4 years...

leumas · Post by **leumas** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:13 pm

its hard to believe 4 years ago i played this game. I saw no problems with it at all back then. a lot of stuff has happened to me personally and i didnt play for a long time, i tried once a year ago but i couldn't devote the time that i needed to it. and now i come back im finally able to play and give the time i need to to playing and RPing seriously.

Please don't take this the wrong way but...what on earth happened?

Pellandria · Post by **Pellandria** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:50 pm

what happend..well craft system changed, map changed, magic system changed, there is no more druidsystem.. yeah pretty much is different now..

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:55 pm

Forget the magic system at the moment - mages have to powergame like forever to be able to cast spells with recognizeable effect - but the crafting system now rocks.

leumas · Post by **leumas** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:55 pm

that sucks i loved the druid system. forever ago i used to have an elf named "Jersey" yes this back when naming rules were as followed

1.no bad words for names
2.nobody famous people names
3. follow 1 and 2

lol

but yeah all i ever did was make potions on find herbs, that was my thing man i loved it...why did they get rid of it?

Pellandria · Post by **Pellandria** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:59 pm

you still can find herbs..but well you can't use them..except for making dye.

Kaila Galathil Travinus · Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:03 pm

Welcome back, I am sure quite a bit has changed, but hopefully a lot will be recognizable also.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:06 pm

1. A new, powerful scripting languague with a lot of possibilities has been built in. Therefor, all the old scripts - druidry, crafting, magic - simply don't work anymore. Everything had to be re-written. Still, more scripters are needed desperately.
2. The old concepts of "everybody can do anything" have been abandoned, the new goal is to have characters somewhat specialized
3. Skills take MUCH longer to learn now.
4. the account/write story system has been abandoned, instead we have a few multiple choice questions about behaviour.
(With this, people without RP understanding can get in if they can behave. A newbie island is planned to auto-teach the game mechanics later, so everything becomes more automated. However, RP is and stays supported in illarion, and we ban people talking leet etc. after a while if they don't learn it.)

leumas · Post by **leumas** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:19 pm

i hear there is even talk of paper doll, heh that'd be nice

AlexRose · Post by **AlexRose** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:56 am

leumas wrote:i hear there is even talk of paper doll, heh that'd be nice

TALK of it, but it's never gonna happen without more graphic designers.

Oh yeah, and there's loads of powergaming on now and there are more powergamers than roleplayers, oh yeah, except when they decide to cyber.

Post by **Estralis Seborian** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:16 am

Paper dolling is possible with the new client, however, skilled graphic artists are needed to realize this.

Urgh, I just realized how long we had this story writing stuff in the account creation process. I was lucky that I joined before that system

Hmm, compared to 2003, what has changed...

No more Lyrenzia Foundation
The drought has ended finally
Northerot is now Varshikar, struggling to build up the town
Greenbriar was taken over by elves and humans, taking refuge from the chaos in Troll's Bane
Silverbrand was reconstructed the 25th time and lies now far to the north-east of Troll's Bane
Troll's Bane was reconstructed the 2nd time
The size of the island was expanded by a factor of 9
Eldan monastery and druid house lie in ruins
Long monastery is no more
The ruins of Irundar were discovered
Politics became less important, people tend to diversify instead of uniting

Ah, the correct answer is of course: foig! (Find out ingame).

Also, the staff has changed alot. From the old crew, martin, Alatar, Arien Edhel, Keikan Hiru and "Latharan Caine" are still active.

Post by **Nitram** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:23 am

Estralis Seborian wrote:
Eldan monastery and druid house lie in ruins

The druid house is no ruin. Only the monastery is.

Nitram

Ascius · Post by **Ascius** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:35 pm

Politics became less important, people tend to diversify instead of uniting

That was never really different. Just when everyone was under pressure of the drought people had to unite.. or die. ^^

Post by **Estralis Seborian** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:41 pm

Yeah, but that guy asked what changed since summer 2003. That was the time of the drought

This game could really use a new common enemy...

leumas · Post by **leumas** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:05 pm

im surprised something like that hasn't came about. like a war, or an actual threat that is personified.

