everything got reset..all back down to noob stage..but all grief points went away too which is nice. its a friendly fire penalty system..ingenious! so we all start back fresh and start from scratch. theres a mega patch that came out tonight that i am downloading now..but it looks like another 3 hours before its done and i got cable! east coast here so i gotta ZzzZzZz before thats done darnit. BUT..i was the second beta stage..i got to download the install file in a zip and start playing

i sure hope the mega patch (as they call it) is included on the cd's. i bet it is..hence the hang up...so its worth it i think. your gonna love this game man...its just simply, and utterly amazing what they have accomplished with this game!