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Re: I'm done

Yeah, your post history on this forum is full of shitposting and relentlessly mocking other people, and I'm the toxic one, sure.

This game's community has normalized bad behavior as long as people who exhibit it are nominally pretending to be all buddy-buddy with each other - you can be a griefer or a troll, you can make the game unfun for other players, and you can have terrible RL opinions, all of that is allowed as long as you're willing to have each others' back and creating a front of solidarity against others who rock the boat too much and call folks out on their bad behavior. In other words, it's a circlejerk, and I refuse to be part of it.

Cubey

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Re: I'm done

Woodro said:

I hate that you think quitting is your only option. I hate that this post is even been made on the forums cause a point has to be made! We are a new MUD looking for players. Driving them away is not what we wanna do so I have already reported this post for how it devolved into accusations that have been proven false with facts.

tbh, as an outsider who pokes their head in from time to time, it's pretty easy to read some of the replies/reacts on this as passive-aggressive/aggressive. Which is backed up by, as suggested, looking at certain comment histories and the "complaining about complaining" (which is a silly behaviour that only breeds negativity where there could have been little to none.)

Sairys

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Re: Announcements post #91: IRE Helper Android App.

Why is there no game feed?

Meld

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Re: Starmourn: Year 2 Incoming!

Seems like 2020 is teeming up to be a violent year!

Vega

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Re: Interdict

The main issue with guards that I feel is that they limit access to singular persons, and require full groups to kill.

I think this is the entire point of them. You (hypothetical person) have been enemied, presumably for good reasons. You are now not allowed to be [wherever]. If you could easily kill the guards and just go there anyway, then what's the point of the enemy mechanic at all? So it should be a challenge.

Now, you might also say right now, that there is no reason to go to the effort to kill the guards to go to [wherever] because there is no reward for doing so, which is also currently more or less correct. But, at least to me, that's separate from whether or not the guards function as intended.

I think the costs proposed by @Ilyos are more than fair, and certainly a good place to start.

As for raid mechanics, I'm extremely ambivalent. They can be fun sure, but I've also been on the receiving end when it was very much "Oh, hell. Not this again." over and over and over. I like that we are not currently 3 armed camps, with every member of the opposing factions enemied the minute they leave the tutorial. I sincerely hope that doesn't change no matter what mechanics are put in place.

Poet

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Re: Starmourn: Year 2 Incoming!

I plan to work a lot more on Soza's PVRP, I feel like RP is the biggest field i'm lacking and I swear i'm not as mean as I seem to be, shoot me messages and talk to me, everyone is invited.

Soza

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Re: Interdict

I personally agree that interdict (and outburst, and whatever other skills) is a lame tactic that feels like an exploit to overcome something that otherwise can feel insurmountable sans corpse rushing, which is an unfortunate hallmark of guard raiding in my experience. The problem is that even with multiple deaths for the raiders, guards can be too easily cleared considering the effort taken to clear them vs the cost to hire them.

Keeping this in mind, I feel like we should adopt a different process for guard employment. When we hire them, we should also sign them up for HETE treatments. This means that when they die, they'll reclone and return to their post - eventually. I'm not sure what a fair timer is for this, but I'm sure it can be sussed out. This would be bundled with some kind of appropriately increased upkeep cost, so that you're still paying good money to keep your areas protected, but it's not a repeated lump sum every time a group of raiders wants through your stack.

Once we have a system where guards are no longer a chore to replace and become a less prohibitively expensive obstacle for interested parties to overcome/stir shit, then I feel like it will be easier to talk about what's fair with regards to how strong/weak they are.

Rhindara

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Re: Interdict

Thanks for pointing this out folks. I don’t have a solution right away but will look at guards actually being somewhat smarter in the near future.

As a former player who single handedly used to take out guard stacks by using various mechanics, I agree it can feel rather unpleasant for the receiving faction.
So, short answer, I will look at this but would rather make guards smarter than nerf certain abilities

Ilyos

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Re: Interdict

Guards aren't free. Guards are expensive - that's the point, you pay for protection, to make sure people who are faction enemies actually stay outside of faction territory.

Guards are meant to be tough. You said players melt when attacked by guards without interdict. That's the intended behavior. Interdict turns that massive damage into a joke. That's clearly not intended behavior.

Cubey

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Re: Interdict

Soza said:

Azlyn said:

Agree with the problem. I'd maybe suggest that guard and boss mobs have like an AoE interrupt effect with each attack. (Then you can give us outburst moving mobs back )

Yeah, lets take away nanoseers ability to kill guards very slowly, and give fury a way to seperate them and single them off easily!

I mean, outburst has a channel, so no, fury wouldn't be able to separate them. And nanos were pretty clearly not meant to use interdict like this, so, I have no sympathy.

Azlyn

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