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Re: Game Balance
Kali said:I was wondering if it would be possible to expand the recognize command to also cover combat related things, so you could recognize people for things like fighting well and bravely even if they lost, or for stepping up to lead or to fill a role your team needs, or for being sportsmanlike, or for taking risks to save others, or whatnot.
It is my hope that something like this would help to take away from the negative emotions tied up in a loss by helping to provide an avenue for, and hopefully normalizing, positive feedback for people that are out there doing their best.
I would love to recognize the everloving crap out of the other side in fights. Big +1 from me.
A slight mechanical reward, and will help to pervade an atmosphere of sportsmanship rather than the silent shutout I'm sure a lot of people feel when they get shut down by larger numbers.
The side with fewer players will see those individual players more likely to get recognized, and in greater amounts each, so it's even got an anti-snowball effect.
Just spitballing, maybe even remove the automatic TQ dailycredits and instead give the player a timequake recognize to hand those dailycredits off to an enemy combatant or something.
Ahh, but I'm rambling a bit, and I'm sure it's open to abuse. And it's not a simple thing. But I really, really like the concept.
Even just opening up the recognize requirements to allow PK justification, I suppose, would allow this in effect. But one of the things I like most about it is that regardless of how small this change would be, it's something the Admin could let the players do to move the needle just a little bit on a regular basis, make things just a little more palatable, etc.
Kaikazu
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Re: QUOTES 8: THE QUOTING
You draw Afrit into a convoluted discussion using circuitous logic.
Afrit rubs his tummy contentedly.
Kind @Nepenthe exclaims to you, "Beware Afrit's belly rub!"
Afrit rubs his tummy contentedly.
Kind @Nepenthe exclaims to you, "Beware Afrit's belly rub!"
That made me almost snort my drink. Thanks for the laugh 
Aeldra
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Re: Lack of Raves VI: Rave Today, Tweet Tomorrow
Am gonna do something uncharacterstical and rave for those revolts. Am rather bummed that we still have 0 villages, but I had a lot of fun debating with people and actually had a few laughs too. Special mentions go to @lenara and @nepenthe who both had me laughing.
Aeldra
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Re: Game Balance
After removing my rather lengthy post I was going to write, I wanted to point out that it's very hard to contribute to this community on this forum because people's tempers flare too easily and I kind of don't feel like I can openly state my personal opinion without garnering a lot of backlash. This is nothing new to this thread, just general observation of how this community has been since I know it.
I wanted however say, that I hope we can find a way foward together, as one playerbase in the hope that we might come to something where conflict is fun to participate in again.
Aeldra
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Re: Game Balance
Hi there! Maybe its time to speak up.. maybe.
The following is just from my perspective, so maybe be a little easy on me this go round?
Yes, a lot of our combat leaders threw the towel in. All at once. I agree that it did fall on the rest of us to "make up" for their absence. I for one, am not one of those who can so easily fill it. I'm not a Ixion or Xenthos or Snald, and I'm proab not ever going to be.
Personally, I haven't felt the ability to "air out" everything that happened with Ascension and the fall out from it without repercussions. Reading through some of the stuff about the topic has made me as a player feel I don't have the right to have an opinion on it. Either speak up, be viewed as negative while having your views skewed into somehow being toxic or just try to deal with the situation and not complain too often.
Now, as it happened. Glom had a bit of an RP event too, right as the dust was settling from the previously mentioned event. It was a good event, don't get me wrong. It needed to be out in the open. But, seemingly, it hit a community that was already hurting hard. From there and looking onwards, we haven't exactly had a whole lot to build us back up, have we?
Where do you start.
Mechanically speaking, raids while "conflict-type" events are happening need to be disabled or stopped. I remember being shoo'd out of Serenwilde Forest during "New Glom" because it seemed we'd outstayed our welcome by Admin, but yet this doesn't seem frowned upon.
Rp wise, we need something to help bring us back together. Please. As far as people feeling burned out from just the sheer weight of everything seeming to ride on their shoulders. I'm not sure what I can say to help besides, hang in there. I'm right there with ya.
