Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27200931-20161127030422/@comment-30079501-20161203035457

Dragonovith wrote:

Reddieeddie wrote: Dragonovith wrote: Come on guys, I wanna hear your sordid stories too.

Sadly, I have a few of those....unfortunately, I'm not sure they make very entertaining stories. Either that, or I've been sworn to secrecy. :P

OK, most of them aren't that bad. Although I can think of one instance...

Basically the only server I play on these days is DOME ("A New Age: The Dominion of Middle-Earth"). They have extremely specific rules concerning wars, battles, etc. Aside from standard hunts (which have to be declared), there are sieges, which take place between warring kingdoms. Each player can only have 10 troops at a siege, and each faction has a max of 4 aiding players from two different factions (which have to be officially recongized kingdoms). Despite having played on DOME for almost 9 months now, I've only been in one siege....

At the time, I was with Dunland, still something of a noob to the server. The High-Elves were at war with Angmar, and each side had won 2 sieges, so it was tight. One Saturday afternoon, the High-Elven king declares that he's going to siege Carn Dum. Initially, I didn't pay much attention to it. A few minutes later, however, an Angmar commander messages me, asking if I would like to assist them in the siege. After thinking it over for a bit, I took him up on the offer. The siege was about to start, so I grabbed some units, and tped to him.

The fortress was set on a hill/cliff, with the main entrance being accessible only by a long, broad stairway. As I recall, much of the battle consisted of us shooting down on the High-elves and their allies below, while they fired back up on us. Naturally, I had forgotten to bring arrows. And my units were glitching out, so I couldn't seem to command them properly. So I was basically stuck doing nothing, waiting to engage the Elves at melee when (if) they reached us.

One odd thing I remember about the battle was the random fires that were found on the staircase. They almost looked intentional, but they were probably resulting from bombs exploding, or something like that. Either way, they didn't help us, as the King of Angmar (Calbeius) burned to death, and a Gundie player almost suffered the same fate.

Nonetheless, the siege was going well for us. I believe we killed 4 good players before they even managed to break down the first gate. Then someone started asking questions about who all was on the evil side...

As I mentioned before, you're only allowed 4 allies from 2 different factions. In addition to the Angmar players, there were two Gundabad players who had been there since the start, so that was one. Then somebody had gotten a Haradrim player to join. And then there was me....

That made 3 factions. Then someone else realized that Dunland wasn't a kingdom yet. I had forgotten that one had to be a member of a claimed kingdom to join a siege. At that point, the High-Elven king (a mod) broadcasted that Evil had too many facs aiding, and one of the facs (Dunland) wasn't a kingdom; therefore, the whole siege was invalidated.

In short, the siege was declared illegal 'cuz I was there.

And I didn't even do a darn thing. :\

Oh well. If I had a server I would keep the rules to the bare minimum. Only sieges would have five rules: 1: The owner must be online; 2: You are allowed to put ladders and break gates (no griefing); 3: Everything inside chests can be looted; 4: You must wait 15 days until the next raid; 5: You can set fire on wood things.

I can imagine the chaos! People raiding and pillaging! Stealing would be allowed too. Anyone could declare itself a king or a queen of any place, even a puddle, you could be the king of a puddle if you so wished. Kill everyone you want! Actually, do anything you want! Man, now I want to play on a server like this so badly.

I believe this would encourage role playing. Right now most servers have rules for everything (I swear one of the these days I'm going to find a server with a rule telling you what skin to wear on Sundays), and too many rules hold back role playing, and I love role playing and burning things down with flint & steel while the owner watches hopeless as its creation gets destroyed on chaotic fires of doom and death... ahem. That would be a ton of fun. Although I'd imagine that, after a time, the seasoned, well-equipped vets would just kill everyone else and nobody would want to join. But I know what you mean about rules. DOME is considered a fairly serious RP server, and while it has some good RP moments, I feel that the extensive rules can lead to a very legalistic outlook. Few sieges happen without some rule getting violated, or at least reportedly violated.

And, sadly, the DOME staff turned fire spreading off. :\ I've heard that was in response to someone burning down a significant portion of the Lothlorien edge, but who knows? :P