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If you can't enjoy a game with bad graphics, you have my unending pity. In many ways the classics are absolutely the best. Graphics are an element to good design, but a relatively small one.

I would expect iteration on graphics, but if you're expecting a total overhaul (and if such would be a requirement for you to play), then don't hold your breath.

In terms of 'stuff to do' - there is plenty of stuff to do. But there is not much content, as that is what I expect you mean. This isn't that sort of game. The other players are the content. See: EVE Online.

Much like EVE, the vast majority of the fun in PFO is to be found in the metagame, no login required.

So Al can't even edit his post to be less demanding and rude? That's a shame.

People are flawed. Machines are perfect. All hail Zog.

Kadere wrote:

Golgotha have chosen to label themselves as Evil, the onus is on them and their players to live up to it. Shirking that responsibility because it is difficult, while hiding behind the veil of provocative discussions is really just a disservice to serious role players.

I just noticed this today. It is plainly obvious you were writing a parody of a comment I made in another thread, lol almost word for word, and posted it here because you think I am a member of this Golgotha group. I'm not, never was, and I don't play the game, haven't for more than a month or two now. Just kind of lurking and observing and commenting until the game shows more promise.

You are half correct, right up til the second comma at least. I was parodying you because I found your original comment absurd, and I found parodying it amusing.

I try not to make assumptions about people's motivations. You should try it.

Erian has hit the nail on the head, I think. There seems to be a lot of confusion about what the EBA is, and what function it serves. As I understand it, the EBA is just a casual alliance of friends, rather than an entity that can exercise control over any settlement.

Contrast to the Aeonian League. For the most parts, our member settlements are independent in policy and behavior. However, we do have certain agreements that all settlements are required to uphold. These are enforced (although without teeth, but this has yet to be an issue). Thus, you CAN deal with the Aeonian League at a diplomatic level, and expect all it's member settlements to comply with that agreement.

It is a key difference. The EBA is barely more than words and smiles between friends. It is not an entity unto itself.

I take strong execution to the idea harvesting is ever theft. You simply do not own the resources.

You should try telling that to an oil company, see how far that gets you. Or opening a mine without the permission of the govt. Or any such. In geopolitics, unharvested resources are most certainly owned.

Barrens Chat is dead. Long Live Barrens Chat.

Seriously though, I am good at mentally filtering out noise in global channels. I'm more than it exists than I am annoyed by the nonsense.

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Al, I'll make you an offer. You have portrayed yourself as a master of roleplaying with regard to alignment. I suppose you may be reluctant to offer us advice as we are a enemy to you.

I am nobody's enemy I haven't played since about the second week of early enrollment.

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provide any wy for us to better implement our policy in compliance with your definition of Good within PFO, I will champion your advice to be implemented throughout the EBA. I'll extend this offer to anyone that can better portray our Good alignment in game-allowable actions.

That is very wise. That is the Erian I like. Glad to see you back.

Best of luck.

...he says, not actually taking Erian up on the offer.

Something something hot gas.

Golgotha have chosen to label themselves as Evil, the onus is on them and their players to live up to it. Shirking that responsibility because it is difficult, while hiding behind the veil of provocative discussions is really just a disservice to serious role players.

How can Andius remain objective while part of your council of contacts? Wasn't he the leader of TEO before it got stolen from him? With that kind of angst I doubt he would be very impartial.

Let's play a game of 'did he miss the parody or is he just playing it straight?'

What incentive is there to do that? If I had a settlement holding account to sell, asking Goblinworks to close the settlement does nothing (for me - after all, hypothetically I'm leaving the game, the bigger picture doesn't matter to me) but reduce my potential ROI.

Nobody wants to be 'that guy', because that guy is a jerk.

I missed the meltdown - but I can see the aftermath, and can only assume it must have been truly spectacular.

My top, with 9:

I'd be in support of increasing the range of heals slightly, to give more room for error. Even as little as a 5ft range would greatly increase the viability of healing without removing healers from the thick of things.

But I like this better, with only 5;

It's actually about ethics in the PFO community, I guess.

@DeciusBrutus,

The drama is unnecessary and distracting, caused by bad blood/history between some groups, rabble rousers and agent provocateurs, people who have popcorn and like to be entertained, misunderstandings and assumptions, and delibert lies and slanders. In other words, just another Forum PVP day. :)

No true popcorn aficionado contributes to ongoing drama. That is called popcorn pissing, and it ruins the natural flavour of the popcorn.

Unless you're into that. Gross.

Don't put out the bonfire though, the popcorn isn't done popping yet!

Auction House, Auction House, Auction House!

And Base Camps, probably.

I believe 'near' is 'in the same hex as', in this case.

Of all the ways that this information could have been presented, this nearly the most deliberately provocative.

That said, it is Kabal. Deliberately provocative is basically their byline. :P

+1 Echo Chamber of Troll Slaying

I also like echo rooms. +1

*hysterical gibbering*

It's threads like that that make me glad I live in a small settlement and play in off hours. Not being safe in town seems like a chore.

Atheory wrote:

Can I have access to this database list of members?

