Dear all,

Firstly I would like to thank all who have been great 'cyber friends' to my wife in the time she could play online.  Sadly she will no long be able to do so as her illness has now made it impracticable to do so.

A special thanks to LigH and Zinn and Talad for the fun she has had over the years and the special place she could escape to.  I cannot begin to mention all and I would have listed all in her buddy list if I knew where to find it offline.

I will be going online to 'unpack' all her belongings in the Guild house so things are not lost in her character's leaving.

Once more

A huge thank you for being a great community to her.

HoodedOracle (husband in RL)

jumm jumm... hubub.

What temperance causes this perpending of the eristic?

Just got back from hospital - and this thread is soo sad!  I rarely have problems with finding good RP.. or even starting it myself.  I just love it!

Lolitra managed a brief visit - but whilst she was powdering her nose [had a power cut] her new suiter, who'd just announced his intentions of courtship was stabbed by the dastardly Jacula!

Lolitra fearful of her own safety remained away from the rest of the event [sadly the power cut and other commitments meant I could not get back to the game.. ].

I have to agree - PP for a child comes naturally - usually they fill a nappy... erm.. sorry wrong sort of PP.

Progression Points are easy to obtain - I have loads and I don't even level that much - my problem is that I don't enjoy Levelling at all - and prefer to Role Play - so... sadly my alt suffers my lack of attention in that part.

Lolitra

Lolitra settles down to give her meagre tuppenth's worth of an idea.

Where as I think the current system is actually rather good; you get experience for individual skills as you use them and PP for each successful out-come of its use dependant on how difficult it was for your character to do... [i.e. if you are low skilled you get more pp for success in a low level skill use - than if you are high level skilled and use the same low level skill]
So then you can progress to the next level by getting a trainer at a cost, to teach you what you must do for the next level.  This cost being Tria and PP.
I like the fact that PP can be used for different skills - but Experience Points [EP] cannot.  PP represent your confidence, learning ability and adeptness at retaining new information in my oppinion so, yes, why can't learning new cooking techniques help with sword-play?  It may be that as you contemplate the finer details of baking your mind suddenly realises what you are doing wrong with your sword training...

That said, I would love to see the following way of cause and effect in training and fighting etc.

Stats would limit how fast you understand or progress in relevant skills... and injuries to the head or physical would effect how your skills are executed [possibly already happens - but I am not sure].

To improve intelligence - reading books - and magic would enable intelligence to grow...
To improve Strength - physical skills and moving with heavy loads/encombered would help...


I would like to see each skill having different methods of doing things not unlike like 'spells' for each level for instance in sword skill, swing, thrust, parry, etc and then as you go up level you can learn from the teachers to 'combine them to form quicker and more effective moves...  This would make PvP far more intuative and fun and also give a more realistic balance to it rather than relying on just stats and chance.

I would also like to see player characters able to obtain a teaching skill - that enables you to teach up to half your level in skill in skills  - and to stop it being abused, to teach you must pay tax to the Octarchy for each pupil you train... so there is a base price you have to pay [perhaps a little less than than the NPC's]  so the only advantage would be being able to find your trainer or have them travel with you?

Another thing I would like to see is the ability to learn off of NPC's you defeat extra 'spells' or 'skill moves' if you defeat them in battle - depending on how intellegent you are.

there... what do you think?

you might be an oldbie when your RP has resulted in the implementation of names in game - such as Joopiner or Roltok...