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Bitch at the admins if you don't like that reality.
Players using that lazy reasoning is the bigger problem and that is squarely on the players not the admin.
Guess Silas was right, Rory really is useless.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
An Alliance, of sorts?
If you retire this character, you will receive 18215 transfer credits for use on a new character.
Smh
But I'm not blaming cities for doing that, because besides being "lazy and uninteresting", it also makes perfect sense. Like many "lazy" choices.
→My Mudlet Scripts
The conclave is referenced in reading, there’s history of them doing important things, but since my character’s creation, the only successful thing they’ve done that is still been successful has been Hycanthus’ retaking of Cyrene. Impact of said Conclave has been minimal and they are just... there. When the call out was done for potential replacements to Maklak, I had legitimately confused Maklak as being the idiot who had subverted the Tsol’teth barrier. As someone who just digs into ongoing things for story, this felt very low impact. Again, nothing about this felt serious in the now, other than it being like a magi country club.
The biggest issue to me has been that it has felt incredibly low-stakes. Immersion is the ability to feel myself getting sucked into needing to participate to have a greater impact, but from day dot it’s had no real “oomf”. A referendum, election into what has been bashing things somewhat related to the candidates, but nothing from the candidates themselves. Perhaps Yudhi could have told us the importance of a fifth member? Perhaps more insight into how magically inclined? Do we even NEED a fifth? These are things that may be answered in reading old news posts, but that doesn’t help build tension or a sense of danger or urgency. The mobs are contained to their areas, no real disruption, nothing really more than things like legion rifts in WoW. They are there, kill they ass.
This is where some guidance would have been immense. We didn’t know what was coming up, but if players had been in the 5, would they need to make it to specific events? Would it be feasible? Should we attempt it or stick to npcs, that can be safely guided when potential or direction are lacking. What if our player candidate went dormant half way through? Potentially, with 0 information to go off of, and no sense of political necessity or danger, most of the event just sort of... happened. Targ and Cyrene’s spat before the event had more sense of tension to it than the whole event, and unfortunately fizzled BECAUSE of the event.
This is only my opinion, but at no point did this seem like anything I, as a character, should care about. People say having X on the conclave would be great but... Again, the fuck has the conclave done that warrants such prestige or claim? Blowing up chunk of an occupied city, making a rather mediocre barrier... Such low stakes to try and motivate oneself to care about. For something called the Reckoning, it seems more like a popularity contest where instead of votes you gather maguffins.
Mechanically, it’s a simple grind, with interesting bosses the first time, and then back to grinding. A few minor additions that, again, felt like a damn job interview than anything with any discernable stakes. The grind has been tedious and unrewarding, the bosses respawning makes them feel even more like just daily quests reskinned, while also trying to do daily quests to cap renown. I’m just not sure what was placed on the drawing board vs how it became this. If the event was intended to just be a slap-dash last minute thing, why not just push a conflict via a few dead factional npcs? Important ones, with clues left that assassins from other factions were sent. You could tweak the same grinding to boss mechanics, but also add potential intrigue to solve, planted things to raise aggression directly between factions, then swap things around.
Other than the bosses and the small interactions here and there, the event has been a very resounding meh. After it ends, things will just be back to the same as before, nothing will come of all this work and a conclave of powerful magi end up looking like some boring old fatcats who just wanted to be entertained.
Fair enough some people have been immersed in the event, but as someone who prefers to have the story, threats and tension unfold in the act, this has been a very resounding “meh”. I’ve no reason before to give a shit about the conclave, and I still don’t have any reason.
At least ya’ll kept the 100% xp. That’s been a better event than the... you know, event.
From Telaan's application:
Additional notes: The identity of the 'fool' who destroyed your extremely well-fashioned barrier is known to certain members of my organisation. We are willing to part with this information should it prove beneficial.
I mean I totally get why you couldn't/didn't back Telaan. But yeah, argument goes both ways really.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the tension had fizzled before the event. The level 2 tank on Cyrene was Targ's response, and failing anything further from Cyrene (very unlikely) that was it.
Yeah, pretty much. I've been raided by Mhashtan. An insignificant retaliatory raid by Cyrene after they gave us a level 2 tank doesn't even register, sorry.