A Call for Open Discussion

Every skill currently in the game has purpose at one point or another–the most useless skills, in the right circumstance, have saved my hide.[/quote:trioj1kz]

Imbue, survey, combine, gather, buildstructure, drive, pretty much the majority of sciences….I know a lot of these have to do with stuff that was added and it didn’t work right, so was removed or whatever….but it just seems they should be removed along with them…Perhaps its more work than I’m thinking it would be, cause I have no clue when it comes to code issues heh.

Every skill currently in the game has purpose at one point or another–the most useless skills, in the right circumstance, have saved my hide.[/quote:32gzi55o]

Imbue, survey, combine, gather, buildstructure, drive, pretty much the majority of sciences….I know a lot of these have to do with stuff that was added and it didn’t work right, so was removed or whatever….but it just seems they should be removed along with them…Perhaps its more work than I’m thinking it would be, cause I have no clue when it comes to code issues heh.[/quote:32gzi55o]

All of those are in the process of being fixed. No reason to remove things that aren’t going to be removed permanently.

On that note, people who "RP a race badly" and people who "don’t RP at all" aren’t the same people, but should they all be held to this mystical higher-standard? You get a Firrerreo running around who’s got a desc of a Firrerreo, but they never emote about the sun glinting off of their[b:3dbh416k] golden/silver skin[/b:3dbh416k], or run their fingers through their [b:3dbh416k]two-toned hair[/b:3dbh416k]. Should that person get their race ripped away because they don’t write out emotes that say "BY THE WAY- I am an alien."?

You have a Chagrian who only very rarely mentions that they can’t taste food. LE GASP. Should we set them to human?

mortchat Chagrian You don’t openly hate food enough. You’re a human now.[/quote:3dbh416k]

I agree with what I [i:3dbh416k]think[/i:3dbh416k] you’re saying. Not RPing explicitly that you’re an alien shouldn’t be grounds to lose your race, and I don’t think anybody on the mud would argue that it should. But going [b:3dbh416k]completely against[/b:3dbh416k] your race’s RP, particularly with era specific races, or RPing something that doesn’t exist in the Star Wars universe definitely should be grounds to be human’d. Or! At the very least, grounds to receive an "Oi, cut that out!" message from the imms.

When Mandalorians came around this TL we were told repeatedly that we were in danger of losing our race if we didn’t act like Mandalorians, but that wasn’t true at all. There were a couple Mandalorian characters who fled Mandalore and hid during the EoE to avoid dying… I’m not talking about the people who didn’t log on at all, I’m talking about the people who did the most un-Mandalorian thing they could think of. I’m uh… also talking about people who play things like… vampires. Hypothetically speaking. Moving on!

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..Nevermind the other half of this post. I’m moving it to the Ease of Death thread.[/quote:3dbh416k]

As far as I know, the only mandalorians that kept their race were ones that actively participated. We set many and many to human.

I’d like to see non-combat races with features worth wasting points on. But on to the main stuff.

First of all, death system. I’m actually pretty content with the way things are except in one very important regard: the loss of leadership. It is VERY easy to die on LotJ and, as we’ve seen time and again, the loss of a competent clan leader can cripple a clan for a long time and sometimes even bring the whole era to a grinding halt.

I honestly don’t have any great solutions to this problem but it’s something that NEEDS to be addressed to keep player numbers high and people interested in the mud.[/quote:2cklrqt2]

Unfortunately, there really isn’t a great solution to this problem. Good leadership qualities can’t be taught. They can only be learned as you go. Personally, I think more people should take the chance and at least lead a major or minor clan once (or be put in a position of leadership such as a Number One or Number Two of a major clan). It would be an excellent learning experience for them. True, they might get discouraged if things don’t turn out right for them, but the one thing that people seem to forget is that you should bounce back and learn from your mistakes.[/quote:2cklrqt2]

I would agree with this, given the fact that i kinda led a minor clan in every tl i have played in, and that is really what kept me playing tbh. Leadership for small clans is sometimes bigger than leadership for big clans in the case of if you will be killed or not. you can mischan one thing, and know you are on the chopping block, while if you lead a major clan, you have some protection. the only problem with giving people a position they are not ready for is they are likely to break the rules, or not actually want to be in the position itself. most people in the game do like to idle half the time, and have fun on alts every now and then, where i have found that when i was leading a clan, i didn’t feel like i had time for alts. anyways, that is just personal experience.

Anyway, I suppose I should go on record with my issues.

3) Diplomacy – Is STILL a bitch to level. This is the one class of skills that gets overlooked for two reasons: 1) If you want to get to your max level, you better be prepared to spend weeks getting your levels; and 2) if you’re not in a clan, it’s useless.

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This is something that i don’t agree with. you can go from 1-100 in a matter of a couple of hours of flying, using the package deliver system. you always go to the closest planet, and you will level very fast, especially considering the first 25 levels or so you get multiple levels per turn in. Diplomacy is easy enough to level that I usually leave it until i nearly need to level it now to be honest.[/quote:3b63rbj7]

If that is the case, then I must be extremely unlucky because it always seemed to take me forever to get anywhere with diplomacy. Thus I gave up leveling it unless I really needed to.

I would like to fix what I said about it’s uselessness: "If you’re not in a MAJOR clan, or soon-to-be Major Clan, it’s useless."