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Well, I guess some places it might be fun to have ogre lords and gazers just "pop" up on your head while you practice something at your home... especially when your home is nowhere near any spawn point... but I wasn't aware that this was something considered "fun" for people who just like to play the game... Unfortunately, this is NOT something that I consider fun. However, tonight, I left my character at my house practicing my animal lore on a little bear I had tamed for the occation. I set up my hotkey and my macro to continue animal lore on his little head about every 20 seconds or so. I then went out, for like the first time in about 2 months with some friends... and was gone for about 2-3 hours... well, I come back to find me dead, with EVERYTHING I OWNED gone, henchies obviously long dead and decayed, along with several VERY nice weapons, armor, and clothing buffs. I checked through my journal, and had to scroll up quite a ways through all the "You be dead" thingies... finally I found it- "You see: a gazer" "You see: an Ogre Lord".... um, no... see, I didn't "SEE" anything like that, nor have I EVER seen anything like that ANYWHERE near my house... it just doesn't happen. I wouldn't have placed my house there if it did.

I've played some good shards before, and I had hoped that this one would be where I called home, as I liked nearly everyone I've met, and was starting to have a really good time here. It's just sad that silly things like this have to force decent players to other servers...

Anyway, to make a long story short, thanks all for being so nice to me in the VERY short time I was here, but I must move on... this is not my kind of fun. Nor should I think that it would be ANYONE else's... c'est la vi.

Celeste

doubled ... woops

As much as we all love WOD, we have to admit that it's not for everyone. I hope you know that we're sorry to see you go, adn I hope you find a shard or some other game out there that better suits you.

It's your choice to leave.. I hate to see people go for such a small thing, but I nor anyone else can make you stay. I would like to point a few things out, just in case you decide to stick around.. Skills here in WoD can only be trained up by paying an NPC vendor.. Which means the constant use of the skill does nothing to increase it, unless it's a direct combat related skill(IE macefighting, tactics, parry, so forth.)

Items can -always- be replaced. There is only one WoD, however.

Im going to miss you sweety. Please consider coming back.

I hope my post didn't sound too much like "well then, don't let the door knob hit ya where the Good Lord split ya," because that wasn't my intention at all.

It's always sad to say goodbye, but statistics will back me up when I say that most players who leave do come back eventually - look at Marius after all - or me for that matter. Chances are good that some day we'll see her again in her current guise or maybe in a new one. If we don't, as she says, c'est la vie.

Amileth wrote:It's your choice to leave.. I hate to see people go for such a small thing, but I nor anyone else can make you stay. I would like to point a few things out, just in case you decide to stick around.. Skills here in WoD can only be trained up by paying an NPC vendor.. Which means the constant use of the skill does nothing to increase it, unless it's a direct combat related skill(IE macefighting, tactics, parry, so forth.)

Items can -always- be replaced. There is only one WoD, however.

See, though, you're missing my point... YES, items can be replaced, but when the only need for replacing them comes from being forced to do so by malice and spite, there really shouldn't be a need, now should there? Also, I realize that skills need to be paid for to train, I had done so, and it was spec'd as well, and I had hoped to max it out before I returned... Ya see, I ran a shard of my own at one time too... and yeah, I'd pop in on people unexpectedly and invisible, and just plop out a couple nasties on their heads... you know, just for that "mischievious GM" kinda thing... but if I noticed that the person wasn't fighting back, or was getting their butt handed to them, I either zapped the critter, or made sure I rezzed them when they DID croak... so they didn't lose everything they'd worked so hard to acquire. This was obviously not the case here, and this is why this is obviously not the place for me, who really just enjoys PLAYING THE GAME, to be. Tell ya what, delete your main character and start again from scratch. Sound like fun? Didn't think so... "but items can be replaced...you'll get em again." Yeah, just what I wanted to do, after FINALLY getting those things I had fought so hard to get in the first place- to go get em AGAIN. And on top of that- for NO GOOD REASON.

Celeste, we're pretty sure that what you think happened, didn't happen. While we can't be 100% sure, it would be a shame for you to go over a misunderstanding. Lots of us have macro'd, some even oven night, and lots more for roughly half the month, just look at the playtimes.

Try to get some rest, cool off, and then come back tomorrow.

Tell ya what, delete your main character and start again from scratch. Sound like fun? Didn't think so

Wasn't there a thread about this and didn't a few players act upon this idea?

However, I hope you find the shard that is best suited for you. You still have a chance to come back. This time you can buy a bigger house where no area effect spell can hit you, with some financial support by your fellow "wodians".

Celeste,I know how you feel losing all of your items, it has happened to me quite a few times. Most of them were due to not getting to my corpse in time, but one time that sticks in my head was whenI lost all of my mage, Anthony's, gear. He was on a rescue mission of my stealther at the time, and ended up getting killed himself 5 mins before a restart. I lost all of Anthonys stuff, and the majority of Anthonys, but losing all of his stuff let me start basically fresh with Anthony. Before the loss, I was running out of slots for buffs, and my armour wasn't all that great either. I even slightly changed his skillset, because I didn't have any items that would have been made useless due to the change, and over time I got items alot better than the ones I got. Just because you lost everything doesn't mean it's all over, I thought that at first but then came out better in the long run, turning Anthony into a real weakling into a not-so-weakling

Celeste, the one thing I would strongly suggest is that you find out what happened before leaving. You were attacked at home, I know, but please consider: Brit Bank was attacked tonight by liches, black wisps and some very big nasties. Anybody can be attacked, anywhere, anytime. That's the reality of WoD.

