Progression of removal of play options on Arm

[Clearsighted]

As someone who had interaction the "old" way and the "new" way with elementals, I think the new way is vastly improved.

I hated how some PCs basically used them as quest dispensers and I'm glad that's gone. Perhaps I have a narrowly-defined view of what "magick should be" on Armageddon, but telling mortals "go get me ten crystals and a gith skull and I'll give you special powers" doesn't fit within that view.

I think the old way had a lot to do with the end of the world and no one giving a shit anymore. I vastly prefer the new way as well. That said, when it comes to magick, I always lean towards it being frightening, mysterious and potentially as dangerous to the user as the victim (if in different ways) than to anything as casual as summoning a little friend and asking it for advice.

[Eyeball]

and potentially as dangerous to the user as the victim

I.e. useless to anyone who isn't suicidal. Who will want to play a mage under those circumstances.

> cast '.. nil .. .. ..' x 1,000,000,000 (to get anywhere)

followed by

> cast '.. un .. .. ..' x 1
Aieeee, flaming death engulfs you!

*beep*

Welcome to Armageddon

[wizturbo]

Potentially dangerous to the user can be (and sometimes is) different than merely coded attacks that have the risk of a sudden mantis head on your screen. 

[BlackMagic0]

All these reductions are starting to smell strongly of SoI and its eventual demise.

The direction of the game it seems lately.

[Armaddict]

All these reductions are starting to smell strongly of SoI and its eventual demise.

The direction of the game it seems lately.

Only with more players on across most timezones.  Maybe I'm just jaded or used to it, but clans being closed and reopened, areas of the game being shut off and reopened...it's happened enough that I'm just really not worried about it.

[Rathustra]

Circling the drain, guys. The end is nigh. Everything is ruined. Farewell friends.

[Bushranger]

Circling the drain, guys. The end is nigh. Everything is ruined. Farewell friends.

And I don't even have a character!

[Jingo]

Tuluk is broken because something something D&D: Darksun?

[Zoan]

ARE WE NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT BEING UNABLE TO FALL OFF THE SHIELD WALL!?

[FantasyWriter]

ARE WE NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT BEING UNABLE TO FALL OFF THE SHIELD WALL!?

WUT?!

[Zoan]

Go try it. I'll wait.


Heh heh heh...

[Jihelu]

A many Byn lost their lives today at the bottom of the Shield Wall.
RIP
Zoan is being tried for murder.

[FantasyWriter]

Damnit! I hate writing up new pcs!!!

Also, fuck you Zoan, FUUUUUUCK you. 

[X-D]

That so reminds me of how I used to juke people with a certain delf.

[Supified]

Some of the things on that list were so absurdly over powered it was.. Absurd?  Like spells that you couldn't defend against and could kill you without even being remotely close to you or put the caster at any degree of risk what so ever, they just required the creativity of a small child.  It's remarkable they weren't abused more than they were.

Also I'm just assuming they were toned down. hah.

[hopeandsorrow]

More quit rooms please. When a delf or gicker can check out every quit or save room in a zone in a single game day, it's a little unrealistic. (though IMO perfectly IC for them to want to do).

I agree with all but the last part.  The last part is to me way more OOC motivated.

I kind of always hated when I figured out about every single quit room is known by 70% of the player base.  In fact I feel in more danger in quit rooms then I do in the middle of red desert sleeping.  I would love to see them all moved about, changed, new ones add, old ones removed.

Maybe could stand to have a few more, but for the most part, I believe the current ones, on the whole need to be shuffled around or change in some way.  More reason to explore, maybe a few of them will slip by and not immediately become known to every one.

[Rokal]

More quit rooms please. When a delf or gicker can check out every quit or save room in a zone in a single game day, it's a little unrealistic. (though IMO perfectly IC for them to want to do).

I agree with all but the last part.  The last part is to me way more OOC motivated.

I kind of always hated when I figured out about every single quit room is known by 70% of the player base.  In fact I feel in more danger in quit rooms then I do in the middle of red desert sleeping.  I would love to see them all moved about, changed, new ones add, old ones removed.

Maybe could stand to have a few more, but for the most part, I believe the current ones, on the whole need to be shuffled around or change in some way.  More reason to explore, maybe a few of them will slip by and not immediately become known to every one.

I agree with this. The lands are always changing in one way or another.

Things that change like this can keep everyone on their toes - even vets.

[BadSkeelz]

replace all quit rooms with bottomless pits

[Malken]

replace all quit rooms with bottomless pits

I used to knock gortoks and snakes unconscious with a dude of mine not that long ago and just drag them all into that pit in the tablelands, in the hope that someone would fall in it and encounter the 150 angry and starving 'toks and snakes that I had dragged there, but the game was crashing too often back then, so I was always having to re-do it

[Narf]

replace all quit rooms with bottomless pits

I used to knock gortoks and snakes unconscious with a dude of mine not that long ago and just drag them all into that pit in the tablelands, in the hope that someone would fall in it and encounter the 150 angry and starving 'toks and snakes that I had dragged there, but the game was crashing too often back then, so I was always having to re-do it

Pretty sure all they'd fall into is a pile of gortok and snake corpses.

Granted, there'd probably still be some head scratching.

[Malken]

replace all quit rooms with bottomless pits

I used to knock gortoks and snakes unconscious with a dude of mine not that long ago and just drag them all into that pit in the tablelands, in the hope that someone would fall in it and encounter the 150 angry and starving 'toks and snakes that I had dragged there, but the game was crashing too often back then, so I was always having to re-do it

Pretty sure all they'd fall into is a pile of gortok and snake corpses.

Granted, there'd probably still be some head scratching.

Pretty sure that I had perfected that technique to mastery, so if gortoks fought snakes, I probably would have adjusted what goes into the pit early in my career (can't remember if they did or not, though).

[jstorrie]

I for one am glad to see that staff finally pulled the trigger and admitted that the current scope of the game exceeded the working capabilities of their team. failing to make that decision w/r/t Armageddon Reborn ended up wasting a lot of development hours and destroying a lot of the community's trust. complaining about losing options is incorrect I think given that many of these options were unmaintained and/or broken. at some point you need to be real about what you do and what you do not have the capacity to accomplish.

granted, I don't play anymore. I only logged in because someone told me about Tuluk closing!

[MeTekillot]

I only logged in because someone told me about Tuluk closing!

what i say to myself every day i put in my password.

[jstorrie]

it's a githmas miracle