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« on: June 18, 2007, 05:50:22 am »
Happy Fathers day all you non Australians!
We have it in September (I think).
Too bad that's not enough time to have a kid in.
I want a present.
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« on: June 17, 2007, 04:32:29 am »
We let you guys win.
Dah.
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« on: June 14, 2007, 03:22:01 am »
The scout: I thought of a Deliar worshipping halfling, who is a tailor and an expert at appraisal of the value and authenticity of goods.
Racism against dwarves! Let's have a dwarven scout!
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« on: June 13, 2007, 11:38:15 pm »
Arr... A pirate crew could be fun!
But since everyone is looking at a bunch of carnies...
I call dibs on the strange guy who promotes it all with bizarre sentences and a funny hat.
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« on: June 13, 2007, 04:54:26 am »
"These quests, in the interests of serving the greatest number of players possible, will be targeted towards levels 8-16."
I don't wanna cause a fuss if I already have a PC who can join in.
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« on: June 13, 2007, 03:53:55 am »
I just realised this, thanks Pseudo! If my Drow got a high enough level, she could come now! 
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« on: June 12, 2007, 05:17:13 pm »
I'm really interested in this too, heavy RP tends to be my thing.
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« on: June 12, 2007, 03:41:31 am »
If you like Within Temptation and Nightwish, I suggest you look up Epica and After Forever.
I could name more, but, they are the big ones.
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« on: June 11, 2007, 11:12:28 pm »
*says something just to say something*
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« on: June 11, 2007, 11:14:29 am »
Dah, we still need fighters!
Who else is gonna be the meatshield that dosen't have a time limit (in comparison to summons)?
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« on: April 30, 2007, 05:19:57 am »
Australia will win the rugby too
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« on: April 04, 2007, 09:36:19 pm »
I still think it is funny that wizards HAVE to kill things to learn new spells, druids have to kill things to get more in touch with nature, rogues have to kill things to get better at picking locks, etc.
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« on: April 03, 2007, 09:55:52 pm »
Not a flame or anything, but we just need more roaming GMs. People would try and RP better if there was always a chance of getting a random XP drop.
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« on: February 08, 2007, 01:10:09 pm »
I incorpate my Australian accent into my characters speech to make him seem heaps more country-ish and have really bad common. 
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« on: February 07, 2007, 12:44:54 pm »
regnus - 2/8/2007 12:26 AM
_M_O_B_ - 2/7/2007 1:09 AM
I think that main problem is that people don't bother RPing (or trying to very much) because they know the chances of them getting in trouble for it is like 100000 - 1. The GMs are just not around all that much, and when they are, they are sorting out some wicked fun event or something, they have no time to go around and see how people RP.
In another server I played, there would ALWAYS be GMs just roaming around randomly, handing out XP to people RPing all the time, spawning hordes of creatures on people who decided not to RP and just mindlessly kill things, and have plenty of random events. Very very rarely was an event ever planned publicly, the GM would just set up the event, then start it, with no one knowing until it happened.
IMO, some GMs should roam around a lot more, it'd encourage people to play properly, because they know they will get rewarded if they do, and get in trouble if they don't.
This sounds really great in theory, but the reality is that if any GM punished players by spawning extra creatures on players who are just mindlessly bashing, they would get flamed on the forums for it. I have seen GMs get flamed for doing impromptu things where the players were expecting a spawn to be one way and since the GM changed it up on them, it was unfair.
Plus, there is no way you can police RP. What one GM considers good RP and worthy of an XP reward, the next GM may not. When I GM'd I didn't care how you RP'd, as long as you did. You wanna play a whiny brat? Play a whiny brat. You wanna play a shifty character that keeps to himself? Do it. Does your character have a hero complex? Play them that way.
The point is, this is an RP server so what should we all be doing? RPing. Does RPing include leveling up? Yeah it does because higher levels open up RP options previously unavailable. Does RPing include mindless bashing of monsters on an XP grind? No it doesn't. That doesn't mean we don't do it from time to time, but from my perspective it seems like this type of activity is happening more and more. To that, all I can say is that you are losing so much opportunity to RP by flying through levels.
So step back, read L's post again and think about what he is saying. I have never known L to say things just to say them. If he is considering shutting the servers down, then he is seriously considering it. Now the onus is on you, the community, to show him that keeping the servers online is a worthwhile investment. As a member of the community, are you contributing to it or are you just using it?
People should be able to take flak from flames and stuff if there was a good reason why they did it. It saddens me though to see peopel complaining about "This and that wasn't suppose to be there!". It's quite frankly ridiculous. I was out with people last night in the Giantspire Mountains, and a DM spawned hordes of ogres and ettins and ogrillions at us (we were RPing mind you, rather heavily too, every few seconds I thought the party was gonna break down and attack eachother). They then ended up killing half the party, including myself. I didn't have a cry because those things weren't suppose to be there, I took it with a laugh and went to bed. People should really learnt to lighten up and have fun. It's just a game. And of course when it comes down to RP rewards, each GM have their own preference. There is nothing you can do to change that, but there should be a varied enough team for some GMs to give it out for one thing, while some would give it out for a completely different reason.
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« on: February 06, 2007, 11:47:46 pm »
I'm not just talking about OOC, I mean how people RP too. I've had people switch characters to metagame infomation out of my own character before, people never RPing out anything they do, etc.
It's quite sad really.
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« on: February 06, 2007, 10:09:04 pm »
I think that main problem is that people don't bother RPing (or trying to very much) because they know the chances of them getting in trouble for it is like 100000 - 1. The GMs are just not around all that much, and when they are, they are sorting out some wicked fun event or something, they have no time to go around and see how people RP.
In another server I played, there would ALWAYS be GMs just roaming around randomly, handing out XP to people RPing all the time, spawning hordes of creatures on people who decided not to RP and just mindlessly kill things, and have plenty of random events. Very very rarely was an event ever planned publicly, the GM would just set up the event, then start it, with no one knowing until it happened.
IMO, some GMs should roam around a lot more, it'd encourage people to play properly, because they know they will get rewarded if they do, and get in trouble if they don't.
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« on: June 20, 2006, 04:48:43 pm »
Don't take this as a flame, and be sure to know that I do know that all DM's have their own lives and DM in their own time.
The way I see it is that most DM's aren't really dedicated to DMing. I see them IG alot but as players, I only ever see DM's on as DM's when there is a scheulded quest on. I think if you are going to chose to be DM, you should most of the time, whether or not there is a quest to happen. Things can get rather boring when all there is to do is listen to some stories, do runs of the Haven mines and craft. What made D&D so fun in the first place is the abilities that the DM had to make fun quests and such at every corner for the players. I know there isn't a DM for every player here in Layo, but it'd ceratinly be fun for some more random things to happen.
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« on: June 20, 2006, 12:31:19 am »
What steve said, some people can't be saved, most of the time, it's cos they simply don't want to be.
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« on: June 12, 2006, 04:04:13 am »
well you must remember, australia has a big rivalry with england and NZ, hence the tri-nations
but the wallabies will beat the all-blacks
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