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Ah, best of luck to Monketh and all Rangers, current or impending.

As for the site, I rather like the design. Simple and clean, easy on the eyes.

It doesn\'t get much better than the Rangers, folks.  They may not be as flashy as the others, but there\'s more meat here than most of the other guilds combined.

I don\'t think this is a matter of something that can be done by the devs or moderation, this is entirely something for the community to fix on its own.  This degradation is common amongst games with any signifigant exposure that is easily accessible.  Indeed, the same degradation is common in Everquest nowadays, or so I\'ve heard; and that\'s a pay-to-play game.
One solution on other games has been to establish RP servers as an alternative to a common server, but this is obviously not an option as previously stated; it would strain the community far too much at this point.

This just goes with the territory of MMORPGs, I suppose; but we certainly don\'t have to stand for it.  Actions speak louder than words, after all; you think honor and mutual respect will aid the community? Then demonstrate it!  Show one respect and I say you\'ll find it returned in kind.
However, such respect and kindness is obviously contrary to particular RP relashionships.  A community thrives on conflict, so eliminating it entirely would be suicide.  What seems to be the case is that the conflict is expressed incorrectly, not IC, as it should be, but OOC, via forum posts, idle threats, malicious hacking, and OOC spying.  Expressing conflict properly would greatly improve the situation.

I still say those serious about this community should keep their bonds strong into CB; if we can keep the core community strong, I believe there\'s still hope.  Perhaps the best defense will just be ignoring those that do us harm...

Last I heard, and this information is quite out of date, mind you: the Enkidukai guild, Feline\'s Lair, may see a return come Crystal Blue.
If this is indeed true, and Feline\'s Lair returns more-or-less intact, I believe it would be well worth the wait.

Many a Enki guild has come and gone; the whole premise seems rather cliched, now.  However, your idea of an Enkidukai racial RP board is rather interesting...

I\'ve seen some folks come on the IRC trying to figure out this package in the past; I\'m not sure where it came from, or if its some sort of cruel joke, but I don\'t believe it works.
Assuming you are speaking of the same package, you\'re correct in that it doesn\'t have the art, so its nigh-useless.

Personally, I just run Planeshift in Eterm, and tail -f chat_Grakrim.log in another (both of which I usually sticky at the bottom of the screen under E).  More recently, I wrote a little script that beeps when my name is called; works wonders for idleing.

But I suppose this works too...

(Hm...Why\'d you have to go and scrounge this old thing up?)

Originally posted by Tash
how do you know that Survivor/Robinson Cruse is \"heavily scripted\"?

Well, for one, they have a writing staff...

Humans are very predictable things, and when in put in particular cirumstances it can often be deduced what course of action the participants will take.  For example, last week on Survivor All-Stars, the two tribes were \"randomly reshuffled\"; although actually, the tribes remained the same save of one person who happened to be in a serious relashionship with a tribemate.  Obviously, the shuffle was stacked against this poor girl in order to strain their relashionship, and to make some interesting drama for the episode.  Interesting, it was; as her boyfriend made an offhand remark to her tribe\'s leader (\"protect her, and I\'ll protect you\", or something to that effect).  Anticipating an alliance come merge, the leader followed the boyfriend\'s advice and mobilized the vote against one of his own as opposed to the girlfriend.  All of this on the count of that one event... Any event or challenge in a reality show is intended to do the same; to poke and prod the contestants into some pre-defined roles or objectives.  Much of this \"scripting\" is also done in editing, as the producers only reveal as much as they wish the viewing audience to see.

But this brings me to another point, this time related to \"The Apprentice\".  I found it interesting that on two seperate occasions during the course of tonight\'s episode, the show was edited; and poorly, I might add.  Firstly, as Donald Trump was explaining the objectives, it was obviously voiced over at a later point, as opposed to using his original briefing he gave in-person.  Secondly, when one contestant was giving a monologue to the camera, his comment was entirely butchered; it sounded something to the effect of \" (I) (would) (not hire) (Omarosa) \" (the parentheses indicate four differant sound sample spliced together in editing).

Perhaps \"heavily scripted\" is a bit of an exageration, I\'m not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that...

Originally posted by Xalthar
The true beauty of shows like survivor, which I think you fail to specify, is the hatred or dislike that more often than not arises between the contestants..

Yes, you\'re right there; must have completely slipped my mind in that post. [edit] Ah, now that I reread my old post, I meant the beauty of those two shows in particular that I mentioned. But backstabbing is good, too [/edit]