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.
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!"
I can finally say that I now understand how the architecture concept of Continuum works and am able to navigate it, and I have one thing to say:
Really...? was the over-complication really necessary? May the builder's computer fry..
Whoever built everything Halli hated the idea, obviously. So they made it really tough for novices trying to get used to it, hence our population being generally lower than other orgs. :P
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Think of it as...geographic bureaucracy! (Although didn't Elostian have a hand in helping build(most of?) Hallifax?)
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!"
I find that Hallifax's layout filters out casual players or players that aren't up to the challenge of Hallifaxian RP -snobby snoot-
Seriously though. Hallifax is just two square pyramids touching base to base, with about 20 towers (or upside down towers). All you have to do for Continuum is look at the room shortdesc to know which Sphere you're at, etc...
Additionally, our small and streamlined population is...extremely productive. For being one of the two newest orgs, I think it's a real proud point to have the "Most Literary Library" and "Second Scholarly Library", as well as amazing plays, Beauty Seal winners, and extreme village potential (because loltrill charisma). Not to mention we're pretty organised as far as aetherspace goes.
If it's not abundantly clear, I love being Hallifaxian.
Just published a 'few' books. *rubs hands with glee with cackling* With more to come, too. Your move, Hallifax
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Additionally, our small and streamlined population is...extremely productive. For being one of the two newest orgs, I think it's a real proud point to have the "Most Literary Library" and "Second Scholarly Library", as well as amazing plays, Beauty Seal winners, and extreme village potential (because loltrill charisma). Not to mention we're pretty organised as far as aetherspace goes.
If it's not abundantly clear, I love being Hallifaxian.
As much as I agree that Hallifax should be proud of its library (Seriously Nordin. Don't mess this up for us.) I feel the need to point out that the books in most literary/scholarly (not largest library, though) cycle out of the scoring after a while, so we're not actually at a disadvantage in terms of time there. We absolutely do have the highest per person output, naturally.
If you're going to pick a fight, at least fight it out
Otherwise I really do start thinking that you specifically wait for people to log off before raiding. "oops, too many people, lets wait a few more hours"
If you're going to pick a fight, at least fight it out
Otherwise I really do start thinking that you specifically wait for people to log off before raiding. "oops, too many people, lets wait a few more hours"
Hallifax's in game map was originally way more helpful than the current in game map, in that you could see more of the surrounding precincts in the same ward. Then, I forget what the reason was (maybe to allow for space for new constructions), they changed the map lengths between the precincts. Now you only see the current precinct which gives you no idea of where you are from just the map.
Admittedly it is confusing for people without the mental picture Maligorn mentioned (two pyramids/diamond structure with spires), but I think it fits Hallifax perfectly. Continuum on the other hand could have benefited from a few up/downs, rather than squashing everything into the same plane. Zigzagging and paying attention to colours works at least.
Hallifax's in game map was originally way more helpful than the current in game map, in that you could see more of the surrounding precincts in the same ward. Then, I forget what the reason was (maybe to allow for space for new constructions), they changed the map lengths between the precincts. Now you only see the current precinct which gives you no idea of where you are from just the map.
Admittedly it is confusing for people without the mental picture Maligorn mentioned (two pyramids/diamond structure with spires), but I think it fits Hallifax perfectly. Continuum on the other hand could have benefited from a few up/downs, rather than squashing everything into the same plane. Zigzagging and paying attention to colours works at least.
The reason that was told to us was to give the IG map a more realistic feel to the distance between points.
I think it's only visible when the Maeve isn't "tuned" to Seren or Glom or something like that. She's got a bunch of different descs at least, and the Mark is only on one of them, IIRC.
City enemy from enemy org goes into a protected territory where they are also an enemy and attacks a fellow citizen there.
I go to defend, get branded an enemy to three organizations for "Attacking so and so unprovoked"
Serenwilde needs to get their crap together. Now I have to reconsider Kurut's RP and do something terrible to the forest to -earn- that status.
