Posted by Imbrogno(VIP) on September 9, 2000 at 12:54:17:
In Reply to: *SMIRKY* posted by Grallon on September 9, 2000 at 12:39:13:
> The most lucid Argument I have heard to date on why ragers SHOULD war on arbies, is "Arbies protect mages".
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> 1) The Vanquisher protects mages. Citizens heal/group with/tank for mages.
> 2) the Ranger protects mages. The Sapling protects mages by letting them chamo. Sylvans heal/group with/tank for mages.
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> Yet...ragers say "our war is not with the citadel/grove, but with the mages therein." (paraphrase, it usually has lots of "be"s and "da"s and "dat"s and "wit"s)
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> Why dont ragers hunt mages...instead of going out of their way to hunt arbie non mages.
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> Because non-mages are easier to kill than mages with the rager powers.
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> I could not count on the hands and feet of all my living relatives the times when there were 3+ ragers in my pk, 3+ masters, 4+ various assundry mages, and all of the ragers (even the unwanted ones) would come hunting me at the same time, ignoring the tower and other mages.
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> To say it makes sense in an rp way is ludicrous. A paladin Scarabite can make sense. A druid citizen can make sense, and ranger arby can make sense, assassins and shaman sylvans can make sense...an elf necro can make sense. ANYTHING CAN MAKE SENSE. To use the "it makes sense rpwise" as an excuse to do anything in cf is a copout, period, plain and simple.
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> the truth is, a player is going to do what he wants with his char. The half intelligent ones are the ones that think up an rp that makes "sense", and then does what they want anyway.
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> The truth is, Ragers hunt arbies, ragers take the book, etc. Because the players of ragers want to...because they know that arbies are not allowed to counter raid. Hell, even dawn is allowed to take an item and give it to someone else. Ragers hunt arbies because they figure they are easy meat.
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> When Arbies arent, then goes up the cry that Arbies are corrupt.