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Nalaris
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Postby Nalaris » Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:46 pm

It'd be nice to have small talk with locals before setting off on another journey while gathering some ultra-necesarry but ultra-distant resource (*cough*hematite*cough*), not something you want to wait around for days for.
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Nick
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Postby Nick » Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:42 am

creepyguyinblack wrote: The main problem is that if there was an indicator displating a character's player's online/logged in status, that this would lead to abuse and people waiting deliberately for people to be logged off to commit crimes.


How is this abuse? Waiting till people are asleep would be what many smart criminals would do. And I thought that was much of the point of this suggestion, so I fail to see how it's abusing anything.
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Sunni Daez
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Postby Sunni Daez » Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:12 am

Nick wrote:
creepyguyinblack wrote: The main problem is that if there was an indicator displating a character's player's online/logged in status, that this would lead to abuse and people waiting deliberately for people to be logged off to commit crimes.


How is this abuse? Waiting till people are asleep would be what many smart criminals would do. And I thought that was much of the point of this suggestion, so I fail to see how it's abusing anything.



I agree that this could lead to abuse..although a bit hard....it could be done...even if a criminal waits for you to sleep.. they don't know if you are awake and watching or truely asleep...I think an indicator would be a bad thing.
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wichita
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Postby wichita » Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:51 am

It would be bad for the game because the best way to defend against criminals striking is to have your guards on alert 24/7. Some of us try to have lives outside of Cantr, as hard as that may seem to believe for others, and (as Jos points out) the game is set up for people who don't have time to camp out in front of a computer. If there was an "awake" light, the people who have to schedule time around work to check characters will be put at a severe disadvantage. That sucks.

As for the IRC style of personal chat option, I have thought this would be cool, but realize it would quickly get very irritating as people would find it even harder to stay in character. In some bigger cities it already feels like a chat room to me the way it is. (Stupid Lake Village, you will be the death of my sanity)

My suggestion is get a room. Take your lengthy conversations indoors and put an end to Cantrian air pollution.
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Postby Hellzon » Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:23 am

*Points at wichita* What he said... :)
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