Battle Royale of the Gawds continuation

[seasong]

Seasong - thanks for the rational post, but that's not what I brought up.

You are welcome. And for what it's worth, I agree with the real point: the mercenaries don't seem like much fun.

If you'd said that, and only that, I would have been on your side. But you said a lot more than just that:
"is this the results you wanted"
"your flawed gimmick"
"what a surprise"
"what do you have against us players"

That's taken out of context, because I wanted to show you your word choice. Like I said: I agree with the point you concealed among those words, that the mercenaries don't seem like much fun, but those words covered the point like road kill on a diamond.

Further, the situation you described with your post applied to ONLY ONE CHARACTER. Jade. You may not have mentioned her by name, but who else are we supposed to think you were talking about?

One other point, about why your real point was hidden:

I wish that you respondants could just reply to what I write, not focus on who is asking it.

Who says a thing is often as important as what they say. If a boy cries wolf, you have to ask yourself, "Is he for real this time, or is he just trying to get us all to come play his game again?"

At some point, no matter how valid the complaint, people stop listening to a habitual whiner. That is a fact of life. If you want people to listen to your valid complaints, save your complaining for the real ones... and if you come back and tell me that every complaint you've had so far is valid, I will come back and advise you to drop the game - if you've had that many valid complaints, the game is rotten.

Not necessarily rotten for everyone (one man's rot is another man's fertilizer), but definitely rotten for you.

 

[seasong]

A quick note on boys crying wolf: personally, I think that some things are dangerous enough that you have to listen to warnings, even if you don't trust the individual to be for real. This game is not that dangerous.

I also believe that a boy who cries wolf (or fire in a theatre) without just cause should be beaten until they don't play the prank again.

Not that I am advocating beating reapersaurus - like I said, this isn't a dangerous situation, and while I may not enjoy listening to him every round of the game, it certainly isn't putting me in jeopardy like crying wolf would.

 

[Number47]

And don't run with scissors! And don't shove nickels up your nose!

 

[seasong]

But nickels smell so gooooood!

 

[Number47]

Speaking of which, I was wondering when we could get the base stats of Landerin and maybe Vraketh? Jade if cohorts are included? Just curious about them.

 

[Number47]

I can't believe it's taking so long for Yasumoto.

 

[Saepiroth]

i guess corpse-selling is a nogo.

oh, while we're posting character stats, you might want to throw Jinx's "tobias" up too. unless you already did?

i'm so confused!

 

[Number47]

I think we did see Tobias, didn't we?

 

[clockworkjoe]

Martok couldn't sell the corpse because of the quest. Other players are free to sell any corpse they can get their hands on.

Also, the mercs were added to give players a fighting chance against a strategy they couldn't otherwise fight against, like a mage vs a fighter in a AMF. While a few characters are clearly more powerful than others, I wanted to add some unpredictability (and fun) to the match. Otherwise, the top 3-5 players would just grind the others into dust via attrition if nothing else.

Note that there were several similar events on the chart that won't happen now because the mercs showed up. I always intended to give some players a chance to increase their power in midgame via hired help at the cost of their magic items/other sacrifices.

Some of other potential 'hired help' events included

*vampires asking for energy levels in exchange for aid

*Demons/devils asking for souls (player becomes affected by holy items as evil outsider)

*kobold antibuff squad asking for ioun stones

*celestials helping all good aligned players in exchange for pledges not to kill anyone (must render unconscious or immobilize)

and a few more. But once one hired help event happened, all others were precluded.

 

[Jeremy]

Whoah, archer batteries. Shouldn't some of those NPC's be pincushioning each other since they are all so crammed together trying to shoot through each other? I mean, damn, it was a funny image thinking of 1 Str Jade getting absolutely plastered by arrows, but there is the cover from the people, concealment from shooting between people, cover from the force cage bars, etc.

Throw some clay pidgeons out there. "Pull!"