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So I am not normally one to complain but...
Who thought this was a good idea? Are we really supposed to just...spam attack or prep X/cast meteor for days? Look, I appreciate the thought and the special little things you guys have done for us. I really, REALLY do. But someone has to come out and say it. This is...not fun. Theres no indication that we are making progress, theres no like...interaction. The idea of a big bad threat we all have to work together to defeat over the course of a long period of time? GREAT IDEA. The implementation of this? Much to be desired.
For the future, ideas for improvement:
1. A simple solution, make it like digging. Whack at it a bit and after X whacks...a piece breaks off you can open to find coins, gems, doesnt have to be anything major.
2. If you had more time, make it a repeatable interactive adventure. Whack at the surface a bit to create an opening, on which the team of intrepid adventurerers (only max 5 can fit at a time?) goes in and battles spideraliens to set the magical bomb! If X bombs are not set in X days...the meteor lands!
Berbels shrilly exclaims, "Ise takings hims tos secretses lairses!"
Berbels grabs you and drags you east.
>>Are we really supposed to just...spam attack or prep X/cast meteor for days?
Who even said that's what we were supposed to do?
I'm going to be laughing for years, when we find out that we were supposed to align with one of the three factions we see coming by to 'explore'. And that our choice alone will decide what happens to the rock. Nothing else we do will affect the rock in the slightest. And that we never got to the 'announcement' of the fact that we have a choice because our mentality is 'if it isn't a character, I can kill it'.
And so we stand around casting at / killing a rock. Boy, Crux is gonna be pissed.
Failure? It's that thing where we ostracize all three factions and none of them will have us as allies. And so, they who could stop the rock from falling - they shrug and say - 'Ok, keep whacking away at it. Have fun!'
I'm reminded of a certain sorcerer who at a fest couldn't keep his staff in his ear and had to kill the NPC because - well, that's what he does.
Doug
Who even said that's what we were supposed to do?
I'm going to be laughing for years, when we find out that we were supposed to align with one of the three factions we see coming by to 'explore'. And that our choice alone will decide what happens to the rock. Nothing else we do will affect the rock in the slightest. And that we never got to the 'announcement' of the fact that we have a choice because our mentality is 'if it isn't a character, I can kill it'.
And so we stand around casting at / killing a rock. Boy, Crux is gonna be pissed.
Failure? It's that thing where we ostracize all three factions and none of them will have us as allies. And so, they who could stop the rock from falling - they shrug and say - 'Ok, keep whacking away at it. Have fun!'
I'm reminded of a certain sorcerer who at a fest couldn't keep his staff in his ear and had to kill the NPC because - well, that's what he does.
Doug
Sure. Its possible that there is some deep, clever and interesting interaction that I have simply missed. I saw this not to be sarcastic or in jest. I didn't come out for the 'big reveal' of this, I was out and about in the real lifes. But, as of now, the whacking/casting is what is triggering some sort of response.
I tried talking to the meteor. Maybe we can sit down and hash out our differences. Perhaps there is some riddle I must solve that it has been harboring. Maybe it just wants friends and doesnt realize descending upon us all isnt gonna bring the friendship funtimes it desires.
Or maybe its exactly as it appears. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, after all.
Berbels shrilly exclaims, "Ise takings hims tos secretses lairses!"
Berbels grabs you and drags you east.
I tried talking to the meteor. Maybe we can sit down and hash out our differences. Perhaps there is some riddle I must solve that it has been harboring. Maybe it just wants friends and doesnt realize descending upon us all isnt gonna bring the friendship funtimes it desires.
Or maybe its exactly as it appears. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, after all.
Berbels shrilly exclaims, "Ise takings hims tos secretses lairses!"
Berbels grabs you and drags you east.
It's only been happening for a few hours now. Who knows what else is to happen in the coming days? Or today? Or tonight? I'd say, have patience. If it isn't your thing to do what--from your perspective--can be currently done right now, there's plenty of other things to do until something else happens that you may find more interesting.
~Aulis
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~Aulis
Platinum Co-Guru
Forums Manager
QC'er
It won' be that bad, really!..
I mean a village-sized meteor with much of its initial speed arrested by the crazy strong spidersilk web means it at most would be localized destruction! Like a Sokovia versus a Texas-sized Armageddon.
And where it hits can become new capped area..
Oh, glaes is heavy so the metallic composition must be factored in! Ok, it'd hurt.
I mean a village-sized meteor with much of its initial speed arrested by the crazy strong spidersilk web means it at most would be localized destruction! Like a Sokovia versus a Texas-sized Armageddon.
And where it hits can become new capped area..
Oh, glaes is heavy so the metallic composition must be factored in! Ok, it'd hurt.
