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"The Zuma can wipe out a realm for something trivial". Can't you say the same about our human realms as well? And isn't saying it about the Zuma just fearmongering, since nobody can actually name a realm that the Zuma have actually wiped out? I can name realms that were wiped out by Morek...Aurvandil...etc. Nobody can make a factual statement about a realm that was actually wiped out by the Zuma.

Obviously.

The point is they can do it with such relative ease; like swatting a fly.

Of course, I think you already know that's his point, you're just nitpicking his statement.

Someone should start a 'Friendly Zuma Neighborhood Association' guild...

We did. It's called the Veinsormoot.

Yeah? You seen that happen, have you?

He didn't say they did, but that they certainly can and, yes, have nearly done so numerous times.

No, I was going to report MYSELF, and everyone else.

I'm consistent in my assholishness.

Solidarity with the forum policy violators!

As a member of the friendly Zuma Neighborhood Association, please leave them alone. Please.


They're like the Boo Radley's of the Occidens.... just ignore their house and everything about it.

KK and Ottar are the only rulers who were rulers when this war started :P

-jaune

What about Captain/Aldarion? Has he left now?

The way to make a guild profitable for the founder/elders/certain people is to set up a large monthly fee (say, 10 gold per month, or more) for those on the bottom of the pyramid, and then have a large monthly grant for those on top. Then you need a compelling reason for people to join the guild (such as only handing out lordships and other positions to those in the guild). Having a fee to move up the pyramid helps too--possibly with very large sums to move up the rungs, with corresponding decreases in the monthly fee as they move up the rungs.

With lots of superfluous, meaningless positions (but with fancy titles) to "move up" to.

Please dont turn this into a complain about rulers thread.

I hate rulers! Those guys suck!

Yeah, Leopold, man. Not cool.

Lol.

Yeah total obvious pyramid scheme to get Bowie rich.

...he should torture us players by announcing,
"DWILIGHT...is the most popular island, and won't be closed. Check back again tomorrow!"

And then every day, cross one island off the list.

It'll be like Reverse Survivor--the island gets voted off by the people, instead of the people getting voted off the island!

;D 8)

Oh god this is brilliant.

Yes, let is be a day to day countdown slowly revealing which islands are staying.

It goes a little like this:

1) Long period of Zuma being irrelevant, no one paying them any attention, they do nothing, etc.

2) Someone once again remembers they exist.

3) Someone tries to "figure them out."

4) Zuma get pissed and/or manipulated into attacking/threatening to attack someone.

5) Crisis of Zuma apocalypse narrowly avoided due to new deal with Zuma, begging, and/or pleading.


Rinse and repeat.

While I do agree with you, we also need to be careful about this. We need to do a better job of making sure that IC stuff stays IC, and that we need to make sure we avoid even the impression that the forum is somehow be used as a surrogate for IC action/discussion.

Absolutely.

If it wasn't clear, I simply meant that having a community to talk about things with helps spur people into doing more in the game.

For that there is the General Discussion thread on the Forum.
No need for the Locals.
The Locals are the the reason why IC none talks about IC things and why people prefer to talk about it here.

1) You really want people to start making topics in the General Discussion for "Lurian-D'Hara War!" and "Barca Thread!" ? I don't. It's not the place for it. It's not organized enough for every island to discuss their stuff there.

2) You clearly have not been listening if you are insisting that the forums deplete IC activity. Multiple people have now testified that the lack of OOC discussion is significantly contributing to a lack of motivation for IC "talk" and events. It is quite the opposite. OOC forum discussion spurs IG/IC activity.

It's like sports, folks. People don't just want to watch sports they want to talk about the sports they watched, discuss upcoming games, players, injuries, hires, etc.

Removing ESPN SportsCenter/friends who also like sports doesn't encourage people to watch more sports because there is no sports commentary to watch anymore... it actively decreases their interest in watching sports because they no longer have a community to talk to about those sports.

The very same with the forums.

I'll probably be pausing some characters in the next few days or weeks.

In the past month or so I've paused all my characters except for Kale. Reasons for that are combination of factors not least of which is the fact that I'm super busy this semester, but the lack community interaction has certainly played a role in my in-game interest/motivation to play.