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Announce post #2999: config Pronouns
<pre>8/25/2019 at 2:45
Tiur, the Gnosis
Everyone
config Pronouns
GENDER IS A CONSTRUCT.
CONFIG PRONOUNS
In all seriousness, we support equality and choice of life. This change won't come without its issues, especially around quests and mob dialogue. Please make sure you TYPO them as they come up so we can address them. Overall, this is a huge change when it comes to code, so it is absolutely impossible to catch everything and, rather than delay this, we simply ask for your help with its evolution.
As a side note, the plural option uses player race instead of the subject pronoun in order to ensure verb agreement.
Penned by my hand on Kinsday, the 17th of Lanosian, in the year 482 MA.</pre>
Tiur, the Gnosis
Everyone
config Pronouns
GENDER IS A CONSTRUCT.
CONFIG PRONOUNS
In all seriousness, we support equality and choice of life. This change won't come without its issues, especially around quests and mob dialogue. Please make sure you TYPO them as they come up so we can address them. Overall, this is a huge change when it comes to code, so it is absolutely impossible to catch everything and, rather than delay this, we simply ask for your help with its evolution.
As a side note, the plural option uses player race instead of the subject pronoun in order to ensure verb agreement.
Penned by my hand on Kinsday, the 17th of Lanosian, in the year 482 MA.</pre>
Re: Character Breakdown
As far as I'm concerned I'm so famous people NOT knowing this stuff is offensive.
Aishia
3
Re: Artifact ideas
A super expensive OP artifact that lets you hold and use light and dark classes! (Think of the RP!)
Justus
8
Re: Group PK and YOU
If ultra large group combat is the issue, why not just limit the number of "contestants per lesser"? Making it a first come first serve model. I don't think taking away skills or creating any my "might" is greater then yours so you can't attack me is the solution. You could even create a Team 1 | Team 2 model if there's multiple teams - but it gets more complex here.
Let's say there's eight people.
Shadow and Spirit design there team 1 and team 2's.
They fight each other.
Then they go to the next round depending on a set of factors. Not sure what it would be. Last two to die.
Either way it goes, I don't find group combat as a big issue, but any of these suggestions could be an interesting beta. But changing the mechanics of group fights by removing skills or removing the ability of people attacking you is not the answer.
Let's say there's eight people.
Shadow and Spirit design there team 1 and team 2's.
They fight each other.
Then they go to the next round depending on a set of factors. Not sure what it would be. Last two to die.
Either way it goes, I don't find group combat as a big issue, but any of these suggestions could be an interesting beta. But changing the mechanics of group fights by removing skills or removing the ability of people attacking you is not the answer.
Jhin
0
Re: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Promotions
Something with Salvage like Kalinaar said above or terrariums. Terrariums seem fun and will promote minipet usage - and could even result in salvage rewards too from the terrarium minipet games. We've got an overage of minipets from all of the recent chest promotions!
Jhin
0
Re: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Promotions
I would love to see more promos with predictable salvage included like in October of 2018 where every 100 credits comes with a piece of salvage. Just my two sovereigns!
Kalinaar
8
Re: Non-binary gender options
Unfortunately, stating outright that these things don't exist already gives people all they need to try and tell people "no you can't do that because lore".
Rasani
0
Re: Non-binary gender options
There are people who have played androgynous in this game. I recall a number of them even from back when I started out in 2006. In a way it makes me sad to read you want to make things easier, because to me that sort of just hampers creativity.
It's the same as adding all the new aliases to designs, when instead you could use your creative mind to describe what you mean in the long descriptions (instead of describing something as a bowler hat, say it's a short-brimmed hat with a rounded top). Only in this case, you roleplay your character in front of others and allow them to get a chance to get to know who your character truly is beneath the less important exterior.
I know I'm over-simplifying things here, so please don't bite my head off. Also, in a world such as Aetolia, I imagine people are a bit more accepting of awesome differences.
It's the same as adding all the new aliases to designs, when instead you could use your creative mind to describe what you mean in the long descriptions (instead of describing something as a bowler hat, say it's a short-brimmed hat with a rounded top). Only in this case, you roleplay your character in front of others and allow them to get a chance to get to know who your character truly is beneath the less important exterior.
I know I'm over-simplifying things here, so please don't bite my head off. Also, in a world such as Aetolia, I imagine people are a bit more accepting of awesome differences.
Teani
1
Re: Non-binary gender options
Just to play devil's advocate here.....
I don't really think this is a necessary priority. If you don't want to identify as a specific gender, then that is all well and good. You can't expect the entire game to surrender to you just because of such. Everyone in Aetolia is either "born" male or female, giving the presence of him/her. There's an actual artifact that enables people to already swap gender.
Furthermore, even if you don't identify as a him/her, other people will identify you as a him/her because that is the basic course that human language and identification of an individual goes. People will even mis-identify you based off the idea of your name. Does it sound feminine? Does it sound masculine? Are their interactions more feminine/masculine? I've often confused Lexen to be a female as the name sounds feminine to me, but the character is actually male. (Sorry @Lexen!!)
Even though society is pushing forward and people are coming out more (props to all of you), we need to remember that this is a game. As @Teani said, there are FAR MORE important things on the list that need to happen. A change about non-gender binary is, in my opinion, so far down on that list it is probably irrelevant.
I don't really think this is a necessary priority. If you don't want to identify as a specific gender, then that is all well and good. You can't expect the entire game to surrender to you just because of such. Everyone in Aetolia is either "born" male or female, giving the presence of him/her. There's an actual artifact that enables people to already swap gender.
Furthermore, even if you don't identify as a him/her, other people will identify you as a him/her because that is the basic course that human language and identification of an individual goes. People will even mis-identify you based off the idea of your name. Does it sound feminine? Does it sound masculine? Are their interactions more feminine/masculine? I've often confused Lexen to be a female as the name sounds feminine to me, but the character is actually male. (Sorry @Lexen!!)
Even though society is pushing forward and people are coming out more (props to all of you), we need to remember that this is a game. As @Teani said, there are FAR MORE important things on the list that need to happen. A change about non-gender binary is, in my opinion, so far down on that list it is probably irrelevant.
Rhyot
3
Re: The Carnifex "Cure" a Duamvi
And then nothing happened. Enorian must be really passive about their symbiotes. Shame. Lol
Rhyot
0