Positivity Thread

[Is Friday]

Hey guys.

With all the negativity floating around the GDB I wanted to encourage everyone to be a hero today and say something positive about someone or something about the community in general.

I'll start: I think the human tribal docs are awesomely put together. There is a lot of identity given to the characters of these tribes while still allowing them a moderately restricted role to play.

NO IC INFO.

[boog]

I really enjoy my interactions with this player base, as a whole, and the staff, as well. There isn't a single better text-roleplay community online that I've ever been a part of. I appreciate the playerbase and staff's creativity, thoughtfulness, and maturity. Compared to any other MUD or RPI, Armageddon's players and staff are second to none.

[i can haz mantis]

I really, really enjoy the people and staff that I am playing with right now. You know who you are (most of you) and you are all awesome. <3

Golden Age '07, what? Golden Age '13!

[catchall]

I was just marvelling the other day at the "magickers are uber-powerful but feared and ostracized" trope.  It seems a lot of people who are into fantasy dig this theme, and for good reason. It just makes sense that magickal powers would make someone more powerful than someone without those powers.

However, to my knowledge, this world feature has never really been pulled off successfully in any other online roleplaying game.  "Balance" always wins out, so in most games the schmuck swinging a club is supposed to be comparable in power to the wizard or the necromancer. Armageddon, however, has pulled it off brilliantly, and it wouldn't be possible without the great playerbase and staff.

[Cutthroat]

I like that I have played this game for several years and still manage to discover new places, lore, characters, and possibilities. It ensures that the good old days remain good and old, while new things can still happen.

[Lithium]

I like turtles gurth.

[musashi]

I like how IsFriday is brave enough to play females in the game exclusively; it's good to see a marine whose confident enough to put on a dress every now and again and let his hair down.



Nothing but love, mang.

[Refugee]

I love having a big huge world to explore.

I have been delighted by the responsiveness and helpfulness of staff, and by the many players who have helped me during my transition to Arm.

[Zoan]

I love the people who kill me, then feel so guilty they send me kudos for doing it. Good sports!

[TheBadSeed]

There are other kinds of kudos?

Positive thought: This is far and away the best game I've ever played when you get involved. The best people, the best plots, the best interactions! It takes time to get there sometimes, but it's always worth it.

[SpyGuy]

I love playing with this community, especially when you get involved and see how the game world is made up of so many distinct characters with their own little plots all intersecting and overlapping.

That and permadeath.  Arm isn't a game where one character can have it all.  But once they die you can roll up in a new area, with a new personality, goals, etc.  So I can always have some new options open to keep the game fresh and interesting.  And by the time I end up circling around to a similar concept the folks I was playing with are all dead so the whole thing has a different feel anyways.

[FantasyWriter]

The community.
The staff.
The world.
The guild/subguild system.
Permadeath.
How well written nearly ever single item, room, PC, NPC, etc. is.

[Zoan]

Good heavens, the staff. We've all had our negatives with them but I can happily say 99% of my interactions with them have been nothing but positive and stellar. Especially nowadays. They just all seem to have it together, you know?

[Cind]

What catchall said. The total lack of fairness in favor of realism in this game is awesome.

All the little things. Thieving code, archery code come to mind. How literacy can be made mysterious, mundane or a curse depending on who you are. How a pc's personality and wants and needs usually trumps their physical attributes in terms of what happens to them... or fails to do so in a way that is fun to watch and play. Also the food and booze culture. Very nice and well done and enjoyable.

[greasygemo]

Hemotes, and the people who use them.. I love to see them.. I always join in on the hemotery.

[Erythil]

I like it when people don't recognize people that are in disguise -- even though they can read their desc, and know OOCly.  That kind of maturity is the rule rather than the exception around here and I appreciate that most people take the storytelling approach to the game rather than trying to accumulate as much code power as possible.

[Fathi]

Dear Armageddon playerbase,

I want to make sweet, sweet love to the vocabularies of some of you.

[Pale Horse]

What attracted me to this game to start with: Perma-death and enforced role-play.

What kept me around after many frustrating newbie-deaths: The game and community being so awesome that I just had to stay because it challenged me to try and be on the same level as everyone else.

[greasygemo]

Dear Armageddon playerbase,

I want to make sweet, sweet love to the vocabularies of some of you.

I have never had to use a thesaurus so much since highschool xD
+1

[ShaLeah]

Dear Armageddon playerbase,

I want to make sweet, sweet love to the vocabularies of some of you.

I have never had to use a thesaurus so much since highschool xD
+1

+2

The playerbase
The Staff
The Scary
The wonderful
The great big world

The Stories. I love them all. They suck me in.

[Norcal]

The game is simply great, in every way.

The effort that the staff and players take to make it real and vibrant is amazing.
And boog. She rocks, as do so many of you.

[boog]

I saw Norcal post and was gonna totally give smooches.

I lubs you too, Norcal. <3

[Desertman]

Some of the nobles I have seen lately are just great. You all know who you are. Keep it up guys.

[Delirium]

I love how I've been playing over a decade now and I'm still discovering new things.

[i can haz mantis]

I found the help documents for my MUD client (they didn't come with the download) and learned some new things for it after using it for 7 years! IT'S LIKE A WHOLE NEW ARM.

Also, I really love the request and bio tools on the site... perhaps the bio tool more than the request tool. It just makes them so much easier and less annoying to put in! No more line by line crap! I can't remember who came up with that, but... two thumbs up, it rahcks mah sahcks.