The following is just from my perspective, so maybe be a little easy on me this go round?
Yes, a lot of our combat leaders threw the towel in. All at once. I agree that it did fall on the rest of us to "make up" for their absence. I for one, am not one of those who can so easily fill it. I'm not a Ixion or Xenthos or Snald, and I'm proab not ever going to be.
Personally, I haven't felt the ability to "air out" everything that happened with Ascension and the fall out from it without repercussions. Reading through some of the stuff about the topic has made me as a player feel I don't have the right to have an opinion on it. Either speak up, be viewed as negative while having your views skewed into somehow being toxic or just try to deal with the situation and not complain too often.
Now, as it happened. Glom had a bit of an RP event too, right as the dust was settling from the previously mentioned event. It was a good event, don't get me wrong. It needed to be out in the open. But, seemingly, it hit a community that was already hurting hard. From there and looking onwards, we haven't exactly had a whole lot to build us back up, have we?
Where do you start.
Mechanically speaking, raids while "conflict-type" events are happening need to be disabled or stopped. I remember being shoo'd out of Serenwilde Forest during "New Glom" because it seemed we'd outstayed our welcome by Admin, but yet this doesn't seem frowned upon.
Rp wise, we need something to help bring us back together. Please. As far as people feeling burned out from just the sheer weight of everything seeming to ride on their shoulders. I'm not sure what I can say to help besides, hang in there. I'm right there with ya.
Eve
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Re: Lusternian AMA
1. When there was an event in Hallifax that led to musical notes being played, and I whipped out the electronic keyboard at home and tapped the notes in, only to realise with glee that it was the opening bar of the Phantom of the Opera. I squealed and clapped and laughed in delight, and then bragged to the other Hallis about it.Lantra said:Hmm... what about these?
- Any funny little moments in Lusternia you want to share? What made you actually laugh out loud?
- Which Lusternia “villain” is your favorite and why?
- What Lusternia event have you most enjoyed as a player? What made it fun for you?
- Is there something you've always wanted to do or achieve in Lusternia, but haven't gotten around to it yet?
- Who has the best (non-custom) beast in Lusternia? Is it you? Give the descs to prove it!
3. Saving Ruin/Jelica - running around unable to find her just made it a hundred times funnier than the fact that we were saving arguably the most insightful/powerful person in the Order who isn't the divine. It might seem odd, but in all my time of playing Lusternia, Alexandria has been the most fun.
4. Just get a mention in Beauty, which will literally never happen after the mental black hole I fell into after this year. I won't be participating in it again.
5. I mean, I do have the sugar-dusted seal... But then there was that time my sidiak was meteorite-themed and then a meteor fell on Hallifax. Nothing to see here.
Re: Absence Thread
I have been loving all the RP Xiran has been included in, even in unexpected places. I need to dial back my hours though, so gonna be sporadic as I refine my schedule this week.
@Aeldra, I still owe you and @Alaula tea!
@Lleuke
@Aeldra, I still owe you and @Alaula tea!
@Lleuke
Xiran
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Re: Game Balance
I just don't have the energy anymore to log in, hear that there are at least double our numbers in every single timequake at every time of day I can log in, and get excited to go die. No, it doesn't 'cost' me anything - except the buffs, the time sitting there waiting, the time where someone might make a jerk comment about how quickly I died, whatever. I haven't been able to make it to an aetherflare or revolt in weeks, because they're happening while I'm at work or in the very middle of me sleeping. My work is draining enough. If I try and just 'be a team player' and 'keep conflict alive' and whatever other trite things people might want to say, I will absolutely just quit instead. It's already hard enough to catch the things I find fun in the game without deliberately seeking out the things I only tolerate at the best of times.
And these are not the best of times.
And these are not the best of times.
Re: Absence Thread
The trend of "being in charge of everything" continues, including safety concerns and pandemic response. I want to say it will get better but I honestly don't know now that my city's in a red zone. The worst of enrollment month is over though so now it's "only" a matter of moving the entire school back online/remote and I should have more time? Yay? 
Drocilla
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