>I figured this was going to happen. I started seriously
>playing Anlon again about a month ago. At the time I had 20
>con and 2 or 3 trains. The Imperials were on the rise, and the
>Fortress wasn't so much in power, so I figured it would be a
>good time to start playing again. Then the gangbangs started.
>Now, for a sphere Honor guy who never intentionally hit anyone
>with more than fair odds, who generally travelled even
>ranking, alone, this sucked the big one. But whats a guy to
>do, you know? Honor dictates I suck it up and keep on plowing
>ahead, chin up, and don't bend my knee to anyone or lower
>myself to their tactics. And so I died. A LOT.

Kudos for sticking to it and con-dying your char. I probably would have deleted.

>To the rest of you. I really don't think too many of the rest
>of you deserve an individual space here. CF has taken a huge
>downturn in how fights are handled in the last year or so, and
>it's pretty badly degenerated into a "who has the biggest gang
>on their side" mud.

There are one-on-one fights out there. You just have to be patient and observant in order to find them.

>First it was the goods running around,
>ganging everyone to #### and full looting, and now its the
>Empire. For christs sake people, grow some ####ing balls and
>learn to do some fighting without 500 people backing you up.

Full agreement here.

>Would it kill you just once to say "Don't help me with this,
>I've got him" when you see a lone opponent? Are you such
>chicken####s that you refuse to even a slight risk to your
>shiny suit of eq? I spent a good 75% or more of my time
>wearing a poisoned dagger, and a shield, and I still killed a
>lot of people, and accomplished a lot of my goals as a Maran.
>And I did it ALONE. #### this is such a pet peeve of mine I
>can't even begin to tell you. The day I got my full maran
>status, I had been ganged no less than 4 on 1 at least 6 times
>that day.

Unless it is in your RP to fight at all odds, you might want to think about running. Cliche as it may be, "discretion is the better part of valor."

>I actually had just been in the process of deleting,
>when we were raided, and I figured "#### it, I can't delete
>when they have the orb". After that I calmed down, and figured
>I'd see the character through to the bitter end.
>
>And for ####s sake, I wish the Imperials would remember the
>Imperial laws about not breaking the laws of the towns. Aside
>from all the huge ass gangbangs on me in town, I once watched
>a highly placed imperial loot a fallen tribunal in town. Thats
>the kind of #### that makes me mad, and shows me how so many
>of you are only RPing enough to get into the cabal, and
>nothing beyond that.

As an evil, I know I would try to bend the "rules" as much as possible to get what I wanted. This is a viable evil RP.

>Jesus, if I stick to my role enough that
>it con kills me, I think you all could stick to your supposed
>roles enough to not go against the things you're supposed to
>hold most dear.

See above.

Just my thoughts.