Town Hall [Jan 2019]
OMG! IT'S A TOWN HALL!

I think this is the hot topic lately, but I also think people aren’t going to be apt to discuss it so candidly for a variety of reasons, some very valid and some based on echo chamber mentality or skewed perception. I think it is a great topic and hope it gets some discussion aside from the “Cerb man bad” complaint and “You don’t know what goes on” response.

I appreciate the time the staff are taking to put together the town halls, very informative stuff is put out on them, It’s just hard to present a topic that isn’t IC revealing, sound overly complainy, or something we haven’t covered.

1. The IC/OOC divide and where it is working, and where we think it needs to be improved.

2. All the disguise updates, and how people are feeling about them.

3. The updates to clothing/shortdesc around showing your clothing quality and things of that nature.

Let's keep them coming! 😁👍

As a subtopic, I also would love to see if we can talk about how to give us an idea of where we are relatively in the world.

For instance, I don't need a stat to have a pretty good idea of how smart, how strong, how fast, etc. I am. The game does not always have enough feedback for us to know how we should RP our character. I don't need an exact scale, but I should have a general idea if I am one thing or another.

Thank you.

Sometimes I see a problem of people who believe that putting in so much effort towards someone means they'll net their romantic goals. Shortly after getting a "no" in that department, they often disappear. You simply stop seeing that character around.

I've seen this happen to a few people and it's annoying. You can't just drop your RP because Baka Jones won't sleep with you.

I've seen a few conversations on Game-Help about not being able to find meaningful RP by what I assume are new players, so it might be worth touching on. There aren't enough GMs to be running plots for every player concurrently, so learning how to self-sufficient is key if you want to play for extended periods. ^^

One other topic that would be nice to get some staff perspective on...

"What advantage is there in obfuscating mechanical information in a PvP game to a portion of the playerbase when there are some who have seeming detailed information on how to be effective in everything from skills checks to how NPCs might react to you?"

It kind of goes along with the skill/stat questions above, but from the perspective of how the staff thinks about this from a fairness perspective.

Success in Sindome

We often see characters with max UE, top end gear, six or seven digits in their bank accounts, and the best reputations but what is the real measure of success in Sindome?

What unit do the GM use to determine that a character has been a better part of the world than the majority?

There is a thread on the BgBB talking about this but I wonder if anyone (including staff) would like to cue in with their POVs.