Level Sitting, Achieving Hero Status and Relatively Mindless Pk'ers.

Level Sitting, Achieving Hero Status and Relatively Mindless Pk'ers.:
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Posted by The Angel Gabriel on September 13, 1999 at 08:22:04:

I think the code should be changed to kill anyone who sits at a level for more than 100 hours.

Alright, there it is. Now here's the why.

RP:

You are a warrior. You are a ranger. You are a necromancer. (And by the way, I would put a different code in for necro's that hit 47 since obviously they are in a special situation.) You are a member of a guild and are learning your profession. Your life is based on attaining the power/knowledge/skill/etc of that guild, regardless of what other affiliations you might have. Everything else you do is something that is a belief or motivation, whatever. The way you do it, though, is with your class. There is no rp justification, in my mind, for simply stopping and sitting and not attempting to complete the learning of your guild. The only reason is an ooc one, and so I address that next.

Non-rp:

People sit at lower levels because they want to pk better and so they sacrifice rp, they sacrifice the clear objective of the guild and attaining the highest level in it, for personal pk/power gain. Warriors sit at the high 20's. Rangers sit at the high 30s. Step back and look objectively at it as though you really were some human living in Galadon. If you are a warrior, you would always want to advance in level until you could advance no more, until you got your 51st level. The only reason people don't is so they can exploit game mechanics and powerlevels of various classes at those levels.

Because people should be allowed to enjoy their power stages -- although every class can be powerful at hero, every single one -- I do not want a short duration, and so picked 100 hours. That is fully 1/5 of an average life. If they can't even level once in all that time, I do not believe they have fulfilled the rp requirement of the game.

There is already a code to kill people that pk too much pre-25th level. I see no theoretical difference in a suggestion like mine. It would require people to actually play characters that are the class they rolled, not someone playing a character with those skills and wanting to kill people so forgoing the training he normally would get if he advanced.

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Other exceptions you'd probably have to make. Proud Blade 02:24:17 9/19/99 (1)
- I would not include exceptions for most of what you wrote. The Angel Gabriel 04:20:54 9/22/99 (0)
Re: Level Sitting, Achieving Hero Status and Relatively Mindless Pk'ers. Ropitier 05:43:43 9/14/99 (0)
Well you forgot to mention what it is VERY hard to exp some curtain classes - so all your conclusions are #^%&*&(. Swist 11:25:35 9/13/99 (0)
Re: Level Sitting, Achieving Hero Status and Relatively Mindless Pk'ers. Wondering 08:50:07 9/13/99 (3)
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Re: Level Sitting, Achieving Hero Status and Relatively Mindless Pk'ers. Valgraithor 08:49:54 9/13/99 (0)

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Comments:	> I think the code should be changed to kill anyone who sits at a level for more than 100 hours. > Alright, there it is. Now here's the why. > RP: > You are a warrior. You are a ranger. You are a necromancer. (And by the way, I would put a different code in for necro's that hit 47 since obviously they are in a special situation.) You are a member of a guild and are learning your profession. Your life is based on attaining the power/knowledge/skill/etc of that guild, regardless of what other affiliations you might have. Everything else you do is something that is a belief or motivation, whatever. The way you do it, though, is with your class. There is no rp justification, in my mind, for simply stopping and sitting and not attempting to complete the learning of your guild. The only reason is an ooc one, and so I address that next. > Non-rp: > People sit at lower levels because they want to pk better and so they sacrifice rp, they sacrifice the clear objective of the guild and attaining the highest level in it, for personal pk/power gain. Warriors sit at the high 20's. Rangers sit at the high 30s. Step back and look objectively at it as though you really were some human living in Galadon. If you are a warrior, you would always want to advance in level until you could advance no more, until you got your 51st level. The only reason people don't is so they can exploit game mechanics and powerlevels of various classes at those levels. > Because people should be allowed to enjoy their power stages -- although every class can be powerful at hero, every single one -- I do not want a short duration, and so picked 100 hours. That is fully 1/5 of an average life. If they can't even level once in all that time, I do not believe they have fulfilled the rp requirement of the game. > There is already a code to kill people that pk too much pre-25th level. I see no theoretical difference in a suggestion like mine. It would require people to actually play characters that are the class they rolled, not someone playing a character with those skills and wanting to kill people so forgoing the training he normally would get if he advanced.

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