Everiine said: The reason population is low isn't because there are too many orgs. It's because so many facets of the game are outright broken and protected by those who benefit from it being that way. An overabundance of gimmicks (including game-breaking ones), artifacts that destroy any concept of balance, blatant pay-to-win features, and an obsession with convenience that makes few things actually worthwhile all contribute to the game's sad decline.
-design pending 22903: belly of bronze 22904: chest of silver 22905: arms of silver 22906: head of gold 23056: a crumbling pair of stone gargoyle wings 23057: the Citadel of Stone 23059: a pair of inky-black nighthawk wings 23060: a pair of gold-tipped nightingale wings 23061: Ravila of the Mists
New year in an hour. Get all my slots back again. Wonder how many more I can stack on here?
And yeah, I totally made Nebuchadnezzar's dream into a set of tattoos.
compound-eyed royal kephera blood vernal demigoddess hive queen
Longest race title is MINE
If Mag allowed kephera, undead could be added to that.
There are a lot of ways to circumvent the race rule.
For example, Munsia would always be Kephera but claim she is a changeling and just takes on Kephera for stat purposes. So technically, it wasnt against the rules and was allowed.
There is also, of course, Race hats. Could walk around Mag as a merian and no one would be the wiser.
Lastly, for those strong of heart, they could always be the race itself and accept to be seen as a second-class citizen, which is basically social death in Mag, not to mention you'd have to stand others lording over you for all time.
What arcanis said. One of the most powerful combatants ever to grace Magnagora is technically a merian with a race hat.
Everiine said: The reason population is low isn't because there are too many orgs. It's because so many facets of the game are outright broken and protected by those who benefit from it being that way. An overabundance of gimmicks (including game-breaking ones), artifacts that destroy any concept of balance, blatant pay-to-win features, and an obsession with convenience that makes few things actually worthwhile all contribute to the game's sad decline.
Merian were such a good race. I picked it over wump for many years. Celest never knew how good they had it.
I rather hated the outcries of 'Merian bad, buff it' and found it cheesy it received buffs to become something amazing while Viscanti were left in the dust with people claiming "viscanti is good, you guys are just crying". I especially abhored when people compared how 'workable' viscanti was, simply because we had a construct that gave +1 sip, and thus somehow magically balanced out all the maluses of the race..
Edit: Though I suppose those days are behind us now, but the scars are still fresh.
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Cyndarinused Flamethrower! It was super effective.
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To be fair, I think Viscanti were pretty good for those interested in group PK. (other than irongtongue. Awful bard spec.) Beefy, good resists, high int. Great for survivability. Maybe not ideal, but not terrible. People just like to complain.
It's funny how the current event involved the Night Market, a quest I have been attempting at for a few days now. Since it seems to be in the spotlight, I just have a few general questions I'd like to ask (yes I've also inquired of these in-game).
- One of the Merchants asks for coloured Kouseki flowers, which is only obtainable by dropping different colored reagents at a kouseki cactus, however the Gaudiguch allied mob that provides the reagent for Kouseki will only supply the person with red, while the Mesa compound will supply different colored reagents. Sadly, it seems that the Mesa lucidians will only start supplying colored reagents when the statue is built (which as hallifaxians know, takes quite some hunting and several days). Is there at all any way to get colored reagents without having to go through this ordeal?
- Whenever I go to the Market, I find the same Merchant there, does one have to complete the current Merchant's task in order for the others to appear or is it just random?
Always nice to be reminded that combat consists of you standing in a room while a bunch of people hose you down with afflictions.
Remind me why this is supposed to be fun again?
If it's not fun, don't show up to non-peaced revolts. You know what's also not fun? Wanting to participate in combat but having all of your commands affected by insanity. Woe is me for my choices!
...Also forgetting to offer corpses before going to said revolt.
"Chairwoman," Princess Setisoki states, holding up a hand in a gesture for her to stop and returning the cup. "That would be quite inappropriate. One of the males will serve me."
Insane revolts are the best! That being said, don't show if you don't want to die. There, now you won't get locked and killed. Stick to prime, don't get enemies in areas, and the random deaths will be few and far between.
