A Land Far Away

Long Live ALFA

Indeed, long live ALFA. As a result for a survey that was recently sent to the latest 300 people who submitted an application, ALFA Admin have unanimously decided to drop Perma-death, in favour of a penalty respawn system.

The system will go into place a week from today. Details of it can be found through the following link, located at the end of this post. However, to briefly sum it up, the following XP penalties will apply:

• Respawning removes 1/3 total experience.
  Raise dead removes 1/6 total experience.
  Resurrection removes 1/9 total experience.

The important HDMs have been carefully consulted on this matter (you know who you are) and should hopefully be standing ready with the updated scripts to click into place this following weekend. To celebrate the new addition to ALFA's rules, we're encouraging the DM Teams to run special events on the said weekend. Details on them will follow shortly.

The reasons behind such a move, while I won't waste your time fully explaining, tick down in the end to competition. A recent survey, mentioned above, revealed that one of the biggest dislikes that players found about ALFA was the permadeath system - it was said in many of the replies that people found they were not able to emotionally invest in a character who they knew was going to "cock it" at any moment

If you have any comments on this, feel free to open up a new thread in the General Discussion to talk about the issue. Otherwise, enjoy the new revolving door



A more detailed explanation of how the death penalty would work can be found here.

Huzzah! About damn time they did away with that obsolete permadeath system. How are decent PCs supposed to loot and pillage and generally amass their own horde of wealth if there was a chance they would "die" and have it be forever? Honestly, ridiculous.

To whoever spearheaded this movement; good show!


Now let's see how long it takes people to catch on or look at today's date, lol

I Quit.Who wants all my stuff ?

I know this is a joke.

Since when have Admin unanimously agreed on anything?

APRAL WHOT?

Cool!!!!

After I'm respawned, can I form a group to go retrieve my old corpse? That's a great way to foster roleplay!

Riotnrrd wrote:Cool!!!!

After I'm respawned, can I form a group to go retrieve my old corpse? That's a great way to foster roleplay!

Sure,

We're also looking into the possibility of doing a wow-type flying creature to get there faster.

Wow, I almost believed you were being serious for a moment there, until I realised it was april fools day!

zicada wrote: Sure,

We're also looking into the possibility of doing a wow-type flying creature to get there faster.

Will it be a gnomish machine of some sort, or a chariot drawn by dragon's?

johnlewismcleod wrote:

zicada wrote: Sure,

We're also looking into the possibility of doing a wow-type flying creature to get there faster.

Will it be a gnomish machine of some sort, or a chariot drawn by dragon's?

Mounts of course!

Would this be a good time to ask for a vorpal blade ?

AsteroidX wrote:Would this be a good time to ask for a vorpal blade ?

No, those are totally imba

It's April's fool day joke?

I joined ALFA --because- death is permanent.

Riotnrrd wrote:Cool!!!!

After I'm respawned, can I form a group to go retrieve my old corpse? That's a great way to foster roleplay!

In addition can we just recreate our characters from the past, I want to start at eighth level

Grand Fromage wrote:

Riotnrrd wrote:Cool!!!!

After I'm respawned, can I form a group to go retrieve my old corpse? That's a great way to foster roleplay!

In addition can we just recreate our characters from the past, I want to start at eighth level

lol don't be silly, that would be totally lamer-stuff. We're ALFA. SRSLY *shakes head*