Posted by Jeeves(VIP) on August 04, 1999 at 12:51:45:
In Reply to: I'm afraid they do. posted by Nepenthe on August 04, 1999 at 12:16:45:
Something happened along the way, and it wasn't a spontaneous change in the mentality of 150 or so devoted CF players. Somewhere something was introduced that made people say "Hey, we can't handle this bastard unless we jump his bones all at once." At that point people began to realize "Hey, these guys are right, only if we all ban together we can greatly increase the speed and success rate at which we get nice shiny gear." I can't believe that the Knight cabal lasted as long as it did if since its beginning people were pissing on the beliefs of the cabal and ignoring them by gang-banging to no end. Something had to be introduced that made people decide that they would have to start bending the rules in order to succeed. The battleragers are the same way, only we can pinpoint with relative ease what happened to cause them to turn to gang-banging. Fire, Empire. Second, the ubermages that we're all dealing with today. Mages that can kill you without having any gear on at all. Mages that you can kill, full loot, then have them on your neck again in the time it takes to unghost(sooner if they quit and immediately return). Like it or not, the majority of the playerbase is made up of people that can't handle a fully prepared master invoker as a fully prepared rager warrior. So, the majority of the playerbase has to gangbang in order to succeed. Granted there are those ubermudders that have been playing since before their mommy stopped wiping thier ass that can, but the majority cannot. So, the question is, what changed? Is taking out every cabal that had some semblance of honor the right move? As far as the cabal thing goes...entropy and Empire...two cabals that aren't required to return to the cabal when it's attacked. Entropy having spent much of its existance recently below 40% item retention and Empire which is all about having a billion members. None of this really applies to me as I don't play more than 1(maybe 2 on rare occassions) chars at any given time. I don't really care about gangbanging as I'm not one to watch a group of 90 walk up to me without quaffing a return or somesuch. *shrug*