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Solution: Stop exploiting the character creation system. Illarion isn't (shouldn't be) the place for 'builds' and 'min-maxing'.

The teachers are definetely NOT to blame for such people. Of course the teachers are to blame. That's the nature of the system. It is not that difficult to tell which students are going to become valued mages and teachers, and which students are going to become your next [insert name of generic clo...

How he was born: Xarek, unlike most people, never had a mother. He is the son of Dorgon Bandargo, a rich albarian noble who had rather peacefull beliefs. Because Dorgon always wanted a son, but could not find a woman to fit his tastes, he decided to hire mages from Lor-Angur in exchange of an artif...

I assume that this was an overwhelming success.

Felbion Lijawyn wrote:

Qeewee wrote:

It's sad when people compare Runescape to Illa
It isn't fair
Runescape has fulltime staff and is part of a multi-million dollar company

And with all that runescape is still worse than Illa? <3

Good point.

10,000,000 people wrote:We beg to differ.

But the other explanations are nowhere near as entertaining.

To answer question 1: http://illarion.org/community/forums/vi ... it=warlock

Wow.

Good luck.

Did you even read the thread, Cascarrabias? Yeah, and they are all the same. No, they aren't. They all grip abut the same issue, why skills sux and how we can make them better by concepts of unimaginable proportions that sound great when dealing the a GM 5 to 10 players but in an MMO environment wh...

You just called Illarion a MMO.

People have. Then they got arrested for treason. You may not be a tyrant, but you need to ease up ig. A lot of people have quit the game because of the high stress and lack of fun created by the recent Trolls Bane government. Sure no one has said anything, they all just up and left instead. What a ...

Did you even read the thread, Cascarrabias?

Seriously, if you're so eager about wanting to know what the VBU is going to be like, grab your nearest NPC maker and start churning them out. It goes both ways. If you want people to help out, then give them some evidence that they are not going to be just wasting their time contributing to a game...

Oooooooh.
Another entirely pointless post from a developer.

Nitram wrote:Yet you do not know how that will change during the VBU.

You could, you know, tell us?

@Grokk; Because of the small sized community (->possibility to expand/adapt content) and therefor smaller 'gap' between staff and PO? For Runescape, sure. But it doesn't work for UO shards, which have small enough communities to allow strong communication between staff and players. Is the small gap...

What Respen said, basically. Also, he is exactly the kind of player that this game attracts, and then soon drives away: intelligent, mature, and with a passion for roleplay. Listen to people like him, and they might actually stick around. Increasing the starting skills is a brilliant idea. That is t...

I am quite curious what type of system would allow us to gain skill fast or make characters a closer match for each other while still allowing for crafters to be as important as fighters. That would only be a problem if you sped skill gain up to an unreasonable level, where it was possible to max o...

Definitely agree with Korwin's post. That's exactly why I think reducing the ability gap between low and high skilled characters would be more effective than just speeding up skill gain. You'll still have variability between characters, with those people willing to put in training hours being more p...

Lrmy wrote:It was really lame and caused a lot of problems if I remember correctly.

What sort of problems, if you can remember?

The easiest way to fix some/most of the current issues would be to simply make skilling faster. Probably the most sensible sentence in the entire thread. Closely followed by these two: For levelling and combat, there are plenty other games that do a far better job in that area. If you join Illarion...

That also mean you need gm's in all time zones and who are on when everyone is on at all hours or the poor person who lives in say Australia (( no offense to the players in that region just know there are very few people play from from there, I know one in particular)) May never see a single point ...

That's fair enough. What about making the skill-change less problematic? And the GMs observe the playerbase anyway, so it wouldn't be asking too much more from them. They wouldn't need to be monitoring everyone 24/7, just issuing a reward whenever they noticed someone consistently roleplaying well a...

I agree with Ezor on the "high ranking" point. We have had some pretty poor roleplayers playing characters in important positions, and some of the great roleplayers have played characters who are nothing more than penniless commoners. There is little correlation between a character's role ...

Lrmy wrote:Go play on a WoW roleplaying server if that's how you feel... Oh wait those suck.

I don't think you quite grasped my post.

Exactly. Only it doesn't make sense for Illarion. At least not in the way that it is currently implemented. "Hey, those other games are successful. If we want our game to be successful, then we should try to make it as similar to those other games as possible. Do you think it matters that we ar...

Ezor Edwickton wrote:this isn't WOW.

Then why are the skill systems so similar?

I like how Vilarion didn't address any of the questions or concerns raised throughout the thread. --Please refrain from insulting others, furthermore it's not up to you, to judge RP of other people-- Best regards, Zot. I don't know how that could be taken as anything other than a personal attack on ...

Fine, I'll play nice. The issue that you point to is "the fact that some players can put away others for an undefined timespan". Characters can put away other characters. Why do you talk about players, but switch to talk of characters when it suits your reasoning? Ignoring that, this seems...

The problem in this thread is that no one knows what the issue is that we are actually discussing. This sort of thing probably causes the confusion: Also bad for the game is having one or two players decide what sort of roleplay is permitted and letting them ban the characters that don't fit into th...

I guess I'm making the assumption that the jailor POs put characters in jail for RP. Am I mistaken? Yep. Or, at least, I don't think that is what you are assuming at all. You seem to be assuming that the jailer POs put characters in jail so that they can provide them with constant RP, that RP can o...