I really don't think it's the players killing the game. This is just a dying market and nobody cares very much. And nobody is willing to become competent enough to advertise effectively. Nothing needs to change really, it just needs to be advertised much, much better. You can tell me no, it needs to change drastically to accommodate newbies, but you'd lose Carrion Fields in the process. No, the idea of nurturing players in a game called Carrion Fields sounds ridiculous. It's supposed to be cold and cruel (in my eyes), but very exciting. It's a great game with huge ups and downs, and anyone who's cut out to play can handle the downs too. I mean, if everyone were too nice this game would become like those other MUDS that just plain aren't any fun, there's no excitement.

When I was completely new I was like 11 or 12, and I had little outbursts too. Graatch looted my first fire giant a-p's Mahn-tor axe, which I didn't know how to get, NOT TO MENTION MY PIES!!1 and I would never shut up about it (also was annoyed because he didn't even kill me, I had killed a d-elf a-p but died of his plague). And looking back at that log? I was annoying, Graatch handled that well not to tell me to fuck off and turn on quiet mode. I would have fulled me any day of the week after that.

And before that I was even more a little bitch, getting multikilled by some duergar empire thief as a d-elf assassin in the teen ranks, I went OOC on them all the time when they looted, especially when they took Steel Rose, because I had no idea where my gear was from. I was lucky enough to befriend a d-elf conjurer (who wouldn't stop trying to mudsex me all the time and I'm like WHAT ARE YOU DOING LOCKING ME IN THE INN ROOM I DONT EVEN KNOW WHERE PENISES GO ON A WOMAN STOP PLEASE I WILL JUST WRITE YOU POETRY INSTEAD STOP OKAY ILL TWIST YOUR NIPPLE BUT THATS ALL I REALLY KNOW ABOUT WOMAN PARTS and then I vanish and quit out) who showed me where to get charred bracers, Velkyn swords, etc. And I try to do this for other players whenever I can, but it's not necessary.

I would even bitch when someone just KILLED ME, and nothing else. The sort of thing I see more and more all the time. And it's just really, seriously annoying because I'm starting to feel it has more to do with people telling newbies it's okay for them to do that than the fact that I'm actually being tormenting. But I don't think anyone cut out to play this game can't handle the worst parts, including being put in their place when they're stepping way out of line. And yeah, some people will get driven away by this sort of treatment, but frankly I don't even want to play with them, they aren't fun.

So to sum it up, my gripe is: It bothers me to see the same players who made the game so fun for me, even if in an indirect way, through constant cruelty, suddenly all go soft on me and tell me I can't play the game I've grown to love because the agreed rules changed.

How about no.

Of course I'm clearly a masochist because I remember the humiliation of my first PK death being erotically stimulating for me.

Actually the community was always like this and always going on about something unimportant. Nothing has changed at all, I'm just getting sucked into thinking so. Not sure why I'm bothering to argue about it, no progress being made in any direction besides spreading more negativity, as always. I'll just shut up about it and continue full looting whoever I like.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/10/2009 02:17AM by RobDarken.