Posted by Rooqweaz on October 25, 2000 at 07:34:42:
Ragers fight arbiters because they are assholes.(mostly, hehe) People who hates ragers occ and join arbiters to use powers RP excuses like arbiters protect mages are just RP excuses The first(or may be not the first) "solution" So another solution:
to flag/exp hole ragers or people like Fuerln
just make other people angry.
Arbiter powers aren't just powers, like deathblow or transform.
you can't actually abuse db or transform
while we always have immature players who put stupid flags
and insult people through it.
nothing more (they obviously aren't reasons, just excuses)
Considering sylvan/rager alliance....
hmm... you did hear RP excuse for it (and it is crappy :) )
but the internal reason, gameplay balance.
a few years ago there were no any kind of alliance
between ragers and sylvan.
It was nearly impossbile to balance the game
ragers were constantely ganged by master/empire hordes
if you induct 2x ragers, these cabal would cry: like
of 2 masters have ot defend against 10 ragers,.quit.. etc
if you induct reasonable amount of ragers,
they just could not stand master/empire alliance + other vultures (like arbiters/knights/etc)
to split master and empire was
the NEW THalos-master-autoattack-thing.
Empire got some RP like: the Orb should be ours.
but on the practice, it failed as well.
People just continued to team against ragers.
Gradually, sylvan became more and more "friendly" to ragers.
they are not direct allies of ragers
just empire/master meet sylvan/ragers.
and it is somehow balanced (well, nothing is perfect
try to find something better)