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Recovery is just Celerity but locked to 2(3 with a mount). HELP CELERITY states it's how fast you can move per second. They just added a SECOND celerity to counter the first for... reasons?

I had a big angry post about the whole thing and I deleted it but I'll try to summarize the point: whoever is making changes and not even considering how they will impact the community needs to adapt to a modern business sensibility. Someone already mentioned that we don't live in the time of few choices and it's one mass-drop of unwanted changes (With zero word on promised content) before more people begin to bail. BE TRANSPARENT. If you have the changes coded, wait a week or two and post about them first.

Context is the most important aspect to any situation. I can give someone a cake by handing it to them or I can push their face through it. One of those is going to be received better, despite it still being cake (and cake is good in this example).

Having no access or very little access to the new 'recovery' stat makes all manner of celerity worth way less than it was previously. If I have 5 celerity and 3 recovery, I may as well have 3 celerity.

With a mount and the celerity artifact (600 cr btw) I am at 4 celerity and 3 recovery. Without the celerity artifact, I am at 3 celerity and 3 recovery.

Please explain why this artifact is not useless save for 1 additional room on my very first movement.

Blessing - provides 1 celerity but 0 recovery - useless
Grace - provides 1 celerity but 0 recovery - useless

And for those of you who remember this one off promotion that I was assured would make a comeback and not make promo items I have(a desert terrarium toolkit) worthless:

a ravine terrarium - provides 1 celerity but 0 recovery - useless ON TOP OF it doesn't stack with some celerity bonuses that was never included in the announce post or helpfile about terrariums.

These changes have destroyed all movement speed sources. Even ones paid for via credits or promotions with real dollary-doos.

It was ruining my immersion. If anything, Keroc needs to go harder. Spinesreach and Bloodloch are on opposite sides of the continent. It should take RL days to get there.

I embraced realism long ago, Toz died of dysentery trying to make it back from the corner store.

It was six months to reply, however in the interim I was told that @Tiur was 'working on a reply', 'would reply soon', and 'had been busy but would get to it ASAP'. This was a week, a few weeks, etc. after I sent a very long email that was co-written and/or approved by the following players: Toz (obviously), Borscin, Mjoll, Kavithe, Iazamat, and Emir. In it, I first thanked the admin for the event, and their hard work, as well as suggested I hoped this would serve to 'clear the air' rather than attack. Below is the first paragraph of the email, and I tried to keep a similar tone throughout (and am happy to provide the full text on request):


When Tiur finally replied, the first line of his message was: 'Our initial intent was not to reply to this, as no good could come of it.'

There had also been a meeting suggested, for shadow players to air their grievances, but it was never scheduled- I was told it was because no one else had an interest/replied, but every other shadow player I spoke to said they had agreed to meet.

These sort of inconsistencies cropped up often enough that, at one time (after I left), there was a pseudo-coalition of shadow and lifer players in a Discord, trying to compare notes and find all the places one side had been told A while another had been told B, by the same administrator(s). I don't believe that email was ever sent, or that anything came of it, because there was disagreements on timeframe for acting and how to handle it- frustration levels obviously varied.

The aura rulings of however long ago that was now, this change, and some of the other changes mentioned are frustrating to see from afar, but I do at least feel confident in my decision to stay away from Aetolia. While I lurk the forums once in a blue moon, I'm only posting this to elaborate on what @Bulrok said- I want to make sure that, at the least, my side of the story is kept consistent.