Your Plans for Launch Day

[Senzafine]

So, we have a few hours, depending on time zone, between the typical time a person wakes up and the time Rift's servers will be up and running. So, what are your preparation plans?

I'll probably wake up around 10 am, per my usual. Then likely head to my favorite coffee house (Go Where I've Bean, Amsterdam NY - shameless plug) for a coffee and a sandwich. Then, off to the nearest Mobil station, stock up on Doritos and Red Bull and head on home. Then, once the servers are up... Rift marathon.

[Zilzilii]

I'm planning on sleeping in as much as I can, but setting the alarm for waking up about 5 mins before the head start... Well, starts.

I'll probably only have time to create and establish the characters I want, take the names that is, and then I'll probably be dragged around IRL doing things.

But whenever I get free time, I will be playing. >_>

[Jusco]

Place the water boiler by my table for easy access to tea, get some easy foods and juice, turn off the cellphone and try to be able to sleep untill before the headstart begins. Though the latter might be challenging, I've already had trouble sleeping and now I'll just be extremely excited.

And do other little things to make my surroundings as comfortable as I can, and try to prevent possible headaches and such.

Then.. Roll a few alts to reserve some names *coughs* And roll my main and start taking my time to explore every nook and corner and find everything I can from the world, and hopefully stumble upon some random RP and .. Make new and good friends in this new and strange world.

Edit: I think I also might have to go and pick up a bottle of either red or rosé.. Somehow I'm getting such a sweet taste from the game, my character and the community, that I'll have to go for the latter.

[SadisticDentist]

Go to work.

Come home.

Eat Dinner.

Watch The Big Bang Theory.

Watch the Red Wings.

Perhaps, somewhere in there, I might sneak in a chance to get characters squared away, and hopefully get an invite to a guild, but if not that's no big deal. Tomorrow will be the first real leveling day (and even that won't start 'til 9 PM local time). I'm in no hurry to get to the cap. No reason to burn out.

[Lanrick]

In the same boat. Work, then home for dinner. Log on after dinner and at least get finished with starter area. Will spend a lot of time on during the weekend most likely. Probably will work on a lot of harvesting, to get a bit of a jump on crafting for myself and my friends.

[JoeyD]

Go to work at 11am est

Come home for lunch (gonna be a long lunch!) & reserve some names also...

Go back to work till 10pm.

The whole time at work thinking about Rift and how my wife is gonna be so far ahead of me..

Then playing for 10-12 hours on Friday

[Ryche]

Go to work.

Come home.

Eat Dinner.

Watch The Big Bang Theory.

Pretty much this but with a few little differences.

Go to work.

Come home and fire up Rift.

Eat dinner while playing Rift because it's not my night to cook!

Watch the Big Bang Theory while playing Rift.

Play Rift until around 2 AM.

Fall asleep in my chair.

[Gatitosolo]

Launch day is my birthday! So, I will be going to my only Thursday class. Giving a power point presentation on my major and why I chose it. Coming home and taking a nap because I stayed up all night working on said power point. Then maybe playing Rift

[Feckbeard]

The day will start with a handful of tramadol and a quick check of alt.sex.binaries. I will then jog up to the park in order to needle the geese. (Whomever may have told you that geese are protective of their young and quite scary in their pursuit of potential threats were doing it wrong. Geese, as any rational person knows, are YELLOW.)

The morning will end as it began - in a bottomless pit of self-doubt and shame.

[Skjoldur]

*wake up at 6*
*take kid to school at 7*
*kiss wifey goodbye as she leaves for school at 7*
*pour coffee into cup*
*blankly stare at the Rift login screen till Noon while drinking coffee*
*log in, create character*
*play*
*log out*
*pick up kid*
*start dinner*
*bathe kid*
*kid bedtime*
*watch wife play Rift*

Ughhhh tomorrow is gonna suck......

[Lunalynn]

Launch is 11am Arizona time so I'll be getting up at 9 (assuming I'm able to sleep) Doing my shower and breakfast stuff, then continuously clicking the log in button on the launcher until i get in. Then quickly create characters to reserve all the names I want, then log in and have fun. I also have a bottle of Rosa Ragale in the fridge waiting for tomorrow evening.

[Einherjar_LC]

Luckily I am off tomorrow so I will be spending an obscene amount of time in Telara.


Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday is work, so much less time to adventure.

[karmamule]

I'll be at work tomorrow, sighing frequently and looking forward to getting home.

Once home I'll be confronted with finally having to decide whether my first character will be mage or cleric, and whether Guardian or Defiant. I'm still dithering horribly.

I'll probably end up making a Guardian Cleric as well as a Defiant Mage, and then will succumb to my usual chronic alt-a-holic nature and make 2 or 3 more characters and then take countless weeks to level even one of them up into their 20s.

Indecision can be a terrible thing.

[Lunalynn]

My biggest concern is queues since Faeblight seems to be THE place to be.

[Deadlock]

Girlfriend.
College.
Gym.
Rift.