Eleatic
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A bit toxic for a couple of years, got better, not sure how it is now! There’s only ever been a steady improvement in the quality of the RP on the server. If you compared a typical RP encounter in Aegis to one today, you’d be floored. Though he’s no longer with us, I always really appreciated what Watyll brought to the table--he was an irreplaceable asset to this community and a wonderful human being. I’d say I look up to him the most out of players past and present. May his memory be eternal.
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Definitely. That said, there’s space for flowery writing. The thing is, you can only locate that space after you’ve learned the basics--all writing should be clean, mean, and lean, unless you know what the hell you’re doing.
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rude that’s a dread knight no leninism here Necessary for attracting new players? Maybe. Necessary in general? Nah. One of the best things about Aegis and Asulon was how free a lot of the role-play was, mechanically, stylistically, and architecturally (those cobblestone houses). That said, the Temple should always be a nice build--if only because it’s a sort of official staging ground.
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Not really. I was twelve when I started playing on LoTC. I’ll be twenty in a couple months. I spent way too much of my adolescence here, yeah, but I met so many wonderful people---and that makes it all worthwhile, I think.
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2.0. Especially early 2.0. I have so many fond memories of the Cloud Temple as a sort of ridiculous hub for melodramatic character based roleplay, the little makeshift settlements (Seventis and Ravenholm (a city made on an artificial island!) to mind) sprinkled around the map, the DnD rip-offs (cough Mori cough), the ridiculous scandals. It might not have been the most polished time in LoTC’s history, but there were was a lot of really wonderful enthusiasm on here in those days. It was almost magical (which is funny, since there was almost no magic to speak of early 2.0!).
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As subjective as this response might be, the ‘vibe’. LoTC 1.0-2.0 was much more relaxed. I think you can feel that pretty acutely if you look back at RP posts from Aegis and Asulon: a lot of the people who are, or were, pillars of the community (with respect to the quality of their storytelling) now were god-awful writers back then. Cliches from almost every medium imaginable popped up everywhere in those days. That said, the community was also really tight knit---when the whole thing with Vaquixine happened, I remember there being a real solidarity among the players here.
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I joined Oct. ‘11. I’ve been here since (almost eight years!). Not been active for the past few years, mind--high school, college, being a human, they take time away from blocky hi-jinks. Doubt I have many interesting anecdotes. Still. Shoot, if anyone has any questions. ?
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Hey, Princeton! How's it hanging?
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you're all nerds
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The player monks were a hotbed for religious RP, then the staff removed them for reasons I can't even remember at the moment. Bring back the Monks and make the CT a religious RP area again.
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How many Aegis/Asulon vets are left active?
Oct. '11, here.
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8/10 eyy I remember you from when you were a newbie
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A new map has never really, well, helped, in my experience. The move over is fun. The storyline is fun. The first few (days? weeks?) of exploration are fun. But after that, it's the same shebang. A priority should be restoring and conserving the existing map rather than tossing it in favor of the new. I think a strength of Asulon and Aegis, for all their faults, was the building policy and the efforts the moderators at the time took to avoid griefing while also allowing sporadic construction. Returning to something like that would be--at-least, from where this old sod is sitting--a solid way (not the only way) to help reinvigorate RP. Allow more independent construction, even if it can sometimes be shoddy and cliquish.
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((without a subject here delenda est just means that a female must be destroyed fyi))
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Gotta admit, for all of the weirdness of this place, it made me a much better writer. I had no grasp on English before I got yelled at by prescriptivist dweebs on here.
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