It's true, the great California gold rush is on one again. Well that's not exactly accurate but its close. There is gold rush on but it's not in California unless of course you happen to be sitting at a computer playing Age of Conan.

Age of Conan Gold is one of the most important elements of the hot new game. But the ability to farm gold, and even more so to do it quickly, is a challenging task. Acquiring enough gold in Age of Conan to purchase even the most simple of items can be a day long task, meanwhile your opponents are leveling and strengthening their characters, leaving you behind.

Gold in Age of Conan is like sunlight to Superman. It will distill upon your hero unparalleled power and abilities that would otherwise not exist; that would otherwise leave you brittle, like a frozen twig in a sand storm.

I was able to take control of the Trader's economy on ever server that I played on, literally. I even sold MY gold to Chinese Farmers, in excess of 30,000g that went on to move from WOW over to AOC. I am literally going to share with you my success in how to accomplish this, so go ahead and continue reading.

I'm sure you have heard of Midas, but then again in today's world with Xbox, Play station and online gaming you might not have. Anyway I'll give you a brief rundown. Midas was a king in Greek mythology and he had the unique ability to turn everything that he touched into gold.

For the past 5 years or so World of Warcraft has dominated the MMO gaming scene , that was until Age of Conan arrived which has totally taken the MMO world by storm with thousands of WOW addicts joining in droves.

A few weeks back our own Adrian Bott took a close look at a very ... unique ... bug in Age of Conan. It seems that differing animation cycles in the game have resulted in an unforseen side effect: female avatars do less damage then male ones. At the time, the Funcom developers said they'd let us know as soon as they could about a fix.

Conan just passed 700,000 registered users, but do you count yourself among them? We've got everything you need to stay up to date on Age of Conan's bugs and ongoing patch issues, but we've got more yet. Check out some of our commentary on the game's unique new player experience, and consider that it may be a revolution for the genre.

We've been quite taken aback by the responses many players direct at Funcom's Age of Conan. We're not sure if the accusations of the game being a "beta version" or just a "total POS" are the product of unrealistic expectations or are just general animosity towards a game that, at launch, lacks the polish of its biggest competitor.

While it initially seemed like good news that FunCom were patching twice a week, and thus doing their best to nail the wheels back on the Age of Conan wagon as it bumped unsteadily down the trail, it didn't work out quite so well in practice.