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i have been to several player house events where an enemy will prism in just for lulz or to pop a Mark -- a-holes gon be a-holes, but literally it was just a few minutes inconvience and then the event went on anyways
If no guests are open PK then just ignore the interloper. And if a guest is open PK maybe out of respect to the host they should not be attending until they deal with the attacker/lose open PK.
I'm pretty much w/ Mathilda that subs could be separate area, like sewers, then people can use their sub homes if they can just relax about uninvited ppl popping in since it won't be some major city security breach
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
It's also absurd to talk of consequences. I've tried the approach of killing people who break in. It's apparently circular PK, so I'm breaking the game's rules if I try and apply "consequences" in any meaningful way.
And the mark system sucks. I trust my own awful PK skill more than a mark, at this point.
But if this is a priority for change or still far away is a different story
Dunn tells you, "I hate you."
(Party): You say, "Bad plan coming right up."
It may become harder to use those safe rooms to avoid "consequences" that everyone likes to dish out, but I think any change there will have to respect that sometimes people log in and want to PK, and other times they log in and don't want to PK.
For my part, I play on a phone most of the time, so I don't feel like ever having PK loom over my head like that.
Safe rooms are bad for the game.
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
It’s already happening in Starmourn because the clone rooms are unable to be attacked in. So people are abusing that grace when someone tries to attack them, but then once they give up they go right back to causing issues.
We saw it with New Hope after Shallam died. While it was made to give the refugees somewhere to go, it was inevitably abused by people going out to do something, then running to the safe room becoming impervious to anything.
Theres nothing wrong with a room that is difficult to get to. A room that is completely and totally impervious, is not good whatsoever.
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
There was a long period of time where people were breaking into my house on the regular, before I made two of the rooms no-prism. And by "on the regular", I mean out of 10 times I'd be in the house roleplaying, 8 of those times, someone would try to prism/break in, though only about half of those were to PK me/others (the other times were mostly those just wanting to be dicks). I now almost exclusively hang out in those rooms when I am in the house, because it's just less of a hassle to worry about.
I'd say break-ins have gone down over time, but not because of anything to do with houses in general, but more to do with the people who are currently playing, and perhaps more importantly, the people who are NOT playing. It could just as easily flip back around, should someone(s) be so inclined. House estates faced a similar issue, but were addressed because, obviously, they're locations for orgs generally in the city proper. Like I said, I don't have an easy fix or solution, but I also don't think it's a current emergency, either.
That love soon might end You are unbreaking
And be known in its aching Though quaking
Shown in this shaking Though crazy
Lately of my wasteland, baby That's just wasteland, baby
So PK is bad. Let's just get rid of PK, then we won't have safe rooms either.
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
Like I said a few posts ago.
Instead of just removing them completely, which would probably only be reversed again after people complain.
In the meantime, I can only assume my ability to retaliate is very limited unless I want to get into circular PK, which I don't want to.
As a result, nevermind lacking security, my house may as well be defenceless. For reasons I've already explained, I hope you can see why this would be really annoying. Although I don't have a lot of rooms, I've still put a lot into what is there.
Achaea used to have a few safe rooms and the admin declared they were in fact detrimental to gameplay and resolution of conflict.
Again, why should the mechanics that work for 99% of the game be changed for "you"?
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
Houses are basically safe rooms. If you are that inattentive you cant notice or stop a prism on a monolith, or get a non prism room. Then the problem is you.
Ships, are overpowered beyond belief, and need to be brought down in some sorts. Anyone should be able to board any ship at any time... if they want that peace of mind, take there ship out to sea.
So you get peace of mind by going out to somewhere you can have your ship blown up and having to deal with ridiculous salvage costs? I don't think you understand the phrases you use. That's like saying if you don't want to have to contest bashing areas as much with people, you should go bash Annwyn.
I mentioned ships being op already
And if someone is camping outside a harbor waiting for you to get you there then oh well.
@Pyori so stop trying to just demean everyone's post. Reading it to find something wrong and try to decipher what's right about it..... just coming off as an ass
I do tell people annwyn is the best place to bash if you dont wanna compete. It does have its other worries tho..... smart guy
Thank you for proving my point about why telling someone they have 'peace of mind' at sea is bad.
We're also going to be doing a larger push on bugs in the next couple of months - IDEAs and bugs often go hand in hand. We try to keep up, especially with major bugs, but it's true that some have definitely slipped through the cracks while we've worked on other things, and it's time we dealt with them. Clearing the backlog isn't one-and-done or we would have been done long ago, but it's admittedly languished somewhat this year. When we have made a big push before, the last time I put projects on hold to really dig deep and cleared probably close to 90% of significant bugs, it took only a couple of weeks for the log to reach approximately the same size. We'll probably never be free of bugs - people are still finding new bugs in parts of the code that are two decades old that have already seen hundreds of nearby bug fixes - but we agree that it's time again to put more effort towards thoroughly combing through the backlog, and hopefully do a bit better going forward.
This doesn't mean that we are going to do a moratorium on new features. We have some things that are already in the pipeline, things already nearly done, and not all of us work on bugs, which means that we can't switch everyone over to bugs, and that those of us who do work on bugs will occasionally have to spend time working on code to enable the plans of those who don't. The good and the bad of this is that, as several of you have pointed out, many of the especially pernicious outstanding bugs are in older content; newer bugs are already easier to fix much of the time since we're more familiar with the code involved, so frankly that doesn't cost us much in terms of more substantial backlog clearing.
Also please remember that this doesn't mean the other options are off the table for the future. Think of them as a snapshot of some of the things we're currently thinking about. They might appear later down the road, they might end up by the wayside, or they might resurface in very different forms. We've been thinking about the dual problem of housing safety for a while now, and we're unlikely to stop thinking about it, nor am I likely to stop thinking about recipes and tradeskills.