Catapults of doom

mgrjebbo · Post by **mgrjebbo** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:33 pm

I love it dont take it out..... lmao

Post by **Mr. O'Dearly** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:09 pm

nothing here has need.
thats why they call it a game...
tis' all bout want! and I WANT IT!!!

Mestophalies · Post by **Mestophalies** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:14 pm

I don't care one way or the other about it but, when you place an item like this. Make sure you are;

1, Not going to kill newbies whom may stay here more then 1 day or week if they are allowed to explore more then five seconds of life.

2, Stop killing off the Job NPC's which provide a little more then the hack and slash that many are a little tired of.

3, Your killing the right people. IE., kill the invaders not the defenders whom would have slain anyone attempting to build such a cantraption in the first place.

There I've ranted for the day! I feel better don't you?

$chase$ · Post by **$chase$** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:39 pm

wow rant on

Post by **Amoenotep** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:15 pm

we are looking to make it a little more player friendly so that you actually have a chance. don't expect them to be easy and don't expect them to disappear. play on, its a game, don't worry about dying you do it all the time anyway.

kingfatzo · Post by **kingfatzo** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:40 pm

would you like some WINE and cheese with that rant a few posts above ?

MLoki · Post by **MLoki** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:11 pm

it's not about making things easy or weather we even need them or not. It's about responsibility. If you go and put something like this down just stick around long enough to see what kind of affect it has on the players. Yes it's a new toy so have fun with it but ruining NS4 for some new player may not be what this toy was intended for.

MLoki

Poet · Post by **Poet** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:20 pm

Sparky wrote:Why was something added to the game that provides extra variety? Damn, that's a hell of a question.....

It didnt add extra variety..all it did was kill lowbies and cause noobs to leave the server... and none of the DMs that were responsible for using or placing them stayed on to find that out today. I asked several times in shout and on IRC for a DM that could help (for another player) and no one showed up so eventually he logged out. But hey why not? Because it doesnt promote anything good for the community..that's why not.

mgrjebbo · Post by **mgrjebbo** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:35 pm

Cry me a river, can some of you people get over yourselves? ITs a GAME! ITS FUN!

This was added to have a bit of fun, the gods are bored just like players sometimes. Who cares if we lost a few future whiners cause they died?

If they cry about that whats to stop them from crying about something 5 days from now?

If you ask me its preventative medicine for the current community!

Post by **Sparky** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:35 pm

Yep, adds nothing to the community at all....
There's absolutely nothing we could do with these to set up awesome quests, or, gasp, require you to think beyond smash and grab relic tactics.

Have patience if we get a little zealous, mistakes do happen, and the kinks are being worked out.

Guess we can tell the devs to stop working on all the other projects that add flavor and content to the server as well, right? Because we've reached a saturation point for content and things to do?

mgrjebbo · Post by **mgrjebbo** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:37 pm

oh dont let some cry babies stop you and the devs from getting in the pure class bonus's and TC jobs that i try not to cry to much about.

*starts dieing of anticipation*

Post by **Sparky** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:38 pm

Oh, we're not gonna stop, its just fun to rant back sometimes.

kingfatzo · Post by **kingfatzo** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:49 pm

ahhh, i read through the whole thread again just for a good laugh

catapults guarding relics AHAAHAHAHAH !!!!!1111!!1!!1oneoeneoene

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and to comment about the concern over noobies -- and to promote a continued rant:

my First day on NS4 back in January of 06, right after making my first toon -- i was killed twice by 'these wierd red boxes'......did i whine, or log off ? no .... i yelled up to my roommate tom and said wtf ??!11?!?11?
i learned very quickly , not to walk on the red boxes !!!!!!!!!!!!! (low lvl traps)

based on some of the logic here then traps should be removed as well because they are a possible threat to new players.... Heck ya know what ? why dont we get rid of every CR spawn and turn off PvP while we're at it - that way we can all wander around in a utopia....

AHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAAAHHHHHHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!

muahahhaha this is fun

Edit: oo im not done yet !

Poet wrote:Because it doesnt promote anything good for the community..that's why not.

i am studying for my Stalinism midterm as i ramble on the forum ...and i noticed this red text here....not only has it given me a headache because all i can see is a red blob *scrambles for contacts* ...and it has given me the urge to listen to some soviet music...

*strikes up a band which plays the Internationale*

Poet · Post by **Poet** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:08 am

Sparky wrote:Yep, adds nothing to the community at all....
There's absolutely nothing we could do with these to set up awesome quests, or, gasp, require you to think beyond smash and grab relic tactics.

Have patience if we get a little zealous, mistakes do happen, and the kinks are being worked out.

Guess we can tell the devs to stop working on all the other projects that add flavor and content to the server as well, right? Because we've reached a saturation point for content and things to do?

I said nothing about the catapults themselves...only the fact that when put next to noob spawn points and then left and not monitored..theres nothing to learn from them if the DMs arent around to watch. And I didnt complain about any other content or who or what was working on it so please stop trying to suggest that I was . I only said I saw new players leave because no DM responded when they couldnt leave the spawn point. Theres no where to go in AO except out the followers dwelling door which triggered imediate hell balls...

I said nothing about any saturation point for content ..that was all your rant.

MLoki · Post by **MLoki** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:09 am

whoa... who pissed in all the cornflakes.. It seems that I stepped on a few toes by pointing out some problems with the new DM toys... I understand they may be used in future quests and personally I think they are a great challenge but when they are as disruptive as they were to the community just because some DM got bored then I have a problem with it. After the Catapults were said to cause xp loss and lowbies were getting killed by them and logging, the DMs had a good laugh about it on mIRC. This is why I started the rant about responsibility. Used Correctly they may be a great tool in the future.. left unattended on main roads and near spawn points they are disruptive and only cause aggrevation for the players. With this being a new untested item, perhaps a little caution should be used in testing them instead of spreading them throughout the realm without supervision afterwards. Yes it is fun to rant sometimes Sparky but I am not trying to take the toy away from the Dev team Just keep it out of the hands of the bored DMs.

MLoki

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