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Yeah I knew the date plugin was gone for a while but that doesn't explain why people would then retroactively apply 3/4-day years to certain periods where the date plugin didn't exist. The straight-forward thing would just be to apply 7-day years to that period. So I'm not sure if these variable-length years are intentional (based on some arcane formula to simulate some quirks of the how the date plugin worked before it went kaputt) or just some weird excel copy-paste error. The year lengths are also weird and variable even in Aegis when we definitely did have a functional 13xx date plugin (albeit with 8 months rather than 7). But again - maybe it had some bugs causing these glitchy dates and some guy came up with a formula to capture that. No idea. If not that, then I wonder how this wiki page gets its dates. @Telanir Help please.

Help:Times & Dates - Lord of the Craft Does anyone know why, in the Asulon section, the length of the years various wildly? For half of it, it shows years alternating between 3 and 4 days in length, and then after the 4th of June they switch to being way longer (but also of variable length). Actually I'm seeing a similar thing for late Aegis now that I look at it, with years randomly varying in lengh there too. And that was a whole different calendar plugin. Were there some plugin shenanigans that caused this? Anyone know how these dates were calculated?

so glad this whole "all my friends are going to leave the server unless you cancel the war!" blackmail is finally starting to lose its efficacy on this server so many years of genuine conflict being ruined by wetblankets doing the mineman equivalent of "break up with me and i'll off myself"

i have evidence indicating the Ship of Modtheus was posted from squawkhawk's ip address

thoughts on purging the ST im thinking like a Christ in the temple style thing where anyone who ever sold or produced signed items gets whipped out of the Temple (dragur's library)

u dont think this might be a teensy bit of a problem for a role which has to personally approve half the shit that happens on the server?

No one's ever CRP'd an actual battle. Specially planned map-antag events once or twice a map involving several ET RP'ing multiple characters and fighting like 20+ players each don't count - you cannot expect every time people attack a lair to work like that. You'd need months to plan each WC. And even if they tried it - most lairs don't house armies of Inferi. A CRP assault by 100 men would be just as much of a guaranteed win as a PVP assault. The only difference is that it'd be death-by-wall-of-text rather than death-by-clicking. You just cannot have a CRP WC without severely limiting the number of players allowed to participate. And if we go down that route (good - it sounds fun, like I said), it needs to make sense in-universe.

I like this idea a lot but it could still get very silly if the crusader knights keep losing 10 man CRP assaults on a lair that they could just level with trebuchets and swarm with 100 men. I think ultimately if a lair doesn't want to be assaulted by an army it should be situated so that such wouldn't be feasibly possible. Otherwise what you have is not a lair but a very, very poorly manned fortress. Which we're all supposed to ignore, or something. Very easy to come up with some RP explanation for this though. "uhh there's some kind of magical barrier so you can only enter with a... uhh special talisman". Don't need to write groundbreaking lore to explain rule restrictions; it's just awful when rules inhibit RP without any IC explanation whatsoever.

might need some creative solutions to this, like geographically inaccessible lairs which are e.g. behind a fog of poisonous gas (flashback to hanseti) or in a volcano or under the sea etc. etc. places where you can only go if e.g. you're a CA who's invulnerable to perils of the local habitat, or you have magicks for that, or you're able to TP past some boundary (magical doors into bases are cool). those are just silly ideas off the top of my head which are probably unworkable for various reasons, but i guess the point is, in order to balance realism with convenience and fun, lairs should either be (1) hidden, or (2) inaccessible (at least with an army). not being able to WC a lair you can walk right up to feels dumb, not being able to WC a lair because you are physically incapable is totally reasonable. rules should typically have reasonable in-universe explanations where possible. otherwise it ruins muh immershun

think the problem with lairs is that they're supposed to be hidden, but the reality of region rules is that that's not really feasible. it'd be ridiculous for nations to NOT hunt and destroy lairs of dark mages or demons from Hell, but I get that having to move lairs constantly would be ridiculous overhead. Also the warclaim itself is kinda a waste of time because it's a guaranteed W so what's the point freebuild would fix all of this, but alas

No one wants to go to war over EU4 (LOTC hasn't moved on to EU5 yet) provinces. It's a total waste of everyone's time to do so. The only result of increased war costs would be to make wars drag out even longer, an issue exacerbated by the return of skirmishes and the requirement to encircle capitals. Longer wars further divorced from RP impact (by restrictive costs impeding large demands) might be ok if all you like doing is raiding daily for months on end, but for everyone else it just makes things worse: a longer disruption to regular RP and less interesting things to talk about or consequences to deal with when the war finally does end. Somehow that seems like the exact opposite of what you're going for. If you want to make wars less miserable for players, winners and losers alike, you should make primarily focus on them *shorter* while tweaking the rules to encourage more hands-off subjugations and make total annexation/eviction comparatively more difficult. You could also make wars more interesting and less death-wary by expanding out the list of CBs. Wars to install a claimant or help a vassal gain independence are currently only possible through annexation and then making the relevant change afterwards - why not encourage CBs like these as cheaper alternatives to total annexation or subjugation? You have to promote CBs that have real impact (not "you pay us 100 leather" or "handover of border empty tile") if you want wars waged to something other than the death. Quick wars contribute to this too because anyone's logical reaction to spending 6 months and their entire treasury warring some guys will be to wipe them off the map so it never happens again. Let them finish the war in a month without breaking the bank and there's room for maganimity.

