Something I realized

Started by Manhattan, May 02, 2006, 05:52:39 PM

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May 02, 2006, 05:52:39 PM
Damn, it took me a while to realize this...but this game is about player interaction and the various roleplaying scenarios you get into with your PC...NOT training your skills.

When it all comes down to it, it's about the bonds you make in-game with your PC that makes them enjoyable to play and exceptionally memorable. Your twenty day warrior with the maxxed out slashing weapons who rarely interacted with the game would be less memorable than your skill-less beggar who created an RP session each time he logged in.

Just something I'd like to share with you guys. I'm sure this has been mentioned before...but now there's one more player amongst the enlightened.

*cries*
A foreign presence contacts your mind.
May 02, 2006, 05:56:29 PM #1
emote fiddles with something, back turned

hemote twists off the cap of ~eyedrops

use eyedrops
You use the eyedrops. A drop slides down your cheek.

say (turning back) It's touching. Really. I'm happy for you.

slip eyedrops cloak

emote smiles and wipes away a tear


EDIT: I'm messing with you. It's cool when you realize stuff like that. I liek epiphanies. They make less idiots.
...so instead of stealing an uneaten one, like a normal person, I decided I wanted the one already in her mouth."

Best movies EVAR:
1. Boondock Saints
2. Green Street Hooligans
3. Fight Club

Norman Reedus is my hero.
May 02, 2006, 06:39:39 PM #2
Welcome to Armageddon.
Brevity is the soul of wit." -Shakespeare

"Omit needless words." -Strunk and White.

"Simplify, simplify." Thoreau
May 02, 2006, 06:45:12 PM #3
Quote from: "Cale_Knight"Welcome to Armageddon.
Wynning since October 25, 2008.

Quote from: Ami on November 23, 2010, 03:40:39 PM
>craft newbie into good player

You accidentally snap newbie into useless pieces.

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May 02, 2006, 07:01:03 PM #4
Manhattan is trying to get Karma.

Welcome to Karmageddon.

Heh, messing with you as well.
"When I was a fighting man, the kettle-drums they beat;
The people scattered gold-dust before my horse's feet;
But now I am a great king, the people hound my track
With poison in my wine-cup, and daggers at my back."
May 02, 2006, 08:25:00 PM #5
While I do like killing off n00bs in droves. It's always fun to do so with other n00b killers that I have established IC relationships with.

Thats what it's all about. Killing n00bs in character with IC friends.





PS: I am, of course, just kidding. Good for you man.









PSS: Well, I'm kind of kidding.
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May 02, 2006, 09:12:50 PM #6
Quote from: "jmordetsky"PSS

WRONG. YOU LOSE.

GRAAAAAAAAARG.

PPS.

PS = postscript. PPS = post-postscript.
PSS = postscriptscript?
No.

Get it the fuck right.

</grammar nazi>
...so instead of stealing an uneaten one, like a normal person, I decided I wanted the one already in her mouth."

Best movies EVAR:
1. Boondock Saints
2. Green Street Hooligans
3. Fight Club

Norman Reedus is my hero.
May 02, 2006, 11:33:37 PM #7
Yeah, with my current PC I feel I've reached the end game as far as skills are concerned.  And then I realized his skills haven't mattered for about 10 days played and since then the social aspects have all been key.

High skills can be fun, but they aren't what makes Arm such a great game.
May 03, 2006, 12:01:30 AM #8
High skills are only fun if there's people around to appreciate them and use them.

I'd love to play a sorcerer, but I'd feel kind of bad I didn't really have anyone to be in shock and awe of my amazing powers, or to at least put them to good use. Being a strong-arm cog in the machine is fun.
May 03, 2006, 12:15:16 AM #9
Sweet.  :twisted:
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May 03, 2006, 12:16:54 AM #10
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Quote from: "Cale_Knight"Welcome to Armageddon.
May 03, 2006, 01:05:43 AM #11
Quote from: "MorganChaos"PS = postscript. PPS = post-postscript.
PSS = postscriptscript?
No.
Thank you!  This flub on other people's parts always irks me.
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May 03, 2006, 01:15:56 AM #12
QuoteDamn, it took me a while to realize this...but this game is about player interaction and the various roleplaying scenarios you get into with your PC...NOT training your skills.

When it all comes down to it, it's about the bonds you make in-game with your PC that makes them enjoyable to play and exceptionally memorable. Your twenty day warrior with the maxxed out slashing weapons who rarely interacted with the game would be less memorable than your skill-less beggar who created an RP session each time he logged in.

Right on.
I hope life isn't just one big joke, because I don't get it.  -- Jack Handy
May 03, 2006, 01:29:23 AM #13
Quote from: "Manhattan"Damn, it took me a while to realize this...but this game is about player interaction and the various roleplaying scenarios you get into with your PC...NOT training your skills.

