A newcomer's perspective

[mr duncan]

Yeah, I gotta say thats some pure genius Zicada. Maybe even have a place in our forums where current ALFA players can report a well played RP session with an applicant. This would allow the admissions staff get info on players that are in hard-to-serve timezones too.

It could get more players in faster, while still giving admissions the ability to filter out the bad seeds.

[Vaelahr]

You, sir, are some type of genius. Please run for all admin seats.

Seriously. I'm not kidding.

I've always thought that about Brokenbone myself. Shameless fanboy that I am....he remains my all-time favorite player and DM.

Fyrekrest, thank you very much for your post. I think ALFA will be enriched by your presence.

About the OAS2... Zicada's idea is interesting - though seems to cater to "server-hopping"....something I've thought was always a needless immersion-disturber.

I'd rather see the OAS2 as a closed-portal (non-travel), fully staffed, second live server. Could function both as a means of evaluating applicants as well as offering everything ALFA has to give in terms of gameplay. An open live ALFA server. Not a level-capped ALFA-lite. Would truly be 2 characters for players to enjoy! And of course the portal-connected servers limited to 1 character per player.

Not enough manpower, I suppose.

[indio]

Go to a party and everyone is polite for an hour or two. Then people let their hair down, imbibe things which are fun but bad for you, dance and sleep with each other, fight, bitch, moan, and talk politics. ALFA's party has been going for 6 years.

[Zelknolf]

Go to a party and everyone is polite for an hour or two. Then people let their hair down, imbibe things which are fun but bad for you, dance and sleep with each other, fight, b*tch, moan, and talk politics. ALFA's party has been going for 6 years.

I find your religious and political views objectionable, and assert that you sir are a doody head for thinking them. As a doody head, your comment here is invalid, because everyone knows doody heads struggle to cobble together conclusions with paint by number, let alone draw them. *nodnod*


Having gleefully contributed to the derailment of this thread, I shall giggle in a server-specific chat channel about it (potentially calling indio a doody head there, as well.)

[Swift]

Fyrekrest, I agree with most of what you wrote.

I'm not sure about a completely opened server, but on the other hand, how many people would actually bother to download hundreds of MBs of hak files just to wreck someone's game, when there are many other PWs that are not password protected and that require no haks at all?

I think you'd be surprised. The mindset of a griefer is one that is very strongly drawn to permadeath worlds, simply because a policy of "dead means dead" means that the griefer can have a lasting impact (or think he can have a lasting impact) through simple fictional violence.

In addition, broadband is getting more and more common, which makes hundreds of megs an almost trivial amount. For example, i just downloaded over 1 gig of WoW and Lord of the Rings online patches in under an hour, and my connection isn't even as fast as many americans have access to (400k/s) and pathetic to what much of europe and asia has access to.

[zicada]

About the OAS2... Zicada's idea is interesting - though seems to cater to "server-hopping"....something I've thought was always a needless immersion-disturber.

Weighed up against all the benefits i'd say that's a very small price to pay at this point.