Quotes

Iniar

Talking about adopting @Mereis:

Caelya Talmarian says, "Wouldn't work out then."

Sadey entered from east.

Caelya Talmarian says, "I have a heart of gold."

Mereis, the Red Hand says, "Did you steal it from someone?"

Sadey Murne asks, "Is it kept in a box?"

You utter a deep, rumbling laugh.

Caelya Talmarian looks undecided and says, "No, I was a dwarf."

Caelya Talmarian says, "I mined it."

Iluv

Damn! I had missed out. I had to leave for work and was already in dangerous territory squeezing in a shardfall.

Iniar

You finish unearthing a partially buried blue shard. Satisfied, you pick it up and the shard glows dimly upon your touch.

[ACHIEVEMENT]: You have completed the 'Shard Machine' Achievement! You have earned 25 Bound Credits.

\o/

Iniar

Feelin' a little blue after this conversation: (apologies for bad english)

---- tells you, "This cr market is awful."

You tell ----, "I think when I registered Iniar, the credits were 7k a pop and people were hollering, saying they should be 2k a pop."

You tell ----, "Now it's like."

---- tells you, "Haha."

You tell ----, ":s."

---- tells you, "I bought for 800-1000 gold."

You tell ----, "Rofl."

You tell ----, "You gun."

---- tells you, "In the early days."

---- tells you, "Gold was more rare then."

You tell ----, ":D."

You tell ----, "Yeah."

---- tells you, "And people weren't aspects with 358398592 arties."

You tell ----, "Too much gold."

You tell ----, "Also true."

---- tells you, "True little to spend it on."

You tell ----, "It was more 'Wild West' feel?"

---- tells you, "Haha I suppose."

---- tells you, "They tried for gold-sinks a few times."

You tell ----, "And I loved that concoctions, you needed someone from the other side to get it, and it was all a little shady."

---- tells you, "But nothing is good enough."

You tell ----, ":s."

---- tells you, "Same with toxins and such."

You tell ----, "Yeah."

You tell ----, "I guess it's better like this."

You tell ----, "But everyone can just avoid everyone else."

You tell ----, "In their own little world."

You tell ----, ":(."

---- tells you, "Exactly."

You tell ----, "</3."

---- tells you, "And it made up for conflict before."

You tell ----, "Yeah."

---- tells you, "So you guys don't want to sell to us?"

You tell ----, " Hostile negotiations."

---- tells you, "Ok we'll burn your forest."

---- tells you, "MyAlt was a shady dealer of concoctions."

Iluv

Iniar said:

You tell ----, "I guess it's better like this."

You tell ----, "But everyone can just avoid everyone else."

You tell ----, "In their own little world."

Khizan

It's much better like this.

Stavennites used to be advised to buy an artifact vial, so you could fill the artifact vial from Rythanis and pour that into two normal vials to get double your money's worth out of health refills. If you were bashing a lot as a Stavennite it was actually worth the credits to do this because, early credit prices being what they were, you only had buy 200 odd refills from Rythanis for it to pay itself off. And you had to get refills from Rythanis most of the time because shops didn't stock usable amounts of health and it was pretty uncommon for Joe Average Demoner to find a refiller at any given time, especially if you kept odd hours. To actually get herbs in usable amounts, you had to find one of the rogues or pay hilariously high markups on the black market. I remember buying quince at something like 200g per as a Stavennite. 

On the other hand, as a Runeguard(No assassin guild, no predator guild in the magick circle at this time), I was paying upwards of 2k+ for some of the more commonly used toxins; it was not unusual for any given DSL to cost me 100+ gold in toxins. 

The black market was horrible and we are better off without it.

Bathan

I think it comes down to preference. I always enjoyed the black market aspect of the game even when it made combat supplies more expensive, simply because it made the game seem more realistic. It made sense to me that in a fantasy setting I might have to consort with some of my enemies in order to gain supplies that would make me stronger in combat.

My real issue is that while most of us respected the rules and played along with them, there were people who just rampantly metagamed it, and because of that I understand the current setup. It's a lot like circles. I'm sad they're in place, but people did the system wrong, and here we are now.

I'd say the black market could be tedious, but some people enjoyed it. Ultimately, what we have now makes the game easier, and some of us are better off without it because we didn't enjoy dealing with it. Others miss it, and it totally makes sense. It comes down to what you want in an RPG. 

Lalitana

It's better like this because, preferences aside about the black market, the Hunters and Arboreals did stupid things to try and keep their guild members from using concoctions and harvesting too soon/the wrong way/under a certain price.

Now we've swung all the way to the other end, where 1-2 players are driving the market into the ground because they have no compunctions about harvesting on their alts, but I prefer that to people getting outguilded for accidentally harvesting too much myrrh or learning Concoctions before GR3.

