I'm uber-good at running now that I have hermit and catacombs too!

Nihilists still remain the ultimate escapists though (hermit, catacombs, ghost, lich).

Attacking you, maybe. 5:1 ratio is pretty normal for some of us.

Well, an organized group of 5 people attacking a lone person without a cubix...

Sitting outside of an organization's borders or villages is very annoying. If that's the kind of thing that floats your boat...I guess that's fine, but it just seems lame and pointless to me...not to mention a waste of time for pretty much everyone involved.

I remember *certain groups of Serenwilders* standing right outside Stewartsville for 5+ hours straight, for no real reason except to be a nuisance.

Hrm.

Are any of the members of those groups still Serenwilders?

HELP SERENWILDE.

First name still seems to be.

Actually I was talking about the Moondancer's witching path, not anything having to deal with the ebonguard.

@ Sham:So wait, Serenwilde needs to grow balls because... they didn't attack you when you -weren't- raiding? O_o "I'll sit outside and try to draw them out so they have less of an advantage", then that's not raiding, that's jumping, no wonder they wouldn't want to walk into that.

I just wish the Serenwilde didn't have a billion points of entry to cover as it stands we -do- have to worry about people on that road, novices and lowbies cross over that all the time doing various things.

Maybe people were busy. There's not a lot of Serenwilde folks present even at high times, and they might have had things to take care of, for example raiding. It's not the end of the world when you have to read a GHELP novice starting file.


I can assure you that the Serenguard never treat novices like that, unless there's no one but other novices present.


Oh noes! They force us to argh-pee! Sorry, but... just, no comment/


Don't be afraid to talk to people you don't know then. That's the problem with many people - there is a LOT of cool things to do in Lusternia, but they simply sit around on their bums and want to have entertainment shoved down their throats by others. Initiative, people! You won't find fun if you expect it to come to you.


Anti-mob skills are rather boring, yes. Jab, jab, raze, jab, get body. But so it is in every other guild. While totems (or especially tracking) can be a cool thing to play with. I don't get the mastering part. No one forced you to spend lessons on anything, and it's not that getting enough to reach Mastery in any skill is a hard thing...


Everybody was a combat noob one day. You spar so you won't get owned in the future. Aerenna is always ready to help new people how to fight, and it's not that she'll unleash all the power in the arena, destroying you in a second. Manual won't get you very far, but Ethelon's free system is... well, free, and good enough for starters.


See point 4. If they're quiet, make so they are not. Ask questions or talk about some political or philosophical topic. Or just find interesting people and talk to them personally.


Agree. But it's hunting, and hunting is boring. There are two exceptions: PVP or RP. Focus on one of them. It's fun.


As I said, and will say (well, write) again - you do nothing in Lusternia only when it's your decision. There's a lot of things to do, but they require some effort and good will (even minimal amounts). But it's easier to sit, do nothing and complain.

You should join Glomdoring. I get jumped before I get there.

EDIT: Or you need to be a bigger, scarier pest.

It isn't that we don't have balls, it's that the Serenwilde has historically been on good terms with Celest, and we want to avoid conflict as much as possible. You are wearing us thin though...

I'd have to say that that's probably the point. If he wanted Celest to be buddies with us, he'd know better than to do screw around like this.

Yeap. Because Serenwilde is totally innocent in this.

Trying to put away all bias, Celest did seem to act a little childish in the way they enemied. It almost seemed like "Okay, you attacked us in our territory so you get enemied." "WHAT?! Okay, Mr. Guy-who-only-enemied, I don't like you so you get enemied to Celest!"

All the people I know who've stopped caring have done so because they're not able to make a difference. When nothing you do changes anything, you quickly learn to do nothing.

A lot of that is no one's fault. MUDs as we know them aren't designed to react to the accomplishments of individuals. They're mostly just treadmills that let you feel like you're going somewhere without any real change of scenery. And when the scenery does change, it's because someone moved the cage, not because you actually did anything yourself.

That's why I never stress the grand, GM-created plots and organizations. Those are all about game balance and game necessity and explaining new game elements as they appear. They may allow players to fill pre-planned roles and pretend they're the catalysts for some change that was going to happen whether they were there or not, but the outcome is the outcome is the outcome, because it took way too many man-hours of prep work in setting up to change it now.

Instead of playing out those charades, I focus on the limited venues I actually have control over: clan and cartel, manse and shop, aethership and friendship.

You want people to actually care about Serenwilde, find a way for them to make a difference.

Oh, and you might also try to lighten up. Being nasty to outsiders for being outsiders just convinces them you're the sort of group they didn't want to be a part of to begin with.

It's not that I hate RP, Cuber. I'm all for it. Sometimes, though, it can get stale..and I'm only talking obviously OOC tells with a friend.

And it wasn't all about Serenguard, either. They're actually pretty good.

So you know, Furien, your sig is freakin' awesome.

Aye I was gazing at that and laughing! It is too cute!

Go Furien!