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Tuluk will not be ICly closed and staff have indicated that you may 'virtually' come and go freely and that trade will continue to virtually occur and that everything VIRTUALLY will be the same. The only difference is that Tuluk is no longer open to players. Kind of like how some delf tribes still exist but are not playable and the gith exist and are not playable and the Noble Houses military divisions exist but are not playable.

^^^ since I was basically one of the only PCs who was playing a Kadian family member when Freil's was magickally consumed by the rest of the city state - definitely one of the only ones protesting it ICly (IC protests came from the fact that Freil's had been mostly autonomous, but was now... Not) AND OOCly - I can't help but to find that a smidge hilarious.

Definitely have come round full circle.

I guess that they could just remove the point location, remove apartments, close entrances to taverns, and then yeah, maybe keep Freil's as the only thing not blocked off - compounds still accessible to GMH's based out of Allanak (GMH's could still reap the benefit from neutrality here). Also, it could basically grant two forts to GMHs, if the staff decided to not be dicks about it, granting them a pretty cool advantage.

I do think that all of this bullshit about not having players in Tuluk could have been avoided entirely by, like, letting nobles hire as many people as they want to hire, not fucking with them, and so on and so forth. But when you stifle the ability to have growth from the onset, then well, what the fuck do you expect. Nobody wants to play in a clan with three players when there is no one else in the whole damn city.

So, yeah. I think that closing Tuluk is for the best right now, too, but only because of some fuckwitted decisions that have been made.

And see, this is just a SYMPTOM of the problem. Tuluk is like a frog in the ecosystem or some shit, and it just died as a result of some toxic ass shit. For real.

It's not the only thing that's belly up, either, I would imagine.

From what staff have said, they indicated that the closure of Tuluk is a staff side decision. They want to "consolidate staff" not consolidate players. I believe they even said Tuluk's players are doing great and there are enough of them but that keeping Tuluk staffed is difficult because of rollover and some staff just do not want to oversee Tuluk.

So it is a purely OOC decision as quoted by Nyr. The final RPT will give an IC excuse for so many Tuluki's to be out in the world and not back at home, but it according to staff posts nothing ICly changes about Tuluk. I imagine they're doing this in order to re-open it further down the line. I also imagine they expect Tuluki concepts to diminish so players don't have to answer why they can't enter their own city.

I think youre right, they are hiding something and it even comes across as them hiding something. It begs for some questions to be asked, one being why close it down when they were trying to do things up there? It just doesnt make sense even on a surface level.