AMUSING TIDBITS 30000!!!oneon!!!
AND YES, lets try to bring back old gms, like hevron, janya, huntress, (not dookie), and the rest of the respectable figures from the past, and let them shit all over what we have today, i think that will send a possitive message to everyone who isnt a total n00b and remembers when this game was fun
bakal, if we have learned anything from this presidency, its that God=President's bitch, so Logan can be God, as long as Manni is president
Manni, your joke about Culfinglin has run its course, therefore it's no longer funny.
Logan for God.
Trempk's stock just rose :P
trempk's comment is the funniest i've read in ages.
Ind00bitably.
Stop trying to hijack it off the Logan/Eigen/Trempk tangent. That's about the funniest sequence of posts in a while.
How the hell did this thread get hijacked from a 'OMG WE'RE OUT OF MONEY!!!' to a 'ERs are the worst thing that ever happened to the game!' F-that.
Wouldn't it be great if all the older asshole American players came back and took over their old guilds (I could do Amruin), and then declare meaningless wars that none of their guildmates want on whatever the strongest guild is today and then suddenly go inactive as their guild gets destroyed and humiliated? That would be awesome. Then we all could go back to playing x-box. Or if we don't have one, we could just snort some coke.
As a wise person named Slorien once said:
'Hello! Is that your head pumping semen or your mouth?'
Who cares if half a dussin dubai chumps (or wherever they're from) those 10 people (Slorien etc) has to shit away their freetime on something else after newyear, they were like the only new players on t2t in 07, probably just discovered the internet over there.. great fucking contributions they've made along with those herkimer hillbilly geeks? Them And the remaining 50 assorted american assholes. Huge loss for the gaming community worldwide i'm sure, 5 minutes after it shuts down you'll be queuing for wellfare checks to pay for that xbox 360 you've been squeezing the crane over for the past 1.5 half year and dork the days away on fucking halo.
...gratitude coming from the players of the MUD...
FDLOL
Manni for president!
If the mud closes down... Castamir will steal it again :P
An informal show of gratitude coming from the players of the MUD is not the same as selling a ring/custom item to people who donate money.
People keep mentioning paying for the mud, however I believe the codebase the mud is originally based on explicitly forbids that (unless the license has changed in recent years), as it also forbids selling 'mud' items for real money.
Aule tells you: That log is fake!
I'll repeate what I said about 3 months ago, and what Darkhour just recently stated...
Manni for President 2008!
Half the time like I'm blaming Draugluin in my posts and half the time I end up supporting him... I think usually when I sound like I'm blaming him, I actually mean to blame the attitude of the ER implmentation, which was actually only partially his responsibility. There were a lot of others, myself included, who screwed it up.
Yeah, it's important to remember that there are no gigantic chasms between the way the current admin do things and the way most people think things should be done. That's not always how it's been.
I would argue that Draugluin made a ton of RP concessions that contributed strongly to the downturn of the MUD. The lawlessness of the ER-FR relations was put in for RP's sake. Shopkeepers not accepting sFRs and ERs was put in for RP's sake. Four years of coders' time was spent on Far Harad for RP's sake. sFRs themselves were created for RP's sake. Battlepoints were instituted for RP's sake.
The problem is that none of the RPers really wanted any of these things. Most RPers didn't want ERs at all. These were concessions that made the game more challenging to power players under the guise that it would somehow 'even out' the advantages that some players get by being willing to kill for both sides. There was the idea in Valinor that a goal of ERs and sFRs was that they would make people choose a side in the war. This forced power players to resent RPers more and RPers to resent power players more.
Maybe we should start undoing a lot of these things done 'for RP's sake' and continue returning the game to playability, as this administration has proven it can do.
You're correct, Tortuga, but I wasn't going to name names.
What I don't get is why people think the current lineup of admins is somehow worse than previous ones. The old 'the current President is always the worst one in history' theory may now actually ring true in the US, but let's for a moment recall Rauko's favoritism, and the ridiculous ego of him and certain past female admins, and how awful Sire was as Sauron, and Solomon's passive-aggressive attempts to derail the MC, and Draugluin's open mockery of RP and how he royally fucked up the game...
