Farbautisonn

My kittens name is whiskers ? -Farb

"Is an anthill artificial?" LOL -Farb

Thing is... Wow and other mmorpgs could be more RP oriented and it prolly wouldnt cost blizzard anything. Have regular players petition to be Ingame Quest Masters. (or have a quest person rank system, Apprentice, Journeyman, Master). Let them have a building where they can sit and horse around with Ideas for quests and then go off and do player initiated quests. Let them have a small pool of crap, fun or shiny items that they can use as rewards. Make the items redundant but fun. Make the items unique or usefull in tradeskills. Just give them something. Have a poster outside where participants in the quests could comment on the quest they were just on. You prolly wouldnt even have to pay these QM's. They would be happy to make WoW a funnier place. You could hand them some prize for making it to the top of the QM' system, but really I don't even think that would be nessesary. It would be fun to have some massive prizes for being the best event maker on the server(s) but again, appealing to the pockebook of people who makes games seems to be the way to go. Better game, more customers, better return business, little to no hassle with the Quest Masters ect. It's an Idea anyway. -Farb

I quit wow. Having levelled 1 toon to 70 and a horde of toons to 30-50 ish I got really tired of it. I played pvp because regardless of how you look at it, having someone out to kill you just for the sport adds to the sense of paranoia and immersion. But as I said, I quit. Now to look at the why; It's not an rpg. There is no roleplaying in the game. Even on the RPPVP servers there are dorks that pester people with 1337 talk. There are no original quests, its all fed-ex and stuff I've done since Everquest. Game Master events are scarce and usually generated around "oh look, ubha mob_20673943 is in Zone_847 and its killing everyone" events. The world is static and there is ZERO player influence on the world. In some respects its even WORSE than EQ dispite the better gamemechanics and graphics. I hate kids who talk 1337, doesnt give a rats arse about anyone but themselves, and who are more focused on watching a female ragdoll do a dance. WoW has these people in abundance. On teamspeak/vent, people talk **** and ****e thinking themselves to be really adult and mature because they can swear like a dockworker from NY. People don't listen if they are in raids and will often be right bitches when it comes to starting drama. There are few if any (major) guilds that are more than conglomerates of lootwhores who basically traded their real life for pixels on a screen. I'm 33. I have kids of my own. I have money to spend and I don't need to ask anyone permission for what I buy and when I buy it. When I turn on my machine, I want to be entertained and have fun with the few rpg dorks that I know and love. We don't have time to meet up and take 20 hour pnp marathons like we used to because we all have girlfriends, kids, work ect. to maintain. But sometimes we meet up online and go through a nice little adventure on NwN with our facist and painfully original DM (who doesn't have kids or anthing in his life that can tie him down). However it would be nice to have a REAL mmoRPG. A persistant world where we could log in and have fun for a few hours here and there, leave our mark and come back to find it there. Everquest tried something that I actually liked. They created a premium server. A place where you payed 50ish bucks a month to play but where you were guarenteeded 24/7 hour GM service, a place where I after two years of roleplaying finally got rewarded with regular GM events and even personal quests. I prayed to a shaved hedgehog named "Frank" and an avatar of "Frank" started appearing and started random oddball quests for people. I had an impact on the world. I had created something in a world that usually was just about destroying. My mates and myself found that to be immensely amusing. We would /pray to Frank and Franks avatar would sometimes send us off to some monty phyton'esque quest. It was fun as hell even if we got no real "loot" out of it. (I quit the server when I had to take care of the psyco girlfriend from hell. Now that she has gone on to the next dumb bastard, I have more time on my hands). Stuff like THAT is missing completely from mmorpgs. I'm not the hack and slash kind of guy. Really none of us are anymore. We want something that forces us to be as cunning as Edmund Blackadder instead of mindlessly spamming a spell icon. We don't mind paying for it either. We have decent jobs, we have money to spend and we want originality and service. NWN was a godsent for us. But still... Having a true mmoRPG would be even more amusing. -Farb

In the case of pedo's there isn't a cure. There's only medication that will surpress the urgers, IE chemical castration. If we, the public, have to trust someone who did this to just take his meds for the rest of existance I personally think thats an awfull stretch. Seeing as there is no cure, only treatment I'd fry the sucker. If it was proven without a doubt that he had done it. I would not want to risk my own children on some alter of ethics and false hope. -Farb

When the dwarf HAS to spike his RP with poor Scottish/irish dialect. When the villan HAS to give a full rundown of why his plans are just before he leaves you to his complete nitwit prison ward. When the elf HAS to be a magnificent creature of magic and aestethics. When the newcommer female HAS to be an elf druid or ranger (cuz she likes animals so much). When the newbie CRPG player joins a PnP group and insists on checking ALL the slain rats for loot. When the tavern is described as "seedy and smelly". ect ect ect -Farb

