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Byn
Oct 20, 2014 19:26:54 GMT -5
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Post by legendary on Oct 20, 2014 19:26:54 GMT -5
The reason for having such an excess of numbers is because they refuse to take on high risk jobs, something the they're supposed to be doing. Even with offers of upwards of twenty thousand coins to hunt down and kill a single dangerous creature, the task is refused because they don't want to risk their mercenaries dying.
The T'zai Byn mercenary company, too worried about dying to take on a big, exciting job that would take them to rather exotic locations.
The staff used it as a spring board to try and force people into other clans, many of which have been reduced to impotent social circles with absolutely no pressing need to do anything remotely interesting. The merchant houses are stale and weak, the noble houses are so irrelevant to the goings on in the game that they might as well be independents.
The Byn was popular because it was easy RP, skill ups and fun times without a lot of staff pressure. They not only ruined that, but failed to revitalize the other clans in the process.
Fuck it, let's just eradicate some more noble houses and call it a plot. Why not?
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Byn
Oct 20, 2014 19:36:52 GMT -5
Post by grumble on Oct 20, 2014 19:36:52 GMT -5
fuk teh byn. fuk dem wit a spiky club.
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Oct 20, 2014 19:47:15 GMT -5
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Post by Kronibas 2.0 on Oct 20, 2014 19:47:15 GMT -5
fuk teh byn. fuk dem wit a spiky club. ILL FUCKIN BOSH U MATeY |
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Byn
Oct 20, 2014 20:12:08 GMT -5
Post by anoobarak on Oct 20, 2014 20:12:08 GMT -5
It's okay I do all my best skilling up on black beetles
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Oct 20, 2014 20:25:05 GMT -5
Post by jkarr on Oct 20, 2014 20:25:05 GMT -5
Fuck it, let's just eradicate some more noble houses and call it a plot. Why not? cuz such an unprecedented a display of shartistry would be too risky for the byn |
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Byn
Oct 20, 2014 21:05:23 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 21:05:23 GMT -5
Basically what happened was the "higher ups" cough cough imms gave specific orders to the sergeants, restricting them from hiring anyone unless they were sponsored....even if they lost runners or troopers. legendary.....I know for a fact that a year ago, somewhere around that time, the staff wouldn't allow the Byn to accept contracts from anyone other than nobles, merchant houses etc etc....and that made it alot more boring. I also know the Byn is fucking strong as shit, and they -have- been taking high risk jobs. Gith warbands of over 40 gith shooting perraine arrows and pet salt-worms. Exploring the entire grey forest for a plant and ending up having over 30 Kryl, (new kinds) tembo, rantarri, plant-eating fuckers, gortok hurtling at you. The staff have incorporated a new type of poison or something that makes our mounts go crazy and attack us and the other mounts. There has been alot of bloody action going on, the above are just examples. Tbh, it's staff who have fucked things up Byn side. I remember the Byn back in the day...packed full of pc's and going on high-risk jobs and plots allllllll the time. Then the staff told us we couldn't do this. We couldn't do that. We couldn't do anything in that place. We couldn't hire this. We couldn't hire that. You get the point. |
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Oct 20, 2014 21:24:28 GMT -5
Post by Jeshin on Oct 20, 2014 21:24:28 GMT -5
1) Doubt it was a new type of kryl
2) I doubt it's a new type of kryl because mulrage poison has been out for years and is what causes mounts to attack players and other mounts. If a maxed warrior is mulraged they will also random attack (thus I question whether you know what is new)
3) I can confirm that as Senior Aide Wilem of Oash that I spent oodles of sid on the byn to get gicker components for Oashi gemmed. It was on my next character that I heard the Byn no longer accepted contracts without it being 'worth their time' aka clan requests from leadership.
Everything else sounds fun.
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Oct 20, 2014 21:29:57 GMT -5
Post by jkarr on Oct 20, 2014 21:29:57 GMT -5
I also know the Byn is fucking strong as shit, and they -have- been taking high risk jobs. I remember the Byn back in the day...packed full of pc's and going on high-risk jobs and plots allllllll the time. so which is it are they doing high risk jobs now or is that just a memory |
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Oct 20, 2014 22:01:05 GMT -5
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Post by delerak on Oct 20, 2014 22:01:05 GMT -5
Krrx would be pissed. lol.
