Little Blue Racer

So since I had trouble (basically the color-indicator telling me the upcoming missions might be too hard for me) keeping on leveling through quests I figured I might as well try out the races.
They're easy to find since there's two of them (one training one rookie) in front of each Nightclub.
I enjoyed doing them and so I searched the cities for more.
They're rather easy to find, since they give off this purple-ish glow like you can see in the picture below:

While doing them I realized that besides the Emblem-Styles you can wear they actually give a significant amount of XP allowing me to get from level 19 to 21 just by doing races.
If you want to know more about races there's two pretty good URLs for that:

http://dcuo.mmorpg-life.com/1623/guides/dcuo-guides-maps-of-race-locations/
and
http://www.rarityguide.com/articles/articles/542/1/DC-Universe-Online-Feats-List---Flier-Races-Feats---Flight/Page1.html

What I found out by some further research is that you have to have a certain level to be able to do races of a certain difficulty. I was looking around for the master races and couldn't find them at the locations described in the links above. As it seems you have to be level 25 for the master races, I do not know if there's also a level restriction on expert and intermediate races but I would guess so.

I'm gonna finish today's post with 2 pictures I took with some cute ingame-art I found:

I'm gonna be on honeymoon in Cuba with my lovely wife for the next two weeks, but I'll make sure to continue this blog when I come back.

So long!

A new world

So, I just started playing DCUO a few days ago.
I was looking around for free to play games on Steam and saw DC Universe Online.
I had heard about it before and was exited to try it out.

I never was much of a comic-fan and I have just seen very few comic-based movies (my favorite has to be the Dark Knight) but I immediately fell in love with the world.
There's a bunch of cool videos to progress the storyline or just entertain after successful big quests and all in all the world just seems very harmonic.

My only prior MMORPG experience stems from Shin Megami Tensei Imagine which has an awesome setting and great ideas but sadly many bad flaws that seriously limit the long-term motivation.
In addition their $-shop is a HUGE rip-off whereas the DCUO stuff you have to pay for seems sensible as well as at a decent price (while Legendary status still seems a bit expensive to me).

Having played for about 30 hours now I must say it is very cool.
Leveling was really easy at the beginning, but since about level 15 it's getting tougher and tougher,
also because I don't really have any easy quests anymore.
I'll try to add some useful links to DCUO stuff to this blog in the next days and will also report on my ongoing progress.

Captain Moscow out