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petroglyph
06-21-2005, 02:08 AM
To those who feel the need to sit around at merchant events and complain about or threaten those who dared to come from out of town to attend. . .get over it already. The merchant is not your personal property. If the GM wanted to run a citizens-only merchant, he would.

And no, it doesn't make you a virtuous person if you only ever attend the merchants in your home town. It makes you lazy.
Divinity
06-21-2005, 02:35 AM
Where the heck did this spawn from?
petroglyph
06-21-2005, 03:13 AM
People muttering to themselves at every Drogur event I've attended so far, plus a few added complaints from the official boards.
Warriorbird
06-21-2005, 03:30 AM
That stuff is such nonsense.
Shari
06-21-2005, 03:45 AM
....

Don't you have to actually have citizenship to be part of Drogur's thing? As in, hang in the town for however long it takes, sign up in the town hall,etc?
Jolena
06-21-2005, 03:46 AM
Nope that's for the tattoo artist that's touring Elanthia.
Shari
06-21-2005, 04:17 AM
Oh.

Then those people bitching need to shut the hell up. :D
Asha
06-21-2005, 04:20 AM
My character never belonged to any town. If anyone got all heated over him being there, They'd better have lots of friends to put the pieces of them back together.
Fallen
06-21-2005, 04:30 AM
In this case, I agree. The GM's got it right when they have merchants that work ONLY for citizens.

For all other merchants, its first come, first serve.

A fine balance.
Leetahkin
06-21-2005, 09:36 AM
Originally posted by Drayal
My character never belonged to any town.

I wish Shimm had been for this tattoo merchant. Would love to see his scars from Ent made into a tattoo. :smilegrin:
Shari
06-21-2005, 01:01 PM
I DO like the concept of working for citizens only. But if the merchant doesn't specify, then they're fair-game for everyone. So if there ARE people whining and bitching, tell them to walk back over to the "tree" that the "scroll" is on, squint real hard, and maybe they'll read the thing correctly.
Ylena
06-21-2005, 02:25 PM
The whole "citizenship" crap was one of the straws that finally forced my decision to go.

It was utterly ludicrous to me that I'd played the game for so many years, based in the Landing, and suddenly was not a citizen because of some stupid mechanic that should have grandfathered existing characters in anyway. It absolutely shattered the suspension of disbelief for me.
Warriorbird
06-21-2005, 02:31 PM
Eh. Didn't you beta/alpha? They gave out free citizenship for that.
OreoElf
06-21-2005, 04:41 PM
That's stupid... people bitching about traveling... I bet some of them run around following the calendar to get alters elswhere as well... The only thing I really feel like bitching about at merchants is when someone brings a bunch of their zombies and gets extra work done when the work is limited.

[Edited on 6-21-2005 by OreoElf]
Jolena
06-21-2005, 04:42 PM
Personally, I don't see an issue with the zombies either. If they pay for extra accounts, those accounts should have the same amount of opportunity for work as everyone else. I guess I'm in the minority in that issue though, I know lots of folks who don't like people MA'ing at events.
Fission
06-21-2005, 04:52 PM
The way I look at it, if people from a town don't need you there for merchants, they sure as hell don't need you there to help with invasions or anything else, either.

A few years back I and some others got brushed off from Haven as 'Landing scum' and told to leave. A couple weeks later DA forces kicked Haven's collective ass and occupied the entire town, but hey, they didn't need us Landing people.

:smilegrin: