like fighting players in mmorpgs but this seems like the game where it would be nice to have some political intrigue and the like. I don't know much about it at all yet but it kind of forces you to be the perfect society if it won't let you do that :\

Hibame · August 2004

Tryed it and cant connect to the server

Quaunaut · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hibame @ Aug 10 2004, 10:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Tryed it and cant connect to the server  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
That means the server was down.

They turn it off at latenight for us USers, so...yeha.

Nether · August 2004

Do you get to kill anything?

Surge · August 2004

From all the screenshots, I see two reasons to like the game. And that's not enough.

Quaunaut · August 2004

Well, you don't get to kill anything. Fighting IS in the game, but its a very small thing.

And Surge, if you don't like MMOs, you probably won't like this. But if you like MMOs, and want something VERY different, you'll love this(if you can get past the older graphics engine).

Surge · August 2004

Different, eh? Hmmm I might give it a try. I like City of Heroes, but that's because I can kick things in the face, though, and easily. I recently got Final Fantasy XI, and WOW is it tedious.

Quaunaut · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Surge @ Aug 11 2004, 09:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Different, eh? Hmmm I might give it a try. I like City of Heroes, but that's because I can kick things in the face, though, and easily. I recently got Final Fantasy XI, and WOW is it tedious.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
If you just got it, I doubt your at the good part yet. Get to level 15+, 20 is latest, and the game totally opens up and shows all the cool stuff <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

SkinnY · August 2004

it's good in it's own wierd way... i like it... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Geminosity · August 2004

I added myself to the beta thingy. Just curious as usual I guess and hoping the female avatars are presentable rather than some horrendous mutant polygonal warglerawr things like they are in some games ~shudder~

Arawn · August 2004

Well, I'm plodding through all of this without a mentor, so far I've had to gather 10 handfuls of grass (left them out to dry and become straw) and gather mud, sand, and slate along the shoreline. I built a wood plane and then using the boards I made a brick rack which yielded my first set of bricks. Now the server is going down for ~15 minutes but it's kind of interesting so far. The only thing I really do not like is the way compounds look; please tell me they only look so plain because this is a beta version...or at least that they can get more elaborate, the current ones are very boxy granite-like structures with green(?) borders that for some reason allow you to walk right through them. I've seen the universities and stuff so I know buildings can look a hell of a lot better...please tell me it's because the game is beta.

Quaunaut · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Arawn @ Aug 11 2004, 11:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Well, I'm plodding through all of this without a mentor, so far I've had to gather 10 handfuls of grass, left them out to dry and become straw, and gather mud, sand, and slate along the shoreline. I built a wood plane and then using the boards I may a brick rack which yielded my first set of bricks. Now the server is going down for ~15 minutes but it's kind of interesting so far. The only thing I really do not like is the way compounds look; please tell me they only look so plain because this is a beta version...or at least that they can get more elaborate, the current ones are very boxy granite-like structures with green(?) borders that for some reason allow you to walk right through them. I've seen the universities and stuff so I know buildings can look a hell of a lot better...please tell me it's because the game is beta.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Oh they do, just click on the walls of your compound and go to Blueprints, you can change a ton of stuff with the right parts.

SkinnY · August 2004

where do you guys live ? i live by the water near the Sarch, my ingame name is SkinnY <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

im going to be an architecht so far... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Thansal · August 2004

hehe, Gemma is gona HATE this <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

so, all you poeple playing are FP members or what?

Wheeee · August 2004

looks kind of interesting, i might try it out. *edit* nvm, fileplanet*/edit*

Surge · August 2004

Yeah, I have a friend in FFXI who's gonna buy me a World Pass. He said he'll power level me and get me some starting stuff, so it's not too bad.

Redford · August 2004

Exactly how long does this thing last?

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