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Re: Fighting Shadowdancers

I will say that it's problematic that Shadowdancers no longer have to take Hexes to be able to afflict with asthma. Right now SDs can enjoy the huge boon of being Healing while still having a very strong aeonlock offense.

Certainly you could say the same about Researchers, given they have Aeon and Aeonfield in Aeonics, and asthma in Harmonics, but A. their aeon is on a longer balance and B. Aeonfield precludes the easy use of Timequake due to its power cost, and it is pretty dangerous to use especially in the presence of ego or mana killers.

How about this for a suggestion: make the affliction aeon itself time out much faster than it currently does. How does that sound?

EDIT: Maybe in addition or in lieu of that suggestion, aeon immunity a la blackout/stun immunity.

Maligorn

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Re: Fighting Shadowdancers

Anaklusmos said:

Haha. Here's the thing:

Glomdoring, which is widely considered to have the superior skill sets, gets buffs, needed or not. They get the admin attention to fix their boo-boos.

I don't see that happening to other orgs. Institute researchers got a huge rework but nothing that really fixed what's lacking, overall, in Hallifax: synergy.

Mag is fine because dustaffs. Still laughing hard about that.

Serenwilde is also this hidden nuclear gem, we're all just too stupid to see it. Sure.

I don't need to go on to illustrate my point. This is exactly why the rest of the playerbase turns up its nose at Glomdoring, and why there's so little trust on the admin team.

Furthermore, stating that it's somehow our duty to come up with ways to fix the game is ludicrous. Sure, we'll help out and add suggestions when we have it. But that's not our job. It's yours. The responsibility is not on us to fix the game.

The situation further deteriorates when the Glomdoring players insist that nothing is wrong, that nothing needs to change with other orgs' skillsets, and the admin team isn't really doing anything to counteract that. Nope, they actually go ahead and send more cookies Glom's way. And you wonder why the rest of the game has pretty much given up on fighting.

Ridiculous.

Yeah, I think your off base here. It seems you are basing your position on the past, rather than the most recent happenings and then trying to sprinkle in recent stuff with those arguments.

The researcher rework actually brought in a lot more synergy (steam affs and timewarp), I'm not sure why you would (or could really) say otherwise. Hallifax players, in general, seem to really appreciate it overall. I'm not sure how you can justify that position? They got 'admin attention to fix their boo-boos' too.

The twist rework was a direct result of the admin trying to address things and make them better, but we're also not interested in neutering them completely. It was player tested, by players from all orgs, and while there were still some concerns going in, we felt it was in a pretty good spot. We addressed two of the major complaints. The twisting AND afflicting mechanic as well as a lack of telegraphing. Those are all changed, you cannot afflict and twist, and it's pretty well telegraphed. Glomdoring was in and agreed to these changes. Is it perfect? No, but nothing is. I do think they are in a better spot than they were. Maybe they still need more tweaking and adjusting sure, I can get on board with that, but it needs to come from a place that isn't 'They don't need aeon and you can't convince me otherwise' and a position from 'here's why they don't need aeon and let me demonstrate' . Hence my willingness to let you demonstrate.

If you just want to complain, then feel free I guess, but I'm giving you an opportunity to back up some of the positions. Your choice at this point.

Orael

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Re: Fighting Shadowdancers

Haha. Here's the thing:

Glomdoring, which is widely considered to have the superior skill sets, gets buffs, needed or not. They get the admin attention to fix their boo-boos.

I don't see that happening to other orgs. Institute researchers got a huge rework but nothing that really fixed what's lacking, overall, in Hallifax: synergy.

Mag is fine because dustaffs. Still laughing hard about that.

Serenwilde is also this hidden nuclear gem, we're all just too stupid to see it. Sure.

I don't need to go on to illustrate my point. This is exactly why the rest of the playerbase turns up its nose at Glomdoring, and why there's so little trust on the admin team.

Furthermore, stating that it's somehow our duty to come up with ways to fix the game is ludicrous. Sure, we'll help out and add suggestions when we have it. But that's not our job. It's yours. The responsibility is not on us to fix the game.

