Posted by Stahlhagen on February 2, 2000 at 19:53:28:
In Reply to: the eternal spoon... posted by Shokai(IMM) on February 2, 2000 at 19:21:07:
1) Do you feel that Graatch's tone is neither condescending nor snobbish in his two posts? > I'm personally all for people trying new things and finding out what they do, okay so you'll have a character that you don't know all the ins and outs to...but everything you learn from that character then transfers to the next, and from that one to the next, and so on. You want to know how the true 'elite' of CF got to be truely elite? They played with new classes, races, spells, skills, tactics, etc...and learned from each success and each failure....or they downloaded ICQ, and formed a pk group with friends....*shrug* My point though, is instead of getting all bent out of shape because someone won't tell you the answer, go find it yourself....it's really not that hard to do. 2) Do you feel that knowing that Wood Elves get acute vision is on that level? I would think that an average fight on the Log Board reveals a lot more "earned" information than that. It's certainly how I know what cabal most of the level 30+ folk are in, and who the real tough fighters are. (Or what Pheonix Fire does, to hit closer to home.) 3) Is gaining new players a priority for the CF staff? Keeping newbies completely in the dark will often leave them frustrated when they can't get past level 15 because Joe Expert PKs them in a heartbeat. Personally, I don't think giving newbies "easy" facts hurts the game one bit. It's a tricky line to draw, but I felt his question was well on the safe side. Do a search on my name to see how I handle less appropriate questions. I am not a "tell all" kind of guy either.
> I think most of what I've read from people ends or starts with 'play one and find out', which personally I don't see as elitest, snobbish, dickheaded...or any of the other litany of dispareging remarks tossed around.