Rather sorry for this people. Alot of you are going to read this and just go :| at me. But I have to get some of this tension out and just admit I few things that I feel are wrong with the current in-game community and maybe a thing or two about the content.
Please take note! {Chriscrokervoice} IMMA HUMAN BEEN {/Chriscrockervoice} and I too can make mistakes when it comes to my observations. If I have made any incorrect assumptions, you are free to correct me and I appreciate that.
I also wish to make it clear that I am in NO way accusing anyone in particular and I in NO way have any particular qualms with anyone. I dislike fighting with people. In any way. I personally love many of the people here. You are some of the most talented, artistic, and just...beautiful in every way people I have ever met. Anywhere. And Yes. I am hitting on you all :> ...or perhaps not.
And as a final note: This rant...really applies to the Order Shard. I have not been to the Chaos shard in a long, long time and I am planning to make an alt for Blight later.
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Right! Let's get this convuluted mess over with. Let me begin with this - Roleplay. Let us admit, alot of us take it VERY seriously. Infact sometimes (I admit, me inculded) we lose our temper with others and yell at them for making mistakes. Sometimes purposely due to inexperiance, sometimes for the correct reason, and sometimes incorrectly. Many times we apologize and forgive the others.
But riddle me this! Is it not normal that after arguing with someone, you usually (even if you are sorry) garner a little bit of extra distrust and hatred towards them? Sometimes I can feel a bit of that. Either towards me, or towards another player when I am just looking through the chats. Now I am cursed with...not really being on during the peak periods sometimes! But when I am I cannot help but notice it sometimes. I know that it is impossible to have EVERYONE be friends. The community is still the correct amount of size for there to be rivalries and arguments. But sometimes it is directed towards people that - like me - do not want any sort of arguments. I do not know about you all, but I find this distressing.
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What I also find very bad is the fact that many people resort to - and believe me I think everyone has heared me rant this one to death - PRIVATE ROLEPLAYS.
Ladies and gents. I do not mind private roleplays. I do not mind you taking yourself and three others to fight eachother or make an IC revelation together in a private place. No. The one I am talking about is when a player begins a fight or begins doing something in a public roleplay area or a channel, and either makes sure that EVERYTHING if followed to the letter and NOONE is allowed to intervene, or get mad when someone tries to change the outcome. I've seen it...three times lately. Why? I mean, I understand you wish to make something like that public spectacle but...just FACE it. If you do it in public you WILL have people that will include themselves. There WILL be people that try to augment the outcome. Your crying is in vain. Dry your tears up and try again. Perhaps this is simply a rare occurance. Perhaps not.
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My THIRD problem. Now to switch subjects a bit to make it interesting. Time for me to speak about content. Now this is not a bash against the developers - your game is beautiful. And I find it unique. But there are things I find a bit annoying.
I personally don't really like the spell system. We all have our opinions but...I do not know. For dragons? IT seems a bit comfortable. But for bipeds? I am not sure. It feels a bit awkard, even after I get used to it. Anyone else have this problem?
And another thing is a VERY minor rant , with an adiquite explanation. I really wish there was more content. NOT TO SAY THAT THERE IS NO CONTENT RIGHT NOW. The game is BRIMMING with places to explore and quests to do and roles to try! But I just feel some thrill when a new area is released - a new questline...something fresh.
That is simpy my opinion. I know that due to community and technical problems, it cannot exactly be done but...just saying.
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Well, back to the previous topic. Thiiiis is something I've discussed with others before...but I want to make clear. I really do not agree with speaking for others. Nor proclaiming yourself "ubor pupular". I've seen it happen around here before, players arguing or simply having casual converastions only to state what "others thing of him" or "I've got more right - I'm far more popular amongst people". While yes. Let us agree. If there's this one person everyone thinks is ok. You can sort of go in thinking that they seem fine...but that just scares me when people turn popularity into worth. For me - everyone is alike. If I have respect for someone it is for their CONTRIBUTIONS and how they treat me. A tad selfish, yes. But it is how one sometimes feels. I myself am very concious of what others think. Anyone that's spoken to me knows that sometimes I get a little bit paranoid - mostly because of how I am used to being treated.
Well. Listen to me...er...read to me rant I should just stop here.
I thank you all for taking your time to read this, know that this is simply to get some frustration out. I ment to offend NO ONE and would not like to.
G'day <3,
Fix.