EFUM Feedback

[Professor Death]

The following reflects conversation I've had with players new to the server:

The depth and time the DM team has put in is obvious, so kudos to that.  

The depth and FOIG philosophy is very frustrating to new players with regard to some of the custom systems (alchemy for instance). I know I spent hours with a previous character investing time, charting the clues I gleaned from clues and trying to decipher them, and mostly got DEAD for my efforts after accidentally getting grey renders. I made a few components through the process as have the newbies I've talked to, but not anything useful. Being told FOIG and then not being able to hook up with anyone to teach just drives you away from even bothering with it.

The learning curve is steep (always has been). I remember in EFU being very "stuck" for a long time at 5th level until something clicked in my play and I shot to 9th ( for a brief time - never seen 9th since, and that was like four years ago now I think).  The newbies have a very hard time getting used to the deathrate here and the spawn penalty, so they continue to need every encouragement that it does get better. But, we all know this already; I'm just reiterating it.

[Seanzie]

Veteran Mode with -2 ECL but no quest respawn, double the amount of candles of life needing to be used for revival, and permadeath in all PvP.

I kinda think that is a good idea, actually. I also would like to see and evil faction, and I would like another option, to actually start out living in Mistlocke, Coming from the underdark, anything other than the portal every time, allows more concepts.

Otherwise I enjoy Mistlocke minus the constant grind, and extremely unsupported evils (mostly).

[Kinslayer988]

I'd like to see a minor dm faction that has continuity, and it's own agenda, like a hidden Cabal under the tutelage of a certain Pale Master whose objectives are to oppose the Withering and find a way to halt the spread of H'bala's influence, and in order to do so embrace undeath to an extent to render themselves considerable immunity.

I would definitely want something like this around the server.

[Vlaid]

Veteran Mode with -2 ECL but no quest respawn, double the amount of candles of life needing to be used for revival, and permadeath in all PvP.

I don't really like this idea personally. At least not as currently proposed, I might like it more if the balancing of the idea was different.

I can see it leading to some more elitist attitudes regarding questing/levels.....as well as widening the power gap between the usual powerhouses and everyone else further (by making getting to level 9/10 even easier/less time consuming).

It would likely make leveling/playing a monster easier also, if that's a good thing or not I have no idea.

[Calixto]

If you want to see evil factions, I'm sure we pcs are welcome to send a proposal to the dm team. Or start a pc faction and hope it gets turned into a dm faction, maybe.

[Optimistic]

i've not played in a 'real' faction yet, just an association like the Muster. But from what I can tell, all the factions are alignment neutral. It's the players that make them good or evil. This is at least true for the Muster, where I play the goody two shoes amongst vary degree's of uncarring townguards, corrupt racist officials, extreme law proponents, etc. It makes the back end experiance, IE- thinking in the back of your head: How much can I trust this person ostensibly in the same faction as me? Could they really be working with that traitor we're trying to root out, or on the payroll of the X Criminal element?

[Mort]

Yep! This goes for all our factions...