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Post by trollageddon on Feb 13, 2019 20:41:40 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2019 1:43:10 GMT -5
Not all Shadows of Isildur staff were do-nothings. Just the ones who won the war of attrition to hold onto the server. Also, as much as I love a good conspiracy theory, there's no way the current staff are the same as the old staff with changed names. And if Icarus/Hal and Kite were the same person (again, wrong continents) ... then I witnessed some very disturbingly self-abusive conversations on the wizchat  |
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Post by faroukel on Mar 21, 2019 9:01:22 GMT -5
When other staff are usually the source of all leaks, then I suppose that's one way to muddle information...
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Post by redditboy on Jul 18, 2019 8:48:32 GMT -5
Arm isn't going to change, staff are entrenched and think they're doing the best thing and any criticism is just ungrateful trolls shitting on their great ideas. Shade was/is an awesome dude who was really receptive to feedback about the game, balance, bugs, etc and got things done really quickily. Even when there was a small pbase, the staff was running events frequently and with a good attitude despite there being kinks in it with crashes and item loss. I had close to just as much staff animated interactions in the short time I played Black Sands as I have my entire time on Arm. Read more: armageddonmud.boards.net/thread/348/shadows-isildur-laketown-rpi#ixzz5u2LXofPM |
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Post by pinkerdlu on Jul 18, 2019 10:49:43 GMT -5
Well it’s pretty easy to pump out animations when you have ~5 players as a peak. Not hating on the guy but let’s be real.
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Post by jcarter on Jul 18, 2019 14:11:51 GMT -5
Well it’s pretty easy to pump out animations when you have ~5 players as a peak. Not hating on the guy but let’s be real. yeah but arm has probably the same ratio of staff to peak players at this point. |
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Post by triskelion on Jul 18, 2019 15:20:06 GMT -5
I would play SoI if it was set literally anywhere else in middle-earth
Laketown is the most boringest shit
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Post by shakes on Jul 18, 2019 17:14:52 GMT -5
I would play SoI if it was set literally anywhere else in middle-earth Laketown is the most boringest shit Yeah. The most boring location, in the most boring timeframe ... of the entire Middle Earth. The zones are pretty fucked up there too. I will say staff was pretty pleasant to me but other players were practically non-existent. I saw, maybe, one other person my entire time there and they harassed me and threatened to put me in jail if they caught me selling something without a license. |
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Post by faroukel on Jul 29, 2019 11:41:41 GMT -5
skip SoI. Play HL. Basically the same thing (there's practically nothing Tolkien about SoI...), but with better code, more players, and decent staff.
I have a dwarf pc on SoI that I haven't touched for like...4-5 months. Just so painful watching my old hobby rot itself beyond recognition.
Like, the writings on the wall when the key staff members spend their mudding hours playing (edit: other muds) instead of..you know, putting effort into their mud.
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Post by lyse on Jul 29, 2019 15:40:53 GMT -5
skip SoI. Play HL. Basically the same thing (there's practically nothing Tolkien about SoI...), but with better code, more players, and decent staff. I have a dwarf pc on SoI that I haven't touched for like...4-5 months. Just so painful watching my old hobby rot itself beyond recognition. Like, the writings on the wall when the key staff members spend their mudding hours playing (edit: other muds) instead of..you know, putting effort into their mud. RPIs are AIDS to me. I can’t even play them anymore without getting an eye twitch. They’re all just..sooooo bad and cheesy and gamey. The last time I played Harshlands, I started in Trobridge and as an Agrikian. I even spent a couple days reading up on the lore and some of that shitty SCA like game world called Harn. lol. I probably should’ve just jumped in without reading anything. My need for making a character that actually belongs in the game world foiled me again. I roll up my character. Get started, hook up with the Agrikians and was immediately appalled at 1) how little the person I was talking to understood the religion. 2) how the person I did talk to above them basically told me in a meta way. “I know they kinda suck, but I have all of the followers I need. We need to make them stronger with followers. Maybe you can kinda help them out with the lore stuff by nudging them in the right direction?” Um, nope eye started twitching. I knew what would’ve happened. Two months later, the person I was supposed to follow would’ve died horrifically or got bored and then I’d end up being the leader and would’ve had to undo all of the two months of damage they did. Nope, been there, done that many times before; saw it coming. Got the T-shirt and burned it. |
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Post by shakes on Jul 29, 2019 16:58:46 GMT -5
I tried HL too. The code is awesome, except for the hardcoded "can't make money" bullshit and the game lore was the least inspired shit I have ever seen.
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Post by faroukel on Jul 29, 2019 17:10:05 GMT -5
I had a hard time with the Lore too...at first.
Once I got past my own sort of internal bias (being a Tolkien-nut), and sort of discovered the religious/sort of magic side of HL, everything opened up.
The making money thing is really "structured" for guilded/mercenary pcs...less so with shadies like thieves, prostitutes, etc.
But yea, that code...I like it. Has that old SoI feel with a lot better function.
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Post by shakes on Jul 29, 2019 17:26:31 GMT -5
I just wanted to be a hunter for my first couple of characters. But after being mercilessly mauled with semi-permanent wounds I couldn't find anyone to heal and returning triumphant with a wolf skin that nobody would buy ... I gave up.
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Post by mehtastic on Jul 29, 2019 20:52:57 GMT -5
skip SoI. Play HL. Basically the same thing (there's practically nothing Tolkien about SoI...), but with better code, more players, and decent staff. I have a dwarf pc on SoI that I haven't touched for like...4-5 months. Just so painful watching my old hobby rot itself beyond recognition. Like, the writings on the wall when the key staff members spend their mudding hours playing (edit: other muds) instead of..you know, putting effort into their mud. RPIs are AIDS to me. I can’t even play them anymore without getting an eye twitch. They’re all just..sooooo bad and cheesy and gamey. Yeah, it's painful. I assume if you're still RPing, you're into MUSHes now? How is that going? I wish I had time to play one sometimes. |
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Post by faroukel on Jul 29, 2019 21:51:41 GMT -5
I've been tempted to give Arx a try. I just never tried a MUSH before.
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