Shattered Kingdoms

Currently, there isn't a way to disable an arm or whatever (it would require probably a sizable code update), but I still think the concept is fine from a RP perspective.

Change the echo for things like eat and drink. Allow for permanent speech color changes, or tag such as *in a raspy tone* to be tagged permanent on the command.

Allow for races that are not PC races so long as they don't unbalance the game. Allow people to play goblins, but let them have sub standard stats.

ARMOK in SK? Count me in!

Strike the earth!

That sort of stuff is really irritating to be blunt about it. A long, long time ago in an SK far, far away...it was quite common to see people use the emote system to incorporate that into say and tell. It also bypassed the language barrier, and when Dulrik patched it - the raspy, guttural, ominous, etc. voices died out with it (thankfully).

You can accomplish the same thing using emote and pemote before your character starts speaking - it doesn't need to be included in every single say and tell. That just ends up being a huge irritation in my experience.

^^Strongly agree

But perhaps with the right brainstorming, something like this could work. Perhaps it would be more for flavor and a bit of fancy. And it would need a lot of play testing.
And some significant restrictions on which combos could potentially exist. Else, like OA said - a lot of problems.

But this suggestion at least fits the theme - something to make the next character a bit of a reward to play/someone you may find interest/reason to play longer, etc.

Please don't assume that new players have read every thread on this forum. Please rephrase your posts to include that consideration. (Especially keeping in mind the mud is trying to gain and retain new players, rather than dismiss them).

In this instance the appropriate response would have been: These <list or summarize ideas presented> have been raised before in previous threads and have been dismissed.

The approach is then Informative instead of rude; even now I'm also not sure which ideas in this thread you're actually referring to (which have been previously dismissed), mine or others.

I would like the make the argument that to keep existing players is to also keep their current characters. I would argue one way to do that is to be able to spend LTs on your current char, so that the player can get more enjoyment out of them.

That would have been my thought, and it's new player friendly. It also promotes retaining characters as opposed to starting new characters.

I'm not sure if this is what was being referred to as a previously dismissed idea or not, I'm also not sure how long ago the idea was dismissed or if it was done so in the same context or mindset.

Anyway I see no harm in having it mentioned again. I'm not going to beat it like a dead horse, but it's not necessarily a bad idea.

The point was raised and dismissed in this very thread. Dulrik has stated his position and explained it several times in the past few pages.