>Not that I'm accusing you, but some on the staff have been
>known to abuse things that need "fixing", but of course it
>doesn't get done till the character is gone. These kinds of
>things cause a good chunk of the problems people have with
>imms playing mortals. You guys have all the control, and when
>an immortal is left to run loose doing thats that a normal
>player would get at the very least slain for, it sets tongues
>wagging.

I can't think of anything I've "fixed" after playing a character.

During the life of a character, all the time. But then I've got a problem: If I post and say, here's ten things about invokers that just got gimped down, probably you know I'm playing an invoker who can do those things. I don't really want to do that.

So probably I fix it, keep playing the character as long as I feel like playing them (which isn't usually more than another month or two -- I have a short attention span), and two months later someone figures out that you can't send nightgaunts from indoors anymore (or whatever.)

I'm not sure there's a good solution there.

Often you're in a position to need to make difficult judgement calls there. If I'm Yanacek, I'm basically the first successful poisoner ever. If my X ability seems really good, how do I decide to draw the line between 'this is really good, but this class has these other disadvantages or mitagating factors' and 'this is broken good'? Typically you need to play with it it a bit and get some other people's opinions.

(Explore Area Cool Axe) was that kind of case for me. It's from an area I had nothing to do with the implementation of at all. It's also (in my opinion... this might differ for other styles of players or other characters) by far the hardest to get piece of gear that character ever had. It's immediately obvious on using it that it's really, really good -- but is it too good, or is its goodness appropriate for its difficulty? There's not much question that there are tougher items in Hell.

It took me about two days to decide, yes, this is too tough and start to make changes to correct it. I'm not really sure how I or anyone is in a position to do better than that.

>Speaking only for myself, these things start to happen after
>the previously shady things start to appear. I backed you up
>100% when speculation started that you played Cabdru. But to
>be perfectly blunt after everything started to come out about
>the character I felt kind of like I had been backing up
>someone who maybe wasn't entirely on the up and up.

Pretty much everything I can remember seeing 'come out' is either based on someone making something up or getting the facts wrong... like the Cryss and the role contest thing. I mean, enough should be in the forum archives to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that that particular contest was just Dalteric, but here we are talking about it.

>I'll be
>frank, someone else who also won the exact same role contest
>and got the same level of recognition got nothing as a reward,
>and you got a point over your racial max in int.

I keep hearing this, and I know it's not true. I'll ask Dalteric if he still has the details from that contest. I know for certain that everyone who won/placed in that contest got something.

>You have to
>understand how that makes people feel, and how it looks to
>even people who weren't predisposed to distrusting you.

I can only do so much about the stuff people make up or get wrong.