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Re: Discuss Your Dominion Opinions Here
So, I've been thinking about this for awhile... I never really understood the concept of Houses to begin with. To me, they are glorified guilds without being forced to adhere to a specific class. While they serve the purpose of gathering "like-minded" people into a single group, it also begs the question of "why?" As it is, you don't see Enorian, Duiran, or Spinesreach dissolving its citizens into 4 sections for "family ties".
While I appreciate the time and effort of the admins and the people who play Abho to give Bloodloch a very different way of RP in the form of Houses, I also can't help but think that the same could be done without Houses. As it is, each House is quiet in its own form, the CT channel for BL is outrageously quiet, and everyone sticks to their own cliques/Houses. The Dominion could be ran through BL instead of the Houses so that events like the Gaes Rogue event, doesn't disqualify the minority of us BL-ians all because we are a Houseless rogue, for lack of better terms. Not only that, but by having everyone with a centralized chat forum (CT), people would see whether or not the city truly is active or not, they would see who the big helpers are, etc. I don't see how running the Dominion, which for RP/lore purposes is Abho's bloodline, through Bloodloch instead of the Houses would cause any sort of negative ripple effect, but instead would allow more chances for RP.
I get that many people, long before my time, established these Houses, and that back then it was probably not a bad thing, due to a larger playerbase. However, with the smaller playerbase we have and the fact that this is a very niche game, I feel that keeping a city sectioned into 4 factions, for lack of a better term, is very detrimental to the existence of BL itself.
While I appreciate the time and effort of the admins and the people who play Abho to give Bloodloch a very different way of RP in the form of Houses, I also can't help but think that the same could be done without Houses. As it is, each House is quiet in its own form, the CT channel for BL is outrageously quiet, and everyone sticks to their own cliques/Houses. The Dominion could be ran through BL instead of the Houses so that events like the Gaes Rogue event, doesn't disqualify the minority of us BL-ians all because we are a Houseless rogue, for lack of better terms. Not only that, but by having everyone with a centralized chat forum (CT), people would see whether or not the city truly is active or not, they would see who the big helpers are, etc. I don't see how running the Dominion, which for RP/lore purposes is Abho's bloodline, through Bloodloch instead of the Houses would cause any sort of negative ripple effect, but instead would allow more chances for RP.
I get that many people, long before my time, established these Houses, and that back then it was probably not a bad thing, due to a larger playerbase. However, with the smaller playerbase we have and the fact that this is a very niche game, I feel that keeping a city sectioned into 4 factions, for lack of a better term, is very detrimental to the existence of BL itself.
Zsadist
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Re: Increase Shop Limits
We have...what, 20 shops per city now? So 100 shops total, plus the refugee ones. Not counting NPC ones or market stalls. Plus another 40-80 shops? We don't have the playerbase on Aet to -need- that many. I'm not saying it needs to be an exclusive club that you have to wait RL years to get into--a few more shops per city is fine, but I think there is such a thing as too many. Despite what Moi said about cures and such already being at the bottom, price-wise, if you have 180 shops in the world all filled with competing merchant-types, it -will- devalue everything else that can be undercut.It isn't really about need. You have what, like fifty shops yourself? TBH all I really hear is 'I have soandso amount of shops. I don't want competition.'
In that vein, if we're going to add a ton of shops, IMO should also lower taxes, since most shops barely break even consistently as is, if that, even if they're properly stocked to the brim with assorted items.
Pls 2 give me a better reason as to why we shouldn't have more shops. What is the harm?
Ishin
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Re: October Liaisons
Animation
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[1829] Fend is now learned at 50% Adept, in order to provide lower-skilled players more accessible damage mitigation.
Deathlore
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[1812] I have raised the cap on Skewer's Bloodburst proc to 2000 (up from 1000).
Devotion
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[1808] Gravehands, Spiritchains, and Piety will operate at half-efficacy if the owner is out of the room.
Domination
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[1867] Firelord Sear now has a 2.5s equilibrium time.
[1875] Cabalist bubonises targeting physical now have an equal chance to deliver the hypochondria affliction.
Enchantment
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[1637] New enchantment: Discernment. Creates "the shining eye of Lanos", which grants limited powers simlar to Vision Discernment.
Ferality
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[1842] Flurry is now dodgeable and the limb damage has been lowered.
[1869] Faceslash will now give blurry_vision instead of disfigurement.
Hematurgy
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[1864] Umbrage stacks will now be removed every 20 seconds, up from every 10. The precision of the timer has also been improved.