EDIT: Just how bad -is- elder chopping anyway? Considering the stupidity of the situation, it's the only thing I can think of that would do it justice
I occasionally like to pretend that I'm replanting all of these herbs to attract bees, and might one day form an alliance with the bees and take over the Basin. Then we could have a wonderful tea party with plenty of honey and the best tea blends.
Well, it takes several hours to start growing the replacement, and then it takes several days for the tree to actually grow, while it's still very vulnerable. RPly, it's sacrilige to chop down a sacred tree, of course, but Glom and Seren have had a very long-standing agreement to not be buttocks to eachother by making RL miserable for days from an action that takes minutes, or even seconds.
It's the only thing I can think of to make up for the sheer injustice they decided to dole out, though.
I even contacted other leadership of Serenwilde, and they all agreed with the decision that I attacked unprovoked despite defending protected territory and not declaring anybody.
I occasionally like to pretend that I'm replanting all of these herbs to attract bees, and might one day form an alliance with the bees and take over the Basin. Then we could have a wonderful tea party with plenty of honey and the best tea blends.
It's the only thing I can think of to make up for the sheer injustice they decided to dole out, though.
I even contacted other leadership of Serenwilde, and they all agreed with the decision that I attacked unprovoked despite defending protected territory and not declaring anybody.
This is quite common in Lusty. Enemy statuses have been given on the fly for near to no actual reason, simply because. Just look at Celina's history with enemying people.
Eh. Go kill something of theirs instead; raid a village, raid a godrealm, raid Aspects in Etherwilde, etc. Honestly, the only real reason I see for chopping down elders is because people want to annoy them on an OOC level.
Doing all of those things you mentioned, @Ssaliss, comes with a 2 million essence loss and doesn't really hurt them. If I'm going to eat 2 million essence, I may as well do something to make them rethink their idiocy.
I occasionally like to pretend that I'm replanting all of these herbs to attract bees, and might one day form an alliance with the bees and take over the Basin. Then we could have a wonderful tea party with plenty of honey and the best tea blends.
Or, you could not eat a 2m essence loss and not make Seren even madder at you. Honestly, I've never been a fan of the "They enemied me, so I might as well deserve it" line of thought.
There needs to be consequences for their actions. If that means forcing them to do hours upon hours of tedious work, so be it.
They can't be allowed to dole out enemy statuses for no good reason and just get away with it. If they want to make enemies out of people who bore no ill will toward them, they need to deal with the consequences of that stupidity.
I occasionally like to pretend that I'm replanting all of these herbs to attract bees, and might one day form an alliance with the bees and take over the Basin. Then we could have a wonderful tea party with plenty of honey and the best tea blends.
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Really...? was the over-complication really necessary? May the builder's computer fry..
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
He did. Apparently the man had an unhealthy addiction to puzzles, riddles and brainteasers. I picture him as so:
That literally being his expression when Hallifax was first released and the confusion surmounted
Seriously though. Hallifax is just two square pyramids touching base to base, with about 20 towers (or upside down towers). All you have to do for Continuum is look at the room shortdesc to know which Sphere you're at, etc...
It's not that bad.
If it's not abundantly clear, I love being Hallifaxian.
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Challenge accepted, @Rialorm.
Admittedly it is confusing for people without the mental picture Maligorn mentioned (two pyramids/diamond structure with spires), but I think it fits Hallifax perfectly. Continuum on the other hand could have benefited from a few up/downs, rather than squashing everything into the same plane. Zigzagging and paying attention to colours works at least.
And no, it hasnt.
I go to defend, get branded an enemy to three organizations for "Attacking so and so unprovoked"
Serenwilde needs to get their crap together. Now I have to reconsider Kurut's RP and do something terrible to the forest to -earn- that status.
This is quite common in Lusty. Enemy statuses have been given on the fly for near to no actual reason, simply because. Just look at Celina's history with enemying people.
They can't be allowed to dole out enemy statuses for no good reason and just get away with it. If they want to make enemies out of people who bore no ill will toward them, they need to deal with the consequences of that stupidity.