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Xenthos · Shadow Lord

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  • (Quote)
    Been a long time since I did these quests (back when the aether epic came out).  I seem to recall that the delay was first in earning their trust, and then after that just sitting around waiting for them to speak excruciatingly s…
  • (Quote) Attached sigils should last until the item they are attached to decays (which makes them permanent if that item never decays).  Flame sigils, for example, now are created with just a couple of RL days decay time.  You can't hold them, have …
  • The differing rate of conflict events, but that is not taking into account the statement that there is more conflict stuff already being worked on (and I know I am waiting for more info on that!).
  • (Quote) This is what I want!
  • (Quote) I don't think most newbies can gather up the comm quest things as fast as people like I can, either.  Fast travel and good celerity really helps with that, as well as being able to survive cavefishers.
  • I have added a report to the system with some of my thoughts and concerns.  I would really appreciate your votes, comments, other ideas-- please let me know here or via a comment on the report!

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    This kind of concerns me.  20 comm quests is still doable, but there are a limited number of comm critters in the game.  Raising it too very much more is going to end up causing different problems.  I'd rather see the other stuff…
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    This is something that I have been trying to stress to the new folk in Glomdoring who have more trouble getting the 20 (though not the entitled part of it).  More along the lines of "Earning any free credits at all is great, get …
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    No, you're fine.  I've had some of the same thoughts myself, and even brought them up myself during testing.  The answer I got was basically "We don't want people to just sit and grind the same stuff the entire time, we want them…
  • You're actually not supposed to be able to get your 20 just by hunting or influencing, by design.  What you're supposed to do is akin to what I posted above; get your ticks in a number of different ways.  And yes, you are pretty much required t…
  • This project seems to have been mostly defunct for a while.  Is there any thought on reviving it now that there is a higher game emphasis on quests?

    I would be more than happy to volunteer time onto it as well, I susp…
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    I am wondering something @Orael (not sure if it should be done, it is just running through my mind and it may not even be resource-feasible).  S…
  • Maybe it should give half rounded up then?  2cr flat seems better at least for these quests; more work, but outside the tiered system so it is easier to cap out using them as a supplement...

    1 just seems too low if yo…
  • I used to repeatedly grind quests for curio pieces.  The moment I no longer needed those pieces I stopped.  I don't find continually doing the same quests to be fun.

    That said, I also don't feel the need to with this …
  • I think it might just be Estelbar (pills) and Shanthmark (betyl leaves or something like that)?  Most of the other villages that have a comm quest thing just do clues, so it does not matter if someone already did the quests- they will just keep spit…
  • I am not sure if you have an alias that overrides it?  Try turning all aliases/triggers off and try a single link.

    They added this in a long time ago for linking to a nexus, then it got expanded to astral nodes.  I ha…
  • My reasoning for Simple Ideas is:
    1) A place for people to grab ideas they like from and post them, or
    2) A place for an admin to say "Hey that sounds really cool and I can pound it out in a couple of minutes, let's do that.…
  • This is what I did today.  It feels pretty sustainable.  Could flip out the domoth with any other tiered option (a quest, another round of comm quests, influencing another 250 points, or whatever).

    You've earned 20 of…
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    Since it's 1 set per village, you kind of have to be done after a while (you're forced to move along).  From my end, it's only worthwhile collecting 60-80 comms I'd say, and do the rest via other means.  Assuming most people end …
  • (Quote) I edited a bit more into that.  Gathering around / a bit before the weave makes a lot of sense, my thought train was less on saying "you shouldn't do that" and more around "if it took more comms than it does now, people would need to …
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    I wouldn't say that's crazy; that's 40 minutes for your first 16.  The last four will theoretically take you more time (if you switch to hunting or influencing).  You can't just not count the time you spent collecting things!
  • A portable psychodrama stage, so you can psychodrama anywhere instead of just at a stage.

    Could be an artifact or an artisan construction.
  • Celest has to do a few gymnastics to work with Glomdoring.  Both Serenwilde and Celest are the most restrictive in terms of ideology. Glomdoring, Magnagora, and Hallifax all have elements of "do whatever it takes to get stronger" (with differen…
  • CULTURE is what I use for general activity ratings (the activity score, go by %age).

    For a long while the general rating has been:
    Magnagora -> Glomdoring -> Gaudiguch -> Serenwilde -> Hallifax/C…
  • I don't think I'd want to see all domoths treated that way, that would be too much.

    Could make War, Death, and Chaos all flux more regularly but be permanently at Crown level and you'd have a cycling set of events on …
  • Chaos is one of the better domoths, actually.  If you made it flux on an RNG 12-24 hour window, but always be at crown level, it would be constant and would be worth nabbing even so (as long as it stays at Crown level no matter what).
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    1) You are the one who chose to use a system with flaws as one of the cornerstones of a new competitive system.
    2) You have the gall to tell me that I should be ashamed?  The sentence should never h…
  • (Quote)
    So wouldn't the correct response be:
    "Our rule for publication precludes this subject matter from being in books," and point to said rule?  Saying "Any reason given for pulling a public writing is out of courtesy only a…
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    I'm not so sure about reserving that right, actually.  Other creative online spaces have been trying to be much more transparent about what they will pull and why, these days.  Whether they succeed or not is up for debate, but th…
  • (Quote) Using a colossus speeds it up a lot when you have 2 or fewer people.  I try to always put one up.