Organised Chaos

[Aristeaus]

To get a better understanding of people thoughts regarding the char wipe i have created this thread, i ask that every person contributes one post regarding thier opinion.

No comments no quotes, a single post. This thread will not be for debating nor shall it be for Sian and Conscience to host a war.

A single Post of your views of this matter

[Korg Blacktooth]

My opinion eh well here it is:

My good thoughts,
I would just like to say about the whole char whip things is that i think it is a good idea how we can start again and organize our stats to better our characters for what we wanted them for. I like how there will be new and different things about the map and the game all together.
It will be a great new experience, even for the older players.

My bad thoughts,
Well from what I know and have gathered we will be starting fresh completely and that would me no past for our chatacters even though we will all like to keep our characters names. So when we play the game again with no history it will be hard not to talk to that same person ic how you use to before the whipe because ic, you dont know them.

Korg Blacktooth
I think that would be the hardest part (if that is what happens) for everyone, new people who have played for a couple of weeks and for the older players aswell.


Well that is just my two cents on the whole thing but ultimately I think it is good how we get to fix our chars stats up and start fresh again.

[Misjbar]

Bad things: From my point of view, I see none. Maybe all this hustle about it is the bad thing here. But beside from that, I find the wipe a good thing.

Good things:

• New server (maybe less lag)
  NPC addition (or so I heared)
  Some new things (vague, I know, I do not exactly know what. Can only be a good thing )
  The possibility to test out my new char concepts, without being horribly killed or whatever.
  And the fact it might bring older players back to "check it out"

[Moirear Sian]

I'd be hard-pressed to disagree with Misjbar here, I'd say I share his sentiments.

[Josefine da Vince]

Good things:

The new, large map with all is fine areas
The new NPCs
The "new" monsters (even though I hate fighting)
That old players may come back
The new, faster server
The fact that Illarion will be a lot more stabile
The new accountsystem
The fact that I can rearrange my stats
...

Bad things:

The discussions about the wipe
That people want to start over with history (and so making areas of the map which are already built superfluous)


That's all...

[Japheth]

Good Things:

The new humongorific map.
The fact that there is lots of room for even more players, vis a vis, some old players will return to fill up this space.
The detail on the map.

Did I mention the map yet?


Bad Things:

Circular arguments that end up with people screaming at each other ad-infinitum.

[cjauncey]

i might stay the same personalit and just not mention anything that has happened in my life span so far

[Hermie]

I like all the things I hear will be added:

Map Size
NPC's etc and so on.

I would like it if everyone made new chars with no history, but since the map is already going to be occupied with buildings it wouldn't make sense.

Frankly, I don't care if people continue their old chars, I'll make new ones anyway.

[falco1029]

I basically think the char wipe will bring mostly good, unless of course it is decided that you must either make new characters or erase the history of the ones you have.

I think that certain things, like the magic system should be made so that we at least know how to do it (current players only), maybe in the next newletter, since I hear it will be a bit different.

I of course can't wait for the new feautres and the shiny map . These things should bring back other players, and maybe at night there will be more than 1 player on at a time.

The charwipe will bring good, we wont have any perfect characters on anymore who know about every skill at at least master level *coughgannoncough*, and will probably provide a stable economy (at least for a few months).

[Cassandra Fjurin]

Good things:

- the new Scripting language.... yes we have new possibilitys... and what for possibilitys. I really like them.
- the new map.
- some Server changes which you don't know.
- the faster Server
- the new account system

Bad things:

- The wipe of all items and skills.
- in worst cases a complete history wipe !
- the player loss. Maybe some players won't play again because of the wipe

[Bloodhearte]

The Good Things:

-New map
-Probably more speed
-Have to go with the better scripting language
-Wipe of skills/items

The Bad Thing:
-Nobody agreeing with me on the role playing aspect of this happy mess.

[Fooser]

I feel pessemistic

Bad things:
-Less likely to find people
-Less players
-Possible complete wipe
-OOC nonsense that will never go away in this community
-Wipe has been hurting things IG the past few weeks

[Aegohl]

Fooser,

If only you have seen what I have been lucky enough to see, you wouldn't be so pessimistic. This wipe has more benefits for American players than European players, truthfully, when you consider that before:

• Few quests were happening during the hours that American players had the most time.
• Less people were on during the hours that American players had the most time, making resources harder to come by without work.
• As a result of the above two, American players were left, more or less, to support their own roleplay, while those who were on only six hours earlier had all the support and other players to interact with as they please.

On the other hand, after the wipe:

• Quests can go on 24 hours a day without GM's even being present, thanks to the new scripting language which can easily implement new NPC's, quest sites (with puzzles, locks, and traps!), and--well, let's just say the possibilities are endless on this one. The new scripting language is open source, constantly updated, and has been used on many, many professional games (including ones that you've more than likely played)since we were just wee nippers.
• New shopkeeper NPC's can be made and implemented so quick that if you have the money, you'll never have to worry about procuring the items.
• Many ideas are in the works on how to constantly support the new community with this scripting language. Everyone will finally have equal access to everything at all times.

That being said, I think, as of a few weeks after the wipe, Illarion will be ready to entertain and keep quite a few new guests. I, for one, am posting a small advert at the local gaming shop which pulls in customers in a radius that includes roughly ten or so counties. Perhaps I'll post my flyer on the boards when it's finished, so that other players can do the same.

While we can make Illarion a brilliant game, you all have the option to make it an inhabited game with us.

Aegohl

[Domitrio]

I see many of us agree on many things, I was thinking recently that I was the only one who saw this as a good thing. I feel all fuzzy that we agree sort of.


Good things:
-New Map Additions (I hope they're worth the wait!)
-Totally revamped Combat system (so I've heard...)
-Level Playing field for new characters vs. people who got skill before 10x
Skill Gain System
-Many many new characters and RP potential, because I know a lot of us
are going to start fresh
-Quests for US people!!
-Actually being back... for one thing...


Bad things:
-Not being my characters fro long ago (Though that's my personal
choice)
-Missing some old characters.
-Some people not coming back... I'll miss you guys.
-The discussion that got about as heated as the old Political debates...
good times, good times. Though I do count that as a bad thing, this
time.

[Aegohl]

I agree that those discussions got out of hand. It was my personal wish that we could do this all without emotions, instead thinking of positives and negatives, and arguing those with logic. If one goes back through those and edits out all posts that were the result of emotion, what we are left with is very little, and this is on both sides. However, the future lies just ahead and we can enjoy what has taken over five years of hard work.

Here's to five more and then yet more.

Aegohl