I'm with Tanderick, this storyline is really meh for me and is way to similar to the ff14 meteor storyline they used to kill their 1.0 version and usher in 2.0.
I'm guilty of plenty of silliness and odd ball behavior but this spiderweb catching a meteor is a stretch even for me.
As I gaze over the horizon, the wind tugs at my cloak and whispers, "Adventure" in my ear.
AIM: Kaight (Matt) GS4
I'm guilty of plenty of silliness and odd ball behavior but this spiderweb catching a meteor is a stretch even for me.
As I gaze over the horizon, the wind tugs at my cloak and whispers, "Adventure" in my ear.
AIM: Kaight (Matt) GS4
> ff14 meteor storyline
Before there was a ff14 ... or FF anything, there was a Comet/Meteor that ushered out the Ice Age one night in GemStone 3. They had a little over 12 hours to put the entire new world in place.
I saw the meteor storyline and thought, "Nice nod to the past!"
Just sayin'
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Before there was a ff14 ... or FF anything, there was a Comet/Meteor that ushered out the Ice Age one night in GemStone 3. They had a little over 12 hours to put the entire new world in place.
I saw the meteor storyline and thought, "Nice nod to the past!"
Just sayin'
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>>Before there was a ff14 ... or FF anything, there was a Comet/Meteor that ushered out the Ice Age one night in GemStone 3. They had a little over 12 hours to put the entire new world in place.
>>I saw the meteor storyline and thought, "Nice nod to the past!"
Can you elaborate more on this Comet/Meteor for people that weren't around then? I am curious now.
As to nods to the past, my theory is that a Genie will save us all from the web, in a reverse chronology thing. And then something something other services reference.
_ _ _
Wyrom gestures at you, causing you to explode.
>>I saw the meteor storyline and thought, "Nice nod to the past!"
Can you elaborate more on this Comet/Meteor for people that weren't around then? I am curious now.
As to nods to the past, my theory is that a Genie will save us all from the web, in a reverse chronology thing. And then something something other services reference.
_ _ _
Wyrom gestures at you, causing you to explode.
There was an unnatural comet in the I.C.E. lore called Sa'kain that originated in an interdimensional rift. It was actually centrally important to the whole story arc of the world setting because it kept screwing up some very ancient portals, causing the Dark Gods to arrive on Charon (Lornon) ~10,000 years ago (so I think it might actually be implicitly relevant to the Broken Lands portal), and gradually breaking down the powerful artifact at the north pole that kept all kinds of bad things from happening (the exact analog of the thing that broke on Mount Aenatumgana when The Rift was released.) There is a Wiki page for it because I have too much time on my hands.
No idea if that was related to the meteor/comet Luxelle is talking about. I was not there. But I did point out earlier that the fifth moon that went missing was only the size of an asteroid. My money is on this thing falling through the web, breaking up into pieces in widespread devastation, and... surprise! GemStone is now DragonRealms!
- Xorus' player
(Oddly enough, casting Web at the meteor accomplishes nothing. Go figure.)
Several intact gravesites lie to the east. You also see a skeleton that appears dead.
No idea if that was related to the meteor/comet Luxelle is talking about. I was not there. But I did point out earlier that the fifth moon that went missing was only the size of an asteroid. My money is on this thing falling through the web, breaking up into pieces in widespread devastation, and... surprise! GemStone is now DragonRealms!
- Xorus' player
(Oddly enough, casting Web at the meteor accomplishes nothing. Go figure.)
Several intact gravesites lie to the east. You also see a skeleton that appears dead.
Just a few notes. When I am having some fun with you...
spiderling ~ level 35
Arachnid ~ level 75
Athropod ~ capped
So if you see one much lower level than you, you can leave it for those who can learn from it.
If you want something lower, I can drop some too, but there did not seem to be too many lower level characters out when I was having fun.
Let me know and I can make some for those lower!
Most of your original deaths came from your own area spells.
~ Valyrka ~
Ta'Illistim
Elves
Dark Elves
spiderling ~ level 35
Arachnid ~ level 75
Athropod ~ capped
So if you see one much lower level than you, you can leave it for those who can learn from it.
If you want something lower, I can drop some too, but there did not seem to be too many lower level characters out when I was having fun.
Let me know and I can make some for those lower!
Most of your original deaths came from your own area spells.
~ Valyrka ~
Ta'Illistim
Elves
Dark Elves
>>Who thought this was a good idea?
Me.
>>Are we really supposed to just...spam attack or prep X/cast meteor for days? Look, I appreciate the thought and the special little things you guys have done for us. I really, REALLY do. But someone has to come out and say it. This is...not fun.
