Monad wrote:Darian I voted for the murdercounts older than 1000 days should be removed, but on a defense of Boris I can say that how you and Crin make this decision sound like Crin is out of options and unable to do anything if we don't help him is not correct either, I just think the 1000 days would have been more better option, but this option is not as bad as you try to make it sound like.
I'm not saying he is out of options. Of course he can beg for money, hunt with alts or even with Crin to pay up. Or he can even join Tekstone and have fun with us. Of course he isn't out of options, but the options he have aren't the same as those who joined this shard after Alteran took over. The options aren't same as they are for those who have trained their characters in the past three years.
The new system isn't bad, I know. I never said it is. It's great on the LONG RUN and will fix an issue we've had before (Paying double, or even triple for the same MCs over and over again). However, it leaves ALL old red players who are considering a come-back, or have even returned to the shard, pretty hopeless. Even if there's not a 1000 days decay timer, I still say all MCs before the time-warp should be removed. Because of all the items deleted, there's been no gain and because there's been no gain, it's stupid to expect anyone to pay for it.
For example if hadn't played for 4 years and would now decide to return the shard, Darian would be red and naked. Of course I have the option of joining the fun with my friends, have them gear me up and whatever. But MAYBE, just maybe I would decide that after leading Tekstone for 5-6 years I'd rather do something else with Darian. However, I'm naked, without money and I'd need to pay 9-10 millions for a salvation, suffer the jail time and then maybe get into Law/Nature and start gathering piety. Sure in THEORY that IS an option, but you and I both know it's not a valid one. Especially since I'd actually want to have fun and enjoy the game right now, not a year from now. It's not fun being forced to hunt 10 millions just to stay months in jail. That's not having fun, that's work. What I'd do is either join Tekstone to have little fun, or quit for good. Luckily for me, when Alteran took over I continued to play for a while. I was made blue and allowed to join Law with 60 piety(later 50 piety). However, after a long break I came back and all my pals were in Tekstone so when I made a come-back the decicion was easy: Tekstone. The difference is I actually HAD a real choice, I could have chosen to stay blue, stay in Law as a high piety priest, join Nature, Imperial or whatever I wanted. And the funny thing is, had I actually joined Nature and accidentaly got a MC out of Imperial/Tekstone/AP, I would be red for good because my previous 300~ MCs would still exist. My priest had a different name, different story and yet she'd be guilty for the 300 murders comitted by Darian who no longer exists in her former form.