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Bowser
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Old Man

Postby Bowser » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:56 am

I'm an old man, but not in the sense of grey hair.... I have played the game for many years and killed off a few of my own players after they reached over 100 years old. I stopped playing because I found myself not being proactive in RP but only being reactive. I had large gaps of silence or sleepiness which annoyed my mates and townspeople.... especially because I had lots of keys.
I wouldn't say a word for days on end but if a newspawn stole a bone knife off the ground, I'd bolt up and kill him before he knew what Cantr was about. I'd check Cantr twice a day but would never post a word... I always watched to see what happend and responded only when needed.
I had many great characters but only because the people around me made me react and I did so.
My greatest downfall in Cantr for any of my characters is when they fell in love with a woman. This is by no means an insult to anyone that was a love interest of mine... just an explaination of MY short comings. As a relationship grew with another character I felt a "need" to respond or attend to them... I found myself avoiding logging on.... the more I avoided logging on, the worse things got and the more I avoided logging on.
I loved my characters.... I loved my partners, I loved the stories... I just started to feel that it was more of a chore than a game. Forgive the rant. I'm just drunk on a Friday night at 1:00 am.
I'm thinking of starting a new charatcer.
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Postby Dudel » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:01 am

An obligation... Dudel understands.
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Re: Old Man

Postby Spider » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:35 am

Bowser wrote:I'm an old man, but not in the sense of grey hair.... I have played the game for many years and killed off a few of my own players after they reached over 100 years old. I stopped playing because I found myself not being proactive in RP but only being reactive. I had large gaps of silence or sleepiness which annoyed my mates and townspeople.... especially because I had lots of keys.
I wouldn't say a word for days on end but if a newspawn stole a bone knife off the ground, I'd bolt up and kill him before he knew what Cantr was about. I'd check Cantr twice a day but would never post a word... I always watched to see what happend and responded only when needed.
I had many great characters but only because the people around me made me react and I did so.
My greatest downfall in Cantr for any of my characters is when they fell in love with a woman. This is by no means an insult to anyone that was a love interest of mine... just an explaination of MY short comings. As a relationship grew with another character I felt a "need" to respond or attend to them... I found myself avoiding logging on.... the more I avoided logging on, the worse things got and the more I avoided logging on.
I loved my characters.... I loved my partners, I loved the stories... I just started to feel that it was more of a chore than a game. Forgive the rant. I'm just drunk on a Friday night at 1:00 am.
I'm thinking of starting a new charatcer.


Most of what you said I can totally relate to, specially about bolting up to chase a newspawn, my favorite pastime and a few months ago the avoiding logging in...but now it once again is fun for me and no longer a chore, too damn addicting. :)
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Postby Idriveayugo » Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:14 am

There are currently a ton of old people trying to kill a friend of mine. I keep seeing her leave and I always assume she's gonna die. But she comes back without a scratch. Unbelievable.
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Postby Rigel Kent » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:56 am

The trick I find is to keep moveing gyour chars around if the storyline gets old or what I do cause you have a lot of slots is just kill off your older chars cause haveing a new one is a ton of fun.
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Postby Surly » Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:13 pm

Bowser, I completely sympathise. In fact, that entire post could have been written by me and still been 100% true.

Except I'm not starting any more characters. And I'm not drunk (yet).
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