Lennier · Post by **Lennier** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:33 pm

of Course the List is not complete.

Within the change of Northeort to Varshikar we had a war between the liga of members of Lyrenzia and Darlok (tyrann of Northeort) and a civil war in Northerot when Darlok was dead.

Furthermore:

Lyrenzia was going down and a new goverment came up to rule Trolls Bane for ~1 year: the Triumvirate (Town Guard, Grey Rose, elected member of the citizens).

Civil war in Silverbrand when Tialdin became inactive too much and different groups tried to overtake the throne.

Struggles with orc clan (Gabons big coup to strike the king of Silverbrand within a duell to protect the clan against an army of ~40 player chars)

Big and chaotic war against undead lichs (biggest and most terrible war in history of Illarion)

Stephen Rothmans goverment to rule Trolls Bane after the last organisation of the old Triumvirat was going down: Grey Rose left the Town months before and the last chief of the Town Guard did a big mistake: She married Stephen Rothman, who overtook all powers only few weeks later.

The long way to fight all of the Rothman Clan

Hell Briar...

AlexRose · Post by **AlexRose** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:38 pm

Lennier wrote:of Course the List is not complete.

Within the change of Northeort to Varshikar we had a war between the liga of members of Lyrenzia and Darlok (tyrann of Northeort) and a civil war in Northerot when Darlok was dead.

Furthermore:

Lyrenzia was going down and a new goverment came up to rule Trolls Bane for ~1 year: the Triumvirate (Town Guard, Grey Rose, elected member of the citizens).

Big and chaotic war against undead lichs (biggest and most terrible war in history of Illarion)

Civil war in Silverbrand when Tialdin became inactive too much and different groups tried to overtake the throne.

Stephen Rothmans goverment to rule Trolls Bane after the last organisation of the old Triumvirat was going down: Grey Rose left the Town months before and the last chief of the Town Guard did a big mistake: She married Stephen Rothman, who overtook all powers only few weeks later.

The long way to fight all of the Rothman Clan

Hell Briar...

And William Elderberry started a big rebellion with County Briar to defeat Rothman and lock him in Grey Rose, and they did until Grant freed him. Damned Grant...

Siltaris · Post by **Siltaris** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:41 pm

Not to forget about upcoming conflicts:

The collapse of the Mountains above Silberbrand, the following roaming of dwarves over Gobiath. Subsquently, the civil war in Troll's Bane and the final erasement of the Refuge of the Grey Rose due to civil war.

A lot is going to happen...

Julius · Post by **Julius** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:38 pm

She forgot one thing?

If I may correct your mistake?

...and a new Rothman will be the King of all Gobiath and all lands. The sun will always settle on all the estates within his control..

Looks good. Please tell me if I made a mistake.

abcfantasy · Post by **abcfantasy** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:55 pm

Erm...I think you wrote in the wrong thread. This is not the illarion jokes thread.

Llama · Post by **Llama** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:01 am

abcfantasy wrote:Erm...I think you wrote in the wrong thread. This is not the illarion jokes thread.

Owned... big time

Senrin der Ältere · Post by **Senrin der Ältere** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:27 am

You forgot the small "war" between Silverbrand and the Bloodskulls..

Algoran · Post by **Algoran** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:53 am

Main difference is that you used to just have fun. Now you have to study Gobiath history and be able to recite it on demand, else the RP police will getcha!

Not quite sure which.

AlexRose · Post by **AlexRose** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:34 am

Remember the war between Troll's Bane and Silverbrand over the tavern? xD

I remember being there because Damien was summoning bananas everywhere

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OMGROFL · Post by **OMGROFL** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:41 am

Senrin der Ältere wrote:You forgot the small "war" between Silverbrand and the Bloodskulls..

OMGROFL!

I DO! ME ME ME!

Remember the war between Troll's Bane and Silverbrand over the tavern? xD

Is this a separate affliction?