It would be nice if all automated healing NPCs in the game weren't horrible. Making the Premium ones even better would be even better.

>If you made the NPC empaths too good, then the player empaths would never have anyone to heal.

If you make resurrection too painless, clerics won't have anything to do! If you make travel too simple, Moon mages won't have anything to do!

The empath guild does not require players to level. Handicapping the entire game around a bad game design concept that died 20 years ago is not fun. Alchemy is kept back 'for empaths'. NPC healers are kept back 'for empaths'.

I'm not an empath. My play has been severely screwed over for the benefit of someone else I can't EVER GET TO HEAL ME.

I don't play at peak times, and when I find people at the guild, they're just AFK scripting away.

I use the auto healers because I can at least get healed there.

>>The empath guild does not require players to level.

No guild requires players to level. Which makes hunting and wounds optional. I will say that I do agree with boosting auto-paths as well as increasing their cost. If this does happen though, I'd like to see the other avenues of learning Empathy get a major boost in learning. Health walking and manipulation fo not teach efficiently.

In a game with a dwindling population, I like having reasons to seek each other out and create gathering spots. The more we push different player abilities onto automation, the less I see that. As annoying as it can be to be stuck without X guild to help, I've come around to the idea that I'd rather do that than have a game where nobody talks any more.


- Navesi

Or, make an empath for yourself that can follow you around. That way you don't have to mess with other peoples drama. The people that AFK in the empaths guild, have ruined that "interaction" that these others have mentioned. Not that I'm ever that hurt, but if I were ever in serious need of healing, chances aren't that great that someone would even be paying enough attention to heal me. But of course, there's the lich bots, which since the GM's won't shut that down, it must be ok. I'll just stick with my mule empath instead.

Monster Elec

You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde snarling in barbaric disapproval of your deeds.

>>In a game with a dwindling population, I like having reasons to seek each other out and create gathering spots. The more we push different player abilities onto automation, the less I see that. As annoying as it can be to be stuck without X guild to help, I've come around to the idea that I'd rather do that than have a game where nobody talks any more.

>This


>- Felicini

Double this'd.

In a game with dwindling population the option is rarely more forced player interaction. Because there aren't players to interact with. And healing isn't meaningful interaction anyway. People pop in and go 'healz plz' 'thanks' and pop out 10 seconds later when empathbot5 runs dothealz or just does a triggered take all on hug.

You guys are correct, in that the game needs more reasons to engage in meaningful interactions. But forcing player healing is rather akin to removing Catrox and forcing players to get all their gear repaired by other players. It's a routine maintenance action that doesn't engage people in any way. It just adds another #go statement, and increases the bot counter for pocket characters.

Again, when you start forcing player empaths out to all the far reaches of the map where there is no reason for them to be there, I guess you'll have that problem licked. Until then, making the fang cove empath faster, and more efficient sounds like a pretty good way to increase my mileage for the years I've paid for premie. As well as the simple things I've previously mentioned for fang cove. Vault access, stat trainers, shops/furrier open 24/7. This seems pretty cut and dry to me. Code is in place elsewhere, let's make this happen. GMs can't be working ok everything everywhere. Will those far reaching islands ever get more dev to flesh them out? Who knows. But a super easy fix for QOL for a LOT of players out there would be to expand fang cove. Then no one would care if there wasn't a furrier on Mriss. Either go premium, or slog to kresh the way you always have. On a side note, I'd love to see a "hunting preserve" with copies of a bunch of the premium creatures in game. Hell, you could even copy room descriptions and have it be based on the curators ensuring the proper habitats were maintained.

Monster Elec

You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde snarling in barbaric disapproval of your deeds.

>>Again, when you start forcing player empaths out to all the far reaches of the map where there is no reason for them to be there, I guess you'll have that problem licked.<<

I have an empath character who stays on Ratha and who almost never has anyone to heal. Sometimes on the gweth, that character has to beg for just samplings of wounds to take, and as a result, I don't play that character as much.

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