Byn

.. beeing on teh bad end uv a wipe scenario, u fellows got teh horns, and still u bitch. ive bene wiped with no reson.

I wonder why people struggle at times to explain staff motivations. It either falls into a conspiracy scenario at one end of the spectrum, or a completely naive idealism on the other.

But in this particular example. If you have ever played tabletop games...Then the whole pike-mul or ruddy mekillot issue becomes easily understandable. What is the first reaction of any sub-par to slightly above average GM/DM/ST when their group is 'doing too well'? They fuck em up a little (or a lot) by gratuitously raising the stakes and throwing an overwhelming NPC (or ten) at them. The worst GMs feel a misplaced sense of competition with the players. They equate the NPCs being pushovers with themselves being a pushover. Dangerous way of thinking.

But even a decent to middling above average GM will throw a jacked up threat at players who are doing extremely well, just to give them a 'challenge'. It's a very human instinct to try and kick it up a notch. I'd say the majority of times, the staffer/GM is convinced they're doing the players a favor by spicing up their lives.

A great GM realizes that players don't want artificial challenges or arbitrarily powerful enemies. They want a realistic, logical threat. Everyone hates it when the DM has to look at everyone's sheets, and then stat their big baddy to be able to beat the group's best warrior one on one just as a baseline to the rest of its stats.

A great GM lets the players be the best at what they do (they earned it) and comes up with threats that prey on their weaknesses, not seek to negate their strengths! Albie is a good example here. Oh, they have an extremely skilled half-giant? Okay. Let's throw an even more skilled half-giant at them. How lame is that!

In tabletop games, this phenomena rarely leads to group wipes, but leads to the behavior that RGS has mentioned, of having to be merciful or have some other NPC ride to the rescue. (I HATE BEING RESCUED BY NPCS). In Arm, you get a combination of this, but because in Arm life is ridiculously fragile and precious, you get quite a few Mantis Heads before the dust clears. Good on you for statting a NPC that could stand up to Albie...That same NPC just fuck-stomped Albie's Runner friends.

That ruddy mek and pike mul...That's pride (their's) fucking with you.

Well, when I was playing Harar, I noticed discussions, for instance, about how extended subguilds were game breaking. I really think that this was a result of people getting their asses handed to them while sparring Harar, who was a 50 day old merchant with a badass disarm skill, and thinking that maybe it wasn't fair.

Around that time, too, there were also lots of posts here about sparring and combat mechanics - at a time when the Byn was the most populated clan in the game. So, considering how empty the rest of the clans were, I couldn't help but to think that there were several players who were posting on the shadow boards and playing in the Byn.

So, if I was able to put it together, then the staff,  many of whom have more technical prowess as well as  access to IP addresses, surely could have. 

To be sure, there were a number of shadow board players who died in that RPT. Even before this was confirmed to me via private conversations, I wondered if such had been the case.

Do I know for sure that the staff pinned Byn players as shadow board members are targeted them in the RPT? No. But it sure seems that way, especially knowing what I have learned as recently as the past month.

Well, you're wrong on a lot of levels, actually.

There is a difference between wild accusations and educated guesses. When several people on the shadow boards come to you and are like, yes, I was so-and-so during that thing... Then it starts to seem like a VERY strange coincidence that some players died or were, more accurately, targeted.

You're wrong about me knowing or really caring how many people have been logged into the game. Aside from what I read here, I have no connections to the game or any way of knowing anything about it outside of what is discussed here, period.

You're also wrong about me wanting to play under the current conditions. I literally cannot physically bring myself to read the GDB... The very thought of it actually makes me nauseous. Would I like to play Armageddon? Yes, but not as it stands. Trying to play Armageddon at this juncture would not really be fun for me, and no, it does not "kill me" that I am unable to play a game currently under control of an immature, grudge holding jackass like Nyr, who has done a fine job of destroying what he has touched, like Tuluk.

I have no real desire to "patch things up" with people who were incredibly rude and spiteful to me over a long period of time. Going to them in private and trying to make some kind of deal or vomit out a false apology for being sorry for returning rudeness with rudeness is totally off the table. Sorry, but not sorry.

