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-Now what I wouldn't be against is credible rogue orgs becoming able to title. That would be a good perk of High Clan status for officers of those clans.
(Blades of Valour): Draekar says: "Synbios if sunbeams sparkle off that I'll kill you where you stand."
(Party) Halos says, "Disbar?"
(Party) Draekar says, "You know here we have disbar."
(Party) Draekar says, "And over there we have datbar."
Whatever you say, VOLDEMORT He Who Must Not Be Named
Yea, that one!
Leaders of High Clans can already set titles for all members.
config hr1 X
Config cr1 X
Etc
Give people the option of having surname auto added to title, and give them a choice between city and house title.
Any additional title change beyond that is X gold, where X is at least 10,000. Titling someone gives you a one minute window to change it just in case you make a typo.
If that is removed, I'm left with hardly any chance of being a combatant. A ping of 400ms renders even the best client side system useless to me.
If it wasn't for serverside curing and the $10 lessons packages, I would never have been able to return to playing Achaea.
As for server side queueing. I discovered it about a month ago, and my bashing speed increased exponentially. I'm now 40% into level 89, which I achieved in three days. Prior to my discovery, that kind of work would have taken at least a month.
Knowing how much of an advantage other players have, due to their ping rate, would limit players with my disposition, to an RP only version of Achaea. Which was the reason I stopped playing for almost a decade.
As you mention with regard to FPS games, there will always be those that think they do themselves a favour by using am aim-bot. In my experience, they tend to fade from the game rather quickly. Because they never learn the actual skills, they never truly reach the top tiers.
The same applies to Achaea.
Let them buy their systems, let them feel superior. Ultimately, they will pay the price for letting someone else build a system for them.
I really wish achaea was more RP intensive. I know this is a game that thrives on combat, but I have always disliked the sense of OOCness that has prevailed in the latter stages of the community. Where does the problem lie? I don't know, I am sure much of it is the forums and skype, but you can't stop that now. There is something fond about having friends in the game, but even I cringe when someone I know says something like "lol" to me.
I realize that much of the community would find themselves annoyed with having to RP, and it would actually push away many of the highest investors out of the game, as the biggest artie holders seem to have little sense of RP. But really, for someone like me, the only reason I have played for 10+ years is the fact that my character lives his own life with his own impact upon the world. Love him or hate him, Aepas is really his own person. That is something I truly adore, and I truly thrive off the moments I get to embrace that.
Rp is a strange thing in achaea, where it is nearly always equated to doing sermons or rituals, but I more or less see it as just being in character. I do with to an extent, there were mild rewards for being creative with your endeavors as a character, or perhaps penalties for not being in tune with your char. I wouldn't say XP is a good reward, as dragon deserves to be it's own stupid task, especially now that I have reached it. Dragon is a form of dedication that seems to deserve it's own place. But, I would think that a lesson bonus or gold bonus for being active in RP would make the world a much more vibrant place.
I love achaea, and its sloppy lore, I just wish that my day to day activities embraced it more, rather than scrounging to honor combat higher than RP capabilities.
Though just as well, I love combat for it's speed, complexity and intensity (except against occultists). But I wish it had more of a place as a good RP mechanic rather than a more griefy/luzly mechanic.
Also for the people that whine about XP loss, you should try the muds where death means permadeath.
I always thought permadeath in achaea would be great, if you could freely transfer your slew or artifacts and lessons around, or at least some of them. I know that's not a good business practice but I always felt like it would be pretty cool.
A lot of people relegate RP to rituals or ceremonies or something else equally sessional. You see it a lot in the raves section, "HAD A GREAT RP WITH YOU THANKX!" and all that. While yes these instances do sort of highlight RP, they're really not what RP is all about. RP is about fluid characters that respond and react at all times in a consistent manner as their character would, not just when RP is turned on.
October 22nd, 2009, between the hours of three and four A.M. Pacific time.
In the end, I simply dug in my heals and consistently play Athelas, as the loving old fart (who occasionally finds reason to stick his nose into other people's business) he is.
Some love him, others tolerate him, yet more are oblivious of the myriad of simple things he does to improve their lives. The recent RP I've been getting out of this simple consistency, has been top shelf stuff.
Right now, he is learning Sireni, taking time to get his Marque attested, researching the blight in Creville, re-doing his research on Neutrality (from scratch) and quite determined to gain experience, so he can hang out with some of his more experienced friends, more often.
All of that is 100% RP based. Not a single one of those goals was something I as a player, decided upon.
There are some seriously long story arcs here, and I'll be sad to see some of them go. But the progression in Athelas as a character, has been astonishing.
I guess all I really have left to do, is to thank all those that are keeping RP alive and well, and I'll do that by sticking to the RP
I manual my lock based on curing. Pssa, n, h, s, o, w, k, c, t
For asthma, paralysis, hypo, slickness, anorexia, weariness, prone, sleep, stupidity
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
ic csu sh ctrl-a asl sf ctrl-a lsr sk ctrl-a ctrl-z ctrl-q ctrl-x ctrl-z ctrl-x ctrl-x ctrl-x ctrl-b
afflicting involes starting with ps, selecting from sn, sth, sea, sch, sto, su, etc. applying fv as needed, perhaps il csd, and a lot more ctrl-as.Manual curse stuff: c(\w)(\w) for swiftcursing a given affliction, and attempting to coagulate if a second letter/number is given. b(\w)(\w) does the same for blights. r(\w)(\w) relapses stuff.
Vodun stuff is: vbl for blackout, m(ll|rl|la|rl) for mangles, various command aliases (vcar for vodun command apply restoration to head for example), vcp for cripple, vbi for bind, vs for slow, vi(various letters) for imbibe venoms, as well as some other stuff.
Spiritlore has various tether aliases for certain spirits and active commands, like is for invoke snare for Tarnel. Additionally I use a script posted here: http://forums.achaea.com/discussion/3270/spiritlore-tracker-profile-script#latest for managing bindings/attunements easily.
I keep missing classleads, but maybe I'll just IDEA it, but I'd love a way to send something like "STRIKE X HANDS LEFT OFFBALANCE", and only do something if I don't have balance but still have 'strike balance.'
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
Take real life U.S. Politics - there are Pro-Choice Republicans and Anti-Choice Democrats. Nobody is kicked out of either party for being "wrong" and they try to effectuate change from within, and/or have to decide regularly how that one issue balances with the rest of their issues.
THAT makes for an interesting life and dialogue.
Everybody agreeing about everything all the time or being made to go away?
:: yawn ::
- To love another person is to see the face of G/d
- Let me get my hat and my knife
- It's your apple, take a bite
- Don't dream it ... be it
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My shop has a group of 5 at 3k... it's 2550g to make the group - so I could lower it, but momma's gotta pay rent and taxes.
My two cents are that optimized scripting take so much of the fun out of Achaea that comes from remembering your macros and aliases. I constantly comment on this IG, but the degree of optimization in this game has sucked a lot of the fun out of it. I'm always so frustrated to learn that I lost to someone who had an auto offense thinking for them throughout a fight, and here I am counting limb damage and aff tracking in my head.
Edit : Definitely two perspectives here but yeah, I think a cheaper price would make them more relevant for frequent usage.
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Now, OOCly of course I'm not going to find anything, but it's gonna be fun to try!"
@Grom and Jinsun have some real issues when they start kicking around ideas
I was doing the strategy in the dream. When I woke up, it still made sense.