Are birds powerful?

[DrakeHaze. 2481]

If I remember correctly I'm almost certain topics about birds on lotc being abusive or otherwise too powerful have popped up from time to time. Been looking through some recent posts and saw that birds are being sent to random personas, so I wanted to touch on this topic and see what the community is thinking.

Currently there are relatively little restrictions on birds, you just do three emotes and shoot a PM to someone with a message from almost any location to any location. I think this is a little too powerful. I remember talks about some bird plugin being made but I don't think the solution is a plugin (but it was a cool idea). 

Just have a place in every city, every hub from cloud temple and a few places along the roads where you can send birds. Should be able to receive a bird from anywhere realistically but you can only send birds at these specific places.

Does this resolve the problem of receiving birds from random people? No. However I think it does place a more realistic restriction on birds being used in combat settings, where 1 random person usually not involved in the combat directly simply walks around a corner and sends a bird to several people in the span of a few seconds since they are not locked in the weird 1-emote per round thing. This also prevents near instant responses unless the other player is near one of the bird places so its an 'unknown' if your bird was received or not until you get a response.

It generally feels a bit weird how quick communication is in our medieval fantasy setting. My suggestion may not be the best, but I wanted to share and see what other people think about birds on LoTC being more powerful than our Aenguls and Daemons.

Let me know what you think, I feel like this is potentially a hot topic atm

[Unwillingly 11139]

 

[DrakeHaze. 2481]

56 minutes ago, ᴜɴᴡɪʟʟɪɴɢʟʏ said:

 

So nothing changed?

[Burnsider 4542]

Meh, it's no big deal to me. And I am now wary of new plugins. Plus, it's fun to ignore the message and have some delightful squab dinner.

[UnBaed 8944]

How I try to RP it for the most part, I avoid 5G tracking birds in RP to the best of my ability.  If my character doesn't know an address or location to commonly find who she is trying to reach out towards, I RP her not knowing where to get into contact with that person.

 

Believe it or not, RPing this way has helped me into finding even more RP as I go through towns and taverns to ask around for X-person in RP.  If everything fails in that search and IRL schedules between myself and the player I'm looking to RP with just fail to line up, I'll then consider other options into arranging RP or just leaving the search to be fruitless - depending on the scenario