i made you a post, but it got lated (FFXI, MU* )

[thistlechaser]

I meant to post tonight, but suddenly it got late! So this will be quick.

I've totally and 100% changed my feelings on the WoG expansion. BLECH! After three weeks of not Campaigning, I forced myself to go tonight so I wouldn't lose my metal (since the update is coming, so metals be able to buy better things). It offends me to be forced to do something I don't want to do. And heck, I spent almost six hours tonight doing it! Hating every moment of it!

(My hatred of Campaign could very well come from doing WHM there. 9 bar spells, 15 songs, turn tags in every 6 minutes, get 480 XP. Repeat for levels 36 to halfway through 69.)

I really want to never do Campaign again, but I don't want to lose my metal. :/ As soon as I hit WHM 70, I'm never going on WHM again.

Thanks to Campaigns and ops, I hit a million AN tonight! I kind of forgot to save an image of it alone, but here's half my sig with it: A million and change AN! I was very glad to see it hit a million, instead of rolling over to 000,000. c.c That's the boring half of my sig, this is the somewhat more interesting half. Yeah, I lied and said 70 in it, but that was just me being lazy and not wanting to make two images in Photoshop.

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In MUSH (eh, MUX) news, I broke my pattern! No more 'RP once, hang out OOCly a few days, then quit'! Today was day #2 of RPing, yay!

I noticed something really, really odd about Thistle's +finger. "Alignment: Lawful Good". I have never, ever, ever in my whole life played a LG character. They're boring! Bad guys are more interesting than good! I've never played LG and I didn't ever want to! Once I started thinking about it though, I realized that Thistle is pretty much the darned image of LG. c.c (Well, other than his current, um, mental issues. He wanders a bit away from LG at the moment.)

(Yeah, I picked the alignment when I set his +finger, but I really hadn't thought about it much then.)

I also forgot how much characters babble in your head when you RP. For the past many months it's been nice and quiet in my head, now I suddenly have a neurotic guy alternating between wanting (needing) to kill someone and [*spoiler*]. It's very odd! Not to mention noisy!

Comments

[xvolph.livejournal.com]

Set him neutral good for now? That way, he can go pretty much whichever direction but still maintain what he perceives as an ideal of 'good'.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That's a good idea. When/if he gets his brain fixed, then he can go back to LG.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I've complained about the demotion system in Campaign before. You can work your ass off, and then as soon as you get a new medal/renew an old one, you're back to square one. There really should be some way of counting your previous progress towards your current progress. I can understand not advancing if you don't do Campaign, but I hate the fact that your previous work can be negated. Nothing else in the game does it.

Or maybe I'm just bitter because I have yet to advance past the third ribbon in rank. ;p You know your little voice that nags you about synthing? Mine nags me about Campaign.

Also, I'd been considering most "heroic" FFXI characters to be more Neutral Good. Good intentions, usually good results, but sometimes the rules have to be bent a bit to get them. ^_~ I'm enough of an RP geek that alignment discussions interest me rather than turn me away, if you wish to indulge me. ^^

I miss my old RP places some, but I doubt I'll ever pick it up again. Don't really have time for it.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

On one hand, I sort of understand it. There's a war going on, if you don't show up and help on a regular basis, why should you keep your rank?

On the other... it's a game, it's not something I'm paid to do. I don't want to have to do what I don't want to do!

*whine whine* :P

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

If I weren't interested in Campaign, I'd just say screw it and show up on occasion when I felt like it, or ignore it altogether. But I am interested; it's just that some weeks (or months) I have more time to devote to it and others I have no spare time at all. I'd like to be able to carry over that extra work I'm doing to the times when I don't have the ability to do it. What I should do, probably, is check the evaluations more often so I have a better idea of how much more I need to do.

Bitch, moan, complain. ;p

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Well, that's what happens when you build an entire expansion around 1 system (campaign)! You fall out with campaign, the whole thing just goes poof! Hopefully people will figure out some good camps (HA! Colibri's only...damn ToAU), or we will get a new endgame area like Sea or Sky soon...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. Building a whole expansion on Campaign just isn't enough. :/

[iniadelphinae.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I've lost mine by now, but I really just can't bring myself to care. Not that hard to get it back up there if I really want something.

(Though harder than it used to be).

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and luckily you can't drop more than one metal-rank. If the update wasn't coming up, I would have said screw it. It's not worth making myself miserable for hours just for a stupid fake metal.

At least I finally hit WHM 70 on Sunday though, so I'm done with another thing I dislike, too.