Suiciding: The Unspoken Rule

[Melody]

I have stored characters with stats some people would die for. (I was so bored)

I have killed a character whose stats make me die. (literally, my first char to ever see what is down that well. I want to see the sewers, ok? Wasn't watching hp...)

Stats may command my interest for the first playing day, but after that, I would store only if I am bored. Usually, I am bored enough to not care about waiting 1 week for a staff to store my char so I can make a new one.  Usually do this between long lived chars. After each one lived ones, there are around 3-5 stored characters within one playing day.

If people want to suicide.... can you do it near me so I can get your boots pls?

Oh, so yes, free choice.

[Yam]

I'm surprised I don't have account notes about how often I suicide my characters because I imagine about 3/4 of my character deaths are so stupid they look like they were suicides.

Like the time I was sitting there, watching my assassin get chewed on by a scrab and said, "Hey look! The scrab is biting me but my HP total isn't going down!"

It was about one bite before the mantis head that I realised I was looking at my stamina points.

I bet I can beat Fathi for absolutely retarded deaths.

[Aaron Goulet]

Like the time I was sitting there, watching my assassin get chewed on by a scrab and said, "Hey look! The scrab is biting me but my HP total isn't going down!"

Proof the Highlord exists!

[Whiran Luck]

I have never had to wait a week before getting stored, even if I was storing a character in ongoing plots for whatever reason. Staff has always been incredibly accommodating and usually I've gotten characters stored faster than it takes to get a new character approved.

I've only suicided a character once and it had nothing to do with stats, just boredom and being rather new to the game. It took a good few hours to actually die, and I even had a little mini adventure on the way. In fact, it was proving so difficult to die that I actually decided to live. Of course, it was on the way to the city around the corner that I encountered stuff that immediately killed my character.

I wouldn't call that a suicide so much as irony.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Haha.

[Bogre]

I have never suicided. Died because of bad stats, perhaps, yes, done suicidal things, yes, but never intentionally killed off a character. I generally put a lot of thought into my characters and grow attached to them before they hit the gameworld- even if they are a weakling or will snap like a twig.

I mean the thing is stats really don't matter a great deal if you know how to keep a character alive and viable. Yes, each of the stats are important and having good stats can make things nice. And not having to worry about carrying stuff or getting one-shotted by a tregil, etc, is cool. But stats are probably viable at two positions: for getting an edge in the beginning and at the top reaches of characterdom (you getting an edge for having 40 more hp than the other uber warrior you're fighting). In the middle, it's really your skills (gained and lack-of both) keeping you above the newbies and getting whacked on by the powerful. And since the majority of characters are new to middling- keeping a character alive and gaining those skills puts you in the advantaged group.


My two sid.

[Jdr]

I'd believe that rot about skills > stats, but being a 50-day old character who gets regular combat training suddenly trounced by someone with ZERO combat skill and experience, purely because of stats, proves the sentiment wrong. Sorry. No. Wrong.

[Twilight]

Disclaimer:  Stats do matter, if you are talking about different races.

[musashi]

Disclaimer:  Stats do matter, if you are talking about different races.

Yeah, it's not exactly the same thing when we're talking about a 50 day warrior humanfighting a 5 day warrior mul/half-giant. All they need is one hit.

[Veges]

Seems like a bit of a derail.

[Ourla]

Seems like a bit of a derail.

[Aaron Goulet]

Seems like a bit of a derail.

My derail is bigger than your derail.

[Shalooonsh]

As much as everyone cares about the genital-club contest going on about people's 50 day whatevers, I'm trimming down the fat on this thread to get it back on topic.

So by all means, continue without your syntheticsight modifiers.