Southlands, EOE?

Do people still play this?

Naw

Yeah, it's pretty huge. Initially New Kaiden was smaller, but a lot of stuff players have made has gone in since then, and in order to make more of the buildings actual and less of them virtual, expanding the city was a bit necessary. (I was the one who suggested roses and moonflowers on Talun Way before the rebuild, and blammo! still love that) Outside the city, the main things to worry about relatively close to it, are deer and bears. Further away, things get more dangerous/deadly/exotic, but you pretty much need to be a weaponmaster to take out a bear and not die if you're alone, so... I haven't really wandered further.

The slums is a lot like the rinth when it comes to killing. If you're an Enclave member, or clanned at all with something not in the slums, or if you even have something remotely expensive on... just don't go there unless you want to die. It's a bad idea. You will get dead. The main part of the city alternates between pretty safe and dangerous as shit, depending on the strength/presence/activity/whim of both the criminal element and the police element at the time.

With regards to the emote code, other than item targeting or odd quirks in speech (ie, can't use possessive in speech, and in speech, item targeting shifts from / to ~), the emote symbols and stuff are a pretty close match for Arm's, so it's not too difficult to carry that over for your tenses/forms when emoting.

The game world itself is pretty much damn enormous though. I remember going from Tow to Shae in I think 2010 or so, and it requiring a boat, and about 3 rl hours. And both of those settlements are in elf lands. That's leaving out any other part of the world. The place is heaven for explorers, if you can get around unseen, because it's just frickin' huge.

With regards to the staff itself... it's small. A husband and wife, and not sure how claint knows them, but he's their coder. Seems like Alaire does much of the building, and Jazet runs most of the storylines for people/rpts/etc, and Claint mostly codes. All of them are pretty great. You can butt heads with them periodically, and I have, more than once, with Jazet, but it won't be a black stain on you forever, and things can go back to being civil after it, like with logical, agreeable people.

I'm actually playing it currently, and enjoying it completely. Everyone should make DWARVES though! Stump Powah!

Yep. I registered. It's kind of hilarious really. I submitted the character for approval, and was approved before I could even log out, and yet tried to get on the forums, and I've waited hours now. I suppose they're more stringent there? I don't know. I really need to be approved to read their forums before I do anything. It's hard to do anything without knowing a lot of the facts about the world. I don't know the city, I don't know the general area, I don't even know any of the real sovereign powers, and I need to know these things for everything as small as simple 'thinks' or where my character's background fits into his story. Honestly, this one doesn't have a background. Figured I'd make it up on the fly. There's always a bit of flavor when I do it that way, and since I figure he'll die pretty quick...to something or another(again, ARM tendencies) I'm not terribly convinced to waste hours building his habits and such quite yet.

I'm hoping to find something nice in EOE, that I didn't really find in ARM. Even if some of it seems a bit less refined, I don't count on it always being that way, and though I can't say that I've had many interactions with ARM staff, I'm very much inclined to believe most of the statements about their attitude made on here. And a lot of the limitation of the game is kind of bothering me. EOE is entertaining for now. Hopefully, I'll figure this out a bit more. I might take you up on that PM offer though.

I made a character. Roamed around the starting city a bit.