What a cock. In all the times I've possessed Magnagorans I've never once used it for something like that. Talk about griefing.

You tell Lady Danubis, "Ooc: you alright?"

You tell Lady Danubis, "Ooc: There's been some discussion on the forums and
whatnot, wanted to make sure you weren't feeling griefed or abused."

You tell Lady Danubis, "Ooc: if that's the case, it wasn't the intent of
everything."

Danubis tells you, "Im fine, im just annoyed people target me... im clearly not
a fighter and dont provoke people... ill mouth of after someone trys to kill me
though."

You tell Lady Danubis, "Ooc: well, those shouts were more or less the reason so
many people got into it (including me). You may find tells to be a better
outlet for those kinds of things, as it gets your point across without
involving someone's entire city."

Danubis tells you, "True, i shall keep that in mind."

You tell Lady Danubis, "Ooc: i just wanted to make sure you, the player's,
feelings wasn't hurt or anything. Apologies if they were. If you ever feel that
way, let me or whoever know. Sometimes it's hard to play a fanatic/aggressive
type role as many in Magnagora do without going too far. Everyone has a
different limit to how much they can take. Just let us know ooc if it's too
much, I know I personally would listen."

You tell Lady Danubis, "Ooc: ie, I know what it's like to be on the receiving
end "

Danubis tells you, "Thank you, makes me feel better :-)"

You tell Lady Danubis, "Ooc: im glad! We're all here to play a game, but I know
I get -very- attached to my characters and what they're going through."

Danubis tells you, "Hehe i know... i never thought i would live so vacariously
through my character when i started... but it does seem to become very
personal."

You tell Lady Danubis, "Ooc: indeed. Well I'm glad everything is cool. Nice to
meet you by the way "

Danubis tells you, "Likewise."

Sorry Amaru, but one last Hijack since this is the topic in which the issue was raised.  It's my last post on the subject, so no worries.
This line really struck a cord with me, personally.  Razyx may be a bit disturbed, but OOC I'm a pretty nice guy.  I open doors for ladies, say please and thank you, and am generally very polite and well liked.  I really hope the "cock" reference was IC and not OOC.  If IC, that's a good thing, Razyx doesn't want a Celestian to think he's they're buddy and that they can trust him.      If OOC, I'm going to cry.

Either way, you made the OOC me feel like a jerk so I went to talk to Danubis:
Danubis --> <-- Me

No. No no no. Primebond was a worse idea than Karma. Not as volatile, but just bad. Just a stupid idea.

Very noble of you. I retract my original statement.

Yeah, it needs to go. The divines had good intentions, but the karma system only made the strong stronger and the weak weaker. I really liked the primebond idea.

EDIT: Explanation of the primebond: you go to your nexus, and primebond for 2 power. That would be the first skill in Planar. As long as you have primebond, you can't be attacked by other players - aggresive actions toward you cause the primebond to disappear instead, but not immediately, rather after 2 minutes or something like that, to let you escape. Works only on Prime.

Care to explain (edit) why?

Care to explain (edit) why?

I ooc apologise all the time but it doesn't come across like that

Maybe i need to work on those people skills

Hmmmm. Then what about returning curses to a flat cost of 50 power to cast? That wouldn't allow people like Alger to give out 4-5 curses as a village revolts.

Edit: And are you sure the lessening rates of players dropping out was to do with karma? Something else may have happened at the same time. Or it could be that keeping the blessings (sadly) is what people want, as they seem to be more popular and 'used' than the curses.

By saying there was never a problem, you are hiding your head in the sand. We were having a tremendous dropout rate and were unable to retain players before karma went in. Since karma went in, we had a complete turnaround in the ability to retain players. So, from my perspective, it was a success. I am unwilling to consider dropping it without an alternative. I am willing to consider tweaking aspects of the karma system that do not work (like preventing people from 'buying' corpses to remove their karma).