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#2817, "Mino speak plus areas."
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Valg said:
Being difficult to understand is an intentional drawback of the minotaur race. We'll make exceptions for people who would have a pressing reason to understand minotaurs (cabals that admit them, for example), but not everyone will.
Any chance of getting some form of roleplay action in game? Nothing is more aggravating in the world than getting to a no-recall area and then having the mobs stand there and do -nothing- while you are quite clearly going through the correct motions.
Which i suppose is more my beef than anything. I found the whole scenario to be quite sadly a very poor rp point. It is made quite obvious that you are going through a horrid syntax test rather than any form of rp.
Especially for example in one situation when you are dealing with allegedly the most wise creatures in the game.
As an aside to any mino's:
Mortorn, New Gehenna, Thar-Acacia, Organia (Which strangely i could enter as another minotaur), Hillcrest, Keep of the Righteous, 95% of quests.
Anyway, "C'est la vie." said the young man.
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Theerkla | Tue 04-Nov-03 08:17 AM |
Member since 04th Mar 2003
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#2846, "If anything, I'd like to see rp accents enforced more s..."
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Not hardcoded, just monitored maybe. I've travelled with more than my share of characters who speak with the oddest of accents that had absolutely no problem speaking a pass phrase when the time came. Been guilty of it myself a couple of times.
In fact, Valkore is the only character of recent times I remember who stayed in character rather than opt out to speak clearly to get into someplace. Even going so far as to potentially screw up an imm run quest because of it.
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Valkenar | Tue 04-Nov-03 11:42 AM |
Member since 04th Mar 2003
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#2848, "RE: If anything, I'd like to see rp accents enforced mo..."
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>Not hardcoded, just monitored maybe. I've travelled with
>more than my share of characters who speak with the oddest of
>accents that had absolutely no problem speaking a pass phrase
>when the time came. Been guilty of it myself a couple of
>times.
I personally think it's really okay to drop your character's accent, at times, to trigger a speech-driven npc reaction. If my dwarf can't get into Mortorn because his slight dwarvish accent is too thick for the dwarf guards to understand, that's pretty lame. In some cases, sure, you might reason that the npc really wouldn't be able to understand you, but if other players aren't having trouble understanding you, then it seems reasonable to assume that most NPCs wouldn't either.
To me, it hurts the atmosphere of the game far more to have it rubbed in your face just how lifeless the mobs really are than it does to briefly drop your accent and just have it be understood among the other players that your character was really speaking in his normal voice.
Bottom line: it's good to interact with NPCs as realistically as possible, but the fact is that it's not possible to treat them as equals in a realistic way.
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