All this juicy drama and yet I can't log on to play yet. :S I will have to settle for the IRE toolbar and the forums for sweet, sweet drama.
In the meantime, I have updated 4 guild scrolls today. 4 things off of my list! I'm so pumped! :pompoms:
Viravain, Lady of the Thorns shouts, "And You would seize Me? Fool! I am the Glomdoring! I am the Wyrd, and beneath the cloak of Night, the shadows of the Silent stir!"
As for the whole pathways thing. Im not sure what the gripe is about the pathways to the trill camps being removed. Are people really that lazy to not rockclimb a few steps to get to them? Which by the way WAS in their original design to begin with, and pathways were just a cheat to get there with a press of the button. Honestly it seems the most that are complaining about those pathways being removed are those that didnt have mountaineering to begin with and were circumventing around it (Mostly the newbies sent by Qistrel no doubt). Tough beans...l2Scale or go ahead and make 4+ rifts to these 'unreachable' camps.
Wait, what? You were removing pathways not in retaliation of people harassing you by removing your rifts, but instead because you want to deny some "newbies" (in your own words) access to an area in the game? You want to force them to learn an ability that you feel is in the "original design" of the area because... it's a "cheat" otherwise?
Pray tell, how did you know that was the "original design"? Did you perhaps make the area? Or did the builder of that area complain to you about how people are "circumventing" the mechanic they so painstakingly thought up and implemented? Did I miss a notice that you have somehow, ICly or OOCly claimed that area as your own?
Your arrogance and hubris is stunning. I have to tip my hat off to you, Arcanis. Good job, because you've left me speechless. This is the first paragraph outside of academic essays I've had to re-read so many times in order to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding.
I haven't told anyone about this, because I was rather upset about the whole thing, but I actually had mapped out nearly all of Lusternia's pathways, and was going to start up a 'Pathfinder Society' type clan with help scrolls listing the networks, for young trackers and ecologists to help them get the best use out of the Hunting skillset. Was intended as a sort of 'pay-it-forward' in thanks to whomever it was who set up the old mystic pathways that gave me access to all the trill camps and the cloud maelstrom, which were the places I influenced constantly from about level 97 to demigod. I thought it would be really nice if someone could follow in my footsteps.
But apparently me doing nice things for people is not allowed, especially those who are newer players than me, and much of the network is now gone. But it's fine, because I am now playing a fink monk that doesn't influence or use pathways, so no one can upset me by destroying them anymore.
EDIT: This is not me attempting to bash Arcanis or anything. I just wanted to set the idea free, in case someone else decided to take it up, because I won't be doing it now.
As for the whole pathways thing. Im not sure what the gripe is about the pathways to the trill camps being removed. Are people really that lazy to not rockclimb a few steps to get to them? Which by the way WAS in their original design to begin with, and pathways were just a cheat to get there with a press of the button. Honestly it seems the most that are complaining about those pathways being removed are those that didnt have mountaineering to begin with and were circumventing around it (Mostly the newbies sent by Qistrel no doubt). Tough beans...l2Scale or go ahead and make 4+ rifts to these 'unreachable' camps.
Pray tell, how did you know that was the "original design"? Did you perhaps make the area? Or did the builder of that area complain to you about how people are "circumventing" the mechanic they so painstakingly thought up and implemented? Did I miss a notice that you have somehow, ICly or OOCly claimed that area as your own?
.....because they were placed up in the mountains that required mountain climbing to get to...? Cant be more obvious than that.
As for the whole pathways thing. Im not sure what the gripe is about the pathways to the trill camps being removed. Are people really that lazy to not rockclimb a few steps to get to them? Which by the way WAS in their original design to begin with, and pathways were just a cheat to get there with a press of the button. Honestly it seems the most that are complaining about those pathways being removed are those that didnt have mountaineering to begin with and were circumventing around it (Mostly the newbies sent by Qistrel no doubt). Tough beans...l2Scale or go ahead and make 4+ rifts to these 'unreachable' camps.
