Wanted: Plugs for Holes

[Jaethor]

Greetings,

In possibly futile hopes of keeping up the discussion on My loving and hopefully loved blog, I've decided to ask the burning question that I have had for the past few weeks.

As schools and universities get back into the swing of things, students across the northern hemisphere are disappearing. It's completely understandable and I expect you lot to study hard so you can make (akanbar) lots of money. However, the problem of time-relative surges of players throughout the day has been apparent even during the summer (Time-relative surges meaning that at 8am, no one is around, but at 1pm there might be 10 players logged on). It can largely be chalked up to the fact that a great many players are located in one time-zone, in which no one is on during when they sleep, then everyone is on when they are at home, but I'm well aware that Akanbar has players in many time zones across the world. In addition, it can vary from a hourly basis with players logging on en masse at 4pm, logging off at 5pm, logging back on at 6pm etc, so I cannot chalk most of it up to time zones.

What I would like to hear from you players is what features Akanbar is missing that stops players from logging on at varied times during the day. Certainly, we could do with more god-run events, but that wouldn't solve the problem of player surges and gaps, it would possibly do the opposite. Try not to get specific (no "I really think Akanbar could do with a leaf-raking system, just like the one in <random plug for a mud>). Give me broad things- more hunting areas, more pvp combat opportunities, more non-combat related things, more city vs city opportunities.

Signed,
Jaethor

[Pyrok]

I may be looking through some slightly cracked glasses, but I too think armies should be scrapped. They were great when they came out, and I understand that the warfare system was implemented for a reason (which escapes me currently), but a lot of the drama faded, died, dropped off when the armies were released. I distinctly recall several events (not... not those kinds of events) where I was twitching and shaking behind my keyboard hoping that either the enemy forces would have sudden IRL complications (nothing life threatening, just inconvenient) or when they do arrive that I don't mistime my attacks so i don't die so quickly. I was invested in the defense of my city at the time, now not so much, rogue status aside.

I was drawn into Akanbar by the oodles of conflict and the lure of learning new things, I like learning something new. Removing the armies would make some conflict return, that's my guess.




TL;DR: I agree with Demandred whole-heartedly on the topic of removing armies.

[Dimetrius]

Other things I think we could use:
- More detailed and diverse lore
- Some incentive to writing books/utilizing the Theatre, so people actually do these things
- The next Shrine competition

[Demandred]

(To Detahn. For the record I don't think we asked for a new hunting ground and I think unicorns and cherubs sound a bit too airy fairy. Also I have not read or heard anywhere that anybody in Golgonath was complaining about not having enough things to hunt.)