Achaean Raves

Eld

Blujixapug said:

Sounds like you got outfoxed by Decan's genius. No shame in that.

I'd replace "genius" with "cunning", and outfoxed implies that there was something Vayne could've done, which I don't think there was. But Decan played some legitimately good politics there, achieving the goal of getting Vayne out of office while sparing himself the indignity of losing. 

Caoimhaen

@eld totally agree actually. But seriously hashan. 3 merchants in office. Got nothing against them merchants but it seems just a little odd

Ruth

Richest city ruled by the merchants!

Tesha

@Caladbolg.

Thaumas

Caoimhaen said:

@eld totally agree actually. But seriously hashan. 3 merchants in office. Got nothing against them merchants but it seems just a little odd

You think that's bad? Take a look at how Hashan has been ruled so far. I think this is actually the best thing that could happen to the city.

Nakari

I have no clue about comparative Hashani political regimes, but liked because pony.

Jarrod

No comment on how Hashan has been run or how current Hashani leadership is doing, but generally having your city run by people with no connection to the city's Houses is a good way to stifle city/House interactions and create a good ideal for the city as a whole, including those Houses.

Eld

Jarrod said:

No comment on how Hashan has been run or how current Hashani leadership is doing, but generally having your city run by people with no connection to the city's Houses is a good way to stifle city/House interactions and create a good ideal for the city as a whole, including those Houses.

That seems plausible for being run by unhoused citizens, but less so for being run by citizens connected to a house that recently chose to leave the city.

Rom

Big raves for mountain Harmony, can bash for days.

Caoimhaen

The merchants took their own path. And technically..the ones who remain in hashan are by choice. It is their home. But their allegiance will most likely be to their house first. Not to say that they won't do what they think is best for their home. But being that they are no longer a Hashani house, their allegiances might be split. As it is, I heard some merchants refused to take up arms against those who were attacking us because of house reasons. That right there is enough to make one think that the merchant's influence which is an outside influence may not be best. But we shall see. I agree that Hashan should avoid conflict at this point due to it's weakened state. And perhaps the conflict avoiding merchants being in power will help strengthen the city and bring them together for a time. But when conflict actually hits Hashan in the face again, I would question if they are the right ones to be leading at that point.

Rispok

Caoimhaen said:

The merchants took their own path. And technically..the ones who remain in hashan are by choice. It is their home. But their allegiance will most likely be to their house first. Not to say that they won't do what they think is best for their home. But being that they are no longer a Hashani house, their allegiances might be split. As it is, I heard some merchants refused to take up arms against those who were attacking us because of house reasons. That right there is enough to make one think that the merchant's influence which is an outside influence may not be best. But we shall see. I agree that Hashan should avoid conflict at this point due to it's weakened state. And perhaps the conflict avoiding merchants being in power will help strengthen the city and bring them together for a time. But when conflict actually hits Hashan in the face again, I would question if they are the right ones to be leading at that point.

Don't worry, we'll just buy you guys a few hundred atlatl's

Caoimhaen

@rispok gasp! Now their bribing us! Lol

Penwize

Rispok said:

Don't worry, we'll just buy you guys a few hundred atlatl's

Hmmmm, how much you paying per?

Arms Dealer Penwize has a decent ring to it....

Jacen

Disagree with the avoiding conflict thing. Something a lot of Hashani don't understand is that you don't train up an army and then go fight, the game doesn't work like that. You get in fights, and you slowly get better. You're not going to attract combatants if the only conflict you have is bi-weekly arena games; no serious fighter is going to stick around for that. Avoiding conflict is only going to cause missed opportunities and make us lose the combatants we happened to train ourselves (hint, hint).

