Forlorn Hope
The Attic => Warhammer: Age of Reckoning => Topic started by: RipRend on 19 August 2008, 04:58:35 PM
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Is anyone thinking of playing this?
Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning
if so European or American?
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I'm a bit "Meh" about it.
Yet another Fantasy MMO
They butchered the character classes to get the game out on time.
I always preferred 40K meself
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been playing for a while. Lot of the good stuff got cut =(
will see
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Aye ditto on this one, I got a lot of friends who play their 40k and cos it's got warhammer written on it they may give it a go. We shall see I guess, based on a few things I saw at games day it looks like a wow rip off though
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And Wow was Everquest with the fiddly bits chopped off ;)
Any game now that tries to enter the High Fantasy arena is going to be compared to WoW, partially because they took a lot of ideas from previous games and mostly because it's a frickin behemoth that dominates that section of the market.
The Warhammer back story is the one thing that could possibly 'beat' Warcraft, it's had 25 years or so to get it's act together and they've been producing source material for most of that time
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I'll be doing a fair bit once the immediate painting comps are out of the way this weekend
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I'm tempted to join everyone if only for a short while to give it a go.
Further reading suggest that there is very little PVE content, and to get the best stuff, raid equivalent in wow, you will have to PVP. I guess it could be quite good if everyone is doing it. I'll give it a chance to get going then maybe get a trial of something
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I tend to sniff around these new MMOs. I've heard very little about this one save a quick conversation with Swifty.
I think there is tonnes of potential for good stuff here and I might give it a go.
A weekend blitz might be called for.
Speaking of (relatively) new MMOs. Who's playing Conan right now? I've just started that and it seems to offer a lot of potential.
(Sorry Riprend I should point out this is a Warhammer thread so please take note of his question at the start of this thread)
Mark
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I've been playing WAR quite a bit during the last few days and I'm actually pleasantly surprised. I didn't expect much, having seen AoC fail miserably in my book, but it's above expectations so far. I don't think the end game will be as big and rewarding as in WoW but the levelling up process and the adventure is definately more fun.
Levelling up my first char in WoW was just boring most of the time. "Kill X of that, collect Y of those" etc. There's a lot more going on in WAR and since you get quite a lot of exp for PvP and doing BG's (called scenarios here) you have a lot of alternatives to make it more varied and feel less of a stretch.
Can't comment on class balance/diversity and wether it will still be fun as you reach end game though. But for now I feel it's a nice change of pace. I have a few destruction characters on the Eltharion and Isle of Dreams servers. Both are Open RvR which is the same as PvP servers in WoW. Isle of Dreams seems to have less queues though so that's probably where I will play. You are all very welcome to join me there of course :)
Or, if you prefer a "Core" (PvE) server I could probably be persuaded to go there as well.
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I'm liking it so far.
I'm on Burlok - as destruction with some friends (rp server) and Finuval Plain - Order (RvR)
Destruction seems to outnumber order by a good margin.
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I'm liking it so far.
I'm on Burlok - as destruction with some friends (rp server) and Finuval Plain - Order (RvR)
Destruction seems to outnumber order by a good margin.
Don't know if you found a good guild for destruction on Burlok, the Eurocore guys seem to have joined this lot, founded by an ex EC member that no longer plays CoH but still frequents the EC forums.
http://www.hexwaaagh.net/forum/
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I read some reviews most say beta crap - lessons learnt - game good.
Evidently there's more emphasis on fun that WoW - less grinding, epic hunting etc....
But one review said "you get to play a squg herder" - so I bought the game.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Mark
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Hello chaps,
Long time no see:(
I have just started playing this last night. I finally got to the end of my tether with AoC and funcom.
Good fun at the moment. I thought the cartoony WoW element might put me off but so far so good.
I'm on Karak Izor with some mates.
See ya
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Looks like an interesting game. Don't suppose someone could give me a run down of it could they please? Never been a big fan of Warhammer but this looks interesting. Also, does this have a monthly subscription to it?
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Looks like an interesting game. Don't suppose someone could give me a run down of it could they please? Never been a big fan of Warhammer but this looks interesting. Also, does this have a monthly subscription to it?
Yes it does.
I only played beta, but here's what i remember
For the rundown, think WoW but wih better graphics and more giggles along the way. RvR means much bigger PvP (poss 100's on each side) Questing is straight forward and gear drops from them is tailored to you class (no more getting plate helments for priests. Def has the tongue in cheeck feel of GW (spesh with the orc & gobbo classes)
Oh, and
I WANT MY CHOPPA BACK! (hurry up first big patch)
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I haz got WAR (today, installing after this).