Illumination
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[1858] If EVOKE FIRE hits a shielded target who also has Infernal Shroud or Infernal Seal, the target will experience bloodlust for 10 seconds.
Misc
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[1810] Savagery Hooking and Primality Slam will no longer cause balance loss in the target.
[1813] Savagery Pulverize, Hematurgy Umbrage, Spirituality Overwhelm and Sciomancy Voidgaze now have costs associated with condition failures such as attempting to pulverize without the target's having a crushed chest. Many abilities have these costs already, but many more are missing. Feel free to suggest others in future reports. Penalties are roughly 40% of the usual balance/equilibrium cost.
[1839] As noted in Changelog 780, the Typical statpack now has 13 dexterity and 12 intelligence.
[1860] You may now CONFIG AUCTIONALERTS to be notified of new auction items.
[1866] Swinging up now has a 1 second balance cost.
Necromancy
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[1809] BELCH will now cause a fog effect in the room at a much lower EQ. Necrofeed has been removed.
Omitted
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[1815] The solution we settled on would be minimally helpful and we don't consider the problem terribly pressing. We can re-evaluate in a later round.
[1823] Unfortunately, this proved to be significantly more difficult than we anticipated. We'll look at a more thorough work on curing code in general sometime this year.
[1837] After more reflection, there were no weapon types that were thematically appropriate for Templar without infringing on the identities of other classes. Not ideologically opposed to the report by any means, but there was no clear solution (and no pressing need to reinvent the wheel to suit the problem at this point)
[1872] The wand and crystal tattoos clear at the top of the IG day. It is probably easier for all involved to just use that message for tracking whether you can use the tattoos.
Sanguis
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[1876] The balance and eq penalties on Blood Curse and Blood Poison have been lowered.
Sciomancy
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[1851] Stonespike and Frostspike have received damage boosts.
Shamanism
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[1868] Premonition will now fade 5 seconds after leaving the Shaman. The timer will be reset if you re-enter the Shaman's room.
Spirituality
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[1832] Angel Refuge is now channeled (but the channel is now significantly shorter)
Subterfuge
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[1753] You may now append a type or venom to SNIPE or SHOOT to specify an arrow type or venom inline. This will not permanently switch the type of arrow as SWITCH would. It is simply a per-attack choice.
[1827] Flay has been completely rewritten to use Combat Messages and clearly display the defence being flayed to caster and target in all cases.
Survival
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[1811] There are now configurable queues for health (health/analeptic and mana/stimulant), elixir/serum (levitation/euphoric, etc.), and moss/kidney.
[1857] Crashing has received a complete rewrite. It now has a 25% chance of barreling you through walls, blocking players, or unlocked doors. Failing the check will hurl you to the ground and incur a decent balance cost.
Tarot
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[1800] Flinging Death tarot will now properly select the appropriate card for you. DEATHCARDS will show a list of all cards, their targets, and the number of rubs.
[1804] Flinging Aeon is no longer slower than the rest of Tarot.
[1856] You may no longer pair epseth and epteth with the Warrior tarot. Additionally, the Adder will now miss if paired with a Warrior tarot that failed to strike its target.
[1863] Empress now has a short balance penalty (40% of usual) when it fails, siimilar to Report 1813
Tattoos
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[1859] You may now TATTOOS MEMORISE to save your current tattoo layout and TATTOOS REMEMBER to see the list later on.
[1873] The brazier tattoo now costs 3.5s true (unmodifiable) equilibrium. Related: tumbling should now consistently take 4 seconds rather than fluctuating.
Tekura
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[1861] Punch damage in Bear stance is now at 90%, up from 70%. (For reference, Tiger stance is unmodified -- 100%)
[1862] Wrench will now cause limb damage in addition to the mending break when targeted.
Woodlore
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[1843] The Raven's role in Woodlore Swoop is now subject to upset dodging.
Quiver changes:
I have completely rewritten the way arrows and quivers work. DYEING has been removed. Instead, you'll simply ENVENOM 10 ARROWS WITH , SWITCH , etc. This combines with the above changes to SHOOT and SNIPE to allow SNIPE . Please bug any issues or message Oleis with questions.
Oleis
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Re: Short Questions
I don't think it's lack of content as much as it being more out of the way and not having a directory. My shopping habits these days consist of doing DIRECTORY ALL [thing] or walking out from my wings to Delos.
