Go battle you some figurines....

I wouldnt say the old avenues are closed. They just arent as simple as they used to be.

The carrying out of any conflict or avenue you deem fun and exciting is entirely in your hands

This. Since when has the definition of conflict shrunk to only include random PVP? Challenge people to duels, start a raid with a very specific purpose. If people assume conflict = kill as many people as I can with no purpose, it's small wonder people think Lusternia conflict is dead and boring.

We shall look forward to the day when some form of conflict can be had that depends not on the number of participants on each side or their relative mights, thus giving everyone a truly equal chance to come out on top. (Alas, this will never happen.)

Players have proven too many times that they cannot be expected to fight and then relax for a while, preventing the inevitable burnout on all sides. If the administration put in any more restrictions or cooldown timers, though, we'll all be doomed to signing on during that one hour a month when conflict is allowed. It's an impossible balance.

This form of conflict already exists through the cultural activity thingy. You can have a select few people dominate with their literary/scholarly works overcoming shear population numbers overall.... I.e. Glomdoring dominating for so many years with a miniscule population compared to other orgs

I'm not sure I'd call that conflict so much as a simple reward system.

What if we made it so that we can unleash swarms of bookwurms on enemy libraries to omnomnom their culture pages?

Not gonna happen.

:/ I know.

I would love it if the gods were around more for rp. Mainly for order members even if it was just to sit down and talk with them to make them feel it is worthwhile of being in the order and not just all for the power they give over.

We are around as much as we can afford to be (We do have lives too, you know). Sometimes just try asking over your Order channel at random, you be surprised. Also, if this advice gets you zapped, I am denying all responsibility.

Exceedingly humble two-cents:

The Hallifax-Gaudiguch event seems to have been highly successful at stirring players' interest. While this undeniably has a lot to do with the simple fact that two central factions were released, there also appears to have been much anticipation for the event long before anyone could have said it was going to happen. For all I knew, certain criteria (Achaea player levels) would have to be met, and so I didn't think I would ever see the day. Where did this anticipation, which surmounted (if it really has already) in a revival of the playerbase, come from?

The "new" cities were not something the Admin brought into existence the moment they were introduced. These are established aspects of Lusternia's long-held lore, finally breathed to life. What that must mean to people who have been playing here and idealizing of their conception since the game opened is overwhelming to me.

With that in mind, my suggestion is thus: with the regular events the Administration holds, they ought to continue to work from the original lore and improve the content they have already introduced to the game with improved (but same-themed) features and plots as an ongoing effort toward an evolving storyline, as opposed to constantly bringing in totally new places and concepts at every turn. While I don't deny that a little twist or touch of quirkiness works wonders as well, the appeal to novelty eventually loses its effect on old players, but a good story stands the test of time.


(I am sure it will be argued that Lusternia as a whole is that "good story" and that all of these new places fit coherently. What I am suggesting is the same on micro-manageable level; regarding cities, guilds, and their time-worn personal philosophies.)

You mean instead of the Seals weakening every year?

Seals are good, though I've only ever witnessed second hand. I mean instead of adding a haunted manor or planet of the apes, why not do something with the historically significant, ruined castle that has been sitting there uneventfully for two hundred years?

Well, there was us pulling up the diary in the Inner sea. That was a wonderfully done mini-event, event down to its execution. (I'll never forget Captain Nerale's "How the devil did I get down here?") And even the return of the Czigany Wayfaire for the solstice was a welcome little treat, even if it was broke for a few minutes/hour.