Frankly, there are many roleplay aspects of Lusternia that I have never seen conform to what you are saying.
I have three different characters, all of different races, and people treat them differently. A lot of it has to do with where you are, what city or guild you are in, more than what race you are, but I know that going out of character or acting in a manner that violates a principal of your race is forbidden. I've only been on for a little while, but I haven't seen much in terms of any of the problems you speak of. Also, it makes perfect sense to me to have another player control how high you get in a guild. That is like real life. There are a lot of rpg that just let you advance based on how much you kill or how many quests you perform. That provides a weak atmosphere. Games completely run by automation and npc interaction aren't that great for roleplay. You can't have both good roleplay and a weak atmosphere. Having other sentient beings in charge of your advancement is very, very realistic. Most guilds do require some sort of exam or report, but that makes sense, as guilds are influencial bodies politic in all Lusternian cities. As a note to Che, most guilds have a suggested training regiment. Read GHELP, that's for guild help, and it'll probably obvious. If it's not, I'm considering making a paladin character. I'll help if I can. As for the queen ant quest, first, don't be afraid to ask in character. Some quests are set up to be impossibler to do on your own. This one is not, so I'll tell you about it. Go to newton Caverns, and get to the shroomie kingdom through one of the portals. Go as far east as you can, around the lake, and you'll find a road up the mountain. Kill finks in that area and ant eggs will fall out of them. Happy lusterniaing. Signed: Dakotah Rickard On 1/13/09, Shadow Dragon <elementalult...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I've never really had much luck with lusternia or any other iron realms > games for a couple reasons. Firstly the roleplay atmosphere just doesn't > seem to fit no matter what race, class or the like I pick. The races don't > seem to have their own cultures, it seems to be all guild based, and even > then the roleplay I did see was very loose and didn't seem to make a lot of > sense. There's a lot of things I'd like to try out in the iron realms games, > like the colossus battles in lusternia, or the ship battles in achaea, but I > can't get passed the roleplay thing. The other reason is that guilds are > just, weird. You have to have player approval to get past a certain level of > training, and it seems to me that to get into the guild, no matter which > guild it is, you have to write a ton of reports and essays and do interview > and, blah. I can see that sort of thing for like, a scholar's guild, but > there's a sort of chaos knight guild in lusternia for which that makes > absolutely no sense, same with the monks guild. Also, the little minigames > like capture the flag and tag and such don't make sense at all in a roleplay > atmosphere. I've suggested to them in the past that they put up sepperate > servers of the games non-roleplay, since these muds would be awesome hack > and slash, but I never got a response. I imagine for a non-roleplay version > they'd have to take out a lot of the player run stuff like guild approval > and the like, but that wouldn't bother me in the slightest since having some > guy I don't know run a required aspect of the game doesn't sit well with me. > Does anyone else think these muds would be great without roleplay > constraints? If so, would you guys be willing to back me in suggesting it to > them again? > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