The situation further deteriorates when the Glomdoring players insist that nothing is wrong, that nothing needs to change with other orgs' skillsets, and the admin team isn't really doing anything to counteract that. Nope, they actually go ahead and send more cookies Glom's way. And you wonder why the rest of the game has pretty much given up on fighting.

Ridiculous.

Anaklusmos

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Re: Unpopular Opinion: Lusternia Edition

Or they have a serious present addiction and got in way over their heads and now have too many credits so bought a largely pointless artifact because hey, IRE already has my money. Damn presents.

Synl

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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet

Anaklusmos said:

haha, even easier than QUEST RANKINGS? Might as well make it so that denizens shout out whenever someone starts doing quests, then.

You're conveniently ignoring every suggestion on this thread that doesn't result in steering the argument in the direction you want(where nothing actually gets discussed). The arguments that I agreed with would make for far more effort in finding questers than using QUEST RANKINGS or any other means currently available.

But you didn't want that change, preferring instead for camping areas- which no one wanted or wants to do. So, with the population shift, no one would do this. Following all the suggestions that you presumably agree with: Getting rid of QUEST RANKINGS, forcing people to camp areas - no one would ever be caught doing quests. Following the suggestions I agreed with, people would be caught, if some effort was made that didn't involve pointless waiting or use of a single command.

And yet, you ALSO implied that the only reason I agreed with Xenthos is that I want to punish people for doing quests. (Or that I hate change?) Despite having shown no interest in doing so, and despite wanting to make it harder(and more interesting) than it is currently.

But I'm not really expecting consistency from you at this point, just trying to summarize for everyone else.

Kethaera

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Re: Fighting Shadowdancers

I don't play much but I can echo that new institute players seem very enthusiastic about the rework. And Hallifax does have a rather strong synergy point now, despite I still believe bleeding is incomparible, it's safe to say timewarps look like the second best synergy in the entire game, by a huge margin.

Saz

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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet

Besides, if you're going to name drop someone who actively stalks quests, that would be Tridemon. Not a bad thing, it is how he wants to spend his time. But I honestly think this whole topic could be its own thread at this point.

Lycidas

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Re: Unpopular Opinion: Lusternia Edition

Arix said:

People mostly only buy laurels to force actions/emotions on others or hide that they've been doing conflict quests they don't want to get in trouble for

If the second part is true then they just wasted credits/dbs/whatever currency.

Anaklusmos

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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet

Why are you name dropping me in support of your position?

I have gone through periods of "stalking" areas to try to prevent quests from being done. It is not a fun or enjoyable use of time. Telling people that they must patrol an area for hours a day in case someone pops in for 30 minutes at some point is a disproportionate allocation of time.

Quest rankings may be too easy, sure, but you are trying to flip it around into being too hard once more and I cannot see that stretching players even thinner in a game is going to produce a good outcome. "Go sit in an area" is time that you are not RPing with people who walk by you at the nexus, hunting with them, etc.

Xenthos

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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet

Anaklusmos said:

If you want to impose punishments and consequences on actions, then you should also have to put in the leg work of actually catching the act that merits the aforementioned punishments and consequences. ie sit there and keep watch, if you want to catch someone in the act; otherwise, you're not entitled punishing anyone doing the quest.

Not entitled to? If I decided to make up a story about Magnagorans killing fae, as a completely random example, why does there need to be any evidence for someone to be "entitled" to punish them, IC, if they happen to believe my story? Certainly the players might be annoyed by it, and there might be other consequences, but... even in the real world, crime and punishment aren't necessarily connected to fairness. It's not a great policy from many perspectives, but it is a thing that someone could legitimately roleplay. I don't understand your argument here at all.

Really, all this is about is finding more interesting ways to get evidence than camping quest locations(which, frankly, borders on griefing), depending on useless tools like honors/word of mouth, or depending on the quest-doer to be really bad at keeping secrets. Quests have IC impact, and it should be discoverable. Just... make alts if you don't want to face the consequences.

Kethaera

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