...I could go on. Enforcement has -never- been entirely fair, nor will it ever be, nor can it be. Sure, Tulkas hands out some weird warnings, but in my experience the most absurd ones get overturned quickly if you approach another admin in a polite and reasonable manner. I think what's going on is that certain people who got carte blanche to act like douches in the past aren't getting it anymore, and they're taking it personally. They in turn convince all their buddies that the sky is falling. Dev22 wasn't done by this lineup, nor were ER implementation or battlepoints. A little circumspection might be healthy here.
manni for president
Alexa tells you: a MUD is up for auction, minimum bid 150 dollars, good cond repaired/sharped.
I'll pay $1,000, and be a fair and judicious leader that only occasionally will torture my denizens.
ill pay 100
I spoke to Champ last night, and he told me that he has always offered to host Towers for free. I don't think money is the issue.
If it's a money issue, I'll totally buy rights to admin the game for $75.
I think it comes down to whether or not Aule still wants to admin the place. If he doesn't, I'm sure someone else would be willing to and they'd find a way to get the money. I'm pretty sure $75 a month isn't the issue here when we average somewhere around 55 or 60 users online. Talk alone of shutting down is bad enough for newer players.
How about: one minute online = one USD ?
any anyways are we seriously talking about a monthly fee
instead we could charge for RP events, for a 5 dollar donation you get a 'ticket' to an event (we would have to have events atleast once a quarter for this-3 months for people who dont understand finance) tickets are good for any event, but can only be used once, so if you bought a ticket, but missed teh event, you can use it for the next one. also you would have to buy tickets for each of your alts (if you wanted them at the event too)
so youd have 4 events a year, 5 dollars per alt per event
so to get the 900 dollars a year, we would need 60 people to attend atleast 3 events on 1 alt.
it was hillarious, and quite possibly true, but westar canabalizing culfinglin isnt enough to scare the faceless server coorperation from canabalizing the game
I giggled Manni, if that helps.
BAM.
Side note... Nothing for the eating Culfinglin joke? Are you all just too new or too young?
oh, it was removed
awesome idea by adoni, petition it!
Just start charging everyone who has a character over lvl 10 2 dollers a month that way people can try out the game until they are lvl 10 for free.
ok, so its $75 a month, start selling autoloads. im sure that the admin could come up with some sort of token that says you helped save the mud if you sent in like 10 dollars.
tev-you could get G-i-M on it, and just start selling shit through yalls web page, $10 for a 'I helped save the mud' ring
She stole a large portion of the pledge drive money, yes, but the rumour that she spent it all on plastic surgery was started by me and some friends. :P
and we have a right to complain about their fucking horrible decision-making and enforcement of the law
meh, Aule removed that 'Enough funds to last until February 1,2008' legendinfo already
It was Gyro, I think (the Zazzle shirts, I mean). I think that Aule decided he didn't want to pay any more money to keep the mud up after he heard people complaining about the warnings, jailing, petition system, etc. Or at least, he is pretending he doesn't want to pay any more.
In the version I heard, that pledge drive raised $4K, $800 of which was stolen.
I'm not convinced that the MUD is in imminent danger of being shut down, as this is the first we've heard of it and there's been no talk of another organized fund drive. There are money-making ideas that just aren't being explored, like selling T2T shirts on Cafepress.com. (Someone's had T2T shirts for sale on Zazzle since 2004, but it's not the administration and they suck so nobody would buy them anyway.)
It's spreekilling time
I think Westar spent all day once just eating Culfinglin... then absconded with the money. That's my theory.
Geico
Switch to GECO INSURANCE!
Nevermind, I can because she was that big of one in the game too.
Man, I still can't comprehend how big of a piece of shit she must be.
I actually think it was after a big fund raising drive and it was in the thousands. Is it just a rumour that she spent in on plastic surgery?
how much was her plastic surgery? i heard it took most of the pledgind drive money.... and i also heard she didn't change much!
Mmm, Aule did say that whoever had all the money skipped town :P It's $75/month so it's really not that big of a deal :P
get the money back from Culfiglin's (or what ever her name is) plastic surgery!!
Can we not use the term 'domecheck'?
For a humble fee of $75/month!
Can we eaglesight?
SHizzzzzz
Then we'll domecheck BkD blinded I guess!