Posted by Imbrogno on July 6, 2000 at 06:10:59:
In Reply to: errr, cos then they would pray and annoy all the imms instead of one (nt) posted by NIblaznacker on July 5, 2000 at 18:18:50:
> > > > Nepenthe, for instance is one of the most friendly, oft-empowerering IMMs in the game > > > Aw, shucks. > > > >but he is NEVER vis, or hardly ever vis, from what I have seen which means this sort of invalidates your point, since he never VISes, reguardless of wether he's busy or looking to empower people. > > > There are two reasons for that off the top of my head: > > > 1) Less than 20% of all tells I get while vis have anything to do with empowerment, tattoos, etc. I get people saying hi. I get people looking to make smalltalk. I get people I knew five years ago who want to talk. I get complaints about the game. I get complaints about the game's balance. I get complaints about lag. I get people asking me for a copy of the CF code. I get complaints about the Master cabal. The most annoying and recurring one is people who aren't getting a favorable response from their imm of choice. God knows I don't care if you think you understand whoever's religion perfectly and they've told you you're never getting empowered. That's their prerogative and I don't want to hear about it. The list goes on and on. > > > Do I think I'm "too good" to talk to people like a normal human being? Nope. Would I rather spend 50 minutes out of every hour doing empowerments or something constructive and 10 for this instead of the reverse? Well, yeah. I haven't come up with a method to cut this down to a sufficient level without killing people (I tried for a few years before I became jaded), so I tend to just not be visible. It's well within Scarabaeus or Sebeok or Astein or Zulghinlour's roles (for example) to be an ass to you if you keep asking them to get you out of a noexit room or remove this flag you don't think you deserve and kill the arbiter who placed it or whatever, but it's not really in Nepenthe's. > > > 2) My style of logon: I have a strong tendency to go afk for minutes or hours while forgetting and remaining logged on. In school it took the form of being on and half-idle while doing homework and it's only gotten worse. I've gone shopping or jogging or to a movie while still being logged on. On one occasion I even left the state and forgot to log off. Wouldn't you hate to see your immortal vis for ten hours, yet for some reason not ever respond to you?