imagine a game where you could dig underground and mine ores directly instead of running in circles pinging indestructible nodes like some shitty budget MMO could we get the swedes to look into this

you aren't allowed to comment on haelun'or unless you have separate PhDs on women and the holocaust, but they're allowed to do literal Schutzstaffel dress-up roleplay also lol @ the references to it being genocidal because haelun'or is so homogenous. *why* is it so homogenous? somehow it seems like that same kind of purity, racial-segregation rp would be condemned by the very same ppl if anyone else did it

i think people will either get bored or the staff will change war rules before it happens

an rp construct actually doesn't have to contribute anything to the server beyond just existing in rp. why don't u deal with it in RP I hate this idea that you can't just play the game but instead have to "contribute" in some vague sense of appeasing everyone who might get OOCly upset by losing IRP. We all get mad over RP sometimes but that doesn't imply a burden on the other person to baby us and intentionally lose or something, like playing a board game with a 4 year old. It's always so unevenly applied too - big bad humans always have some implied obligation to only do political RP if it doesn't make you sad that your nation is now a (mechanically independent and totally autonomous) vassal, just because you don't like that RP. There's the idea that the human power has to intentionally lose or totally turn a blind eye sometimes. But there has never been a corresponding obligation for spooknation #473827 to do that. They have to be dragged to their defeats kicking and screaming and then they demand the admins give them a safe space to RP as literal demons from Hell, as if that weren't a contradiction in terms.

Helsuren shrugged, his preferred pre-Wilven 8-month calendar having lost any synch with either the Imperial or Common lifetimes ago. The idea of fasting for a full month out of every year was certainly a bizarre one, however. Were harvests really so bleak on the mainland?

average non-pvper is literally worthless in 1.9. ur just gonna miss 99% of ur hits/timings, esp in the lag. fights last way too long. it's rly annoying when ppl can stop to eat while being hit. reduce the # of hearts please

orcs go to the void where they lift weights for eternity

Well the current PVP system is shit and normal people would have more fun if people just died rather than eating-while-being-hit to survive 10 years so... Your other point is more a matter for personal debate but I still think in general that people shouldn't be punished for playing Minecraft. It's not impossible to build decent walls. Why ban people for breaking in? If they're jumping in via crazy lengths - make those falls fatal! Why not?

Why not just increase fall damage then? I hate stuff like this and the whole "your horse can jump over 3 blocks but we'll ban you if you actually do it" thing. We shouldn't have to rule-lawyer basic Minecraft mechanics. If people are surviving falls that they shouldn't, change the mechanics instead of introducing new areas where you have to /modreq and argue over which block you actually jumped from, whether or not it counts as part of the RP ("I didn't intend to RP yet when I made the jump!"), who initiated the RP, if it counts as conflict RP, etc etc I get that this is annoying but how are you gonna enforce it? Are we gonna have to send staff our sleep schedules so they can determine whether or not we stayed up extra late just to do some thieving, or are we gonna ban it entirely outside of (as you said) vague "peak hours" periods?

"There is no war in Ba Sing Se."

this is literally all i said and it made you all so mad you pinged each other on discord to rant at me. get over yourselves

No, I briefly said more apps should be accepted and then made an unrelated suggestion (90% of my comment) about updating app format to encourage players to pick subraces, but you all got extremely mad and lasered in on the first part and demanded I defend my viewpoint that more players should get accepted. Then, in response, I demonstrated how the standards for new players' characters are higher than the standards existing players' characters are held to, but you ignored that point, because your goal here is just to lecture me about how difficult your job is (but of course - I never even said it was easy; I said reviewals should be less strict, which would make the work easier and lower effort, not the reverse) and pretending you're responding to an argument I didn't start (and which you haven't read) is your way of doing that. I never said you aren't working on anything. Again, all your repeated accusations that I'm not reading what you're saying are obviously just projection. It's funny though that on the one hand you're criticising me for "saying the same things for years" ("we should accept more players") but on the other hand you're criticising me for not pretending the next New Player Guide will be a panacea to all problems and suddenly every noob will write an amazing lorepilled app and get accepted, as if that hasn't been said before. I'm sure your new guide will be great - but I didn't comment on it at all! I didn't say you weren't working on anything or that it would be bad; it's just totally irrelevant to what I was saying.