I do apologise. I got about halfway through and the thread and was derailed by Verithrax's ranting to the point that I forgot it was Rauros who started it in the first place

You sit there counting the drops of blood while they cut your limbs off?

Geeze, you sure like to pick and the nit and gritty.

I will only comment on the statistics of the weapons.

Reason # 1 for posting the statistics on the market channel and not in tells.



Now, while some of you big RP buffs might be fine with replying to each and every indivule while trying to figure out who'll give you the most money at the same time. Most of us who just want to put it up for sale don't wanna hassle with all that.

Reason # 2:

We can't handle and try out a blade before we by the thing. I suppose we could, but then there's nothing keeping the person from running off with it once they have the weapon in their possession.

Also, since we can't physically get a handle on the weapon and swing it around, inspect it's blade, or jab at a target ourselves, we have to rely on numbers to allows us, the soul behind the made up character to know exactly what it is we're buying.

Agreed! You don't fuss at people for talking about the Y2K bug for example.

Rapiers are not medieval, the heavy Full Plate is not either. (Full plate as most people describe it in IRE games is actually earlier renisasance.) Katana's are not medieval, Aetherships aint medieval, use of universal currancy between cities is not medieval. The idea of actual 'shops' instead of venders at market, not medieval. Highways connecting major cities, not medieval. Violin, Viola, Mandolin, are not medieval.

Hell, formal 'chords' like minor second, or major second, are not medieval. All musical theory, as we know it today, was built around 1600. So... obviously this is not medieval earth.

I refuse to believe that someone saying stats on market or anything that is the slightest bit ooc ruins your immersion in the game.

Obviously someone sitting there talking about their failed internet connection will, however.

I propose 'the ugly stick' as an IC way of dealing with this.

Usage:

'I/He/She/They/We got hit with the ugly stick'

NOT

'I was ugly sticked'

Abbreviations are perfectly IC, if the word being abbreviated is IC. Resurrection is IC, therefore so is rezz. If you consider a defense to be IC, then so is a def.

Lusternia fails at detecting when I'm not being serious. You people need to pipe down. *distributes painkillers and tranquilisers*

What? You actually thought I expected the Divine to post a story on the website about that? Have you people been secluded from real life so much you can't detect deadpan sarcasm anymore? Do I have to add a cute emoticon to everything I write so you can read the tone? Man.


One reason I don't get too pissed at people saying 'k' is that I take it the characters aren't speaking English and therefore are saying something that makes sense in Common. OTOH, it's easier to picture things as being said, not written (At least for me, YMMV) if they're spelled out thoroughly, which is why you see me saying "ten thousand and fifty hundred pieces". It's also more medieval to do so.

Not going to read the whole thread, too long.

However, people say "k" or "grand" all the time in real life.

Now, granted, the OOC is getting worse as Lusternia is getting older, and it's because the older more hardcore original players are leaving, and we're getting newbies, who need to forceable be told to knock it the heck off if they do it more than once. Why, just in one conversation, someone said his soul was getting tired, and... I dunno, something else that irritated me.

All of the USA must be OOC, then.

After all, there was that huge worry about the potential "Y2k" bug.

Watch it, America, or the GameMasters will come for you.

Ninja'd you with Y2K.



*has rolepoints docked for saying Y2K*

Err, I should hope so. I'd hate to think this mess was a game. I'd have some harsh words for the admins then, that's for sure. Time to nerf the Politician's Guild, they've been nerfing the rest of us way too much lately.

Seconded, as K is a commonly used term in physics and math is completely acceptable if you ask me. And those of you saying that maths and the laws of physics have no place in Lusternia. Sucks to be you.