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And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
Green is turnins, orange goes to area and sets my tar variable to whatever's in the area. >.>
The perks of having a job and such, the monies.
I think she used iPhone for all her hunting up to Logosian. But I could be mistaken on her phone there.
PocketMud Pro is less worse than others because you can script.
Also, one of the things that seemed to hold true for many people in the many recent conversations about various aspects of XP, is that it really does behoove a player to be very, very risk averse - because every death really does cost you (I think that encouraging people to be so risk averse kind of sucks in a game, but that's a whole other topic). And if you're bashing, you're presumably trying to have a net gain in XP! That's why someone like Kayeil mentions that she bashes Manara even as a dragon. It's why Shirszae says "Because it is good experience for those levels. And frankly, I am not entirely sure I agree with your logic. Why would someone willingly go to a harder place when an easier one serves just as well? People bash to earn exp, not to put themselves into needless risk of dying." - and she's right!
I just finally made level 81, and I did it partly by choosing areas where, even if I lagged a fair bit, or didn't regain balance quite fast enough, I could pretty easily tank the damage I was taking. Not dying, not ever (or hardly ever) is key to bashing, it seems. So really, maybe we need to have some more areas for the genuine newbies who ARE, I don't know, probably level 40-60, which are inacessible to the rest of us, and more areas that are just like them that are accessible to everyone else. Basically, if an area is risky, it seems not worth it for most people.
EDIT: Also, if so many people are running characters around on tiny phones at work with scripts... I mean, it's legal, but it irritates me that *that* is a valid way to power level and that if I'm not doing it I should feel like a bad player or something. Grr.
If so, I'm slightly worried that it will reduce Achaean places to mere "bashing spots" in the mind of (particularly new) players, i.e. that it might be read as an official statement of "these places are meant for bashing".
I've always admired about Achaea that NPCs aren't inherently "monsters" or "quest givers" or "background scenery" and that places aren't inherently "bashing spots" or "questing spots" or "trade hubs", but that it's up to every individual player to decide in which way to interact with which denizens and base those decisions on his personal RP.
That's also why I've never liked in-game organisations putting up lists like this, unless they were very clearly RP-driven (e.g. a city posting a list of its sworn enemies). Convenience is fine and dandy, but I'd still love if more emphasis was put on underlining the fact that every in-game interaction results from roleplaying a character and isn't just part of a mechanical mini-game.
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I've experienced this countless times. A new player might first not even consider that the npcs of denizen villages might be used as bashing targets, as after all - those aren't monsters in some dungeon, but people, and many traditional RPGs don't even allow you to kill those. Later, they read some in-game hunting list and suddenly see that place X is listed as a bashing spot and they're all like "oh, that's a bashing place too? Awesome. And it fits for my level? Great!" - so they go there and hunt, no matter if they're playing an evil character, a good character, or whatever, because after all: the game considers it a hunting spot, so it's fair game!
The issue here is that many new players are confronted with lists based on what places are suitable for their level long before they are confronted with the expectation of basing their hunting practices on personal RP. This is further compounded by the fact that players that come from a more powergaming background are much more likely to focus on such level lists than RP recommendations, unless the latter are really stressed and the former downplayed.
Lists like this, which focus on hard mechanical differences rather than in-game lore, will almost definitely have a detrimental effect on the perception of the game world as a deep, realistic place and move it more into a powergaming direction.
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But despite this, it's still a difference between a list appearing in a player-written org-owned book and a list coming from an "official source" like a help file. The latter gives it even more weight.
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I also never bash Moghedu since I became a mhun quite a few years back now. All a list like this should do it make it so everyone doesn't have to pester the same people in their org for appropriate bashing areas (and possibly feel like an ass for doing so).
I have no doubt that there are many players who still come to the personal decision to limit their hunting based on RP considerations, but the more the mechanical side of PvE is being emphasized by the game, the later this might happen, at which point it's much harder to still have such a profound effect.
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