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As I intend to do with a game, if it isnt fun then i simply wont do it. Id much rather enjoy productive things like hunting talisman pieces and gathering gold rather than be a ragdoll because people decided to throw event rp out the window with no form of reprecussions. Far better things to do with my game time. Enjoy
Which is fine, just don't complain about a lack of RP when all IC conventions are 'fuck them up, get what we want, leave no quarter.'
*cough*Nish?*cough*
Then again, I've had a few too many, so I'm probably not the person to listen to.
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Cor Triphyn Gerzson
The Abhal Tornu Desert Gerzson
The Bolgukova Fortress Gerzson
The Granniftor Fortress Gerzson
The Modyara Obelisk Gerzson
The Moldova Fortress Gerzson
The Nemuritoaure Fortress Gerzson
The Osterrych Citadel and Barracks Gerzson
The Prylator Pit Gerzson
The sunken maze Gerzson
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I just think the whole 'RP' argument is inherently flawed.
Base of 2, +3 on day 1, +5 on day 2... that's 10... but they lost territory and reclaimed it... So we're at 11 beacons stones?
Idk, honestly. Still not sure what happened, but yeah.
And people are wondering why it's one-sided.
ETA: This is not in UW, but the numbers are still pretty representative imo.
got gud
Today:
9 were used in a 6 hour span. The only way to legitimately have more than 5 beacons per day is to have someone else's, either freely given or taken. That's what I assumed happen. If they all came from Gerzson, though, something was very broken. I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but if this was a bug, I hope this gets taken into consideration in the final tally thing.
This is bug abuse.
So you bugged it. Fine excellent.
Then took advantage of the bug: Bug abuse.
I don't see anything wrong with the RP situation here. It's complex, it's not black and white, it comes with all the nuances and different perspectives that real wars come with, and I think that's great. On one hand, the Soulbleed Nexus gives whomever controls it the power to raise, literally, undead armies. It's not something you want in the hands of just anyone. All of the factions have different enough motivations, though, that each player and player state had reasons to choose their faction, or at least reasons to NOT choose the other factions and go with the lesser evil. If you're down there fighting because you are concerned about the next owner of the Soulbleed Nexus, then it's completely valid to compromise on some ideology to ensure that the wrong people don't end up in charge of it. Nations do this in real life all the time; greater threats bring enemies together all the time. That's not unusual. On the other hand, it's also a valid argument to say that the events in the UW are far removed from Sapience, so who cares? (This is not my stance, but the argument can be made) Thusly, two cities sat out, and the "recruitment" of rogue adventurers by the demigods and recruiters was very mercenary, so it's completely valid for mercenaries to act like mercenaries and fight for themselves rather than on ideological grounds. That also happens in real life all the time.
So I really don't see any grounds to play RP elitist, here. Yeah, if you're looking for the usual Black vs White, Good vs Evil, clear-cut conflict, I can see where you're going to be disappointed, because that's not what this is. I love that, though, I get tired of the Black vs White, this is a complex political war with potentially earth-shaking consequences lore-wise, and so those same-old same-old axes of conflict don't apply right now. You have 5 NPC factions all fighting for different reasons, backed up by 6 player factions all fighting for different reasons; it's a fucking free-for-all down there where just about anything is RP-justifiable, and I think that's fantastic.
Mechanically, it's also an opportunity for people who don't get to play together to have an excuse to play together, or for people who don't usually fight each other to fight each other. Last night 3 Cyrenians teamed up with some Eleusians and squared off with Hashan, and even saw some Cyrenian-on-Cyrenian deathsights. It was fascinating for me to see how Eleusis runs a running battle, and it was fascinating to fight Hashan, because I've never had a reason to before. We've been given an Admin-sanctioned excuse to break some norms and do something new and different for a few weeks. Might there be some RP fallout for that? Maybe. Is that perfectly valid and reasonable? Absolutely.
But for now, quit playing RP referee and enjoy the chaos. Or don't. If you don't go down to the UW, then it doesn't affect you at all.
Except for the Cyrenian on Cyrenian bit, which I've avoided to the best of my ability, and I'm pretty sure is still grounds for ousting, last I heard.
We're just the guinea pigs for a bigger system to come I think. I believe MKO has something similar?
They should increase the difficulty of the attacks significantly, add icon-like benefits to the territories, and then let the bloodbath begin.
Make Achaea great again
The fuck are you smoking...
Clearly once again people are misinformed about the story of an event and are just firing bullets randomly out of sheer fun.
This is -not- a war for rulership of the underworld nor control of the nexus. It had been stated several times now that Slith is the new king, and like it or not people have to accept that. The demigods even stated that they will be keeping an eye out for any direct attempt at the throne. This entire war is merely about gakning territory and becoming slith's second in command.
You're screaming like a Neanderthal "THIS IS A WAR!!!!", but seem to have forgotten it isnt our war nor directly concerns us. Heck 80% of the people down there are just thrre for the killing. I think maybe 2 cities did some form of bargain for their assistance, not really sure.
The future of sapience? Again...no. The underworld is its own plane much like prime is. The only way this MIGHT affect us with war is if somehow someone got their hands on soulbleed and knew somehow how to craft perfect undead (which took ugrach years to perfect) and then somehow assault sapience with the gods completely blind to this entire thing.
Dont try to preach the RP of an event if you dont even know the baseline story involved.
*drops mic*