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abcfantasy
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abcfantasy
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The Returner
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Arkadia Misella
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Jori
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To tell the truth, I'm in kinda the same position as Japheth. I just dowloaded and set up illa on my new comp and I've been in a little bit, but I just feel kind of lost. Lucky for me, I've been in this same position a few times before though. 
1. First, I'd say stick around for a bit because eventually, you will get caught up in some big rp event and you'll have a blast, remembering all the reasons you loved illa in the first place.
2. The way you can make your characters whatever you want them to be. If you're trying to get back into the game, I'd consider making a new character with a personality that makes it easy to get going with some rp, usually fairly emotional about something pretty common. FOr me that was playing a dwarf who always tried to make peace wherever he saw conflict. And we all know, just from all the flames in the forums, that there will be conflict ingame. So maybe a character that say, for example, hates all female elves with a passoin. Or evilly tries turning friends against eachother anytime possible. That way if somebody tries to get an ig marriage or something, you can do your best to make it go bad. That's more for the evil character kind of people though of course. The possibilities are endless, and that's one of the great strengths of this game.
3. A number of the GM created quests. My favorite of these was the Lich war. It helped bring most of the players together and generated tons of great rp. Even the characters that sided with the undead were able to get great rp out of that one. It seems like gamewide crises (is that how you spell it?) bring together all the players and bring out the best rp in each of them. Sure, it can be annoying for some people that just sit and powergame their crafting skills all day, but powergaming isn't what the game is for.
1. First, I'd say stick around for a bit because eventually, you will get caught up in some big rp event and you'll have a blast, remembering all the reasons you loved illa in the first place.
2. The way you can make your characters whatever you want them to be. If you're trying to get back into the game, I'd consider making a new character with a personality that makes it easy to get going with some rp, usually fairly emotional about something pretty common. FOr me that was playing a dwarf who always tried to make peace wherever he saw conflict. And we all know, just from all the flames in the forums, that there will be conflict ingame. So maybe a character that say, for example, hates all female elves with a passoin. Or evilly tries turning friends against eachother anytime possible. That way if somebody tries to get an ig marriage or something, you can do your best to make it go bad. That's more for the evil character kind of people though of course. The possibilities are endless, and that's one of the great strengths of this game.
3. A number of the GM created quests. My favorite of these was the Lich war. It helped bring most of the players together and generated tons of great rp. Even the characters that sided with the undead were able to get great rp out of that one. It seems like gamewide crises (is that how you spell it?) bring together all the players and bring out the best rp in each of them. Sure, it can be annoying for some people that just sit and powergame their crafting skills all day, but powergaming isn't what the game is for.
Excuse me, Alkuurg, whose account I approved many moons ago and wouldn't be here otherwise, when was common decency and courtesy abandoned in favour of hideously phrased insults? I started the topic out of interest to see what kind of responses I would receive. I'm not asking anybody to jump through any hoops for me. I thought that was perfectly clear, considering that posting to this topic is entirely optional.How arrogant. I don't see why we should all jump through hoops to make you play. Go ingame and find out, or piss off. You're nothing special.
However, it seems that in the confusion of looking for an argument, you accidentally posted to my topic. In future, you might want to consider that the people on internet forums are just that- people. Just because you don't see their reactions or ever have to meet them, it doesn't give you carte blanche to behave as if you were raised in a barn by mentally disabled wolves.
If you were, however, all is forgiven.
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Cliu Beothach
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This should get you into playing again:
http://illarion.org/community/forums/vi ... hp?t=22289
Need I say more...
...about how vain I am?
http://illarion.org/community/forums/vi ... hp?t=22289
Need I say more...
...about how vain I am?