Lol? As theme-breaking as this might be, it looks alot of fun:
Downloaded it yesterday and played for about 30min this morning, I really like the feel of it so far, the movement etc, that is something that immediately puts me off other MMO's, how it feels to move your character around, and this seems good.
Will try get through the intro quests / areas tonight and get a bit more involved.
Got another 5k LP saved up. Gonna burn through it farming some stone tonight.
Question, you don't have to get to max level before doing all the trading / farming / owning houses etc ?
Are certain items like ships etc level capped at all or is leveling more for the PvP orientated people ?
You can start trading/farming/etc at level 10. There are no level restrictions on anything except armor and weapons. If you can afford it then you can craft it.
Actually i believe this is how you should level, don't grind quests, farm and trade from the start. I am lvl 37 and 80% of it is all craftijg/farming/trading.
No level caps on stuff, proficiency caps on what to craft tho (so you need to craft to craft better stuff, not char level based)
I had my clipper at lvl 20, got my farm cart lvl 35, gliders and mounts at lvl 10.
Yea, the only reason i felt i wanted to be lvl 50 was the ability to at least put up a fight when doing trade runs in the contested/open-pvp zones. However even lvl 50 is not going to help you much as it's usually a group that will attack you.
So for the most part, you can do anything you want in the "safe" zones at any level. There are definitely people that opt to avoid PvP and you'll see them constantly in the low level zones doing their stuff there.
The main thing that you need to take into account with this game:
1. You need LP to craft/harvest/farm/trade run . There's no way around this, you need it , period. The only thing you can do without LP is PvP + Questing (non crafting quests that is).
2. You need land to make real progress with the craft/trading . It is well known that land on most servers are severely limited, if you find an open spot that can fit a small house, you better grab it . The interesting part is all these limits are seriously driving the economy, you can see how there is a market in selling property . It's pretty much a fact that not everyone will be able to get property, and certainly not where they want with all their stuff close together.
So above points implies Patron Status. If you are F2P you will get a fairly good idea what's going on, but i can guarentee you right now, you will rarely have enough LP to go into crafting/trading, certainly not enough to level your character (i spend about 500 LP just to harvest my farm in 1 day, which can easily give me half a level in xp, then i have not even started trade runs, to craft+deliver 3 tradepacks i need 360LP right there) .
So as F2P, you will mostly be questing/leveling to 50 as F2P and this game will feel like a generic WoW clone if you do . If you are lucky, you can share a farm with a patron/guild (i share my farm with the guild for a few F2P to plant their stuff to complete quests).
I see the stone bricks on our server took a nice dive. 32g a stack :/ Not even worth it anymore. Apex is around 95g
Yeah I'm only playing F2P for now to get a feel for the game, want to get to around 15-20ish so I have unlocked most of the important things, then I will definitely get patron. Really enjoying it so far.