Leanthar - 12/7/2004 4:48 PM I will remind you once again, and a final time--don't say you have not been warned. We want RP here, we want your characters involved in quests and the plot. If you are not interested in this then it is time to leave, find another world that is more fitting to your style of game play. While it is not a bad play style it is not what I want on this world/server, that is not what we are about. On top of that... You will never be approved to go Epic (ie. more than 20th level) with such shallow characters. When you are all about powergaming and leveling you have little to no time to RP and define your character and I simply will not approve your character going epic. And yes, I have to approve all characters before they can go to Epic Levels. I am not speaking to those that level fairly quickly but still also put in a good strong effort to RP and join quests and/or the plot quests here on the server.As well as continue to respect the community of players. I am speaking to those who are leveling so fast it is just plain silly, getting so rich (by exploits and/or pushing the boundries of reasonable harvesting) it is just disgusting and to those who rarely (if ever) join in a GM quest or plot. All you want to do is level and power game, that style of game play is not encouraged here. We have a great group of players and RP'ers, lets allow that to remain so and give them the respect they deserve. Please don't send me a PM asking if I am speaking about you because I will not answer them. Sit back and think it over and decide for yourself. 90%+ of the people in the community are just find and/or great... but it is the 5%-10% that is starting to harm the community and I am not going to allow it to happen. It is time for this group of people to sit back and think about things and make a tough decision.
Leanthar - 12/8/2004 4:48 AM I will remind you once again, and a final time--don't say you have not been warned. We want RP here, we want your characters involved in quests and the plot. If you are not interested in this then it is time to leave, find another world that is more fitting to your style of game play. While it is not a bad play style it is not what I want on this world/server, that is not what we are about. On top of that... You will never be approved to go Epic (ie. more than 20th level) with such shallow characters. When you are all about powergaming and leveling you have little to no time to RP and define your character and I simply will not approve your character going epic. And yes, I have to approve all characters before they can go to Epic Levels. I am not speaking to thosethat level fairly quickly but still also put in a good strong effort to RP and join quests and/or the plot quests here on the server. As well as continue to respect the community of players. I am speaking to those who are leveling so fast it is just plain silly, getting so rich (by exploits and/or pushing the boundries of reasonable harvesting) it is just disgusting and to those who rarely (if ever) join in a GM quest or plot. All you want to do is level and power game, that style of game play is not encouraged here. We have a great group of players and RP'ers, lets allow that to remain so and give them the respect they deserve. Please don't send me a PM asking if I am speaking about you because I will not answer them. Sit back and think it over and decide for yourself. 90%+ of thepeople in the communityare just find and/or great... but it is the 5%-10% that is starting to harm the community and I am not going to allow it to happen. It is time for this group of people to sit back and think about things and make a tough decision.
jan - 9/18/2006 7:02 PM On top of that... You will never be approved to go Epic (ie. more than 20th level) with such shallow characters. When you are all about powergaming and leveling you have little to no time to RP and define your character and I simply will not approve your character going epic. And yes, I have to approve all characters before they can go to Epic Levels.( stated by Leanthar) Since this allinea is nolonger in place i think that a new rule should be made for those reaching the lvll's 20 and up Since there are no rules preventing people from getting there nomatter what they do,it has been exploided . That is what i think anyway.
DMOE - 9/18/2006 9:06 PM Quotejan - 9/18/2006 7:02 PM On top of that... You will never be approved to go Epic (ie. more than 20th level) with such shallow characters. When you are all about powergaming and leveling you have little to no time to RP and define your character and I simply will not approve your character going epic. And yes, I have to approve all characters before they can go to Epic Levels.( stated by Leanthar) Since this allinea is nolonger in place i think that a new rule should be made for those reaching the lvll's 20 and up Since there are no rules preventing people from getting there nomatter what they do,it has been exploided . That is what i think anyway. Not sure I agree with this. While yes I agree that power leveling is not in the spirit of the server and not something I like to see there are people who reach 20th lvl and don't apply for WL for a very good reason. I am one of those. Ireth reached 20th a month or two ago and my year of being on server was up in August but yet I haven't applied to take Ireth WL. This isn't because I don't think she could be (although I am bias :p ) but because I don't think she has a viable strong direction in her life that she can move along. She has lots of intresting bits in her past that could be worked into a WL quest, a very strong link to the Toranite Church which could also be used but no CLEAR path to move along at the moment. Now this may simply be because I'm too close to her to see one (feel free to PM me any sensible suggestions ) or that at present there isn't one. So rather than bother the over worked DM Team with discussing my WL application to refuse it on being too weak or having no direction I have decided to wait until a direction presents itself, if it ever does. Now, love or hate Ireth....I RP...Or at least do my best too! Should I be penalised for not trying to force my character in a direction just so I can apply for WL Status? Trust me if there is a rule in place that means people have to apply to go higher than 20th then people will force their characters into directions and the teams workload will increase as well as those who are refused getting cheesed off when really they probably shouldn't have applied in the first case. I'd like to point out I am NOT talking about anyone who has applied for WL and been refused now...talking about if we went back to having to say, having be WL to go past 20th.
jan - 9/18/2006 2:31 PM I was more thinking about looking at a char if it is roleplayed at all or just levelld up for the levells itself . That way , yes ,there would be more work for the staff and yes, they could use the time better . But i realy think it would stop,or atleast to a reasonable extend delay,the powerlevellers. This suggestion was never intended to force people in any direction other then rping itself.
And so that this thread doesn't turn into a litany of reasons and justifications on why one's character has leveled so fast, why they have dragged characters of significantly lower levels to East for the XP and loot (or who have themselves been dragged and benefited substantially as a result)....trust me, we've heard all of them. No need to list them.
jan - 9/18/2006 1:46 PM for the place we were. And after thinking about it the dm was right (server recomendation for chars going to east is lvll 18+ i think and for central its 14 or 15+)