Random thoughts and comments

God, that restless inability to get into a new character on the heels of your favorite character you've played in almost 10 years dying stupidly.

Well, she lived stupidly too, so it was true to form for her to die in the dumbass and preventable way she did.

I could have had her blindly fumble her way to safety in the moonless dark, I had good direction sense.

But I wanted to rp it, and so she died.

Eh, still not sure it was worth the cost to my enthusiasm. :/

RIP dumbass, you were going to eventually die to doing it, but you really chose a hell of a time. :/

Have you tried playing tabletop in person or online because... I think that might be your best bet.

This works for me.   Loving 5E.

It wasn't so long ago that people - mainly staff and Lizzie-types - staunchly denied that there was a PKing problem.

Then we find Shabago saying:

While I certainly agree with him that removing crimecode is a bad idea, it's kind of funny to see their stances shift whenever it's convenient. One cannot help but notice that staff routinely contrives to have whatever opinion is necessary in order to disagree with players, even if they said the exact opposite last month.

In one of those recent threads mentioned by Shabago, we find him saying things like:

...because on that occasion, that was the stance he needed to take in order to disagree with players.

So which is it, Shabago? Is PKing on a downward trend or so widespread that design decisions need to take it into account? You've said both within the last quarter of the year. I just think it's odd that anytime players have any kind of feedback, the staff response happens to be whatever basically translates into "nothing needs to be changed."

And what few suggestions are too innocuous to shut down on some pretense of concern for the game's well-being are waved off with a "we've actually been discussing that lately." I've heard this hundreds of times before. Nothing ever comes of it. "We're discussing it" is staff-speak for "I couldn't come up with a concrete reason to shut the idea down without looking like an asshole, so I'm just gonna lie instead." You are not planning a city-elf tribe. You are not debating the merits of opening more noble houses. You're just bullshitting the playerbase, and they probably know better, but have learned that it's pointless to call you out on it when a year later nothing has materialized from these supposed discussions.

40 players on but pretty much noone to reploy with. Where the heck is everybody? Are they all just training clans/mudsexing in their apartments?

Going by what I hear, that time is still now.