Posted by Polemachus on March 27, 2000 at 09:42:04:
In Reply to: heh (well started as a heh, turned into a treatise of some sort) posted by Pikel on March 27, 2000 at 09:14:00:
This is what I see, granted it might not be God's honest truth.
One sylvan logs in, followed by another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and finally another. This may be by design, it may just be that those times are when the players have time to log in(this one I doubt for the most part as I tend to think CF players play more than one char). This happens around 7:30 or 8:00PM EST. I play much more during the day(I don't work) so I usually only see the beginnings of this occurance. Rather than going and sitting in a forest and making sure it's protect, maybe chatting with an imm shaped into a squirrel, or just relaxing and enjoying the view, a deathsquad is formed. Sentries in Balator start screaming bloodymurder in the ears of Arbiters as your deathsquad of criminals makes its way up the Palace to take the Codex, then the gate guards in Tar Valon start screaming bloodymurder as your deathsquad makes its way up to the Tower, then the Galadon cityguards start screaming bloodymurder as your deathsquad runs into the city and looks for Arbiters and the average Joeelvenmaster that might be sitting in his guild. You make sure the arbiters know you're around(you, Qeli, and the invoker twins are great for this) and then you run out into the Haon Dor, usually a small path in a deep, dark forest or someplace close and set up your walls. You wait for an arbiter to stick his head out(I usually just send an owl out overhead and watch your movements) and you summon him in and beat his ass.
Maybe somewhere in there you make a rounds to all of the forests that people usually rank in, but I HIGHLY doubt it, not when there are people to kill at least. Maybe Joelowbie the 15th ranked druid that nobody ever hears about gets sent around to make sure nobody's defiling, I don't know, clairaudience can't hear your cb discussions.
I'm not really complaining, because I've no reason to, I have no time to play after 7:30 or so. Frankly, homework and even good TV comes before CF. 8EST is a great time for the Discovery and Learning Channels as well as good major network programming. You've got your big money gameshows, you've got That 70's Show, Titus, Friends, Seinfeld, the Sopranos rerun comes on at 9 on Wednesday, but I digress.