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Thoughts on Roleplaying and PK

Posted on September 29, 2009September 6, 2019 by samakhulis

Over the recent months, I’ve noticed an increased amount of PK, especially in my area of allegiance. Of course, it is acceptable and allows for a bigger player-base. However, it seems as though much of the PK that occurs is due to spite and grudges. None of it, in my opinion, is roleplayed very well. As I’ve been working on my own MUSH, I read through the PennMUSH developers’ writings on roleplay, factions and things. And I have to say that they brought up some very good points.

From what I see, and from what I perceive, those factions specifically aligned against my own seem to know when our defenses are low and make gigantic and harmful attacks at those times. Correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s how it seems to be. Javelin, or was it Raevenos, or someone else..I don’t remember, said that factions and roleplaying should be best brought together with agreements by faction leaders. It seems a little backward from the way things are, and I admit that true underhanded playing adds a LOT that you would not have with roleplaying agreements. But the idea was this: HL1 gets together with HL2. House1 is enemied to House2. HL1 says to HL2, “I want to try a roleplay where our houses fight it out and do such and such” and HL2 says, “Okay..but make sure you do it around this time, because my members will be around then and you won’t have an unfair advantage.” And so it goes on and the house leaders make some sort of arrangement.

I really like this idea, simply because I’m horrible at PK. And it seems more enjoyable to me and I’m sure to others like me. I mean, I’m not into PK. I’m into roleplaying and monster-hunting. If I experience an unexpected and unfair attack by an enemy faction, well, it pretty well depresses me for days on end, because I can’t stand how I’m not that good at doing what I’m supposed to be good at doing (specifically DEFENDING Nature). So this idea of agreed roleplay between factions seems like a very nice idea.

Of course, I know most people will disagree with me, and even -I- might disagree with me, because, like I said before, underhanded and unannounced roleplay is so much more exciting than a planned out war.

Okay. I’m done! And it’s late. And I’m tired. And I don’t want to wait for the Fairy Garden to shut itself down (which it now does at 3:00am EST).

Posted in UncategorizedTagged achaea, bashing, druids, factions, forest, hunting, mush, patrolling, pk, player killing, questing, roleplay, samakhulis, strength, warLeave a Comment on Thoughts on Roleplaying and PK

10-19-08

Posted on October 19, 2008September 5, 2019 by samakhulis

Here, I’ve done it again! It seems I can never keep on top of this thing. But oh well. Okay, so I was wondering how I was doing blog-wise. I read a help file on questing a few weeks ago and found that publishing answers and guides to quests is a huge violation and can result in permanent kicking from the entire game. Yikes! So I went through all of my posts and it seems that I’m alright. I mean, I could be getting pretty close to the line by saying which denizen gives gold and such, but I haven’t actually given any information on how to get the gold, so we’re good there.

On another note, all’s going well. For starters, I found a hidden village south of the Muurn river valley about 2 months ago. Can’t quite remember what it’s called, but it sure was interesting. Then I was taken to the bottom of Manara Burrow, into a hidden tunnel and down into a lava-filled place. Not sure what THAT was called either, but I at least died there.

Progress note: I’ve almost transed in Groves. I’m so excited. I gained my golem probably a week ago and just received harmonic dampening about 2 days ago. Now all I have left is hypercure and portability and I’ll be transed! Less than 50% left in the current skill level. As for meta, I’ve gotten my jaguar, which has been REALLY nice, since now everything dies in about 2/3 as many hits.

Apart from the war and my progress, not a lot is happening, so I’ll hang it up here.

Oh, that’s level 74 I think. Things are starting to slow down experience-wise.

Posted in UncategorizedTagged achaea, bashing, denizens, details, hunting, patrolling, samakhulis, strengthLeave a Comment on 10-19-08

7-28-08

Posted on July 28, 2008September 5, 2019 by samakhulis

Sheesh, seems like it’s been forever! Well, I’ll bring it up to date. I’ve started my patrol path, which means I’m patrolling one of each of the different kinds of terrains in Achaea. Just today, I did my yearly patrol of the Black Forest. In fact, let me quick do something while I’m thinking of it.

Okay, I’m back! I just scanned my hand-drawn map of the Black Forest, with my reference designators on it (personal room numbers). At least I’ll be able to point to this image if anyone asks what I mean when I say “Room 38 change to blah.” That’s the idea!

That’s it for now. Not much else, except I did start a Facebook in order to get that extra 25% XP Gain when I level up (and I am now at 70 (woot)). I probably won’t use the Facebook thing, since I think that sort of thing is dumb, but I DO like the gain, so I’ll just let it sit, like the Pentad suggests if you don’t like Facebook and now I’m rambling so I’d better shut up!

Anyhow, enjoy the map…oh yeah, I’d better at least upload and give reference here! 🙂

Stupid computer…I just scanned the map, and it turned out to be 11×17 600dpi, which essentially came to 10200×6000 px. Well, I’m resizing to somewhere around 1000px high, like a photo, and the resize hit the memory like crazy. In fact everything else has been pushed to the bottom, and my pagefile is having a real time of it. Hopefully it’ll finish soon. It’s been already 5 minutes at least…….okay!! Now it’s done! Here we go:

Posted in UncategorizedTagged achaea, druids, forest, history, patrolling, samakhulis, strengthLeave a Comment on 7-28-08
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