Why does this thread suddenly make me have mental images of ED-209 with huge ****'s instead of miniguns ? It's a horrid mental image and I'd like very much for someone to take it away ! -Farb

No really. I've been looking forward to something more in the Planescape setting since I played PS:T the first time. It's been a loong time and I really, really, really am looking forward to this. Keep up the great work. Thanks is a poor word for how I feel. ;D -Farb

Good thread. I always liked Palpatine but I always saw him as Lawfull Evil, not chaotic. Palpatine wants to rule the universe and he has prolly "had" to do things that from the outsiders point of view seemed to be LG. He would have upheld the law whilst winning the trust of the goody two shoes. Once he got to be one of the people in the senate he worked subtely to replace them with people that he could calculate on being of similar mindset to his own to further his own agenda. Another example. Once you get a stronghold, evil is usually defined as being the Prince John'esque moneygrubber who just wants to bleed the poplulace. Why ? Having a strong loyalty with the peasents and locals means you'll have an easier time drumming up the militia in case of conflict, not having to rely on, say mercenaries. Treating the populace well, means that anyone trying to plot against me, will have a harder time because the loyal landlord who overhears the conversation of ursurpers will tell me, "the begnin ruler". Also, if I treat the peasents right, word of mouth might travel to my neighbor, who is a right bastard ruler. The local peasents will undestand if I "in the name of goodness" choose to wage war against my neighbor, perhaps even volonteering to join this "rightfull and just" cause. I'd be able to attract good rangers, scouts, perhaps even harpers to do my dirty work and subvert the next landowner for his land and property. I'll be able to punish rebels much harsher, if the peasents percieve me as a just ruler. I'll be able to fend off rumors of depraved orgies with Succubi and kidnapped farmgirls. The benifits are endless on the long term. I can recommend Mao's "Guerilla warfare, and political strategy" for anyone interested in this Idea. Not because its communist but because its just great in teaching you how to build up a loyal starting ground and then winning hearts and minds for a goal that I might see as noble (my own ascention to royal status). -Farb

ED: (Thoroughly frustrated) It's too late. You've awakened the gazebo. It catches you and eats you. ERIC: (Reaching for his dice) Maybe I'll roll up a fire-using mage so I can avenge my Paladin. That was hilarious ! -Farb

Irony and sarcasmn travels poorly on messageboards. :D . As I said. I really dont like pallies. Ive used the spelling of said profanity on other boards because they too had filters. Hence the "fake" swearing. Nah, My whole deal with pallies is that if they aren't played with a certain Monty Phython'esque ironical distance they thend to get really pompous to listen to. They tend to want to be the moral compas of the world (in game and out), which usually ends up with me trying to plot their downfall or getting themselves killed in some obscure way. Im not trying to tell people how to play. My playstyle would prolly not be the cup of tea of most people. I usually "seem" to be playing as LG anyway... cept my true alignment is usually LE. I just don't want some halfwit twit telling me I can't act or say something because it goes against the nature of "goodness" or "fair". We are supposed to work together to have fun, not kill fun by exploring some moral or ethical principle every single gaming session. -Farb

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Just relaying my experience with paladins. REALLY Don't like em. Maybe my experience is out of the ordinary but I just happen to have had really bad experiences with them. It takes an exceptionally good player to not cramp the style of the whole group. Im not really trying to prove anything. Maybe the term I used is inappropriate but it more or less sums up how I feel about this particular class. The 1337 spelling thing is a legacy from other boards. Sorry if it pissed off the general populace. I'll try to submit to the particular social and ethical foundations of this board.... -Farb

I have a problem with paladins. I [really, truly, madly, deepy] hate them and the people who choose to play them. I've never met at guy that wanted to play a pally that wasn't an obnoxius selfrightchious twit "IRL" too. (Give it to me). Anyways, currently I'm splitting my time between Hitman: Bloodmoney, Total War and Nwn2. -Farb

I simply cannot say how much I've looked forward to this. -Farb

"Leisure Suit Larry On-line". A winner MMORPG. You can quest clothes for your rag doll and end up cybering with some **** because you are ****e bored but cant think of anything better to do for that evening... -Farb

61. Planescape: Torment What the hell ? Torment should have made at least top 20. I've never played an RPG that wasn't at least sub-par to Torment. (Deus ex was great though... ). Give me more walls of text for the love of god ! I need to have dialogue choises up the kazoo ! Give me spell animations like the Mechanus Cannon, the Sign of Torment ect. Don't give me "save the world quest_000332402348". Give me something utterly original and with a twist. Give me genuine INT or CHA / skill based dialogue bonus options that are not cheesy built in redundencies. Give me inter party dialgue and rewards. Give me another PS:T !!! (Bought the game 3 times because late night coffee stains and ciggie buds aren't good for the discs). -Farb