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    [Your View] Armament Techlock

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    Plate armor is the default due to the fact it's the most bang for your buck. Why make chain when you can wear plate? No downsides to it.

    In real life, a full set of plate in medieval times cost good money, and required a skilled smith and the time to make the set. On lotc it's a handful of cheap iron and a crafting bench. Level to entry is nothing, and while most games get around this by limiting plate through skills/traits such as a Strength skill, LoTC doesn't do that. Since we don't want to add that, plate will remain the status quo. That's dumb, but to fix it requires changes that your team (nor any staff team) won't want to make, for better or worse.

     

    As for ranged weapons, they're shit, but they're also shit in real life. There weren't any Legolas types in reality. For most of human history bowmen or any ranged weaponry units existed to stand in lines and widdle down infantry from far, far away. Single archers were useless. You wanted QUANTITY of arrows fired at your enemy more than anything else. You'd want 60 decent archers instead of 1 great archer. And you'd be a distance away. English longbows, which had great power and range, went upwards to 200 feet, more if you were strong and skilled with it, AND could puncture plate armor. On LoTC, 1 block is about a meter, so that's 300 blocks away.

    No one roleplays shooting arrows from 300 blocks away. No one roleplays against anyone 300 blocks away. If you're an archer, you have a crap bow that can't puncture the armored platemail knight rushing at you from 20 feet away. Good luck. Even if you do hit a shot, you won't do much.

    Maybe whoever is reading this finds this truth to be unfun. I'd agree. But to change it you gotta make come big changes to CRP or other factors of LoTC, and none of the community will accept that, nor do the staff seem interested.

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    the case for banning homophobia

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    Regardless of your stance on this topic, it always amazes me when these sorts of topics come up on racism or homophobia and whether we should ban it, or what not, but still have the juxtaposition of extreme violence being allowed. For instance, you mentioned crucifixion of homosexuals by crusaders. The issues you have is that they're being crucified for being gay, but the actual act of crucifying someone, basically torturing them to death, isn't even mentioned as odd.

    I don't have a 'point' to that, but food for thought. We tend to be against obscenity against protected groups, but not against the obscenity itself. 

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    Realm Applications on Hold

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    Hello everyone. Just thought I'd pop in as Implementation Team Manager. Just so everyone is aware, I do very much care about your feedback on realms, nations, the economy, and such. A lot of things suggested are things we're aware of or have floated between us. I'm planning on making a post that better communicates everything I've seen, and everything we've talked about behind closed door, so that the community can see and hear what we're planning. Thanks guys.

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    [Debate] Is Guerrilla Warfare/Insurgency RP effective on LOTC?

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    Interesting RP to be had from it, but as others have said it's not actually effective at winning you the war unless you basically just OOCly demoralize your enemy. In which case... kinda lame.

    That being said, the culture on the server has very little "This is a fun and interesting idea" and a lot of "Is this effective to us winning" when it comes to wars/politics. Not even the player's fault, they need to protect their realms or nations. Very sad.

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    If it's not fun, why bother?

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    If it's not fun, why bother?
     

     

    A rather short, simple, but wise speech from Reggie Fils Aime, the ex-President of Nintendo America.

    Lord of The Craft is a server I have dedicated thousands of hours to, an over a decade playing. Yes, for better or for worse. Despite what you might be thinking, given the title, I am not going to give a negative overview of any group, or the server as a whole, but rather just talk about something that's been racking inside my brain for a bit now. Yes, the server has some issues, but I'd rather give a positive suggestion which might be worth mulling over.

    If a game is not fun, if a group is not fun, then why are we spending our free time playing it or playing with them? It's beyond simple, but if you've spent long enough of LoTC you know people can forget the most basic point of this server -- to have fun. To enjoy yourself. If it's not fun, why bother? But even more: If you're not making  fun, why bother?

    Halo 3 had a behind-the-scenes documentary where several developers were interviewed. The main weapons designer said, "The most basic design of a gun in a videogame is something that is fun to shoot, and fun to be shot at.". It's easy to grasp that a gun in a game is supposed to be fun to shoot, I mean, if it's not fun, why bother? But it's the second point that is critical, possible moreso than the first. If a gun is not fun to be shot at with, then it is boring, or worse, unfun. If the enemies you fight are unfun, then, well, if it's not fun...

    So, for LoTC, you as a player are a bit like a 'gun' in a shooter game. You should play, and you should have fun shooting, but the people on the other end should be having fun getting shot at. How often do we really think of this? How often do we look at out character, our group, our nation, and instead of thinking "that is cool!" we think about how fun it is for others to interact with us?

    Some people will never be happy losing. They're wet blankets, and mary-sues who cannot fathom the idea of ever losing anything. Even a little. But I've been here long enough to see some horrid villainy RP as well. Raiders, dark mages, militant groups - they all sometimes forget the second half of our 'gun' design. It may be fun to curbstomp a bunch of newbies and slice-of-life RPers, but is it fun for them? It certainly can be, but I think most reading this post will agree that sometimes it isn't, it feels like you are essentially being bullied for the entertainment of someone else, while you get to enjoy 15 minutes of being humiliated.

    So, as an idea, go into your next batch of villainy RP, whichever side you're on, and try to make it your goal to make the other person enjoy losing. Be a 'gun' that is fun to shoot, and fun to be shot at with. Because if it isn't fun, why bother?

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    Nation Backpay: Boycott LoTC

    in Miscellany

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    On 10/18/2023 at 1:27 AM, Llir said:

    i announced there would backpay a week before i started calculating it, which was already weeks later than the original upkeep start date we had planned at map launch, this is no surprise

     

    there are two things in this world that can be said to be certain


    Attention players I have decided to bomb Kowaman's house and this error of 'taxes' is being rectified, worry not

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