Botting, Multiplaying

[Belrath]

Hello everyone.

First of all, I'm not accusing anyone personally about anything. These are just my own toughts and feelings about the state the mud is in.

Botting.
I feel like this has gotten really outta hand. I mean it wasn't tolorated at all in the old days and it's even against the rules as it should be. I dont mind people going afk for a while in groups to put kids to bed, getting food, bathroom, ciggy etc. But nowadays people are gone for hours. Sometimes people don't even know they are in a group. Triggers are made that you can just tell them to follow you and they do and start botting, giving leader the full control of their chars. All this has slowly lead to problems like bots not healing self, not entering things. If get shocked, never log back in to get corpse etc etc.

This has lead to that we have less and less leaders who are willing to deal these kinda situations and also other people in groups that are awake need to take alot more responsibility.
This has lead to that we have less and less players who like to group in these 'bot-groups'.
This has lead to that we have less and less groups in overall.
This has lead to that we have less and less players online in overall since atleast to me, the groups are the most fun part of the game.

Multiplaying.
Since most immortals are gone nowadays and nobody keeping order and see that the rules are followed, people has started multiplaying. Needless to say this is just bad. I really don't understand why people have to resort into such behavior. "No cops! No rules! wohoo! lets go crazy!" Perhaps it's just the human nature. *shrug* If everyone would start multiplaying, that would kill the mud really fast.

I really love this game and the people in it. Always makes me happy and lifts my spirit after a hard day to get into relaxing group and do stuffs together. And just really having fun. Nowadays I feel like the fun is totally gone from groups. Anyone can solo all day long but to me it's not the point, I want to group with people. And now I'm sad.

Take care.

---Bel

[cnl]

Bel - you raise some good points.

Regarding multiplaying - I support hard deletions personally. With no warnings. I have zero interest in playing a game with multiplaying myself. That's my 2c on that.

Regarding botting in groups - I understand why it's gotten how it has but I have little interest in personally leading bot groups or even participating. It's very unrewarding as a leader and perhaps symptomatic of the fact that the game needs a boost in end-game challenges. To be honest when I started Sloth bot groups were already in full swing but there were often a core of people present. I've seen groups now where the leader dies and the whole group just stands there and lets them shock. If I run a group these days it's a generally a small group.

Regarding people solo botting areas and running over other chars, killing the mob I've been fighting and then not even being at the keys to respond. see my response regarding multiplaying. Honestly this has demotivated me more than anything else.

I'll save my other thoughts for another thread to keep on topic.