Posted by Goreanen on December 08, 1999 at 03:43:13:
Well, I will post it here, because I dont want to wait for my deletion to show up on the graveyard. Had fun while it lasted. Hadn't seriously played an assassin since I had an old-school assassin hero a long while back. And well I hadnt played a rager for a while to, so I rolled one up. I had a blast with Goreanen, even the battles she lost I learned stuff, and never made the same mistake twice (although I sure did make enough original mistakes). But recently, the fun left the character, for a number of reasons, none of wich were the deaths to 5 or 6 imps within 30 seconds of logging on that happened a few times, those were fun as well. I guess when you boil it down, the main reason I have deleted can be attributed to the phenominal lag I have experienced over the past month or so. I am sure it is not just me, but it seems that more than half of the population of cf is NOT having this same lag problem, And that creates an unfair balance. With the lag I had it was almost impossible to rp, because halfway through any conversation, the mud would stop moving for 1-3 mins, and then jump forward. Likewise this made ranking even more of a bothersome chore than it already is. And forget the whole raid counter raid thing that is the Life of Battle. My last death, well, that was mostly my fault, I had hit the wrong button, and accidently thirsted on eastern road, I had that wonderfull lag stop immediately after, so I said "fuckit" and just entered in a whole bunch of random fight commands such as kot, throw, kans, axek etc. Well, I might have survived if I didnt happen to run into another assassin and the throws I did account for nothing. I realised that this is what my cf experience has boiled down to. Five min. periods of lucid interaction, separated with 20-30 mins of hoping I will not be dead when the mud starts moving for me again. This combined with the fact that I Imm on another mud and am currently building two areas and fixing another on that mud...I only have so many hours in wich to mud, and I had to choose between a contributory mud experience, and sitting around hoping lag would clear up. Sure I could have Kept Gor around...but for what purpose, I mud to rp and rp only (sure that means pk sometimes) and when you cant rp, its not worth it to mud. I in now way blame CF, or its imms for this lag, because I realize that because only I and a few others have this lag it must be a network thing between where I am and the Machine. Meanwhile, I will check back from time to time hoping that the lag is gone and I can rp another char. Respectfully, oh...
Gor/Khwaris(hairpile)/Mau/Balsh/Emrys/Tegid, and many various assundry others.
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