Btw, kudos to Rahsael for making that post on officials to attempt to give newbies an idea on how to get into Cabals. Cabal life is rather necessary for the game imho.

Two players trying to get into CABAL X.

Player A has played for 20 years and has been leader of CABAL X multiple times before. They have a harddrive full of all the info they jealously guard that they've accumulated over the years from OOC buddies, imms, and genuine exploration that they may have done.
Player B has played for 1 year, and is trying to get into CABAL X.

Player A has been around for decades, and has seen every historical moment of Cabal X from the inside. He asks for an interview, and knows more about the cabal than the interviewer. Player A gets in immediately, gets cabal powers so his char is more powerful, starts collecting imm praise, edgepoints etc. Player A knew how to craft his role to perfectly align with the correct cabal, and immortal religion to max out his character's power before he even rolled. Everythign will fall into place perfect, he will have the most powerful character in the current metagame possible, he will have easy leveling, easy tattoo, easy induction, and he already knows the plan for every part of the character's life.


Player B is trying to figure the game out. He has an underpowered build, doesn't know anything and reads the helpfiles and tries to apply but doesn't know all of the correct answers that the interviewer wants. He's sent on a wild goose chase involving lyceum, essay writing, or some other grindy shit involving dozens of hours. He comes back to the interviewer again, but the interviewer shits on the applicant again because he doesn't know "exactly" how the cabal works. Sends him off for another dozen or so hours with minimal effort to educate. Meanwhile player B has no cabal, no cabal powers, no friends, and trying to solo it. Player A at this point is receiving edgepoints, the benefit of cabal powers, using the cabal to get better gear, and is now deck out with good gear, better edges, better powers, and is ganking player B with his cabal mates while receiving imm praise. If player B ever gets into the cabal he's late to the show, probably low on con, and enthusiasm. And here's the kicker.. The imms hate underdogs. Player B got shit on by the cabal leader already. Imms will ignore and not reward this kind of player.

I encourage EVERYONE in player B's situation to log onto discord, and ask the players how to get into the cabal you want. Ask the players how to play the game. Honest to god, you don't need to spend 100 hours being SHIT upon by the elites and immstaff just to learn this "magic bullshit" everyone is talking about. The "magic bullshit" is a thin veil that's not very magical or special. The elites know the secret handshakes and phrases and they abuse prior knowledge to get easy access cabals. There's no reward for doing anythign the "hard way" in CF. There's no benevolant imm who will recognize you for doing things the hard way. Doing things the hard way in CF is a fool's errand, and a trick that is played on every noob who attempts to play. The vets don't do things the hard way. The way you learn about the game is to have a good player take you aside and explain it straight up without requiring you to invest 100 hrs.


The power snowball that CF has is ridiculous. Good gear, good builds, good cabal power synergy, a tattoo, the right edges, preps, good skill %s make powerhouses. The vets and elites keep trying to bring up roleplay and "magic", but it's anything but magic and RP. The elites aren't learning. They aren't working even 1/10th as hard as they want noobies to work for it.. They tell you not to be a powergamer. They don't want to help you. They say "RP" is more important than anything else. They are min-maxing more than you realize. It's time you equip yourself and start minmaxxing back.



Edited 9 time(s). Last edit at 08/04/2018 05:11AM by physics.