*On the assumption that
anyone who plays in an org that gets deleted can do a free full
transfer of their character to a new
character with exactly the same curios, artifacts, toys, etc
If your characters org was deleted. What would you do? 49 votes
Quit playing Lusternia totally.
Try and move your character to a new organisation via traditional in-game methods.
Retire the character to move to a new character in a new organsation. *
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Tonight amidst the mountaintops
And endless starless night
Singing how the wind was lost
Before an earthly flight
I wouldn't be looking to quit, I just don't know whether moving my current character would make sense.
If the suggestion of creating new orgs from the mergers of old orgs was used then it'd be moving to one of the new orgs.
If Serenwilde was just deleted and I had to pick from any combination of the remaining three then I probably just wouldn't bother.
That said, I did return once and start over, since I was a launch-day player and played quite a lot in the opening 6-12 months of the game before leaving. So, you know, never say never?
It's just somewhere to lay his hat really - a stage and a library and he is happy.
It's been 10+ years since I've played any IRE MUDs, and my previous experiences had really scared me off of the idea of ever playing again another MUD again. But my partner found Lusternia after a lot of research, and said "hey, check out this cool place", and I did, and I'm glad I did. Between the fascinating history and the wonderful people that opened their arms and took us both in, I was hooked and lost a lot of that prior MUD-anxiety I had. You guys are all so great! I feel like if our commune went 'dormant', a lot of the aforementioned wonderful people - some of whom have played for upwards of a decade - would stop playing. And... I wouldn't want to play without them.
‘It’s important to be kind. You can’t know all the times that you’ve hurt people in tiny, significant ways.
It’s easy to be cruel without meaning to be. There’s nothing you can do about that. But you can choose to be kind. Be kind.’
Just saying. You never know.
I do know what is out there. I have been in every other org except Hallifax long term. And there is no way in hell any of my friends, my partner, nor I would be welcomed nor treated well there. I certainly wasn't beforehand.
Look at your own experience. I'm not going to say it is good or bad because I don't speak for you. But leave combat aside. Look at all the discussions you have endured. The RP that changed for you. Because I know what this game has become for you. And I definitely do not want the game to become that for myself or anyone else. And deleting Glom will do exactly that for not just myself and Vey, but our younger members also. We have people who have come to alt in Glom and left their mains to stay in Glom. Maybe the admin should be looking at those reasons. Because player retention is easily the most noticeable from anecdotal evidence as the biggest problem orgs have currently. But numbers would be great to see also.
No, just no. Much as I would like to not comment: This is offensive to LGBTQI people. Being inside a religious cult - presumably one that was opposed to them - would be risking their lives and their freedom.
You are playing a game. They are not remotely comparable.
First off, people are not asking you to not play with the people you play with currently. They are asking you to *consider* the possibility of changes happening to the game, which may or may not include the deletion of Glomdoring. If there is such a compassionate and decent community, do you believe that they would abandon you just because their current org was deleted? I would not imagine that they would, but that is an OOC matter between you and them.
Secondly, if your concern is not that you would have trouble with the RP, or that you would lose your investment, or even the aforementioned drifting away from people OOC, but that you would have to 'suffer' other people, perhaps that is why you might not be treat well outside of your community. You have already decided that people outside of Glomdoring are like a 'religious cult' and that you are being victimised, including by the admins. Give people a chance and they might do the same. There is no grand conspiracy to break you and Deichtine apart. Ask yourself two questions. 1) Why would anyone want to. 2) What could anyone do that would achieve that, even if Glomdoring was one of the orgs deleted?
Thirdly, ask yourself why the game has become the way it has for @Ea. You acknowledge this as being a bad thing, yet that is not because of his org being considered for deletion. Glomdoring is not being 'targeted' here. It might be deleted, but so might other places. In the other thread, it is mentioned that people don't want their own orgs deleted. I am not sure where the idea that this is being targeted at one of the three orgs initially discussed for deletion comes from.
Finally, I have also seen people leave Glom to play in Hallifax. Yes, the admin should look at the reasons for player retention. I am still of the opinion however that the larger orgs should be deleted, for reasons discussed in the other thread. I believe that while RP is an excellent reason to move to an org, people tend to stick around due to the players, and the number of players. People cluster together. This would happen even if people moved, and larger, less insular communities would form.
Edit: Evidence is as stands. Up until people start taking issue with Glomdoring they are friendly towards me. I haven't changed. I am the same person I was a year ago, 3 years ago, hell even ten years ago. But what has changed is the way you feel about Glomdoring. So the way you treat me is differently. That THAT right there is evidence as to why Glomdoring will be treated poorly by this growing group of people who are acclimatized to this notion that Glomdoring is bad by listening to people spout this nonsense day in day out. It is very similar to a lot of other historical events where minorities were victimised by the people of nations. When you take a step back and look at it.
People will judge you based on the people you *choose* to associate with. This is not the same as the above, as it is a choice you have actively made.
It is not homophobia, or racism, or anything of the sort. It is judging a person based on a choice they have made, nothing more and nothing less.