> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 22:48:21 -0400
> From: "Tom Bratina" <gbratina@...>
> Subject: Re: Digest Number 147
>
> well, i don't think i can argue ur points about "role-playing" and how
> things SHOULD be in the real world, because basically, i am more of a
> computer game fanatic than an outright roleplayer (i like to play games
that
> pit me against other human, non-predictable players, rather than
> predictable, AI mobs)... but, what i can say is that a majority of the
ppl
> on rallos zek are unhappy with the PC faction system, and it seems that
many
> ppl on the non-pvp servers are unhappy as well. and not necessarily with
I think they have a right to be unhappy. Verant took the system, which was
bad to begin with, and made it equally bad or worse, IMO. And there's also
the issue that people don't like the rules of the universe getting changed
on them all of the time, regardless of the potential for improvement. I
totally appreciate their frustration.
> just any faction hits at all, but more or less unhappy with the particular
> PC faction system that verant decided to slip in. all-in-all, it seems to
> have been a failure (as noted by urself when u said that verant would be
> removing their PC related faction system until they could find an
alternate
> way to implement some type of faction system that the customers are happy
> with).
>
> u make some good points, but alas, the PC faction system is now defunct
(if
> it is true what u say about verant removing the faction hits).
>
> sinlaru ce`alen
> rallos zek
>
> ps. i can have my way without affecting u, because i play on the PvP
server,
> and u don't... isn't that why they implemented the PvP server??? :)
I don't think it works out this simply. My choice to not play on Rallos Zek
stems entirely from Verant's original implementation of PvP (i.e. no faction
hit) which you approve of. So, yes, it already affected me. I wanted to
play there, but chose not to deal with all of the non-role-playing types who
saw EQ as just massively multiplayer deathmatch Quake. If Verant ever
modifies the rules on Rallos Zek to even remotely approximate a realistic
faction system, I'll be there in a heartbeat.
Glyphin E'Mondredon
The Rathe