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You’re not supposed to publicly announce the secret police, that’s missing the point.

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I was going to make lore like this but you beat me to it. Sure. I'd love to play one so +1.

Yeah the server has been awful for me as of late, takes upwards of 5-10 seconds to interact with anything or break any block. It's nearly unplayable despite my best efforts.

TOO LATE

tbh mobile phones have worse coverage than our messenger birds do @BathRugMan It's a really cool design (love the drawing) but I don't think it really fits into LOTC unless it was severely temperamental. However, we have seen stranger things; if anything, something more akin to a golem that carries people would work better, in my own opinion. If anything, using telekinesis for this over straight steam power or something akin to that makes it harder; telekinesis cannot lift living beings, after all, because their shape, centre of gravity and momentum are infinitely changing. Having a living person on top of a device like this only makes the process more complicated. As such, I think telekinesis is unfit for such a device but I am no expert in it. Overall, I do like the design but I think it needs some changes. Good luck!

Honestly when it comes down to it, freelandia simply decentralizes a small amount of power; nations no longer have a stranglehold on properties and actually need to make some concerted effort to attract new players rather than "everyone who is a human ends up in Oren". If people wanted freebuild before, they'd either concede on that or weasel their way into a chunk of Oren land (go look at Oren land if you don't believe me, forts and villages everywhere, all abandoned). Now they can go and RP where everyone else with this dream is RP'ing and hopefully cause some dynamic stuff to happen or relationships to form. It's still the same zero-sum of actions happening just somewhere else. Also, Nations are still the most convenient places for both RP and items... if Nations offer nothing else than that, maybe they are the issue?

You're right but the issue being addressed is that you can't strip powers from someone when they vanish from / go inactive your guild, only to return with RP and OOC power. That could happen in an arcane magic guild just as easily as in the Clerics or whatever. If guild/nation leaders can implement consensual permakill clauses they can most definitely implement magical mothballing clauses. I don't really get what the difference is, especially when/if it's a case of "You can literally only be a Paladin if you're in Bob's Paladins".

Okay and why can't guild-level rules that are self imposed fix this? Why do they need to be arbitrarily applied to all deistic magics? What about arcane magic guilds? Are they somehow exempt?

If you can talk to a teacher to get your magic back, what is the actual point of this whole pile of bureaucracy involving lists and moderation when in reality it just adds an extra hurdle to whatever issue is going on.

How's this an advantage though? People will schism over OOC issues whether we have this system or not, and a contrived scenario hardly proves anything. If anything this simply makes it harder for people to reintegrate because their magic is inexplicably gimped without much reason why. A much better solution, would be to make players gimp themselves (Gasp! Players being held accountable!). Guild rules should state that inactivity means the leaders can excommunicate or at least mothball your magical powers until you become active again. Either that or players should willingly mothball themselves until later. Having it defined at a guild-level is much better than admins applying it an entire branch of groups that are only loosely connected.

1. This is semantics more than an actual argument 2. What's saying people can't do both? When have people not done both or at least tried both, or fallen back onto freebuild if nobody is online in their timezone? 3. I don't know im guessing it's still being worked on. The current spawn was hashed together without having roads as part of the design (seriously it doesn't link up to any roads...). The pros are; free expression outside of nation rules (what nation lets you build your own home in your own style?) the ability to be a hermit if you desire it (dictating other people's RP ends badly so why dictate against willing hermits who rarely visit civilization?) the ability to live lawlessly (albeit this may be covered by dreadlands now, but still valid if you don't ally with them) Amongst others that are mostly subjective to how you play LOTC. Different hats fit different heads.

I don't see how having your magic gimped removes any executive power you might have unless you have a really badly organized guild. Honestly seems like busywork for the sake of busywork and more needless complication. If people come back from a year long hiatus and wave their magical wang around they're the problem not the system. Guilds don't have a zero-sum on slots, after all. Who revolves their whole hierarchy around magical tiers that don't even exist anyways?

1. we're literally in survival mode ingame also idk how thats relevant 2. they can still join a nation and rp to get regioned land if they want it nobody is stopping them, infact regioned land is better since it's, well, protected... 3. nobody is sending them to a freebuild area and there isn't even roads going there or anything even pointing to its general location. Freebuild has pros and cons, let's not demonize it unfairly.

I might make a halfling though, I am tempted.

Why would anyone RP fear? That just makes you look like a wuss OOC'ly. Unless you act like an Alpha Mustang in both RP and OOC you're not welcome here. Go play a different gender than what you are on another server, you disgrace.

These videos are making me so sad. LOTC is so overcomplicated and messy at this point, I want the simplicity of Aegis.

There's nothing wrong with "genderbending".

My first RP character was a frost witch who got blinded but became an Ascended who could see life auras. I ended up making a texture pack which was completely black besides animals which were pure green, monsters that were pure red. Stuff that made noise like water was white. It was actually really fun since I was pretty much blind and needed help to get around but boy was it pretty edgy and bad roleplay at the time (not that it really mattered, people didn't get crucified for it back then).

You're seeing this in a very 2d way (from all your posts it's rather obvious you're jaded towards anything the staff do). The main reason why the VA reintroduction failed is because the paradigm of the community and the server has shifted so much since Asulon which was very RP-heavy. If anything, I would not even say that the VA failed in what it set out to do, it was simply made the bogeyman of the server's issues and promptly dragged out back and shot, relieving the community of a problem that still exists to this day.

Don't state my opinion for me. I loved the wilds and it brought MUCH more good than harm. I thought it was a much better idea than the ******* sterile resource island we have now which literally has RP banned on it. Gods above, people are so scared of having their eyes offended by a slightly bad build that they wish to completely amputate part of what made LOTC originally so good.

If a nation capital can't give people a reason to live in their city instead of the middle of the rat's ass of nowhere then that's the city's failing, not the freebuilds.

I've never seen any sort of settlement there in all my time playing, so it would stand to reason that it would probably get missed.

Well it does have some event areas in it (that I never saw myself as I wandered it over the months frankly). However, it's not really Ever's fault that a GM dicked you around. You could still go and build this Krajia now that it's freebuild and then get a charter done for it.