Unwillingly

1 hour ago, Nectorist said:

people want them to be saturday morning cartoon villains (or, at best, event antagonists) instead of actual threats

 

u fix this by doing the unthinkable and making them more powerful and actually allowed to significantly influence the map

i think some of this is just organization & a lot of human nations reinforcing the cartoon villain stuff. beyond that tbh i think its all not in an awful place. just a lull bc there's no super scary necro or mystic coven. naz is like the only active dark magic

Need lore to be written better and I need people to do more playing on the server and less complaining.

If you want a complex narrative or whatever and not cartoon villainy you need to actually interact with other players instead of complaining about something you heard about this one time in a discord server from some guy who knows a guy and they swear they saw it so now everything is that even though you've never personally seen it or been effected by it in any way.

i like rite of harvest/soul sapping/darkstalker draining for 1on1 rp but when you're speedrunning it for the sake of a larger project it sucks. most players default to 1line emotes while they wait to be knocked unconscious/killed to ss out and there's nothing for them to follow up on or gain from hour+ crp