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Re: Wonderbrazier Purify
Just make sure that wonderbrazier censer doesn't stack with Air/Water/whatever censer. I don't want to have to make Yet Another Wonderitem to be competitive (in this case, if they stacked they'd get base 3s to terrain a room, while a melder with just a regular censer would still be stuck at 3.5)
Maligorn
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Re: Wonderbrazier Purify
What about giving a Censer (ashop 552-557) effect - WONDERBRAZIER CENSER <meldtype> to make the room whatever meldtype (same time reduction if in hands of the right melder, stacking if you have the matching censer?)? Not sure if it is higher enough in the item to justify a omni-censer.Orael said:I haven't forgotten about this, I'm still mulling ideas over in my head.
I'm fine with the offering buff but it's kind of lackluster and boring. I'll think on it some more and if nothing comes to me, we'll go with that.
Ayisdra
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Re: Real World Raves
Quietly waking up, then preparing pancakes and compote while lazily brewing tea in my payjamas >>>>> rushing out for a brunch
Got to savour those days off.
Got to savour those days off.
Jolanthe
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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet
As has been thoroughly pointed out by this point, camping is an entirely unengaging and unfun mechanic.Anaklusmos said:Saran said:
If people did have to camp out quests to police them, then sure. Disrupting quests should be a valid recourse.
But no. Because QUEST RANKINGS and whatever you're proposing would exist. So not only is it easy to stop quests, it's also laughably easy to know who's done them. As I already said, it's overly tuned in favour of punishers versus the doers.
If you want to keep quests to be easily disruptable and discoverable, then you have to up the rewards. Otherwise, you might as well delete them entirely because there is 0 reason to do them.
I also fully expect if you actually got what you're demanding the moment you encountered someone camping you'd be back here complaining that that is stopping you from doing your quest.
Increased rewards have already been suggested.
The level of fear your posts express about punishment seems to indicate the quests you want to do are offensive to your own org because the moment the "punishers" are outside your org, they're pretty significantly limited in what they can do short of enemying and hunting you.
Again, if you don't want to deal with the consequences of offending large swathes of the population of the basin, why are you so dead set on doing so.
Saran
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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet
Anaklusmos said:Why else would you want to discover who did what quest, if not to formulate some sort of consequence for that person?Kethaera said:Anaklusmos said:
You did a bad thing, you risked consequences, face them.
Granted, in other IREs, people are rewarded by their cities for completing certain quests. But that's not Lusternia's style: outside of the Epic Quest lines (and related quests), cities either don't care about quests, or outright punish/prohibit them. Eaf. Mirror Army. Slag'hora (sp?). TBC. The list goes on.
I know the Listeners, at least, have a significant number of quests they reward members for performing.
And on top of punishments, doing quests themselves are already a challenge. If it isn't broken mechanics, it's people disrupting the process either accidentally (by bashing necessary mobs) or deliberately.
You suggested people should actively monitor quests to catch people, so can't really complain about people disrupting your quest.
Of course, finnicky quests could be fixed, but I highly doubt it's something that can really be done. Or rewards could be upped big time. Otherwise, there's really 0 reason to do any of the "controversial" quests.
For you there is 0 reason, for others they just deal with consequences.
Saran
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Re: Quest investigations
When people SPAM especially trolly quests like the one that leaves aurawarp puddles all over the place, they need to easily be held accountable for universal shunning and pariah status (i.e. without having to constantly keep vigil over the area, either by watching for the person or stealing quest items or w/e).
Doing contentious quests once or a few times even for the honors is obviously something that should be encouraged - then it gives people the opportunity to do the counterquest and get that honors if they want it.
Maligorn
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Re: Looking to Relocate
Look to the lore, believe me...it is so much more in depth than any other IRE I've seen yet. Become an expert, you'll almost passively generate RP from people wanting to go over it, to say nothing of potential for Divine to get involved in revealing new lore 'lost' from during the Vernal age, Elder wars even, and more of the post Vernal time period from the founding of the Holy Celestine Empire. Though honestly there's so many gaps in the untold millenia prior to the modern age the game began...wooboy 
Shango
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Re: Fighting Shadowdancers
Oh, another neato solution I had was that only the Shadowdancer holding the victim's shadow could cast Choke on that person.
Maligorn
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