I'm not sure who you are or why you'd need it?

Both of which are very good reasons to say 'no'. :P

Now you can share all the dirty little secrets! Who in the office told the worst jokes?

Is it my turn to try and recruit Cal yet? Ahem:

Something something Sunholm. Something League, something something Canis Castrum or Hope's End. Something something something something something.

(I am good at this.)

That is not as assumption I would have made from the title - and as stated, I haven't clicked the link yet. Call it cynical if you like, but as an EVE vet my default assumption is that most things using the term 'carebear' are going to be negative.

I'll start using the GW forums once it can remember that I am logged in for more than a day, and/or there is an easily accessible login button on the forum index. Having to browse to a different page on the site to login, then go BACK to the forum to post is terrible.

The UX for the GW forum is just not good enough for me to bother as yet. In its current state, if I go, it'll be kicking and screaming.

Husks being in has 100% changed my behavior as a player - I am not a bandit, but when I'm in combat gear and on home turf, I'm much more aggressive (if you're near Sunholm, please identify yourself when asked!), and when I'm out gathering I actively make choices to keep myself a little safer.

I am incredibly relieved by all of this, as it means that finally PvP is more than just a nuisance.

KC, please never stop posting. I love it.

One small critique - not enough references to the Alpha Aristocracy who have the power to disincentivise bad behaviour make sensible political choices for their groups literally stop you from playing the game because they hate you.

Oh and I remember reading that NAP during Alpha and I threw up in my mouth a little.

I do hope you are enjoying the taste, cause the NAP doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

1 is being addressed at present, and 3 is very high up on the community priority (and will thus be higher than usual on GW's priority list). 2 will be sorted eventually with the introduction of Caravans.

Which is not to say I disagree, but don't give up hope. :P

Or just report them to GW - that way, if it happens, they can just ban them.

It's a process to be followed, to get it done right. That is civilisation. Your trolling is much weaker when you get off message, you know.

The popcorn bag is endless, my friend.

A quick kip north into Numeria might do the trick...

Just because something is happening in a video game doesn't mean you aren't viewing through your regular, real life cultural lens.

The lack of company/settlement chat is more or less the only thing that'll make me fail to renew my sub in a few months time. Most everything else I can deal with, but the lack of any persistent chat channels is killing me.

As an off-TZ player, the ability to find out if anyone else is online and easily talk to them is absolutely paramount for me to have any sense of community, and is cornerstone to the game itself. The standard mandatory guild (company) and alliance (settlement) chats are probably the easiest way to achieve this basic need.

In terms of priority, work on the AH is underway, lets get that done. Shortly followed by chat, please.

Custom chat channels, even insecure ones, would be a bonus. I do like Linkshells, and the ability to set up a LS for Oceanic players would be a massive boon - but I can live without/wait for that.

Seems unnecessarily complex. We are human, we can probably work out cases like this as they occur, rather than by formula.

I smell rain.

Is it on your wedding day?

Obvious troll is.....

obvious.

How could you be so speciest, I am disappointed in you. :P

In Alpha and so far in EE, I have personally witnessed folks who Applied and were Accepted into our Company, but didn't help us gain Tower Capture Points afterwards.

I don't know if this is intentional.

This makes me wonder if there is some batch processing that happens during DT that fixes this. Did the players find the problem only persisted until downtime?

Doc || Allegiant Gemstone Co. wrote:

Talk to the leader of Blackfeathers Keep. The guy sounds like a real jerk, basically preventing other people from using the settlement because he doesn't like the game now. He hasn't been swayed by reason, maybe money will work.

Yes, the guy whom no one actually heard looks like a jerk. We know it, because the guy who's trying to steal his settlement told us.

You obviously haven't read any of his posts on the AoE board - he isn't unheard from out of game, and he is, uh, abrasive. You'd probably get along like a house on fire.

I expect any settlement that agrees to something to abide by it. And, based on Gpunk's response, they are. This could just as easily have happened to any settlement, honestly. Rogue players abound.

As Thod said, the Free Highlanders is a fairly loose association of various settlements at the northern end of the map.

The High Road Covenant, on the other hand, is a specific alliance of three northern settlements, covering all the basic roles: Tavernhold - Fighter/Cleric, Stoneroot Glade - Wizard/Rogue, and Talonguard - Crafting.

I don't think I quite pegged to the parallels between High Road and the League. Maybe we should rename ourselves to the Low Wilderness Conspiracy, or something similar :D

Not sure if Freevale signed the NAP anyway. Good for them if that's the case.

Afaik the NAP applies to everyone until they break it - so I guess this may well be a delberate opt-out.

Opponents would say - they are too small to be of any influence.

And I would say I love being underestimated. :D

Great write up Thod, thanks for that.

KarlBob wrote:

The politics of PFO began about five minutes after the initial Land Rush started (if not sooner than that).

Far sooner than that :)

Ah, but without the game in a persistent state, all the conflict was just ideas and ideology. But a fight over a tower, this is REAL. This is the meat and potatoes. It's a whole new can of fish. Etc. This is what I play for.