Tuluk is closing - turns out nyr lannister does not shit gol

Hey, all. New poster here. Felt like chiming in, rather than lurking for a change. If that somehow gets me outed, so be it but the player base needs to recognize that the views here are no longer a minority perspective. Very few will argue that Tuluk needed to go. But what allowed it to get to this point in the first place? The defiling began with Laeris after a change in administration. Perhaps one of the biggest mistakes was to give powers of observation to the templars. You don't give spells like send shadow to templars in Nak, because that's what the gemmed are for. To be used as their minions. So why give advanced psionics to templars in Tuluk when they should be hiring others to do their observation for them? Templars and nobles are meant to be catalysts for the RP of others, after all. But even after those absurd changes, the place was still tolerable. And then..

Enter Nyr. Who just can't leave the place the fuck alone and wishes to make it abundantly clear to the players that he'll do as he wishes, players' opinions be damned. I genuinely think the guy took delight in making the unwanted changes just to spite those who disagreed with him. Change after change, he just couldn't get it right. From shadow artists (the name alone reeks of staleness, of zero creative power) to constant reduction after reduction, the place began to downward spiral from there. He posts and says there is no problem at all. Then posts, asking us to play in Tuluk. Then finally shuts Tuluk down completely. He has the gall to suggest that this is even partially the players' fault when the blame rests almost completely on his own shoulders.

Armageddon right now is a lot like North Korea. The only way that country will ever move forward is by completely toppling the current regime. It's not like the Kims are going to suddenly start playing nice and offer freedom for all. The same goes with the staff. I have no doubt that the staff's decision to do this was gotten from jcarter's website right here. And it might not be a bad move at all: if it were a plan being initiated by literally anyone else. Nyr said it best: the game has changed. Talia too: plots are out of our hands. I challenge any one of you here to name an inspiring, motivating PC in modern day Arm. Everyone you encounter now is a grinder, dotting their i's and crossing their t's purely to be a "good RPer". But with zero substance. The truly inspiring players are gone. Gone with the halflings, the blackwing elves, the sorcerers, the rape (if that's your thing), the PC red robe templars, the PC senior nobles, PC slaves, the Kuraci Outriders, magick in the cities, building plots, qynar, and just about any ounce of power that players ever had in their hands.

jesantu knows wazzup

Have you considered that the population of Luir's might diminish because of this? It's always been a hub, a transit point for people going either north or south. The only other people there besides Kuracis are visitors. And now that number just got cut in half.

I'm all about consolidating the player base. But the solution was never reduction. It was making interesting areas more interesting and offering incentives to play there.

All that shit was avoidable if you didnt like it. Dont play in tuluk or get involved in the politics. At least players had the option of that, or just being tribals who hunted there but hung out elsewhere. I didnt like tuluk but i did enjoy having a tribal who could do the above or get better at skills in a safe ish area without having to be clanned.

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In this post, a guy talks about things getting removed from the game. I looked at the list and it struck me how many of those were removed in the last four or five years, i.e. during Nyr's reign. Those are bolded:

I think closing Tuluk was a sad inevitability. There were some things that just weren't working because of the lack of players, and let's face it, RPI isn't exactly an exploding genre. You can try your best at recruitment, but the kind of numbers we're talking about weren't going to realistically be achieved without the dreaded consolidation. I don't like the idea of closing an entire city-state and making it awkwardly virtual, either, but I prefer one more lively, fleshed-out city than two cities that are being stretched thin over a mostly virtual base.

There are multiple problems, however. For starters, I hate the way this is being handled. I won't go into it, because I think it's pretty obvious. This is going to drive some players away, and they're going to lose some of the good that could have been accomplished.

My greatest fear, though, is that the staff won't really use this as an opportunity to open clans, devirtualize the virtual, give iso roles more opportunity for interaction without compromising their integrity, and so on. I'm afraid they'll just Tulukify Allanak.