Honestly I'd rather see all buffs excluded so things CAN be fair. Because having it for the living just excludes Magnagora. At least a Mag bard can make the living seem undead for it. Or things like the spire of dionamus that helps everyone except hinders Magnagora. It wouldn't be classed as cheating, but I wouldn't call it fair either.
EDIT: By buffs I mean quest buffs that aren't available to everyone ie karma blessings.
It's called tactics, and planning ahead. Ask the winners of all the seals thus far how much pre-planning went into the competition for them, and I'd be very very surprised to hear very little. Things like unravelling gates perhaps, pre-bashing/influencing to get respawn timers locked down, domoth blessings, quest buffs gained in advance, pyramid points and demigod anchors set, pits set, hermit tarot cards activated...shouldn't they be considered cheating too?
I'm not saying it is cheating, because obviously it's not. I'm just not particularly interested in gloating about it.
"Chairwoman," Princess Setisoki states, holding up a hand in a gesture for her to stop and returning the cup. "That would be quite inappropriate. One of the males will serve me."
Meh, just make everyone human for the duration of the seal and bar all abilities except debating skills, fast-talking and attitudes to break fasttalking. Problem solved!
(Yes, I'm being a bit too-obviously tongue-in-cheek *dons flame-proof armor*)
Never put passion before principle. Even if you win, you lose.
If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
If flagging me for "policing" you makes you feel justified, so be it, but the discussion was not very civil, in my opinion. The flag option is there to help call these things to the admins' attention. You don't like it, that's your own problem. I'm not misusing flags, but I will admit that I did abuse them for a while.
If flagging me for "policing" you makes you feel justified, so be it, but the discussion was not very civil, in my opinion. The flag option is there to help call these things to the admins' attention. You don't like it, that's your own problem. I'm not misusing flags, but I will admit that I did abuse them for a while.
In general threads like this one, topics meander, and they're entitled to. It's not really your job to decide when others have said enough. I understand what you're trying to do, but you're falling into Hall Monitor territory. It is compounded by the fact that you often flag exchanges you're not even participating in, which makes you this aloof nemesis figure - hence all the flags you're currently getting.
It's more about the general practice than today's instance. You just don't actually post much, but now finally the tide of off-topic revenge can flow back in your direction. Same with the 'take a joke' yesterday. The joke is the flags. Anyway. Back on topic...
My Tweet: Warm fuzzies in Hallifax are so awkward, like being enthusiastically embraced by a sticky child. cringe/melt/cringe/melt
Not going to comment either way on whether it's good strategy or being dickish, but - for what it's worth, I really regret that I raised it for undead. That represents a giant compromise of my roleplay and one that I am exceptionally uncomfortable with, and although I felt under pressure to do so that was no reason to cave. I do not like the idea of being a person who puts benefits/buffs/that sort of thing before roleplay and today I absolutely did that.
I basically just wanted to put that apology out there. Please resume tweeting, sorry for the slightly less than positive derail
Being dickish isn't getting a monopoly on a buff for a contest that comes once a RL year where min/maxing and planning is employed by those who take it seriously.
No, being dickish is locking a guild out of an event that is related to them and hurling them abuse.
The divine voice
of Avechna, the Avenger reverberates powerfully, "Congratulations,
Morkarion, you are the Bringer of Death indeed."
You see Estarra the Eternal shout, "Morkarion is no more! Mourn the mortal! But welcome True Ascendant Karlach, of the Realm of Death!
-shrug-. Minstrel GM gets to be rude and ornery, but all the attitude is thrown at the person running around and using minor/majorsixth power to get things done. It's academic now, the stein has passed hands and now this can be a Minstrel-only thing.
No, being dickish is locking a guild out of an event that is related to them and hurling them abuse.
I didn't mean to get the object. I'm a bard and all the Voice quests are of great interest to me so I was tagging along. I greeted the guy and agreed to the quest not knowing that doing so would block anyone else. I couldn't have known it was a one-person deal.
Synkarin had to go, so I made a squad and kept the guild members with me, telling them every clue... right up until the point when Eritheyl showed up. I stopped so he could join us, he arrived on the scene and called me a witch's tit and refused to help before even hearing what was going on. Well, I wasn't really interested in that. I still informed the guild when I'd finished one leg of the running-around bit so they could see what happened.
Apparently it's been changed so it can be done by anyone, and I turned over the stein as soon as I was informed of that. I thought it had to be me since I started the quest. All's well now, enjoy.
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.
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EDIT: By buffs I mean quest buffs that aren't available to everyone ie karma blessings.
If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
The divine voice of Avechna, the Avenger reverberates powerfully, "Congratulations, Morkarion, you are the Bringer of Death indeed."
You see Estarra the Eternal shout, "Morkarion is no more! Mourn the mortal! But welcome True Ascendant Karlach, of the Realm of Death!
Seriously, quit trying to police people, that's the admin's job.
The divine voice of Avechna, the Avenger reverberates powerfully, "Congratulations, Morkarion, you are the Bringer of Death indeed."
You see Estarra the Eternal shout, "Morkarion is no more! Mourn the mortal! But welcome True Ascendant Karlach, of the Realm of Death!
"A man's not dead while his name is still spoken." - Terry Pratchett 1948-2015
The divine voice of Avechna, the Avenger reverberates powerfully, "Congratulations, Morkarion, you are the Bringer of Death indeed."
You see Estarra the Eternal shout, "Morkarion is no more! Mourn the mortal! But welcome True Ascendant Karlach, of the Realm of Death!
About 4 posts above this, more specifically.
In general threads like this one, topics meander, and they're entitled to. It's not really your job to decide when others have said enough. I understand what you're trying to do, but you're falling into Hall Monitor territory. It is compounded by the fact that you often flag exchanges you're not even participating in, which makes you this aloof nemesis figure - hence all the flags you're currently getting.
Vive l'apostrophe!
My Tweet:
Warm fuzzies in Hallifax are so awkward, like being enthusiastically embraced by a sticky child. cringe/melt/cringe/melt
Vive l'apostrophe!
06/30/2014 19:37 Silvanus channels the power of the Megalith of Doom for you, stripping you of your Vernal Ascendant status.......bastard!!
No, being dickish is locking a guild out of an event that is related to them and hurling them abuse.
The divine voice of Avechna, the Avenger reverberates powerfully, "Congratulations, Morkarion, you are the Bringer of Death indeed."
You see Estarra the Eternal shout, "Morkarion is no more! Mourn the mortal! But welcome True Ascendant Karlach, of the Realm of Death!
I'd really suggest getting more context on that before, in turn, being dickish on the forums.
The divine voice of Avechna, the Avenger reverberates powerfully, "Congratulations, Morkarion, you are the Bringer of Death indeed."
You see Estarra the Eternal shout, "Morkarion is no more! Mourn the mortal! But welcome True Ascendant Karlach, of the Realm of Death!
Synkarin had to go, so I made a squad and kept the guild members with me, telling them every clue... right up until the point when Eritheyl showed up. I stopped so he could join us, he arrived on the scene and called me a witch's tit and refused to help before even hearing what was going on. Well, I wasn't really interested in that. I still informed the guild when I'd finished one leg of the running-around bit so they could see what happened.
Apparently it's been changed so it can be done by anyone, and I turned over the stein as soon as I was informed of that. I thought it had to be me since I started the quest. All's well now, enjoy.
Vive l'apostrophe!
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I'm just helping police the board.