On being a viscanti:

Bhutak says, "Somehow when I was being born I missed the part where I was asked whether I wanted the 'vessel to ancient evil' option."

Awwww.

Wha....

You...

Noo...

I'm so confused.

Clearly anatomy is not your strong point, Vathael .

Do not anger the krokani! o(

Edit: Immediately after posting the advice thing:

Solanis tells you, "Moondancers!"
4966h, 3324m, 3828e, 10e, 22240en, 14680w eSlrxkd- <23:59:47.035> System: OFF

Solanis tells you, "I mean, everyone's already going, OH NOES HEX COMBO WITH DOUBLEWHAMMIES, and thats with essentially no active raiding hex users. You could bring it to the next level.!"
4966h, 3324m, 3828e, 10e, 22240en, 14680w eSlrxkd- <00:00:40.952> System: OFF

Solanis tells you, "BEAST SLEEP ALALALLA."
4966h, 3324m, 3828e, 10e, 22240en, 14680w eSlrxkd- <00:00:59.311> System: OFF

Solanis tells you, "We were top of TOPGUILDS for three days in a row!"
4966h, 3324m, 3828e, 10e, 22240en, 14680w eSlrxkd- <00:01:27.955> System: OFF

Solanis tells you, "I can be corrupt and just auto guild advance you!"
4966h, 3324m, 3828e, 10e, 22240en, 14680w eSlrxkd- <00:01:42.309> System: OFF

Solanis tells you, "Okay, gotta go. Bai."
4966h, 3324m, 3828e, 10e, 22240en, 14680w eSlrxkd- <00:01:14.804> System: OFF

Solanis tells you, "DONT GO SS."
4966h, 3324m, 3828e, 10e, 22240en, 14680w eSlrxkd- <00:02:25.440> System: OFF

And then they bat their eyelashes and go "lookit me. I got all these particlez. Cityfavour me twice".

That's one of the reasons I decided to take a vacation from leading weakenings. Of course, now it seems that nothing gets done with weakenings. Bleh. Stupid Celest.

And awesome Celestines.

WEZ ARE AWESOMEEEEE!!!!

Solanis >_>

Hi.

I trained Solanis well. He is the Mooncovenspiracy where I cannot be.

Hm? No, Bhutak isn't me. Aoife was telling him about Celest and why most people don't like viscanti.

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Guildmember Rank Position GT GNT CGT
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Incabulos * Champion On On On
Llandros 5 Secretary On On On
Iorden * Administrator On On On
Sha 3 Undersecretary On On On
Celina * Guildmaster On On On
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Currently, there are 5 members on this Plane and 0 on other Planes.
5579h, 6537m, 5646e, 10p, 24655en, 30595w elrx-cwho

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Citizen Rank Position CT
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Incabulos Viscount On
Sha Serf On
Llandros Supervisor On
Iorden Master City Aide On
Celina Countess Iron Council On
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Only 8 people in the city here, Thursday morning must be the weak point of the internet.

For the particles everyone is so keen on talking about... It doesn't matter if a person is AFK or not, they still generate the same amount of particles from the construct as far as I know. What does it matter if someone is blabbing with their friends or whatnot while they are getting particles? There bodies are there, and they are helping out the city. For me it's just an annoying time away from things I'd rather be doing. I think the people who stay the longest should get the most gold because they have been inconvenienced the most. Also the aethership people should get a little extra money, (but not all of it) because again they are using more of their time. I was around for 15 minutes and collected 123 particles (more than anyone else in the room got at that time, because they all rely on various auto pickup techniques. It wasn't just me earning these particles, I was just the one picking them up.

That's actually most of the reason why people pick up their own: we pay a lot more to those who trade in spheres than particles, not simply to save me the hassle of having to nab an empath with a tranquilizer dart and chain him to my grid, but also to serve as an incentive to other people to go out and use ships. Trading in your own particles will get you on average ~20x as much, so we give you the chance to save your own particles in part to encourage that.

Anyway, we have lots of people who come in only partway or leave early, and relatively few if any people who try to steal particles from each other (apart from the acquisitio-without-palm situation), so paying out by particles works for us. So far.

If you really need an Empath, just ask Kira.

What Celest does is that someone (I) gathers all the particles at the end of the weakening, before I write down everyone who participated and then I nab an empath and go out to trade the particles for spheres. Then I sell half, and divide the gold on everyone who participated. The gold is distributed evenly between crew and weakening participants, but if you participate in both you get paid twice.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to push through a suggestion where the weakening leader checks for participants four or six times, and then divide the gold not only based on participation, but on how long they were around. Alas, that suggestion is probably now gone within the enormous bureaucratic and poorly executed machine that Celest has been transformed into.

You need to start a rant, to the rant section of the forums everyone!

Your avatar. It's a Noolatar. But Noola has a normal avatar. Confusing!

We planned it that way!