Your arrogance and hubris is stunning. I have to tip my hat off to you, Arcanis. Good job, because you've left me speechless. This is the first paragraph outside of academic essays I've had to re-read so many times in order to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding.
Dont seem so speechless from here.
No, the sending of newbies to high tier areas was not the only reason for their removal, but once again I have no need or requirement to explain my actions. I will carry on my merry way.
By your logic, pathways having the possibility of existing in these rockclimb-villages means that it is appropriate for any lowbie to demigod+ to access the camps.
I don't care what you do, as long as you actually own up to being a douchebag instead of trying to justify it with flimsy garbage like that.
You know what the best birthday present in the whole wide Lusternia world would be?
@Maylea returning from wherever She has been hiding Herself. I MISS YOU!
But I will gratefully accept the smaller, yet still fantastic present, of a random hug. Whoever you are, random person, please give me a hug in game! It would be a lovely birthday present!
"You are so much bigger than you think you are," She says, fervently. "You are a beacon of hope that shines through the world with every step you take. You are My beacon, Gabriella, and you shine even into the darkest of nightmares."
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The air sparkles with silver motes of light as a silken voice says, "You will see growth and strength where others will see weakness. You will walk with Us as a paragon of Serenwilde's power, for you have already walked this path before."
All right, this whole rift nonsense is going too far. I'm fixing part of the problem, and Nil will have no wrath like mine if a certain someone takes them down again.
Because it was in response to Taevyn unraveling Mag rifts...because you were using them to get to Icewynd to defile Terentia shrines...because you've been destroying pathways...because Mag making an ultimatum like that is going to be a. laughed at and b. rile everyone up into raid and absolve mode.
Nothing unifies more than people acting superior and making demands. Look at Caerlyr and Glomdoring, for example. Or Celest when it was pounding Magnagora into the ground last year and being smug about it.
Because it was in response to Taevyn unraveling Mag rifts...because you were using them to get to Icewynd to defile Terentia shrines...because you've been destroying pathways...because Mag making an ultimatum like that is going to be a. laughed at and b. rile everyone up into raid and absolve mode.
Yeah it's totally all Magnagora's fault. /sarcasm
You can just not put shrines in hard to reach places, or perhaps don't destroy one rift which benefits many just because you don't like what one person is using is for. Rifts don't defile shrines, people do. Once again, arrogance rears up behind delusional self-entitlement and selfishness.
Mag wants rifts for newbies to go up to Earth and Nil if they're Cacos/ur'gies/ninjas and expects nobody to touch them while also being generally vile in diplomacy
Everiine said: The reason population is low isn't because there are too many orgs. It's because so many facets of the game are outright broken and protected by those who benefit from it being that way. An overabundance of gimmicks (including game-breaking ones), artifacts that destroy any concept of balance, blatant pay-to-win features, and an obsession with convenience that makes few things actually worthwhile all contribute to the game's sad decline.
I resent the implications that all Magnagorans are bad at diplomacy. Marcella has always been awful at politics and diplomacy and has often required being talked down by council in the past because she is hotheaded....but then I remember she actually represents us and can get away with that bullshit now and I quietly weep in my private corner of decorum and good breeding.
A bright light surrounds your spirit as it floats unfettered from your body. You see an image of Saoirse as though through a long corridor. Quickly, you fly towards her, feeling a new body knit itself around you until you are reborn into the world of flesh and blood.
A sadistic mitran slams one end of a baseless scale into you. You have been slain by a sadistic mitran. 0h, 7271m, 6120e, 10p Belrx (xhspfwb - PAUSED!) (-50000exp)<22:38:13.931>
<<Or maybe I will just have bad luck and not have time to even recast windwalk and fly>>
What I meant to say is that people with an actual cool head on their shoulders are either very quiet or repressed by the overwhelming stench of testosterone in Magnagora.
What I meant to say is that people with an actual cool head on their shoulders are either very quiet or repressed by the overwhelming stench of testosterone in Magnagora.
