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Astral Nodes and Toxic Behavior
For the past week or so I've had the displeasure of having to hear about and/or deal with drama over astral over-linking. These people are often wrongly accused and still threatened, or griefed, or otherwise harassed because players have chosen to be overzealous in their policing of the nodes.
I think it is fostering an unhealthy environment where it will drive several well-meaning players away and still leave behind the offenders. Is that what people want? Make the game even smaller than it has been? It is causing combat, sure, but it's not a healthy combat situation. It mirrors that of why we have Avenger in the first place.
People need to consider that this is a game, first and foremost. Try not to take it so seriously with accusations. I thought once to report with adding a LastLink for astral nodes to help catch or deter the true offenders, but I was told this idea was shot down, even though we have something like LastHarvest. If this is true, why?
Anyway, this is me saying, ye Enforcers of Astral Nodes need to tone it down a notch. Keep your zealotry levels to motes, please.
Tyrus
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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet
Related to my last rave but also worthy of its own post:
With all the grace of a gelatin mould rolling down a flight of stairs, a juvenile sarkipose writhes out to the west.
Eritheyl
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Re: QUOTES 8: THE QUOTING
A gargantuan wolfman says, "Thank you for hosting little fae! Understandable, you have no costume. Nothing scarier than a bookkeeper!"
Huskii's mouth turns up as their face breaks into a smile.
Huskii nods their head emphatically.
Opening your mouth wide, you gape in wonder.
Xiran teeters in the air as she laughs.
( You are wielding an exquisite ink brush in your left hand and a discreet pocket-sized notepad in your right hand. )
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You quickly unwrap a divinely wrapped present, which sprays glittering silver dust and cheerful confetti into the air, and grin enormously upon receiving a tiny pixie.
Huskii's eyes sparkle with amusement at you.
Huskii Myeras of the Misty Vale says to you, "You got another you!"
Xiran sputters at Huskii.
Huskii's mouth turns up as their face breaks into a smile.
Huskii nods their head emphatically.
Opening your mouth wide, you gape in wonder.
Xiran teeters in the air as she laughs.
( You are wielding an exquisite ink brush in your left hand and a discreet pocket-sized notepad in your right hand. )
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You quickly unwrap a divinely wrapped present, which sprays glittering silver dust and cheerful confetti into the air, and grin enormously upon receiving a tiny pixie.
Huskii's eyes sparkle with amusement at you.
Huskii Myeras of the Misty Vale says to you, "You got another you!"
Xiran sputters at Huskii.
Xiran
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Re: QUOTES 8: THE QUOTING
Duck, the Confused Chicken begins to squawk and flap, eliciting a sideways
glance from the Oneiroi, as she hovers unsteadily away. Her voice, loud and
fowl, fades and echoes, "Duck away!"
Oneiroi glances askance.
Oneiroi glances askance.
Xiran
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Re: Bloom! A new and shiny basher and influencer!
Awesome, thank you! Being kind to other players is A+. 
Xenthos
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Re: Discussion Regarding Reports
I think the disconnect here is that everyone thinks they need to convince other players that their reports are solid and would be beneficial to the game as a whole.
That's not the case. You are trying to convince the admin that your report (or reports you support) are beneficial to the game. It's not up to the players to decide if a report is necessary or not (they're all technically unnecessary) or to decide if it takes too long to code. It's up to us.
That's why I'm saying it should be easy to prove wrong/debunk. Because you're not trying to convince them.
Sure in an ideal world, we would do all rebalancing. But given that this is a part-time thing for us and there's a limit of available time, we have reports to give people a chance to make changes to things that they believe need changes that don't rely on us to devote time to. As it's now been made a report, we can see if players want us to allow this to happen still or if they just want to limit it to QoL reports. The reporting system is intended to be something beneficial. We can definitely do away with it if it's not being perceived that way.
That's not the case. You are trying to convince the admin that your report (or reports you support) are beneficial to the game. It's not up to the players to decide if a report is necessary or not (they're all technically unnecessary) or to decide if it takes too long to code. It's up to us.
That's why I'm saying it should be easy to prove wrong/debunk. Because you're not trying to convince them.