Yeah, I am bitter - because I think it's really weak that just a few people can make the idea of playing Armageddon seem horrible. But you just have to remember that it is not one thing or even a couple or things... It is a trend that started around 2006 and one that has seen an uptick. Repeatedly, I have been treated and written to very rudely, and part of the reason I started posting here is because it came to a head. I decided to not just bite my tongue anymore.

Again, about mid-way through all of that bullshit, I wrote to Nyr offering an apology, and what was the reply? By the end of it, nothing but hostility and the promise that i would never play in ones of his clans again. And when someone hates you enough to say something like that and then becomes a producer, then well, I hope you don't blame me for peacing out shortly after he became producer, especially considering what had been going on in game.

So yeah.

Sorry Delerak, I don't like contradicting you because you obviously know a lot about the game, but I still don't see it. Here's a condensed version of the log:


The rugged, war-torn man parries a ruddy-brown mekillot's attack.

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the rugged, war-torn man's leg, inflicting a grievous wound.

The runed, pymlithe-hued man tries unsuccessfully to dart in front of the rugged, war-torn man.

The rugged, war-torn man parries a ruddy-brown mekillot's attack.

The rugged, war-torn man parries a ruddy-brown mekillot's attack.

The rugged, war-torn man attempts to flee.

A war beetle runs east, carrying the rugged, war-torn man on its back.


A ruddy-brown mekillot attacks the compact, sinewy man.

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the compact, sinewy man's neck, doing horrendous damage.

The compact, sinewy man cries out in pain.

The compact, sinewy man crumples to the ground.

The broad-shouldered human parries a ruddy-brown mekillot's attack.

The broad-shouldered human blocks a ruddy-brown mekillot's attack.

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the broad-shouldered human's leg, doing horrendous damage.

The broad-shouldered human reels from the blow.

The huge, patchy-scaled humanoid rescues the broad-shouldered human.

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the huge, patchy-scaled humanoid's arm, doing horrendous damage.

The huge, patchy-scaled humanoid attempts to flee.

A ruddy-brown mekillot seizes the opening and attacks .

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the huge, patchy-scaled humanoid's body, doing horrendous damage.

The huge, patchy-scaled humanoid reels from the blow.

A war beetle runs west, carrying the huge, patchy-scaled humanoid on its back.


A ruddy-brown mekillot attacks the runed, pymlithe-hued man.

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the runed, pymlithe-hued man's foot, doing horrendous damage.

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the runed, pymlithe-hued man's arm, doing horrendous damage.

The runed, pymlithe-hued man reels from the blow.

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the runed, pymlithe-hued man's body, doing horrendous damage.

The runed, pymlithe-hued man cries out in pain.

The runed, pymlithe-hued man falls off a war beetle and lies still on the ground.

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the golden-eyed, dark-haired woman's leg, doing horrendous damage.

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the golden-eyed, dark-haired woman's leg, inflicting a grievous wound.

The golden-eyed, dark-haired woman attempts to flee.

A glossy, black-scaled inix runs south, carrying the golden-eyed, dark-haired woman on his back.


A ruddy-brown mekillot attacks the marred, mutton-chopped humanoid.

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the marred, mutton-chopped humanoid's leg, doing horrendous damage.

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the marred, mutton-chopped humanoid's body, doing horrendous damage.

The marred, mutton-chopped humanoid reels from the blow.

A ruddy-brown mekillot claws the marred, mutton-chopped humanoid's body, doing horrendous damage.

The marred, mutton-chopped humanoid splatters blood on you.

The marred, mutton-chopped humanoid crumples to the ground.

The beak-nosed, scraggly haired man blocks a ruddy-brown mekillot's attack.

A ruddy-brown mekillot crumples to the ground.

We see a pattern here: the mekillot attacks after each time someone fled. It moves on to the next foe after killing someone, as you said, but if someone flees, that seems to leave it without a foe, so it chooses a new one.

Quick note - The shadowboards are no longer 'small' they easily match the traffic of the GDB and I think a lot of GDB posters or former posters have accounts now. So to say, well someone from the shadowboard said they were soandso and all the shadowboard people died is about as statistically relevant as someone saying they were targeting GDBers.