GMs want me to scale back Dreavenings

[Methais]

Well, yeah, 16 is dumb. But so is 100 people all crammed into 1 room.

It's pretty well known that 100+ people in 1 room = bad things.

So you think invasions and other events that attract huge numbers should stop happening too?

[Alastir]

So you think invasions and other events that attract huge numbers should stop happening too?

Yes, that's exactly what I said.


I've suggested many times that during merchant events, 2-3 merchants come out at the same time to split the herd.

And I've never seen invasions cause anywhere near the same amount of people in 1 room.

[Murrandii]

man, warcamping with 2 players, whenever you get 2 waves at the same time it lags. Let's be honest here

[Methais]

And I've never seen invasions cause anywhere near the same amount of people in 1 room.

Game crashes caused by invasions: More than 0

Game crashes caused by Dreavenings: 0

[Alastir]

Game crashes caused by invasions: More than 0

Game crashes caused by Dreavenings: 0

People who claimed the game crashes because of invasions or Dreavenings: 0

[Gelston]

People who claimed the game crashes because of invasions or Dreavenings: 0

Um, the game has crashed due to invasions. So no, not 0.

[Ososis]

They either should stand up and say "Fuck you dreaven because we can and so we do" and ban your activities (at least that would be an honest reason instead of hiding behind arbitrary policy enforcement) or they should find a way to just make this work for the Elanthia we now live in. Not sure it's possible, but could they create a new table at the Wayside Inn that is reserved for Dreaven and has unique settings to minimize the large amount of activity that takes place? Same of HotA, give them 2 secret access rooms in Reim with similarly tailored settings to address the probelms cropping up. I think both groups have put in enough effort at this point to deserve it. In any case, ban it cause you want to or work on a solution. Spending time working on a way to make it against the rules is dumb.

As you navigate this shit show Dreaven, be wary. It's clear there are those who wish you ill and they are in positions to do that if you get loose. They may not officially monitor LNET but that doesn't mean they can't use it to send you the "tap" command on some random alt and still peg you for botting. Maybe have a rewritable paper your "bots" could collect names on then you actively trigger the script that runs of that list? I don't know. You're obviously an intelligent guy and will figure something out. I've never been shy about my personal dislike of the dreavenings, but I dislike the way this is being handled and misrepresented exponentially more so.

[Methais]

People who claimed the game crashes because of invasions or Dreavenings: 0

I just claimed that the game crashes because of invasions, which makes that number more than 0.

[Ploobar]

I have to get rid of every service that relies on a prompt from another player. So I could cast consecrate + bless at everyone at the table, but I can't dispel a weapon because that would require you giving the weapon to Najash which is a prompt.

I mean I COULD still do that, it's just I have to manually start a script to do all of that every time someone taps Najash, which would be a lot of work.

I'm wondering why the fuck 'tapping' or 'whispering' to one of them, is worse than 'asking'? I mean, you have them *telling* everyone already what they have to do to get <whatever> service, so how the fuck is that any different from me going to the town square and asking over and over for someone to do a spell or whatever?

And like everyone else, the only times I've ever noticed lag was during the REIM shit, which means that those pompous asses with deep pockets who AFK scripted their character(s) to cap in 30 days are the ones being the rats and whining to the GM's that they're tired of the lag themselves and want all the throughput for *themselves and their REIM hunt* and fuck the peons with one character who needs spells and services who hunt to actually enjoy the game and the cameraderie.

[Ploobar]

Cyanide is the cure for cancer too! And guns! Shoot cancer in the face! Except in NZ and UK, they can stab cancer in the face! Well maybe not in UK. They can run over cancer with a truck!

No, in UK cancer will be cured/killed by the terrorists taking over the nation.