Personally, I would like a quest that destroys totems, as I've suggested before.

I don't mind totems supplying a fair bit of power, because the commune has more area to protect with guards and less bonded statue/totems. In that sense I can see a balance. The only flaw in the mix is that our power supply is essentially untouchable - the totem/pixie quest is now redundant because only once every blue moon will someone be able to chop down a totem manually.

Villages and the other power quests can be influenced by enemy organizations... there is no realistic method of affecting our totem supply.

Spare me the sarcasm. I could care less about how the Celestians view the Serens. Soon as they stop asking us for help, I'd be more than happy to oblige. Anti-Mag views are normally what motivates some Serens to assist New Celest.


Elryn, I saw your suggestion on a possible totem destroying quest.. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, don't know about that..

Meh, I think there needs to be some way of removing totems. I doubt they were designed to reach peak production and then just stay there.

It doesn't have to involve my suggestion, something as simple as totems burning up when the avatars/white hart are slain would do.

I sort of have to agree with the Magnagorans here, it is a little unfair for the cities just in this one regard.

Thats good, when I heard you were nearly broke, I got a little worried.

I'm sure you were.

Get to it Daevos, bash more Celest guards, make sure they don't have enough funds to purchase an arena.

Hmm, there is merit to your suggestion. It will be considered *sagenod*.

meh last time i went to southgard they had 2 guards... hard to bash guards if they dont put any! *hmph*

They have twenty there now.

ROFL. The two funds are completely separate. Ie if the security and champions wanna buy guards, suuure, whatever. However the Arena gold remains.

{whine} I keep telling people that. If they want guards, great, donate to the city. If they want the Arena, donate to the fund. They just don't get it {/whine}

This is all RP anyways however...

Sure we appreciate it. But as you say, there is a lot of anti-Celest feelings in the commune. Ditto on this side. But we all appreciate the need to support each other.

And from Celest's point of view, Seren has changed sides so often to suit their own little thing. So pretty much there's a lot of anti seren feelings.

I'm sure that if one of the Moon incarnates suddenly said that to pledge the power of the Commune and spread the forest around the Basin, you must slay the cherubs and angels and drop them at the Well of Soul and make them Fae, some hothead in your commune will do it.

Hmmm could be a nice event...

Besides a fair few of Celestians died for Seren to take their villages as well. So *shrugs*

hmmm their doing donation things as well... we should go kill their astral bashers as well daev, so they dont have much to give.

Trust me, if New Celest was getting attacked every day, and they ran out of gold with which to buy guards, they'd guaranteed start siphoning it from the arena fund. Oh, and they'd also be preoccupied with "Ack! We are being raided! Ack we have no gold! PANIC!" to actually go get gold to donate to the arena fund.

Apparently you need to spend more time doing your actual job, because there are quite a few tuned totems in the Northern Serenwilde.

Edit:: Not to mention that with the exception of one Druid, the ones who actually fight, all have reality check.

And apparently you need a nap, Gregori. Stop being a bitch to everyone on the forums.

The fact is that when Gl d ing comes, Serenwilde and Celest will be hard pressed if they don't look for some common ground.

Besides which, doesn't have to be the same person doing the reality check as the melding and foresting and such. Just needs someone who can do the reality check, doesn't have to be a fighting Hartstone or even a Hartstone at all.

So anyway... I liked the original topic of this thread. Why was the value of essence changed? I suspect we'll never know.

I just think it was a bit too much. Power was never a resource to be taken for granted. I'm glad that it's been reduced to 1 per. When the node at Hallifax opened up a week ago, no one bothered to cone for power. It wasn't a big deal. The need wasn't there. Everyone in the Serenwilde could link up to 100% in reserves at the mother tree and not make a dent.

I used to think that when southgard was under Mag control

Our guards were in Angkrag, since Undead Miners > Alive Miners.