[ScryMUD]pfiles

[gingon at wanfear.com]

The issue here is that the balance issues problems gone to far to easy remedy.
While simply fixing existing players it possible, it only means we'd have to 
wipe them in order to implement our other goals, which involve chaning the 
format of the pfiles in addition to the structure of the skill tree.

> > On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 16:52, MiniSHamu at wanfear.com wrote:
> > Gee, how very nice to just up and decide to wipe every single pfile. :P 
> THanks 
> > to Grock for at least suggesting that didn't have to happen. While I'd much
> 
> > rather some balancing going on than an entire pfile wipe, I'd still like to
> 
> > point out not many older characters are uberfied, and those that are really
> 
> > don't have much effect on Scry. They don't get in the way of hunting (if
> even 
> > any is going on nowadays), they don't leave uber weapons (realtive to
> new(er) 
> > players) lying around the ground or gold, and basically they don't leave a
> 
> > trace that says "AN UBER PLAYER WAS HERE."

I routinely leave a path of destruction behind me when i hunt, which includes a 
vast amount of loot newbies could not otherwise obtain. 
Also, i'd like to point out how non-remorts hunt, they basically hunt bandra, 
then kill Jakarta guards, and some times a few River City guards just to make 
it interesting.

 They can not, by themselves, get any of the uber stuff that most remorts have 
now. No dragon mail, which is lvl 16 req., no sos, no ds eq. All because the 
mobs were made tougher to accomidate multi-remorts. Plain and simple, mobs are 
too tough now for the average player because otherwise the remorts would 
splatter everything in a round or two.

It used to be that a level 16 warrior type and a healer, with some support 
damagers could kill the dragons, and get the dragonmail which was meant to be 
obtained at their level. I tanked my first dragon when i was lvl 16, non-remort 
and it was a blast, it took me, loki, quad, raij and cynder to do it, and it 
was a pile of fun. Unfortunately, unless you are a multi-remort, you don't have 
much hope of tanking them. Sure, maybe with a charmie as the tank, but not a 
player.

And that really is the point. Things aren't any fun anymore. No challenge. 
That's what we are working to fix now. It might suck in some ways, but in the 
end, everyone will enjoy scry again.

But, we will not forget our older players who have worked very hard to obtain 
what they have. We will reward you in some way, but we are not sure how yet.

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