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Year 2020
With the new year coming up, what are some additions, hopes, events, changes or otherwise that you would like to see in Achaea?
Keep it tame please.
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So a generic sketch could be turned into a blank tailoring sketch etc that would be awesome.
Every promo being purchasable IG for gold/credits so I can BUY LEGENDDECK FOR <suit> or whatever. Still a gamble but at least I can narrow it down. Bonus points if they make it so after so many, you get a rarer card.
Or let me use credits for wood I don't have to continue building my estate.
Delete artefacts.
That's all.
I'd really like to go back to the idea that you can get everything in the game by grinding for credits, or buying them to speed that process up. Not the shitshow we have at the moment with Caches / talisman pieces
I'd really like to be 100% guaranteed that if I spent RL money on the game, I actually obtain the item I want.
Putting some tools for events and storytelling in the hands of responsible city/org leaders which allows them to help flesh out the world and take some of the burden away from admins/divine!
As for denizen interactions, I've never undergone training, signed an NDA, or had to read any manuals beyond the publicly available HELP files to use the pet and servant systems.
Story consistency is also not a factor in either as neither are permitted to impact the ever important Achaean canon anyway, stuff like how both of Eleusis's patrons very seriously might be puppet queens under some other force's control, but stop questioning the goddesses of nature, Eleusis.
PS: The city you patron ICly already pioneers the idea of player-controlled NPCs, though they aren't denizens but just background slaves existing only in player emotes and illusions.
Rooms where anyone (of sufficient org status) can do room emotes for rituals.
They already existed, though I don't know if any is still operational.
OT: I would want to see the balancing work continue, as well as the relenting on new talisman sets. Some great steps have been made, but still a long way to go!
For me, I want to finally finish a 500 year war, with an interesting and fun culmination. No guarantees, but I am excited even just for the interest from Mhaldorians to join in and want to crush some mhun throats
The ability to defile shrines again 😭
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
I don't think denizen control is by far the most important thing that could be added, it's just funny to hear that it's "off the table" when it already exists.
Maybe there can be NPC scrappers, scrapping quests, official tournaments or leagues, welfare scrappers to increase interest, and some extensions to the mechanics themselves.
There are times I want to be immersed in the world and there are times where I just want to know what the fuck is going on.
This last week and some, people have had wonderful outlooks, cheery demeanours, and a lot of fun, and that's awesome to see and be around. It's been funner than it has in a good, long while, with people buying in on events/get-togethers, cracking jokes and having pleasant conversations, exchanging gifts, and just generally having a good time.
That kind of thing is a refreshing change of pace from the uptight, wound-up, and often adversarial tone of 4/5 interactions one has in Achaea. Not everything has to be a miserable competition. Even fighting against each other can and should be fun! And it's doable.
On a more personal note, I'd like to see a lot of dangling threads come together into the conclusion of storylines. I feel like we all have a bunch of threads open-ended, and resolutions (even just chapter resolutions, if not necessarily resolutions for the whole storyline) would be satisfying and rewarding, as opposed to almost every recent storyline being left on pause, for the time being. That goes for both personal or factional stories and the big, sweeping, world-wide ones (I know it's a lot of work to put those together, and I appreciate just how gargantuan an effort it must be to herd all these cats. But things kind of fizzling out and ending on a non-conclusion is not the most satisfying of finishes, that's all!).
Mostly, if people remember it's a game, treat it like a game, and are willing to put the urge to do everything OOC for some IC fun, consequence, and story development, I'll be a very happy camper.
Happy holidays, to all of you. And a happy New Year, in advance!
Pets can be customized to be quite robust in their expressiveness, and many people make regular use of them. I know there's a bit of feedback regarding housing servants being unwieldy to use properly and requiring some... creative workarounds to do what should be simple things, but that can absolutely be addressed at some point, I'm sure.
What kind of scope is missing from what currently exists? There's been something of an enduring disinterest in ritualistic things for many years now, and I'm doubtful the absence of tools is the cause for it.
* I realize this might be complicated to implement. Maybe it would not work within x minutes of an aggressive act?
As for the artefacts, though I have the best illusion artefact, I also have a lifevision artefact, so I know how off-putting trying to roleplay an illusion as really happening can look, and so I only really use mine for "actual" illusions if that makes sense.
The lack of canonic sources for ritual instruction can be a bit difficult, at times. There are books, but they're very dense, and they mostly come from other players, in my experience, which is okay, but it lacks the same weight something handed down from a God or a God's servants might (for example, a book written by Ailea might have less cache than a book written by Komari, or someone else, in Mhaldor's case).
A lot of the time, just a little supervision or the central nugget of a tradition provided by a God or God's NPC can spawn hours and hours and hours of effort on PCs' behalf. Like a snowball, it accelerates and grows over time, but the truth is we all play in a game where Gods are canonically meant to be the prime drivers of ours stories and our characters' lives, particularly in Theocracies and in every City, in general. A little event, or a canonical source, or some other small initiating move can really get a big reaction, and an ongoing one.
Colours in ritual rooms are great, but a Lightspire being 'accessible' is a little farcical. Two thousand credits for a strictly RP tool is a big, big pricetag, and I'm not entirely sure even for me (and I've run as many events as I can in the last six months, in all of which I'd love to have added coloured illusions!) it'd be worth it.
ETA: Pets are also very expensive, as an RP resource.
I will say that the most rewarding thing from a player's perspective, for those of us that plan things and try to run events for others, is Admin participation. Note that I say participation, and not lead. The participation in the Rhodestrian expedition, Komari showing for the Mayaween Ball, these things are amazing. I didn't have to coordinate with Komari until the day of, and (s)he was kind enough to provide something very cool, and special, but even just the NPC's appearance and interaction went such, such a long way. Those coded, neat, tangible little things are amazing, and fun, but just having NPCs come to life and breathe that life into events, and into the world, is a huge, huge boost. And it makes a big difference to those people who're trying to get people to participate in things- it's a big boost to morale, and it makes us want to try so many more things, and more ambitious things, to boot.
Tools are less important than presence, I feel, in summary.