Some common issues I have with the mud
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:25 pm
Some of you may or may not have noticed I'm borderline active at the moment, whereas before I would long everyday, usually all or most of the day. Excluding the pressures of work/school that are eating up my time, here are the main reasons, I'm interested to hear if anyone agrees or if I'm the only one.
1) I'd like to see more of Immortals listening to the playerbase, and not immortal opinion regarding various changes.
To elaborate, the immortals tend to post a lot of polls/request a lot of feedback, and unfortunately the trend seems to be if the immortals felt one way before this 'feedback/polling' was conducted, so that leads me to the very serious question of why asking? I personally feel a lot more irritated when the majority of players feel one way and something is still done another way, when the players are asked their opinion. If you don't want it... don't ask for it. I'd rather be irritated that an imm chose to make a rule/change and didn't ask for input than for the imm to 'poll' and then not go with the results of that poll, personally. Maybe that's just me.
Case in point, there seems to be two really major points of irritation at the moment: Armor and the number of nobility. Armor = the best way to be a badass at combat at the moment with, quite frankly, piddly drawbacks to it. Kinaed has expressed this as exactly what she wants.
Problem: Who can afford armor? The rich. Who are rich? Nobles and merchants. Which of those two are more likely to have/need armor? Nobles.
Second problem: Armor is a buyable advantage and so it being overpowered is fine, but nobles or high charismatic/rich characters buying a lot of combat retainers to own people with is not fine, and there's no sense to it. Sure, buy armor and have it, it's an advantage, but to disallow a retainer or several retainers who can engage and fight offensively? I just don't see the logic behind it. Immortals are okay with some things being overpowered, aren't with others that are frankly quite similar, and in all cases seem most interested in doing what they feel is right, not want the player base requests.
In short: please stop polling unless you're going to use poll results to actually determine the outcome, or at the very least explain why despite poll results you went the way you did. Otherwise, it just feels like a slap in the face, to me.
1) I'd like to see more of Immortals listening to the playerbase, and not immortal opinion regarding various changes.
To elaborate, the immortals tend to post a lot of polls/request a lot of feedback, and unfortunately the trend seems to be if the immortals felt one way before this 'feedback/polling' was conducted, so that leads me to the very serious question of why asking? I personally feel a lot more irritated when the majority of players feel one way and something is still done another way, when the players are asked their opinion. If you don't want it... don't ask for it. I'd rather be irritated that an imm chose to make a rule/change and didn't ask for input than for the imm to 'poll' and then not go with the results of that poll, personally. Maybe that's just me.
Case in point, there seems to be two really major points of irritation at the moment: Armor and the number of nobility. Armor = the best way to be a badass at combat at the moment with, quite frankly, piddly drawbacks to it. Kinaed has expressed this as exactly what she wants.
Problem: Who can afford armor? The rich. Who are rich? Nobles and merchants. Which of those two are more likely to have/need armor? Nobles.
Second problem: Armor is a buyable advantage and so it being overpowered is fine, but nobles or high charismatic/rich characters buying a lot of combat retainers to own people with is not fine, and there's no sense to it. Sure, buy armor and have it, it's an advantage, but to disallow a retainer or several retainers who can engage and fight offensively? I just don't see the logic behind it. Immortals are okay with some things being overpowered, aren't with others that are frankly quite similar, and in all cases seem most interested in doing what they feel is right, not want the player base requests.
In short: please stop polling unless you're going to use poll results to actually determine the outcome, or at the very least explain why despite poll results you went the way you did. Otherwise, it just feels like a slap in the face, to me.