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Agreed on city landmarks. Drives me insane that there's no standardization. Magportals, magnexus, magshops(directory), magalchemy, etc. Apply it to all orgs. Because necrowarehouse,dark portals, magstables... Granted, a lot of stuff is necro something, so maybe I'm just a whiner. But (shortorgname) (standard name) for the things all orgs have would be great.

Just to touch one a few things with a Magnagoran perspective:

- Beasts- If you're looking for something with a little more flavor than a standard pony, nightmares are easily accessible for Magnagorans, and you can probably chase down a geomancer willing to help you get your hands on a taint wyrm. There's also a pretty good chance folks are willing to sell you some other things within your price range if you ask around in the city or college channels. 

- As far as enchants and supplies, we try to keep stocked on most of the necessities but, if you can't find something you need, ask in city or college and it's pretty likely someone can either point you to it, find it for you, or will just send you one outright. 

- For population and conversation, Mag is pretty active these days, so if you're seeing tumbleweeds in the streets you might just be on a different schedule than most of us. It's also possible there are a bunch of people around you can't see, because aetherhunts have been popular lately and folks might be off-plane.

We do have a few clans- IHC is the alliance chat mostly used for combat coordination and various other things. We also have the Legion, which is the Magnagora specific clan for anything you need regarding combat. We do have an OOC chat channel, mostly for questions you can't phrase IC, but it hasn't seen much use in awhile. We won't automatically invite everyone right off the bat, to avoid overwhelming novices, but if you ask over the city chat, someone will get you invited to whichever you want ASAP. 

If you're just looking for socialization, try visiting the Megalith. It tends to be where most people congregate when they aren't off doing something else, and its a good place to strike up a conversation. 

Having not played the game in maybe ten years, I’ve found people to be individually helpful but most of my early goals have been a little frustrated.

First, general stuff.  There’s no prompt by default because the new player experience is made for nexus or something.  Connecting through Mudlet, if I hadn’t remembered the config menu, that would have been pretty weird.

Second, beastmastery.  It seems as if the list of possible pets has not grown much in ten years and insofar as it has, most of the critters in the list cost 400ag (formerly dingbats, I think?) or hundreds of thousands of gold.  For newbies, we still have only the pony in Estelbar [sic].

Shouldn’t we have (probably not mountable, by default) dogs, cats, lizards, birds, priced at newbie levels and not only expensive things for established players, plus the Estelbar pony?

Third, accessibility of enchants and supplies.  Finding my way to the aethershop hub, which a new player would not know exists to begin with, there was no avaricehorn on sale to Magnagorans.  I feel as if someone or something should make all basic and quality of life things consistently available for newbies.  In Aetolia you automatically pick up corpses and gold, in Lusternia you need an enchant for that, then I find out that I can’t buy it.  Pretty convoluted and frustrating in comparison.  I decided to learn enchanting to help me avoid this problem but that just led me to other issues.

Relatedly, I had a plot to make newbie gold by using piper horn but it appears to be that 1% reserves = 1 rat which is not really worth the time even as a newbie.  It was kind of a waste of lessons, why not make everything useful?

Also related, I wanted to pokeball my planned beastmastery pony but I was told that the skill doesn’t work.  This is literally the very first skill in a generally available trade skillset and it doesn’t work.

Fourth, populations in some cities are small, alliance clans exist, but I’m not getting inducted into the clans on any of my characters, so there is no socializing happening.

Fifth, in Aetolia the landmarks system will take you to stuff specific to your city when you type in something like “path find shops”.  In Lusternia, you have to type in obscure city-specific names like “darkportals” and so-on.  I feel as if new people should be able to just go shops, which would take them to the main shops hub, from which everything should be available to new players.

In conclusion, I feel as if content is not set up well for new players.  It’s a shame since the great lore and interesting skills of Lusternia are all still there, it’s just that actually using them is another question.

For those who have played it, I absolutely headcanon Mysrai's "strangely echoing voice" as Chaos' voice from Supergiant's Hades.

As a bard with a tam and all the trades available to me, I have to agree, and I am often reluctant to flex out of low magic just to tinker for 10 minutes. I also lament that lorecraft is only available in 2 orgs (at least cosmic/elemental enchantment is 4), though thankfully there are less 'vital' needs in it than before due to less cures being needed, or i lament how few tattooists exist (can we sell temporary tattoos in shops yet please?).

I assume the balance perspective is surrounding the trans skill more than access to the other abilities. Would it really break the game if everyone had access to every trade, regardless of their class or org? I know the flavour doesn't support this, but what would actually be the real downside? Is there one? Can it be fixed?