Colour Discrimination

konataizumichan wrote: »

Maybe I can shed some additional light on this topic, but at the very least I can ramble on for days about it!

I was on LC for almost 6 years, but I took a break for a while and went to DW. I really enjoyed my time there. Some things I noticed in general about DW (and I'd assume all pve servers) : holy **** there's a ton of people here, people are more friendly and relaxed, factions stick together and stay around longer, and wow a lot less squad fails. When there was a squad failure, people were more likely to work it out, try again, explain exactly what needed to be done if newbs, etc, without flying off the handle and quitting squad and yelling and calling them names in WC.

LC was actually more like this in the beginning (minus the name-calling), a lot of people were friendly and helpful in spite of the constant rpk and I do mean constant. It wasn't a question - it was a given, you were going to die if you left safezone. The only question was how many times. There was at least one guild very well known for their pvp / rpk activity that were pretty horrible at pve. But you'd kinda expect that on a pvp server.

Everyone was busy trying to level and gear up fast to get into one of the big name guilds because, among other things, that meant a degree of security while questing, and that was the only way to level back then, mainly on the open map. This started a division between the people that got there on the first day (a lot from PW-MY) and the people that started a few months later that had never seen PW before. After you learned the ins and outs, it was always a race to get to endgame, which back then was 70-80. It's worth noting that during this time, there was nothing in the cash shop to give you a great advantage other than (arguably) hp charms and dolls.

A year or more passed, then came FCC and BH and hypers, and somewhere along the line goons glitch, and voila, the first generation of power-hungry power levelers that didn't know much about how to play their chars effectively were born, and the division grew more. At the same time it forced people off the open map and there was a lot less pvp and rpk. The higher level people didn't really want to spend their time helping the newer ones because they spent all their time farming charms for TW, glitching goons in frost for their alts or guildies, and or generally seeking more power for themselves, a trait typical of pvp types. Myself included in the respect that, when BH first came out (remember there was only one at first) I cringed because I knew exactly how my time was going to be spent from now on, helping my guildies level up, because they all wanted to do BH. And rightly so, it was a good chunk of xp, so I did help them.

Somewhere around this time item linking was added to the game, so asking for weapon link was instantly adopted as a way to distinguish frost / hyper babies from the more old school (presumably better) players. For whatever illogical reason, probably because we are creatures of habit and imitation, it has stuck to this day.

With the addition of more BH, more ways to get hypers, new classes, cash shop items, op gear, packs out the wazoo, less ways to farm coin, and a thousand other changes to the game, the division between the end game and mid game players grew so huge that it put a lot of good mid game players off to the point that they quit, because in their eyes, endgame was now basically unattainable, if not the levels certainly the gear, and it surely didn't help that there were very few people available to help them with say, an fb39, when they needed it.

Now some of this surely is not unique to LC or any server for that matter, and there's a lot of broad generalizations, but hopefully this may provide some insight into our history and differences. Granted I am biased, certainly not the majority, and no expert by any means, but this is a brief glimpse of history the way I saw it. Failing all that, I hope you at least enjoyed reading my wall of text, I always enjoy a trip down nostalgia lane ^^

ovenusarmanio wrote: »

I've always hated weapon linking.

eirghan wrote: »

dingo488 wrote: »

That aside, the thread makes no sense to me, it must be some american thing to get offended over something like this aswell....

weird for it to be american when i'm not more assumptions sheesh you guys!

shade13 wrote: »

bloodedone87 wrote: »

Gotta agree here. You can be trash talked, killed in cube, rejected from squad for being
- bluenamed
- whitenamed
- rednamed
- in wrong faction
- because person didn't like your gear
- your name
- your manners
- your pet
- you pet's name
- your attitude
- your appearance
- your afk place
- your existence
I don't believe none of bluenamed have never experienced any kind of harassment or discrimination in game because of other reasons o.o
It's a MMO

razzzza wrote: »

It doesnt matter for the most part what weapon the cleric/bm/veno for example has they are utility characters and are there for a different purpose and this is not damage but damage amplification or healing ofc.

demansfairy wrote: »

catgirldesu wrote: »

When I used to run BH regularly and make my own squads, I would usually ask people to whisper me their favourite colour, favourite food or something like that. It can be used for the "filtering out the idiots" without having the stigma of weapon/gear linking. Though I only did it for fun, the same thing applies; some people would whisper me what I asked, but others wouldn't.

Just throwing this idea out there.

I honestly might start doing something like that instead of wep links.

demansfairy wrote: »

catgirldesu wrote: »

When I used to run BH regularly and make my own squads, I would usually ask people to whisper me their favourite colour, favourite food or something like that. It can be used for the "filtering out the idiots" without having the stigma of weapon/gear linking. Though I only did it for fun, the same thing applies; some people would whisper me what I asked, but others wouldn't.

Just throwing this idea out there.

I honestly might start doing something like that instead of wep links.

dblazen1 wrote: »

shade13 wrote: »

bloodedone87 wrote: »

Gotta agree here. You can be trash talked, killed in cube, rejected from squad for being
- bluenamed
- whitenamed
- rednamed
- in wrong faction
- because person didn't like your gear
- your name
- your manners
- your pet
- you pet's name
- your attitude
- your appearance
- your afk place
- your existence
I don't believe none of bluenamed have never experienced any kind of harassment or discrimination in game because of other reasons o.o
It's a MMO

Personally, I reject all venos from existence because of the sole reason of them being venos. The bane of this world. The purger of buffs.
Those furballs should be shaved.



p.s.: for those who don't understand sarcasm, only the first sentence in my post was serious.​​

demansfairy wrote: »

But venos ARE horrible filthy creatures that deserve to be purged from this world D=.