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Post by OT on May 27, 2016 10:09:40 GMT -5
I literally never heard a single word of what happened out there, the gith stuff and so on. It was supposed to be such a big deal and people were so excited, but nobody has ever talked about it even briefly. Was it just dead on arrival or have people kept shit secret? When it was announced, I pointed out how stupid it was to focus staff efforts on a remote location suitable only for a select few types of characters while ignoring the game's supposed center of activity and home of most of its clans. Sure enough, Allanak completely fell apart and stagnated into oblivion, but I never heard a peep about whatever happened in the Tablelands. Since I'm above saying "I told you so" (even though I did, I fucking told you so, fuckers), I'm just really curious what became of whatever it was that seemed worth gambling the game's well-being on.
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Post by Azerbanjani on May 27, 2016 11:15:15 GMT -5
Heres what apparently happened with the Gith as told to me by friends. People would have camp guards, CAMP GUARDS, follow them around and they would gank people with them. Then it got retconned or just removed from oblivion and they forgot it ever happened. The tablelands it self is just this big wasted space of caves and shit no one really cares about. Don't elves live there? I don't even fucking care or want to go check it out because of how this game hates exploration. It isn't designed for it. It hates it. If people can walk from one side of america to the other on foot for like 16 hours at a time then I can walk more than 2 miles without getting fucking exhausted, desert planet or not. I was born in this shit I should be fine. But no.
Look at me I'm already ranting about other shit. Oh well.
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Post by jkarr on May 27, 2016 14:18:13 GMT -5
yeah everyone was buzzing about it then a couple months in nothing but crickets
funny how no on the gdb has brought it up either
they mustve fucked up bad and got too embarassed to admit it went to shit
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Post by jesantu on May 27, 2016 14:46:36 GMT -5
I was under the impression the tablelands thing was going to culminate in the next hrpt. Maybe that's still developing. I begin to wonder if it's instead simply fizzled out. There's been pockets of activity as far as I can tell, with mantis invasions and similar cases....but it all feels horribly underrepresented.
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Post by Prime Minister Sinister on May 27, 2016 15:25:11 GMT -5
inb4 a magicky entity starts feeding all of the orcs pit lord blood or something so they turn red and go crazy.....
again
loktar ogar and shit
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Post by OT on May 27, 2016 15:40:57 GMT -5
I told you so.
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Post by magickermarco on May 30, 2016 9:47:51 GMT -5
Here is what I've heard.
1) Gith had Void Mages, and true sorcerers take over the lands at one point from the Dol Taker south. 2) The Gem as you know it doesn't exist anymore, contaminated from disease and poison. 3) The active Desert Elf tribes had "Leader" Npc's killed. 4) The active Desert Elf tribes populations were dramatically culled. Someone said the Sun Runners have half of the virtual population they started with. 5) Blackwing built towers along the Dol to protect traders. 6) Undead were rampant and unkillable without Staff interaction at times. 7) The Sun Spire was attacked by Gith and nearly won. 8) The Desert Elves banded together pushing back the threat, but not killing the major plot driving NPC.
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Post by OT on May 30, 2016 10:56:35 GMT -5
Every one of those points sound like Imm Fiat that players had no real part in. What have the actual players been doing? I've never heard anybody say one word about what they've been getting up to there.
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punished ppurg
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Post by punished ppurg on May 30, 2016 11:00:22 GMT -5
The actual players were disappointing one another by treating it as an ultimate PvP exercise. A huge disappointment on both the delf and the sponsored gith sides, especially with the gith players abusing their 100% maxed out camp guard NPCs to run around and gank others. No wonder it was shut down; just goes to show you how cantankerously horrible the "good" players of that community are who were chosen by the staff to fill those slots.
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Post by krelezrox on May 30, 2016 12:08:47 GMT -5
Not sure where it's at now, but I do know that it affected a lot of things for the human tribal population of the Tablelands. I wasn't particularly around for that, RL stuff and all made it impossible to log in during this time, but there was apparently a massive war that beat back the gith - a combined effort with various tribes, through alliances and other player led actions and interactions.
I think it's stagnated due to a lack of players having not survived through most of it, and those who have rarely log in.
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Post by OT on May 30, 2016 13:21:44 GMT -5
The actual players were disappointing one another by treating it as an ultimate PvP exercise. A huge disappointment on both the delf and the sponsored gith sides, especially with the gith players abusing their 100% maxed out camp guard NPCs to run around and gank others. No wonder it was shut down; just goes to show you how cantankerously horrible the "good" players of that community are who were chosen by the staff to fill those slots. Now, I'm above saying "I told you so," but here's another time where I told you so: armageddonmud.boards.net/post/25854
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punished ppurg
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Post by punished ppurg on May 30, 2016 13:56:39 GMT -5
there was apparently a massive war that beat back the gith - a combined effort with various tribes, through alliances and other player led actions and interactions. Where is the evidence of this in-game? You would think that it would be common knowledge, or paraded around -- that someone with a lick of storytelling sense would take that event and spread it so as to make it noticeable for everyone outside of that small theater. However, even if something as grand and smashing as that happened (which I doubt), there's been a failure on staff's side to create an adequate world reaction of spreading that news around, or indeed there being any tangible consequence for the rest of the game environment other than needing a different delf contact to buy booze from.
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Post by Azerbanjani on May 30, 2016 14:05:27 GMT -5
>A combined effort with various tribes through player actions and interactions. Go fuck your self. That would atleast make a god damn rumor or someone would talk about it more than not at all. I don't care if I'm in Nak, everyone likes a story of Gith being killed.
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Post by krelezrox on May 30, 2016 16:09:06 GMT -5
There is evidence of it IG, if you care to look. Or maybe the fact that you're far removed from the Tablelands is the reason -why- you would have no common knowledge of it. Also, if one were that curious ICly about it they'd ask the right people, or hang out in the right places, and then maybe they just might learn what went down. There are to my knowledge still characters IG that were involved heavily in many of these plots and/or side plots - and even a few others that aren't denizens of the Pah who were involved and know of several of the outcomes.
Is what happens in the Tablelands truly something that your regular Amos would have heard about in 'Nak? No. Nakki's don't care who's killing who, who's dying where as long as it's not them and it doesn't directly affect their city-state. Same as someone of the Pah could give two fucks about some sewer rats crawling out of the sewers to devour unattended babies.
Things were planned ICly, and were handled ICly through player driven efforts. Alliances -were- made. And no, it's likely rumors would not have made their way to Nak. Luir's perhaps, but not 'Nak.
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Post by Patuk on May 30, 2016 19:36:40 GMT -5
A bunch of staffers just sort of vanished, went MIA, or otherwise weren't there, and the tribals team was suddenly left with all of 1 admin and storyteller to handle this all.
I have exactly 0 evidence I can bring up for this, but it's true all the same.
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