Something I completely don't understand is the Hashani attitude towards conflict. Most people act like conflict isn't RP. There is absolutely -none- of the priestly debate/discussion/sermons/why we're better than they are, happening in Hashan, and hasn't been for as long as I've been playing this game. People hear war and their minds go straight to combat, and half of Hashan (ok, several people I've talked to ) think that combat isn't RP. I obviously disagree with that, but I wouldn't care as much if the people that said it were doing something externally meaningful (like the combat part of war) with their high and mighty "RP" rather than sitting around sipping tea and acting like they're so much fucking better than everyone else.

Damnit this should have gone to Rants.

Silas

That problem has never been isolated to Hashan.

Penwize

Hashan needs another Qashar, that was damn fun.  They were the main reason I even got into combat when I started.  They pulled that city together more than people want to admit.  They were very griefy outside of raids, but as long as things were kept in and around the city it was great.

As it stands, Cyrene sees more action than Hashan, and that's a little ... weird.

Caoimhaen

@jacen I agree. But at this point. Hashan needs to deal with it's internal wars. Half way healed up. I will say this. The Lotus needs to get up off it's collective ass and start becoming a house to be proud of. It hardly moves. With all due respect. The Lotus is the Shield of Hashan. It needs to start acting like it.

Jacen

Lotus is a combat House in a city that hates conflict, nuff said.

Arditi

Oh, classleads. You brighten my day.

Report #40
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Submitted by: Andraste       Status      : Unsubmitted
Skill       : Subterfuge     Ability     : Evade
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Problem:
Evade makes adventurers too difficult to track during combat situations, providing a garunteed
escape ability, on a very short balance cost to any adjacent room without any third party message or
indication of where they have escaped to. For classes who do not have a strong passive hindering
ability, this makes building any type of offense against these classes very difficult, if not
impossible.
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Solution #1:
Increase the balance cost and provide a third party message when a player evades out of the room
including the direction in which they have evaded.
Solution #2:
Provide a third party message when a player evades out of the room including the direction in which
they have evaded.
Solution #3:
Increase the amount of time required to recover balance after evasion to provide time for opponents
to reasonably reengage them.

Evade clearly makes people too evasive. We need to replace it with backflip.

Iocun

I agree that evade is borderline OP and might need some looking at, but that classlead is a bit weird.

It's not classes with "passive hindering abilities" that have an easy time against evade. Passive hindering tends to hinder offence, but doesn't usually help much against defensive actions. It's classes that don't require non-prone momentum (i.e. prep-and-kill classes) that have an easy time with evade.

Also, I think the best way to nerf evade would be to just remove it from blademasters. Making an ability that's available to two classes only available to one constitutes a downgrade by 50%, right?

Nim

Disagree. That'd nerf blademasters' ability to troll serpents substantially, and that's just unacceptable!

Suggested solution: delete serpent evade, keep blademaster evade.

Anedhel

Just combine serpent and blademaster. Problem solved.

Trevize

Saeva said:

Christ has been Reborn in the Flame!


hahahah

He gets free waterwalking and starburst, but it's balanced by a three day delay on the starburst.

Eld said:

Hasar said:

@Vayne for being an awesome adc, especially with BoTR

Vayne's an analog-to-digital converter? I thought it was Penwize we liked to accuse of being robotic.

Damn you. You made me miss Poergh.

Caoimhaen

@scarlatti for being super awesome and surprising me by out of no where dropping in on me. I nearly fell over myself bowing to you. Haha.

[Deleted User]

I experienced my first raid today. It was crazy exciting and I had no idea what was going on except I hit someone. Or some people. That was fun

Anedhel

I'm in an Order!

I feel giddy.

Kyrra

Want Selene back (

Skye

*hides in a pile of curtains and seduces Kyrra to the Oceanic side*

Achimrst

Kyrra said:

Want Selene back (

I have a solution for you. Worship Khalas, he can say whatever you want him to say and best part he is stone and will never die. The perfect god :P

Kinilan

Skye said:

*hides in a pile of curtains and seduces Kyrra to the Oceanic side*

Because that's what you want to do, give me more of a reason to sink you.