Reminisce

Dominius

Ever miss having guilds? Overwhelmed by the plethora of options? Just a place to reminisce about a time when things were simpler, more dependent and very different from now. When plants were harvested by druids and dragons were extremely rare. When credits cost 3000 gold.. What do you miss and what has gotten better?

Skye

I miss being able to split my cards in blackjack.

Torinn

I miss the class specific guilds and I wasn't even around for them

Jonathin

I do not miss guilds. They were good on paper, but in practice the people that ran most of them suuuucked.

Xaden

I miss the Ashura.

Sidonia

I miss Makali's temple

Sayenna

I miss Tanris.


Damn careless bus drivers.

Dominius

I miss not having to make complicated scripted tables with healing preferences and being able to compete with a simple system of triggers and aliases. I miss interaction between cities like collecting shards and competing outside of raids and I miss raids without complicated partytell systems.

I miss not everything being so dependent on having lots of credits and being super powerful.

BUT I also like the new freedom that Achaea offers now, though there is less intrigue. I love that there are always new ideas and everything is constantly expanding and exploring even without player interaction is already worthwhile.

Torinn

I just feel I missed out on having a strong class identity.  I hear the stories of Templars and priests of old and the stuff they did for pure RP purposes and I'm like.. "I want that"

Morthif

The knight guilds had strong identities with unique flavor that I do miss. 

Melodie

I really miss the (Cyrenian) Lumeni and everything associated with that, including a lot of the storylines around that time, i.e. Theodelinda as well as personal storylines. 

Rispok

I miss the Sartai wars. Everything after that era was a detriment to the game.

Long live bladefire and pills.

Krypton

Clementius. Delosian Games. RIDDLES. Landmarks (roflmao). Shallam's cake-decorating service. Demian.

Ahmet

Prismable househalls.

Caelan

Tenebrus

Morthif

Jhui. 

Farrah

I miss the old Chaos faction people (Imyrr, Flair, Manifest, etc.) and there being an active Babel. I need something worthy of setting on fire.

Sobriquet

Krypton said:

Clementius. Delosian Games. RIDDLES. Landmarks (roflmao). Shallam's cake-decorating service. Demian.

Yes, this. Jay was awesome and had some of my earliest fondest memories of Achaea with Clementius around.

The boon where someone hesitated and got a large blob of "um" was excellent. 

Achilles

I miss the early days before automated curing and definitely automated offense, back when everything was manual and because of this artefacts and min/maxing wasn't necessary.  I miss the days where guilds could keep their skills a secret and there was a lot more depth to the skills.  And I miss the game before clans and we were forced to interact with one another only through in game and in character means.

Amranu

Artefacts were way, way worse back in the day. Dunno what you're talking about. Remember web axk, and kai choke doing absurd damage?

Morthif

Enfeeble/absolve insta. 

Achilles

Amranu said:

Artefacts were way, way worse back in the day. Dunno what you're talking about. Remember web axk, and kai choke doing absurd damage?

Those were after.  I played before artefacts were even a thing (the first artefacts were unique only available in auctions and the first one was with gold not credits).  No doubt skills and artefacts were added in the past without any balance checks which is why we laugh at the absurdity of them today.

Armali

Christ, that's old. Do you still remember pills and bladefire?

Jonathin

Yes. D

Achilles

Yes, they added abilities before they even coded cures.  The initial cure for paralysis was to RELAX

Tasuu

I miss the Divine being more around too. I remember Pentharian, Mithraea, Miramar and Lorielan visiting Fish street and walking around. Or Phaestus appearing out of nowhere to flirt with the girls. Now it seems they're just there for announcements/ceremonies or to say stuff in ct. I still appreciate them being around though.

Synbios

I miss the - dare I say it? - truffles.

Trey

Achilles said:

Yes, they added abilities before they even coded cures.  The initial cure for paralysis was to RELAX

DON'T DO IT. WHEN YOU WANNA GO TO IT.

Bronislav

I miss my friends.

:frown:

Keorin

I miss the breadth of religions and ideologies that used to exist. While focusing the number of divine was good for the game world overall, the way that temples, libraries, and organizations were simply deleted has left a part of the game that I enjoyed from the start far more shallow. Even though I never saw many of those godroles active before their death, the existence of their orders and ideologies added so much nuance to the world.

I miss the old houses. So many were a mess, and there were too many of them, but joining a house used to feel like joining a distinct organization with their own interests and goals and identity in the world, and it felt like they supported interesting roles to play that no longer exist. The renaissance improved many things, but the new houses continue to feel formulaic and stale to me in so many cases, and often feel like they have little identity of their own (which is the more interesting house, the Vanguard or the Ashura?). So much history and identity was lost, and even years in there's been little to replace it.

I miss class roleplay. I miss picking my class feeling like a big part of who my character would be, and feeling like it meant more then just a skill set in the world. Multiclass is great for a lot of reasons, but it came with no support for class identities or even in-world explanations, and now classes are talked about as skillsets to collect, and rarely as roles in the world to play. There were always class hoppers that treated classes like this (and I respect that play style, don't get me wrong) but now that's how everyone and everywhere is.

I know that some of the loss of depth for me comes from having played this game for longer, making things that used to be new and exciting into mundane, but I can't help but feel like so many things that drew me into this world now simply don't exist, with no real replacements or attempts at them. I can think of a ton of good gameplay changes that have been made since I started, but I can't think of a single change that's been done for the sake of expanding and supporting roleplay opportunities, and it's left the game feeling more polished, but also far more sterile. Overall, the changes to this game over the last several years have been undeniably good for the health of the game as a game, but feel like they've come at the expense of some of its soul.

Rispok

Keorin said:

Boring drivel.

 Overall, the changes to this game over the last several years have been undeniably good for the health of the game as a game, but feel like they've come at the expense of some of its soul.