... you still have a character in the Thieves of Yliakum.
... you raided the Temple with Thieves of Yliakum.
... you know who has a stolen page from the Book of names.
... you participated in the huge Battle on Oja road (BD road today, or at least it was a year ago when i last checked in)
... you had to double check your description to see which kind of Elf race the character were.
... Aradia, SovHed & Ponengey taught you everything.

Uhm... honestly I think that the Dakkru's curse it isn't so painful... I've never had troubles with that... after all if you get killed by a mob and you are usually an RPer, the lower stats can't prevent you from RPing

instead if you are a grinder it's a good occasion for PPs farming... just my opinion though...

As for those who might dramaquit over a 30 peanalty for dying, anyone that impatient will likely fine something else equally objectionable and quit.

You're not supposed to just spring back after death like it was a trip to the bahamas. Common death is supposed to be a very big dl, and escape from the dr is not supposed to be certain.

The game today is not the same game it was years ago. A lot of changes have occured since then.

Quote from: Rigwyn on March 19, 2014, 05:22:51 am

Quote from: Peacer

with proper macroing you can prepare some statements, and you can create events in the client that makes your character say something pre-defined on death/near death/battle initiation.

For some of us, this would reduce role playing to clicking macros. It would defeat the whole purpose of role playing. The use of macros like this would akin to me telling you to just hire someone to play the game for you.

I agree. Albeit some too verbose RPed actions kill my personal excitement and tension about the fight, those kind of macros are not very satisfying to me too... if I have to die I wish to do it in a spectacular and case specific way.

For some of us, this would reduce role playing to clicking macros. It would defeat the whole purpose of role playing. The use of macros like this would akin to me telling you to just hire someone to play the game for you.

Quote from: Peacer on March 18, 2014, 03:12:31 am

yeah I'm definetely out of shape so won't be going into battle with any hard monsters XD

Be careful even trying the ones you used to be able to take out. Strengths have been changed over the years, there are now more variants of the monsters that have been around since you last played, and stat caps are higher.

Quote from: Peacer on March 18, 2014, 03:12:31 am

the portals are optional, you don't have to enter them , it's the feeling of being limited that puts me and possibly others off.

I personally like the straight shot. When they updated the DR to the current map I got lost in there for 3 days before I figured the way out. I almost quit playing back then. I might have done it if I had been trying portals and they tossed me back a few times. But the DR is actually intended to be, or at least it used to be, as extensive as Yliakum so it will take a while for it to be implemented.

But I always thought it would be easier to deal with getting stuck in the DR as long as you could do much of the same stuff there. So trainers, mobs, and merchants would be all that is needed to get by there.

if you can already kill anything in the game then doing it at half-stats is more profitable. Of course you get to a point where you have more PPs than you can reasonably use.

If you have enough crystal way you can hunt the 'nauts from a range where they just run up to you and turn around and flee while they die. If you have enough archery skill and can apply a  weapon damage buff you can kill them from outside their reaction range.

Hello. While I admit it can be no fun in the DR if you get stuck there, I believe there is a timer that keeps new players out of the DR for awhile. Are you playing your old character or a new one? Also, you are only stuck in place if you are overburdened. We have banks now so you don't have to carry everything all at once. Just make sure that you have less than half your capacity whenever you are doing something that might get you killed.

1. A quick and dirty fix would be to make mobs more aggressive, let the main path be filled with weak mobs for newer players, shortcuts can have stronger mobs, or make multiple spawns in the death realm so that when you spawn you will spawn at one of x paths to the citadel where you have to fight your way through vicious mobs in order to get out, exp rate and drop rate should be low to avoid farming and spawn rate should be high.
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Not every character is a combat character, so that might not help. Now you actually can build a good amount of pp and tria while training crafting and some characters are purely RP characters.

2. Make the death realm longer, have random portals open up beside the main path that could take you out, closer to the end or further away from the end, 45% to get closer to the end, 50% to get further away and 5% to get out of the death realm.


If you have random portals redirecting people you could end up frustrating people further. The last thing most players want to do is just keep getting stuck in a new place in the DR.

3. put transport services around, people used DR as a free transport service, put one where fee=distance traveled (not areas/checkpoints passed through) this way of tackling the problem can be refered to as "if you can't fight them join them" kinda solution.

We have Pterosaurs now that will transport you to one of the major cities for a fee so that much is in effect now. I think the best solution would be to have a trainable spell, maybe crystal way, that lets a player relieve or negate the affect of Dakkru's curse at high cost. Perhaps they can cast it once and it will take their health and mana down low and temporarily reduce regen rates. That way, if they cast it constantly it will kill them but if they space it out they can still function.

However, I think that you will be fine once you learn how the maps have changed. Fall damage is not as bad as it once was so falling from places isn't necessarily a death sentence and traveling slowly between maps should let you have enough time to spot dangerous mobs. Avoid getting too close to the ulbers and consumers as they are still dangerous, will pursue, and can cast buffs that make it even harder to get away. Arangmas are also bad if you engage but not all of them will attack if you get close to them.

Funny. There are people who intentionally pass the Death Realm to get Dakkru's Curse because they obtain more Progression Points in the now a lot more risky combats.