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let’s not pretend the absence of st nodes has ruined “mining rp”. material nodes had players acting insane for rocks. they’re gonna be handed out through events and we'll see how that goes. there’s plenty of materials on this map right now, players just don’t like sharing.
4 hours ago, DrakeHaze. said:The change that I'd like to see and what I believe everyone should be wanting in particular is lore material nodes for things that are lower in popularity due to the disparity in strength it has in combat
these already exist
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XB1Ps1EblBvkSr3DZFYdZcBudokhcIBaRHfboLeHz4A/edit#gid=482270967 (look in open materials in the world lore tab)
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i should be able to turn off all these spells with leather boots
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would it be possible to add link(s) to items? being able to attach a picture to an item would lower the absurd lengths of some item descriptions
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this is pretty long could you add some family guy clips between paragraphs
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On 11/1/2023 at 12:57 PM, _RoyalCrafter_ said:
And AH is not a spoon-fed staff solution, it's a plugin for player enjoyment. That is the top priority for the server.
AH plugin was removed bc it interfered with player enjoyment so idk what this means. As I said, an auction house exists! You can go sell and buy stuff right now, its just not organized by staff and pushes interactions. dont like it? you can organize your own. if buying and selling items on a screen alone is how you get your enjoyment, maybe a multiplayer rp server isnt the best idea. its like playing a shooter and asking the devs to make the other team stay still so you can shoot them easier.
On 11/1/2023 at 12:57 PM, _RoyalCrafter_ said:The server is also a game, sometimes quality of life mechanics needs to prioritised. Should soulstones be removed for the "rp challenge?".
the "its a game" reasoning still doesnt explain why a global AH is needed. skyrim doesnt have an amazon delivery service because talking to merchants is too much work. that would take away from the game. what it DOES have is a fast travel system. soulstones make interacting with other players more accessible for a multiplayer roleplay game, thats what lotc is. AH doesn't, its a way to avoid playing the game.
regional auction houses with basic mats would be a good middle ground, i dont think it takes away from rp and makes trading more accessible. wdyt?
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On 10/31/2023 at 11:28 PM, Benleft said:
It is almost impossible to use the Rite of Retrieval to accurately summon something as large as a manor
im watching you.
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3 hours ago, _RoyalCrafter_ said:
Personally I hate going around to different nations peddling stuff, even if one time i did make like 200 mina in a day from it. I find it very tedious and demotivating.
hire employees to do it for you
some of the complaints im seeing have roleplay answers. a grand exchange auction house DOES exist (@Ewdrawings) , except its not reliant on staff and you have to interact with other players to use it. its lazy to complain about lack of merchant rp and then not make the effort to partake in it. we should embrace rp challenges, not erase them for spoonfed staff solutions
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7 hours ago, TheCaptain said:
Maybe corc's youth tries to work against a necros aging and in turn the body deteriorates and slowly they become outwardly more undead! or maybe the more the wither the more undead they appear, idk, just since the player is stuck between eventually having two feeding mechanics be placed on em, give em a small rewards or a unique flavor.
this guys on to something
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On 10/29/2023 at 12:30 PM, Snow1770 said:
Princess Lumia rolled her eyes before tossing the paper into the canal and carrying on about her day.
Willem the Wise erupts from the waters like a dolphin. "I AM NOT YOUR TRASHBIN!" He declared, throwing the soggy missive back at her before diving back into the canal.
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3 minutes ago, femurlord said:
My reasoning had been Tawkin applications require Lifeforce in-order to fuel them in their lorepage, which Necromancers constantly lose due to the wound inflicted on their soul, I wanted to give more credence to relying on Necromantic solutions like the Draught of Incite which isn't lore conflicting
i didnt realize there was a lore reasoning behind the choice, thats cool. maybe upping the longevity of the incite draught? a week vs a day (and the easier recipe) leaves tawkin mutations as the way more convenient choice
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the weekly alchemy reapplications for appearance should be scrapped imo. give necros a reason to use their draught of incite, which achieves the same effect. theres also no simple way to check if someone has actually been reapplying tawkin mutations properly and they are very easy to cheese, which would lead back to the problem of loopholing mechanics.
good stuff otherwise
to the people freaking over the romance, you can always just make a different character and do romance rp there if its so essential to your lotc experience. people pooping their pants over this should look within and reflect!!
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Old man Osric read the missive he received in his mailbox. Perhaps the kids these days weren't all so bad.
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4 hours ago, venclair said:
Willem made his way into the kitchen for some soup, but the only thing on the table is a pile of crow bits. He sighed, going to find a broom and bucket.
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Willem studied the missive with a growing frown. “They called him a man at first, I certainly wasn’t playing with toys at his age. Now they call him a child. I wonder what the Stassions will turn this poor fellow into next.”
He sighed, setting the missive down. “All this bickering… and for what? Staining his memory with the blood of more innocents will fix nothing.”
The barkeep awkwardly nodded along, unsure why this man was rambling to him.
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10 hours ago, TreeSmoothie said:
probably cause most gringos on here dont do spanglish right and treat it like haensespeak. it IS tricky and there’s regional differences and i don’t expect anyone to learn a language for RP but when done wrong it’s obvious to native speakers (and you sound like a hack). the google translate is fine, lotcers love to complicate things
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Blood Magic Additions
Addition to Abilities - Blood Rites:
-Ritual modifiers only apply in the presence of additional mages beyond what is required. For example, if a ritual requires three blood mages, a modifier would only begin to apply on a fourth additional mage. A mage conducting a ritual alone receives no modifiers.
