Nodiatis

[Zero]

This is a simple game I found yesterday that is good for wasting a little bit of time waiting for DF keys.  It's REAL simple.  You don't have a character that walks around, it's one of those screen by screen games.  In town, you click on a door to go into the building.  Out in the map, you click next to your face icon, and it slides to that area.  If you encounter an enemy, it's just a picture with the enemy that slides forward when it attacks (you are not on the screen).  You get it, it's simple.

I'm enjoying it though because it's skill based.  You chose what skills you want to level, whether actively or passively.  This is what's real cool to me.  You can passively learn one skill (and one learning skill) at a time.  This constantly gives you exp in that skill even when you're logged out.

Here's the lamest part.  Everyday an hour worth of "Rested time" is added to your counter.  While playing during your "Rested time" you get very nice exp, gold, and loot bonuses.  After you've used up your time, the rates drop to 1/6th of normal.  Luckily, this doesn't apply to passive exp.

The game has beastmastery, 6 colors of magic, good character customization (for skills), crafting skills, etc.  I've found it to be a good excuse not to do my homework, haha.

Oh, and it's web based, or browser integrated (is that the correct terminology?), and registering doesn't even require an email address.  It was super fast to get going, otherwise I wouldn't have even checked it out.

URL: www.nodiatis.com

P.S.  You can pay to get premium accounts that will increase your rested time, etc.  That's how they get you!!!

[likwidtek]

heh kind of a cool game.  Im killing rats and crabs.

[Heironymus]

I prefer www.travian.us  .... it is really fun and I am on server 5.. SW quadrant.. ROMANS..
its a cool browser MMO...

[Jarimus]

I played Travian a while, then a HUGE 2-3 guys just owned me and I was done.

It was fun though, very slow starting out. It's a good game to play at work!!!