Always nice to be reminded that combat consists of you standing in a room while a bunch of people hose you down with afflictions.
Remind me why this is supposed to be fun again?
If it's not fun, don't show up to non-peaced revolts. You know what's also not fun? Wanting to participate in combat but having all of your commands affected by insanity. Woe is me for my choices!
...Also forgetting to offer corpses before going to said revolt.
Insane revolts are the best! That being said, don't show if you don't want to die. There, now you won't get locked and killed. Stick to prime, don't get enemies in areas, and the random deaths will be few and far between.
Such wonderful ways to encourage gameplay. Well done.
Such wonderful ways to encourage gameplay. Well done.
Would so love to know what the right way to "encourage gameplay" in this case would be, @Arcanis.
"Chairwoman," Princess Setisoki states, holding up a hand in a gesture for her to stop and returning the cup. "That would be quite inappropriate. One of the males will serve me."
Here's the thing. What I'm reading is "I don't like pvp." Fine, that's a personal choice, I respect that. I played on a pve server on wow for years because my wife hated dealing with random rogues. Revolts are conflict events, via regular combat and debating or just debating in a peaceful revolt. They are, by design, pvp. In any game, the typical best strategy is to focus fire on one target at a time (league, wow, Lusternia) to rapidly kill/disable, then move on to the next target. That is group combat, and it's not going to change.
So, yeah. If you don't want to die, or be ganged up on, don't participate in what are going to be pvp scenarios. Alternatively, learn to fight back, how to survive bring hit by multiple people (tumble/run away, honestly, is the only real way to survive that), and get some automated curing.
Such wonderful ways to encourage gameplay. Well done.
Would so love to know what the right way to "encourage gameplay" in this case would be, Arcanis.
@Kethaera There are several avenues you could have went with, for example.
- Could inquire about their curing system and suggested they use the in-game curing system to help deal with combat
- Give some tips on how to deal with being monkeypiled, one example is: Tumble. Tumble really does save lives. Another example is Fly...so few seem to think to use a geyser or hexagram.
- If they dont want to deal with being pummeled in a revolt, then there is already a mechanic in place to thwart that: Campaign Sanctuary. Pacify at its best
- If they want to still help their group but not be in the thick of it, then there are other avenues to take. Adjacent room attacks (I know for a fact Vetala uses Hexes, so she can push those in), melds, Healing auras (not magnagoran but meh). Heck a demigod could even zap.
A lot of players will feel forced to help their orgs, it is based on loyalty towards them and a general love they have grown for it. Yes not everyone loves combat but sometimes it just cant be helped. The most we could do is attempt to give advice on how they can deal with it in the game.
Such wonderful ways to encourage gameplay. Well done.
Would so love to know what the right way to "encourage gameplay" in this case would be, Arcanis.
@Kethaera There are several avenues you could have went with, for example.
- Could inquire about their curing system and suggested they use the in-game curing system to help deal with combat
- Give some tips on how to deal with being monkeypiled, one example is: Tumble. Tumble really does save lives. Another example is Fly...so few seem to think to use a geyser or hexagram.
- If they dont want to deal with being pummeled in a revolt, then there is already a mechanic in place to thwart that: Campaign Sanctuary. Pacify at its best
- If they want to still help their group but not be in the thick of it, then there are other avenues to take. Adjacent room attacks (I know for a fact Vetala uses Hexes, so she can push those in), melds, Healing auras (not magnagoran but meh). Heck a demigod could even zap.
A lot of players will feel forced to help their orgs, it is based on loyalty towards them and a general love they have grown for it. Yes not everyone loves combat but sometimes it just cant be helped. The most we could do is attempt to give advice on how they can deal with it in the game.
Those are actually some excellent suggestions. I'm not sure why you couldn't have just given them earlier, and spared us the passive-aggressive post. Frankly, I don't know how to give advice to someone whose problem with PK seemed to be the part about group combat, because even doing everything you said, that WILL eventually happen- especially when at the same time, she was asking for a way to opt out of pk completely. If it's frustrating, then it's probably always going to be frustrating. No one should feel forced to help their org do something that isn't fun for them.
