Posted by The Arcane(VIP) on October 20, 2000 at 06:09:57:
In Reply to: Comments and a question posted by Ismail on October 20, 2000 at 04:15:43:
> Onto the question now. Honestly, that's no longer the case for me. It hasn't been for a while. Yes, PKing is important to me, and I never would have played CF in the first place if it was a no-PK mud. Do I tend to min/max to some extent when I'm coming up with a new character? Yes, I'll freely admit that a major consideration when I made Dhaevor was "Why hasn't there been a really badass arial Rager sword spec? That seems like a beautiful combo to me... especially with a tattoo that'll boost my damroll into triple-digits." That was virtually my only concern at the time, actually. Now, I developed what I think was a decent role for Dhaevor as I went along, and acted in accordance with it. You honestly don't want to know how many hours I spent interviewing with that character (it's into triple-digits)... doing nothing but talking with applicants about their beliefs, and trying to challenge them with interesting questions. And I really enjoyed it... much more than I'd ever enjoyed interviewing with previous leaders. I explored a lot (a tank Berserker and a Rager bard make for a really good exploring duo). I wrote an eight-page essay on the importance of the Commandments. And so on. Yes, I also killed probably almost 200 people. But that's not the only thing that was important to me. Not nearly. I deleted Dhaevor because I felt out of touch with the role after having played it nonstop for 4 months. Not because I ran out of people to kill or something. In fact, I had laid plans with BoltThrower and Thror to declare a Second Inquisition, a holy war of sorts against ALL the cabals that accepted magic users. That would've been fun as hell, and I'd have probably died a LOT. But I digress. > Why are you posting this? > In hope that you will offend enough 'gifted' players like Zorszaul tried with his FAQ and they will forget everything but constant training in PK to finally become a match to you? No, that's not the reason at all. That post wasn't especially well thought-out... it was more a spur-of-the-moment reaction to reading some logs on the log board at 7am after having been up all night doing work. I'm not trying to throw down any gauntlets, or challenge anyone. I am genuinely curious as to the nature of my disillusionment, and I suppose hoping for something resembling insight. I look over old logs that I have, everything from pure-roleplaying, to some epic battles, to my series of Hell trips, and I think "Damn, this stuff was fun. Hell, just reading it a year later is fun." Sometimes this leads me to roll up a char, but I'm simply unable to get into the game, and the fun I remember isn't there. When I ask "Where have all the elitists gone?" I'm not saying "Hah, you all suck," but something more along the lines of "Hmm, a lot of people who were in similar positions as I am have lost interest in CF. I'm losing interest too. I wonder why that is?" In retrospect, it's pretty lame to use this forum as my personal sounding board for whatever happens to be on my mind at the moment. I honestly, truly didn't expect one hundredth of the response that post got. It honestly wasn't a very good or substantive post. *shrug*
> It is quite obvious that, for you, the PK aspect of the game is the most important and even the only important. All other aspects just lead to greater ability in first (knowing Thera well, roleplaying well enough to get the special tattoo\skill\whatnot,...) Hence, when the joy from this aspect is gone, the game is no longer interesting.
> I am afraid they won't, you will fail just like Zorszaul did. (I personally will not because I am neither offended nor interested in the goal, though I am not even 'gifted' perhaps)