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grybranix · 07-19-2014, 07:18 PM

Thanks for announcing this. Our entire imm staff and some of our players freaked out on the spot and all started sending Lasher emails immediately after we were taken down. Some of us were less gracious than others.

It's not entirely surprising that we were confused with FL (or that FL was cheating the vote). Forsaken Lands or whatever they renamed themselves to to cheat the Mudconnector list (something like Aaabarahaha to appear higher in their alphabetical list) was a clone of our mud from stolen code. They'd look very similar to us on a brief inspection, like just logging in to check who's online.

Also, since we're a full PK mud with full looting and permadeath, our concurrent users at off-peak hours tend to be low. This is due to the fact that people won't log in unless they are combat-ready and can devote 100% of their attention to the game, or because they're worried about a powerful player being online if they log in and risking death. It's safer to log in during peak hours when they have friendly characters nearby. If we were more peaceful you might see more players playing off-peak while they're at work or doing other things, but people really play our game for the sense of realism and permanence that comes with the high lethality of PK, so... we're stuck with that until we can get more players. Long story short, we have a lot more players than it looks like we do and they connect with each other via social media sites rather than in-game..

Our forum uses a fake "captcha" that you can only learn about via in-game helpfiles to cut back on forum spam, that's why you couldn't get an account made. I've posted your announcement to our players and hidden my previous messages on the subject.

07-19-2014, 07:18 PM	#12
grybranix New Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 1	Re: Abandoned Realms, 2x Exp Weekend! Thanks for announcing this. Our entire imm staff and some of our players freaked out on the spot and all started sending Lasher emails immediately after we were taken down. Some of us were less gracious than others. It's not entirely surprising that we were confused with FL (or that FL was cheating the vote). Forsaken Lands or whatever they renamed themselves to to cheat the Mudconnector list (something like Aaabarahaha to appear higher in their alphabetical list) was a clone of our mud from stolen code. They'd look very similar to us on a brief inspection, like just logging in to check who's online. Also, since we're a full PK mud with full looting and permadeath, our concurrent users at off-peak hours tend to be low. This is due to the fact that people won't log in unless they are combat-ready and can devote 100% of their attention to the game, or because they're worried about a powerful player being online if they log in and risking death. It's safer to log in during peak hours when they have friendly characters nearby. If we were more peaceful you might see more players playing off-peak while they're at work or doing other things, but people really play our game for the sense of realism and permanence that comes with the high lethality of PK, so... we're stuck with that until we can get more players. Long story short, we have a lot more players than it looks like we do and they connect with each other via social media sites rather than in-game.. Our forum uses a fake "captcha" that you can only learn about via in-game helpfiles to cut back on forum spam, that's why you couldn't get an account made. I've posted your announcement to our players and hidden my previous messages on the subject.