also starter information on explore areas, e.g. where to go, how to find it. It had shrine locations for many of the Imms. It gave many tips and tricks that people use that would normally get deleted here or on the official page. It also had a very large list of potions, pills for those who didn't know what all they did. It gave class walkthroughs for some of the harder classes to initially get into e.g. the massive time sink of spamming an invoker and how to significantly simply the process and where to go to work on the spells.
The greatest thing that it had was subscribers who were willing to share most of the information that had garnered over the years, all anyone had to do was ask. There were newbies who used it too. How do I know this? Because they talked to me and told me so, and I was willing to explain all the concepts and questions I could.
This information helped to entice those that didn't have the time to go look at the things that would normally have taken hours upon hours in a single sitting. Quite frankly most of us who play don't have that kind of time. I have a 23 month old, I work 60+ hours a week, I have my honey-do projects like building a galvanized steel fence with wood borders to do, and then I also have regular up-keep on my house. At the end of the day I would like to go to some of these areas, but when those that have knowledge beat my character down, I no longer have the gear, or time to go look at them. When I can't even go look at one area unless the imms deem my character worthy (Imm exp required) I'm SOL. Characters with no role get usually ZERO imm exp. RP or not.
At the end of the day I want to make that evil half-drow shaman who believes that death is the only true god and all others are weaker than death. I want to pretend that I call down plagues and curses upon the land and am helping to bring the world into ruin. Instead I am jumped while I am having to kill the akan weaponsmith (Nikoula?) for the 40th time, by the warrior who has gear from no where he could possibly know about IC, or obtain on his own, and all he has to do is bash bash bash, get all.coins corpse. Lag for the win.
Sooo far off the original topic - I'm done ranting because at the TRUE end of the day I still like to RP and create characters despite my lack of knowledge despite a perceived or actual OOC connection to an IMM or other very knowledgeable person in the game, despite my inability to get my RP in just the right way that someone will like and reward... Because I play for me, so fuck all yall. :-p