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I don’t know if this was reported and not really a pvp issue, but two days we had a 3x time dilation on tequatl kill. Meaning everyone had severe skill lag (skills didn’t sync up at all) and the event took 45 minutes. I don’t have the ip, but 21:45 (maybe 46) CET tequatl kill should stand out in the logs.
I reread the relevant part (link for convenience) and it looks to me it can go either way gender wise. Granted E has a deep voice, but that is not a guarantee for a male.
a body came up gently behind me. Arms wrapped so intimately around me that my fight or flight instincts never kicked in. Then, a knife appeared at my throat.
I can more easily imagine this being a description of a female, but as I said I don’t see anything about it that would make your assumption reasonable. Is there anything else?
Was it ever stated that E is a mister? I’ve seem it on the forum many times but in game it’s just E. I really like the idea of E being Evennia, especially with all the Anise stuff going on (not saying they are the same person).
There is no way to deliver the news that many/most (matter of opinion) of the features are minor or not impactful to you, in such a way that you are going to feel less disappointment. It’s a matter of either being disappointed during the actual announcement, or during the ‘announcement of the announcement’ that you are asking for.
I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear. I don’t want announcment of the announcement. I want 1 big blog post instead of many small ones spanned over 3 weeks, with silly titles.
I think a (major) part of the communication problems anet has can be seen from how the announcement of this feature pack was handled. I would also argue that it has something (a lot) to do with the PR mess of the recent days.
Firstly it was announced at a time of anniversary, for which many people were expecting something big. Secondly it was announced to span over 3 weeks, which is a huge amount of time further inflating the idea of a big change (and by big I mean expansion size).
With that in mind lets consider an interested player who is keeping up with the announcements as they come out. First day it’s just a pvp tournament, exciting for hard core pvp players, for anyone else not so much, “I’m sure they have something better in store for tomorrow.”
PvP visual and rewards – “This looks neat, I might even start to play more pvp, I’m getting exicited”
next day
Balance – “Nothing I already knew/to vague. Just a filler post and my wait is in vain”
next day
Big changes to commander system – “Omg I can’t wait to read that, this might be the blog post I was waiting for. Oh no wait new colours and account bound. BIG changes indeed. Are they mocking me?”
I could go on but it is beyond the point since it just repeats it self , up to Improvements Galore, of whole 3 changes.
So in short what I am trying to say is that this update seems quite substantial but they way anet is releasing details about it is simply horrible. If there were 1 (or 2) huge blog posts where everyone could find something to get excited about there would be far less fuss about it. Instead players are sent on an emotional roller-coaster which results in being disappointed to a varying degree for 90% of the time.
I was watching some youtube videos of guildwars prophecies , beyond, eotn and bonus mission pack. I observed that the assets are much nicer in later releases (generally the grpahics seems better). Which lead me to believe that when anet started working on gw2 they used the tools they made for gw2 to make gw assets.
I’m quite excited by this idea because that means it would be much easier for them to implement those maps now, since the terrain and stuff like that is already made.
What do you guys think? Was there ever a statement about this form anet?
Thank you for your posts, Konig Des Todes (your two latest and all others prior)!
I tried to put my frustration and utter disgust at his response into the appropriate words, but I could not.
However, your posts managed it magnificently!
Thank you for your past dedication to the lore and your engaging and intriguing discussions. I’ve truly enjoyed reading your words and thank you for frequently giving me quite a lot to think about.
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There is an enviroment dialogue of Warrmaster Narru taht says: “At least this locale is better than Southsun Cove” which would implicate that this is post Soutshun events…
Wasn’t there a dev post that we will see someone familiar from the Lost Shores, but this time with different name? I assumed that mysterious stranger was this person under new name, because I didn’t see any other new NPCs or did I miss something?
I also think that the small-pox example is rather good when comparing the elder dragons and races of Tyria with something in rl (from now on I will use word human as in real
life human, not Tyrian human, I will also consider small-pox as a rl counterpart to playable races).
