Random Armageddon Thoughts (for current GDB-only players)

I actually really like the inclusion of Jal for reasons similar to what Vex has stated. I think it has the potential for players to make something fun out of the House. It being the lowest ranking house means they have nowhere to go but up, and they almost certainly do something besides tinker with the sewers so players might get a chance to define what else Jals get up to.

There might be reasons why Jal is being opened. Some very world changing reasons.

I will at least say this and this may be a personal thing.

Content doesn't have to be epic.

If a PCs day to day life is grounded in realism and a certain tier of influence then adding content which is miles above their normal influence comes off as gimmicky and especially if it's restricted content it comes off as favoritism. So if I was going to do a world changing thing with sewers and a House of civil engineers I might do something like oh the sewers are really a barrier between catacombs of old Allanak and the new Allanak on top of it and those catacombs are now open and now explorers and treasure hunters are pillaging them and it's a race between House Jal the officially licensed explorers and the indies/other clans trying to map it and get ze lewts.

That's fun, down to earth, creates competition, doesn't lock it to Jal but gives them primacy as it's their gimmick and it's everyone versus them unless you ally with them. Etc etc blah blah blah.

That's a whollllllle lot of assumption there, vex. You're right in that I don't think anything is wrong with Arm but maybe you should go back and re-read my opinions, particularly my #bringback posts in the discord where I was way louder than I am on the GDB simply by default because it's not only live action roleplay but I was there every day.

I'm not "in a spat."
I don't have fences to mend and I am 100% still just as loud, as vexed at staff as I have been for 19 years and still very opinionated on what they have done right, what they have done wrong.
I am still of the same opinion that a lot of people's problem with "Arm" is that they're just not cut out to play in the theme which is something I am unpopular for.

I couldn't care two shits what staff thinks of me, hence my not hiding behind a pussy mask of a fake name.

The ONLY thing that has changed is that the ooc staff shit has finally taken away my enjoyment of the game. That's it.

Some people think Arm is fucked up. I think staff is fucked up.

Silence is complicity. We're fighting the same war, we just have different targets.



Here's a little example of the love I've gotten as a player from my "staff sugar daddy" to warrant my supposed "shill" -

(after having 3 karma already) Set karma to 2, Good roleplayer, bad player
overall. Disruptive to clans, doesn't care much about anything but herself.

No Muark. Thanks.

Complaint received about her sharing OOC information.
I've really liked her and think she RPs great. But her attitude toward staff gets worse
and worse. I blame IRC


Uses NPCs like the one in the vivadu temple to
figure out people's guilds OOC.

Despite the caliber of her emoting,
this is a very difficult and thankless player to work with. I strongly advise
not giving her special roles.

Continually misuses hemote with giggles, chuckles, nods, etc.




There's a wealth of information in those notes. Pay attention to what I bolded. This problem has not gone away. I have felt the same exact way for 18 years, heh. Staff isn't the game. I still maintain that there's nothing wrong with the game itself.


It's interesting to me that people see me as a pro-Arm-brainwashed-heretic in spite of my very vocal disagreement with lots of things. People see what they want to see, I guess.

This isn't a really good change. There are better things that should have been worked on. To quote Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, "I know it when I see it."