Disheartened

My questions dont need to be about rp or the server, but I intended them to be within the context of that 10 year timeframe from start of your server experience until now! ☺️ How do you feel you have grown and/or changed as a person? What is your most proud accomplishment?

This is cool I guess but where are the vapes

I do agree with what you're saying as a concept, but a few things to point out. Firstly, not everyone has the same interests. People absolutely do act oocly and do things to help leverage themselves for an advantage. That's something both sides do, it’s just tough to recognize sometimes from people on your own side because it isn't directed at you, and you don't necessarily see the consequences. You can't generalize the interests of a whole population of players. You are only one person with your own unique set of beliefs - as we all are! We also need to acknowledge the complexity of "keep ooc and rp separate" because at the end of the day we are all one individual person. Naturally, we might get frustrated at things that happen in game on an ooc basis. I think that's normal, but it's all in how you handle it going forward from there. Can you or should you take rp action simply due to ooc frustration? Absolutely not... but let's be honest and understand that these lines blur and cross regularly. Some opportunity might pop up and you have some bias there in your mindset just due to x y z things that happened that one time in a vc. Sometimes we're oblivious to that bias. How can we fix all that? We can't, but if we notice it happening we can help our friends and peers fall back into line to the best of our abilities. It's definitely helpful to have all this in the back of our minds during times of war or other "intense" roleplay periods. Good conversation to have!

Hey there, I don't know you but I do know this server! A lot of us have been where you are. Things can be frustrating and intense at times. Try not to let it ruin your fun! Stick with people who don't stress you out and take breaks when you need to take breaks. Prioritize yourself always. At the end of the day, this is an online game, there is bound to be conflict even oocly since not everyone can always have their way. I just returned after a long break and am going to be in Balian, hope to see ya around!

Those are all amazing ideas! I don't know that I could anymore, but I used to volunteer at the hospital itself, and a nursing home before I became a PSW at one of the homes and then got my actual RN license. If I wasn't full time, I'd volunteer much more, but it's too much of a sacrifice to do this while also balancing other important things I've prioritized (Family friends, hobbies, self care things). I chose to make this post only because I am doing SO MUCH BETTER! Thank you so much for your positive thoughts and comment. <3

Well, here she goes. BYE! I left and came back and left and came back and left and came back to say that I have accepted that the bittersweet moment is now. I was going to disappear like a ghost, never to return again, without a word, but I can't say that I won't visit ever again. Here's why - While I'm sort of one of those "this server is crack shit and should die in a fire" jaded old players, I need to acknowledge that I spent such a huge amount of time interacting with this community through my entire adolescence, and it was a big part of my life for a time. Though a... let's say 'unique' way to cope with the stressors of life, this server provided me with countless friendships that I will think back to for probably the rest of my existence. To put it simply, I've grown to a place where I am so happy and grateful for what I've been given and the opportunities I've had in life, and no longer feel any need to use the server as a crutch. But I still thank you all for being there in a time when I did need it. People don't recognize the power of their simple presence, so I'm here to call blatant attention to it. This place saved me, for real. Kept me together until I was able to gain the courage to get myself help. I do want to leave this on a bright note though, I have used my resources to specialize in addictions and mental health treatment. That's mostly because of me (gotta take the credit, cmon I've worked hard as shit), but you're all epic for kicking around while I got it together. At this point, I kinda think I'm killing it. Maybe I took the server too seriously every now and then in the past, but I harbor no resentment or bad thoughts about any of you. Only good things to say now. Please share below some of your most favourite lotc moments, I'd love to reflect on them with you. Lastly, keep in touch. Discord: _Disheartened, Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198160671690/ Snapchat: Aliciacjx. I still do video games, and feel free to just say hello if you'd like. If you feel like you're in crisis or you need to talk to someone regarding mental health, call or text 988, or you can chat online at 988lifeline.org (per cdc, I believe this is US and Canada) Self care is badass, do it.

I don't play but I saw this and thought I'd speak up, since it isn't mentioned in the main post. Keeping a main road available to navigate to nations keeps things user friendly, especially when it comes to new players who do not yet understand how soul stones work, or who may only have one slot to save a pillar to. As much as I agree things should be left to rp, it's nice to keep things like this restricted to some extent to maintain some order.

