Rift: Planes of Telara

[Hawkbit]

Okay, so who's leading the charge to get BC off the ground?

[Lucas]

Anyone willing to run an european branch of the F13 guild?

[Sky]

Okay, so who's leading the charge to get BC off the ground?

Not it, timing is totally wrong.

[Abelian75]

I almost forgot about this, but look what I found guys!  This is what uber looks like.


Edit for non-attachmentness.

[Morfiend]

What was it"

"The hardcore sons of emo bitches"?

[Threash]

Oh man, Rift now with 100% more Grunkyness.

[snowwy]

Not touching! Love it to death...mine that is. If anyone ever sees me online, live, in this game. You have a free ticket to kill me....please do!

[Bzalthek]

I have no idea what the fuck you just said.  Are you having a psychotic break?

[Tannhauser]

I was thinking of Cabalist/Purifier.  Cabalist for solo and pvp, and Purifier for healing in a group.  I know it doesn't have a lot of synergy but I wonder if it would be effective.

[kildorn]

I was thinking of Cabalist/Purifier.  Cabalist for solo and pvp, and Purifier for healing in a group.  I know it doesn't have a lot of synergy but I wonder if it would be effective.

Can keep both in a setup, but I'd personally just use two specs for solo dps vs group healing roles. For a solo spec though I do suggest at least a few points in a healing based soul just for the random need to heal yourself or someone else at a rift.

[EWSpider]

I was thinking of Cabalist/Purifier.  Cabalist for solo and pvp, and Purifier for healing in a group.  I know it doesn't have a lot of synergy but I wonder if it would be effective.

Purifier is excellent as a third 0pt Soul for a Cleric DPS spec.  The Shield not only absorbs damage, but keeps your spells from being pushed back and your channels from being interrupted.

[Hawkbit]

I didn't play a cleric over 16ish, but that shield is awesome.  Well worth a 0pt, as said above.  It took my soloing up a notch or two.

[Lantyssa]

I have no idea what the fuck you just said.  Are you having a psychotic break?

I believe it was a request to kill them with the element of your choice.

[snowwy]

Never post when drunk.....couldn't understand wtf i tried to say either.....

[Sobelius]

alpha notes for beta 7 leaked and now saboteur-focused rogues are freaking out

[Threash]

Why? link?

[Rendakor]

That'd be breaking the NDA that the alpha is still under (as is discussing it, I believe  ).

[Draegan]

just landed coming back from trion studios.  Scott Hartsmsn and co are some cool people.

[Simond]

Sellout! 

[Draegan]

I'm easy too, all it takes is some good beer.

[Shatter]

just landed coming back from trion studios.  Scott Hartsmsn and co are some cool people.

Did you at least get a shirt or something?

[kildorn]

Heard some rumors on the notes. This may be hilarious come tuesday.

[Nija]

Would it kill them to make a single FFA PVP server?

[Sobelius]

Why? link?

Google makes lists with nice links.

[Stabs]

I have some questions about the rift system.

From time to time F13 considers hand moderation of Live Events and generally concludes the downsides outweigh the good. Could the rift system be a way to have a human element in a largely automatic Event generation system?

In other words could devs look at server chat, think these guys are a bit bored and crank up the rift nastiness level from 3 (low) to 9 (very nasty) and watch what happens as player areas get overrun?

Should they do this? Is it so arbitrary it's "unfair"?

Are they doing this? I believe at least one of the Betas ended in a colossal invasion. Was that just a beta thing or a demonstration of a feature?

Like most of the pen and paper generation I'm something of a fan of human intervention in RPGs to address the problem of sameness and boredom. Of course if the purpose of these games is to be online slot machines that drop epics as jackpots then of course GMs fudging things to make life more exciting is not desirable.

[Sky]

just landed coming back from trion studios.  Scott Hartsmsn and co are some cool people.

And people think I'm the sellout in this crowd, heh. Guess I shouldn't have pissed in the wheaties, ah well.

[kildorn]

I have some questions about the rift system.

From time to time F13 considers hand moderation of Live Events and generally concludes the downsides outweigh the good. Could the rift system be a way to have a human element in a largely automatic Event generation system?

In other words could devs look at server chat, think these guys are a bit bored and crank up the rift nastiness level from 3 (low) to 9 (very nasty) and watch what happens as player areas get overrun?

Should they do this? Is it so arbitrary it's "unfair"?

Are they doing this? I believe at least one of the Betas ended in a colossal invasion. Was that just a beta thing or a demonstration of a feature?

Like most of the pen and paper generation I'm something of a fan of human intervention in RPGs to address the problem of sameness and boredom. Of course if the purpose of these games is to be online slot machines that drop epics as jackpots then of course GMs fudging things to make life more exciting is not desirable.

Those types of things being human-initiated is pretty rare. Usually coded in with the idea that "we can totally do that and be awesome!" followed by the realities of staffing costs to do so on a regular basis being a little obscene.

edit: you can also get into Bad Places if you either outsource it to a guide type program or have any form of rewards tied to the events. Because you set yourself up for.. let's say some fishy behavior about when and where these events show up and who might know about them an hour in advance.

[Draegan]

To quote Scott Hartsman, spontaneous GM spawned Rift Events don't "scale to fun".

[Lantyssa]

I'm not sure what that means.

[Draegan]

The bigger and more complex they get the less fun they are.

[kildorn]

I think it's closer to they're a lot of fun, but you become reliant on them.

It's fun to have world invasions run by GMs!

It's not fun to be waiting around for the next one.

[UnSub]

Like most of the pen and paper generation I'm something of a fan of human intervention in RPGs to address the problem of sameness and boredom. Of course if the purpose of these games is to be online slot machines that drop epics as jackpots then of course GMs fudging things to make life more exciting is not desirable.

Unlike p'n'p, the GM can't force players to take part. So they can spawn a massive rift, proclaim the event across the server, and be met with player indifference because the loot returned won't be worth the time invested. And whatever the GMs do for one server, they have to do for all of them (which then relies on either all GMs being equally talented in the area of player events or one GM flipping from server to server to conduct them).

It's not just being online slot machines, but if all the GM can do is dress up normal game mechanics with bad dinner theatre dialogue, players aren't going to feel particularly engaged at the end of it.

[Morfiend]

I got a simple website and forum up for anyone that wants to come join us on the RP-PVP server.

Again, no RP required, just a small group of good players who like PVP and PVE.

Here

[Kirth]

I got a simple website and forum up for anyone that wants to come join us on the RP-PVP server.

Again, no RP required, just a small group of good players who like PVP and PVE.

Here

Something weird happened when i clicked your forums link, looks like directory browsing or something is turned on.

[Cadaverine]

I think they were down earlier, but everything seems to be working fine now.