I just wanted to reply on this forum, from a thread that was started on the other webpage. The title of the thread was "Why do you think we lack players compared to other top ranked MUDS." I do not have an account on the other site, but I do on here, so let me tell you what I think.

I have been playing CF for about six months now, maybe. I'm still a newbie, but I'm not a complete newbie. I can walk to most places in the world by myself, and when I can't I have those webpage to help me with maps, and other stuff. The only part of the game where I'm still a newbie is when it comes to prep. My favorite characters on here are warriors, and paladins. Paladins are great because you have a great prep in protection, and sanctuary, so you last a while in a fight, but with warriors you need so much more. I am right now a young warrior. I think i'm rank of 22 and a dagger specialists. I'm right now also 3-0 in pk fights, but that's without any preps. I know when I get higher in rank preps are going to mean everything, but that's just what I do not get. You have a game here where everyone has their own powers, and spells, but then you go out and buy potions, scrolls, wands, ect... That give you all the powers of another class. Every pk at higher ranks is based on how much you prep. If you dont prep for a fight at higher ranks, then you get destroyed easily.

Ok, some things that I've noticed as to why I think the playerbase is going down. I've noticed this everytime I log on and dont see to many in my range.

1. Full looting is the number one reason why I think playerbase is going down. I have no reason not to believe this. I am a paladin and I get alot of newbies learning with me sometimes. They get jumped by others out of my range, and I cannot help them stay alive. They do not mind dying, but when they come back to the corpse everything is gone. The warrior they were fighting is stacked with hero equipment, which is BS right there, and takes absolutely everything from the corpse. There is no rp in his looting, there is nothing from which he needs from this newbie corpse. This newbie replies back to me OOC ofcourse that this place is horrible and I'm leaving. Full looting is the #1 reason why people leave this place. I was full looted a while back all the time, didn't understand why, but it happened. I rage deleted too alot of the time. Others always complain about full looters, but I've seen 95% of you take everything when you really dont need anything. The pk's i get, I take some stuff, but not everything. Mostly coins, and a few pieces to see if they are better than my piece of eq that I have currently. I'm still a newbie in a sense, so I dont know much about equipment and what's good. Besides the basic stuff you get at lower ranks. Maybe put restrictions on looting. I know some think that's stupid, but come on. Taking everything from a kill, and leaving others naked when they come back to their corpse. Do you think that's fun starting over? It's just a suggestion, but make limitations on looting, so they can't take so much, or make it so that there is a limit as to how many things you can take out of the corpse. Make those scavengers the same way, but even less. I dont know, it's just a suggestion.

I just believe full looting is the #1 reason why the player base is lower, and newbies aren't trying this place. I'm still a newbie, but is CF years, more of a "mature" newbie ifyou know what I mean.


Just some other suggestions, but still suggestions. Dont make this place to prep necessary, or make those prep pills, and potions very filling, so they can't eat so many pills, potions, ect..

Honestly, I dont call that pk "skill" when you have one player who knows where everything is at. I'm talking all that ABS, and everything else he can think of to get, and going out and just sitting there spamming their spells or skills. Winning the battle because they can sit there longer with their ABS, haste, giant strength, ect... On and the other person doesn't have it, or has minimal. Pk on this mud is based on what you know about preps. If you do not know where preps are at, you will not win pk fights at higher ranks. What makes classes so special when other classes can get the same spells you have from somewhere else in thera?

What I notice from other logs on fight from the other site is that you claim others are the best pk fighters in the world if they are a transmuter who has ABS, and everything else imaginable. He pops back into reality from duo and sits there spamming "corporal softening" it finally takes, then he's spamming neurological disruption, or the other spell transmuters have, but mostly neuro disruption. He's sitting there winning the fight because it's not his skill lever. I mean his skill in knowing where the preps are at verses the other who doesn't. There isn't skill in that. It's more of knowledge vs skill.

I'm so addicted to this place it's so sad. I'm working on two masters degrees right now, but I dont want to do any of my homework because I'm addicted to my paladin whom I'm finally getting the hang of, besides the fact that I can't seem to keep anyone in a fight. I have nothing that knocks them down as a two handed specialists. Between my paladin, and my warrior specialists that I just love.

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