Context:
SpoilerWhen conducting a ritual that requires a roll in order to succeed and trigger its desired effect ritualists may use the following chart to add to the roll. However, no amount of stabilizing and preparation can force fate, and a roll of 1 will always result in failure no matter the modifier. Ritual modifiers only apply in the presence of additional mages beyond what is required. For example, if a ritual requires three blood mages, a modifier would only begin to apply on a fourth additional mage. A mage conducting a ritual alone receives no modifiers. It is the responsibility of the player leading the ritual to inform the ST event actor overseeing the ritual of the proper number to add. To lie is to powergame.
Addition to Summoning Rituals - Hail:
-Attempting this ritual without additional reagents connected to a specific object/entity leaves the results to chance. Invoking the aengudaemonic requires even greater sacrifice, typically objects or relics linked to deities or their realms.
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SpoilerEntities from other planes such as inferi as well as specific, named creatures or objects can also be summoned but with much less reliability. First the blood mages must use additional reagents to assist in describing the entity or object such as ritualistic offerings or the blood of specific race or creature; additionally, this requires ST manager approval. An example of this might be metal, divinity, sacrosanctum, power, and life to summon a reever of Garumdir that requires the blood of an artisan and the burning of alchemical reagents. Such additional offerings are nigh always improvised. Attempting this ritual without additional reagents connected to a specific object/entity leaves the results to chance. Invoking the aengudaemonic requires even greater sacrifice, typically objects or relics linked to deities or their realms. Note that the ST are by no means obligated to approve any or all requests of this nature and are not obligated to explain their reasoning. Summoning specific entities also entails a normal event PK clause should non-immortal characters perish after the ritual succeeds as well as requires an additional blood mage of at least tier 3.
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SpoilerSmall tweaks that will hopefully push more blood magic interactions. The intent is to encourage mages to incorporate more people into rituals as well as making it more difficult to cheese the roll modifiers. The second addition is my attempt to get people who use the hail ritual to put more roleplay behind what they’re doing instead of just slapping their wrist on the floor for lunarite.
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17 hours ago, ECS1999 said:
The problem is not the city being empty, is the hours that the raid occur and either if people are in the square or somewhere else
still sounds like its not a rally bell issue
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give people an incentive to rp in a realm that isnt a discord ping. the excuse of 'but its a city, theres lots of people!!' sounds like a copout. if the city is empty, its empty. not a rally bell issue
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11 hours ago, TreeSmoothie said:
leader of Paladins who massacred a cart of children
the legendary alicjo verana, killer of orphans and fugitive of the sultan, told me you have permission to use his character, the only important paladin since arcas
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10 minutes ago, lemonke said:
And likewise anyone but ST should be able to force people in getting disconnected from any magic. Indeed, you are not forced to play x magic but why at the same time people could force you to get disc from it and **** you over completely?? It's a goddman block game, why do these things need to be so hardcore lol. Don't tell me "consequences". It's not the victim who decides it but the people who gank them.
Speaking honestly as an ST, I don't think we are impartial enough to decide who gets disconnected. There are many communities I'm unfamiliar with, and its unfair for randoms like myself who have zero context to be the ones deciding what happens to those communities. And don't forget that st are players too. We have people on our team whose characters might benefit from someone else being disconnected. Maybe they just don't like em. Its a can of worms in the end, and the lesser of the evils imo is letting communities police themselves
As for rp losses, I don't think you can always ascribe victims. To give an example, if mystic A screws over mystic B, and mystic B disconnects mystic A, didn't the "victim" start the chain of events that would get them disconnected in the first place? That's kinda the nature of consequences: by choosing an action, you accept its consequence.
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this amendments a bit pointless with ooc consent, players just ask to get their app denied when they really wanna drop a magic. letting necromancers retire from a life of murder and evil is weird. if anything, it should be more punishing if it requires ooc consent, not less.
the "but my slots :(" arguments make no sense, if you want something else just make a new character and move on. nobody can force anyone to play a magic.
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It's important to give context to these places you visited. Adria was a different place in Almaris. It was on a highly active road and there was an effort to bring noobs and strangers into their community. Many nations this map don't even open their gates. Why talk to the random who might disrupt the perfectly safe and curated roleplay experience?
I'd say most of this is an observation on the state of roleplay more than gender bias (but its there). A lot of players simply wait to be emoted at, or log on just to legitimize decisions made on discord. To give my own observations, several times this map I've walked up to strangers and emoted at them only for them to parkour away or give some excuse in ooc as to why they weren't going to respond (roleplaying on a roleplay server????).
Also want to mention that it is medieval fantasy. What does a wizard have in common with a child? People will generally engage with the unique qualities of a character. The brave knight is going to want to save the little princess, not discuss strategy or recruit them for the military, and I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with that. It gives people the chance to change or challenge beliefs, generating interactions, good and bad! The issue is when biases spill outside the game.
Your observation on ooc treatment are the most interesting to me. The first women characters I ever played came around because I wanted to get attacked less (it worked) but I also ended up getting invited to a lot more roleplay, friend groups, and the first magics I would ever learn. A few years later, and you've had a very different experience. I don't really have an answer for why we were treated so differently, but my theory is the growing tribalism on here.
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On 7/25/2023 at 12:40 PM, TreeSmoothie said:
(bone is typically incredibly brittle and should not be used for combat, it's only labeled as combat because it could, in theory, be used for it)
you can mark it as noncombative if you dont intend for this mart to be for combat
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this isnt the satyr write -1
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THORNS OF A WHITE ROSE
in The Kingdom of Aaun
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“Aaun’s definition of gossip is ridiculing their own dead king and lazy jabs at the rulers of the realm? What a waste of good material!” Willem sighed and tossed the article to his sister. “I hope this is Stassion propaganda and the boy-king’s stupidity hasn't spread to his citizens, but with a title like that...”