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Ankyrean Anguish - Aetolia-based RAGE
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Roommate went to Michigan for a week because his sister-in-law is dying and all his family lives there. That's cool, I completely understand, wish him the best, and am grateful to have the house to myself.
Woke up this morning with someone working on the back of the house already I didn't realize was supposed to be there! Also, no internet since Tuesday night when roommate left. I know it's not my computer, Kindle can't connect either. I'm at the library.
If found please call.
May have been last seen with a triptycha tile.
Kind of a minor annoyance, but also that feeling of being left hanging right in the middle of a big RP development. Feeling like you've hit a slump in RP or feeling like you're not interesting enough to interact with and desperately trying to find ways to spice things up.
I get the same annoying urge to orghop when I'm bored, but I've learned that hopping doesn't cure shit.
Only two things cure boredom in Aet:
REALLY Wish people would read the HELP PK before going into OPEN PK areas/zones then spend a hour crying at you for killing them / going to kill them!!
YOU made yourself OPEN PK so grow some Oranges and deal with it!
I'm not saying it's perfect, but I don't think it's -that- bad. I also don't think it's difficult enough to warrant switching specs just to bash it. (Unless you're like Carnifex or something. >.>)
Consider this idea to address the issue:
Fracture is a pretty large area. Break it into maybe 3 semi equal parts. We'll call it red, yellow, and green.
Then take the stakes in the Putoran and redistribute them around the game. Some in Scidve (red), some in the Tundra (yellow), and the remainder in the Putoran (green) as an example.
Now when you touch stake, rather than be ported directly to the other side, you'll appear in a purgatory of sorts that will act as the collapsing arena. A call will be issued to the area (maybe up to two adjacent areas so the artifact is still useful without being mandatory) indicating a portal has been opened. Combatants then have 1-2 minutes to join by touching a stake. At the end of that the portal closes for a cooldown. If you're alone in purgatory when that happens then you're deposited in the respective section of the Fracture for some undisturbed ylem harvesting.
If you're NOT alone then clearly you gotta kill the competition. The arena will periodically grow smaller until one room remains. If after 10 minutes or so of fighting and people are still alive then everyone is ejected from purgatory at the respective stakes they touched and the portal is instantly refreshed. That way if you wanna try again you can still do so without waiting.
However, if there is a victor then the portals remain closed for x amount of time for that respective section. If you're not done harvesting ylem by the time portal resets, too bad, you're ejected and must start process again. If you finish early, touch crystal like normal and be on your way. The cooldown wouldn't start/deplete until someone is actually in the fracture.
I don't think it needs to be changed. Just add more areas with more pvp-centric goals/methods of acquiring ylem. If more conflict is out there then the poor-quality conflict in the fracture won't be taken up as often. It'll still happen but with less overenthusiastic and oversized teams.
Examples:
How about needing to remain in a particular pvp-area for 15 minutes, and if you survive it you get some desirable def (like the HG one for eld-critting).
Also, there could be a similar mechanic for a city-wide buff. Defend 3 separated nodes in the open pvp area for 20 minutes, to get a city wide buff. (edit: commodity generation, maybe?)
What is Ciem like these days? I haven't done it for a couple of years now I think, so I don't know if it has changed or been tied into Ylem. I always thought though - what if the reward was more than just getting the honours line? Defeat some large area-quest like that to benefit my city in some way.
IF someone tells you to stop bothering them OOCLY that doesn't mean be a splendid box of wine and bother them ICLY about the OOC remark!!
Why do people jump straight to OOC remarks when he/she cant get an ic one they want? ONE WORD I HAVE FOR YOU PEOPLE!!
Keeping the aura active until death/end of the lesser would also be more in spirit with what the aura is there for, Sounds best way to deal with it!!
One of my comments, "Goodness, I feel so powerful now, seeing as you need to be two to bring little me down!"
Zaephlyn's response (which was a good one, and IC at that!) to this was "Oh, you can feel even better if you come back. Now there's more of us here!"
And as far as im aware OPEN PK is a IC kind of term otherwise how else do you talk about auras/fracture/hunting grounds etc, as Last I checked even one of the Academys mention it!.....