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I don't know if you'll have much success elsewhere, the trends at Illarion are happening almost everywhere in the RPG market. Playing online with other people, strict RP enforcement, and an Indy game made by volunteers - in 2001 these concepts were novelties, not so much anymore. UO shards, tibia, r...

Estralis Seborian wrote:Edit: To have the full picture, it should also be summarised what players like about the system.

When you and the bros have gems

Devs: Is it even possible to have certain stats (ex. Attack speed, health regeneration) boosted in small 1% increments?

Throwing out some ideas: 1) Make gems the mechanism for magic resistance Right now we have armor for melee damage but basically nothing for magic damage. This option would involve removing any magic resistance skill and any armor effect on magic resistance. It would also mean removal of gems from we...

On the idea to have a player controlled town: Effectively, we do have that. To what benefit? The devs, for whatever reason, couldn't stand that Troll's Bane changed a lot, so they went in the completely opposite direction. The GM leaders are permanent and the player leaders are quasi-permanent. Bef...

R.I.P. Role play
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A fourth faction set up in the right way could work. Or making one of the current three (four?) bearable.

Every week that goes by a new character created is in a deeper hole in relation to the veteran players in terms of gems than the week before, which seems pretty astonishing. I assume the counter-argument would be that the diminishing returns get so high that it's somewhat fair, but given that most p...

Based on the details given, you guys already coordinate in PvE (and spread negativity about Jupiter :roll: ) in TS, so are you conceding you all use it for PvP too? I see no advantage. That's crazy. Communicating in voice is way more efficient than coordinating in text. Also I noticed in the past it...

No one is disputing it's availability, most methods of cheating are technically available to EVERYONE. Do the Bearers & Sea Serpent use Teamspeak (possibly even the official TS) to gain advantages in PvP and/or metagame?

Q-wert wrote:in teamspeak

Just curious - do certain groups use teamspeak during PvP? If so, since this creates a tangible advantage over others, what is the official opinion on this?

It's underlying story is completely and totally unrelated to all ingame events and there is no conceivable plot at all -- no red line of events. And apart from that, everything that happens ingame is unrelated, there is nothing for characters to figure out, there is only mindless content fed to the...

At least no one has ever complained publicly while accusing the entire dev team of factional favoritism based on nothing.

There's a lack of new people staying. Illarion has trouble retaining new people recently in part because of how people behave. A couple of many examples off the top of my head: -Staff members arguing with and swearing at players in IRC while multiple newbs were watching. -I once was teaching a new p...

It may have more to do with a certain butthurt dev running roughshod all over everything, but surely any such sentiment is caused by prejudice against the color of their forum name.

A note is left on a tree outside Galmair. Dear LCA, I come to you with a rather specific request from a business associate of mine. Word of your business has traveled fast. He has assigned me to write this letter and bring it to you. There were a lot of oddly specific details in this request, so I h...

I imagine support does matter. Take Cadomyr for example. One player deleted their noble char and quit due to non responsiveness of the alleged cadomyr GM for months. A second noble spot has been left vacant for 383 RL days (not a typo). Are the bearers neglected in this way?

Even if it was relaxed later people already had left. Based on what devs/GMs said to me in 2011 it sounded like they pulled most resources from the old client/live server to the new client the previous year. That'd be 2010 which is when numbers started to decline. Karrock's statement is supported by...

Most if not all players are opposite to the current policy so why you are keeping it? Where do you take this knowledge? It is a normal habit that inside a community mostly these players express their opinion which dislikes the current situation. That means not that this is the opinion of the majori...

Djironnyma wrote:Galmair: Dwarfs/Orcs
Cadomyr: Lizards/Humans
Runewick: Halflings/Elves

That was the original VBU plan as you may still see in some books/NPCs/content

But not the amount of fish

Everyone got funneled into Galmair and had to duke it out amongst themselves leading to frustration and dislike festering, and it went on for months because ultimately the devs & GMs are stuck with what exists, so any changes would be very small and generally meaningless.

I dont think 2010-2013 is a proper time to point to, to say older methods didn't work. Thinking back .. The game was basically on lockdown during that time. -No more map changes were allowed -Little/no large GM storylines until the end -Word got out Gobaith was being wiped -No one knew if items/skil...

Those who don't care don't bother to rant. We can also talk about how we went from 215 steady accounts to fluctuating between 70-100. That's over half, and few of them ranted about anything. They simply lost interest, couldn't be bothered, and never came back. I'm not ok with half the user base evap...

It probably wont be resolved, it is what it is. This has veered into specific circumstances instead of general ban usage. Mech bans arent a great way to bring interaction, they never have been. To suggest people should be motivated for high quality interaction after you slam a door in their face is ...

For a NA players you can easily have a char that never needs to go to Runewick. It's usually empty in that timezone, there's no exclusive tools, and anyone there who trades goes to galmair. To negotiate don't you need something someone wants? Tho topic was re-started by someone who isn't in Gal anym...

So many options .. 1. Speak with / bribe / influence the chancellors that they may negotiate to lift the ban <--- Bribe the chancellors so that they can go negotiate another bribe to pay 2. become a town official by yourself to negotiate the ban <---- pay the Don so I can go pay the extortion 3. Bri...

This shit happened six months ago. Pre-VBU everyone would have moved on and would be doing other things already. Instead we've been subjected to a parade of bullshit for six months with no end in sight. If you and the GMs want to put up indefinite bans to extort people you go ahead and do that bro, ...

Djironnyma wrote:[*]influence Cadomyr to work as facilitator

Uh, what am I missing here? Wasn't the battle In cadomyr? Wasn't the main "victim" cadomyr? Why would they facilitate anything with people who weren't effected as much? Runewick arbitrarily banned 4 people - it was totally arbitrary.

It doesn't provide anything. Do you even have one example of a town ban ending in anything good?