What about those with cool heads and a heady testosterone aura to boot?
I am so confused as how people can come to conclusions like these.
I think someone needs to take a break on the forum RP and focus on things within their own control before it continues to devolve to blanket statements insulting 1/6th of the population.
2014/04/19 01:38:01 - Leolamins drained 2000000 power to raise Silvanus as a Vernal Ascendant.
2014/07/23 05:01:29 - Silvanus drained 2000000 power to raise Munsia as a Vernal Ascendant.
2015/05/24 06:03:07 - Silvanus drained 2000000 power to raise Arimisia as a Vernal Ascendant.
2015/05/24 06:03:58 - Silvanus drained 2000000 power to raise Lavinya as a Vernal Ascendant.
I am so confused as how people can come to conclusions like these.
I think someone needs to take a break on the forum RP and focus on things within their own control before it continues to devolve to blanket statements insulting 1/6th of the population.
(If you're still not getting it, I'm saying the shitty part of Mag is the loudest and it's reflecting for everyone to see regardless of what everyone else is like there. Sorry not sorry for putting pressure on you OOC via forums to change that.)
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In the meantime, I have updated 4 guild scrolls today. 4 things off of my list! I'm so pumped! :pompoms:
Pray tell, how did you know that was the "original design"? Did you perhaps make the area? Or did the builder of that area complain to you about how people are "circumventing" the mechanic they so painstakingly thought up and implemented? Did I miss a notice that you have somehow, ICly or OOCly claimed that area as your own?
Your arrogance and hubris is stunning. I have to tip my hat off to you, Arcanis. Good job, because you've left me speechless. This is the first paragraph outside of academic essays I've had to re-read so many times in order to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding.
But apparently me doing nice things for people is not allowed, especially those who are newer players than me, and much of the network is now gone. But it's fine, because I am now playing a fink monk that doesn't influence or use pathways, so no one can upset me by destroying them anymore.
EDIT: This is not me attempting to bash Arcanis or anything. I just wanted to set the idea free, in case someone else decided to take it up, because I won't be doing it now.
.....because they were placed up in the mountains that required mountain climbing to get to...? Cant be more obvious than that.
Dont seem so speechless from here.
No, the sending of newbies to high tier areas was not the only reason for their removal, but once again I have no need or requirement to explain my actions. I will carry on my merry way.
I don't care what you do, as long as you actually own up to being a douchebag instead of trying to justify it with flimsy garbage like that.
Ixion tells you, "// I don't think anyone else had a clue, amazing form."
As Tremula says, I'll start a new thread about this instead.
Ixion tells you, "// I don't think anyone else had a clue, amazing form."
PUBLIC NEWS #1683
Date: 2/7/2015 at 21:47
From: ur'Marshal Marcella n'Lochli, Warlady of Magnagora
To : Everyone
Subj: Crystal Meadows II
You now have no one to blame but yourselves.
Penned by my hand on the 7th of Roarkian, in the year 404 CE.
Swing a miss. Why, dear Maligorn, is it she posted that to begin with..?
Vive l'apostrophe!
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I didn't mean literally. I completely undermined my entire post with that remark, woe.
1h, 7271m, 6120e, 10p Belrx (xhspfwb - PAUSED!) (+1h)<22:38:13.005>
<<Oh, this was nice.>>
A sadistic mitran slams one end of a baseless scale into you.
You have been slain by a sadistic mitran.
0h, 7271m, 6120e, 10p Belrx (xhspfwb - PAUSED!) (-50000exp)<22:38:13.931>
<<Or maybe I will just have bad luck and not have time to even recast windwalk and fly>>
What I meant to say is that people with an actual cool head on their shoulders are either very quiet or repressed by the overwhelming stench of testosterone in Magnagora.
E.g. they're quiet but efficient and discreet murderlizers.
I think someone needs to take a break on the forum RP and focus on things within their own control before it continues to devolve to blanket statements insulting 1/6th of the population.