Ergent Seth

Hi. I was lurking around for a bit and I spotted this thread. Bear in mind that I’ve only been on the current map for literally fifteen minutes, so this is to be taken with a grain of salt. My information is most likely inconsistent and I apologize if I am wrong about multiple topics. That being said, hello I am Ergent Seth. I have been a member of the Lord of the Craft community since October 5th of 2011. Normally I kept quiet about server issues unless it was to diffuse arguments. I have always felt that my word wouldn’t mean anything within the heated conflicts from previous threads. I have never felt that what I would say would be productive so I jumped ship, moved on with my life, and I just forgot about it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Now what am I doing here? Like any bored college student on spring break, I decided to take a nostalgia trip which brought me back here. I lurked the forums for a bit seeing if anything changed and I was duly impressed. The server’s outlook and feedback had a bit more positivity in comparison to when I left. A step in the right direction However after browsing this thread it is clear that there are still a numerous amount of issues especially when focussing on player retention. I’ve always been itching to speak out about this topic especially, and I think this is the perfect opportunity for me to bring up a few things. As a new player within an RP server, you will always have an ideal visualization of what you want your character to do/be in the future. A sort of dream or goal you would want your character to pursue: be it start a business, a guild, go to a school, fight for justice or injustice, etc. However there are a numerous hurdles that the current map puts each new player through: >> Player Applications - No problem with these other than conveniency issues and time consumption. >> Spawning - Cloud temple is something that I think should stay (more of personal sentimental value to be honest). Monk sites should be a thing in each race’s spawn. >> Crafting/Professions - Not a fan of this. I think mods that take away from what a Vanilla player would normally have are more of a hinderance than anything. Mods that give more would be beneifitial. >> Lands/Building - Don’t be so afraid of griefers. Giving people more freedom to create their base of operations/business/home creates RP. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Anything that restricts player creation also restricts RP. There are things that have worked and things that have not, so let’s take it slow because things are moving up from here. My faith in this community is slowly but surely being renewed and I hope that this server will once again reach a golden age of RP it had once before. If you read through this, thank you so much. This was just a years worth of things I wanted to say and I’m glad I finally got it through. Hope everyone’s day goes well. -- Seth out

ay man im here to roleplay and post confusing messages This is still a temporary experiment so if peeps dont like it we get everything back And if turns out to be a beneficial thing, then even better So for now how about we just you know Give each other a hug, pat on the back, kiss on the cheek, probably on the mouth if you feel like it and you know see what happens because well, staff has reasons and if we spend 7+ pages arguing bout something we haven't tried out yet then not only staff, but the playerbase kinda failed as well because we can't just agree on something as a whole community for more than two days now i'm not saying everyone isn't entitled to their opinion, but wouldn't it just be easier and less stressful just to keep it chill and see how things go like seriously dawg if we have to argue so much about displaying 1 sentence at the front page of the forum then you know we gots issues. so lets see if we can take a step back, cool down for a bit and 420 blaze our way through this deuces

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