Coming soon... announcment... let the bitching begin

Would play tribal in The Tablelands...

Keeps getting ganked by bored D-elves.

Too little too late. All that time spent writing up that post for a couple tribal roles? When will they realize that players want red robes, they want to be captains and generals of armies. Yeah it's a cool sounding role but why anyone would subject themselves to that kind of flavor role is beyond me. You'll have no one to play with. You'll literally just be self roleplaying or playing with whoever you can try to find while seeing a few staff echoes here and there about how the shadows dance across the oasis.

I had this discussion with Rath and he understands that tribals and the T Lands are flavor roles. It's impossible with the population to achieve a functional or grand dynamic in that area unless there's a ton of apps. People would rather play indie tribals than play in tribal humans, despite the amazing amount of love they've been given these past couple years. Docs have gone from 1 paragraph to 6000+ words.

Players just don't want to play restrictive roles like tribal humans. Or when they do they still prefer to hang out in cities and have city boyfriends then get butthurt about being told not to do that.

It's a great area of the game. It's fun. It just lacks players who can grasp the tribal place as it should exist in accordance with canon.

Edit: Oh. I suggested they do a role call but for mundanes a while back... hmmm.... Cool to see they're trying to get this plot going. I hope to be peripherally involved with my new PC, and kind of bummed that I'm not in that clan anymore. Have fun, whoever gets it!

I never said people want to be given those roles. They aspire to them. I have always had a desire to play a templar until I found out that they can't advance. Fuck that. My character has aspirations, has drive, willpower, yet I as the player no matter how hard I try will never be able to go above a certain rank. It's maddening and I'm sure many players leave because of it.

I get that they can "make the rank" and store but that exactly is my point. We don't watch movies because we want to see random soldier #4 fight his way thru the punic wars in the roman empire. We watch them for Spartacus, for Julius Caesar and Maximus Decimus Meridius ( god I love that name). So yeah unfortunately for Arm myself (and many others) are not okay with being random soldier x dying on Byn suicide mission #6

but you all enjoy.

You know well enough that it is perfectly possible to achieve a real dynamic in the tablelands. It's been shut down in the past rather aggressively. The Red Fangs, Dune Stalkers, past human tribals, Blackwing, the Soh. There's been plenty of peaks in the past decade+ where there were more players in the tablelands than Allanak.

Things eventually got whittled down to just the Sun Runners, and the Soh who were turned into the Desert Elf version of the Byn.

There's A LOT that could be done to make the tablelands a happening place. It's been done before and in recent memory. It's unfortunate that you're indulging Rath in his delusions. If the tablelands is boring and only around for flavor these days, it's because staff aggressively engineered that outcome.

This would be great if the rest of the game was in good shape. A healthy Allanak is so much more important than a good Tablelands plot, though. That's what they should be focusing on. Events in remote areas with few players can never be a priority when there's a severe need for administrative attention in the place where almost everyone is.