Bring in New and Old blood to MUD

[Mantorok]

I don't see much of any whining on chats the last many months. That's another thing that feels so off now, because the LS chats are freaking silent most of the time. A lot of the fun atmosphere of the game for me was the social aspect. Some days I could just log on and sit around talking for a few hours and do nothing else.

[Gryk]

Pk has been pretty sad lately really. Not much risk taking, and it's harder and harder to find pkers. That's probably due to the low numbers.

[Mantorok]

People need to look on their Skype and messenger lists and see if anyone online wants to play again. I did that and got Maple to log on and hang out for a bit!

[lilith]

Pk has been pretty sad lately really. Not much risk taking, and it's harder and harder to find pkers. That's probably due to the low numbers.

I tend to take some insane risks though I'm nowhere near as good as kyr or lykan who are very ballsy in pk

If I and other trolls didn't die so quickly, perhaps pk could be prolonged and keep things doing. Only way to do this is to pk, pk, pk and hopefully get better at it.

[Mantorok]

I think it'd help to get PK going all over the map again, and bring people back to those areas like the SW, or the Tear vs Illian/Mayene. I see those guys at it lately and it warms my heart.


Granted, I'd like to see Seanchan play more again and keep pk going down here. But if it comes at the cost of people not playing their Northern alts, that might be bad...so, let's get more people online!

[Mangler]

Major change to fix the mud: Bring back old ways.

More realistically, one of the reasons for the constant lower numbers is our demographics. We've got lots of people who play for half an hour/an hour here and there still. The problem is we used to have lots of people who were able to play for 3-4 hours at a time.

When you've got say 50 active unique players playing for 30mins to an hour, instead of 3-4 hours, you get lots less overlap of players. This results in fairly more constant lower numbers.

The game as it stands needs to try and key itself more towards those 30 min - 1 hour players, not the few people who still play for hours on end. Imms are doing some good stuff in that regard, the narrating scouts for PK, less onerous RP standards, the new coaches bteween cities.

Realistically you need to be able to get places quicker, and regen for less time. That's a hard one to balance. I'd suggest deleting FM would be a great place to start.

[Mantorok]

Doesn't help enlarge the playerbase though. We need to bring in new and old players

[Emirala]

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[Andrelis]

More people = more fun and more dicks. There are always gonna be those few people who are asshats. An easy solution is to kill them! Kill them multiple times with no words said!

There were these 2 guys same side killing this newb over and over and harassing him on ls a few months ago. This Newb quit, which I thought was kinda bullshit as to the fact he asked the people to stop killing him and following him around. I killed the other guys lots of times! But the newb eventually quit because he didn't feel like he was welcome in this environment because he was being targeted for no specific reason.

We want to be the kind of people to make newbs and oldbies want to come back and not deal with drama and bullshit.

[Mantorok]

Things came to a head one day when I got into some PK with a known sameside killer. We fought and they eventually left. Neither of us had died and we didn't really say any nasty things to each other. I didn't really feel like there was any resentment between the two of us after the encounter, but apparently they were offended and felt it was necessary to out me over globals. It was a bit of a dick move, but I ignored them and went on my way without saying anything. About a week after that incident I noticed that they had also changed their description to basically be a list outing myself and others. I was more surprised than I was angry. As far as I could tell I hadn't done anything to make this person hate me so much, but they clearly did.

That was when I took a moment to stop and question what I was doing with my spare time. I realized that I didn't really want to put forth time and effort to do the same old thing on a game where the other players were all just going to hate each other for no good reason. Even the Immortals were doing it to each other, which seemed to lead to some of them quitting. A week later I logged on and gave away everything I had and I haven't played since. Things just don't seem to change.

That sounds like blatant House guest violation. Did you report that dickhead?