Firstly because elder dragons like humans were on their respective domains since the beginning of time (when looking at a time-scale of humans and small-pox, since small-pox
specifically evolved to feast on humans) and are therefore much more evolved and intelligent, this difference is even so great that we simply don’t care about small-pox and
usually not even consider to consider them to be sentient or having a right to live.
Which brings me to my second point, we aren’t even bothered enough to kill small-pox 1 on 1 , despite having an immense strength advantage, but there are so many of them and
they are so irrelevant in small numbers that we create minions (vaccinations) that deal with them on their own (microscopic) domain. Just as elders dragons create minions
that deal with playable races so they are not bothered with that, although races of Tyria can easily kill an elder dragon when in larger numbers, just as small-pox can kill a
human. Funny note here vaccination are weakened versions of small-pox just as undead humans are weakened versions of humans. I can take this example even further by saying
that another human (Primordus) doesn’t want to curropt and just outright kills small organisms by antibiotics (destroyers).
Now by considering this analogy and not rendering it into obscurity can you seriously consider humans (elder dragons) evil because they don’t care what atrocities
vaccinations (their minions) might commit on small-pox (races of Tyria)?
And yes I know that small-pox are microscopic organism and that small-pox – human relations might not translate linearly to playable races – elder dragon relations (highly
philosophical question) but I still think this analogy shows the vast difference between races of Tyria and elder dragons. There is no proof of this, but it is hinted by the
sheer age of elder dragons and that is why I think it is worth considering this analogy, but you are free to refuse it.
PS. Mad Queen in my opinion you are, for the lack of better wording, overestimating the evilness of genocide, since you are portraying it as the highest evil possible,
whereas in reality for being convicted of genocide it is sufficient to held a few wrong speeches over radio and I can imagine far more evil things than that. What I think you
are referring to is mass killing or even simpler, a total war.
I’m still stuck on the fact that Mad feels killing off billions of smallpox viruses isn’t genocide because they’re not human, even though they are a racial group by definition of their classification. That’s like saying it’s okay to kill anything that’s not human simply because it’s not human.
Viruses are not a racial group. They are a collective of micro organisms. You need to read up on what genocide means. I’m not making up the definition of the word. Viruses do not fall under that definition.
I think you (and everyone else discussing here for that matter) must read upon definition of genocide and on the historical context in which this definition was made.
From the Genocide Convention as quoted by wiki: “any of the following acts committed with INTENT to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”- Intent in this definition is the most important word when talking about and proving a genocide. This is due to the fact that the concept of genocide was created after WWII as a response to be able to prevent and punish any action in a war comparable to the holocaust and this is why intent is the more important part of genocide than actual killings.
For example let me illustrate this by focusing on two groups of people that were killed in WWII due to Hitler, the first one being the Jews of which a few million were killed and the second one the Russian soldiers on the eastern front of whom 20 million were killed. The point here being that the eastern front should be considered more evil since many more had died, however there was no intent there ( on the front) to destroy the Russian nation and therefore can’t and isn’t considered genocide but a war as it always was. On the other hand the Jews are a totally different matter since there was clear intent of destruction of all the Jews as can be easily proved by all the propaganda the kittens had made in this direction.
Now you might say that the methods are different and more cruel with the holocaust, but looking from the point of international law, if the Russian soldiers were captured, poisoned and burned in the name of strategic advantage or psychological warfare or whatever it would still be war and even if the Jews were individually shot, while they were actively defending it would still be genocide.
Now moving on to the world of Tyria and the small-pox example.
I think it should be established, when applying the concept of genocide to Tyria, that the exact definition of genocide from real life is not sufficient, since it would only be applicable to Kyrta and Ebonhavke. Therefore in my opinion all the playable, lesser, elder, hostile and every other race that I am not aware of that shows some degrre of sentience (which include elder dragons) should be considered as if all were humans in rl international law.
Therefore it is much easier to prove a genocide, before an international court, on the elder dragons than the other way around, since during the personal story I heard many dialogues along the lines that all elder dragons should be destroyed. Whereas I heard no such thing from an elder dragon (correct me on this if I am wrong).
more in the next post—-