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Anti-Rage Techniques?


Enethier

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I delved into one of mine this morning, when my client refused to pass commands to the server. I watched myself die, and lost about a million gold in items as I disconnect from being "AFK", as none of my commands had gone through. Reconnected finally, about an hour later, nothing in altar, no corpse.

My Anti-Rage Device:

I quit, make a new character. Generally something cute and cuddly. Then delete; delete. Satisfies that urge to delete something. I find it surprisingly effective.

That got me thinking... Do others have techniques that help them stick to characters through instances like that?

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Just take a look back at the shoutouts and general player props when they delete, and you'll notice that people are praised more heavily for persistence, creativity, and a good attitude than having an 'awesome pk' record. Some things are more memorable than others.

Nobody is counting except you.

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There's only one situation, that has happened to a few chars, where I rage delete/denial...a cheap death (ganging usually) followed by a full loot. If that double-whammy happens to me, in the past, I've typically been done. However lately I've been playing melees and getting used to dying haha. Maybe that's my tactic.

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Just take a look back at the shoutouts and general player props when they delete, and you'll notice that people are praised more heavily for persistence, creativity, and a good attitude than having an 'awesome pk' record. Some things are more memorable than others.

Nobody is counting except you.

Wasn't PK. Was hunger/thirst.

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I run around a bit after being killed. If I'm having a bad few days or just a bad day in general and something happens that was stupid on my part, I just quit playing the character. Granted other factors play into it, I find ranking up and training a lot more fun than the 50's game, and if I haven't played a class before to 50, it makes it that much more interesting for me to hang on to. If it's a PK beast, well then I get bored of it too. :P

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I find that listening to music not only focuses he, but keeps me from raging, too. It's hard to get pissed when you got The Carpenters playing in the background!

Why do biiiiiirds suddenly appeeeeaaarr, every tiiiiime, you are NNNNEEEEAAAARRR!

Don't wonder why you suck so much at PK then :P

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I used to get angry of what I felt where "****ty" deaths. Anymore you just start equipping, and send a note to yourself with the rat bastards name who did this to you, and start some RP oriented stuff targeting them. For example if it is a goodie, I like to send notes to Herald to send to all claiming that I am the bastard son of who he left when I was just a babe, leaving me and my mother to brave the world alone so he could pursue his own ends.

If they are an evil I like to send notes to Herald about how the kittens they ordered have arrived and are waiting for pickup in Val Miran's Temple of Light.

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