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Yesterday evening, while role-playing a recruitment event inside our guild house, Ephemeral was forced (by pressure of a game moderator) to allow entry to a group of regular players who were mechanically locked outside. Furthermore, once these players were inside the guild house, we were told that we were not allowed to use locked doors to deny them access to any area of the guild house.

Effectively, this means that as long as the owner of a guild house is online an attentive, one is not permitted to deny the entry of others into his or her home, nor into sections of that home which are partitioned off by locked doors. Consider the implications of this decision. It means that any group of players, at any time, could role-play their way into your mechanically locked property for any reason. If you are role-playing a private initiation ceremony inside your home, then prepare to be invaded whether or not you choose to secure the area. If you use communal item storage crates for your friends or guild mates, then kiss your treasure goodbye. Or presumably, since one is evidently forced to unlock doors, one would also be forced to set all storage crates to public anyway.

Regardless of your personal opinions on yesterday's events in particular, is this really the sort of environment in which we want to play?

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Sustain is still an extremely annoying tactic in any fight, and KO should not be able to be recovered from as easily as it is now, I think that Badly Beaten should incur a 50% healing penalty on the sufferer of the status.

On top of this, it can currently be cleansed by Wash Away and Cleanse Potion, these shouldn't be able to be cleansed in my opinion.

I believe this to be important enough to warrant raising a thread before the trait rework happens, as it is an extremely abuse-able strategy, despite not being employed too often.

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I'm sorry for the issue, hopefully it won't happen again.

We've now had the pleasantry of two major incidents within the city of Cellsvich, both in which the outcomes were less than favourable for those on the side of the law. And while I do agree that those who opts to attack Cellsvich shouldn't be completely in the dumps of chance, I do think that the current rules are far too forgiving for major cities.

The current rules state:

Quote:- Fleeing a fight means you must leave the situation entirely once completely successful.

- There's a limit of 2 groups of up to 4 people trying to stop someone from fleeing. (Eight people maximum.)

- People who were part of one group cannot participate in another group’s fight involving the same target.

- Ideally, the party members should be made apparent either ICly or OOCly before the battle takes place.

- You must wait five rounds to flee from a battle that is in a city/densely populated area, if you flee before this time, you will be warned and potentially have your fight either redone or suffer an automatic loss.

Quote:- There's a limit of 2 groups of up to 4 people trying to stop someone from fleeing. (Eight people maximum.)

- You must wait five rounds to flee from a battle that is in a city/densely populated area, if you flee before this time, you will be warned and potentially have your fight either redone or suffer an automatic loss.

Can the option 'Flee' be individual, and not affect the battle going? It shouldn't really bring bugs in my opinion, since doing so 'was' a bug back then.

You could quit from your party mid-battle and the battle would kick you out. So, just make it so whenever someone that's not the Leader attempts to flee, they'll escape alone.

Or even make this one Trait called 'Cowardice' or 'Lone wolf', idk.

Rampage debuff works in the way that a lower level overwrites it, making a Teamplay with another player to shred someones defense contra productive.

Hey, this is a post regarding the Fleeing Rules. From what we've seen about them ICly, the rules need to be worked a bit more. A group of four somehow was able to get away when 20+ people were ready to get them. Post what your suggestions here I suppose folks.