If the problem is that she doesn't know what to do or how to help, that's a Magnagoran problem, not an issue with pk itself.
"Chairwoman," Princess Setisoki states, holding up a hand in a gesture for her to stop and returning the cup. "That would be quite inappropriate. One of the males will serve me."
I'm not sure why you couldn't have just given them earlier, and spared us the passive-aggressive post.
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As I recall, I did apologize for that.
"Chairwoman," Princess Setisoki states, holding up a hand in a gesture for her to stop and returning the cup. "That would be quite inappropriate. One of the males will serve me."
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Estarra the Eternal says, "Give Shevat the floor please."
If Mag allowed kephera, undead could be added to that.
22903: belly of bronze
22904: chest of silver
22905: arms of silver
22906: head of gold
23056: a crumbling pair of stone gargoyle wings
23057: the Citadel of Stone
23059: a pair of inky-black nighthawk wings
23060: a pair of gold-tipped nightingale wings
23061: Ravila of the Mists
New year in an hour. Get all my slots back again. Wonder how many more I can stack on here?
And yeah, I totally made Nebuchadnezzar's dream into a set of tattoos.
There are a lot of ways to circumvent the race rule.
For example, Munsia would always be Kephera but claim she is a changeling and just takes on Kephera for stat purposes. So technically, it wasnt against the rules and was allowed.
There is also, of course, Race hats. Could walk around Mag as a merian and no one would be the wiser.
Lastly, for those strong of heart, they could always be the race itself and accept to be seen as a second-class citizen, which is basically social death in Mag, not to mention you'd have to stand others lording over you for all time.
I rather hated the outcries of 'Merian bad, buff it' and found it cheesy it received buffs to become something amazing while Viscanti were left in the dust with people claiming "viscanti is good, you guys are just crying". I especially abhored when people compared how 'workable' viscanti was, simply because we had a construct that gave +1 sip, and thus somehow magically balanced out all the maluses of the race..
Edit: Though I suppose those days are behind us now, but the scars are still fresh.
- One of the Merchants asks for coloured Kouseki flowers, which is only obtainable by dropping different colored reagents at a kouseki cactus, however the Gaudiguch allied mob that provides the reagent for Kouseki will only supply the person with red, while the Mesa compound will supply different colored reagents. Sadly, it seems that the Mesa lucidians will only start supplying colored reagents when the statue is built (which as hallifaxians know, takes quite some hunting and several days). Is there at all any way to get colored reagents without having to go through this ordeal?
- Whenever I go to the Market, I find the same Merchant there, does one have to complete the current Merchant's task in order for the others to appear or is it just random?
Also, at least from what I gathered while flirting with the quest myself, you have to help all of the merchants before the Market closes for the day.
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Such wonderful ways to encourage gameplay. Well done.
I haven't seen a revolt in months.
So, yeah. If you don't want to die, or be ganged up on, don't participate in what are going to be pvp scenarios. Alternatively, learn to fight back, how to survive bring hit by multiple people (tumble/run away, honestly, is the only real way to survive that), and get some automated curing.
@Kethaera There are several avenues you could have went with, for example.
- Could inquire about their curing system and suggested they use the in-game curing system to help deal with combat
- Give some tips on how to deal with being monkeypiled, one example is: Tumble. Tumble really does save lives. Another example is Fly...so few seem to think to use a geyser or hexagram.
- If they dont want to deal with being pummeled in a revolt, then there is already a mechanic in place to thwart that: Campaign Sanctuary. Pacify at its best
- If they want to still help their group but not be in the thick of it, then there are other avenues to take. Adjacent room attacks (I know for a fact Vetala uses Hexes, so she can push those in), melds, Healing auras (not magnagoran but meh). Heck a demigod could even zap.
A lot of players will feel forced to help their orgs, it is based on loyalty towards them and a general love they have grown for it. Yes not everyone loves combat but sometimes it just cant be helped. The most we could do is attempt to give advice on how they can deal with it in the game.
For things that costs... curio, damage rune.
Also I'm not sure, but using lightningstyle might raise your damage over time more than aggressive.
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