The People We Play This Game With

Tearvalerin - Sanctuary wrote: »

pfft thats not a good troll, thats a hormonal woman with PMS and a keyboard.

Brael - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Games are therapy, however you have to know how to separate playing a game casually from trying to be on top of everything. There's a significant difference in the time required to play this game on the lower end of things at any level, and this isn't unique to just this game. I'm honestly at a loss to see how you find this game hard, truth is this is by far the easiest MMO I've ever played. Here's some comparisons to another MMO I play that has a monthly fee.
This game: GM's give everyone the times on long respawn mobs (indirectly) provided you can do a little addition/multiplication.
Other game: You have 3-7 day respawns (with random 12 hour adjustments) with no indication of who killed something or when. Unless you're the one that killed it previously, then you can farm it and have a monopoly.

This game: The math for the game is mostly straight forward. What you see in your stat window is mostly what you've got (noticed a few exceptions so far).
Other game: Your stat window is meaningless, the stats you're shown aren't your real stats. Some stats hit hardcaps at 1/10 the value you're shown to have, but there's no documentation of when stats cap like that. Furthermore, they don't even function the way they're claimed to.

This game: It's fairly easy to see if items are an upgrade.
Other game: Items with higher stats aren't necessarily upgrades, it depends on each individual character, and in order to figure out if something is an upgrade you have to record hundreds of thousands of combat rounds and look at averages, then take into consideration that other opponents will behave differently to that upgrade. Fortunately recording the hits themselves is automated.

This game: GM's respond within 1-3 days and accept screenshots.
Other game: GM's respond within 1-3 days but refuse to accept any proof of something occuring unless they personally witness it.

This game: The most rigorous possible schedule is making 3 TW's a week at a set time, and some other things that spawn once a day. That puts you on top.
Other game: The high end players look at 20-30 hours a week at set times, plus needing to be online outside of that to build their character, plus additional time to farm.

This game: If you mess up the parts of your character you can customize, you can reset it.
Other game: If you mess up the customizable parts of your character, you can't reset it. Ever.

I could go on but I've probably gotten the point across, and the funny thing is on top of all that... I can't think of that game ever once being called hard, and I've played it for almost 11 years.

Here's another example of a free browser game I used to play. The casual player could log in, trade with people, attack with people, build their cities, and so on. It took maybe 90 minutes a day and is rather fun. Once you go higher though, you start having to look at peoples scores to determine all possible military setups, spying on them, building profiles of when they're online, finding them on the game board, and so on. The overall process once you rule out vacations, schedule changes, and so on... essentially required people to stalk each other online for 1-2 months in order to attack them and take their stuff (main purpose of the game). That's in addition to needing to play the game for about 8 hours a day, and compile databases on people.

All MMO's get complicated and exponentially more time consuming at the high end, but that doesn't make them difficult. This game is really excellent in that it allows people to minimize time spent online if they want, and are willing to pay for it.

As for the social pressure on venos... I don't see it, and I have my herc/nix. Nothing says you have to compete with others, infact unless you're in the top faction on your server you can't keep up with the best anyways so I don't see how that point is relevant.

Uiztrollin - Harshlands wrote: »

I ****ing swore saitada was a dude.. I heard him b4 on Wiccanways vent..
If not, holy ****..

Tearvalerin - Sanctuary wrote: »

is yours happening right now, poor dear ):?

Brab - Lost City wrote: »

I hope you know I'm not gonna watch Lifetime movies and eat ice cream straight out of the tub with you this time.

Tearvalerin - Sanctuary wrote: »

b:beatenupb:beatenupb:beatenupb:beatenup

Saitada - Sanctuary wrote: »

To be straight and not troll here, any faction that would kick you out because you asked them not to say something like that, is honestly not worth being in. Find yourself a different faction.

~S

Redmenace - Heavens Tear wrote: »

You're an @ss.


Red

Tigriss - Heavens Tear wrote: »

It's only words.

Kittennice - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Lets all say sorry and cuddleb:cute

Elfaria - Dreamweaver wrote: »

3-4 years ago during my rebellious phase while I was playing different online games,
When people talk of suicide, I encourage them to do it.
(Like just saying,"Ok just do it.")

And each time I did that, I was muted or had a temporary ban.
Then the Moderators will usually give a lecture about how I shouldn't do that since theres another human being behind that computer that might actually consider that option or whatever you said to bring them down.

Im not sure if that offense is bannable but really, I wouldn't encourage anyone to do suicide for their sake. Though, im not one to give hope.

Just ignore it without further comment.