1. every new post has multiple downvotes

2. newbies posting gets downvoted the most, even when help is genuinely required.

3. no flair is EVER used. like, NEVER EVER.

lets make this sub better, alrighty?

EDIT : looks like some stuff worked. there is flair in the posts, less downvotes, i THINK peeps are being more helpful. things are looking up. keep it up.

I started playing Rift last week and was wondering if the community was still going strong. I hear that the game is slowly dying.. Is this correct information?

To the current guildies, my previous guidies and the entire Rift Community,

I want to apologize to everyone that I played and raided with. I really do. I could not get a better computer because of offline reasons. I had a really crappy laptop with an Intel Pentium process that had a faulty Intel HD graphic adapters. I caused so many wipes from my computer lag that I have done nothing but feel bad for everyone else.

But know this: You will no longer have to carry me!

I FINALLY got a new computer. I got an ASUS i7-4770 with a GeForce 760. I am so happy. I can go Ultra and have ~30 fps. Sure beats 3 in Tempest Bay.

Then: http://i.imgur.com/NC0PppL.jpg

Now: http://i.imgur.com/lszp4SI.jpg

Best of everything to all,

Jay

I'm a giver, I'm sorry, I've always have been, and being recommended this game after never getting passed 43 on my undead warrior in WoW. I fell in love, but man was the slot bags a struggle, not to mention plenty other things, so being I'm lvl 37 (almost 38) on my first account, I gifted someone who said they were in fact new. Lvl 10 warrior and we'll I really hope he wasn't lying. Someone else was honest, in which, it gave me hope so yea I just wanted to say, mainly. I really hope the community is honest when it comes to such a random gift. I mean cmon, we all need a Random Act of Kindness an I right? :p

I, for one, am a little sick of these posts:

"returning to rift, any tips?" "why should i play rift?" "can my computer handle rift?" "any guild recruiting?" "LF casual guild or leveling partner" "i used to play WOW, should I play rift?" " Rift VS WOW" "starting rift now, what should i know?"

Seriously guys, you guys are outright LAZY as SHIT for not even TRYING to do a search. Most of these questions are answered in this subreddit, otherwise, the bar on the right has links as to where you might be able to find these answers that you dont even seems to have the time to search for.

The worst people are the ones who compare it vs WOW and the ones looking for a free handout, AKA, tell me everything i should know or LF guild or leveling partner.

tl;dr: I am disappoint at this subreddit because most the submissions ask for free handouts and offer nothing in return. Lets have some discussion on new builds or something of that nature....i dont care that you are LF guild...

Incoming downboats can blow me, this shit has gone on long enough

I played rift back in beta, and for the first 2 or 3 months after it came out then I pretty much stopped playing all together, until recently (today) I decided to give the game another shot. So i log into steam and launch RIFT, it greets me with a "Thanks for buying RIFT please activate your account" error, which is weird since the account was far from new. So i go to log in and it takes me to an "account activation" page forcing me to pick questions and make answers then agree to the eula. So i comply, but it tells me my answers are wrong and wont let me go any further...

I tried to contact trion via email but im throwing back to the same page when i click on contact.

It would seem they do not want me to play their game, and who am I to argue with them if this is how returning players are greeted

I will be glad to have the month without that unbalanced, poorly designed piece of shit. I pray to the Rift gods that it doesn't get turned back on either.

Not everyone is in a guild or has a PM to join and I'm sick and fucking tired of playing an hour long match that I've known from the first 5 minutes I was going to lose to have to wait an hour just to lose for an hour again.

CQ is by far the worst thing Trion's ever created across all of their titles.

staydead

This guy has ganked me a lot of times in the past in CQ. There used to be a massive gear difference between us earlier, but now I'm rocking fully upgraded Warmonger gear and quite a few T3 and T2 pieces of gear, so the playing field is somewhat levelled. I'm still at a disadvantage due to latency and framerate issues. This guy sometimes taunts his victims by saying, "Caught ya peekin'" right after he kills them in CQ. I have had rage filled yell-fests with him on more than one occasion.

Cut to today, I see him fighting my faction in CQ and rush at him. He's at around 70% health and I unload my cooldowns on him.

Static Shot --> Energy Manipulation --> Bull's Eye --> Rapid Fire Shot --> Sentry Battery

Just on the final tick of Sentry Battery, he goes down much to my satisfaction. I got him down from 70% to 0% in 2-3 seconds. I got wiped by two of his faction coming to help but I didn't care.

Suddenly I get a rage whisper from him.

And

Must be infuriating to get killed by someone you are used to killing in CQ.

This is a game-game comparison, but the first thing I've seen in Rift that has disappointed me is the AH. I don't understand how they could have put up such a piece of garbage.

EVE Online and even GW2 have much more functional market systems. I don't want to sell 400 logs in 40x10 stacks each at a given price, I want to just dump 400 logs on the AH, at a given price, and have those logs get sold when someone offers to pay that price for x logs. This way people can undercut me based on the value of the good, not on the in/convenience of the quantity they're selling at.

Using this antiquated AH system, we're left with unstable and cumbersome markets and an inability to put up buy orders, which serve as an additional regulation of market pricing. Shame on you Trion, for not implementing this relatively simple seeming update.