Sure in an ideal world, we would do all rebalancing. But given that this is a part-time thing for us and there's a limit of available time, we have reports to give people a chance to make changes to things that they believe need changes that don't rely on us to devote time to. As it's now been made a report, we can see if players want us to allow this to happen still or if they just want to limit it to QoL reports. The reporting system is intended to be something beneficial. We can definitely do away with it if it's not being perceived that way.
Orael
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Re: Re: Guild Rewards - Guildfavors
I don't really see why any mechanical additions to guilds would need yet -another- form of advancement instead of using the existing ranks. If somebody does something above and beyond that's worth some points, you can manually give them points without needing it tied to a task.
Uzriel
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Re: Guild Rewards - Guildfavors
Disclaimer: This is in no way a fully developed idea, and I fully expect that if it ever gets implemented, it won't be completely as written. Constructive criticism is welcome, but preferably in a way that refines the idea rather than just totally trashing it.
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THE BASIS
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Some people have been talking about guild incentives/rewards/etc outside of plain rp/progression (I can think of at least one report this season that touches on this subject, and there's been at least one discussion on the official Discord about it). I was thinking of a minor way to tell the guild that someone has done a lot of stuff for the guild without having to commune/cityfavor or recommend them to the guild leader or promote them. Maybe they've done a lot of themed designs, or helped a newbie, or wrote a book, and you want to make them feel good about their progress. Alternatively, it could involve a whole new system of progression in a guild.
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GUILDFAVORS AND GUILD TIERS
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My suggestion is the guildfavor, which could be implemented one of two ways. The first is that there is no mechanical tracking of guildfavors, letting the guild manually track how many favors a guild member has received, set its own number of tiers, and manually set rewards; however, this would be entirely manual, and could be tricky compared to my other proposed option.
The second option has a set of guild tiers (either public or private, but always trackable by the guild leader, and possibly a new priv to view them), which would be mechanically entirely separate from and have no bearing on guild rank (I imagine an individual guild could set up different rewards for promotion for achieving different tiers, however). I would suggest a maximum of 7 tiers, and a minimum of 3, on average 5. I imagine to move up a tier, you require a certain number of guildfavors on top of any you've already earned, like city/communefavors. For example, it could be 3 favors to move from tier 1 to tier 2, and then 5 to move from tier 2 to tier 3, etc.
Each tier could have different benefits for each guild. Each guild could theoretically have unique titles for each tier, as the same with ranks. An example with 5 tiers is below under the spoilers; this is hardly an exhaustive list, and I imagine many people would have different ideas of where things should be, or things I personally haven't even thought up.
Guild Tier 1: little to no change, as everyone starts on tier 1.
Guild Tier 2: having access to a hidden guild emote.
Guild Tier 3: having access to a hidden room in the guildhall, and/or demigod flavors.
Guild Tier 4: having access to an otherwise hidden shop bin in a guild shopkeep's wares that could sell a few rare items specific to the guild, such as signets (guild stoles).
Guild Tier 5: being able to access a locked guildhall quest to receive a guild honor.
Guild Tier 2: having access to a hidden guild emote.
Guild Tier 3: having access to a hidden room in the guildhall, and/or demigod flavors.
Guild Tier 4: having access to an otherwise hidden shop bin in a guild shopkeep's wares that could sell a few rare items specific to the guild, such as signets (guild stoles).
Guild Tier 5: being able to access a locked guildhall quest to receive a guild honor.
Having the guild tiers would result in a highly customizable reward system for each guild, and in a way that makes it formal and fairly easy to track. I expect limitations similar to commune/cityfavors would be implemented (such as only being able to give 1 guildfavor per weave), and guilds would likely make their own guidelines for how guildfavors may be earned.
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Again, this is a fairly rough/beginning of an idea, and I do not expect it to be implemented. If anyone has suggestions or ideas, feel free to put them down below.
Esei
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Re: Discussion Regarding Reports
My understanding, and why I continue to interact with the report system, is that Orael's judgements on which reports pass and in which way is not entirely based on the comments and the votes. Rather, I hope that his judgements are based in (large) part to some of his own understanding and vision for the game's combat design.
If that was reassured (or corrected if I am wrong), perhaps that would do away with some of the negativity people feel in posting and interacting with reports.
If that was reassured (or corrected if I am wrong), perhaps that would do away with some of the negativity people feel in posting and interacting with reports.
Synl
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