There are people enjoying some of the RP opportunities. There are mini invasions happening, messaging, and some mini-story arcs. No gameplay is hindered here. If it's not fun, by all means, no need to participate.
>>I saw the meteor storyline and thought, "Nice nod to the past!"
This is certainly a nod to the 90s.
>>And armored spiders?
Those are mine.
The huge coal-black spiders are 65.
The gargantuan armored spiders are 120 with difficult armor grouping and health.
The dark robed doomsayers are 110 that are softer.
The malevolent vertiginous nightmare are 134.
Wyrom, PM
Me.
>>Are we really supposed to just...spam attack or prep X/cast meteor for days? Look, I appreciate the thought and the special little things you guys have done for us. I really, REALLY do. But someone has to come out and say it. This is...not fun.
There are people enjoying some of the RP opportunities. There are mini invasions happening, messaging, and some mini-story arcs. No gameplay is hindered here. If it's not fun, by all means, no need to participate.
>>I saw the meteor storyline and thought, "Nice nod to the past!"
This is certainly a nod to the 90s.
>>And armored spiders?
Those are mine.
The huge coal-black spiders are 65.
The gargantuan armored spiders are 120 with difficult armor grouping and health.
The dark robed doomsayers are 110 that are softer.
The malevolent vertiginous nightmare are 134.
Wyrom, PM
>>I'm guilty of plenty of silliness and odd ball behavior but this spiderweb catching a meteor is a stretch even for me.
You're fine with a 99-foot spider being able to exist and be killed by players, but it having a web that is strong enough to slow down a meteor is just too silly. Greater constructs are ten giantmen large! Roa'ters are 30 feet long! A spider this size would rule the world.
Wyrom, PM
You're fine with a 99-foot spider being able to exist and be killed by players, but it having a web that is strong enough to slow down a meteor is just too silly. Greater constructs are ten giantmen large! Roa'ters are 30 feet long! A spider this size would rule the world.
Wyrom, PM
>>@BRANDTJRT Can you elaborate more on this Comet/Meteor for people that weren't around then? I am curious now.
I've been meaning to write this for years. So forgive the delay in my reply, I wanted it to be perfect. I am not sure I succeeded, but it is at least a beginning.
The Story of Elanthia, the story of us, is written in the moons.
There was no moon that shone down upon the First Worlde. The Gods and Goddesses were unnamed who there walked in Elanthia. As many first efforts, it was imperfect, and from some unforeseen rift, the darkest of things crept into the world. They nearly devoured the world but for the bravest acts of those who built us a new place to call home. The First Worlde was sealed for its own protection, along with many who lived there. The First Elanthia, now safe, can never be found among the planes of existance. It is now both always and no more.
Many people traveled, following the footsteps of Those With No Names into a World of Shadows and Ice. We were promised our new home would last.
<<And there, 5 moons rose for the first time.
The Nameless revealed their names, but withdrew from (most) public appearances. And here, we all began anew, learning all about the different wonders which crossed our paths. Wonders which were created just for us.
Life was full and enchanting under the world of the 5 moons until suddenly a shadow crossed the sky which had never been. Mages and Scholars looked up and found what they described as a comet descending upon the world! As it grew closer, the impact became assured, and by heroic weavings of essence and flows that we can barely imagine, the peoples, all of them, and their homes, were brought into a world without Ice. Thus the recent world became The Olde Worlde.
The last glimpse of the streets of the Olde Landing was of driving snows and threatening glaciers driving the hard freeze upon any who lingered. Some did. Most did not.
<<A Moon fell from the sky. (Varin, it was named.)
And into the Worlde Reborn 4 moons rose over Elanthia. People magically found themselves, their things, their families, all safe from the Ice. It was familiar in scope, but details, the details were altered. The promise of an uninterrupted existence had been kept by some miracle! The effort of this brought us the Arkati to worship, though, not those named under the 5 moons.
Eons passed, progress in magic, in machines, were the hallmarks of each new generation. Many threats they faced since then; and every time, heroes have saved both the people and Elanthia itself.
One horrible year (that is yet to be) the sky was ablaze with a cataclysm that decimated the very existance of almost all things. Records were lost, entire cities, entire nations, gone.
<<When they looked up, a Moon had fallen from the sky. (Mikori, Makiri, it had been called. It would bear a new name into its afterlife, Grazhir, but only as a terrible memory.)
In the darkest ages of the New Worlde that followed, year by year, knowledge disappeared of the life they had known with the effort to just survive. Into this New Worlde, people began anew. They told stories, empires were built. They thrived over millennia.
Elanthia, as it was promised, was here to stay.
<<(The moons ... maybe not so much?)
The Story of Elanthia, the story of us, is written in the moons.
