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Timome

Timome

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5quarecrow said :
Someone thinks that the event doesn't have enough grinding in it, I guess...

What do you think about the even less minigame-like (sarcasm mode activated for a second) part of the event? I am a bit disappointed that, to get the reward, all you have to do is click on a Spine and wait (no further interaction needed). In addition, the fact that the most afk-able option to gain shards is the fastest makes me wonder what the event creators were aiming for. Fighting parasites got me about one shard in 10 minutes, while afking on a Spine gives about one every minute, and cutting Tuska's quills is a bit slower than the ultimate afk, too.

I am a bit confused by what exactly I'm doing when I'm trying to inflict harm unto poor Tuska. I get that I'm trying to charge the spear, but the way that I do that is a bit strange. I chop tentacle-like things and hack asteroids to gain herbs that I can feed to other tentacle-like things. And how come there are ghosts there? Wish I could poke the Astromancer for more information.

Also, the Astramancer got kicked out of Wizard's Tower alledgedly because he studied Astromancy (if I recall correctly). Is that true? What could Astromancy be that would elicit hostility from the Wizard's Tower? It's not that the wizards dislike the stars and such, they have their own telescopes. It could just be that the wizards didn't like his sadistic monkey-murdering propensities, so they kicked him out for that...

Even though the event doesn't really offer any challenge to get better at, so it's more like a grinding-thing, I quite like it. It's pwple. It's peaceful. There's nycce music. I would love to just run in circles on the Broken Land (the agility-requiring thing) forever.
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03-Jun-2015 13:05:22

5quarecrow

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The islands we visit to charge the spear are parts of other worlds destroyed by Tuska, where things were different from how they are on Gielinor. I suppose the Astromancer discovered the most efficient ways of draining their remaining Anima Mundi into the spear to support his cause, though how he did that is a mystery to me.

The thing that puzzles me even more is that we are supposed to slow down Tuska's regeneration between the rounds... and we are doing that by killing creatures that parasite on Tuska. The word "parasite" strongly suggests that they aren't helpful to Tuska in any way, and that they are potentially harming her. How does killing these creatures prevent Tuska from healing then? Play for fun!
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04-Jun-2015 01:46:24 - Last edited on 04-Jun-2015 01:46:53 by 5quarecrow

Yusou Bhoroi

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Astromancer has a log.

Sentient lighgning can presumably be sentient anywhere tzhere is charge.. Idk..

Parasites may be used by Airut, for food.. in that way Tuska uses them to fuel her security system.


We are judging the Astromancer's etuics based upon our own World's, not one from which other creatures are genuinely dangerous and hostile (thus selectively promoting uncaring anddefensive traits); one with great lack of knowledge, and with poor ways to collate and teach that knowledge, when it is discovered (along with many more ways in which that knowledge can be lossed); where there are very powerful and controlling beings, who set up as deitific, and where all organisations of learning and power follow their jealous and confident example.


You also seem to forget that a lot of the knowledge you so proudly tout about having access to, and having known, comes almost entirely from far more suocking and wrong methods, even in times when we've known far better than anyone on RuneScape could possibly have the chance to know, exactly how wrong it is..

If you took away all knowledge you've gained through such methods, then you'd know far less than they did.. they may have other possibilities open to them, but cannot see them, know about them, or know they are better (or even have the ability to care whether they are better), with out the enormous, astronomical, benifit and privilaged advantage of moral knowledge hind-sight... stuff we'd never even have, without having gone through a similar process..


They are actually thinking far in advance of what we were thinking at similar stages, even when we had the enormous advantage of lack of inbuilt preassures to prevent it, and lack of life-experience preassures, or disruption of knowledge..



You need to be fairer in understanding that they cannot possibly know things and how to do them, without trying certain things, and can't get to the point where morality is selected for, without having

04-Jun-2015 12:38:31

Yusou Bhoroi

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Gained knowledge from immorral things.. not to mention, those who have the propensity and ability to discover such things, are not going to be those selected for being morral (and the two traits only coincide, when one has the great luxury achived by such knowledge, as we, ourselves (and I mean individually, you and I) have had). If they did, the knowledge would be gained slower than lost, there, and would take many times longer (especially with the neurological bottleneck we pushed ourselves down) than otherwise, here.

04-Jun-2015 12:43:03

Yusou Bhoroi

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It is the action, not the person, that is tied to morality (morality by our perspective), and in your opinion (by whichever metulhod it was reached), it is moral to reduce suffering/take the apprach causing least suffering.

That was the context by which I phrased 'moral'.


(Sorry, not fundtioning smoothly, as I've been up 80 odd hrs, due to missing sleep last cycle (due to car thing), talking and thinking is not one of the functions left running, though thankfully I can still music. :p ).


Got a few maybe 4 more hrs work, then will be sleeping, but will get back to help out after.. sorry about not being on.. had planned to be for spotlight, but work stuff always seems to have other ideas, when I set aside time. Think ppl notice I'm 'free' for nice chunk of time, so decide to nick me for a bit. (Happens during 'holiday' too) :#

04-Jun-2015 18:47:02

5quarecrow

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I started to feel a bit sceptical about the whole updating FoG thing. With Mod Asherz being moved to another project, all communication between the team and players ended. This means that the update can quite possibly end up as a disappointment.

There are lots of things that can go wrong there:
- matchmaking (based on rating and/or combat level too much or too little)
- promoting boosting (making it easy to pay for wins, ...)
- insufficient rewards (would make thalers the only incentive to play)
- gameplay (nerfing houses even more, not nerfing hunted's stats enough, ...)

Still, I am glad to hear that minigames are getting some attention. Perhaps they might also advertise them more to new players and give GOP the often mentioned additions (ingame guide, 1v1, rewards, ...). I might return to massive minigame forum spamming :P Play for fun!
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01-Aug-2015 17:09:39 - Last edited on 02-Aug-2015 08:45:52 by 5quarecrow

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