My Brothers and Sisters of Aabahran!

[Imoutgoodbye]

Cast your eyes towards the future. Look to tomorrow. Next week. Next month. However far you can see. However far you wish to look. Peer deeply into your scrying crystals, gaze at the stars and calculate your astrolabes, or ripple the waters of the lake with your oars. The Reverend cares not how you find the future. He cares that you find it.

*steps down from his soap box and offers it to any who would stand upon it*

My Brothers and Sisters, The Reverend speaks too much. He invites you to step forth and start the next Great Awakening of Aabahran. Stand before the Gods and ignite your passions. Ignite my passions. Please.

[Enethier]

The end is coming, Reverend. I have seen, and I have felt, and I have born witness to the darkness that is to come. While we wage our wars, He draws ever closer to our world. While we slay our own brothers and sisters, He marches forward in His eternal feeding ritual. He will find us, and he will consume. And none shall remain. Not you, not I. None. This I have seen.

And now I ask of you? What shall you do reverend? Will you attempt to run, knowing within your heart of hearts that you cannot escape it? Will you fight it, knowing that none can stand against Him? Or will you try to hasten his arrival, and the end of all things?

Will any of it make a difference?

PS: I'm completely drunk and you should ignore everything that I am saying, as it means absolutely nothing to the game. But honestly, just stick around bro. Make something that's fun, or funny, or just ridiculous. Doesn't even have to be a good PK combination (I wrote conversation the first time). But we can't have you getting all not-wanting-to-play on us. What is a following without it's Reverend to guide us?

[The Forsaken]

You guys are freaking creepy.

[Imoutgoodbye]

I keep something around during the semester to screw off with or train while I study.

I just want affirmation that others still believe there is more than a ghost world here.

[Tantangel]

Yeah, although I miss the old days when 70 characters would be at peak times once in a while, at least it's not like some places where there's 0 characters on for 12 hours out of the day. I've only had like one time where there was just me since returning and it wasn't for long. And if you play at certain times of the day there's plenty of people to RP with if you don't want to PK. If you want to PK that's about the only problem unless you're level 50. Then there's a bunch of people you can PK with generally.

[Trick]

If we voted more, perhaps we could get more attention.

[Dale]

FL is all but dead and it continues to go downhill in all aspects. Many people have been saying it. The reasons people keep leaving continue to go without a fix. Until that happens, no amount of voting is going to change anything.

[Trick]

What are the reasons?

[mya]

What are the reasons?

I second that question.

What are the reasons?

The only one noticed is the aging of our PlayerBase, who now have less time to play. Creating a snow ball effect, where we have less players online which means less player with the will to log in.

[KRins]

I think we ALL know there are considerably more reasons than the passage of time.

[Trick]

Okay, then what are they?

[KRins]

Just read the last several Goodbye threads that don't involve people with a decrease in spare time. Or to see it more accurately, just check out the facebook group.

[Dale]

What reasons? You're kidding right? lmao

Blind ignorance is another contributor. You guys act like nothing is wrong here. You want to know the reasons? Go back and read through all the leaving posts in the past 6 months and find the commonalities.

[Trick]

I'm not saying I don't see reasons. I just want to know what everyone thinks they are. So far, both of you, haven't given any. Just saying, " They are there!!". Okay, maybe they are. But taking Krins advice I read the facebook page back to April and so far the only reason I seeing for people leaving is because they died and lost equipment. So, someone used a tactic you call trashy and killed you.

I hate how whiney the Pbase has become. Everyone praises the "golden" age of 1.0 and early 2.0 and they cry about dying today? Really? We've all been ganged. We've all ganged. We've all been full sacced and we've all done it back. If you say you haven't, you're a liar. We all have our stories of the old days when our chars fought 3vs1 and thats what made us love the game. Everyone in this game has such a huge ego about themselves that makes them think they are gods of PK. When they die, they freak out and scream cheating, ganging, or trash. Why?

[Erana]

Went back and checked goodbye threads for the reasons that they said they would (allegedly) be leaving for:

P-Body: But school is starting, and I don't have the time to put into it.

Chesta6384: Was beginning to spark something up before I had to start workin endlessly.

tassinvegeta: Got into Amateur fighting so training takes up alot of my time, plus these last two classes I have before getting my B.S.

TheKid: so between getting ready for school and playing Call of Duty 4 I have had little time to filter to this game that I have grown to love.

Jibber: A lot of questionable things have happened in the past 24 hours and I just can't bring myself to attempt to play this game anymore.

