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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2020 18:12:01 GMT -5
Not at all. It has felt at times that merchants and agents were actually subtly discouraged from being too facilitating. Many long-lived agents, once they realized sids were essentially worthless would stop doing their job entirely except as favors. The Salarri agents usually wouldn't mind taking people into the warehouse and looking in the crates, then charging them something stupid, just for the RP. The main obstacle to acquiring an item - if you were willing to wait - was knowing the item existed! That was the truly hard part. You could spend months waiting on an advanced weapon. I wish GMH just didnt have materials and items loaded for them. If the coins they brought in with sales fed their use of pcs to get more materials, players could solve their own problems. |
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ask
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Post by ask on Feb 5, 2020 13:31:34 GMT -5
Our policy was, when I staffed, that all requests went through the request tool. There was a log purely for accountability's sake. I don't know if staff are, these days, entertaining requests through Discord DMs, though it wouldn't surprise me, but that'd be a bad idea ... if only because the actual, official requests, as seen above, suffer, and your numbers start to look poopy. I am referring to requests made IC in game. Always follow it up with a formal request so there is a paper trail so to speak. Logs on the server are deleted after 30 days iirc. |
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Post by psyxypher on Mar 26, 2020 16:18:22 GMT -5
I don't expect others to agree with this one, but I personally hate having to start over with every new character. Getting all the equipment, getting all the social connections, skilling up the same skills I've grinded half a dozen times. Since none of my characters have broken 4 days played, I'm often seeing the same skill values every time. Which isn't pleasant by any regard. I personally think you should be able to carry over a fraction of your skill points from character to character (with limits; like no dumping all of your skill points into a weapon skill so you're god incarnate out of chargen).
The lack of feedback on skill training makes it incredibly frustrating to do this, especially when you're doing it a hundred times over just to have it all taken away and having to do it again. It's bad enough I need to spend hours and hours just to see minute gains. And considering I can die from something as simple as accidentally walking into the silt (Still salty over this), I feel like I'm wasting my time.
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punished ppurg
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Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
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Post by punished ppurg on Mar 26, 2020 16:36:18 GMT -5
I feel like I'm wasting my time. You are.
Armageddon's core design philosophy remains buried in the 1990's. The game is nothing but a time waster. The economy is in shambles. Progression is an obfuscated Skinner box. You have reached complete saturation levels for what the antiquated MUD pseudo hack-n-slash can provide. Yes, it was novel: yes, it entertained you for a long time, perhaps years. But every hour dumped into the game has been, fundamentally and by design— by explicit policy of the staff team even, a waste of time. There is no meaningful accomplishment to be made. You are better off abandoning the game for a few years so that you can forget how dull it is; and then return in a bid to eke out the enjoyment you once had, only to become disillusioned again.
Like the rest of us.
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Post by clavis on Apr 27, 2020 9:48:45 GMT -5
The problem I seen with Arm, is rather common. Sadly, its also deserved. Lack of trust as a whole in the community not just lack of trust in player for staff, or staff for player but player for player. Also lack of meaningful interactions.
It is this lack of trust that turns the best games into pure junk. If there was trust then people could drive meaningful plots to enrich the world, to change it. Yet since there is none the plots there are are just husks deviod of meaning, of life, and enthusiasm.
What do I mean by meaningful interactions? Ones that give you a better grasp of anothers character. Not spar 105 for the day, or benign conversation 102 about the weather or what he wants to buy, or sell.
I'm talking about shit that seems insignificant but isnt. A simple question about his/her tattoos, piercings, choice of hair color, manber of speech that gives insight into their character. One that suddenly seems more real then just joe/jane rando. Suddenly they are Arya/Ned/Sansa/etc Stark or a named Lanister. Suddenly you begin to see into the character and as time progresses, begin to either trust them, love them, or hate them.
Yet what seemed to happen so often was four folks sitting on a stool staring at nothing going on. No interaction, no emoting, just walk, sit, stare. Stand, walk, go to spar 3768978.
Add these to a cultish, mind washing of a good chunk of players about coded clans vs uncoded and you get a stagnant world. One where only thing to do is kill or die.
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