Posted by Zepachu on August 21, 2000 at 11:09:03:
In Reply to: Something has to be done, 'cause this is gay posted by Imbrogno(VIP) on August 21, 2000 at 10:02:11:
...things like this make you nauseous. I agree with ya on it all, including the sick thing. In fact, I've decided to take a break from CF. (Actually because I'm working on my own MUD... two years in development... from the ground up... so putting energy into that instead.) But I would at least be able to play CF a few hours a day... I just don't anymore, at least for a few weeks. I like playing the underdog... but not the beaten-battered-bruised-spanked-lead-pipe-shoved-up-ass-dog. And I refuse to switch over to playing a rager, even though I never have before [something about personally being against the whole idea ;-)]. I don't try out new cabals when they're on an upswing, I'm the opposite... Oh well. I feel your pain... this'll all subside within two weeks though. > I play one serious character at a time, lately I've been playing a lowbie pk'er just to while away the day 'cause I know my main character has zero chance of ranking. > You misunderstand my quota system. It's not about characters, there's well over 200 characters, it's PLAYERS, actual people who play the game. By limiting the number of characters in a cabal you almost certainly limit the number of characters a player plays, because now that player has to play that caballed character to keep him in instead of shelving his imperial while his rager is powerful and vice versa. I also feel that you should only play one character at a time, but we're in the minority. > I think cabals should be a HELLUVA lot harder to get into. We're in disagreement here. I think only the better players should be in a cabal(except for Empire which should be the catch-all). I view cabals as a privilege, not a right. You shouldn't be able to roll up a character knowing you're going to get into a cabal with great ease, it should mean something. > As it is now though you can't become a leader that will hold your applicants to a higher standard because inevitably your applicants will become applicants for a different cabal will less strict induction requirements. > There's some serious bullshit going down right now. There are several cabal leaders that are not showing up nowhere near as often as they were before the village became strong. I'm not going to call them out, but it's BS. Where do you think they are? My bet is that they're a rager right now. > The whole thing makes me sick, it probably shouldn't 'cause that means I'm taking the game too seriously, but it does.
> I generally do not enjoy the game at all when everybody is playing one thing. I'm not the kind of person to go play a rager just because everybody else is being a ducky, but you also get no enjoyment out of having to sit at a rank against your will simply because nobody will rank with you.