I haz GOT to be a Squig Herder.
There is no choice involved.
Do we have a fave server yet? :D
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Got it as well ;D
Any news on a FH\KoM server yet?
Probably need one for Chaos and one for Empire Order.
From the patch notes these are underpopulated;
Karak Ungor Core
Karak Vlag Core
Karaz-a-Karak Core
Worlds Edge Mountains Core
Clar Karond Core
Finuval Plains Open RvR
Mount Silverspear Open RvR
Sea of Dreams Open RvR
Makaisson Core Roleplay
Ellyrion Open RvR Roleplay
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Yeh, I'm on sea of dreams with my lvl 17 disciple of kaine. Really cool class actually. Melee healer. I get 'soul essences" by striking my enemies in melee which I can then use to heal my allies with. And many life-leeching abilities as well which makes it a totally different playstyle than anythig in WoW.
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So Sea of Dreams for Destruction (RvR) seems a good a place as any, thanks Flyagaric :)
Any nominations for Order (RvR) and a Core server?
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Let me know which servers you'll be on and I'll make a toon there too:)
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I've just picked up WAR, installing now I'll roll something destruct-y on sea of dreams...
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Cool :)
My main char's name is Fungaeth, just give me a shout
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I've rolled a witch elf (hecarty) and a shaman (ezzagoode), give me a shout if you see me online. also, does anyone fancy planning an afternoon or evening of WAR, and getting together to sign up our guild?
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I've got some order on clar Karond (RVR)
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I'm sticking to the Core servers atm, until I find me feet :)
Got a Chaos Chosen on Karak Vlag, Mark and Piglet have some Order floating around on another server somewhere as well
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There's an (EN) one that begins with Z that's where our order ones are (there's only one beginning with Z!)
I'll put my baddies on Sea of dreams
I am not around this coming weekend but I shall be playing a lot of this game I really like it. I didn't do any Wow at all last weekend - just fiddled around with this.
Mark
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There's an (EN) one that begins with Z that's where our order ones are (there's only one beginning with Z!)
I'll put my baddies on Sea of dreams
I am not around this coming weekend but I shall be playing a lot of this game I really like it. I didn't do any Wow at all last weekend - just fiddled around with this.
Mark
Didn’t you get frustrated with frequently getting kicked off the server and then long server queues? Or is the "z" server less full than SoD?
I’ll defiantly have to give order a go, witch-hunters look fun, as do most types of dwarf.
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Well Karak Vlag has low population so no getting kicked off or queues (some occasional lag issues though) ;D
As for the Dwarves - is that a bearded affinity thing :P
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No - the techie problems were with Conan not WAR
This one seems to be OK. The only problem is that nobody seems to want to play a dwarf.
All other races seem ok
Mark
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Anyone on Karak Vlag want Talismans?
Trying to level the skill up and have a few floating about; wounds, toughness and corporeal res IIRC. Only last two days so nothing fantastic
Requests taken as and when I make them so stick yer name down there ;D
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Two places to bookmark
WAR wiki - http://warhammeronline.wikia.com/wiki/HammerWiki
Allakhazam, good place for quest guides and NPC locations - http://war.allakhazam.com/ . They also have a Firefox search plugin, very handy.
And this page is just satisfying, check out the Banhammer in the side panel ;D - http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsOverview.war
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We have 4 of us now on two servers
Good guys on the EN one beginning with Z (it's the pnly one beginning with Z)
Bad guys on another called something like Karnak-Vlad
If somebody could put the right names up I'd be grateful - then I'l start selling these servers to teh other Wow players.
I'm still really enjoying this game.
Mark
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Want to make a push to get guilds started on Saturday?
Needs 6 people (teamed) and 50 silver
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I can also add http://www.wardb.com (http://www.wardb.com) to that list of useful sites. They have links to a very active forum as well.
On another note I just reached level 20 on my toon and could buy a mount :)
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Good guys on the EN one beginning with Z (it's the pnly one beginning with Z)
Bad guys on another called something like Karnak-Vlad
Zhufbar for Order
Karag Vlag for Destruction
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I've got a high elf swordsman - nice
interesting mechanic - there are stages of balance the third being perfect which does the most damage.
Some swipes improve your balance but do less damage. Some worsen your balance but do more damage. Some swipes can only be acheived when you've got great balance.
It makes you really think about how long a fight is going to take. In PVP that's oing to be very interesting.
Mark
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Want to make a push to get guilds started on Saturday?
