Casamir

One of my problems that killed my 3.0 excitement was, I moved to the Wilds upon release, wanted a nice quaint home out of the way. Waited a while, brewing came out, decided I was gonna dig down, get me some Iron. I dug down, and lo and behold, a Mine shaft. I followed said Mineshaft, and realized almost the entire wilds had already been mined out. I don't think anything like this should have ever been allowed to happen, Wilds or not. That was some serious mine system they had, and I was able to travel all across the wilds via the tunnels. Not only did it ruin my ability to get Iron personally, but I also can't get enough Minas from mobs to head into town to buy any. I got my kids and such, so although I had tons of free time in 1.0 and 2.0, 3.0 I have a lot less time. As such that is why I chose to live in the wilds (No one charging me rent, or evicting me because of my schedule.) This is why, I myself personally have played less since 3.0 (which I had anticipated much so)

I always RP'd my skill as a Blacksmith, but you still need to the skill to make the actual Repair. I didn't take forty five minutes, but I would go through the steps emoting me banging out all the dents and straightening the swords and sharpening them on the whet stone. Like i said there should still be skill required to do so.. or everyone will jump on making money as a BlackSmith.

I don't see how, Should a Smith not RP Smithing things? easily done while Smithing... I have never had my RP taken away while Leveling Swords, as grindy as it was. I Rp'd my gradual skill gains. When you work out, you hit these things called Peaks, that is where you don't get any gains for a while untill you push a huge amount and break your peak. The skills is the same, you get to a point where you are pretty good, and it becomes harder to be better. To truely be a master of something requires alot of effort, not a few sentences.

Again I ask for Clarification on this, so I know whether or not my character turns to dust. Because no matter what you guys say "No one needs to die" Obviously these rules have been clarified due to people's issues with longer lived characters (when they have no right living so long ) so it's a simple fact if my character would be dead, he's going to suddenly die, as I'd be a bad player (breaking lore, rules, ect shame on me) if I continued to play him another day after such clarification. After all, I can just re-roll a whole new character, create an entirely new folder full of skins for him, and enjoy him for a year.

If this is so, then how come when I asked for clarification BEFORE deciding to go half breed that many people, FM's GM's random forum folk told me that 500 was an acceptable age for human / elf half breeds with and to be fair that 200 would be a simple non PG age to aim for. Only one person stated that you would get both curses, and they got dismissed quickly by the rest. I've done plenty of research with this character, including finding out how much IC years have passed between the end of aegis and the start of 3.0 (To make sure my character wasn't so old he'd die dispite his extended life) Edit: Can someone, someone proper with the authority to tell me this and it be true, tell me exactly how many IC years have gone by since the end of Aegis, to the current in game date. With the current accepted time system, this way I know just how old I am. As a side note, maybe make official lore stating Northern humans live longer than most? (By maybe 20-40 years longer) due to their hearty bodies from enduring rougher regions of land? (It would give me a reason for my character being older as he's Half elf Half Northern Human, and from a logical view it could make sense that they would be the longest lived due to generations of dealing with tough conditions?)

I personally prefer the physical Minas, as it lets one store them. With the old iconomy style we lost Mina's when we died, which was reasonable, until you set foot outside with a ton of cash and died only to lose a huge portion of it. With the physical Minas, I can store my large savings, while still risking losing the spending cash I carry around on me to death.

I do have to say this though, I thought we where taking a more open approach to how things are, what with all these new "What do you think" topics being made and such, I think this is one of those things that needed to be discussed with your player base. You say "No one will just randomly die" and "Message so and so to get some approved lore thing" So now instead of RPing my character, who in light of these recent clarifications (Which expose me as a power gamer for not following the Lore of half breeds, which was only recently revealed but not considered a change) I have to cease playing my character (As it's power gaming and lore breaking) until speaking with such and such, coming up with what, a personal lore change app? so that I can have some side winded character history changing reason as to why I, my character, is able to survive for so long where others wilt and die. (Which also kind of makes me feel like I'm seeking special treatment now as to have my character ignore written lore) It should be fairly obvious by this thread here, that many of us half breed characters are confused, upset, and not happy with this Change clarification. Only a few players have made exclamations of "Finally!" as if they have a personal issue with half breeds. I myself have never met any that where ruining RP by playing a character they love for an extended time. It also gives me a bit of a "bad rub feeling" to see many LM's just kind of being like "whatever it's changed it's done with." or "This is how it would obviously be done" Though I have seen one (or two) who seem to be looking out for us half bloods who now feel slighted in our character's RP. I personally don't feel like anyone would ever want to play a half blood with nothing but negatives, normal races each get one blessing.. but uh.. when they mingle, that poor half breed is an abomination. In fact one would think the lore on half bloods would be changed to make them socially unacceptable, I mean if you knew hooking up with that elf, as a human, would cause a being to be born with two curses and no blessings. Would you do it? you'd think most would have the moral standing to not force such things upon the child (the half blood who would be born of such a union) to clarify, not many would willing make an inferior, double cursed being who would have to suffer through life with two negatives and no positives. (specially a half elf / human, sorry, you live short, and won't have kids.. )