The fact that you lost everything doesn't have to mean the end of the world. Items can be replaced. You will be overwhelmed and amazed at the generosity of your fellow WoD-ians if you give them the chance to help you out.

I don't know you from Eve, Celeste, but if you were accepted to play here, the powers that be saw in you that special ingredient that makes the players of WoD so special. Please don't throw away the opportunity to experience first-hand how caring and giving we can all be before you find out the facts.

My 2 gps...

Hmmm... well, I had a bit of time to cool off a bit. Mind you, I'm still glowing a pretty shade of red, but I had some correspondance with someone who assured me that the matter would be looked into. What I had neglacted to mention in my earlier post, due to my elevated blood pressure at the time, was that the creatures that attacked, and ultimately killed my mindlessly macroing character, do not spawn at my home's location, EVER. They do not spawn anywhere NEAR my home's location. Further inspection of my journals revealed no players leading these creatures to my location- they just simply appeared on my head. Rest assured that I AM calm as I write this... I'm not ranting, I'm stating facts. Ya see, spawns of creatures are something that GM's and seers place- sometimes for special events, sometimes simply to populate areas. In either case, there were no spawn points for either of these two creatures anywhere in the vicinity of my home. The absolute ONLY way that either of these creatures appeared at my location, was that they were put there... intentionally. I realize that some sort of "event" may have been taking place tonight, and that it may or may not have been all in good fun, but randomly killing, and bankrupting hapless macroing characters is not, in my opinion, in good taste. Especialy someplace where the atmosphere is what I believed it to be here on WoD.

I have not yet decided whether I will delete my account or try to come back and recoup my losses. But, because so many of you have stated that items are so easily replaced, let me give you a listing of just what Celeste carries on her at all times:

I think the moral of the story is to not macro. It doesn't help raising skills in WoD (as far as I know), so I am of the opinion that justice was, if harshly, dealt.

As for the monsters "never spawning", I came across this idea. Now, I can't be certain if it's accurate, but it is an observation made out of experience, so I figured it was at least worth a shot:

The cances are the spawner possibly near your home has never been geared up so high. I've seen Ents wandering just outside of Britannia, because there were more players online than usual. Spawners aren't really predictable, and I am unsure to how long you have been playing, but it's quite likely they've never been so high. Out of interest, where exactly is your house?

As for deleting your character, I myself have been prone to acts of rashness while in the heat of the moment, and I can't say I don't regret a few of them. This includes deleting my character. But I can say they've all been learning experiences, a way to test my integrity, character, and overall love of the shard. I have to say I wouldn't be where I was without a little difficulty and setbacks - as I imagine anyone else whose established a foothold on this shard would say.

That said, I have little love for those who macro. The game was not intended to reward people who do so, as it can quickly ruin the player economy.

(look at scrolls: people order them in the tens of thousands)

In any case, I see this post as written by a player who wants to come back, but is upset. If that is the case, I hope your return to WoD is just as enjoyable as joining was. As frustrating as your situation is, if I was in your position I would count myself grateful for not being on OSI, where what happened to you would have happened in the first five minutes, and opportunities here are non-existent.

Proverb: If you consider yourself hard done by, just remember some person is doing it worse on OSI, or a really lame player shard.

-M

here is the list:
a tempered bow of archery, durable leather gloves of archery, rugged long pants of healing, rugged leather shorts of tactics, tempered sleeves of tactics, indy scimitar of swords, rugged silver cutlass of quality, my BRAND NEW rugged heater of parrying, an obsidian steed named Princess, 4 pieces of jewelry- (all dex, all +5), bag of regs, key to my house, (which now I have no others for...), druid bag or runes, bag of druid regs, druid staff, at least 3 kegs of gr-heals, 1-2 kegs of gr-explosions, 1 keg gr-agility, 1 keg gr-strength, approx 25-35K in gold, an INDY fancy shirt of animal lore... not sure if that's all of it, but it should give you a pretty good idea of just how "easy" it would be for me to replace all of that... like I said earlier, try deleting your main character - without emptying out his/her bank box beforehand, and start over from scratch... doesn't sound like too much fun, now does it? I don't think so either... but I guess we'll see...

Marius the Black wrote:I think the moral of the story is to not macro. I am of the opinion that justice was, if harshly, dealt.

-M

WOW! I guess it took me longer than I thought to compile my list of things I'd be missing. But... after submitting it, I find THIS little tid-bit of wisdom... YES, my friend, it is COMPLETELY "justified" to simply kill a player who is performing well within the limitations and rules of the game. It is "justified" to rob someone of all his/her worldly possesions simply because you don't agree with something they are doing which, mind you, is in no way harming YOU, the "economy", or in ANY way, ANYONE on the shard. It is "justice" to state in the rules and guidelines that something is accepted, only to punish those who follow those guidelines... I am just curious as to where your definition of "justice" comes from? It certainly didn't read like that when I looked it up in Webster's...

It would appear that I cooled off too quickly...