Valek: Tomorrow I see what crazy professors I have and what they have in store for me.

Streetfighter: I took almost week off to see if

I had calmed down and I still had no urge to log on. Thats all I'm gonna

say about it.

Dale: I wish you the best of luck. My new LED 3D TV comes tomorrow along with my Xbox360 Kinect.

Liadon_Xiloscient: I am going on a Hiatus to get some stuff figured out in RL.

the_nightmare: I do not have the time to play right now and I am saying it with dissapointment because I really like the game and everything related to it

Nekky: This isn't a delete thread as such, more of an "on hold until I have more time to play" thread.

crackwilly21: As if you didn't notice, I'll be taking another break from the game. It was definatley fun as Ghar, and I wish all my RP had gone through, but it just never came to fruition.

megayeah: it is that time again and I am fairly sure it will be the last time you ever see, or hear from me. Because of ****ing bug abusers such as the player that plays....

Archbishop_Monk: No, I doubt I will be coming back as things are still painful. My husband and I started gaming together....Jan 3, 2011 my husband passed of a bloodclot that reached his brain.....I don't think I can bring myself to roll another character. It might happen in the future but I'm not even ready to think about that now.

Ghrundor: So I just came back, and now I'm tempted to leave already. Why is it required to full loot someone who doesnt have anything worth a crap anyway?

Elfrosto: I'm probably done playing for a while...The rare crumbling thing is just too much.

Krins: Yep, I'm gone. I sucked up getting demoted for doing the right thing, but I honestly cannot abide 50+ hours on a character... being told I'm doing the right thing... then not getting what I want based on a random guess.

[Trick]

So, 16 players have left. Seven of them saying time, a large portion of others say it's because of RL related issues and not necessarily time-related. And then there are a few that are saying something IG has caused them to leave.(which most of them are back anyways)...

[The Forsaken]

I hate how whiney the Pbase has become. Everyone praises the "golden" age of 1.0 and early 2.0 and they cry about dying today? Really? We've all been ganged. We've all ganged. We've all been full sacced and we've all done it back. If you say you haven't' date=' you're a liar. We all have our stories of the old days when our chars fought 3vs1 and thats what made us love the game. Everyone in this game has such a huge ego about themselves that makes them think they are gods of PK. When they die, they freak out and scream cheating, ganging, or trash. Why?[/quote']

Has become? The Pbase has been whining for YEARS. It was whining when I took a break due to real life, and it's still whining when I came back. It's something I've accepted, and began to ignore unless I see some valid points behind it.

Things I usually see: (Mostly exaggerated, but not overly.)

1. I got full looted twice in a month! This sucks! I quit!

2. I didn't get my Qrace! FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I quit!

3. IMMS don't like me! I QUIT!

And like Erana did, I went back and searched for the goodbye threads. The majority stated life issues. Some said 'I don't want to talk about it' and a few had something along the lines of what's above.

Meh.

[Trick]

You're right.

[Tantangel]

Wow, I didn't mean to open up that can of worms. But yeah, full looting sucks, I saw the Facebook of FL and said to hell with that and didn't want a part of it. I'm actually happy I don't even really open AIM anymore. I did the other day and only saw a fraction of the people I used to talk to on anyways. Yeah it's nice having someone to talk to, but it's such a distraction from the actual game that you have a MUCH better chance at actually being better by not talking to hardly anyone but IG and reading the forum.

There for the last two years all I did was play on a console (really only the last year and a half) and I found out that even while spending all that money on all those nifty games, FL was actually FAR better than most of those games. I literally have 56 Xbox 360 games, another 21 PS3 games and that doesn't even include the hand held systems and the Arcade/PSN games I own which would probably total over 300.

In short maybe it's a good thing these people left because they were full looted. Yeah it sucks, but in the infamous words of LA, Harden up Princess. As for everyone else who quit because of RL issues it's understandable. Otherwise STFU and play a game that's actually really well done and keeps getting better. /rant

[Twinblades713]

I deleted AIM awhile ago. It was nice.

[Trick]

Great thing about FL is it's ever changing. Console games have a story. You go through it and it's over. FL has creative players doing different things. Do we always take advantage of that? Nope. Do a lot of us put all efforts into PK? Yep.

[Imoutgoodbye]

Erana, thank you for bringing some sensibility to this thread.

*takes back his soap box* I will personally eternally damn the soul of the next person who tries to use the Reverend's Soap Box to cry about the End of Days or the Coming of the End.

