Posted by Aranim on October 26, 1999 at 11:48:16:
After the worst night you could imagine on CF I decided to delete, it wasnt in anger, though I was rather pissed and am glad I did it, because frankly I was getting mad at times and tended to break role. heres a few Observations, or my version of current state of affairs in Thera:- Battle: You used to be the best and most courageous cabal I knew, you deserved new powers, unfortunately now you got them you also got the dregs who play the current most powerful cabal. Of all the ragers I will perhaps only give credit to Dernwyn and Ayame for being true villagers (forgive me missing others, these two were the only ones I came into contact with properly) Dernwyn of course for being pretty much what you expect of a villager, and ayame, the only one more concerned with being a rager than a kill anyone no matter what with one eye on the PK list. Perhaps I am wrong, but the fact that most ragers would stand at the large crossroads bloodthirsting (fair enough alone, ragers like to fight) with a group waiting for any poor sod to come along. I wouldnt have mentioned names, but Gyois on the Graveyard annoyed, so I give him as a fine example of someone that CF needs less off. Sylvan: Never really talked or fought much with you apart from Pikel and Imansh those couple of times....That last death of mine at the omegus I had just lagged out just when I was about to do some nifty warrior whip spec type things. Bah, oh well, Ill come do....something at you soon. Arbiter: Never got wanted, so never had to talk with you. Entropy: Kinda like sylvan, except I think you have come a longer way from the stupid-chaotic as it used to be, keep up the good work, I still wise you had some better way to get inducted though. Masters: From my ranking to about 30ish I was fighting masters and battle, and I was damn glad the cease fire was announced, I talked to a couple of you and was impressed by all of your roleplay, kudos to aziritzk (sp) I hated it when you deleted. Empire: Well, those who made it through the rager death zone of rank thirty demand respect. Empire is no longer the most powerful cabal, and it is hard to be in it when ragers usually outnumber you, Special mentions to Trently and Graitel, You were damn fine Tranny Bitches ;) Osdaron of course for out-tanking an arial sword spec *boggles* (though you need to work on the occasional OOC talk), and a few others, forgive if I forget to mention any of you. Now a few Observations:- Nightguant:- I got Gaunted once, was taken away to a group, fortunately I had killed the conjies imp and was poisoned so I woke up from the bard sleep and quaffed a potion. However, I had been on the other side many times with Osdaron, and I believe I saw about 50% of victims being returned to us (and of course they died). The furthest distance for a nightguant I experienced was Aridhol(past) to imperial lands. Now, from what I saw I expect heroes to deal with nightguants much easier, and they to be returned much less, however, the fact you can summon someone from the past and at least 12 areas away, no matter HOW unlikely it is to occur, is fucked up. Assasinate is a much harder way to kill, and you need skill to stalk someone with that. You can tell me all night how there is an easy way to kill and/or avoid them, I dont care. Just the thing being in CF in the first place is just derogatory to exploration and roleplay. Groups: Another trend in CF nowadays is that noone ever travels alone, becuase lets face it, you are dog meat. the ways of the knights are long gone now, its either group or die. People who can hide/camo/duo can at least stay out of trouble a while, but you cant hide all the time, its another worrying aspect of the game which induces a lot less exploration and more PKing. Anyway, this is me, the cookie cutter signing off. Ill make another char, Im not an elite player so I cant leave CF yet ;) Think ill make a trouper actually, CF is geared itself towards too much killing, and I have been guilty of that myself, so Im going to serve people dodgy drinks if I didnt like them as Aranim ;)