Needs 6 people (teamed) and 50 silver
I’m afraid that I won’t be able to join in any guild making on Saturday, my internet died, and won’t be fixed until next week (same for TV and phone- stupid integrated serrvies).
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I'm away this weekend but obviously I'm up for a guild thing
Mark
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hurry up student loans =(
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I have a Rune Priest called Rond on zhufbar.
You can add names when people are offline so shout them out.
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Because I'm very boring with the names of my mains
Warrior Priest - Hodhr
Chaos Chosen - Naaman
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Goodies (Zhufbar)
- Chihiro (FM Elf Swordsman)
- Diggler (M Dwarf Tank)
- Fargo (M Human Fire Mage)
- Aguirre (M Dwarf Engineer)
- Asami (FM Elf Bow thingy)
Baddies (Karak Vlag)
- Kwaidan (M Tentacle thingy)
- Profondo (M Goblin Shaman)
- Narcissus (M Dark Elf Healer)
We're slowly getting there I think.
I'd happily guild lead for the goodies
Any volunteers for the baddies -- John??
Mark
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Not going to commit at the moment, I'll let the initial "ooohhhh, shiny" wear off before I commit so I'll shove it off to Brodski.
For the initial formation though I'd be fine with equal ranks for everyone as that should prevent the absconding leader problems ;)
But whatever, we need to get 6 people on at the same time to get the guild\s sorted, weekends are normally good by default but if we can sort out an evening that'd be better - I have tons of unneeded crafting stuff to dump into a guild vault.
So far we have Mark, Me, Piglet Brodski, Flyagaric and Rip so we can get it started once we get a time sorted.
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Not going to commit at the moment, I'll let the initial "ooohhhh, shiny" wear off before I commit so I'll shove it off to Brodski.
For the initial formation though I'd be fine with equal ranks for everyone as that should prevent the absconding leader problems ;)
But whatever, we need to get 6 people on at the same time to get the guild\s sorted, weekends are normally good by default but if we can sort out an evening that'd be better - I have tons of unneeded crafting stuff to dump into a guild vault.
So far we have Mark, Me, Piglet Brodski, Flyagaric and Rip so we can get it started once we get a time sorted.
I've also recurited a guy known as "cuddles" who Namm and I know from annother forum.
Equil ranks soudns good to me. So, do we want to say this saturday for guild creation?
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Sounds good
Let's talk by mobile phone prior to that am or pm??
Mark
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Sounds good
Let's talk by mobile phone prior to that am or pm??
Mark
You've had kids for to long :P
There is only one proper answer to that question
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Lol
Yes - I recall ringing you a couple of weekends ago, one Sat morning, only to find you were still in bed and asking if you were ill!!
PM then
Mark
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Sounds good
Let's talk by mobile phone prior to that am or pm??
Mark
It'll have to be PM for me I'm out in the morning.
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I now have a Dwarf Ironbreaker on Zufbar
Grickgrickson
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I've sent the details to a load of people on facebook also
Mikaela is also going to join us at some point
Mark
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Alright, I've created a warrior priest called Faithful on Zhufbar. I also have 3 more friends there who are up for creating a guild so we should be able to do it anytime :)
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Does 3pm BST sound OK to everyone?
Order first then Destruction, park your mains at the guild place for speediness
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Have decided I'm going to give this a go after I get my main PC back and after my exams have finished (middle of next week probably). Haven't decided whether I'll play on the Eurocore guys' servers or will join up with you guys, possibly order with you, t'other side with them where they have a serious guild.
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Well there's only 11 character slots :(
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I've been persuaded to buy this by my friends. You guys may see me around, but I'll need to find out what server they are all on first before I can promise everything. No doubt I'll have one alt on a KoM based server though :D
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Are we meeting in Altdorf (alliance) and The inevitable city (destruction)?
I am happy to be nominal guild leader for one of these - equal staus for all people we know INR
Brod - u wanna do the other?
I am happy that I will stay with this game. I like it.
The reason I want to get organised is because the guild facility in this game is marvelous.
We even get our own Pub!!
I'd also be keen on choosing the name and banner. With Most Wanted we found that preperation is required for this as most obvious names have gone..
... and I am reluctant to join "Teddybears of Doom" or "WeLoVeBeEr"
Let's see if we can get 6 people at 3.00 UK time on Saturday.
Allthough we won't have to say "UK time" after that as our guild event calendar localises all timed events - yay!
Mark
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its unlikely I'll be able to login Saturday but I'll try.
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Are we meeting in Altdorf (alliance) and The inevitable city (destruction)?
