on line game

[upup]

Hi, I have played games before, but never an online game.
How do one go about.
Can you just give me steps please.
was at saix.net , do not understand what happens their.

Thank you

 

[noswal]

World of warcraft - you have to buy the game install it and then sign up on a pay per month basis
Eveonline... there is a 14 day trial... download it etc. pay if you want to keep playing
Secondlife free to download and play but bandwidth intensive and more of a culture trip than a game
combatarms http://combatarms.nexon.net/Intro.aspx .. commented about this today on other thread

 

[sleez]

Dude once the MMO bites there is no going back! I hardly ever play single-player games anymore.
I spent 3yrs of my life playing Dofus.
http://www.dofus.com/en
I love the turn based combat!
only 170 meg download and you can play free with limited access. When you got the feel of the game I reckon pay the $6.80 coz it's well worth it!

 

[Grimspoon]

What games do you enjoy playing? Do you like shoot em up 1st person shooters? or strategy style games.

If you have a decent PC I would HIGHLY recommend COD4 for your shoot em ups.

If you are keen on a MMO, check out WOW, but personally I don't fancy the idea of paying every month. You should check out Guild Wars, once off payment and its awesome.

 

[wishblade]

Just to help a bit on the saix side:

games.saix.net lists the games for which they have servers running. So you buy a game, ensure that it's patched to the latest patch level, and then use the above saix site to get the IP address and port number of the server you are going to be connecting to. Then you enter the game, go to the multiplayer/online settings, and either look for the server or enter it in manually (eg: favorites). When you are connected, you'll enter into the game, with other around the country playing as well.

That's from the saix side, but there are other locally hosted games servers. Some games only have international servers and no local ones, which means that you'll generally be playing with a higher ping (which means a slower response). This isn't so bad for some games, but others like FPS's you'll want as low a ping as possible.

Best to decide what type of games you want to play, then find out what everyone is currently playing in that genre, and on what server's they are playing. Then go out and BUY the game if you don't have it - more than likely you won't be able to play online with a cracked game, especially if punkbuster is required to be running on your machine as well(in some cases it is possible, but then you are most likely playing on a cracked server). Either way, you'll then get the most enjoyment out of the online gaming, because then there will actually be people online and playing with you...

 

[upup]

thanks wishblade.
I got this lots of local time left and saw on do.co.za you can play online gaming.
So, didnt know how to, I knew this would be the best place to ask.
my favorite game were , age of empire , cossacks , and then grand priz and ms flight sim.

I saw on saix.net nascar .
Does this mean buy nascar, install the game and kind off log in on a game server.

 

[wHiTe*LiGhTnInG]

You must remember not all games are being played by people online locally.

So check first to see how many players are playing first before you buy a game and be dissapointed that nobody is playing online.

Also try and get yourself route sentry set up,, it is very usefull, you can find all about that in the forums here.

If you going to play stratagy games online, then its not too much of a problem playing on international servers, the bandwidth is very small, and you dont really notice much lag. Its mainly just first person shooters that lag on international servers, you probally will never play those games like that.

Good luck, with it all getting set up

 

[wishblade]

thanks wishblade.
I got this lots of local time left and saw on do.co.za you can play online gaming.
So, didnt know how to, I knew this would be the best place to ask.
my favorite game were , age of empire , cossacks , and then grand priz and ms flight sim.

I saw on saix.net nascar .
Does this mean buy nascar, install the game and kind off log in on a game server.

As per what White_Lightning said and what I was trying to get at in my post as well - it's best to find out what others (and by this I mean the general majority) are playing in your category type/s, which will mean that there will most liekly be someone online to play with...

To be honest, I haven't seen any of those games you listed being played online - perhaps internationally they are, but I presume from your post that you want to play using local only bandwidth, meaning that you would like a local server. In that case, look at where the well-known servers are, what everyone is playing on those servers, and then decide on what you would like to play. As mentioned, just because a game is hosted, doesn't mean that there are players playing on it. For example, saix hosts a FEAR server but I can't remember the last time I saw anyone on it...

Also, as White_Lightning said, you're probably going to need route sentry (if you have an adsl line - doesn't apply to 3g/hsda). This will ensure that you use your "lot's of" local bandwidth for gaming, and not all those precious international MB's...