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@Parhelion - I've done that once or twice with city cartel trademaster elections and it has still worked out. Should be okay so long as you were in a position to vote for yourself before flexing.

EDIT: Serenwilde enjoyed a strong activity boom and now it looks like some aspects are simply going to lull for a bit due largely to OOC circumstances - not much to be done about that, especially since I hardly have time to try to design anything with any degree of competence now either.

Silvanus said:

Timequakes are fun and all, but they happen too frequently and take too long. I think there is a better idea than  for 4 hrs in a 24hr time period, people will be stuck releasing an anomaly. That doesn't sound like fun conflict, even if the extra steps were taken to make it interesting, it isn't rewarding. For example, Magnagora has reached the peak of its research, the anomalies that we have left will just go to funding citizens archpower, but that basically meant most of us were not using archpower until we maxed out the entire research tree. So all those powers were mostly unused for months outside of timewind or immaculate control. That is just another conflict mechanic that was min/maxed and created a hostile environment for the losing side that snowballed into other areas.

Seren is kinda the same just not maxed yet. There's all these benefits but if it's not passive or related to getting more anomalies, kinda not open for use really. The potential to trade between orgs is neat but I guess also, right now it's a reason for Seren to maintain the status quo? (cause we'd max out faster by trading with people that are already maxed and then be able to more freely use the benefits)

Also it's not so much alliance/basin-wide stuff, but both times Seren has lost research it's been kinda... the rest of the org venting frustration at the guild who lost it. Feeling bad about stuff doesn't necessarily help where maybe the guild is already not doing the best. 

It was brought to my attention that there was some good discussion going on in this thread prior to the re-hashing of Ascension outfall. I've decided to re-open the thread but want to say a few things about it.


I understand that the Ascension decision was not a popular decision for a lot of players, especially those on the Shadowlight side. I do earnestly believe that we made the right call in raising Ixion as a result of the lag issues that everyone agrees were a prevalent problem. We didn't take anything away from Shadowlight in doing so.

I also understand that it was not a perfect decision and there are parts involved that we could have done better. We could have tried to put more effort into listening and trying to come to an understanding with the other side that made everyone feel more invested and involved in the decision. We likely failed there trying to get the buy-in so that it was felt that it was fair and equitable.

We're not perfect and we don't pretend to be perfect. 

There are two things that I do promise to always do, and these are things I know Aonia believes in.

1) We genuinely do our best to make the decision we feel is best for the game overall
2) We will learn and improve from our mistakes.

That being said - I'm not interested in further posts calling us out for what you feel was a bad decision. I've already heard it all at this point and know how you feel. The decision is made. We'll work on learning from it and trying to make decisions that everyone can be on board with in the future. We'll work on moving forward. Any posts bringing it back up will be removed.

Kethaera said:

But yes, don't go @Lorina, like she says. Someone has to read my newsletter

Psst, send it to me. I don't know about it at all.

@Lorina do what you need to do. It's been good to see you around again, though.

Thanks for this lovely tea meeting, @alaula, @kali, @Lendren

Xenthos said:

5) You also made decisions, knowing that they were going to crash the morale of half of your game, and did them anyways- and instead of trying to work with them to make the blow less hard, you just said "too bad we're doing this as is" and rammed it through.

You chose to shatter the concept of Lusternia as a competitive conflict game, and those who were interested in it as a conflict game ended up moving on.  Without them, well.  You have this.

I respectfully disagree with this. We made a decision that we felt was best for the game overall. You are free to disagree of course. As has been pointed out numerous times, either way, half the game's morale was going to be crushed, so we went for what we felt was the best choice of the game overall. 

It is unfortunate that admitting to a fault and trying our best to rectify it while taking nothing away from anyone led to people quitting the game. Maybe we could have done something better, but I believe we did the best we could.

I'm not interested in debating this further here though. If you have ideas on how to move forward, I'm all ears.

PS (I'm also not interested in seeing people defend this decision further either, it's done, we're moving forward).

Aleyah before,

And after becoming a Demigoddess. Have I figured out how her robes work? No. I drew both of these myself!  

(Edited: I like the blurry shadows more.)