Khizan

The game as a whole is better off without it because the black market setup did not hurt me or Kabal or Iriaen or Jagara or Aronus or Trenon or any of the other big names from the old days. We had the contacts to avoid the worst ravages of the black market. The people who were hurt by the black market were the lowbies, newbies, and no-namers, the people who couldn't bypass an herb-ban by getting on AIM and asking for maidenhair.

In the days where credits were 1800 gold a pop and sewers were the only place to bash, maidenhair could be 40 gold per, health refills were quite often 300g/50sips, toadstool was so expensive that only the wealthy could use it frequently, and you could easily burn 40+ gold/second fighting as a sabreknight.

I could handle that, or bypass a lot of it due to having contacts and friends. Newbies and lowbies, though? It was crippling.

Iniar

I have no problem with it. Just less and less and less inter-circle interaction, and it just makes me aware of the fact that people just want to do their own thing. As though they would just prefer to play another game.

Yurii

You know, I was never a big named person or anything like that, but I actually preferred the way it use to be. It was hard to get herbs, and hard to get refills, and hell, it was hard to get specific poisons sometime. I had fun trying to make more money fun ways, without metagaming, like finding someone who wanted to buy a special poison or something. During those days, I usually only had about 100 - 200 toadstool on me at a time, due to the price. It was hard, and I had to limit its use very much. But still, I prefer those days to these.

Iniar

Combat staples in a game shouldn't be restrictive, but combat optionals or long resets might. Things like limb armour, worts, maybe even disruptors.

Sarrius

I would be fine with the way Imperian is, re: most of every side wanting nothing to do with the other 2/3rds of the game, if the population was as big as it once was.

Iniar

Let's be honest, there's probably 10 people who PK regularly, 30 people who PK casually, and 90 people who play a different game.

Iniar

You: Hey C."

You: Are you trans Jousting yet, either of you?"

Caelya: I am an apprentice."

Caelya: YOU'RE FIRED."

Oh Caelya.

Iniar

Ladaia: Alright I'm off to bash some gold since it appears I'm broke and all of my everything has decayed."

Ladaia entered from east.

Ladaia exited to west.

Khizan entered from east.

Khizan exited to west.

Ladaia: Yayyyy Khizan ."

Ahkan

Both of those women are both too feminine and too happy to be Khizan.

Caelya

Khizan is actually the swarm of bees chasing those two.

Iniar

Nvm.

Iniar

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Iniar

** You know what? I'd almost rather you didn't vote. You'll only hurt yourself. Voting is thrilling and dangerous, I don't think you could handle it. Leave voting to the big boys, Iniar. **

Vot... OK.

Ahkan

Sarrius: Basically looking for fights from people that aren't Demonic..

Sarrius

Ahkan said:

Sarrius: Basically looking for fights from people that aren't Demonic..

Not going to lie, this is what I said verbatim.

I know where I have chances of success. Against Demonic's artifact juggernauts and their larger body count/higher rate of organization as opposed to Anti-Magick or Magick, tooling around looking for a fight there is going to get me a fight I will not win ever (read: it is boring). Against Magick, I've got chances for entertainment. They can bring a bit larger numbers, but their lack of organization means that a smaller team can beat them, or one person can. It just won't be a massacre.

Ahkan

Bathan

Honestly, who goes out looking for a fight they know they can't win? Sarrius' only flaw here is that, as usual, he manages to sound like a massive tool when saying it.

Aleutia

Last Event Result:
Your mercenaries spread out and search the basement of clues. After a few moments a few come forward to show the others what they hae found.

Ok..  Yes. Good! You're making progress

Current Report:
A pen filled with undead children stands before you, clearly they are used for experimentation

What the shit this is random... Ok..

What do you do?
 1) Burn them, this is an outrage! (Skill: Arson - Difficulty: 4) [5m, 49s remaining]

GUYS???

Last Event Result:
When your mercenaries take up the strange stuffed animals used to sooth the children, Tolynothen Stormhammer trips over one of the watch dogs, waking it from its slumber. They all take their queue and make a break for it, in hopes not to be torn to shreds.

STORMHAMMER YOU SON OF A BITCH.

Gabriel

"They all take their queue and make a break for it, in hopes not to be torn to shreds."

I'm not exactly a pro with English-English but, shouldn't that be "cue"? 

Menoch

No. Cue is a signal to do something. Queue is a linear formation.

Gabriel

Yeah, as in: That's their cue to leave.

When your mercenaries take up the strange stuffed animals used to sooth the children, Tolynothen Stormhammer trips over one of the watch dogs, waking it from its slumber. They all take their queue and make a break for it, in hopes not to be torn to shreds.

I don't really see them pausing to form up before running for their lives.

Bellentine

The more I read about this mercenary system, the more I kinda want to come back.