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I definitely experienced this with my first successful character. I've heard of this happening to others and I wondered how prevalent it was. Of course, discuss the death if it happened more than a RL year ago.

One of my character's mate was murdered I think 15 minutes after having her main desc and sdesc changed, I think.

My character was killed at the exact same time as I got the email saying my description was approved...

I thought everyone knew "Ginka's Laws."

Eh? What Ginka's Laws? I know I do everything in three (logging in/disconnecting three times, looking at people etc) while wearing my lucky sunglasses. Is there anything else that'll help me survive?

this is why I have never had a desc change. The irony is I usually die around the time I think its appropriate to start writing one.

I usually die after submitting it. Like, within hours, usually.

Quote from: Agent_137 on August 28, 2008, 10:29:05 PM
I definitely experienced this with my first successful character. I've heard of this happening to others and I wondered how prevalent it was. Of course, discuss the death if it happened more than a RL year ago.

     Like clockwork, baby.  Two for two, and I'm dreading the third . . .

I think I've had one character who didn't die near immediately after a description change.  :D

Ummm...yeah. Without fail.

I would suspect that these character deaths have nothing to do with the sdesc/desc change, and much to do with the general tendency of the player to go through characters quickly. I've never even considered asking for a desc change until a few RL months into a character's life. My characters have a tendency to live long...so...they continue to have that tendency despite desc changes.

Quote from: Gimfalisette on August 31, 2008, 11:10:04 AM
I would suspect that these character deaths have nothing to do with the sdesc/desc change, and much to do with the general tendency of the player to go through characters quickly. I've never even considered asking for a desc change until a few RL months into a character's life. My characters have a tendency to live long...so...they continue to have that tendency despite desc changes.

That or most characters tend to change their sdesc/desc when they get in trouble with the law and want a new 'identity', I'm sure.

you only get one s/mdesc change and i'd think it'd usually be for age, most getting this change will already be longlived chars I expect.

No.  I didn't.

     In my case, it was at the tail-end of a RL 8 month run (my first character - still miss her sometimes  :'().  The point about when characters receive changes vis-a-vis trouble with the law is well-taken, though wasn't true in my particular scenario. 
     I wonder if there's some other factor in there, like a certain self-consciousness that comes along with the change.  It's kind of like how if I wear all white when going out on the town, I've been known to get worried about getting something on me . . . and promptly got something on me.   :D  Yay, Pigmalion Effect!  http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Pygmalion-Effect&id=86460 (http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Pygmalion-Effect&id=86460)

Quote from: Agent_137 on August 31, 2008, 01:23:51 PM
you only get one s/mdesc change and i'd think it'd usually be for age, most getting this change will already be longlived chars I expect.

Actually, you're allowed three, I think, bud.

Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on August 31, 2008, 10:15:41 PM

Quote from: Agent_137 on August 31, 2008, 01:23:51 PM
you only get one s/mdesc change and i'd think it'd usually be for age, most getting this change will already be longlived chars I expect.

Actually, you're allowed three, I think, bud.

THREE??? That's so many! I must have been thinking of the cap when the imms were real busy and put a limit on everything like new clans, etc.

If you start a character in their teens and survive to middle or old age... those three desc changes get used up real fast, not even counting purposeful alterations to appearance (i.e. other than "growing up"). I've always been in favor of a time limit or soft cap for long-lived PCs rather than a hard limit of three per lifetime.

I agree, and I suspect that they'll make exceptions should such a need arise. Being frank, though, not a ton of characters get to live that long. So I think that the 'stated' rule of three is a-ok.

I once had a character start at 13 and live till 17.  The minute I changed her from a kid to a teen WHAMO - She got killed by a templar. SIGH

Death sucks...

ShaLeah
- who now wants to add a "Grieving Your Loss - How to cope with Arma-death" forum...

Way to get noticed  ;)

Within fifteen minutes of going through 'the change', my poor character passed out drunk, was pecked into negative hp by a bird, and slowly bled to death for roughly half an hour.

Whenever I put in for a description change, my character dies before the change goes through.  ::)

Quote from: Archbaron on August 30, 2008, 03:48:37 PM
I usually die after submitting it. Like, within hours, usually.

Yes. And it was a horrible, horrible accident that I still haven't lived down.

Any request that involves a character alteration seems to involve an unlucky event on the horizon..

I've had a spec app die about two minutes after getting an app-involved skill tweak.  Sorry Belenos. :(

Lol, one of the major OOC motivations to log on and stay alive is having a desc/skill app :P

This has never happened to me.  Then again, I have had relatively few desc-changes, even on long-lived characters.

Strangely and notably: My characters usually face a challenge to their life within two-three days of me starting to think about possibilities for my next character.

Sometimes, I live through it.  Sometimes, Mantis-Head.

Morrolan

Quote from: FantasyWriter on June 03, 2009, 12:24:04 PM
I've had a spec app die about two minutes after getting an app-involved skill tweak.  Sorry Belenos. :(

Oh so many times.

I played in a clan where pcs could claim a leadership position by announcing their intent.

The funny part was that I noticed that everytime someone claimed that position, they would die shortly after.

My character even had some superstition surrounding the matter.

But that didn't save him when he got around to reaching for the position himself.