Gems From The GDB

As long as metagaming is just an accepted fact of life on Arm, you might as well fight fire with fire to defend yourself. It's that or just accept a disadvantage for no reason. For all the inane cries of 'be the change you want to see,' that's ironically impossible on Arm because nothing changes. As long as it doesn't involve actively griefing other players, metagaming is basically just playing the game the way most others do. Staff has failed to discourage it, and sometimes even do it themselves or condone players doing it.

Literally the worst act of metagaming I have ever heard of was done by Nyr himself, creating a psionicist PC whose background made no mention of being a psionicist so that Lirathan templars and other mindbenders couldn't glean it. I've never before or since seen such flagrant cheating, and it was done by the game's producer (unpaid volunteer™). With that kind of precedent, how can players be expected to do better? Or even be blamed, really?

On my thieves, I liked to wear that hooded robe you could buy across the street from the Allanak herbalist. It could be worn on the body with a cloak over it. Do your dirty deeds with the robe's hood up, then lower it as soon as possible. Anyone looking at you will see you wearing some random cloak which covers what's worn on the body, so they won't associate you with the figure in the hooded, off-white robe or whatever it was called. It'll fool some people some of the time.

People are so shitty against thieves. One time, I was sitting in the Red during off-peak hours with like 10 people online. A guy logged on in the quit room and came into the barroom, and I stole his mount ticket. Didn't fail, didn't do anything more incriminating than emote walking past him on my way out. He presumably went to the stables and found that his ticket had been stolen, saw that almost nobody was online, concluded that there was a good chance I'd done it, and the next day my character was arrested for theft.

That player had four karma, I later learned. You can choose to metagame or not, but it'll be used against you either way, and there are virtually no consequences. Some of the supposedly good roleplayers whom staff trusts will routinely do anything for an advantage. Half of Armageddon (and half of its appeal, to many players) is a sandbox competition of fucking people over the most.

Everyone I've ever seen try to abide by the spirit of the rules and good sportsmanship, has eventually gotten fucked. And again, with examples like these, and the Nyr one especially, it's easy to see why.

Staff holds the rest of the playerbase to a much higher standard than they hold each other's alts. And part of that is to keep others from reaping the same advantages they do.

im lolling so hard right now at the mental picture of a couple romping in a bed, then the covers get pulled back and this dude is staring up at them

gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,49037.0.html

Some things never change. What a complete, insensitive knob. Totally unnecessary.

Just a remark by staff which lakes vocal inflection and thus comes off as snarky due to readers being trained to read snark due to other staffers habits.

Same search on DuckDuckGo and Bing gives the same. So it definitely isn't influenced by Google's all knowing database of you.


This THREAD came up second on DuckDuckGo for "ArmageddonMUD GDB", and the ProBoard shows up 5th on bing for "ArmageddonMUD GDB".




EDIT: Oops, replied to the most recent post on the first page.... I will leave my stupidity here.