Non-City Newsroom, Because we have no Delos Options

[Silantios]

You still really haven't explained why this is such a crucial feature to keep player city only.

Is it that hard to figure out? By restricting the things that people who get enemied to everywhere have access to, it makes the game harder for them to play. I expect they hope this will cut down on griefers in general. It's probably the same reason why you can't learn if you don't have a guild. It means people can't be an all out asshole and generally have to behave themselves to some extent because they'll be held accountable to a third of the game's population.

My theory is that griefers will get transed and become enemied everywhere anyway because noone really cares all that much about having access to a newsroom.

[AndersAldous]

Is it that hard to figure out? By restricting the things that people who get enemied to everywhere have access to, it makes the game harder for them to play. I expect they hope this will cut down on griefers in general. It's probably the same reason why you can't learn if you don't have a guild. It means people can't be an all out asshole and generally have to behave themselves to some extent because they'll be held accountable to a third of the game's population.

My theory is that griefers will get transed and become enemied everywhere anyway because noone really cares all that much about having access to a newsroom.

So you're saying that they're doing it to stop people from doing something that they'll do anyways.

Ok?

That doesn't do someone in my position or someone with other similar RP any good; I'm perpetually enemied to SSG and will be until such time as about half the council is replaced. A number of the council members have expressed their belief that I should be griefed and ganked until I quit the game.

I obviously can't get unenemied to Krondor, and Elvandar wouldn't let me use their newsroom even if I wasn't enemied (as I suspect 'i want to post' is not a valid reason for humans to enter their territory, given how nutty isolationist they are)

Unless about a dozen people quit the game I'll never have access to a newsroom again, meaning I can't participate in my order, make public posts, etc.

Silantios: Do you feel this is an appropriate situation and if so, why.

Edit: For the record I was really hoping to avoid making this topic about me, because I think there's plenty of reason for a public newsroom on the merits of allowing rogues to do their thing, but since Maithe decided to make it about me let's go ahead and make it about me.

[Silantios]

Silantios: Do you feel this is an appropriate situation and if so, why.

I'm ambivalent to it. I see why the admins want it this way, but I don't think it's going to work out the way they think it will. In the end, it doesn't affect me unless you start making public posts...and that's only an extra RN or two for me, I hope. If you get access to a newsroom and start making inane public posts, then I'll probably beg the admin to make sure you never have access to a newsroom again

[Xaros]

There is really no reason to not provide a non-city newsroom, other than to grief someone who's rogue. Not all of them would have pulled a massive ragequit before they left, y'know?

[Kalos]

That doesn't do someone in my position or someone with other similar RP any good; I'm perpetually enemied to SSG and will be until such time as about half the council is replaced. A number of the council members have expressed their belief that I should be griefed and ganked until I quit the game.

You've also expressed your belief some of said council members should be tortured, beaten and crucified against a fence - IRL.

And then sought to use a horrific hate crime (the template for the aforementioned expression) 'as a joke'.

I lack sympathy for your situation. Reminds me of an old french proverb about making one's bed and then lying in it.

I feel slightly bad for others, however I'm fairly confident they'll manage to find themselves access to a news room.

Quit trying to garner sympathy - it is pretty tragic, really. It is, all around, pretty depressing. Quit being an ass, and you won't be enemied everywhere. Well, I suppose it is a bit late for you, but perhaps other people will use your repetition of history as an example of what not to do.

[AndersAldous]

You've also expressed your belief some of said council members should be tortured, beaten and crucified against a fence - IRL.

And then sought to use a horrific hate crime (the template for the aforementioned expression) 'as a joke'.

I wasn't terribly keen on dragging specifics in, but you had already repeatedly expressed your belief that I should be forced out of the game and stated your intention to do everything in your power to ensure I was neither unenemied nor ever able to play without being ganked. That led to me making an extremely tasteless and absolutely horrible joke in my anger, and I then made an apology for.

But like I said, I'd really rather not get into this and ruin a completely valid thread and valid point with your multi-year hatred of me and the fact that you eagerly proselytize about what a sociopath I am and so on

All that aside, your beef with me is really a tangent and there's no need to indulge it beyond this mild rebuttal.

[Kalos]

Sorry, I must have missed the topic. What about it was a valid point? I thought the topic was your griping about a lack of access to what has been detailed as a city-only feature.

[Marguk]

News rooms should not just be limited to just player cities. One should be outside for public use, just for Soggie rogues since I know goblin/trolls won't be accepted in Krondor or Elvandar even to use the newsroom. The game's designers decided to follow through with racism being a major theme for Sar-Sargoth. They should compensate by allowing goblin or troll rogues to at least have a newsroom since they're outcasts of everywhere and can't even communicate to any non-Moredhel.

[AndersAldous]

Any chance of a response on this, Ishap?