Honestly I think BL has a bigger identity problem than the other three cities, but it DOES have a cohesive image of "Might over Everything" that still works really well for new RP and conflicts. That said, while Bloodloch's shifting and possibly uni…
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Might be best to avoid these sorts of threads until you're acclimated to the game and have your sea legs back. A lot of things have changed, and this is a really messy topic full of nuance, and really only people who have a solid grasp of t…
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Bloodloch hasn't been a "vampire dictatorship city" for at least 15 real-world years. That roleplay ship has sailed, sunk to the bottom of the sea, and has now been repurposed as a home for crabs and other weird molluscs.
@Evalyne I don't mean to be dismissive, but you've been gone for a while and don't know the stuff that's been done IC and OOC to address this. IC action at this poin…
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Given the amount of heel-digging we're experiencing even trying to have a discussion with the administration about this (the meeting itself not being a discussion, rather a communication of the plan they chose for us), I don't really have a…
I know it's the holidays and we're all gonna have to reign in our expectations about turnarounds, but can we get a confirmation that this is being discussed, @Tiur, and…
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I told myself I was done responding in this thread, but I REALLY gotta step in and give a big fat "agree" here, because this is 100% true. All this current "compromise" solution does is kinda piss off the Dominion a bit (which I'd like to t…
You may think the admin are acting in fairness to people's expectations given this situation, but the system is INARGUABLY unfair, Rhyot, which is what we're talking about.
This would be like if we balanced vampires to have instan…
I feel like all the arguments that dismiss the people who are deeply unhappy with the system sounds something like "Why should we abolish segregation when half the country is fine with it?"
Keeping an unfair system that half of the players of that org (I'm not even going to entertain "more than half" it's literally a 1% difference) hate is bad. You're literally justifying keeping something that people hate because it benefits the other…
If I'm being entirely honest, I never really got into the RP of the curse that much. I'm not sure why, I'm really a pretty serious Roleplayer, but the entire thing felt too meta and "gamey" for me to really take it to a character level. The RP stuff…
For what it's worth, I do feel like clarifying that my defenses of people complaining probably comes across as me thinking it's great and super to drag volunteers and people trying to do creative stuff, which isn't the case at all. I wasn't one of t…
Rhyot, I love you bud, but you're muddying the waters here a lot. You're trying to make fairness this thing that's thoroughly subjective and can be framed as a "anything that doesn't benefit me directly is 'unfair.'" We're not petulant children cryi…
Loch doesn't really want the speaker system, but it's, to me, the actual "compromise" solution here. I have a feeling the pools are having trouble understanding what makes this system unfair, in spite of everything we've said, so I have an analogy:<…
Man I dunno, I work in the content creation field and complaints from viewers and audiences are just a fact of life. Sometimes they're petty, sometimes they're things you don't understand, and sometimes you end up, through sheer volume, having your …
There were plenty of problems with this event that may not have impacted you or me (I generally liked the event), but that doesn't make them petty or unimportant. And without trying to be flippant or dramatic, emailing Jeremy is a better idea than e…
That's an uncharitable and reductive take, Nisa, and you're essentially falling for the "the complainers ruined your fun" narrative that was baked into this post when it didn't have to be.
Borm is right that Calli endorsing a fair system would go a long way, but let's not go overboard. This is 100% @Tiur's decision, and I want to see a defense of this unf…
Yeah that made me really uncomfortable too. Thing is, we've tried tackling this from a lore/RP angle and we're just...told "no." We're not allowed to roleplay this solution, which is what several of us have tried. And frankly it's a little weird tha…
A system that is already unfair on the ground level isn't comparable to a much fairer system that sometimes fails to deliver the best leadership. Acting like keeping an unfair system because sometimes open elections or the speaker system don't produ…
Any attempt to frame this as some sort of weird meta power grab from a guild in order to validate our roleplay just feels like bad faith to me. This system is unfair, on a meta level, and I'm not a soul-stealing Death Knight IRL. A lot of people are…