And not packing 99 steaks into a backpack because you can and the cook always makes more!

I love you man. You're right on the money.
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May 03, 2006, 02:35:48 AM #14
Yep, you know you got Armageddon when you suddenly realize you have no idea when you last ran the skill command to see if you branched anything.
quote="Morgenes"]
Quote from: "The Philosopher Jagger"You can't always get what you want.
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May 03, 2006, 04:03:37 AM #15
There's a skills command?   :wink:
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You know I think if James simply retitled his thread "Cheese" and apologized for his first post being off-topic, all problems would be solved.
May 03, 2006, 05:23:18 AM #16
Well since I'm the most modest here.  I hit skills after every spar, fight, travel, and when I'm bored, along with score, and stat.  Even if I've branched everything in the book, I still hit it, (soi habits) and hit it, and hit it.  For apparently no reason at all other than to look at my impressive list of skills.

And I know I'm not alone, if the IMM's logged use of the skills command.  We'd soon have a memory leak and lag hell.  And endless spam, cause I know all of you use it.

Pfft, don't know the last time you used it? Yeah right.
"rogues do it from behind"
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[19:40] Clearsighted: Good
[19:41] Clearsighted: Tremendous sandstorms are gods way of saving the mud from you.
May 03, 2006, 05:37:58 AM #17
I'm with FightClub.  My logs are unbelievably cluttered from me spastically spam hitting skills, score, stat, look, look me, time, weather, assess -v, and pretty much everything else that doesn't echo (mostly), at any given time, even when interacting with others.

Ya'll are slow typers, I'm telling you.

I type skills the most.

Yet, I still can roleplay!
Child, child, if you come to this doomed house, what is to save you?

A voice whispers, "Read the tales upon the walls."
May 03, 2006, 08:57:55 AM #18
Shame on you for not being part of the "I play mostly ugly characters with poor stats that never use their skills." elite group!
"When I was a fighting man, the kettle-drums they beat;
The people scattered gold-dust before my horse's feet;
But now I am a great king, the people hound my track
With poison in my wine-cup, and daggers at my back."
May 03, 2006, 12:08:26 PM #19
I believe the game is about playing a role out properly. Whether he interacts with lot's of people, or uses skills, or not. It's about using your imagination to take you into another world; where you can do, and be what you want, as long as you select the right background.

P.S: On another note, I only ever typed in skill twice with my last character. I do like to look at my score quite a bit though..

and that's only because I hate prompt popping up on my screen all the time.
May 03, 2006, 01:00:56 PM #20
If I'm playing a PC, I type skills a lot too!

I AM TEH KING OF TGHE KSILZMAX09RZ
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May 03, 2006, 05:29:32 PM #21
Quote from: "LauraMars"I'm with FightClub.  My logs are unbelievably cluttered from me spastically spam hitting skills, score, stat, look, look me, time, weather, assess -v, and pretty much everything else that doesn't echo (mostly), at any given time, even when interacting with others.
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You know there's totally no reason to. And yet!
...so instead of stealing an uneaten one, like a normal person, I decided I wanted the one already in her mouth."

Best movies EVAR:
1. Boondock Saints
2. Green Street Hooligans
3. Fight Club

Norman Reedus is my hero.
May 04, 2006, 09:11:05 AM #22
Quote from: "MorganChaos"You know there's totally no reason to. And yet!

To freak out the imms who monitor my every keystroke?
Child, child, if you come to this doomed house, what is to save you?

A voice whispers, "Read the tales upon the walls."
May 04, 2006, 09:28:50 AM #23
Not training your skills? Impossible for me, man. The game's interaction for me. I always feel the urge for more and more and more interaction. More skills I have for the use of people of power, more interaction I receive. So all my warriors spar, all my rangers try his/her skills to become better, all my merchants craft whenever they don't have anything better to do, all my pickpockets attempt stealing and all my mages have regular practice sessions.
And I type 'skills' a lot. Especially whenever I'm forced to speak to a slow-typer, I often type "skills, stats, sc, weather n, time, ...."
quote="Ghost"]Despite the fact he is uglier than all of us, and he has a gay look attached to all over himself, and his being chubby (I love this word) Cenghiz still gets most of the girls in town. I have no damn idea how he does that.[/quote]
May 05, 2006, 01:54:09 AM #24
Quote from: "spawnloser"
Quote from: "MorganChaos"PS = postscript. PPS = post-postscript.
PSS = postscriptscript?
No.
Thank you!  This flub on other people's parts always irks me.

I shall refrain from commenting on both of your dorkiness.

Oh wait...Look I did.

Damn.
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