Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

You have created a world unlike anything I have encountered elsewhere outside the confines of my own mind. It's breadth, depth, scope, and originality continue to delight me. It captivates my mind continually, and I continue to be surprised by the ways it grabs my interest.

The amount of effort, dedication, and sheer passion required to make such a masterpiece shine from this masterpiece of yours, and I can only hope that recent changes turn out to improve the game even more.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

It's "hear, hear". It comes from the town crier's call, the repeat following "now hear this".

I'll add my voice. Thank you for creating a beautiful, varied, coherent, rich world with history and beauty and terrible darkness and grand possibilities. Thank you even more for sticking to it, letting it guide you through the days, drawing on its richness. Thank you for being ready to adapt to what we're doing. Thank you for putting up with listening to us whine, whine incessantly, whine until I wonder you don't come smite every last one of us. (There have been times I would have smote even myself, and I don't think I'm one of the bad ones.) Thank you for giving us what we want in spite of how hard we make it. Thank you for putting up with the agony of dealing with the fact that there is no single "what we want" to give us, and then thank you for finding the best way you can to give it to us anyway.

Glad you all appreciate it! It seems that it is liked so well that even the people who can find no right in it can't stop playing despite all their forum posts. (You know who you are...)

Edit: I'm being funny. I know that the vast majority of you complain because you want to see improvements, which is constructive when put in the proper context. Only a couple complain for the sake of complaining. I never understood why they keep playing, but something must draw them in...

The best thing I enjoy about Lusternia is how fast the admins deal with bugs and problems (relatively speaking). I came from Achaea where it took them over 100 Achaean years to fix Cataclysm, knight's skills, and Occultist's ents.

Anyway, thanks again for Lusternia, it has been great so far with all the ups and downs. I think the best aspects of Lusternia so far is that not everything has been revealed, such as the frozen cities and Glomdoring's future, just a lot to look forward too.

Thank you fo... wait... that's why I pay you!

Does your boss says thank you when you do things you're paid to do too?

No s/he does not, because Amaru is part of the British school system, where the teachers are all cold heartless monsters and so on and so forth.

Nice try though.

Right -- From what I understand, a good boss remembers to say thank you occasionally. Payment doesn't preclude appreciation.

Edit: Not that Amaru is anybody's boss

As I say, Dumihru, it does where we come from.

I'd like to add my thoughts - Lusternia is brilliant in comparison with other MUDs. It's one of the first where I've been able to experiment with different 'types' of city and guild without coming across overly restrictive/power hungry guild/city heads.

The detail in description is great, and so are the quests. The response time and responsiveness is great as well - e.g. the recent problems with Magnagora's spiking.

Keep up the good work!

Love,
Anon

I do plan to eventually look up IRE's physical address in order to send Roark and Estarra cookies.

The credits get sent from northern california.

Hmm...

Lacking anything else to do on vacation, maybe I'll deliver them personally.

*ponder* that is an interesting idea. We should set up an International Lusternia Cookie day, and all ship a package of cookies to them. (properly packaged so they dont get nasty in the time it takes to get there)

...I wonder if I included my credit purchase money orders with a box of cookies, would it get processed faster? That is something I must think on for future days.

Hmm...hundreds of cookies arriving on the same day...that could be complicated.

I can see it now:

"Lusternia is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Buho dropped one of your boxes of cookies in the server and now it is lagging to heavily to run. Thank you for the cookies though, especially those peanutbutter chocolate chip ones"

Priceless.

I can't add anything beyond what said, so all I can say is,

GREATEST GODS, CODERS, AND BUILDERS EVER!

I don't know.... the gods of the first mud ever were pretty darn cool.

From what I hear Roy Trubshaw was pretty dorky. But its thanks to him that Estarra Roark and all the others here can be so damn cool.