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What would you like to see in Lusternia for the New Year?
So what would you like to see this coming year?
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For the administration to put as much effort into working on tradeskills and rp/qol improvements for the game as they have for combat. This especially includes the report (1802) for temporary tattoos to be sellable in shops to be reopened and passed.
A god who is as enthusiastic and interested in roleplaying with me as I am with them.
To see a more fervent effort from the admin to not only seek out new players, but bring old players back who might have been disenchanted with some of the things Lusternia has went through in the last handful of years, leading them to leave the game.
2. Order overhaul to make them less dependant on a few people so they don't die of as easy as they do now and to make the ambience of an order more readily available.
3. To remember a lot of people don't frequent the forums or discord aka publish these kinda questions in game too.
Aside that, I'd just like to see people enjoying the game and the administration continue to be involved. You guys are great.
Can be as simple as ESTEEM <player> <reason>. Or they don't have to give a reason for ESTEEM <player>. You can practically call the mechanism whatever you want. Just a way to have players promote role playing with each other. Can only be used once every weave or day, whatever the cap.
I just want a way to acknowledge players for a roleplay done well. This will encourage other players to roleplay when players are promoting other players to get their emotes out there!
Warriors need their touch ups. Mage/druid needs their rework or at minimum a few solid adjustments to skills. Orders need some adjusting and some long inactive gods have gotta go (looking at you Auseklis and Carakhan). Some more small org focused events would be nice.
Also status updates on archetype six? Is that no longer a thing? Give me a reason to use these lessons!
On a greedy note I'd like to see a Swarm guild request finally get some sort of movement. Been sitting there paid and approved since March.
Rewards for guild tasks are determined by the guildmaster, whether it be gold, credits and/or points towards increasing your guild rank. A number of tasks in the Sanctifiers yield a credit reward (some can be done multiple times)
If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
As a long-time player of a mud, but a new-comer to Lusternia and the IR philosophy, I have less intricate and nuanced understanding of game systems, but, I do definitely know what I like and don’t like.
1. I would like mob combat to be more intricate. Right now, with autocuring enabled and mobs unable to be afflicted, it basically comes down to my level, health, and well-timed button mashing.
2. I would like experience to be gained through doing tasks. For example, it takes a great deal of time to wander around as a druid singing to elder trees, and I enjoy doing it, but other than guarding their bark, I have no real incentive to do it. Similarly, other things like difficult to accomplish trade skills and various other resource and time consumptive activities need some sort of experience draw; This would benefit those who aren’t interested in fighting mobs or PVP, too.
3. I find the method for introducing new players to PVP confusing and difficult to track. To be fair, this is a problem in all muds. Everyone assumes you are a second or third, or if you aren’t, that you’ve at least played other IR games and know the lingo. The mud I used to play attempted to overcome this by programing NPCs that fought like real players. This would allow you to afflict, attack, and be afflicted in-turn to learn the ins and outs of low to mid-tier combat. While it was imperfect, it definitely helped, and too the pressure off of elders who either knew little to nothing about combat, or were too busy or couldn’t be arsed to help out.
One problem that impacts muds are people who can code well. In the mud I used to play, this created an imbalance the admins tried to adjust for. The problem is, autocuring systems, random number generation, and increased speed really only do one thing; it insures that only truly adept coders can get by, increasing the gap even further. The truth is, coding is always going to be a thing. I have always felt that the real solution isn’t to simplify curing to the point where any idiot can do it, but to slow things down so, yes, a player can still code, but things are slow enough that people can also rely on good ol’ typing and knowledge to be competent; anything else just comes down to—see above—button mashing.
Humbly,
Jashiri
I'd like to see a lot more people playing Ikon battles, but that's not really on the devs.
I'd say this is really the prime moment to harness that influx and bring people in, especially to a MUD that I feel is most deserving of the IRE group.
So on that note, I think the older players have a duty here in the forum to try to push aside any resentment they have towards the administration and game itself, I can tell you it is a huge turn off to browse through the forums for information and see so much negativity. I understand where yall are coming from as people who have invested so much time and money into something, and even yourselves really, but it really only works to deterr potential newbies. If I hadn't started playing the game first before going to the forums, I probably wouldn't of bothered.
Secondly, on the newbie tutorial. I tried 4 times to do the mage towers quest. First time was the night I started, took me two hours to get the machine powered, and even then the puzzle was a bit confusing and it was 1am, so went to sleep to figure it out in morning. Woke up and realized I had to start over. Okay not a big deal I guess, do it again and it reset at the end. Finally another player shows up, I ask them if they'd like to work together, they agree and we power through it. I let her go ahead and do the puzzle because I noticed at a part earlier after I gave the last stone to an arch mage only I could beckon them. So she works on puzzle, gets it, blast of light and goes through. Asks if I made it, tell her no it reset but not to worry it was no problem. So finally ask if I can skip it all together. I'm not sure how long the quest is on the murky side but if the stone requirement could be lowered from 10 to 5 I feel it would help tremendously. Another reason I ask for it to be lowered is because I had gained so much xp from influencing I actually got kicked out of Newton caverns mid quest ahaha. I know most of that can be attributed to utter newbieness but it was frustrating. (I'm also playing on a phone so that doesn't help eh?)
Also would agree with the first part and third of Jashiri's statement. I love the influencing part of the game, it is unique and one of the things that draws you in. The pvp aspect seems very exciting, but a bit inaccessible. If there were a way to allow our combat skills effect npc's that'd be awesome! If not maybe create like a fighting dummy that has autocuring and great amount of health that can be afflicted, wounded, thrown, etc. with a quick respawn. I'm not sure if something like that exists already in game but if not it would really help to allow people to understand their class more and help with immersion. Maybe even make it a whole town specifically for pvp training.
Okay that's it, sorry if any of this is redundant or just an echo of others. Really though, I'd love to see Lusternia keep rising up. It truly deserves to.
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