Alright, people. @Sylandra has appeared in game in the past couple of days. This means that I feel obliged to check for mafia interest. Chime in if you…
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Pretty thrilled with this change. Like, you could have just done this one, skipped all the others, and I would still be thrilled with it. The rest is good too, but nothing competes with this for me.
Ah, but is it truly blasphemous? Are not birds the noblest of creatures? It is so! Then why should any god be angered by the comparison? Perhaps because pigeons are vermin? Well, that is no insult to the gods. After all, I'm not …
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There are two sets of library scores, recent and total. You can see them both on LIBRARIES. Recent should only include the past 50 years, total should be all books ever approved. Most literary and most scholarly go off of the recent s…
Personally, I'm a big fan of double dipping. Or even triple. Go wild, get bardics, library, and stage with one thing. Make out like a bandit and get those sweet sweet culture credits.
The option to double up was also extremely useful …
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It took me halfway through reading it that you might be aiming that way, and then I realized that I'm not in the swan-lover branch of Halli. What you need to do is design a roasted skylark platter to get me.
Credits aside, bardics also had their own title progression on honors. The library technically also has that, but it is much easier to cap out the library's version. Bardics credits also help to equalize orgs a little, in that some are much mor…
This is just my best guess, I wasn't there when they were planning it:
Six designs per cartel is 30 points per cartel. Multiply it by 7 cartels to get 210 potential points if it goes uncapped. Relying on the natural cap from lim…
I'm pretty torn on this. I think I mostly agree with the others.
I like it being supported and I like it being competitive. But the current tournament structure for scoring just doesn't seem to work. Xenthos is definitely right that y…
The credibility penalty isn't the biggest problem with it. Rejections don't contribute to library scores at all (assuming HELP 16.1.1.1 is accurate, anyway. LIBRARY INFO X doesn't display a change, so the help file might be wrong…
I'm fully in favor of both of those solutions, I've just accepted that neither of them are likely to happen. I think they're both better. Scholarly even has precedent for some speculative elements already, since people have a history of publishing i…
That is a blast from the past. I think all I wanted was a set of items that add a line to the bottom of the beast's probe description, just like the hair curios do for a player's examine. I'm guessing that is an appendage. Emotes are cool too, …
I have basically no horse in this race. Frankly, I think that Lusternia is doomed because you don't have the resources to do any of the projects that could save it. On the other hand, this is interesting enough to draw me out to comment.
Well, that Gala was a delightful way to end my time in Lusternia, but I think it is time to move on. Lots of reasons for that. Some burning out, mostly objecting to policy. Not just in the library, either, but in many areas of the game. I'm sur…
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Rage is not very Hallifaxian. Assuming the fluff isn't in use with another skill, I might retheme the skill to be aging people to death (since aeonics already has a non-combat aging ability) and call it "senescence" or some such thing…
Then I'd like to direct you to my previous post about Curwa's book, the one with the excerpt in it. Clarifying why that one had inadequate labeling would be a good start.
Re: pulling books, there was some conflict over it ages ago and there was a promise of producing actual content guidelines to prevent surprise rejections for being inappropriate. Never materialized.
This is a change of policy. There were -years- of not having this standard, and the library seemed a lot healthier at that time. If you'd like, I can pull up books with divine scholar comments along the…
"It should be emphasized, however, that these theoretical interpretations are not in any way proven - these essay serves more as a pre-registration of my hypot…
Because the correct strategy is to bank on other orgs not having submissions for the weak category, which is often the case, and churning out a quick filler book. Sure, the book will lose if it's contested, but if you do that every time, you'll…
-Science, which is distinct from scholarly, becomes largely non-viable. We do not have the mechanics to do experiments in the game, so we have to fabricate conclusions on most sci…