Posted by Someone on August 13, 1999 at 15:51:55:
In Reply to: It just goes to show what a pathetic Emperor Genofen was.(n/t) posted by Bemus-ed on August 13, 1999 at 09:48:23:
Genofen was not a bad Emperor. There are a lot of differnent factors. First, he just had bad luck with his council. I mean he went through like ten different Warmasters. Divine has and will always be weak because it is too hard to get empowered. I mean lightwalkers just pray, bless me my lord, and boom, empowered. Believe I know, I did it with my level 4 paladin. Black, well, they waited to replace Xander. They lost alot of people because of that, I know because everytime I logged on I saw at least two or three black bloodoathes. Arcane, well, they have always been strong since Genofen replaced that idiot they had in charge. In addition, some of the older cabals have made it a lot easier to get inducted. Mainly, ragers. I have no problem with that because they sucked for the longest time. But as long as you have ten people joining Masters, ten joining ragers, ten joining dawn, ten joining Scarabs, that leaves like two to join Empire. In theory, it should not be like that. In conclusion, I see Empire being weak for at least a month now. There are just too many other directions people can go now. Until the other cabals tighten the ropes on their induction methods and keep the cookie cutter characters out, Empire will continue to be weak. Think about it, you you rather have rager powers as a warrior or blade? If you are looking to be a pk champ, wouldn't it be better to join Scarabs and kill in towns?
Also have a new cabal. Everyone wants to join the new cabal and they seem to be recuiting just like Empire. Hell, anyone can say "I am strong willed, all the weak willed must DIE!" (that is a quote from Matraien). I sure hope they have a lot harder entrance standards than Empire (I do not really know so I will not bad mouth them yet.). I do feel you have a one in ten chance of getting in, not because I like Empire, but because it just makes since from what they preach. Think about it, how many strong willed people can you have in this world before some of the stronger ones start calling the less strong ones weak? I would think after so many deaths, you should be kicked out for being weak.