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But it isn’t different at all. This post, in essence, is saying ‘hey guys, be nice and sort problems out yourselves!’ which is obviously the ideal state of things but given our demographic, platform and just people in general that’s never going to happen. Like we can be positive and optimistic about trying something new but this just isn’t realistic and it’s a testament to the Administration being out of touch if people really think it’s viable. Of course people should treat other people with respect. That goes without saying, but it also goes without saying that things will seldom play out that way especially in a heated situation and especially on a server with this kind of demographic Like you cannot build a system on these glaring gaps in logic. You just can’t. While you’re at it can you remove my warning point? I apologize for my grievous offence of calling this post ‘dumb’ and am sincerely glad this is now the new standard for which we hand out warnings

so since I was given an actual warning post for calling this post ‘dumb’ allow me to amend my statement in the spirit of teamwork and cooperation this latest addendum to a series of moderation changes of dubious quality is consistent with the aforementioned prior changes in that it prefers to place less emphasis on the way in which our server functions in reality and as such cannot be welcomed as a policy modification that espouses change of merit

this is really dumb OBVIOUSLY in an ideal world you only file a modreq as a last resort like this isn’t news and we don’t need you to tell us that but once again you’re ignoring the actual pratical reality and dealing with problems in a meaningful way in favour of ideological grandstanding

POEM OF THE PILLARS Following the discovery of the wealth of old knowledge beneath the Cloud Temple, a particular jingle became commonplace throughout Arcas. An irritatingly catchy jingle – the sort one could not seem to get out of their head no matter how hard they tried. Farmers found themselves humming it absent-mindedly as they tilled the fields, goodwives sung it softly as they hung the washing out to dry, and soldiers coarsely droned as they patrolled the roads on the outskirts of towns and cities. “A Pillar of Water seeks life to leech, Where Hogmen revel in eternal feast A Pillar of Earth seeks bone to bury, Where evil plays and Aenguls worry A Pillar of Fire seeks blood to burn, Where survivors go to darkness spurn!” Nobody thought much about it. After all, it was just nonsense, a gibberish childrens’ rhyme from some long-dead and forgotten civilization. As far as most people were concerned.

I mean LoTC is a server with a setting where a character can walk into a town and mass murder children if they wanted to so I dont really get the whole protecting impressionable youth argument by signalling out a relatively niche area of discussion. People can be toxic about anything. How about you, yknow, keep toxic outbursts in check rather than policing one topic? You're not stopping anything at all. Frankly its actually a really lazy bandaid for mods; this is the equivalent of banning combat because it can sometimes result in arguments. This decision doesn't make sense if you think about it for more than 2 seconds. But I guess that's the trademark of a Telanir post

A TREMOR IN AEDVANG It lasted for a few mere seconds. The ground across the Arcas midlands began to shake. Houses trembled upon their foundations, and trees creaked dangerously as their roots shook in the ground beneath them. For a few brief seconds, Descendants huddled in fear under whatever shelter they could find, wondering whether some terrible fate was about to befall them, whether the life they and their family had built on this new land was about to be undone by a mere natural disaster, after all they had endured on lands past. And then it ended; the earth stilled, and the danger passed. Initial reports began to spread, more rumour than report at first, but it soon became clear that the earthquake was strongest in the valley of Aedvang – known more popular as the Cloud Temple area. One could not help but wonder how the Temple’s lower areas, the crumbling undercrofts that had not been maintained in generations, fared after the tremor. Well, only one way to find out.

this also

The whole content licence thing is shitty at first glance but afaik that only exists in the event that some dev makes a plugin and then gets pissy, quits and tries to claim copyright on their plugin and force LOTC to remove it. Or someone who, for arguments sake, wrote original fundamental lore. Up to you to say whether they have a right to try and pull their **** like that, but the point is that Tythus Ltd is never gonna want to do anything with most stuff like art, your characters, etc. Ofc then if this is the case then Admins should probably specify in the ToS that the copyright licence clause should only apply to stuff like plugins.

Rushed map launch with no event site and the inability to get them started until months after is a major incompleteness issue. Makes the map a pretty stage with no performance

Moving to a more vague, guidelines based ruleset enforced on subjective GM judgments will only lead to further disparity An objective ruleset is the way to go.

A bounty was posted in the cities of Man, Elf, and Dwarf, and word of mouth brought to it the Orcs without much delay. Frayed pieces of paper, many of them ripped by rain and inkstained, were haphazardly nailed to bulletin boards needlessly in their dozens, stacks upon stacks of paper held in place by rusty nails. The letters were blocky, and uneven, as if written by a child just learning to write. WORKERS WANTED TO KILL BEAST REWARD FIND WAGON NEAR CLOUD TEMPLE

if you’re including ‘bIg sTorY’ events in that statement, there hasn't been any because it’s been virtually impossible to get any event builds done because the lack of a Dev Team Admin (who now controls Et builders thanks to this merge) caused the team to stagnate

finally, the change people have been crying out for !

Stopping fly is a joke, it's a one line command. You don't even need to.TP to the player