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Re: Unpopular Opinion: Lusternia Edition
I would say immersion more so, but roleplay too.Lavinya said:OOC channels are seriously detrimental to roleplay.
(I say this as someone in a few who uses them but - I stand by it. RP is better when everything is IC)
I play MUDs to get lost in them, and their vast text worlds that can span and sprawl more elastically with my own mental imagining. Going without increases your sense of solitude and isolation, but that is precisely why I'd rather go without.
Jolanthe
7
Re: Unpopular Opinion: Lusternia Edition
OOC channels are markedly less opt-in when they become the primary communication method for your org and/or the only way you can reasonably get support for things in game. (learning combat, etc)
Saran
6
Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet
Crow users somewhat have to deal with being undead flagged but the mechanics on it are confusing and sometimes contradictory.Lycidas said:If there were more places that could be undead (not faked with artifact or necroscream) then it wouldn't be so odd.
Crek
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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet
The eaf quest is great, the mini-puzzles in there are fun. And the eaf reward of course! It's a shame more people don't do it, potential diplomatic incidents notwithstanding.
Dys
2
Re: Unpopular Opinion: Lusternia Edition
Agreed. I think roleplay improves when we are more immersed! I certainly put more effort into it when I'm not also chatting glibly elsewhere.Jolanthe said:I would say immersion more so, but roleplay too.Lavinya said:OOC channels are seriously detrimental to roleplay.
(I say this as someone in a few who uses them but - I stand by it. RP is better when everything is IC)
I play MUDs to get lost in them, and their vast text worlds that can span and sprawl more elastically with my own mental imagining. Going without increases your sense of solitude and isolation, but that is precisely why I'd rather go without.
Lavinya
5
Re: Unpopular Opinion: Lusternia Edition
OOC channels are seriously detrimental to roleplay.
(I say this as someone in a few who uses them but - I stand by it. RP is better when everything is IC)
(I say this as someone in a few who uses them but - I stand by it. RP is better when everything is IC)
Lavinya
14
Re: Unpopular Opinion: Lusternia Edition
There are certain people who think they should never be killed, and if they are killed then they "nerf" the enemy skill because it obviously can't be balanced.
Innon
3
Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet
Yeah sure I'll come raid vs when I get left behind and murdered
Aydeksa
5
Current Warriors - What works and what doesn't?
So a few years ago warriors had a major ground-up redesigned. I was wondering what aspects of new warriors people felt were successful and what aspects they would have liked to keep from old warriors?
My personal opinion is that old warriors only really suffered fundamentally from the following:
- Hard to standardize because of large variability in rune investment and racial disparities (solved in overhaul)
- Miss rate (Solved in overhaul)
- Lots of useless unhelpful affs (Not really solved all that mich in the overhaul).
Just prior to the overhaul I felt like they were in a gokd place. Obviously needed further balancing but that would be facilitated by some of the changes above.
What I really liked and miss are:
- Universal head-based instakills
- Swing vs Strike mechanics
- Devastating affs once wounds pile on
- The ratio of wounds to health healing and timing
- I actually liked the RNG. It favoured upper tier warriors, but if we had equalizer everyone to be closer to upper tier warriors (as the overhaul ended up doing anyway) it would have been fine.
- Warrior lines - Very varied based on health, and affs had a very graphic and visceral feel.
- RIP cavalier heft
Now I'm sure a return to old Warriors would never happen but if there were elements you could add back, what would they be?
My personal opinion is that old warriors only really suffered fundamentally from the following:
- Hard to standardize because of large variability in rune investment and racial disparities (solved in overhaul)
- Miss rate (Solved in overhaul)
- Lots of useless unhelpful affs (Not really solved all that mich in the overhaul).
Just prior to the overhaul I felt like they were in a gokd place. Obviously needed further balancing but that would be facilitated by some of the changes above.
What I really liked and miss are:
- Universal head-based instakills
- Swing vs Strike mechanics
- Devastating affs once wounds pile on
- The ratio of wounds to health healing and timing
- I actually liked the RNG. It favoured upper tier warriors, but if we had equalizer everyone to be closer to upper tier warriors (as the overhaul ended up doing anyway) it would have been fine.
- Warrior lines - Very varied based on health, and affs had a very graphic and visceral feel.
- RIP cavalier heft
Now I'm sure a return to old Warriors would never happen but if there were elements you could add back, what would they be?
Rivius
4
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