I was told 200 when I made mine (And I was told that was being the relatively short lifespan that most people accepted for half elf) I started Casamir at the age of 18 in about the final quarter of Aegis, I was told that the time from Aegis' end to the end of Asulon was 70-80 IC years. (By a few GMS in a status when I was asking how long it was from the end of Aegis to the start of 3.0 lore wise years to see if I would still be below the 200 I was limiting myself) which would make casamir as of current age about 90. (I was doing a he looks and feels half his age thing, kill him off at 200 cause that is when he'd look and feel 100)

I'm not really a fan of rolling a new character every number of months because my character died off of old age. I had plans I set out to accomplish with my character which sort of got screwed by the end of 2.0 and the moving to 2.5. I moved my plans to 3.0 seeing as I should be able to accomplish them. I asked for clarification on the half breeds. I want to live longer yes sort of out of a powergaming want, but I think a character living to 200 (aging at half the rate, so 50 is 25, 100 is 50 200 is 100.) is a pretty decent compromise. Much like the person you quoted I too would rather not have my character just die off of old age (I have it planned to pass the order to a friend of mine on my deathbed) and then die of old age. but after I re-establish us in 3.0.

It's a tad disappointing as I had asked for clarification for it in a status update when I made my guy Half elven. But currently he's roughly 90 years old, I had intended him to live to about 200 at a half the age rate, so at 50 he would appear 25, 100 he'd appear 50, ect. But now he's basically out right dead.

Wheeeeeeeeelp guess my character is dead then, cause I was rolling half elf half human.

Merry Christmas Ladies and Gentlemen of the LOTC Staff, and Merry Christmas to the guys and gals of the LOTC community.

Hmm, not sure how I feel about lack of VIP plots.. let me explain' My Current Aim for 3.0 was to bring my main character Casamir's Knights of the North order back, which means I need land to One: Set up a small keep for the Knights with living quarters, training ground, and protection. And Two: We'd have civilians working with us as well so I'd assume our goal was to have a personal mine for iron and such. That is how the order worked in Aegis and Early Asulon, We where self sufficient to the point that I was able to remain nation less like I had planned. Now I lean more towards pro human, and my character's RP has changed as well, so I have no problems dealing with Oren, it's just that when you have to deal with the head guys of every nation it gets hard, they are busy people, you need to be on when they are on, and then you actually have to convince them to aid you. In Asulon what killed off our order mostly was just that, me and my Knights (the guys who still played post Aegis atleast) set up in a home in Salvus, waiting and talking with the king to get land for a small keep, as well as offering to pledge ourselves. What ended up happening was a whole lot of being put aside, and then eventually kicked out of our house (as we had too many people living in one home and thus where expelled) and this was all what I had to do (even with my VIP plot) to get land, it was what the Gm's I talked to said I had to do to get land, and eventually I never did. So then the remaining members (the ones who didn't quit after our guild couldn't make any progress) managed to get a charter for land in a unclaimed area, guess what happened. We got our land taken a while in a war claim (at that time we where a small village level settlement with few people, and I was also on vacation for a while, being marked inactive the warclaim went through and I found myself in Game a week later with no items or a home.) I don't think we have them, but make a proper guild application maybe? Approved guilds would be granted land, funds, resources to set up maybe? (the application would have to be for a guild and what nation, if any you want to be a part of, if not apart of a nation you'd have to do it all yourself?) These are my thoughts, I'm a guild kind of person, I had plenty of fun with my Knight order, it really got me into LOTC and I still play with a handful of the founding members (The whole concept began between myself and another WS while waiting to get approved) Also I am a fond builder of castles (I like to design our keeps and have had fun making them through out different incarnations through the worlds)

Shoot and here I am stuck at work 9-5 tomorrow QQ