Message #168423

[Logar]

I tend to agree with most of MTYL's points:

I am not aware of advies being used as (effective) weapons of war, so I assume it happened on East Continent. IIRC magic was supposed to be nerfed on EC and Colonies. It would fixed the problem better than the current "solution"

- It was on Beluaterra.

On Dwi and BT advies should be allowed (to a degree) to be weapons of war.

- Yes perhaps magic should just be limited to Bel and Dwi. This gives players a choice to play where it best suits them.

Even if advies are used effectively in war, I'd say there is a damn big counterbalance mechanic... as in they can be friggin killed! Capturing advies is like taking candy from a baby. If someone is ready to try and swing the fate of one battle/one region (doubtful) for the price of losing their character - ok, I guess it's a fair deal.

- As far as I am aware, all the wounded nobles have mysteriously healed and have 3 adventurers in custody with one already been executed.

Disabling advies from using magic takes one of the more fun (most fun?) aspects of advy game away. I know most people treat entire advy game as a gig to get artifacts/scroll for their pals, but there are few of us who actually enjoy it.

- I love the adventurer game. 1 of my advies is is an apprentice, another on a different island is a sorceress, but now the whole backround story and makeup of those characters is now irelevent.

Since I've learnt more about what prompted this... my question is - has anything like that happened ever before?

- No, not on this scale as far as I know

Did it require a lot of people actively working together?

- Yes. Several players have put a lot of work into creating the event which has spurred this disscusion. Not to mention the ammount of time and commitment by all those involved. They acted upon a single region (yes, the only region of the realm), but to do it again to another region would take weeks or months of further prepping. Its not like a rogue force who can march around causing havoc every day.

Have it broke the stagnation on the island a bit?

- Too early to tell.

Have it rid us of a single-region new player death-trap realm?

I couldn't possibly comment.

Could it be done by non-advies?

- Yes absolutely it can. In fact it would have been more difficult to capture the culprits. Advies doing the task have taken a huge risk of execution.

If you answer yes to at least one of those questions (or no to the first one) then banning advies from magic was overreacting.