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I might agree, but seeing how a 15-stack relinquish (which is claimed to be LOADS of magnitude better) has no visible effect on Master shrines yet, I wonder how quickly things will get repetitive/drawn out with people just going on their own and getting 1-, 2-, 3-stacks max.
I would much, much rather accelerate the shrine rebuilding and finish this stage of the event in a day or two than deal with the annoying grind of the hourly gank/hide for a week. If splinters keep appearing then it's actually fun because there's no obligation to get or hold onto them, and you can actually use them for fun without feeling like you're hurting your faction's advance.
Cascades of quicksilver light streak across the firmament as the celestial voice of Ourania intones, "Oh Jarrod..."
Honestly the PK part of it boiled down to gank squads and lamery on day 1, which is exciting for like 5 minutes and tedious for the rest of the 2 weeks. Hopefully the alliance makes this phase go by faster and we can see what happens next sooner! Great thinking @Skye, @Jarrod, uhh... @everyoneelseexceptthatcrazyJhuiguybutgoodjobtoyoutoobecauseyoukeepthingsinteresting.
Too many fuckin' cooks in the kitchen.
Everybody gotta throw in their 2 cents, and throw people off the strategy.
Groan, well, live and learn
Its really pretty standard.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
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- With sharp, crackling tones, Kyrra tells you, "The ladies must love you immensely."
- (Eleusian Ranger Techs): Savira says, "Most of the hard stuff seem to have this built in code like: If adventurer_hitting_me = "Sarathai" then send("terminate and selfdestruct")."
- Makarios says, "Serve well and perish."
- Xaden says, "Xaden confirmed scrub 2017."
Ah perhaps I misinterpreted that news post. My own fault for not looking further into it
If you mean, 'everybody is being obliterated by Jhui', then sure.
They chose to side with Babel and Babel only... not sure how that is remotely renouncing their own god for the Tsol'teth.
Yes apologies, misinterpreted that public news post, specifically this line "I have been informed that those of Lord Babel's Order have decided to side with the Tsol'teth, though they might not believe themselves to be."
EDIT: The alliance is the only way to make it fair... for everybody else!
Cascades of quicksilver light streak across the firmament as the celestial voice of Ourania intones, "Oh Jarrod..."
MMMN.
Gotta love whenever you're not an avatar and people still kill you anyways...
Even when you tell them.. numerous times...
PS: If @Proficy can stop whenever he hears that someone already relinquished...
Ya'll can too.
If you'd chosen not to become an avatar on purpose, you'd have a point. Otherwise, you put yourself in the fight.
04:10:40.189 A titanic roar rises from the Sangre Plains as Frederich lays claim to the mantle of an Avatar of Prospero.
04:11:20.475 Frederich has been slain by the might of Old Jhui Ta'sa.
just want to say that one thing about the ooc vs ic motivation debate. i feel that ooc motivations for choosing ic actions should not always be looked down upon. achaea is a game after all and if someone is asking themselves the question, "will i have fun going down this route?", i personally would not fault him or her for it.
some people like idealized dragonlance novels and where as others like grim violent realism fantasy novels such as the ones written by joe abercrombie and richard k morgan.
I do, however, agree that a lot of people aren't bothering to check. But when has Achaea's player base ever proven itself capable of restraint? We're a bunch of children conditioned to jump at the first chance we get for risk-free murder. Remember the Bal'met finale where everybody was actually responsible for onc-well, never mind then.
- With sharp, crackling tones, Kyrra tells you, "The ladies must love you immensely."
- (Eleusian Ranger Techs): Savira says, "Most of the hard stuff seem to have this built in code like: If adventurer_hitting_me = "Sarathai" then send("terminate and selfdestruct")."
- Makarios says, "Serve well and perish."
- Xaden says, "Xaden confirmed scrub 2017."
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But an exponential scaling for the bonus would suggest that three splinters at once would count for something like 1000^3 i.e. 1 billion! That's a rather eye-popping figure, one which would dwarf the base amount. Moreover, the sheer number of players after splinters each round means that the only practical way for large splinter collections to happen for people to voluntarily wait their turn rather than jump the gun. So that scenario would seem to very strongly favor cooperation between Orders, with many splinters per relinquish rather than many people with single splinters.
That said, I'm more than a little skeptical of this being the true calculation. For one, I've not taken into account the difference between gathering essence and subverting essence. More importantly, in my opinion, I've baldly assumed that the way relinquish works with multiple splinters is that it multiplies them together rather than just adding them. This would be exponential in the number of splinters, but it's not the only such scenario. (An exponential law includes both a base and a prefactor.)
All in all, I think this to be a scenario where players having info about the underlying formulas would actually help improve competition, by showing that the above logic is flawed. But within the present model, cooperation really does seem quite rational.