OF WAR AND PEACE

Thank you both for taking the time to reply! I honestly didn't mean this to be a "hey staff should do this" but more as a "hey, what would the general memberbase's opinion be on this?" sort of discussion to see who likes/dislikes the potential changes and possibly help brainstorm for them. The only reason why I offered potential changes in caps, costs, etc. are because many people are very willing to criticize or bash on something without giving a suggestion for change. It's the same way people criticize a president ("Oh, he's doing an awful job") and yet would have absolutely no plan to rule a country better. I prefer to have solutions to try and support my criticisms so things may actually come of it.

@Nyx

I'm aware that people feel differently than me, and that's okay--but the whole pack claiming vs pack challenging system feels very lenient toward pack creation while being very harsh on pack challenging in the sense that challenging has far, far more drawbacks then creation without creation having any extra requirements to properly compensate for that.

I didn't realize that the general populations' post count was so low--I honestly believed it to be higher, though that might be because of where I've been RPing recently. My apologies--they both have a lot of similarities and I suppose I mix the two sometimes in my mind without realizing. But that is also the reason why I mentioned the gemstone requirement being raised--which you said that it can be discussed in the future with, so I'll lay that issue to rest for now with the potential possibility of change in that. Thank you.

If giving more benefits to excellent fighters is an issue with disbandment, it could easily be made to only be for a siege reward or from inactivity, efficiently solving that problem.

I have nothing to offer on high-post members coming back to challenge. I understand I am one of them, but hiatuses are unfortunately hiatuses for me, in regards to my personal situation, and I happened to find plenty of time off of mine to be active on multiple sites so I took the opportunity to revive my muse, and it worked. Anyway, I have nothing to offer as far as solutions go without, to be frank as well, making Alacritis any more like another certain site than it already is as far as rules and systems go.

We see things differently, and I'm glad, because I value the input. I know it's disappointing to have your pack challenged for when you're highly active with your character (see also: Oddity vs Jupiter for Ludicael and me on another site challenging for a high rank only for someone to contest who hasn't posted in almost a month). I didn't realize that it threw people off so much--I try to work around it when I can and use it for plots.

Oh, the siege ban during site moving is perfectly understandable. I've known that East of Paradise was shutting down for about two or three months now, and I wasn't planning another siege until (hopefully) the siege changes are implemented in the first place.

As I said, I didn't mean to make it seem like a "hey staff, do this!" ^^; I meant for it to be a discussion about the changes or for people to propose something (or say that they don't like something proposed for this reason) without just saying "hey I don't like this" or "hey this needs to be changed." Basically, I wanted to see how everyone liked the suggestions/the constructive criticism.


@Eve

I have brought up disbandment, yes, but then I was only, to be straightforward, complaining about it. I came back with suggestions as to why it should be changed rather than just saying "hey, I don't like this." I enjoy giving supporting evidence to things that I say when it comes to constructive criticism, as you've seen. c: Years of public school and English classes, I suppose. Good habits, actually. About the only thing the school system does right.

Perhaps indefinitely was a stretch with the way I left the argument. Unfortunately, my internet was about to be shut off and I was in a hurry, so I forgot to mention raising the price of such territories. But indefinitely would be a bit of stretch for it, you're right, and I apologize for not having more time to put more support on that suggestion. A higher cap, perhaps? I wasn't saying to "fill all the packs" but rather not leave them as... utterly and disappointingly desolate.


Thank you both for reading and replying. I really appreciate it. ^^; I've been out of the loop so I appreciate the differing point of views. I know things can be a little slow to roll sometimes so I hoped by collecting opinions beforehand it might help a bit, but I apologize if it didn't.