~Luxelle
Key to Luxie's Worlds Lingo:
GS2 = The First Worlde
GS3 Ice Age = The Olde Worlde
DragonRealms = The New Worlde
GS4 = The Worlde Reborn
- I know very well that there was a GS3 that existed for some time that was neither ICE Age nor GS4, and ... I'm just feeling WHATEVER about it.
I count that world as GS4, because, well, the entire world we lived in vanished overnight when the ICE Age came to a close. It's not my product, I don't have to maintain THAT particular storyline integrity when I can have my own reality, right? :)
P.S. There are a few here who will remember that comet hitting Kelfour's Landing, but I honestly don't remember much else happening but that it was COMING DOWN. I think we had like 4 weeks' notice. I have a scrap of a log from one of the last nights (tagging Bugg and Erek), and I have the story I posted the next day. I have nothing else from that time except my 20+ year old grey cells with what remains of the memories as I experienced them.
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Rohese: "... the TownCrier (tune in if you haven’t, it’s without doubt the best thing to ever happen on LNet)"
I've been meaning to write this for years. So forgive the delay in my reply, I wanted it to be perfect. I am not sure I succeeded, but it is at least a beginning.
The Story of Elanthia, the story of us, is written in the moons.
There was no moon that shone down upon the First Worlde. The Gods and Goddesses were unnamed who there walked in Elanthia. As many first efforts, it was imperfect, and from some unforeseen rift, the darkest of things crept into the world. They nearly devoured the world but for the bravest acts of those who built us a new place to call home. The First Worlde was sealed for its own protection, along with many who lived there. The First Elanthia, now safe, can never be found among the planes of existance. It is now both always and no more.
Many people traveled, following the footsteps of Those With No Names into a World of Shadows and Ice. We were promised our new home would last.
<<And there, 5 moons rose for the first time.
The Nameless revealed their names, but withdrew from (most) public appearances. And here, we all began anew, learning all about the different wonders which crossed our paths. Wonders which were created just for us.
Life was full and enchanting under the world of the 5 moons until suddenly a shadow crossed the sky which had never been. Mages and Scholars looked up and found what they described as a comet descending upon the world! As it grew closer, the impact became assured, and by heroic weavings of essence and flows that we can barely imagine, the peoples, all of them, and their homes, were brought into a world without Ice. Thus the recent world became The Olde Worlde.
The last glimpse of the streets of the Olde Landing was of driving snows and threatening glaciers driving the hard freeze upon any who lingered. Some did. Most did not.
<<A Moon fell from the sky. (Varin, it was named.)
And into the Worlde Reborn 4 moons rose over Elanthia. People magically found themselves, their things, their families, all safe from the Ice. It was familiar in scope, but details, the details were altered. The promise of an uninterrupted existence had been kept by some miracle! The effort of this brought us the Arkati to worship, though, not those named under the 5 moons.
Eons passed, progress in magic, in machines, were the hallmarks of each new generation. Many threats they faced since then; and every time, heroes have saved both the people and Elanthia itself.
One horrible year (that is yet to be) the sky was ablaze with a cataclysm that decimated the very existance of almost all things. Records were lost, entire cities, entire nations, gone.
<<When they looked up, a Moon had fallen from the sky. (Mikori, Makiri, it had been called. It would bear a new name into its afterlife, Grazhir, but only as a terrible memory.)
In the darkest ages of the New Worlde that followed, year by year, knowledge disappeared of the life they had known with the effort to just survive. Into this New Worlde, people began anew. They told stories, empires were built. They thrived over millennia.
Elanthia, as it was promised, was here to stay.
<<(The moons ... maybe not so much?)
The Story of Elanthia, the story of us, is written in the moons.
~Luxelle
Key to Luxie's Worlds Lingo:
GS2 = The First Worlde
GS3 Ice Age = The Olde Worlde
DragonRealms = The New Worlde
GS4 = The Worlde Reborn
- I know very well that there was a GS3 that existed for some time that was neither ICE Age nor GS4, and ... I'm just feeling WHATEVER about it.
I count that world as GS4, because, well, the entire world we lived in vanished overnight when the ICE Age came to a close. It's not my product, I don't have to maintain THAT particular storyline integrity when I can have my own reality, right? :)
P.S. There are a few here who will remember that comet hitting Kelfour's Landing, but I honestly don't remember much else happening but that it was COMING DOWN. I think we had like 4 weeks' notice. I have a scrap of a log from one of the last nights (tagging Bugg and Erek), and I have the story I posted the next day. I have nothing else from that time except my 20+ year old grey cells with what remains of the memories as I experienced them.
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Rohese: "... the TownCrier (tune in if you haven’t, it’s without doubt the best thing to ever happen on LNet)"