Moirean
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Re: PK Discussion From Rage (Split, Not a Rage Thread)
And a random tip, you can make one trigger for diag tracking. Check out config simplediag I think.Woah. WOAH. Thank you. ^^
Sounds like the sometimes enraging randomness of Magic the Gathering to me.If you're relying on good luck to keep your MTG decks going, I'm not sure what to say. Part of deck building is making sure the flow is consistent. Even things like mana-screw/flood shows bad shuffling and wrong ratios. Sure, chance will eventually give you a crap setup, but MTG has mulligans to address this.
I don't like hearing that kind of repeated argument at FNM. Luck is no excuse in competitive play, in any format. I admit that shuffling commander decks is irritating though. =/
Reux
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Re: PK Discussion From Rage (Split, Not a Rage Thread)
This has been brought up multiple times in this games history and ultimately it's wrong. There are a lot of people in the past and a few now who code their own systems and do well with them (I'm apparently mid tier \o/) and I know jack about coding. Reading a few help files, asking a few questions, etc, will get you a long ways. Most of the time people will flat out give you an example of how to do something if you just ask. I mean, maybe you are asking, but you're just asking the wrong people. I never see anyone use the KLL clan and I never see questions about coding (or even fighting) pop up on raiders.
To keep on topic, I find this discussion about PK to be rather interesting. The problems that plague PVP in all the IRE games are very similar, and thus can be chalked up to bad design decisions, ultimately. The idea of having to be a trained computer programmer to enjoy killing other players in a fantasy online game is extremely dated and needs to go away. You fix that aspect of the game, and like it or not, way more people would likely participate.
If you need help, ask. If you're not getting help from the lifer side, ask a darkie. The game is a lot more fun for us when we have people to fight and aren't getting guilted (jokingly or not @Rashar :P) for having more fighters, so we're likely to help regardless of the side you're on.
Draiman
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Re: Non-PK conflict idea.
Since it was mentioned, I'll chime in and say that I absolutely hated village revolts in lusternia, peaced or otherwise. I won't go too deeply into the details, but I always felt like it was ridiculous that some village with long standing historic ties (and serious RP interests) with one city could suddenly be swayed to the opposing side because a bunch of randoms came over and chatted them up. Imagine if Saluria suddenly aligned itself with Bloodloch. There'd be some serious eyebrow arching on my part. I think it is popular with 'non-coms' there because the influence and debate system is so simple that coding is completely unnecessary to participate if that's the only part your character is doing.
While some mechanics for producing stuff for your city make you open-pk while you are doing them (minors) I think I've only ever had a fight, personally, develop from that activity like twice.
Regular starfalls where the city that collected the most meteorites total could use them to buy/build some perk or get some kind of payout would be an interesting and easy way to make something absolutely anybody could help with that didn't require combat.
I suppose I can understand why some would want pk-free events and things like lessers to be mutually exclusive, but I don't agree that it would be super beneficial. People often tell me that lessers aren't really the largest ylem producing activities anyways, so I think this would feel super restrictive based on an entirely OOC principle. Additionally, people often look at combat and try to split everybody into two groups, combatants and non-coms, when really it's not that binary a thing. Some people absolutely like to do both sorts of activity, and it would feel a little hacked to say you couldn't play a game of checkers or whatever because you went to a lesser in the last 24 hours.
While some mechanics for producing stuff for your city make you open-pk while you are doing them (minors) I think I've only ever had a fight, personally, develop from that activity like twice.
Regular starfalls where the city that collected the most meteorites total could use them to buy/build some perk or get some kind of payout would be an interesting and easy way to make something absolutely anybody could help with that didn't require combat.
I suppose I can understand why some would want pk-free events and things like lessers to be mutually exclusive, but I don't agree that it would be super beneficial. People often tell me that lessers aren't really the largest ylem producing activities anyways, so I think this would feel super restrictive based on an entirely OOC principle. Additionally, people often look at combat and try to split everybody into two groups, combatants and non-coms, when really it's not that binary a thing. Some people absolutely like to do both sorts of activity, and it would feel a little hacked to say you couldn't play a game of checkers or whatever because you went to a lesser in the last 24 hours.
Amberlea
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Re: Post Your Pictures!
Check out what my dad got me for Christmas/BirthdayHrm. Well, it isn't the
I picked it up to unwrap it and I was like, holy fuck it's heavy. It's easily 4, 4.5 inches thick!Air ForceArmy, but I guess it's OK...
Trager
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Re: Post Your Pictures!
Check out what my dad got me for Christmas/BirthdayHrm. Well, it isn't the Air Force, but I guess it's OK...
I picked it up to unwrap it and I was like, holy fuck it's heavy. It's easily 4, 4.5 inches thick!
