I had this nice long blog about the LE expansion from a froob's perspective, but a small spelling mistake (less than symbol in a description) caused the parser to chew it up & ask me to correct it, then on going back, the box was blank... finally I realize I forgot to cut/paste a copy to my saved blog file. lol, thats life right? Anyway, ...

So lost Eden is live, I was running around the wilderness near the temple of the three winds and I saw my first SAM missile tower, pretty neat. It didn't fire at me or anything so they're most likely only active during tower battles.

Speaking of which, Notum Wars has been added to the free players arsenal. This allows players to plant semi-permanent towers that give them a boost to skills (determined by tower type). Towers last until some player destroys them in a PvP action against your org, and the times they can be attacked follow a long cycle that can be planned on by anyone interested enough to schedule them out. I mostly just pop into the tower shop and buy a basic tower then place it wherever I can squeeze it in at the org's notum field. There is a limit to how many towers you can have, and to how close together you can place them, as well as the size of the field you get to place them on so it is hard to determine just where you can and cannot place your tower.

I'm still rather annoyed with the new camera though, too wobbly because it follows the random movements of your avatar's head. The forums are rife with complaints of "sea-sickness". Hopefully this new camera style will have an on/off switch installed soon.

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As I stared at my monitor wondering when the patching would finally end, I pondered why I even bothered reinstalling it in the first place. For an online game, it has taken so far, over two and a half hours of processing their patch files. I finally said enough is enough, and called an end to it for the evening.

When my system had gone belly up, I had made a decision not to install the game due to its incrediablly long patching system. A decision I should have stuck to I'm afraid. For someone interested in playing AO, be prepared to watch this five year old monster to take over your computer system with an antiquated patching system that takes 4+ gigs of your hard drive space.

As I continue to watch the patching process check the files it had checked, then recheck the checked files, what were all ready checked and rechecked again, all I can say is oh my!