delerak
GDB Superstar
PK'ed by jcarter
"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." - Otto Von Bismarck
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Post by delerak on Apr 1, 2023 11:23:03 GMT -5
I'm happy to announce that Armageddon MUD producers have finally reached out to me begging me to save the game. In my infinite wisdom I've decided I will take up this herculean task and save the game for the good of all those who have sacrificed their time and energy.
I've drafted up the following changes which will take place immediately.
-I will personally be reaching out to every banned player that have been wronged over the years to apologize for past behavior of all staff and to make amends. I will make the first move. -Any staff that enabled Shaloonsh will be removed immediately. We'd rather have 3 staff with integrity than 20 that just want to cheat and be creeps to players. -The Mud is being renamed to Zalanthas. We've had 30 years of Arm, to start fresh the mud shall be renamed. -There will be a 1 hour downtime on Saturday mornings. During this time I will go live on YouTube to answer Q&A, share staff's vision and direction of the game and interacting and engaging with the playerbase. -Zalanthas MUD will have a presence on reddit, and other mud discords, especially RPI muds. We're all in this genre together and should be collaborating more and not isolating ourselves off from other games. -GDB will be shutdown for good. Nothing good has ever come from that cesspit. Everything else will take place on discord. -Staff will be encouraged to have a presence at these forums and any other places to resolve any accusations with logs. No one has privacy when they make false accusations. -Rules of FOIC and IC sharing will be heavily loosened to allow for a more relaxed play style on the game. Talking to your friends about plots and PCs will no longer be punished or taboo but encouraged as a way to increase excitement over what is going on in the game. -AND MUCH MORE!
Please make any suggestions in this thread and I will get on it.
Sincerely, -Delerak, your last hope
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mehtastic
GDB Superstar
Armers Anonymous sponsor
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Post by mehtastic on Apr 1, 2023 11:41:07 GMT -5
Finally, someone who knows what they're doing is in charge. I'm already seeing the effects of this announcement. The player count has risen by 500% and counting. Keep up the good work, Savior.
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jesantu
Displaced Tuluki
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Post by jesantu on Apr 1, 2023 11:57:15 GMT -5
The player count has risen by 500% and counting. Keep up the good work, Savior. I don't wanna inflate our boy delerak's ego but the player count really would go up by 500% if this were for real. Or if even half of those things were implemented.
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punished ppurg
GDB Superstar
Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
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Post by punished ppurg on Apr 1, 2023 12:39:27 GMT -5
I was so thrilled to read this, I forgot what day it was.
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Post by ocotilloskewers on Apr 1, 2023 12:44:17 GMT -5
I know this is a joke, but, Delerak would unironically be the best thing to happen to Arm's staff team if they let him be a Producer.
Just saying.
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Post by Barsook on Apr 1, 2023 17:11:09 GMT -5
Good one!
Happy April Fools everyone!
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Post by Azerbanjani on Apr 1, 2023 18:27:33 GMT -5
I've got tears in my eyes.
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pinkerdlu
Shartist
The evil bad guy of a desert sex simulator. Real Necker
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Post by pinkerdlu on Apr 1, 2023 18:46:56 GMT -5
I've got tears in my eyes. *gently wipes them away and smiles at you* Don't worry... Shalooonsh won't hurt you anymore.
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jenki
Clueless newb
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Post by jenki on Apr 1, 2023 19:06:31 GMT -5
It's about time! People will forever remember this auspicious day, Aprit 1st, 2023!
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baron
Clueless newb
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Post by baron on Apr 1, 2023 19:40:36 GMT -5
-The Mud is being renamed to Zalanthas. That is actually a great idea. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets stolen and used. My suggestions: - Nuke the psion class from orbit. Delete it from the codebase, and start from scratch. The think and feel commands should never be weaponized against players. Writing a bio should never be a bad idea. The big psion abilities should be eavesdropping over the Way, and creating various targeted hallucinations. Everything else they do sucks and needs to go.
- Mundane PCs should have niche protections and competencies that allow them to shine verses non-mundane roles. Buff Nilizi mage hunters until it's true. Invisible floating mages are particularly lame. Whirans in general need to be rethought from scratch.
- Get rid of the obtuse magic words, or make them optional. It's a dumb interface designed to punish people who don't cheat.
- Return HGs, dwarven, and elven characterizations to their more playable Dark Sun versions, adjusting stats if needed to ensure they don't overshadow humans. A flaw that's expressed solely through roleplay with no mechanical enforcement is not a flaw at all.
- Static stat arrays. You can choose to be exceptional in one stat at the cost of being poor in another, or kind of average in all. No more randomly awesome or randomly awful PCs.
- Ensure that every PC can plausibly interact with most other PCs. Elves should be able to join the Guild. Gemmed mages should be welcome in hunting parties and the Byn. Psions shouldn't be insta-gibbed. If a PC should never have a conversation with another PC in a game with maybe 10 people logged on, then that's not a viable PC.
- Templars, nobles, and sorcs are not viable PCs unless numbers get above 60 at peak. Animate nobles and templars for plots in the meantime, and give ranked AoD players additional templar-esque powers to ensure the city can still run itself in the absence of templar players.
- With all that in place, karma should be binary. A player is trusted to play any role or constrained to mundane humans, and the default should be "trusted" past someone's first character.
- Decent lockpicks should be as rare as metal. Sought after treasures jealously guarded by the big criminal organizations. Only practice picks that only work on ultra-shit locks should be PC-craftable. Hiding in narrow hallways should be impossible. Player housing should generally be safe.
- Ongoing plot lines should be advertised and talked about. Secrets should never have a shelf life longer than a real life year, and those kinds of secrets should be quite rare.
My actual suggestion: Close the game, release the source. May the best cloned version of the game win.
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Post by Azerbanjani on Apr 1, 2023 19:59:22 GMT -5
I can't tell if your shitpost suggestions are bad, some of them I don't hate.
Psion class rework is unironically something I'd like to see, we need more telekinesis and less 'Telepathy only' shit.
PC protections are based
Magic words are mostly annoying and exist to make spells finite.
Dark Sun versions are better.
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Post by Prime Minister Sinister on Apr 2, 2023 6:04:49 GMT -5
my dumb ass thought this was real for like two seconds
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pinkerdlu
Shartist
The evil bad guy of a desert sex simulator. Real Necker
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Post by pinkerdlu on Apr 2, 2023 11:51:13 GMT -5
my dumb ass thought this was real for like two seconds your so dumb dude
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