Allanaki Ranger Advice?

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Yeah, here Sirra explains the sad reality of playing a ranger... you can either do this shit or be content being someone's bitch. I reccomend being someone's bitch.

armageddonmud.boards.net/thread/502/ranger

ur shit is confusing

did u already roll a char, and did u already point to a location? if u did, where, because some of those questions only have answers when we know that

2nd what part of avoid scrabs in my 1st post did u not get? avoid them until u get better in skills and more comfortable shooting out combat and escape commands esp as a game newbie because on arm combat can turn from casual to lifethreatening in a matter of hits. if u have a friend with u maybe u can try and see for urself how u fare against scrabs. also u want to avoid spiders even more than scrabs at this point because theyre harder but theyre not as close to allanak as scrabs so for the most part u should be fine

You can be doing fine, killing the scrab, when suddenly:

A dark-shelled scrab viciously pinches you on the head.
You reel from the blow.

Times like these, are when you have to type flee and pray to whatever you hold holy you break the reel code before it gets you again. This is not a situation a newb wants to find themselves in, though it's very educational, it's like, all the time you wasted writing your desc, background, and getting invested in your character, gone in a literal blink of an eye.

EDIT: Jkarr is right, stay the fuck away from scrabs. You want to skill up and learn the system first. My advice is tired and old as dirt, join the goddamn Byn.

It should be noted that new player accounts have no choice but to point to Allanak for their first character.

My advice is that you should play it very safe. Look up the spreadsheet maps that are on this forum somewhere, and just screw around with the chalton around the Allanki Ranch (not inside the ranch, heh) until you're feeling good enough about yourself to start hitting scrab. You can also fling stones at the vultures to the northeast, so long as you don't find yourself aggroing a massive stack of 50 vultures. Thanks, "it's not a bug," you incompetent insufferable fucks.

Eventually you're going to want to make your way to Luir's, and from there you can play it safe in the Grasslands with stilts until you're buff. Just run past anything other than that when it tries to attack you, and if you're on an Inix you'll outpace it.

Word of advice: if you do join the Byn, don't joke about having sex with elves. It triggers the current Sergeant's PTSD.


Oh, and one more thing! There's an active staffer right now, who is a troglodyte of a man. He's either Eurynomos, or Nergal, or perhaps someone else; I am incapable of placing blame where blame is due, because this dysfunctional cretin is violating observable decades of administrative accountability and tradition by simply not identifying himself in his administrative decisions -- as such, his delusional overreactions reflect horrifically not just on him, but the entire staff team.

I write this because I know this man, and I know he is going to read every post in this thread INCLUDING this post (at worst, he will glance over it, because I as one of the Undesirables have been banned from the game and no longer influence the fragile reality of a Text MUD that he blindly clings to); what's more, I know that he is going to spend the next 72+ hours typing WHO, and teleporting to every Ranger-guild character that happens to be in $zone_VrunDriath to look at the information of the account which owns it. Then, when his crusade ends and he finds the person he thinks is you (going by the info you've provided in this thread), one of two things will happen:

Firstly, you may get an email saying you have violated Rule #7 of the game and your account has been terminated -- there will be no way to appeal, as your password will be scrambled -- and there will be no mention of who, exactly, pulled the trigger.

As a secondary outcome, if this sewer-dwelling excuse of an administrator for some reason cannot fully convince himself that the person he's identified is, in fact, you, he will put a note on your account; as it happens, the existence of this note will never be alerted to you, but it will influence the way the entire administrative team deals with you. You will be denied karma in your applications; you will never be selected for a sponsored rolecall; if you happen to be a fantastic player, and make your way up to be next-in-line for leadership of a clan, you will be rejected in favor of a sponsored rolecall occurring to replace that slot with someone other than you. And this behavior by Armageddon's staff team will continue for multiple years, if it even has a limit, as the first note you ever received on your account justifies it from your post on this board.

The true magic of it is, there's no telling if he really gets you, or if he bans / brands someone entirely uninvolved. It doesn't matter to him, as there's no accountability for his actions, and there's no ramification or punishment for his continued atrocious excuse of administrative judgement -- believe me, if there WAS a punishment, he would have been removed from the team a long time ago.

All that to say, maybe it's better if you never log into your account again. Instead, give it a few weeks; connect via proxy, set up another account, and choose a generic human warrior to walk north from Allanak's west gate until you die falling off the Shield Wall. Then, you can make your Ranger who points Luir's and follow the advice in this thread without fear from our neckbearded Judge, Jury, and Executioner.

It's not actually my first character (stupid desert, learned my lesson about not asking for enough advice first), so I could have started in Liur's. It seemed like even Allanak was pretty empty a lot of the time I was on (though maybe that was just bad times), so I didn't want to lock myself in a place even less populated before I could manage to travel south.

Anyways, thanks for the advice, and for the warning. I'm honestly not too concerned if I get banned, not if the staff in this game is that bad. If the staff is going to flaunt their own rules in such an abusive manner (rule 7 just says sharing character or sensitive information, which I haven't done in any form that I can conceive of, and I've probably gotten more advice from their own helpers then I have from here), then it's probably better that I find out early so that I can bail. I'm still just trying things, after all, and I've already got one MUD addiction, worst case is they spare me another one. I'm almost tempted to put down my account name now, just to see if they'll actually do it.

Also, as a last note, any advice on subguild choice? I went with nomad this time, pretty much just because the language and the accent seemed neat, and because I hadn't played a game where you could actually haggle before, but it was sort of a spur of the moment thing. If I do end up rerolling (or, when I end up having to do it again, no matter what I do), are there any subguilds that people consider are particularly good/bad?