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Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
The golem's paint has already been intertwined with gold ink!
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
Edit: Or, can the primary guild hall be returned to the Shadow Keep? This shadowbound event with Syssin vs Consanguine is very frustrating as it spreads through the rest of Spinesreach and Carnifex forcing sides to be taken while our noobs essentially still generate in Bloodloch and the guild hall via PATH FIND mechanics remains within the city.
We love our Carnifex!
However, having recently returned, I do find it odd that it is now the guilds which have a larger power to pressure/force things instead of cities, and I feel like that should necessitate an admin-led relook at the roles each guild plays in cities and making them clear cut, instead of allowing them to dictate whose ideals they suit whenever they feel like it. Right now, everything I'm experiencing just feels so messy and I bet it's doubly so for novices.
My takeaway from the Abhorash issue is that some players were unhappy because, from their point of view, Abhorash was cramping their style and vampire RP options. That certain things are admin-set rules that must be adhered to and not deviated from. Yet judging by the admin's responses, it seems that from their point of view, players were over-reading it, and that they were actually ever looking forward to players running their RP ideas as regards the Dominion and Abhorash.
If the signal to the playerbase is to be "do what you like, it's an open world, try to have fun and we'll support you as best we can", then this Carnifex-Sciomancer, Spinesreach-Bloodloch needs to be looked at. Otherwise, it serves to entrench the impression that admin are ever in charge of the decisions, and players remain shy to pursue their own ideas.
For structure, one of the big reasons we don't let guilds move around is because we're trying to create a structured experience for new players. Keeping guilds fixed in one city helps us with that as we can tailor their experiences. As an example, we have plans (admittedly, a while away) for a new newbie introduction tour that is different for each city, and has further differences still for each guild. Having the option for guilds to switch cities means that every time they do, there'd be a lot of work for us to do updating Academies, and other things like that to fit. In regards to balance, we have three guilds per city, and I prefer it to stay that way. Guilds are the main means behind a city getting new population (especially from newbie tour), and if a guild moves out of a city and leaves them with less potential population intake, then it leaves that city in a ditch that's going to be hard to climb out of. Finally, with themes, we try to keep a balance of themes in the classes/guilds tied to each city. There's three themes that each guild loosely fits: Warrior/Knight (Physical), Mage/Caster, and the last one is hard to define properly as it changes between scholar and spiritual depending on the city. Again, I'll admit these themes are very loose, and this is probably the least important of the reasons.
All that said and done, we also recognize that the Spinesreach/Sciomancer and Bloodloch/Carnifex split is one that has long since been beyond repair. We're going to be looking at switching them around (eventually) but this is probably not something we'll ever do again.
And that's a not-so-short-answer to a not-so-short-question.
Both your arms must be free and functioning to do that.
You are afflicted with left_arm_broken.
H:7982 M:5621 E:32385 W:24885 B:88% S:100% Mad:0% XP:51% [csdb eb]
You are wielding:
Left hand : Nothing.
Right hand: a jewel-encrusted sacrificial dagger.
I am wielding it in my right arm the non damage limb, not left so why would a single handed weapon that does not require both arms, suddenly stop functioning....
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
As it is, I really don't see revive as much of a problem. I almost never see it used in a fight until one side is wiped, and at that point you're just regrouping and coming back anyway. It's a convenience, not a game change .
As said, REPORT 2060
Been fishing for about 2 ooc days straight and only at around 7k.. plus 3 ooc days on and off before someone pointed me to the factions to go above adept.
IE: However health/mana looks like this? As endgame it should show our natural regens etc?
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
You step close and thrust a vicious light brown dhurive at an arachnid Chiav worker, twisting around your weapon to strike once more.
Using the dhurive's momentum to your advantage, you thrust your second blade deep into an arachnid Chiav worker.
The final blow proves too much for an arachnid Chiav worker, who expires, pitifully.
Experience Gained: 0 (Bashing) [total: 418271]
Having slain an arachnid Chiav worker, you retrieve the corpse.
By this I mean, as an example, in our help index all of the file names are in [[]]. However, whenever I go back in to update something, the [[ are missing so it's a bunch of files with just ]] after them, so I need to go re-add the first part of that pairing. It's getting pretty annoying and I don't remember it doing this before.
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin