[ArchmagusArcana]

Im not going to lie, ive talked crap before, here, in realm, and in irc. Sometimes you just get frustrated and have to rant and walk away. I try hard not to do it in a manner that will demoralize people, perhaps not always succeeding, but as a whole, im pretty proud of what we can accomplish sometimes WHEN WE WORK TOGETHER. Thats i guess what pisses me off the most; you have noobs that want to just blindly charge, people that want to repeat the same (failing) tactics over and over and over again with no change in outcome, and people that just outright refuse to listen to innovation.

We are at our best when we LISTEN, PLAN, and COORDINATE. When we do these things, we can really kick some ass, when we dont, we fail, and people get pissed off and frustrated. I think that passion can be a really good thing for this game, but in some cases, it just makes people want to quit.

Personally, i dont like invasions (in their current undynamic incarnation), i dont usually bother taking part of them (though i do like to cause havoc at the realm gate if someone else has gotten a gate vuln. I miss open field battles, i miss bridge battles, nice running three way fights, and to me, even fort wars seem a bit stagnant lately. Its all about invasion invasion invasion.

There are a few new players that i can think of that do an amazing job for their first character, most notable a few conju that i can think of, but those are the ones, as you said, that listen to the people that have been playing for a long time. It always seems to come down to that. Ive been playing RPG for 15 years, DnD, Magic The Gathering, and all other manner of strategy games, as well as reading a plethora of middle age wartime books. I can still learn things, everyone can, everyone just needs to listen sometimes. 30 seconds to form a plan isnt going to cost you much and can sometimes handily win you the battle.

I could write a whole book about things that annoy me: People not going when you call terror is a really big one with me, or people not calling terror when the cast it (terror chain + warrior areas are really nice). Once in a while when these things happen, ok, mistakes are made, well make them, myself included, but when its the same people, every battle, all the time, i think you earn a bit of a right to be frustrated. Of course, its a game, and they are real people, and any time you bring more t han one person together, there is an increasing potential for conflict.



Um, so are you talking about that time like 3 or 4 months ago when we took ignis gem, or was this something that happened recently? I was off most of the weekend, so i dont know what happened.