A thought on the "meta-game"

Heramide harvest points were mentioned actually. Some, and I'd like to put myself in that section, only share the secrets that most veteran players learned via the many characters they went through, just to even it out between newbie players and veteran players. Or to share something for people who think that nothing is going on, to actually find out that hey ... lots of shit is happening.


Finding out methods to quickly rise up in power will not break armageddon. You can skill up your warrior 10 times quicker then anyone else, but it will take you months to raise up off/def. And you will still be capable of dying to an 3 day Krathi with demonfire. Arm's guilds are not balanced and never ment to be balanced. Everybody die, no matter how powerful.

These boards are taken in the direction that the userbase desires, with a couple of constraints. If people want to do any of those things they are entirely able to and I'm willing to facilitate it here. There is no singular purpose, and looking at the board you can see it's a combination of all of those things. You have players posting the best way to skill up, people discussing other RPIs, information on where to harvest mon level kruth components, etc.

There's a lot of niche info that people forget to drop when they're doing dumps. If players want the info on how to brew methelinoc they can easily post a thread asking for it. I don't think that information is necessarily being withheld so much as people are overlooking posting it.

I seriously had to reread my post a few times just to completely confirm that I did not write it somehow strange. Has anyone else understood my answer the same way as Vorpalbunny? I'm flabbergasted.

Dude. One important aspect of research and analysis is being objective and knowing how not to skew data to fit in your own predisposition.

I'm with TMG here, I'm here just looking for unfettered conversation about the game. I was very angry (and very drunk) for the first couple hours after I started posting, but really after the drunkenness wore off and I got the ban email, it just turned to apathy.

These forums have proven to a be an invaluable tool for me.
Also a look into sides of Arm I never ever, seem to get to see.

Maybe I'm not a good role player... but also, I think its because I'm sometimes too much of a good role player.


See from my end of things, it often feels (mostly from the GDB) that there is this air of elitism that surrounds most the vetted players. New players, when discovered, are often treated like special children... and oh nothing ends a scene more then screwing up an emote or something. These "elites" seem to be annoyed by most newbies, like how dare a new person join into THEIR game and dare try to ROLE PLAY. I feel at times all new players are to either go straight to the Byn or just be some back ground character... no better then vnpc's.

Also no one has patience for you, to figure out an emote, to work out your characters reaction. To teach or bother with you at all, they almost out right refuse. Not for in character motivations, but clearly OOC motivated, you're new, and therefore... uninteresting, soon to die, and worthless to them.

They don't care about bringing people into the fold, or sharing their joy with others... its something only for them, and their close knit OOC friends they always some how... play with no matter how unrealistic it is.

Now this isn't every player, I've had some actually seem to be more engaged with me, not sure if they wanted to help some one out, or if they actually dug I was doing something different. Still don't know, but I for sure was cut out of plots for not knowing (super secret location number 2, that every 100 pc players know) or having issues with a obscure syntax you haven't used in literal YEARS, or just being found out to either not very experience or new. I can't give specific examples, but it did make me leave part of a the game world, and I still don't think I'll ever try to play in THAT area again.


Oh I hate the GDB's "Find out IC" XD especially when its simple stuff, or something needed to make a character work... Its like they've create this strange role play toll road that only after serving up fresh f-me's and throwaways for a year you're allowed entrance.


And even then, for all their well typed, flowery emotes, and all that jazz... all their characters fall flat... one dimensional, shallow characters, with one weak gimmick (secret magicker, really a half-elf, etc) but you never see it in they way the speak, or act, or anything. All those things have these strange OOC motivations surrounding them. Like they more concerned about driving some plot, then actually being the character. Their only IN character when they communicate... they aren't actually playing that character. They don't allow them selves to struggle, to fail, or to do much of anything interesting. Yet these "characters" seem to get the fav's, cause they help rail road the plots, they don't act human (or I guess in a fantasy setting "A person") they act like machines, machines that occasionally talk with a funny accent.





Jesus christ I got off topic and ranted.... wait why am I posting this?

Yes, I start browsing the site, cause I wanted a look into a side of Arm I only ever got bits and pieces of.
Then I signed up to get some logs
Then I started seeing some the code stuff, realizing that all that (Find out IC) was just a bunch of bullshit, and EVERYONE twinks their way into the plots. Other wise, you'll just always just greb and tavern sit.

Which honestly pissed me off, after years of on and off playing, because I for the longest time always tried to play by the rules, find out that maybe a solid 90% of the GDB "Find out IC DERP!" was really just a way to make more throwaway back ground PC's for their uber staff favorite characters to romp on.


Ok rant off (bad night)


I just wanted to add:

Some character deaths I've been given, are straight up brilliant, sometimes my favorite times.

Maybe they preyed on me cause I was new, but they made the experience memorable, its better then the assholes who just act like you don't exist.

If these forums will result in a creation of such a clique, then the reasoning behind the staff ban on ooc communication of this sort is entirely justified.

I think most people kind of hit that wall. What's preached and what's practiced are two very different things. I've said it elsewhere on these boards but just play whatever way is fun to you. If you don't want to emote shoveling poop in the Byn for the 50 millionth time then just go and log off and do something else. Not wanting to play out the same scene a million times doesn't make you a bad player.