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Oct 20, 2014 22:05:49 GMT -5
Post by Lizzie on Oct 20, 2014 22:05:49 GMT -5
Via ooc contacts I -believe- the situation to be thus... The byn was overflowing in apps, it was drawing way to many people from other clans and the staff / leadership determined they needed to be more selective in order to force people into other employment opportunities. It's possible there was an influx of vets looking for a nostalgia way to play ARM and went to the Byn for that oldschool gritty experience. Maybe the Sargeant was too careful to keep everyone alive instead of letting the wilds clean his ranks for him. So to reiterate. There was a rush of players into the Byn. The policy was put in place to stem the tide. It wasn't removed even after numbers equalized. I -think-. The current Sergeants actively tried to keep people alive. One of them even brought high quality bandages on the smallest of outings, for the express purpose of saving people. This, combined with the fact that the staffer's idea of "dangerous" was "just not enough to kill you tho lol!" is probably a major contributing factor to the situation. I don't mind, though. I had a lot of fun when I was playing with them. It was nice to have a runner last a decent length of time, and the dynamic of a hardass sergeant with a heart of gold was kind of fun to play with. You felt more like a band of mercenaries working together, than a ragtag group of idiots being led by a smaller group of heroes. |
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Byn
Oct 20, 2014 22:48:53 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 22:48:53 GMT -5
The answer to elves in the Byn is an all elf unit.
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Post by delerak on Oct 20, 2014 23:00:09 GMT -5
The answer to elves for Arm is to let all elves have the "running" capability. Regardless of whether you live in the fucking desert or in the city it makes no sense that city elves wouldn't be able to run as fast as the SAME race living elsewhere.
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Oct 20, 2014 23:36:39 GMT -5
Post by nobody on Oct 20, 2014 23:36:39 GMT -5
So what clans can city elves actually join now? ... lol. The Byn has the most potential for fun. It's not necessarily the best of the RP that goes on, but it has a diverse range of PC's, and there's contracts to keep them occupied and allows you to flex your muscles. Spider hunting, gith hunting.. that's 2 quite fun adventures you can have... TWO... that's just quickly off the top of my head. Kadius frequently wagon between the cities, theres another contract every week or 2 weeks. Not a lot of action sometimes, but other times there has been, and it's travel outside, not just city jerking.
There's a big difference in going out and killing only tembo, or one black beetle on a patrol, compared to actually fighting a few units of a hostile force that can appear to be ICly your actually making a difference in slaughtering an enemy, not a beast. I think the south has it better than the north for that, and that's part of why the Byn has never really been successful in the north. Sadly, the Grey Forest is too close to Tuluk. If you needed to travel 10-15 rooms, I think it would be better, and as soon as you touched the edge of the Grey, there was the potential for nasty critters. It would make being a solo logger or forager much more difficult...but the Byn might be actually needed to help defend groups going out to farm wood or such. I'm not talking 8-10 man units of Byn... maybe just a Trooper and two shit cloaks at most, at a fee of like 1-2 small. The scrublands would need to be made more dangerous though as well. Everyone knows where that Tembo spawns, and the only other worry is usually 1 carru that wanders about, or a really far travelling raptor which is very rare. Put some of those hostile gurth around, might spruce up the place a bit.
Why stop recruitment tho for the BYN? How the fuck are newbs going to get sponsorship? If it's taking too many people away from the other clans, like many have said above, make it so the other clans are more FUN. It's not rocket science... lets see more junior agents and shit, flood them into the game. if some of them are shit, they might be making mistakes, the other family members might need to have them 'removed'. Sometimes you need to let bad things happen, instead of trying to just oontrol and cock block everything so it's boring as bat shit, but 'safe'. Which comes back to... we don't want to have to keep setting up players and having them fail and die.
Keep recruiting for the Byn.... if people so badly want to still join, make them go north. It couldn't be hard to promote one to be another sergeant and have him go north. But, staff need to work out possible jobs for the Byn that are necessary up north. ALL the time it's pretty much, don't go harassing the Kryl, you will stir them up. Seriously, what the fuck are the Kryl doing? Are they just the nicest versions of Aliens, or Arachnids from Starship Troopers that are just happy to place house within their own homes or what???
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Oct 21, 2014 0:34:12 GMT -5
Post by topkekm8s on Oct 21, 2014 0:34:12 GMT -5
The answer to elves in the Byn is an all elf unit. That would be really fun! |
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Oct 21, 2014 1:09:58 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 1:09:58 GMT -5
The whole city elf concept is fundamentally flawed and stupid. You have a race whose entire defining characteristic is their impulsive urge to steal, rob and scam people constantly. It's not even a case of "some elves can't be trusted," they're ALL irredeemable scoundrels. There is no conceivable reason for anyone to hire them into any kind of ordinary operation. It would be like taking the worst stereotype of Romani gypsies and making an entire race out of them.
It should be utterly unthinkable for any human to ever so much as consider hiring an elf for any kind of earnest work. You CANNOT trust them, ever. To demand that they have a place in human-based clans is absurd, but they were never given any real culture or environment in which to operate themselves, at least not in Allanak. This race has always stood out as one of Armageddon's worst examples of game design, and has ever been the elephant in the room that nobody did anything about.
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