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[Ehndras]

Oh right, you've been absent from our Bay12/Haz/Haven&Hearth Skype group for a while.

Effectively, new converts to Gregory's religion of world domination universal peace.

<_<

Yours, rather?

My name is Gregory, jackass, and you know that. I was referring to myself in 3rd(2nd? o.O) person for the fun of it.

[sambojin]

Ehndras in the 5th person through the 4th Dimension. Gregory goes through Time!!!!

I have to say, Battlemaster has so far been one of the geekiest yet most fun things I've done in a while. It's rare that you get to use english like a total twit and have it considered a good thing. Best RP experience I've had in ages, and I've only been playing for a few days.

[danaris]

It's kind of gratifying to see all these positive reactions to BattleMaster. We have periodically had influxes of players from various sources, but generally, we only keep between 10 and 30% of them at most (even from geeky sources like Slashdot).

Apparently, the geekiness of Dwarf Fortress overlaps well with the geekiness of BattleMaster

[Ehndras]

Yes, yes it does. <3

All the folks I've recruited love BM, the problem is they're all too active for BM. :\ I am too, but I love to RP, love the medieval setting, and have multiple characters.

[sambojin]

I quite like the noble/adventurer system as well. Totally different scales of play and a good opportunity to RP different sorts of characters simultaneously. My noble is a pompous, arse-kissing git who longs for battle (once he gets some troops and cash together anyway). My adventurer is a foul-mouthed alcoholic who's life revolves around stabbing stuff and sleeping on the ground (if he ever finds some monsters I'll let him finally sleep on a bed. Probably).

It's nice to be able to use flowery language at one moment and then swear as much as you please the next. In character of course

[SeaBee]

It's kind of gratifying to see all these positive reactions to BattleMaster. We have periodically had influxes of players from various sources, but generally, we only keep between 10 and 30% of them at most (even from geeky sources like Slashdot).

Apparently, the geekiness of Dwarf Fortress overlaps well with the geekiness of BattleMaster

It would seem so -- I've played a few other web-based games, but never for long. I always get tired of the grinding ... or maybe I just start thinking of them as gamified spreadsheets. BattleMaster is something special, though. It engages my imagination in ways that only books have done before, probably because of the sharp focus on player interaction and RP. Either way, it tickles an itch I didn't know that I had. And I've learned that I enjoy RP (I've never really done it before).

I get more attached to the game as time goes on, not less. That's an unusual experience for me.

[Trollheiming]

Depends on the kingdom. Some places have very little chatter.

[Vonyx]

My advy found his first unique item!

Doomed arrow of doom! (+3 prestige)

[SeaBee]

My advy found his first unique item!

Doomed arrow of doom! (+3 prestige)

That's awesome! Congratulations

[Jimlad11]

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[Rakonas]

I'm pretty sure that's just a horde of people paused because a lot of people haven't logged in since some specific turn.

[Andira]

It's a known bug, but it used to only happen on the East Island. Now it seems to have infected Dwilight as well that people get spammed with the message of characters pausing who were already paused months ago.

Edit: Just to clarify, these characters weren't acutally part of their realms any longer and did not really get paused today, but a long time ago. For some reason, the game has been sending out such messages for long-paused characters repeatedly on the East Island, which started getting really annoying with like ~30 messages about it every day.

[Ehndras]

Ah, so that's why I got 46 messages in Arcea <_< I was about to say, holy shiet they have more inactive folks than we have active.

[Andira]

There's a message about the auto-pauses in the news ticker now as well, and we will hopefully be rid of that problem tomorrow.

[Sirus]

Yeah, I saw those and started freaking out a little. Glad that it's just a known bug