The beauty of roleplay is that everyone has their own way of doing it. There's no "understanding" courting. It varies by culture and further by person. Some communities have cultural guides made for people to follow if they so wish, some people prefer not to partake at all. It's not this black and white thing that you're making it out to be, and it doesn't need to be either.

I liked it better when we had local auction houses rather than the global one. Could travel to different places and have a new selection.

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You have freed yourself. Big respect. I appreciate what you had to say. Maybe we have butt heads before, but it's never malicious or with intent to put you down or call you wrong. I have more of a "debate" approach to things sometimes so that I can fully take a side once I have the facts straight. Thanks for your kind and understanding words. Will be real weird without you around. Best of luck in what you're off to do, say hi sometime. :)

Hello friend, I hope you find yourself a place on the server that you enjoy, and that you stick around with us. If you ever have questions, concerns, or suggestions please feel free to contact me over forum messages or on discord at Alicia#9441. No fancy place to recommend, I just hope to make your settling a little easier. 😊

This was brought up in mod manager chat today actually - funny you mention me in it. I have no problem hiding them if they pass 24 hours of being up without update. It's just that we don't really see them all the time. If there are any posts you want us to clear out of the reserved posts (when they have been sitting), just report it so we can view and leave a comment on it if there are multiples so that we know to look through all comments.

The fact that you tagged me has warmed my heart. Come talk to me and tell me what we can do better. No one should feel oocly targeted or pushed out of the community.

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"Blind by greed" a pale-haired elfess decided once the news had been delivered to her. "They have no care for our people. None for the home we've built. How typical."

Genuinely that would be a huge huge help, but I also don't think players will want to do that. I'll play around with some ideas and see what I can come up with that might be suitable.

Not every player has a sheet - every player is in a mega doc where we program it to bring up a history log when we type your UUID. I always share that info with players if they ask but I can understand the push for the information to be available.

Nah, it's not an "entirely new" anything. It's an already existent heist app. I think we need some clarification here. I'm one mod. It's very hard to get things done as one mod who says "let's open the door to let players do absolutely anything they want with no restrictions" Rule changes go by moderation, then every single admin needs to agree to get it implemented. I was handed a suggested rule change and modified it within reason to suit their demand and to make it something that might be accepted.

Did you read my whole response and see that I'm helping or are you just gonna go with the typical "Staff evil" mindset

That one I understand and likely won't alter. Due to all the complications with builds, regions, PRO system etc etc etc it's hard to do large scale damage to things constantly (and trust me, it would be constant without any barrier in place), plus people put tons of work into our builds on server.... BUT. What if we made a bit of a compromise to see if we can add it as a heist feature? People would have to make apps and it would still be controlled, but it would add more leeway to be able to do that with valid RP. That's something I'd be willing to bring up. As for your other part, I remember seeing that post and it should be a pretty easy fix and something I'm happy to work on. Someone already brought it up in mod chat so I'll need to check and see if we ever took steps to put anything in place.

Hello fellow crafters. For the entirety of my staff life on the craft, I have spent time making edits to internal things like training, structure and organization within staff teams. I wrote up a command document for story team, wrote a new structure pitch for World, participated in training moderators and world team members (for the brief period of time I stayed on world). In the more recent days, I have taken a different approach. I've been trying to hear out players and working on lengthy projects to suit their needs and wishes for the server. That all started with when I was on world team, and the travel issue. While I wasn't able to secure more available fast travel, I did spend days and hours walking the server's roads and regioning them out to add speed boosts. Now I have made my way onto moderation management. There are a few projects on the go that I have had a hand with, but I have the time and energy to kick up my own. I am looking for a project idea that is reasonable and doable, something within the scope of Moderation. What changes would you like to see? For this project I am pretty flexible. You can throw an idea at me and I can try to put something together, or I can sit with you to get your own project rolling. The only thing to note is that while I have asked for volunteers from moderation team (I have none yet), I am only one person and may not get to all the requests. Be sure to upvote your favourites so I know which ones to pay special attention to.