The Mhaldor Thread.

Katzchen

Blackwind, and I'd assume astral form works fine for exploring too. You won't get it all that way though. Sewers were out of bounds to non citizens before the martial law was in place, and there are locked areas. But then househalls and such are explorable areas, and you won't get all those unless you're very sneaky.

Sherazad

I don't think he was serpent but that was so funny. Lol.

Arlanda

Hurrah for lifting martial law. Pity I still can't visit the shops there... but for those who can I'm sure it's nice

Tvistor

Martial law gave me more reasons to yell at people. RIP martial law.

Ruth

It was disconcerting for citizens when we finally lifted martial law in North K- I mean, Mhaldor.

Poor @Kaevan though, whom I will nag at to break his back to keep the shop stocked enough!

Woong

Oh, they lifted martial law?

There goes any hope I had of finding vitality refills.

Katzchen

@Ruth work him overtime, we need vitality refills available at all times!

Synbios

Ruth said:

It was disconcerting for citizens when we finally lifted martial law in North K- I mean, Mhaldor. Poor @Kaevan though, whom I will nag at to break his back to keep the shop stocked enough!

All hail Great Leader Kim Xeno-il.

Jules

So, anyone not enemied can shop there now?  Cyrenians lured in by cheap slave-labor goods and lycopod salad won't be slaughtered?  Or... not?

Nellaundra

Mhaldor/Cyrene mutual ban

Jules

Ah, no biggie - back in the day you certainly could, but I've no problem with us continuing to be true enemies.  

Blujixapug

Skye said:

Wattsee said:

As for the Mhaldorian themed wares, I fully support the general rules regarding things for sale within Mhaldor be somehow connected. Having more variety might be a good idea if people are becoming bored with it, but that can also be a personal battle made by Mhaldorians. Wear different things, it might soon become the new norm for Mhaldor.

Mhaldor has had horrible choices in clothes since Katia stopped actively stocking. I'm just saying. I think it's perfectly possible to dress without leather, spikes / metal bits, black / red and still be evil.

99% of shop-sold or publicly listed tailoring in Achaea looks (reads) like someone was designing for their Gaia avatar. No exaggeration. If Mhaldor is as bad as you say it's no exception to the rest of the game.

All offense intended to every tailor who reads this.

I was like "yeah I'll make and sell decent clothes!" when I got my tailoring license, but after writing a pair of pants quickly discovered I couldn't be bothered.

Nellaundra

The commas...the commas...

Aepas

Nellaundra said:

The commas,the commas,

Herenicus

Hey, everybody! Just wanted to add that, in my experience, the small population and militant playerbase made enjoyment difficult for those who didn't get their kicks raiding or being raided. I recall a time when it was considered treason to roleplay an interest in sailing or exploration. Anything that diminished the size of a potential raiding crew was sniffed at as being wrong. This contributed to a dumbing-down and dwindling of an already-small playerbase.

Achilles

Skye said:

Wattsee said:

As for the Mhaldorian themed wares, I fully support the general rules regarding things for sale within Mhaldor be somehow connected. Having more variety might be a good idea if people are becoming bored with it, but that can also be a personal battle made by Mhaldorians. Wear different things, it might soon become the new norm for Mhaldor.

Mhaldor has had horrible choices in clothes since Katia stopped actively stocking. I'm just saying. I think it's perfectly possible to dress without leather, spikes / metal bits, black / red and still be evil.

This is what I picture everyone walking around wearing.

Edit: they even have a pirate

Xer

@Herenicus I'm glad to say that's changed somewhat since then, at least from what I've observed - Moar sailing soon @Ruth? When I'm not busy doing my gazillion other duties? <.<

Katzchen

@Achilles that's what we dress the badly behaved slaves in. It's called 'torture via public humiliation'

Achilles

do you guys make them play dodgeball (with decapitated heads of course)?

Katzchen

No. We make them play 'sit down, and shut up, while I chop your head off'

Tvistor

Ugh, someone CF Katzchen.

Sherazad

Herenicus said:

Hey, everybody! Just wanted to add that, in my experience, the small population and militant playerbase made enjoyment difficult for those who didn't get their kicks raiding or being raided. I recall a time when it was considered treason to roleplay an interest in sailing or exploration. Anything that diminished the size of a potential raiding crew was sniffed at as being wrong. This contributed to a dumbing-down and dwindling of an already-small playerbase.

That does sound bad, although I don't really see that these days. I also think that our culture ministry is more active than our war ministry. We do get lots of action still.

Lodi

@Herenicus Things are changing loads for the better. There are lots of us working hard to expand Mhaldor's cultural sense of self away from pure combat. I've said this so many times before, but Mhaldor fades whenever the 'combat-is-the-only-thing-that-matters' ethos becomes dominant. You should come back mate, we could do with a splash of old-school class. Though I imagine your having to much fun with the art crowed these days.

Sherazad

Mhaldor having a small player base and being militant aren't really the issues I can see with the city right now. I would elaborate more but Mhaldorians are required to sign a NDA about our problems and I actually live in Asia where most of us are and I fear for my family's life.

Halios

Lodi said:

@Herenicus Things are changing loads for the better. There are lots of us working hard to expand Mhaldor's cultural sense of self away from pure combat. I've said this so many times before, but Mhaldor fades whenever the 'combat-is-the-only-thing-that-matters' ethos becomes dominant. You should come back mate, we could do with a splash of old-school class. Though I imagine your having to much fun with the art crowed these days.

It's really not about combat vs. art vs. bashers vs. whatever.

It's about singular mindsets. I came up in the Naga when the only mindset was pking/raiding.

It had its problems, and so will the current mindset if the trend continues past equity.

There need to be opportunities and paths for advancement which allow players to focus on the facets of achaean life that they enjoy, not the ones that are embraced by the current leadership.

That has been the biggest problem I think in a historical sense with regards to Mhaldor, not one specific type of path.

I think the true problem is that attitude that surfaces in a cyclical sense whereby one group feels disenfranchised, they work their ass off to get power/institute the changes they feel will help, then in doing so they focus so much on their own path/way of life that they in turn disenfranchise those they felt oppressed them in the first place.

It's like a series of military coups over and over.

There really needs to be a distinct path in every house that allows for linear advancement based on whatever the person chooses to do, and there needs to be representation at the top level (council of a city) from each walk of life/path.

Lodi

@Halios Totally agree. I'm guessing I didn't make myself clear enough with my previous post, but what you just wrote was exactly what I was trying to get at.  

Tvistor

I just like being involved in everything that isn't excessive paperwork.

Tagg

While late, you guys didn't lift martial law.

You lifted marital law.

Kaevan, your typos

Rangor

I like defending from exterminations. Plz raise more exterm bots.

Halios

Lodi said:

@Halios Totally agree. I'm guessing I didn't make myself clear enough with my previous post, but what you just wrote was exactly what I was trying to get at.  

Yea I figured you were approaching a sense of moderation but it's just a psychological trick where sometimes when you present a dynamic that exists between a past over-representation of say, A, then the goal, of say, B, it's easy for a reader to disparage A and over-correct in a sense towards B.

Might have been redundant in a sense, but I think it's really needed to drive the point home that singular mentality = bad, all-inclusiveness = good.