I am happy to be nominal guild leader for one of these - equal staus for all people we know INR
Brod - u wanna do the other?
I am happy that I will stay with this game. I like it.
The reason I want to get organised is because the guild facility in this game is marvelous.
We even get our own Pub!!
:o ;D
I'd also be keen on choosing the name and banner. With Most Wanted we found that preperation is required for this as most obvious names have gone..
... and I am reluctant to join "Teddybears of Doom"
Stick with "Knights of Mercia" for Order and Forlorn Hope (mebbe Forlorn Outlaws) for Destruction? Nothing like continuity and branding
or "WeLoVeBeEr"
Philosphically I'd have no problem joining that guild ;)
Let's see if we can get 6 people at 3.00 UK time on Saturday.
Allthough we won't have to say "UK time" after that as our guild event calendar localises all timed events - yay!
Nice touch
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But John continuity would have Destruction as "Most Wanted" !!
Although moot point as the name is probably gone.
Guilds have rankings also - don't know if you noticed...
OK we need a roll call and we need to get characters to level 4 areas (just follow the road in most cases)
So far I have Me, John, Rachel...
Mark
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I have bought this and will roll something after my exam which is Monday. Won't be looking at it before that.
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After some gentle poking I am downloading the client for this now. I am downloading the Eurpean client afaik. Is this where everyone is playing? (I did look through other posts but it wasnt clear if thats the case)
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I can do Thursday or Friday night, just say when, and I can drag cmynett's character along but this for Order on Zhufbar, once we got it up and running adding people later is easy.
Not sure what level the vault opens up at Naam.
I'm happy to take as small a role as needed but please set the tax rate really low. If people want to give more to the guild they can set their own tithe rate.
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The vaults open at Rank 4 I believe.
As for the fiddly stuff I'll probably do the normal and make it up as I go along ;D
ETA: If people can get on for Thursday between 7-8pm then we can get the guild started :)
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Now a Dwarf called Grogson
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Order first, Human called Hodhr (yeah, I re-rolled)
Standing at registrar now
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After some gentle poking I am downloading the client for this now. I am downloading the Eurpean client afaik. Is this where everyone is playing? (I did look through other posts but it wasnt clear if thats the case)
So European??? and What server do I need to join???
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European - yes
Servers;
Zhufbar for Order
Karag Vlag for Destruction
Guild formed on Zhufbar, Knights of Mercia was taken or disallowed :( So we're Forlon Hope again
ETA - It's disallowed :( Nothing came up on a search for it
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European - yes
Servers;
Zhufbar for Order
Karag Vlag for Destruction
Guild formed on Zhufbar, Knights of Mercia was taken or disallowed :( So we're Forlon Hope again
ETA - It's disallowed :( Nothing came up on a search for it
Hopefully forloRn hope rather than the entry from city of misprints.
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Ok thanks :) Now another stupid question. Am roughly 50% through download (boy is it slow) and I have just noticed I am downloading the 'Open Beta Client' I assume this is right as its the only downloader I could find but the game is released isn't it? ie version 1.0?
Ugh just notced my supposedly 'superfast' 10mb connection is only throwign out 2mb, would explain the slow downlaods and lag I was getting earlier, have reset all my equiptment twice which hasnt fixed it and I cant be arse to phone VM at this time of night, ugh again :(
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Min - yep, that was a typo on my part :P
Pry - That's fine, MMOs tend not to go Gold, they just keep updating the one that works :D
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w00t!!
20% bonus on Renown and XP on on Zhufbar for Order players
http://www.war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en202&lang=en
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Nice - and I notice that order are being encouraged to join Karag Vlad also which is also good.
The more balanced our servers the better the queing will be for BG's. I did notice that the premise of this game does rely on symmetry.
no suprise also that chaos is more popular than order
Mark
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Ok I am TRYING to ply but the game keeps tellibng me my password is incorrect even though its the same I use to log onto the webpage account!! HELP!!! :(
OK I think it is because I havent purchased the game yet.... where can I buy a key from?
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Doh!
Try Direct 2 Drive > http://www.direct2drive.co.uk/6/6757/product/Buy-Warhammer-Online:-Age-of-Reckoning-UK-Download it's either that or at the EA store which is a fiver more expensive.
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But I just want to key no to have to download the bloody thing again!
Ordered the game from play.com. Couldnt get D2D to work lol.
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Oh :(
EA (and I assume D2D) go through the whole "install our special downloader" thing and then send you the key via e-mail. All that's left is to navigate atrocious Mythos site and your done....
Ah well - too late now. See ya Monday ;D