Have fun damnit!

[Aethereal]

It is in the best interests of the survival and liveliness of the server to welcome folks with varying playstyles and catering to the 'hardcore' audience whilst leaving room for the more casual player seems to be a recurring theme when it comes to this topic.

It is perhaps most important to not resort to name calling and nonconstructive commentary such as singling out groups. i.e. 'nancies,' versus the 'stop, suck it up, and play camp.'

Remember, we are trying to help remedy the following situation by providing suggestions and or insightful commentary on how to improve:

The apparent playstyle of the collective playerbase cringing away from the harder/more interesting quests in order to dully spam the well-worn road of the less dangerous quests has got to stop.

In regards to the most recent kerfuffle, I have noticed claims being made about changes to the Withering implemented in-game, which seem not to have been announced by the DM team, yet. Otherwise, I am inclined to agree with RWG, this thread may have reached its conclusion.

[Cerberus]

Have Fun...
 
It's a game, have fun.
No point in this thread from post one to this. If you are afraid IC or OOC have fun with it and play it off. If you're not afraid of the withering IC or OOC then have fun with it and play it off.
 
Key words are have fun and let the other guy have fun. If we're all having fun then guess what... It's fun!
 
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[Jayde Moon]

The Old Hack, I think you need to take a break from this thread.  As a matter of fact, I insist.

Your statements to Ruined Desires are still unfair.  Your response to me is entirely mistaken in its depiction of his post.  Ruined Desires' posts in this thread have been nothing less than thoughtful and lacking any of your own passive aggressive behavior.

Here is his first post in this thread.  The one just above that you are attacking makes absolutely no judgement except what you insist on reading into it.

He caveats his post to admit that he does prefer a certain playstyle, but he doesn't say it's the 'right' style or that other people are 'nancies'.  In fact, he gives absolutely no opinion at all on other styles of play.

Instead he takes a very specific (mis?)conception and then describes why this concept may be mistaken.

You are the one attaching negative feelings to it.  You are the one making attacks.

So chill out.

[River Walker]

I am firmly in the Nancy camp (the server is too damn hard!), yet I spend a good 50% of my time out in the Withered areas. For me, the absolute biggest problem isn't the Withering, it's this and this:

TBH, for me it's the presence of  monsters with True Sight [or what seems to be] that also have a decent  AB, stealth [detectable, I know, but you can't make all your checks],  and onhit paralyzation on a passable DC, but it's still there.

Both of these things are just straight-up not fun. There is nothing fun about having some rope-play interrupted by lethal spawns appearing out of freaking nowhere, and there is similarly nothing fun about deadly little pissant spawns that can utterly end a character with zero chance to defend against it.

I think the Withering is mostly an annoyance, but as I said (in the thread that was actually about the Withering), I've never once played a character who would be cool with having zombie juice oozing out of their faces.

[sylvyrdragon]

Everyone breath.  No matter what it all boils down to "It's a game.  If you have fun play, if you don't have fun then don't play."  

No matter what your reason for not exploring / doing some of the harder quests, they are YOUR reasons.  It's not my job or anyone else to say you are wrong.

We have always had two camps in EFU.  Those that have NO fear of anything, they know the potions to use, the weapons that do the most damage, the best armor etc.  Then there are those that just don't.  Neither group is right or wrong.  Neither group is having more fun than the other.  No matter which group you fall into, if you are having fun, then you are playing RIGHT.

Attacking someone because they have a different opinion than yours is silly.  It gets you no where and you learn nothing.  

So... everyone just Breath.

[Aethereal]

So... everyone just Breath.

Don't try too hard though. :p

[Howlando]

I'm going to lock the thread, allow me to offer my genuine appreciation to all who contributed positively and allow me to say that I and the rest of the DM team are keenly paying attention and eager to implement tweaks and changes in order to help make EFU, indeed, more fun.