Posted by ratbastard on May 26, 2000 at 18:21:12:
In Reply to: I tried not to insult you, but here goes (text) posted by Feren on May 26, 2000 at 16:30:49:
> > > > > make it like
> > > > > Level 1: Tell 75%.. let it be easy to perfect, and fail just take more mana. make it take very little mana, so that it doesn't make life too hard for low level giants and other stupid races.
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> > > > Get rid of it altogether.
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> > > Tell, I have been told numerous times, is a type of telepathic communication. Leave it be, the game would be utterly _impossible_ to play without it. (I for one don't want to run all over the mud at 5:00, getting attacked after I find someone I want to group with, and retry the process over and over.) It may be unrealistic in terms of real life, but it just destroy the game to remove it.
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> > > My conclusion: You just acted on impulse. Thinks shit out before you post it.
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> > Your conclusion is wrong. Tell is used by lazy bastards (like you) who can't be bothered to roleplay. So you sit on your ass in ms and type: tell ***** rank?, tell **** group? instead of getting off your ass and roleplaying a first meeting with someone. It takes 30 seconds to get from galadon to any point in Thera. So your "don't want to" whinge is only that. And finally, I find it amusing to be condescended to by someone so obviously an ignorant slut.
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> > Byron
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> Okay, you are a fucking idiot. It is literally IMPOSSIBLE to find a group simply walking around Thera in any time other than prime-time. I play usually 2:00 A.M. to about 8:00 or so A.M. Say there is three people in my range. One is good. Two are evil. I'm evil, why the hell would I hunt them down just to ask them who they held alliance with, and if he would wish to learn. Impossible, hence you = fucking idiot. Laziness isn't my excuse, it is just that it isn't possible for me to find two people who could be anywhere in Thera, and if I did find them, they would probabbly just attack me when they saw me enter the area, considering the odds would be it would be a non-protected area. . It isn't a practical solution.
Man I deserved that. And I agree with you regards the need for tell in order to keep the game pace. I just had a bug up my ass.
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> Next time, try and see both sides of the story. I will and HAVE admitted it isn't to realistic, but it is essential to the game. It is hard to see this if one bears the intellect of a six-year old, I understand, but I forgive you.
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Unfortunately intellect isn't the causal factor here. It's emotional age :) I've no qualms regards my intelligence with regards to most others I meet. It's my emotional maturity that is the issue.
> >Tell is used by lazy bastards (like you) who >can't be bothered to roleplay.
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> How would you know how I roleplay, you insulent little shit? And how many people use the tell command? Everyone _but_ you? Excluding yourselves from certain commands does not mean you role-play better.
Yes, I am insulent as well as insolent at times. Though I ain't little. I do believe that tell is abused and sometimes used as a crutch. This however doesn't excuse my previous post. And for that post I apologize to you.
Peace,