Geeze I've been having a hard time logging into MXO lately! Is it me or are others seeing this? I would assume it was me except that it isn't all the time, usually about once in ten times that I sit down to play. Today's been bad though. So far I haven't been able to log in this evening.

I've mentioned before that I chose a "hostile" or PvP server called Heuristic. I'm still a newb (something that I'm very happy to be, as you can see in my last entry), so bear with me - I don't know a whole lot yet about what is entailed in the PvP system. I read in the manual that you can't take part in the full-blown PvP system until level 15. However, yesterday I had the opportunity to watch a pretty impressive battle between two factions. I logged on in a low level area and found myself surrounded by pairs of fighting players. It was really cool. There was one other low level player there watching with me. Why do I never think to take screen shots of these things? I'll get used to it eventually, I promise.

All of the combatants were very high level. Most were 50 and I don't think I saw any under 45. It was a lot of fun to watch these guys using all of their high level tricks on each other.

A couple of quick observations that surprised me a little. First, none seemed to be using guns. Thankfully I chose the martial arts path myself. If I had seen them all shooting each other I would have been worried. Heh! Strange tho that nobody was shooting. No snipers up on top of the buildings or anything. Maybe just coincidence. Having no idea what was going on other than players fighting each other, there could have been a reason that I don't know about.

Anyway, the second thing that surprised me was that nobody was rezzing the dead. When you die you get a lo-o-ong count down timer til you're forced to return to your hardline and accept the death penalty. I assume that they wouldn't have put in the ability to just lay there for 10 minutes if there wasn't a rez power in the game. I don't know for sure that there is such a power, but if there is, nobody on either side of this rather large battle seemed to be using it. *shrug*

As for me, I'm heading down the sneak/spy skill path and I'm finally learning to use some of the first skills in my tree. I was a late bloomer because I had no clue how to play this game for the first couple of week that I had it, so I've had some unusual challenges. Hehe! Anyway, I'm finally getting the hang of sneaking up on my enemies and attacking them from behind. When I do it right, I sometimes even one-shot kill my opponent. What a rush!

Well anyway, I'm gonna try logging in again.