To address concerns you normally wouldn't give a crap about.

But without these:

>1. Make another edges only available from IMMs hands for good
>RP or general goodness with another hint.

So the edges aren't hints, and I'm not really intersted in going down the hint route. If you want hints, talk to your fellow mages.

>2. Make detect artifact really useful by working when you
>enter the area as well. Some signal or tingling.

Uhm...no.




...You're probably not really doing enough. It's probably a waste of bandwidth to mention it now instead of two more years down the line, but hey.


The other stuff is nice and all but there's a difference between encouraging people to play mages and take on the workload, and reducing the timesink workload to begin with. We're not all Mavent, but some of us only get area knowledge when being dragged to them by other players of varying experience levels and then being exceedingly careful not to die, not because we were willing or excited to go hunting for things we'll probably never use.

That's really all I have to say on the matter since I'm neutral either way. I understand the royal pain in the ass is built-in for a very good reason, but that these are steps toward the realization that there needs to be a better middle ground. Most casually played mages probably never will find or consistently obtain barrier even with these changes, and that's okay.

And to clarify what I mean about hints, I don't think they should be edges like Dervish does. I do think that I personally would participate and put effort into RC's and events if I could get hints for locations or even told an area to check, knowing full well that this is basically handing the location on a silver platter to the player this shouldn't necessarily be considered slitting the wrists of the immstaff for game balance. The quality of the hint obviously depends on the Imm in question and the quality of the 'reward' you're getting (the detail in the hint).

Bard Repertoire Clarifications:
http://forums.carrionfields.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=6&topic_id=23735&mesg_id=23735&page=