The Reverend wants to hear about what people who HAVE FAITH have to say! The Reverend wants to hear what people are going TO DO to try to rise above the naysayers!

The Reverend wants to know one simple thing, Aabahran:

Do you have the balls left to stand up and say "I want to enjoy this world? I want to breathe life into this world?".

The Reverend logged in yesterday for a little while. He was running around in mithril. MITHRIL! He was sucking like he always does. But, damnit, if I scribe a scroll, people read it. When I speak, people respond. Whether by words or killing me, they respond.

I want to know, are you going to keep ****ing trolling around these damned forums like a dog sniffing after the blood or are people going to do what they always tell me to do? Reach down deep inside, pull up what's left of your pride and do something?! Anything?!

I'm sick of the vagueness. Sick of the negativity. I don't get what I want out of the game and I start over and over and over.

Ask Anume. Ask any Immortal. I probably whine over the Prayer forum more than anybody here. I scream, cry, and kick like a little child trying to get something. Why? Because I'm on the bottom of the PK pile and feel oppressed. That's it. I feel screwed because I'm horrid at PK. There. That's what's wrong with me. I admit it.

So, what's wrong with you?

And if you don't want to post it here, fine. But send me a PM. Work with me at the very least. I wanted to be a Community Manager. Not because I thought it would be "fun" or because I wanted some "authority". I wanted it so I could work with all of you. Because I feel a kinship with all of you. You all know how much I suck. Well, maybe I could kick the crap out of Krins, but, that's debatable.

Help me help you help yourself. Somehow, someway, anyway. I'm all for asking and begging for game changes to keep this place competitive. I, however, am opposed to "running it like a business". A business is cold. It's calculated. It doesn't treat people like a Brother should a Brother. It's efficiency without caring. A story with an end. Business cares about business and if we become so successful that we grow to a player base like Aardwolf...then what? You're a number. A voice lost in the crowd.

But if we grow as a player base, increase to that size, and maintain what we have here on the forums...then we're not lost voices. Although, I'd probably cry if we got to be the size of Aardwolf.

Okay. I'm done rambling. I'm tired.

[Tantangel]

I think it's a mixture of things to be honest. Voting I'm sure helps but word of mouth helps probably the most I think. The problem with this now is that every time I try and spread the word about it, most people shrug it off because it's not pretty enough, or they don't like to read or they don't care about games. Hell if I told a guy it'd help his penis grow by 5" just by logging on to play I doubt anyone I knew would play because they're pretty transfixed on console games and the likes.

Perhaps we should just start posting to our personal Facebooks or even putting up postings on Craigslist to help boost numbers. I don't think size is an issue here though because eventually the hardcore addicted always come back when they have the time, but rather fear of commitment. I've been reading some of the PK logs, but a lot of them are older it looks like. And RP logs they're older too, not to say there isn't any going on, but it'd probably show we're not dead either. I've tried some of those other MUDs out there, and they pretty much suck compared to us, so go preach on the TMS board about us if you can still.

[Enethier]

Because I'm on the bottom of the PK pile and feel oppressed. That's it. I feel screwed because I'm horrid at PK. There. That's what's wrong with me. I admit it.

I call BS. You can kill me while sleeping and intoxicated with broken fingers. I don't PK. I can't embarrass myself like that ever again.

But I do agree. As I said before, I was just rambling before, has no reflection on FL. I want to play FL. It's fun, and despite the frustrations I've had with it over the last few years, I enjoy it a great deal.

What I think we need is a bunch of really solid RPers getting together and crafting a fantastic story that can really engage the playerbase.

In my travels, I have discovered many new players, even brought one here myself. And I know that at least he is scared to death of PK. And there's gonna be no way around that. So instead of trying to fight that inevitable monster... why not provide them with something that they don't necessarily have to fear: a story that they can feel a part of?

What's wrong with me....

1) God awful at PK. The brown rats in Miruvhor laugh at me when I try.

2) Limited knowledge of gear/where to find it.

3) Very impatient. I'm a bit of a hothead, though I am trying very hard not to let that show.

4) Egocentric. Even in RP, I always have to feel like I am the center of something. It's ironic that I'm acknowledging this, even despite the fact that I have a horrible case of this with my current character.

5) Hardly productive. I tend to not try to benefit the game, but rather benefit my characters inside the game.

[Kyzarius]

What we need is people to stop seperating RP from PK in their minds. Because RP is your character living and dieing in FL. Being killed by other players, or killing other players is as much a defining part of your RP as what flavor tea you like.