Telanir

Going to miss you, Alex. :') Welcome to the team @The60th!

I've read a lot of posts in this thread and much of it is genuine, high-caliber feedback. Thank you for that. I made the mistake not to to point this out but please focus on the state of the server and not individuals, for example "your idea made me ill" is not a valid reply lol There is no need to defend your opinion, a well thought out reply will do that more than hitting reply on someone else's musings. Thanks for reading through my obligatory janny insert, I hid a bunch of posts, if yours was hidden it will be discussed anyway, admins can still see them.

How do we balance this with red-tape? Giving notice…is that RP-friendly, or dynamic…or even interesting? And, suppose we do remove ladders, then the problem of perma-locked settlements returns—gates down, 24/7. (my problem here is not that players behind gates are safe, it is that it's that community interaction is (literally) gated, and new players be sad for sure). I liked the beginning of this map a lot, gates were wide open come-on-in—but flat turning off conflict would be worse. What else can we try?

Yeah, I waited a whole week to make the thread before I realized there won't be a "good time to post" 🤔

Hi, I've been hearing some chatter regarding server direction recently—I thought it might be helpful to get ahead of this. Does anybody smell smoke, or are we happy with our experience? Since there is a smattering of topics I figured I would keep this mostly unfocused. The question I would ask: are we doing enough to defend our position as the premier roleplay server? • Mission Statement

at last fishing is back…anthos fishing memories :)

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threats, doxxing, phone calls to homes and institutions, and worse. it's not the same community it was, and that is comforting. a lot can change in just four years.

enjoy. you're a nice face to have around, see you later I hope.

nice, you should collect an FAQ as you go along and post a step-by-step thread. would love if this picks up steam, been thinking about mpm lately

Lol that's weird, if it sent through it's not supposed to show that. Will fix that lmao

Hey, I deleted your favorite message. Instead, you’re going to start seeing some lovely little asterisks. Don’t want them? Type this. This will only affect your account, others will still see asterisks in your messages if they haven’t toggled it. You, however, won’t see them on any message! The filter has been updated to be far less intrusive on roleplay and moderator privileges adjusted so they can't accidentally enable serverwide forced message filtering…lol. Happy roleplay!

How do you feel lotc culture has changed in the five years you've been here? And a more boring question but more to your experience…what should we be doing (or not doing) to make friendships and connecting diverse communities easy and natural?