Laz

This torture has been designed not for physical pain but instead for emotional damage spaning months and years. [attachment=1161:33444_med.jpg] History: Deep within the darkest labs/chambers of Necro dark priests sought a way to free their servants from the innate limits of the realm. It had long been known that after a certain point the servants of necro and their creatures failed to gain further experience form fighting. After much research and the sacrificing of many innocent souls to demons and shades they thought they had the solution. A small symbyote that would be introduced into the body. The goal was to free the mind and body of the limits to over come the need to use wishes and prayers to reset this mystical limit. And they received form the dark souls of the pits exactly what they asked for... but as with all such bargains they did not appreciate the price. The creature did indeed allow individuals to exceed the "experience limit" by any amount. But what they did not realize was the side effects were disastrous. With every element of experience they exceeded the limit that also reduced that internal limit by 1. This reduction was permanent and could not be reversed. As a result with each new element of experience gained the internal further twisted the soul and made them more dependent on the symbiot. At first the priests saw no problem with this and were over joyed with the success. Until that internal bypassed limit equaled 0. When this happened the subjects still gained experience just as before. However for every 1000 elements of experience gained removed 1% of the experience from any creatures they had (not just in the ritual but 1% from every creature). Furthermore each 1000 experience also reduced all of the subjects attributes (Regeneration, luck, attack etc) by 1 and the subjects maximum vital energy by 100. All of these losses were permanent.. even if the individual some how via wishes prayers or other actions caused their experience to be reduced they did not regain the lossed levels. So all infected with this creature were doomed to eventually be reduced to the abilities of the lowliest peasant never able to rise above that station and forever to know the heights from which they had fallen. Further knowing the only way to avoid the fall once it had begun was to never again fight, or to fight all the harder to temporarily raise their abilities knowing that each fight in the long run only accelerated their demise. However; the priests were nothing but practical and saw no reason to waist the sacrifices they had made. As such they cast out their test subjects claiming they had betrayed necro and as such this was there punishment and it would be the new punishment of all such traitors as well as those that rallied forces against necro.

There seems to be 3 issues geting mixed up in the forum 1) the petision to have the king removed 2) IC discusion based on how people liked him as king and such... 3) was banishing his second ok IC I feel these are 3 very diffrent issues. The pettision is at least in part an ooc mechnic and it is not asking to allow a story line/war/battle/ palace revolt. Based on the full text of the pettition and the posts by the primarys in this forum I do not see how I can vote any way other than to reject the pettion. Below is my reasoning........ While IC reasons have been given, based on the forum posts by the principles this petition is clearly based on RL issues not IC ones. GG is a Kingdom, one without a magna carta or parliament. There was no IC requirement other then general good politics for the king to discuss the issue with anyone. The King ordered his second in command (the first of his vassals) to attack. Instead of attacking the person chose to try to be neutral due to RL friendships. RL does sometimes effect game play, people have work, school etc and can not always make it to a scene. But that was not the case here. This was an in character decision to ignore if not betray ones king based on an out of character reason. Of course there should be consequences for such a betrayal. and banishment is a very reasonable one. Next lets address the 2 IC reasons given: 1) The king was betrayed so obviously he should not be king. This is idiotic, no kingdom, organization, country has existed that was not betrayed at some time. Just because there is a (or a group of) spy/turn coat, sell out, etc does not immediately mean the leadership should be replaced. And to advocate such is a case shows the extreme reach people are going to here. 2) Many reasons were listed why individuals do not like the kings leadership style or decisions. The petitioner uses this dislike to claim the king does not care for the land or people. Again this does not make since. Unless you accept the argument that the only way you can love your country is to obey whatever is the most popular opinion at any given time. I understand many leaders have followed this style. but I personally disagree with it. in my mind a leader must do what they feel is best for the country even if popular opinion is against it. Finally: it should be noted that this is not a petion to allow Girdo and his "powerful backer" to plot and Role play towards a palace revolt or to allow people to make a mass exodus from GG to show there disappointment. It is at least in part an Out of character attempt to remove someone from power who rightfully exiled a commander who abandoned his troops and country by making an IC decision based on ooc feelings about another player. If Girdo truly has the support he claims he should have petitioned to for a fight/battle to take over GG himself, or for a story line where he and his supporters flee to necro and act as government in exile while they plot to retake GG form a king gone mad. Or he could have filed the petition before the fight and he was exiled. Grido did not do any of these things. The raw facts as posted by the primarys are He betrays his king and country by not responding to a call for battled and was punished for this action. Now he is pissed that he got punished IC and wants the person who punished him IC to be removed via a OOC mechanism to me this makes no sense in terms of role play. Grido did not take action prior to the attack to take control of the kingdom or Stop the war, he has not taken action after the attack to request IC story line for a palace revolt or battle. Instead he has asked for the person that banished him to be bannished and all of his access be restored.

Laz ID:15096 I would like to be a tester

then I must have misunderstood the point of the recent contest. Didn't Manu bascially tell peopelwho had not yet maxed to use the bug to avoid maxing so they could keep leveling? As a result the only peopel maxed are ones that have not exploited the bug in the past and are not now. While those that are exploiting the bug can keep gathering stats. as I said I do not mind the not being able to level stats but not even being able to level creatures means there is no reason to play. -Sean

I would disagree. For 2 reasons. 1) If the xp reduction was only 1 million it would not really leavethat much room to grow befor another was needed. unless the negative xp bug is left.. but in that case not having it penalizes peopel that did not exploit the bug. where peoplem who did exploit the bug are still leveling creatures 2) As I understand it it will still be months befor mp6 is open. if 50 1 mill reductions were in the shop that would be only 25 -50 active days as most mp5 peopele I know can earn 1million or more xp a day. So even if fully used it would still only allow game play for 1/3 -1/2 of the time befor the next chapter opens and it would generate as much as $50 per mp5 player. possibly $100 if they have not used there reset. The ability to keep increasting creatures and plaing instead of siting is important. of course continuous head contest or similer activity that does not count xp could take the place of normal play. or even if people could level creatures evenif they could oot get new stats and xp for themselves while maxed would be an improvement.

I would like to recommend an shop Item that subtracts either 1,2,5,or 10 million xp. and allow 50 of them in the shop under permanent items. this would allow every one who ends up maxed to reduce there xp enough to keep playing. even if they need to get free credits to do so. and eliminates all requests for xp resets.